Crypto Investor Pushes Limits: Books SpaceX Flight, Embarks on Polar Adventure

A Bitcoin investor who secured a SpaceX flight for himself and three polar explorers launched into space on Monday night, marking the first crewed mission to fly over both the North and South Poles. Chun Wang, a Chinese-born entrepreneur, lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center aboard SpaceX’s Falcon rocket. The spacecraft headed south over the Atlantic, charting a course never taken before in 64 years of human spaceflight.