Flight Day 4: Ready for Landing | Fram2 Mission to Earth's Polar Regions | SpaceX

Flight Day 4: Ready for Landing | Fram2 Mission to Earth's Polar Regions | SpaceX

    

Commander Chun Wang: "I woke up early and watched the launch of Starlink Group 11-13 on YouTube. Shortly after, SpaceX contacted us and informed us that we would be flying over Mongolia during the second stage deorbit burn. We opened the cupola and tried to observe the event, but had no luck. Still, we all enjoyed the view as we flew from the Bay of Bengal all the way to the Arctic."

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 will return to Earth on Friday, April 4, 2025, splashing down at approximately 9:19 a.m. PT off the coast of California. This will be the first Dragon human spaceflight mission to splash down in the Pacific Ocean as Dragon recovery returns to the West Coast. Falcon 9 launched Fram2 on Monday, March 31 at 9:46 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about one hour prior to splashdown. Watch here:

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=fram2

The Fram2 Mission's crew are 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: 15 minutes

Release Date: April 4, 2025

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