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NASA Sets Coverage
for Dragon Spacecraft Relocation on Space Station April 29, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: M24-059
In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate
the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port Thursday, May 2, to make way for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA will provide live coverage of the move beginning at 7:30 a.m. EDT on
NASA+,
NASA Television, the NASA app,
YouTube,
and the agency’s website. Learn how to
stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including
social media. NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, will undock from
the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 7:45 a.m. The spacecraft will then autonomously dock with the module’s space-facing port at 8:28 a.m. The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will
free up Harmony’s forward-facing port for the docking of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft for its first flight with astronauts in May. Starliner will autonomously dock to the forward-facing port of the Harmony module, delivering NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore
and Suni Williams to the space station. This will be the fourth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew, following previous relocations during the
Crew-1,
Crew-2, and
Crew-6
missions. NASA’s SpaceX
Crew-8 mission launched March 3 from NASA’s Kennedy Space
Center in Florida and docked to the space station March 5. Crew-8, targeted to return this fall, is the eighth rotational crew mission from NASA and SpaceX as a part of the agency’s
Commercial Crew Program. Learn more about space station activities by following
@space_station
and @ISS_Research
on X, as well as the ISS
Facebook, ISS
Instagram, and the
space station blog.
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