Maltese cryptocurrency billionaire Wang is funding the Fram2 mission, which also includes Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, Rabea Rogge of Germany and Eric Philips of Australia — all of them spaceflight rookies. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the quartet aboard Resilience from KSC's Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A) on Monday (March 31).

The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.

The Fram2 astronauts launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on a stormy Monday night. Here's what we know about this mysterious mission of firsts.

The Fram2 crew launched to polar orbit, flying straight south, Monday night. Lift off was 9:46 p.m. from KSC Pad 39A, Florida.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.

The Fram2 astronauts launched on a mission like no other Monday night. For three to five days, the crew of four will orbit Earth's polar regions.

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch

SpaceX's Fram2 mission launches with four astronauts, marking the first private flight to orbit Earth's poles.