According to the NASA website, its crew members Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, undocked from the forward-facing post of the station’s Harmony module
The relocation was overseen by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. (NASA)
In preparation for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flights Test, four astronauts at the international space station on May 2 relocated the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft to a different docking port to make room for Boeing’s Starline spacecraft.
Live coverage of the relocation started at 7:30 am EDT (5pM IST) on various NASA platforms, including NASA+NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the agency’s website. Instructions on streaming NASA TV through different platforms, including social media, were also made available by the space agency.
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According to the NASA website, its crew members Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, undocked from the forward-facing post of the station’s Harmony module.
The relocation, overseen by flight controllers at NASA’s Jhonson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, aimed to open up Harmony’s forward-facing post for the Boeing Starliners which will carry astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the space station.
This event marks the fourth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew, following previous moves during the crew-1-2, and Crew-6 missions.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 3, and docked to the space station to rotational crew mission from NASA and SpaceX under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
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First uploaded on: 02-05-2024 at 19:44 IST
