New Delhi, March 17 -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the schedule for Crew-9 return. As per the US space agency's statement SpaceX Dragon hatch closure preparations will commence on Tuesday, March 18, at 8:15 AM IST (March 17 at 10:45 PM ET).

This schedule comes after SpaceX's Crew-10 astronaut mission arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. Crew-10 embarked on 28-hour orbital chase on March 14 aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft with four astronauts from three different nations. Americans Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov aboard the spacecraft took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 PM ET.

NASA informed th...