NASA eyes Oct. 31 SpaceX craft liftoff with Japan, U.S. astronauts aboard

WASHINGTON - NASA said Monday it is targeting an Oct. 31 launch of a spacecraft developed by U.S. company SpaceX which will carry Japan's Soichi Noguchi and three other astronauts to the International Space Station.The mission comes in the wake of the first crewed test flight to the ISS by SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle. Two U.S. astronauts returned from the ISS in August aboard the capsule after a two-month mission.The liftoff is planned for 2:40 a.m. on Oct. 31 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern state of Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said in a …READ FULL ARTICLE