SpaceX astronauts move spacecraft on the ISS

Four astronauts moved the Dragon spacecraft to a new docking position on the ISS on November 3, preparing for the next cargo ship.

SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two members who were aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, have moved their Crew Dragon Freedom capsule to an unused docking spot atop the Space Station International (ISS). This move comes before SpaceX’s plan to launch the unmanned Dragon supply ship on November 4.

SpaceX plans to launch Dragon’s cargo ship from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (November 4). The ship will carry more than 3 tons of supplies for the ISS crew. If all goes well, it will arrive on Tuesday morning (November 5).

During Crew-9’s Dragon relocation on Sunday, the capsule’s four-person crew left the ISS’s Harmony module at 1:35 p.m. and reconnected at 2:25 p.m. The ship has moved from a forward-facing portal to a space-facing portal. NASA said that at the time of connection, the Dragon capsule and the ISS were flying in the sky over southern Brazil.

On board Dragon are astronaut Nick Hague of NASA and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos (Russia). Both were initially assigned to Crew-9, along with former Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of NASA. They will return to Earth aboard Dragon Freedom in February 2025.

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