SpaceX Dragon Endeavor Relocates To New Port On The Space Station

Expedition 69 (Crew-6) members -- NASA's Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' Sultan Al Neyadi and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev -- were all aboard SpaceX Dragon Endeavour on Saturday, for its relocation to a new port on the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft undocked from the Harmony module's space-facing port at 1110 UTC and redocked to the module's forward-facing port at 1201 UTC.

"The @SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour redocked to its new port and completed its relocation maneuver at 8:01am ET today," ISS confirmed the successful operation in a Twitter post, shortly after.

In an update earlier on friday, NASA officials explained that "Endeavour's relocation will open up Harmony's top port for the upcoming SpaceX CRS-28 cargo mission," referring to a robotic resupply flight scheduled to launch in early June. "This enables the Canadarm2 robotic arm to reach out and access the cargo inside the SpaceX Dragon resupply ship's trunk." The resupply will include a set of ISS roll-out solar arrays, known as iROSAs, which are designed to augment the orbiting lab's power supply.

Bowen and Hoburg served as commander and pilot, respectively during Saturday's relocation mission. Al Neyadi and Fedyaev played supporting roles.

This was the 27th spacecraft relocation in space station history.

WATCH Dragon Endeavor dock to the Harmony module's forward-facing port on the space station