{"id":194460,"date":"2024-08-13T05:22:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacex-to-launch-privately-financed-international-crew-of-four-around-earths-poles"},"modified":"2024-08-13T05:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T10:22:42","slug":"spacex-to-launch-privately-financed-international-crew-of-four-around-earths-poles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/spacex-to-launch-privately-financed-international-crew-of-four-around-earths-poles","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch privately-financed international crew of four around Earth\u2019s poles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-launch-privately-financed-international-crew-of-four-around-earths-poles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth\u2019s poles aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule by end of year, becoming the first humans to observe the ice caps and extreme polar environments from orbit, SpaceX announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The historic flight, launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will be commanded by Chun Wang, a wealthy bitcoin pioneer who founded f2pool and stakefish, \u201cwhich are among the largest Bitcoin mining pools and Ethereum staking providers,\u201d the crew\u2019s website says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWang aims to use the mission to highlight the crew\u2019s explorational spirit, bring a sense of wonder and curiosity to the larger public and highlight how technology can help push the boundaries of exploration of Earth and through the mission\u2019s research,\u201d SpaceX said on its web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth\u2019s poles aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule by end of year, becoming the first humans to observe the ice caps and extreme polar environments from orbit, SpaceX announced Monday. The historic flight, launched from the Kennedy Space Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,3818,1761,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-blockchains","category-cryptocurrencies","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}