NASA Television is providing live coverage of the relocation of a Soyuz spacecraft from one port to another on the International Space Station. The relocation is scheduled to begin at 3:11 a.m. EDT and last about 25 minutes. Watch the relocation live on NASA Television or at https://www.nasa.gov/nasatv.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft, with Expedition 44 Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos aboard, will undock from the Poisk module and redock at the aft port of the Zvezda service module.
The relocation, the 17th such maneuver on the orbiting laboratory, will open a third docking port for the arrival of a new Soyuz vehicle, designated TMA-18M, carrying three additional crew members. That Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the station next Wednesday, Sept. 2 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 45 crew member Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos and visiting crew members Andreas Mogensen of ESA (European Space Agency) and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency.
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