SpaceX launches Polar Spaceflight funded by crypto investor

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first human spaceflight mission to fly over the Earth’s polar regions, funded and commanded by cryptocurrency investor Chun Wang. The mission, called Fram2, after a Norwegian polar expedition ship that operated in the late 1800s and early 1900s, took off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida at 9:46 p.m. local time Monday, carrying a crew of four private astronauts.

Over the course of three to five days, they will fly over and observe Earth’s North and South Poles and conduct research on the impact of spaceflight on…