Washington, July 12 -- The fourth private astronaut flight to the International Space Station(ISS) is scheduled to depart the orbiting laboratory on July 14 and return to Earth, NASA said in a statement yesterday.
The four-member crew is set to undock from the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at approximately 7:05 am. EDT Monday (1105 GMT), initiating their journey back to Earth with a planned splashdown off the coast of California.
The mission, codenamed Axiom Mission 4, launched on June 25 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The crew includes Peggy Whitson, former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, Indian...