NASA Television to Air Soyuz Landing Coverage Nov. 18
HOUSTON, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA
Television will provide live coverage as three of the crew members
on the International Space Station come back to Earth Sunday, Nov. 18.
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Expedition 33 Commander Sunita
Williams of NASA, Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency and Russian Soyuz Commander Yuri
Malenchenko will undock their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft from
the station, heading for a pre-dawn landing in Kazakhstan, northeast of the remote town of
Arkalyk at 7:53 p.m. CST
(7:53 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Nov.
19). Their return will wrap up 127 days in space since their
launch from Kazakhstan on
July 15, including 125 days spent
aboard the station.
At the time of undocking, Expedition 34 formally will begin
aboard the station under the command of NASA's Kevin Ford. He and his crewmates, Russian
cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny
Tarelkin, will tend to the station as a three-man crew for one
month until the arrival of three new crew members in December. They
are Tom Marshburn of NASA,
Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space
Agency and Russian cosmonaut Roman
Romanenko.
NASA Television landing coverage will begin Saturday, Nov. 17, with the change of command
ceremony when Williams will transfer the helm of the orbiting
laboratory to Ford. Coverage will continue Nov. 18 and 19 with Expedition 33 landing and
post-landing activities.
(All Times Central)
Saturday, Nov. 17:
1:15 p.m. -- Expedition 33/34 Change
of Command Ceremony
Sunday, Nov. 18:
12:45 p.m. -- Farewells and hatch
closure (hatch closure scheduled at 1:10
p.m.)
4:00 p.m. -- Undocking (undocking
scheduled at 4:26 p.m.)
6:30 p.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing
(deorbit burn scheduled at 6:58 p.m.;
landing scheduled at 7:53 p.m.)
9:00 p.m. -- Video File of hatch
closure, undocking and landing activities
Monday, Nov. 19:
9:00 a.m. -- Video File of
post-landing activities and interviews
For live streaming of NASA Television and program schedules,
visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
For information on the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station.
SOURCE NASA