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During the three-and-a-half-day spaceflight, the crew performed a total of 22 research experiments, which included observation of Earth's poles, growing mushrooms — and indeed taking the first X-ray images of a human while in orbit.
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Each spaceflight lasts about 11 minutes from liftoff to capsule touchdown, allowing up to six people to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and get a view of Earth's curvature.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2.
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2025
Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips will make their first human spaceflight aboard Crew Dragon Resilience, exploring Earth from a polar orbit and flying over Earth’s polar regions for the first time.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
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Josh Dinner, Space.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Each spaceflight lasts about 11 minutes from liftoff to capsule touchdown, allowing up to six people to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and get a view of Earth's curvature.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025
No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2.
—ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2025
Chun Wang, Jannicke Mikkelsen, Rabea Rogge and Eric Philips will make their first human spaceflight aboard Crew Dragon Resilience, exploring Earth from a polar orbit and flying over Earth’s polar regions for the first time.
—Doc Louallen, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Spaceflight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceflight. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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spaceflight
noun
space·flight
ˈspās-ˌflīt 
: flight beyond the earth's atmosphere
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