Al Neyadi participates in the reassignment of the docking site «Dragon» to the International Space Station

  • The next Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled for launch in June. From the source

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The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre announced yesterday the participation of Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi on Saturday in the mission to reset the docking site of the Dragon spacecraft, belonging to the company «SpaceX», to the International Space Station.

Al Neyadi will participate in this mission alongside his fellow crew members of the Crew-6 crew on board the International Space Station for Mission 69: Stephen Bowen (NASA), Warren Hoberg (NASA) and Andrey Vidyaev (Roscosmos).

Al Neyadi and the mission crew will work to reset the docking site of the Dragon spacecraft from the upper port to the front port of the International Space Station. The vehicle is scheduled to disconnect from the station at 3:10 p.m. and re-dock at 3:53 p.m.

This mission, supported by the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will contribute to the evacuation of the station's upper port, facing space, in preparation for the docking of the upcoming Dragon cargo spacecraft, which is scheduled to launch next June, and includes on board payload No. 28, which SpaceX sends to the International Space Station, and includes folding solar arrays or what is known as IROSAs, in preparation for installing them at the station through a number of missions to walk in the station. Space.