Chao-c'<p>As early as this year, four adventurers will head into space and fly in a <a href="https://f.cz/tags/polar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polar</span></a> orbit, says <a href="https://f.cz/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceX</span></a> in a press release.</p><p>Never before has a spaceflight over the Earth's poles been conducted with humans, according to the American space company.</p><p>The commercial astronaut mission has been named <a href="https://f.cz/tags/Fram2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fram2</span></a>, after the polar ship used by Norwegian explorers for expeditions in the <a href="https://f.cz/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> and <a href="https://f.cz/tags/Antarctica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Antarctica</span></a>.</p><p>It is funded and will be led by Chun Wang, a Chinese crypto entrepreneur based in Malta.</p><p>Among those joining the journey is Norwegian Jannicke Mikkelsen, becoming Norway's first female <a href="https://f.cz/tags/astronaut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronaut</span></a>. Mikkelsen lives in Longyearbyen on <a href="https://f.cz/tags/Svalbard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Svalbard</span></a>, where she works as a filmmaker and freelance journalist.</p><p><a href="https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/spacex-announces-first-human-spaceflight-over-polar-regions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">highnorthnews.com/en/spacex-an</span><span class="invisible">nounces-first-human-spaceflight-over-polar-regions</span></a><br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-08-spacex-private-mission-1st-human.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-08-spacex-p</span><span class="invisible">rivate-mission-1st-human.html</span></a><br><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/space-tourists-spacex-first-polar-flight" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/the-byte/space-to</span><span class="invisible">urists-spacex-first-polar-flight</span></a></p><p><a href="https://f.cz/tags/spacex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spacex</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/spaceflight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spaceflight</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/polarorbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polarorbit</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/lowearthorbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lowearthorbit</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/mannedspaceflight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mannedspaceflight</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/fram2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fram2</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norway</span></a></p>