By NASA May 3, 2024The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is pictured after retreating from the area station starting its relocation maneuver. Credit: NASA TVNASAs SpaceX Crew-8 crew members aboard the International Space Station transferred the Dragon spacecraft on May 2, to include Boeing Starliners upcoming visit.NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeannette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, undocked the Dragon spacecraft, called Endeavour, from the forward-facing port of the stations Harmony module at 8:57 a.m. EDT. They autonomously redocked with the modules space-facing zenith port at 9:46 a.m. EDT over the eastern Indian Ocean, northwest of Australia. As the 28th spacecraft relocation in station history, the move maximizes the forward port for Starliner to autonomously dock to throughout NASAs Boeing Crew Flight Test.Watch the NASA replay of the moving activities: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, leader, and Suni Williams, pilot, will be the very first to introduce on Boeings Starliner on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 10:34 p.m. EDT, Monday, May 6, and the crew is set to dock at the area station on Wednesday, May 8.
