SpaceX will launch its first human spaceflight ever to cruise over the Earth’s polar regions on Monday.
Four astronauts will be aboard the Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule for the Fram2 mission launch, scheduled to lift off at 9:46 p.m. ET at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.
The flight is being privately funded by Chinese-born entrepreneur Chun Wang, who will serve as mission commander. The rest of the crew are vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, vehicle pilot Rabea Rogge of Germany, and mission specialist and medical officer Eric Philips of Australia.
The astronauts on the Fram2 mission will conduct research to help advance humans’ capabilities for long-term space exploration and understand human health in space.
They plan to take the first X-ray in space, perform exercise studies to maintain muscle and skeletal mass, and grow mushrooms in microgravity.
This marks the sixth private astronaut mission by SpaceX.
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