In preparation for the arriving of NASA’s SpaceX thirty first business resupply services and products undertaking, 4 staff contributors aboard the World Area Station will relocate the company’s SpaceX Staff-9 Dragon spacecraft to another docking port Sunday, Nov. 3.
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NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, will undock the spacecraft from the forward-facing port of the station’s Solidarity module at 6:35 a.m., and redock to the module’s space-facing port at 7:18 a.m.
The relocation, supported by way of flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Area Middle in Houston and the Project Keep watch over crew at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will loose Solidarity’s forward-facing port for a Dragon shipment spacecraft undertaking scheduled to release no previous than Monday, Nov. 4.
This would be the 5th port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with staff aboard following earlier strikes throughout the Staff-1, Staff-2, Staff-6, and Staff-8 missions.
Be informed extra about area station actions by way of following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Fb, ISS Instagram, and the distance station weblog.
NASA’s SpaceX Staff-9 undertaking introduced Sept. 28 from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida and docked to the distance station Sept. 29. Staff-9, focused to go back February 2025, is the corporate’s 9th rotational staff undertaking as part of the company’s Business Staff Program.
To find NASA’s business staff weblog and extra details about the Staff-9 undertaking at:
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Jimi Russell / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
james.j.russell@nasa.gov / claire.a.o’shea@nasa.gov
Sandra Jones
Johnson Area Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
sandra.p.jones@nasa.gov
