The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, moved their Crew Dragon capsule to another docking port to make way for a new cargo Dragon arrival.
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00:00So Dragon will reach that waypoint two in just a few moments. We should hear
00:06that confirmation and we'll hear the that they're standing by for that hold
00:10and then once ready Dragon will begin its final approach and that final
00:14approach process takes about four minutes and during that period we will
00:19hear the call out for CHOP which stands for crew hands-off point and this call
00:23occurs when the spacecraft is about two meters away from the docking port.
00:31And just a minute ago on your screen you could actually see the docking target
00:38which is that crosshair target on the International Space Station and Dragon is
00:46continuing to approach and closer it's about three meters away so in one meter
00:51we will hear that call for CHOP or crew hands-off point.
00:56And we heard that call for CHOP and just standing by for initial contact and capture.
01:26You
01:38Freedom SpaceX on the big loop soft capture complete.
01:46And at 625 a.m. Central 725 a.m. Eastern we have
01:55confirmation of initial contact and capture. At that time the International
02:00Space Station and Dragon were flying approximately 260 statute miles over the
02:06south part of Brazil.