Bitcoin investor buys an entire SpaceX flight for the ultimate polar adventure

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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AP) – The Bitcoin investor who bought a SpaceX trip for himself and three polar explorers on Monday evening on the first missile flight to transport people over the northern and southern columns.

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Chun Wang, a Chinese -born businessman, is harmful in orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in NASA. The Falcon missile of Spacex south over the Atlantic Ocean, and placed space tourists on a road that has not been transported in 64 years of light of human space.

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Wang will not say how to pay Elon Musk's Spacex for the final polar adventure 3/2 day.

It is expected that the first station of their journey-from Florida to the Antarctic-barely half an hour. From the target height of about 270 miles (430 km), the mechanical capsule will completely rotate the globe in about 1 1/2 hours, including 46 minutes to fly from the electrode to the pole.

Wang actually visited the polar areas personally and wanted to see them from space. He said before the trip: “The journey revolves around” paying the borders and exchanging knowledge. “

Now a citizen of Malta, three guests took: the Norwegian director Janekk Mickelsen, German robotics researcher Rabia Rouge and Australian polar rationality Eric Phillips.

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Mikelsen, the first Norwegian binding of the space, has raised above the two poles before, but at a much lower altitude. It was part of a record mission for the year 2019 that blocked the world across the Poles in the GULFSTREAM to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the collision Neil Armstrong and Buzz aldrin Moon.

The crew plans to more than twenty experiments-including taking the first human X-rays in space-more cameras than usual to document their journey called FRAM2 after the Norwegian polar research ship more than a century ago.

So far, no space traveler has been lying down until 65 degrees north and south, just shy of the Arctic and Southern Parfum circles. The first woman in space, Valentina Terichkova of the Soviet Union, put that mark in 1963. Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and other pioneering astronauts, came as NASA's astronauts did in 1990.

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The polar orbit is perfect for climate satellites, drawing earth maps as well as satellites for spying. This is because the spacecraft can notice the entire world every day, revolving around the Earth from column to pole while rotating below.

Geir Klover, director of the Fralo Museum in Oslo, Norway, where the original polar ship is displayed, hopes that the trip attracts more attention to climate change and melting polar caps. The crew presented a small piece of the Oscar Wiveng wooden signed wooden surface, who with Rield Onden in the early twentieth century became the first to reach both poles.

Wang put the idea of ​​a polar trip to Spacex in 2023, two years after American technology businessman Jared Isaac on the first two rented trips with Musk. Isaacman is now running for the best job in NASA.

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Kiko Dontchev of Spacex said late last week that the company is constantly improving its training even “ordinary people” without traditional space wallpapers that can “jump in a capsule … and be calm about it.

Wang and his crew look at the polar journey such as camping in the wilderness and embrace the challenge.

“The Space Wright space has become increasingly, and frankly, I am pleased to see it,” Wang said on X last week.

Wang said he was calculating his flights since his first flight in 2002, as he was flying on aircraft, helicopters and hot air colors in his endeavor to visit each country. To date, he visited more than half. He arranged it until the takeoff sets his journey 1000.

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