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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
00:11then 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.
00:34And 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
00:51we will hear that call for CHOP or Crew Hands Off Point.
01:05And we heard that call for CHOP and just standing by for initial contact and capture.
01:13One meter.
01:38Freedom SpaceX on the big loop soft capture complete.
01:50And at 625 AM Central, 725 AM Eastern, we have confirmation of initial contact and capture.
01:58At that time, the International Space Station and Dragon were flying approximately 260 statute
02:04miles over the south part of Brazil.
02:13I'll see you in the next video.
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