To prepare for NASA’s 31st SpaceX commercial resupply mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will relocate the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a new docking port on Sunday, November 3.
Live coverage will begin at 6:15 a.m. EST on NASA+ and continue through docking completion. NASA content can also be accessed through various platforms, including social media.
At 6:35 a.m., NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, will undock the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the ISS Harmony module. By 7:18 a.m., they plan to redock it at the module’s space-facing port.
This maneuver, coordinated by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, California, will make room at Harmony’s forward-facing port for a Dragon cargo mission scheduled for launch no earlier than Monday, November 4.
This will be the fifth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew aboard following previous moves during the Crew-1, Crew-2, Crew-6, and Crew-8 missions.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched on September 28 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station on September 29. Crew-9, targeted to return in February 2025, is the company’s ninth rotational crew mission as a part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
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