SPACE STATION CREW RELOCATES CREW DRAGON TO ANOTHER PORT ON ORBIT Expedition 64 Flight Engineers Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker of NASA and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) conducted a 38-minute flight away from the International Space Station April 5, as their SpaceX crew Dragon “Resilience” undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module and autonomously relocated to the zenith port of the module. The maneuver, the first ever for a commercial crew vehicle, opened the forward docking port of Harmony for the arrival of the next SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA. Aki Hoshide of JAXA and Thomas Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency), who are scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center on their Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endeavour” later this month. The two crews will have a chance for a handover period aboard the station before Hopkins, Glover, Walker and Noguchi head home aboard “Resilience”.
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