SpaceX is sharing the first look at the vast expanse of ice layering Earth's poles after launching the private Fram2 mission, the first human spaceflight to polar orbit.

A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Monday night, sending four amateur astronauts on an unprecedented journey around Earth’s poles. The mission is traveling where no crew has gone before, and SpaceX just revealed the first views of the planet’s chilly polar regions from above.

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday night from Florida.

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the north and south poles

Fram2 is the first human spaceflight to explore the Earth's polar regions. It launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.

Find out the latest about SpaceX's private Fram2 polar astronaut mission for cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang.

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch

A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, lifted off, carrying the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow live news updates.