NASA's next rocket launch is set for Halloween and will put four more astronauts into space station on a SpaceX rocket. The Crew-3 launch is scheduled for Sunday, 31st October, at 2:21 a.m. EDT, using a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch will take place at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Riding to the orbiting complex on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will be NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn , and Kayla Barron, as well as European Space Agency astronaut and mission specialist Matthias Maurer. If the crew cannot make it to space on the prime launch date, the next backup launch time would be 1:10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, 3rd November, All timing is subject to change depending on weather, technical matters and other factors. "Launch on 31st October, would have Crew-3 arriving at the space station early on the morning of Monday, 1st November, for a short handover with the astronauts who flew to the station in April as part of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission," NASA said in a statement. The launch had been delayed from 23rd October, due to station traffic from other spacecraft and was previously scheduled to launch on 31st October, before NASA and SpaceX moved it to 30th October. While the return date of Crew-2 has yet to be finalized, NASA says the likely splashdown date will be in early November, at one of seven landing zones nearby the coast of Florida. Expedition 66 will continue on the space station even after Crew-2's departure.