On Friday afternoon, three International Space Station (ISS) astronauts will relocate the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft in preparation for the arrival of its next crew members.
The relocation will clear the Rassvet port for the dock of another Soyuz vehicle, known as the Soyuz MS-18.
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Soyuz MS-18 will transport three crew members of Expedition 65 on April 9, including NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov.
Expedition 64 Roscosmos astronauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will unlock NASA flight engineer Kate Rubins from the station’s Rassvet module at about 12:38 p.m.
The Rassvet module is used for cargo storage and some cargo loads and is connected to the Earth port of the Zarya module.
They will again arrive at the Poisk harbor in space at about 13:07 ET.
This expedition is the 15th overall relocation of the Soyuz port and the first since August 2019.
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Rubins, Ryzhikov and Kud-Sverchkov will all return to Earth on April 17 aboard the Soyuz MS-17.
Live coverage of the move will be broadcast on NASA TV, the NASA app and the agency’s website.