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Four adventurers suited up and embarked on a first-of-a-kind trip to space Monday night, becoming the first humans to fly in polar orbit aboard a SpaceX crew capsule chartered by a Chinese-born crypto...
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Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, hurtled into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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Space motion sickness hit all of us," reported Chun Wang, the commander and sponsor of the entire mission. The first-ever crewed orbital mission over the poles of our planet,
Four private astronauts launch on first human mission to fly over the poles
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Private astronauts embark on pioneering polar-orbit mission
Four commercial astronauts began their second day in orbit today. "The first few hours in microgravity were not very comfortable. Space sickness got to all of us," reported Chun Wang, the commander and sponsor of the entire mission.
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