Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Chun Wang and a team of three astronauts set off on a historic SpaceX flight Monday to explore the earth’s polar regions from orbit.
What Happened: The SpaceX rocket, bought by Chinese-born Wang, took off on Monday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, reported AP News. The Falcon rocket flew across the Atlantic, setting the space tourists on a path never before taken in the 64-year history of human spaceflight.
The fully automated capsule will circle the globe in approximately 1 ½ hours, including a 46-minute flight from pole to pole. The first leg of the flight, from Florida to the South Pole, was expected to take just half an hour. The total cost of the polar …
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