Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon take one among its shortest journeys on Thursday
Four International Space Station (ISS) crew members will climb aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Thursday and take it on a really quick journey.
The plan is for NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, to relocate the Crew Dragon to a unique port to make manner for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which is about to fly its first astronauts in a launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, May 6, earlier than arriving on the ISS on Wednesday, May 8.
NASA will stay stream Thursday’s relocation process, which can take about 45 minutes to finish. Read on for full particulars on the way to watch.
The relocation maneuver shall be supported by flight controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and SpaceX personnel in Hawthorne, California. It would be the fourth port relocation of a Dragon spacecraft with a crew, NASA said, following earlier relocations involving SpaceX’s Crew-1, Crew-2, and Crew-6 missions.
The flight of the Crew Dragon through the maneuver will look sluggish, however in actuality each the spacecraft and the house station are hurtling round Earth at a velocity of simply over 17,000 mph.
The Starliner launch is extremely anticipated amongst those that have been following the event of Boeing’s spacecraft. Upon its arrival on the ISS, it is going to dock autonomously to the forward-facing port of the Harmony module, bringing NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the house station.
How to observe
NASA will present stay protection of the Crew Dragon’s relocation beginning at 7:30 a.m. (ET) on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and the company’s web site. You may watch the operation by way of the participant embedded on the high of this web page.
The Crew Dragon crew will undock from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 7:45 a.m. (ET) earlier than connecting autonomously with the module’s space-facing port at 8:28 a.m. (ET).
