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Hurricane Milton forces NASA, SpaceX to delay Crew-8 astronauts' return to Earth


Crew-8 is now scheduled to return to Earth no earlier than Sunday morning (Oct. 13).

NASA and SpaceX originally targeted Monday morning (Oct. 7) for the departure of the Crew-8 mission from the International Space Station(ISS). Crew-8 launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 3, lofting a Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, as well as Alexander Grebenkin of Russia's space agency Roscosmos. NASA and SpaceX have delayed indefinitely the launch of the $5 billion Europa Clipper spacecraft, which had been targeted to lift off atop a Falcon Heavy rocket on Thursday.

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