SpaceX rocket launch postponed again.
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US space company SpaceX has once again postponed the launch of a mission that was scheduled to include the first privately funded spacewalk.
The launch will be postponed due to “unfavorable weather forecasts for the water landing areas” of the Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida, the company announced Tuesday (local time) in its online service X.
There is no new start date.
The Polaris Dawn mission, organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, was already scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Wednesday in four hours. It was originally scheduled to launch Tuesday morning, but was pushed back to Wednesday due to a helium leak. The company did not initially set a new launch date.
During the six-day Polaris Dawn mission, astronauts in the capsule will travel as far as 1,400 kilometers from Earth — the farthest any astronaut has traveled since the Apollo moon missions. The astronauts include American billionaire Isaacman himself, and pilot Scott Poteet and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon are also said to be on board. Isaacman is funding the Polaris program, which includes three missions, along with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX vehicle.
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