Fram2 private manned mission splashes down safelyThe Fram2 private commercial manned mission successfully ended today when SpaceX’s Resilience capsule splashed down safely off the coast of California.
The crew spent about four days in space, circling the Earth in the first polar orbit by a human crew.
This was SpaceX’s sixth privately funded manned mission. Three docked with ISS and were paid for by Axiom. Three flew independently, with two paid by Jared Isaacman and one by Chun Weng (which landed today). Plus Axiom has scheduled its next ISS commercial flight for May, 2025, using a new SpaceX capsule (bringing the company’s manned fleet to five spacecraft).
As I noted earlier this week, SpaceX is making space exploration profitable, which in turn makes the government irrelevant. And ain’t that a kick?
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The Fram2 private commercial manned mission successfully ended today when SpaceX’s Resilience capsule splashed down safely off the coast of California.
The crew spent about four days in space, circling the Earth in the first polar orbit by a human crew.
This was SpaceX’s sixth privately funded manned mission. Three docked with ISS and were paid for by Axiom. Three flew independently, with two paid by Jared Isaacman and one by Chun Weng (which landed today). Plus Axiom has scheduled its next ISS commercial flight for May, 2025, using a new SpaceX capsule (bringing the company’s manned fleet to five spacecraft).
As I noted earlier this week, SpaceX is making space exploration profitable, which in turn makes the government irrelevant. And ain’t that a kick?
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I’ll give them advice, it will be more profitable if they can make it affordable for schmucks like me.
Usually I know about launches and landings from forum posts, X feed, or websites like this. Was this kept under wraps for some reason?
I would have watched to feed my jealousy of the occupants.
“Fram”, a Norwegian word, means “Forward”.
John
I do think that Falcon 9 launches are pretty much price fixed by now.
The basic launch like this one with all used equipment. Low Earth Orbit and everything recovered.
The next is a higher orbit with more fuel and less cargo
The next is using all the fuel and watch the first stage crash.
If you really want to go high cost launch throw in an all new rocket to the mix.
If the lowest cost launch is 40 million then that is a cheap 10 million per seat.
I can not see them getting the cost down to 10 million a launch even with a well used falcon 9. And that would bring the price down to 2.5 million a seat and place it into the realm of “normal” millionaires.
Yngvar says: ““Fram”, a Norwegian word, means “Forward”.”
For a lot of Americans who used to do maintenance on their vehicles, it also means oil filter, though pronounced differently. Cheers –
Guns-n-Roses
“Civil War”
https://youtu.be/ql0lUqbQtn4
7:43
“I don’t need your civil war,
It feeds the rich, while it buries the poor.
You’re power-hungry, sellin’ soldiers in a human grocery store,
Ain’t that fresh?”
The $10 million F9 2nd stage is always lost on every flight. Add RTLS booster refresh plus fairing recovery costs and $25-30 mill is probably as cheap as it gets w/o GM added in. Neutron, FH/SS, Stoke Space with reusable 2nd stages will be the real game changers.
So I guess we can say that they were inconvenienced and not stranded