NASA, SpaceX target Sunday for return of eighth crew mission

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Sunday, Oct. 13, for the undocking of the eighth crew rotation mission from the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said on Tuesday.

Mission managers continue to monitor weather conditions and potential impacts from Hurricane Milton across the Florida peninsula, said NASA.

The mission, codenamed "Crew-8," is NASA's eighth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station.

Launched on March 3 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the mission carried NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, as well as Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos, Russia's state space corporation, to ISS.