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A very cool interview with the #FRAM2 civilian astronauts.

#spaceflight #space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPjCeD9fX2Y

Some polar views from the #Fram2 mission, from the video https://x.com/satofishi/status/1907753850557313304 sent down today; in the bottom panel we are zooming in on Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway - see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/kurze-premiere-der-1-deutschen-orbitalrakete/ (lower part) for more images grabbed from several videos. Otherwise little about the mission's progress (and when it should actually end ... tomorrow?) has been shared.

1. Anlässlich der #Fram2 Mission fiel mir ein, dass ich das Schiff, nach dem dieser Raumflug benannt ist, das Expeditionsschiff FRAM, vor langer Zeit gezeichnet hatte. Die FRAM wird in Oslo ausgestellt und ist quasi ein "norwegisches Nationalheiligtum". Sie wurde für den Polarforscher Fridtjof Nansen von Colin Archer, dem legendären norwegischen Schiffskonstrukteur, konstruiert und 1892 in Lavik gebaut. =>

The #Fram2 crew is inside the Crew Dragon and the hatch is being closed - from the video clip https://x.com/satofishi/status/1906856740898963606 with a POV we've never seen before. The current weather at the Cape sucks but apparently they want to make the first launch window at 1:46 UTC.