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In preparation for the arrival of NASA\u2019s 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\u2019s Starliner spacecraft.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s<\/a> website. Learn how to stream NASA TV through a variety of platforms including social media.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Harmony module at 7:45 a.m. The spacecraft will then autonomously dock with the module\u2019s space-facing port at 8:28 a.m.<\/p>\n The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will free up Harmony\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-8 mission launched March 3 from NASA\u2019s 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\u2019s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n Learn more about space station activities by following @space_station<\/a> and @ISS_Research<\/a> on X, as well as the ISS Facebook, ISS Instagram, and the space station blog.<\/p>\n -end-<\/p>\n Joshua Finch \/ Claire O\u2019Shea Sandra Jones \/ Anna Schneider
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov \/ claire.a.o\u2019shea@nasa.gov<\/p>\n
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov \/ anna.c.schneider@nasa.gov<\/p>\n<\/div>\n