The hardware that will fly a historic private astronaut mission has made it to the launch pad.
On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out to Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The milestone keeps Fram2 on track to launch on Monday evening (March 31). Liftoff is scheduled for 9:46 p.m. EDT (0146 GMT on April 1), though there are three additional instantaneous opportunities during the 4.5-hour-long launch window.
Fram2, which is scheduled to lift off on March 31, will send people to a polar orbit for the first time ever. (Image credit: SpaceX)
Fram2 will send four private astronauts to low Earth orbit, on a trajectory that will take them over both of our planet’s poles — something no human spaceflight mission has ever done.
