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Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch

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Cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang and his Fram2 crew of private astronauts got a two-for-one deal this week when they watched a SpaceX rocket lift off just hours before their own launch into space.

Wang launched into orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Monday night (March 31), leading his four-person Fram2 crew on the world’s first astronaut flight over Earth’s poles. But about hours before their evening liftoff from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Fram2 astronauts got a special show: another SpaceX rocket launching Starlink satellites into orbit.

“We’re gonna watch a rocket launch while on our way to a rocket launch,” Wang wrote on social media as his crew drove to their Cape Canaveral launch site in black Tesla sedans. (The license plate on one read “Fram2Go.”) He also shared a video of his view of the SpaceX Starlink launch as it soared over the Clint Hurdle baseball field of Merritt Island High School after lifting off from the nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The four private Fram2 astronauts inside their SpaceX Dragon capsule in their black and white spacesuits

Fram2 mission commander and financier Chun Wang (right) and his crew inside their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. From left are: Eric Phillips of Australia, Rabea Rogge of Germany and Jannicke Mikkelsen of Norway. (Image credit: SpaceX)

SpaceX launched 28 Starlink internet satellites on the Falcon 9 rocket Monday afternoon. About six hours later, Wang and his crew were strapping into their Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft atop their own Falcon 9.



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