Chun Wang became the first known bitcoiner to launch into Earth's orbit late Monday onboard the SpaceX Fram2 mission he funded. The Elon Musk-led astronautics company confirmed a Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the reusable Dragon Resilience spacecraft into polar orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:46 p.m. ET on Monday. The four-person all-civilian Fram2 crew become the first humans to enter polar orbit and view Earth's poles from space, traveling at a speed of 27,589 km/h at an altitude of 435 km. "Today, we become the 681st humans to fly above the Kármán line, and the 626th to orbit the ... (full story)