A spacex dragon capsule transporting the international crew Fram2 deploys its parachutes for Splashdown after a successful polar orbit mission. Credit: Spacex
The first crew of astronauts to fly directly on the poles of the earth has sprayed itself safely on Friday after almost four days in orbit.
The civil astronauts Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Phillips – the international crew of Spacex’s private Fram2 mission – landed around 12:19 pm EDT and came out of their Spacex dragon capsule without assistance, to allow researchers to study how the effects of spatial light affect their ability to carry out the beads. functional. Wang, an entrepreneur of cryptocurrency, purchased the expected three to five days from Spacex in August.
“The ride in orbit was much more fluid than I expected,” Wang, who also commanded the mission, said in an X post. “I had imagined that it would seem to be in an elevator that suddenly goes down, but that feeling never came. If I had not set the free Tyler, the polar bear indicator zero gravity, I could not have already been realized that I had not already been able to weigh”
During the mission of almost four days, Wang, Mikkelsen, Rogge and Phillips orbited to the earth about 55 times, passing over the poles every 46 minutes. This marks the fastest circumnavigation among the poles, in a 46-hour record and 40 minutes set by an Ultra-Long-Long-Long-Long-Long Business Jet in 2019. The “Framonauts” sprayed off the coast of California coast, marking the first recovery of the West Coast Dragon since the same year.
The four members of the Fram2 crew met on Alusvalbard – one of the most northern places on Earth with a continuous human presence – and bring skills in polar exploration or in the technologies that have been tested during the mission. Their fundamental objective was to fly a polar orbit at 90 °, comfortably the highest inclination ever reached by a crew space vehicle, to observe for the first time the poles from orbit of the low earth. Generally, astronauts orbit closer to the equator.
From that point of view, the crew observed inexplicable green and purple emissions of light notes as strong improvements in the thermal emission speed, or Steve, through the specially designed dome of Dragon. They also used professional cameras, laptops and iPhones to capture the images of the polar wild nature below.
But above all, Fram2 was a research mission. The crew has conducted 22 experiments designed to study long -lasting human spatial flight, from the cultivation of mushrooms in microgravity to the production of the first X -ray images taken in space. They also participated in the research to study cognition, glucose levels and the loss of muscle and bone density. On the fourth day, the astronauts brazen the Spacex CEO Elon Musk via Starlink, which has been tested throughout the mission.
The crew worked hard, but also played hard. The first night, for example, hosted a “cinematographic night”, looking at a replay of their launch to fight kinetosis. Later, they witnessed a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket 9 launch of Satellite Starlink in orbit. The astronauts have lined up questions from curious students and communicated with their families. They even chatted with observers below their flight path via Ham Radio, part of a competition called Fram2ham in which the participants deciphered images grouped out of Dragon.
Fram2 marked the sixth private spatial flight for Dragon, who previously made the mission of Inspiration4 All Civilian fly, three missions for the customer Axiom Space and Polaris Dawn-one of the three space flights purchased by Jared Isaacman, the choice of President Donald Trump to guide Nasa. Wang has not yet been committed to a follow-on mission.
Note of the editor: This story originally appeared on the flight.
