Four private astronauts lifted off from Florida on Monday on the Fram2 mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole.

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch ...

The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...

While other astronauts had longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length of their mission expand by so much.