Astronauts to relocate SpaceX spacecraft's docking port on space station

Four crew members aboard the International Space Station will relocate their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft's docking port this weekend, to make way for the arrival of an upcoming cargo spacecraft, according to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), reported Xinhua.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 crew members, who are NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, will undock from the space-facing port of the station's Harmony module at 7:10 a.m. EDT Saturday.

The spacecraft will dock again at the station's forward Harmony port at 7:53 a.m. EDT.

The relocation will free up Harmony's space-facing port for the docking of the next Dragon cargo spacecraft set to launch in June, according to NASA.

Crew-6, targeted to return in August, is the sixth rotational crew mission from NASA and SpaceX as a part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.