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About 7 hours before launch, Musk's SpaceX's "craziest" mission this year was announced to be postponed.

On the evening of August 26th local time, SpaceX canceled the Polaris Dawn space walk launch mission originally scheduled for August 27th.

This is the furthest space travel from Earth in more than 50 years since NASA's Apollo program. It will pass through the Van Allen radiation belts, a ring of high-energy particles trapped in the Earth's magnetic field. At the same time, this mission means that humans will complete the first commercial spacewalk. On August 19, local time, Musk posted: This will be an epic feat.

This launch mission, named "Polaris Dawn", is the first leg of the manned space program "Polaris Program" (the Polaris Program will carry out at least three space flight missions). It was initiated by Jared Isaacman and SpaceX. The launch time of the mission was originally scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2022, but it has been postponed several times so far.

Helium leak delays mission

On the evening of August 26, local time,SpaceX postponed the launch of a rocket carrying four astronauts. It is reported that SpaceX originally planned to use the Falcon 9 launch vehicle to carry out the mission code-named "Polaris Dawn" from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The launch time was originally scheduled for 3:38 a.m. Eastern Time on August 27.