Flat Earthers are shaking in their boots at SpaceX's imminent flight over Earth's poles

SpaceX is about to make history by being the company to transport the first astronauts in a polar orbit under the mission "Fram2. The name is a reference to the Norwegian ship "Fram," which did Arctic to Antarctic expeditions during the 1800s and 1900s.

In a similar fashion SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft named "Resilience" will orbit over the both poles in a three to five-day journey. The capsule will be transported to orbit with SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, and much like the Inspiration4 mission, the world's first private space mission with no professional astronauts aboard, Crew Dragon will be equipped with a cupola for unparalleled views of Earth.

Crew Dragon will have four soon-to-be astronauts aboard: Malta resident Chun Wang, Vehicle Commander Jannicke Mikkelsen, Pilot Rabea Rogge and Mission Specialist and Medical Officer Eric Philips. Wang has funded the mission for an undisclosed amount of money. The goal of the mission is for the four crew members to conduct twenty-two scientific and research experiments, such as sleep research, the world's first X-ray monitoring of bone density in space, world's first mushroom growing in space, glucose monitoring, and more.

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Crew Dragon Resilience

Additional research tasks for the crew members is taking photographs and videos of both of the poles, with Mikkelsen, a Norwegian cinematographer helming this task. As for equipment, Mikkelsen will be completing the pre-planned shots with RED V-Raptor 8K cameras, Canon R5C cameras and several Canon RF lenses. The Fram2 mission is scheduled to liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Monday, March 31, at 9:47 p.m. EDT (0147 UTC). Resilience will splashdown for the first time in SpaceX's history on the West Coast, specifically off the coast of California.

SpaceX will also be placing a Starlink satellite within the trunk of Crew Dragon to provide internet access to spacecraft, specifically 1Gbps speeds.

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Fram2 Crew

A Flat Earthers Nightmare

Some people who believe the Earth is flat believe a few unique things about the poles, and while theories vary they typically fall within two categories. The first, the North Pole is the center of the flat Earth and with continents spreading outward from it. The Sun and Moon supposedly rotate in a circular path above this flat plane. The second is the Antarctic is an ice wall instead of a continent, and this wall surrounds the edges of the flat Earth.

These ideas are, of course, already completely disproven by conventional science, but SpaceX's mission over both poles and it being captured with 8K cameras will be yet another nail in the coffin that is "Flat Earth Theory".