Dragon Spacecraft Deorbit | Fram2 Mission to Earth's Polar Regions | SpaceX

Dragon Spacecraft Deorbit | Fram2 Mission to Earth's Polar Regions | SpaceX

Commander Chun Wang: "Deorbit, Draco style."

The SpaceX Draco is a hypergolic liquid rocket engine designed and built by SpaceX for use on their Dragon spacecraft.

After nearly four days of flying in a polar orbit to explore the Earth’s polar regions for the first time, Dragon and the Fram2 crew returned to Earth on Friday, April 4, 2025, splashing down off the coast of California after 9am this morning Pacific Time. This was the first Dragon human spaceflight mission to splash down in the Pacific Ocean as Dragon recovery returns to the West Coast. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Fram2 on Monday, March 31 at 9:46 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Watch the live landing webcast (and replay) here:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=fram2

The Fram2 Mission's crew were the first humans to view the Earth’s polar regions from space.

After safely returning to Earth, the crew plans to exit from the Dragon spacecraft without additional medical and operational assistance, helping researchers characterize the ability of astronauts to perform unassisted functional tasks after short and long durations in space.

The Crew
This is the first human spaceflight for Mission Commander Chun Wang (Malta), Vehicle Commander Jannicke Mikkelsen (Norway), Vehicle Pilot Rabea Rogge (Germany), plus Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Eric Philips (Australia).

The Fram2 Mission is named in honor of Fram "Forward", the first exploration ship to complete voyages to the Arctic and Antarctica between 1893 and 1912. Framonaut Vehicle Commander Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway carried a small piece of that ship to orbit.

Learn more about the Fram2 Mission and its crew: 

https://f2.com

Video Credit: Fram2 Mission

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date: April 4, 2025

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