In preparation for the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission, four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a different docking port Sunday, Nov. 3.
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.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched Sept. 28 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station Sept. 29.
Crew-9, targeted to return February 2025, is the company’s ninth rotational crew mission as a part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
Find NASA’s commercial crew blog and more information about the Crew-9 mission at: https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew -end- Jimi Russell / Claire O’Shea Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100 james.j.russell@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft will be moved to a new docking port on Sunday, November, by four crew members on board the ISS in anticipation of the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission. 3.
Coverage starts live at 6:15 a.m. m. EST on NASA+ and will conclude soon after docking. Learn about the various platforms, such as social media, that offer NASA content.
Around 6:35 a.m., Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore will undock the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module. M. at 7:18 a.m., and redock to the space-facing port of the module. M.
With the help of the Mission Control team at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, and flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, the move will free up Harmony’s forward-facing port for a Dragon cargo spacecraft mission that is expected to launch no earlier than Monday, November. 4.
With the Crew-1, Crew-2, Crew-6, and Crew-8 missions, this will be the fifth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew on board.
Follow @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, followed by the ISS Facebook, ISS Instagram, and the space station blog to find out more about space station activities.
In September, NASA launched its SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Sept. 28 docked to the space station after departing NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 28. Crew-9 is the company’s ninth rotational crew mission under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, with a return date of February 2025.
More details about the Crew-9 mission and NASA’s commercial crew blog can be found at:.
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew.dot.
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