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Spaceship shuffle: Astronauts prepare to move Dragon on space station

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It’s happened to everyone, someone parks in your spot or a car needs to be moved so you can get out of the driveway but in space that parking-spot shuffle requires a little more finesse and spacesuits.

On Monday, NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Japan astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will don their flight suits and move the SpaceX Crew Dragon to another port on the space station to make room for another incoming Dragon spaceship arriving later this month. “Hopper, you’re going to take Resilience out for a little hop around the station,” NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich said to Hopkins on a call Friday, referencing the veteran astronaut’s nickname “Hopper.” [MORE SPACE NEW: Space Curious:

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