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 2 in just a few moments we should hear that

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

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

00:15process takes about four minutes and during that period we will hear the

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

00:24when the spacecraft is about two meters away from the docking port and

00:30and 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 in closer it's about three meters away so in one meter we

00:51will 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

01:09and meter

01:26and at 625 a.m. central 725 a.m.

01:56of initial contact and capture at that time the International Space Station and

02:01DRAGON were flying approximately 260 statute miles over the south part of Brazil

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