US aerospace company SpaceX has again postponed the start of a mission that was to be the first privately funded spacewalk. The launch was postponed due to “unfavorable weather forecasts for the water landing areas” of the Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida.
The Polaris Dawn mission, organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, was originally scheduled to launch in a four-hour window on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The launch was previously postponed from Tuesday morning to Wednesday after a helium leak was discovered. A new launch date was not initially announced by SpaceX.
Six-day mission planned
During the six-day ‘Polaris Dawn’ mission, the astronauts in the capsule will travel up to 1,400 kilometers from Earth – the farthest an astronaut has traveled since the Apollo moon missions.
The astronauts include American billionaire Isaacman himself, as well as pilot Scott Poteet and SpaceX employees Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon. Isaacman is funding the ‘Polaris’ programme, which includes a total of three missions, together with technology pioneer Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Source: Krone
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