While we all dedicate this moment to celebrating Polaris Dawn’s achievement, we’ve had a wonderful night at @FramMuseum in Oslo, sharing about the upcoming Fram2 mission with the Norwegian polar and space community. More updates will follow soon. 🚀🚀🚀

Please allow me to quote Steve Jobs’s original iPhone announcement in 2007: “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two-and-a-half years. Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” Yes, I’ve been looking forward to this mission for 2.5 years now. From mission proposal, planning, trajectory design, to crew selection, everything has been done by the customer. And now, here we are! Until 2021, space missions were solely the privilege of governments. Private individuals were unable to charter a Space Shuttle like they would do for an airplane. Then @inspiration4x came along and changed everything. It was a space tourist mission, but unlike any space tourists before it. For the first time in spaceflight history, a private individual could rent an entire spacecraft, planned, designed, and executed their own very personal mission with clear objectives. It should never be underrated. Later, we saw the emergence of the Polaris Program, which is essentially a new Gemini for our time, but this time entirely driven by an individual rather than a government. With Fram2, we aim to open this door even wider. This is the true allure of commercial spaceflight. I’ve read many sci-fi stories about the first human missions to Mars, usually led by NASA or some fictional government. Rarely does anyone dare to imagine such a mission may be carried out privately. But now, I increasingly believe that someday we will reach Mars — and it may be a person, or a company, not a nation, who gets there. A new chapter in space exploration is unfolding before our eyes. Stay tuned! f2.com