In preparation for the arrival of NASA SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will move the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to another docking port on Sunday, November 3.
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NASA astronauts Nick Haig, Sweeney Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, undock the spacecraft from the forward port of the station’s Harmony module at 6:35 a.m. and dock it to the module’s space-facing port at 7:18 a.m.
The move, supported by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX’s Mission Control team in Hawthorne, California, will free up Harmony’s forward port for the Dragon cargo spacecraft mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than Monday, November 4.
This will be the fifth port change for the Dragon spacecraft with a crew on board, following previous moves during Crew-1, Crew-2, Crew-6 and Crew-8 missions.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched on September 28 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked with the space station on September 29. The Crew-9 crew, which is scheduled to return in February 2025, is the company’s ninth rotational mission under the agency’s commercial crew program.
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