Four astronauts will redeploy a SpaceX spacecraft from the space station on Sunday (November 3), and you can watch the event live.
The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members who previously flew on the Boeing Starliner, will fly the Crew Dragon. International Space Station. ISS procedures require all astronauts assigned to the spacecraft to be brought aboard for reassignment if the slightest chance arises that forces the group to return to Earth early.
Live coverage begins at 6:15 AM EST (1315 GMT). NASA+, and maybe agency youtube If only NASA shared there too.
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If the event goes as planned, the four astronauts will temporarily undock from the ISS’s Harmony module at 6:35 a.m. EST (1335 GMT) and re-dock at 7:18 a.m. EST (1418 GMT). to move from the forward port to the ISS. Port to space.
scheduled to board NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov were originally assigned to Crew-9, along with former Starliner astronaut Butch Wilmore and NASA’s Suni Williams.
The Starliner duo was reassigned to Crew-9 after NASA decided it was too risky to bring them safely home aboard a Boeing spacecraft to complete a test ISS mission. The Starliner experienced unexpected propulsion problems while docking with the ISS on June 6, and after nearly two months of troubleshooting, neither the cause nor a solution could be found.
NASA originally planned to launch two other agency astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, on Crew-9. They were pulled from the mission to leave two empty spots for Williams and Wilmore to return to Earth with the rest of Crew-9 in February 2025. (Wilson and Cardman may continue to participate in future ISS missions.)
The Crew Dragon redeployment will make room for the cargo variant of the spacecraft, also called Dragon, to dock at the empty Harmony port after its scheduled launch Monday (November 4).
