Space X He has announced by March 31 the launch of the first manned space mission, composed of private astronauts, which explores the earth from an polar orbit and survives the polar regions of the earth.
Baptized with the name of the ship that helped explorers to arrive for the first time to the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth, the Crew Dragon Fram2 ship will be commanded by Chun Wang, an entrepreneur and adventurer of Malta.
In a statement released on March 22 in its account on social network X, Space X reported that the Fram2 crew completed the training, and that “the Dragon ship that will support its mission came to the hangar of the 39A platform in Florida before takeoff next Monday, March 31”.
Together with Wang on the mission there is an international “adventurer” crew: Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway, vehicle commander; Eric Philips of Australia, vehicle pilot; and Rabea Rogge of Germany, specialist of the mission. This will be the first space flight for each of the crew members. Everyone has received training as astronauts. Space X has not given information about the price of tickets.
Fram 2 will reach the polar orbit taking off from Cabo Cañaveral, in Florida. Throughout the mission of 3 to 5 days, the crew plans to observe the polar regions of the Earth through the Dragon dome at an altitude of 425 to 450 km, taking advantage of the knowledge of space physicists and citizen scientists to study unusual light emissions that resemble the auroras.
The crew will study green fragments and Malvas of continuous emissions comparable to the phenomenon known as Steve (Strong Thermal emission velocity enhancement), which has been measured at an altitude of approximately 400 to 500 km over the earth’s atmosphere.
The crew will also work with Spacex to carry out a variety of research to better understand the effects of space flights on the human body, which include the capture of the first human x-ray images in space, just-in-time training tools and the study of the effects of space flights on behavioral health.