NASA will relocate SpaceX’s Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft to a different docking port on the International Space Station (ISS). The relocation, which will occur on November 3 (AEDST), is to facilitate the arrival of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, will undock the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 9.35 p.m. (AEDST) and redock to the module’s space-facing port at 10:18 p.m.
The relocation, supported by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Mission Control team at SpaceX, will free Harmony’s forward-facing port for a Dragon cargo spacecraft mission scheduled to launch no earlier than November 4.
NASA will commence live coverage of the undocking and redocking procedures on NASA+ at 9.15 p.m.
This will be the fifth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with crew aboard following previous moves during the Crew-1, Crew-2, Crew-6, and Crew-8 missions.
