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\n Fram2 mission astronauts who will be first to circle the Earth from pole to pole: From left to right: pilot Rabea Rogge, Mission specialist and medical officer Eric Phillips, mission commander Chun Wang and vehicle commander Jannicke Mikkelsen.
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In a mission funded and commanded by cryptocurrency entrepreneur Chun Wang, SpaceX said it plans a launch as early as Monday evening, marking the first crewed mission to polar orbit and the first to cultivate mushrooms as a crop in space.<\/p>\n

The three-to-five-day flight is to be lofted into space by a Falcon 9 booster. The mission is named after the Fram, a steam-and-sail powered ship used by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen during his historic 1910-1912 expedition to the South Pole. A four-person international team will crew the Fram2 mission: Wang from Malta; Jannicke Mikkelsen a film director and cinematographer\u00a0from Norway; Rabea Rogges, an electrical engineer, robotic researcher and polar scientist from Germany, and Eric Philips, a polar explorer and private astronaut <\/strong>from Australia.<\/p>\n