By the end of the week the International Space Station will be fully ready to support Boeing Starliner’s Crewed Test Flight with an opening on the forward docking port on the station’s Harmony Module. This will be completed with the reshuffling of two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

到本週末，國際太空站將完全準備好支援波音 Starliner 的載人測試飛行，太空站和諧艙的前對接端口將開放。這將透過兩艘 SpaceX Dragon 飛船的重新洗牌來完​​成。

SpaceX returns CRS-30’s Dragon, relocate Crew-8’s

Over the weekend SpaceX undocked and deorbited the CRS-30 Cargo Dragon from the space-facing port of the ISS’s Harmony Module. The spacecraft originally docked with the station on March 23 acting launching from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on March 21. The first Dragon 2 to launch from that pad now that it has its own crew access arm.

SpaceX 送回 CRS-30 的 Dragon，重新安置 Crew-8 上週末，SpaceX 將 CRS-30 Cargo Dragon 從國際太空站和諧艙面向太空的端口脫離對接並脫離軌道。該太空船最初於3 月23 日與太空站對接，並於3 月21 日從卡納維拉爾角太空部隊站SLC-40 發射。的乘員通道臂。

CRS-30 splashed down off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. With it was over 4,100 pounds of scientific research and experiments conducted on the ISS. One item was the Flawless Fibers-1 which produced over seven miles of fiber while on orbit. Optical fibers produced in space are far superior than those produced on Earth, which will lead to better remote-sensing and communications when used.

CRS-30 濺落在墨西哥灣佛羅裡達州海岸附近。在國際太空站上進行了超過 4,100 磅的科學研究和實驗。其中一項是 Flawless Fibers-1，它在軌道上生產了超過 7 英里的光纖。在太空中生產的光纖遠遠優於在地球上生產的光纖，這將在使用時帶來更好的遙感和通訊效果。

With the CRS-30 Dragon now back in the hands of SpaceX on Earth, attention now moves to a relocation of Crew-8’s Dragon later this week.

隨著 CRS-30 Dragon 現已回到地球上的 SpaceX 手中，人們的注意力現在轉移到本週晚些時候 Crew-8 的 Dragon 的搬遷上。

Thursday morning, Crew-8 will get back into their Dragon, fully suited up, and perform an automated undocking and redocking to Harmony. They move to the space-facing port of Harmony, the one CRS-30 was docked to.

週四早上，Crew-8 將回到他們的 Dragon，全副武裝，並執行自動脫離和重新對接 Harmony。他們前往和諧號面向太空的港口，也就是 CRS-30 停靠的地方。

This will give Starliner the easier forward port to autonomously dock to, this also the only port Starliner is qualified to use at the moment. This port is also preferred for when Dragons dock to the station, only a few times have crewed SpaceX spacecraft used the space-facing port for the initial docking.

這將使 Starliner 更容易自主停靠在前港，這也是 Starliner 目前唯一有資格使用的港口。當龍飛船與太空站對接時，該連接埠也是首選，SpaceX 載人太空船隻有幾次使用面向太空的連接埠進行初始對接。

Once this is completed Thursday, the station will be in an optimal configuration for Starliner CFT to launch next Monday, May 6.

一旦週四完成，該站將處於最佳配置，以便 Starliner CFT 於下週一（5 月 6 日）發射。

Launch preparations in full swing for Starliner CFT

Back down on Earth, launch preparations are in full swing for Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight Test that will lift off from SLC-41 next week. This will be Starliner’s first crewed flight and will fly NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore as the commander and Suni Williams as the pilot.

Starliner CFT 的發射準備工作正在全面展開回到地球後，波音 Starliner 載人飛行測試的發射準備工作正在全面展開，該測試將於下週從 SLC-41 升空。這將是 Starliner 的首次載人飛行，美國宇航局宇航員 Butch Wilmore 擔任機長，由 Suni Williams 擔任飛行員。

The crew arrived last week in one of NASA’s T-38 jets, a rare but welcome change back to normal as since SpaceX’s DM-2, commercial crews have arrived to Kennedy in a Gulfstream business jet. Although it didn’t sound like that will be sticking around sadly.

機組人員上週乘坐NASA 的一架T-38 噴射機抵達甘迺迪，這是一個罕見但值得歡迎的恢復正常的變化，因為自SpaceX 的DM-2 以來，商業機組人員已乘坐灣流公務機抵達甘迺迪。儘管聽起來這不會令人悲傷地繼續存在。

Over the weekend, Wilmore and Williams conducted a dress rehearsal with personal from NASA, Boeing, and ULA at SLC-41 that went through the entire countdown to launch, well except for the liftoff obviously.

週末，威爾莫爾和威廉斯與來自 NASA、波音公司和 ULA 的人員在 SLC-41 上進行了彩排，整個發射倒數都完成了，顯然除了升空之外。

NASA has signed off on the launch readiness review so now the responsibility for getting the mission off the group is on the shoulders of Boeing and ULA. They will be in charge of getting the crew strapped into Starliner and conducting the liftoff of the Atlas V rocket.

NASA 已經批准了發射準備審查，因此現在讓任務脫離該組織的責任就落在了波音和 ULA 的肩上。他們將負責將機組人員綁在星際客機上並進行阿特拉斯五號火箭的升空。

It should be interesting to compare how SpaceX handles crewed launches versus how Boeing will next Monday.

比較 SpaceX 如何處理載人發射與波音下週一的處理方式應該會很有趣。