Watch: SpaceX launches first polar-orbiting mission
SpaceX launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth over both North and South Poles, a new trajectory that no human has travelled before.
The mission will last three to five days, during which the crew will conduct experiments on how spaceflight affects the human body.
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