Private SpaceX crew set for launch to novel polar orbit around Earth

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Monday was set to launch 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. Maltese investor Chun Wang, a Chinese-born magnate who founded a bitcoin mining company, is the bankroller and commander of the SpaceX mission, named Fram2, a reference to the Norwegian “Fram” ship that pioneered Arctic exploration at the turn of the 20th century. Wang and three associates are scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule at 9:47 p.m. EDT on...