SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon Freedom Relocates To New ISS Port

SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon Freedom relocated to an unused parking spot on top of the International Space Station(ISS), the space-facing port of the orbiting lab's Harmony. Aboard Freedom for the relocation manuever, were NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, both originally assigned to Crew-9, along with former Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams of NASA.

According to NASA, as both spacecraft were flying about 418 kilometers over the south-west Pacific ocean, east of the Philippines, Dragon Freedon undocked from the ISS's Harmony module at 1335 UTC, and redocked at 1425 UTC, moving from the forward-facing port to the space-facing port, while both spacecraft were sailing high above southern Brazil.

The relocation Sunday, makes way for the arrival of SpaceX's CRS-31 Dragon cargo spacecraft scheduled to launch no earlier than Nov. 4.

Wilmore and Williams will return to Earth aboard Freedom in February 2025. The capsule previuously supported the Crew-4, Ax-2 and Ax-3 missions.