Take a minute out of your day to enjoy this HD video of one of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft changing its parking spot on the International Space Station the other day.
I expect it’s opening up the other spot in preparation for the flight to the ISS later this month of the first crewed Dragon spacecraft,
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| Uncrewed Dragon at the ISS. |
That launch, scheduled for May 27, will mark the first time that astronauts will have launched from US soil since 2011 when the Space Shuttle was retired.
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Although short, the video is very cool, with The Blue Danube as the background music of choice, naturally.
Okay, so it’s not as cool as the 21st century space station docking we were promised back in 1968, but it’ll do for the moment.
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