According to foreign media reports, the astronauts of the international space station (ISS) will need to move their spacecraft from one berth to another on April 5. In November last year, Crew-1 astronauts arrived at the ISS on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon to complete a historic journey. Now, with the upcoming arrival of another manned dragon spacecraft and the delivery of new solar panels later this year, ISS needs to release the current docking port of Crew-1 with the space station Harmony module.
NASA said in a statement at the end of March that the re-parking will mark another first commercial space flight. NASA TV plans to live broadcast the relocation from 3 a.m. Pacific time on Monday.
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Crew-1's Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker (all NASA astronauts) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi will wear theirs Flight suit to move Crew Dragon Resilience. The whole process takes about 45 minutes.
On Thursday, Hopkins posted on Twitter showing the crew of Crew-1 trying on the spacesuit designed by SpaceX. He wrote: "In order to make room for our new crew, we will sit in Dragon and take a short journey from the Harmony forward berth to the Harmony zenith berth."
Right now, NASA is doing some of the International Space Station schedule. The agency plans to use the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to launch the Crew-2 mission in April, and it will use the forward berth when it arrives.Crew-1 astronauts will return to Earth at the end of April or early May, at which time, it will leave another berth to load solar panels this summer.
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