The 4 astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission will transfer their Dragon capsule to a unique port on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (Might 2), and you may watch the motion stay.
The Dragon, named Endeavour, is scheduled to undock from the forward-facing port of the station’s Concord module on Thursday at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT), then autonomously dock with Concord’s space-facing port at 8:28 a.m. EDT (1228 GMT).
You’ll be able to watch it stay right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA. Protection will start at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT).
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The maneuver will open up Concord’s forward-facing port for Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which is scheduled to launch on its first-ever crewed mission on Monday (Might 6).
That Starliner mission, often known as Crew Flight Check, will ship NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the ISS for a roughly 10-day keep.
SpaceX’s Crew-8 launched to the orbiting lab on March 3. As its title suggests, Crew-8 is the eighth operational crewed mission that SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA. Its 4 crewmates are NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeannette Epps and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who will stay aboard the station for six months.
Dominick, Barratt, Epps and Grebenkin will all climb aboard Endeavour for Thursday’s transfer.
It is going to be the fourth such relocation for a crewed Dragon capsule on the ISS, after related maneuvers throughout the Crew-1, Crew-2 and Crew-6 missions, NASA officers wrote in an update this week.
