I never get tired of videos like this:
Flat Earthers, our beautiful blue garden planet looks awfully round!
Here's a longer video:
The Fram2 expedition launched on Monday using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Here's the crew:
Believe it or not, there has never been a manned spaceflight that orbits around the Earth's poles. In other words, all other manned missions have orbited around the Earth's equator, not over and under the planet.
The mission, funded by Chinese cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, is named after the Norwegian exploration ship Fram, the first to complete expeditions to both the North Pole and South Pole from 1893 and 1912.
The Fram2 crew will spend 3 to 5 days in orbit studying the polar regions from space. The team will also take the first X-ray of a human in space and attempt to be the first people to grow mushrooms in space, because why not?
The crew will reenter the atmosphere and splash down in the Pacific Ocean in a few days.
I'll leave you with this video showing the McDonald's PlayPlace window the astronauts get to use!
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