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The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft is pictured after backing away from the space station beginning its relocation maneuver. Credit: NASA TVRoscosmos
cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, undocked the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, from the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module at 8:57 a.m.. They autonomously redocked with the module’s 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 frees up the forward port for Starliner to autonomously dock to during NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test.
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