SpaceX Dragon Moved To New Parking Spot On Space Station

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The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, moved their Crew Dragon capsule to another docking port to make way for a new cargo Dragon arrival.   Credit: SpaceX

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00:00So Dragon will reach that waypoint two in just a few moments. We should hear

00:06that confirmation and we'll hear the that they're standing by for that hold

00:10and then once ready Dragon will begin its final approach and that final

00:14approach process takes about four minutes and during that period we will

00:19hear the call out for CHOP which stands for crew hands-off point and this call

00:23occurs when the spacecraft is about two meters away from the docking port.

00:31And just a minute ago on your screen you could actually see the docking target

00:38which is that crosshair target on the International Space Station and Dragon is

00:46continuing to approach and closer it's about three meters away so in one meter

00:51we will hear that call for CHOP or crew hands-off point.

00:56And we heard that call for CHOP and just standing by for initial contact and capture.

01:26You

01:38Freedom SpaceX on the big loop soft capture complete.

01:46And at 625 a.m. Central 725 a.m. Eastern we have

01:55confirmation of initial contact and capture. At that time the International

02:00Space Station and Dragon were flying approximately 260 statute miles over the

02:06south part of Brazil.

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