Crew Dragon spacecraft with Russian cosmonaut aboard to leave ISS no earlier than Oct 18 - NASA

WASHINGTON. Oct 15 (Interfax) - The undocking of SpaceX's Crew Dragon-8 spacecraft carrying a crew of three U.S. astronauts and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin from the International Space Station (ISS) to return them to Earth has been rescheduled to Friday, October 18, due to adverse weather at the site of its planned splashdown, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said.

This is the fourth time the spaceship's undocking from the ISS has been postponed. It was scheduled initially for October 8 and was later shifted to October 10, 13 and 14 due to a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico area.

Apart from Grebenkin, the Crew-8 mission includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, who have been on board the station since early March.

After undocking from the ISS, the spacecraft is expected to splash down using a parachute system near Florida's coast in the Gulf of Mexico.