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Fram2 — a private crew orbited directly over both poles

The claim

“No one can fly over the poles, and a flat layout has no path there.”

What is measured

A crewed spacecraft circled Earth over both poles, filmed them, and had its orbit tracked from the ground by an outside party. There is no flat layout with two opposite poles to fly over, so this is a globe orbit, run in the open in 2025.

What would show this is wrong

any real bar to reaching or overflying the poles. Fram2’s crew overflew both, filmed both, and had its orbit logged from the ground, so the sealed-poles claim fails at the source.

Sources

  1. The first crewed polar orbit. In late March 2025 SpaceX flew the private Fram2 crew into a 90.01-degree polar orbit of 202 by 413 km, the first human spaceflight to pass directly over both p link
  2. Filming both ice caps from overhead. Over a three-day flight the Fram2 crew observed and recorded the Arctic and Antarctica through the capsule’s cupola, regions the International Space Stat link
  3. Why a crewed polar orbit was a first. The space station orbits at about 51.6 degrees, so its crews never pass over the poles; Fram2’s 90-degree path was a first for human spaceflight, requir link
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