Private mission was funded by bitcoin billionaire Chun Wang
Four people on a private space mission that launched Monday night are going from pole to pole to pole in a first-of-its-kind orbit. The SpaceX mission, which will last three to five days, was financed by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, the New York Times reports. The Fram2 mission on a fully automated SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is the first on an orbit that crosses the North and South poles, which previous human spaceflights have not attempted because of the extra fuel costs involved, reports Scientific American. The capsule takes around 46 minutes to go from pole to pole.
