Because things are getting crowded on the International Space Station, the astronauts who flew up to the station on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule last November had to move their ride to a new parking spot.
The four passengers who will be taking Crew Dragon Resilience back home later this month hopped into the Dragon capsule Monday morning to migrate it from one port on the ISS’s Harmony module to another.
It’s a first for NASA’s commercial crew program, but the shift from one module to another took place between 6:30 a.m. and 7:08 a.m. with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi all in their seats, just like they plan to be when Resilience leaves.
