In preparation for the arrival of the Boeing Crew Flight Test NASA's four crew members on the ISS will carry the spacecraft SpaceX Dragon in a different port of call on Thursday, 2 Mayto clear the way for the spacecraft Starliner of Boeing.
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The astronauts of NASA Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt and Jeanette Epps, as well as the Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, shall be disconnected from the port facing the front of the unit Harmony of the station at 7:45 a.m. The spacecraft will then dock autonomously to the space-facing module's port at 8:28 a.m.
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The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and the SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will free the forward-facing port of Harmony to dock the Boeing Starliner spacecraft for its first astronaut flight in May. The Starliner will dock autonomously at the Harmony facility's forward-facing port, delivering NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams at space station.
This will be the fourth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew, following previous relocations during missions Crew-1, Crew-2 and Crew-6.
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The mission SpaceX Crew-8 was launched on March 3 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station on March 5 as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
Source: nasa.gov
