The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is shown after moving away from the space station to start its relocation maneuver. Credit: NASA TV
The Crew-8 crew of NASA and SpaceX on the International Space Station shifted the Dragon spacecraft on May 2, to make space for the upcoming visit of Boeing Starliner.
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeannette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, undocked the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 8:57 a.m. EDT. Then, they automatically reattached it to the module’s space-facing zenith port at 9:46 a.m. EDT over the eastern Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia. This was the 28th spacecraft relocation in the history of the station, and it opens up the forward port for Starliner's autonomous docking during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.
View the NASA replay of the relocation activities:
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, commander, and Suni Williams, pilot, will be the first to launch on Boeing’s Starliner using a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The liftoff is planned for 10:34 p.m. EDT, Monday, May 6, and the crew is expected to dock at the space station on Wednesday, May 8.
