The first astronaut is flying directly over the Earth’s poles Decline Safety on Friday after nearly four days on orbit.
Civil astronaut Chun Wang, Janekki Michaelsen, Rabia Rouge and Eric Philips – the international crew of the private Spinster Fra2 The mission – wears around 12:19 pm EST out SPACEX dragon capsule without assistance, allowing researchers to study how faceflight effects on their ability to perform career tasks. Wang, an encrypted businessman, bought the intended task from three to five days from Spacex In August.
“The ride to orbit is more smooth than I expected mail On X. “I imagined that he would feel that I was in an elevator suddenly falling, but this feeling never came. If I hadn’t identified Tyler, the Polar Bear Zero-Garavity Index, maybe I couldn’t have realized us.”
During the nearly four -day mission, Wang, Michelmsen, Roj and Philip About 55 timesIt passes over the columns every 46 minutes. This represents the fastest bias between the two poles, breaking the record for 46 hours and 40 minutes set by a super -range GULFSTREAM G650er business plane.
The four crew members met with each other on Svalbard – one of the places in the far north on the ground with a constant human presence – and brought experience in polar exploration or techniques tested during the mission. Their primary goal was to transfer 90 degrees, comfortably, at the highest miles have ever reached by a drawn spacecraft, to monitor the columns from the low -Earth orbit for the first time. Usually, astronauts rotate closer to the equator.
From this distinctive point, the crew noticed the emissions of green light and unjustified purple known as strong thermal emissions improvements, or Steve, through the specially designed Dragon dome. They also used professional cameras, laptops and iPhone devices to take pictures of the polar wild up.
But above all, Fra2 was a research task. The crew conducted 22 experiences designed to study the long human space flight, from the growing mushrooms in minor gravity to production First X -ray photos Take in space. They also participated in the research to study perception, glucose levels, and the loss of muscle and bone density. On the fourth day, astronauts face SPACEX Elus MUSK CEO, which was tested throughout the task.
The crew worked hard, but he played hard. On the first night, for example, they hosted a “movie night”, watching their re -launch to combat movement. Later, they are I witnessed A Spacex Falcon 9 Rocket Satellites Starlink to Orbit. Astronauts Useful questions Of curious students and communicating with their families. They even attracted the parties to the conversation with observers below the flight track via an important radio, part of a competition called Fram2Ham Where the participants dismantled the whipped images taken from the dragon.
FRAM2 was distinguished by the sixth Dragon space distance, which was previously flying to All-Civilian Inspiration 4 The task, three missions of the customer’s intuitive space, and Polaris Dawn– One of three space lighting bought by Jared Esman, President Donald Trump Choose to lead NASA. Wang has not yet committed a follow -up mission.