Due to Hurricane Milton, four astronauts will stay in Earth orbit a few days longer than planned.
NASA and SpaceX originally targeted Monday morning (Oct. 7) for the departure of the Crew-8 mission from the International Space Station (ISS). However, Crew-8 is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida, a region presently under threat from Milton, which intensified into a Category 5 hurricane on Monday before weakening slightly to a Category 4 storm on Tuesday. So, the undocking date has been pushed back several times, most recently to Sunday (Oct. 13).
