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SpaceX Puts Humans in Orbit Over Earth’s Poles for 1st Time

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For the first time ever, the four astronauts aboard the Dragon will explore Earth from a polar orbit as they fly from pole to pole.
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Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched 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...

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