NASA has given a major assignment to the four astronauts on the Crew-6 mission. After Two months after UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi departed for space with his SpaceX Crew-6 crew mates.
The four crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will relocate their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft’s docking port on Saturday, May 6. To make way for the arrival of an upcoming cargo spacecraft, NASA announced on Tuesday.
The Crew-6 members are targeted to return in August, as revealed by NASA.
In the upcoming mission, Al Neyadi will join his fellow Crew-6 members, who are all now part of Exploration 69, to board their launch spacecraft. Therefore, Once again, Dragon Endeavour makes a short ride outside the ISS to dock it again to the station.
So, he will join NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to relocate the Dragon from the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module to the station’s forward Harmony port, according to the US space agency.
Relocation mission
NASA said it will provide live coverage of the move beginning at 7 am EDT (3 pm GST). The astronauts will undock the Dragon at 3.10 pm here. So, the spacecraft will dock again at the station’s forward Harmony port at 3:53 pm.
Ground controllers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne. Therefore, California will support the relocation.
It will free up Harmony’s space-facing port (zenith) for the docking of the next Dragon cargo spacecraft set to launch in June.
This is to facilitate the installation of the next pair of the International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays. Or IROSAs to upgrade the station’s power generation system