NASA TV Provides Coverage of Next Soyuz Launch and Landing Events
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HOUSTON -- NASA Television will air the launch of the next two
residents of the International Space Station, a spaceflight
participant and the return of two members of the current station
crew. Coverage begins with a broadcast of prelaunch activities Sept.
17 and continues through the landing on Oct. 11.
Soyuz Commander Max Suraev, NASA Flight Engineer Jeff Williams and
spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte are scheduled to launch aboard
the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan at 2:14 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Laliberte, a
Canadian citizen and founder of Cirque du Soleil, will fly to the
station under an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
After a two-day trip, the Soyuz will dock to the station at 3:36 a.m.
on Friday, Oct. 2. Aboard the orbiting laboratory, Williams and
Suraev will be greeted by Commander Gennady Padalka, NASA's Mike
Barratt and Nicole Stott, the European Space Agency's Frank De Winne,
Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and the Canadian Space Agency's Bob
Thirsk. After Padalka and Barratt depart the station, De Winne will
become commander of the next station mission, designated Expedition
21.
Padalka, Barratt and Laliberte will return to Earth at approximately
11:29 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10, in the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft
docked to the station. Padalka and Barratt have been aboard the
orbiting laboratory since March 2009.
Upcoming NASA TV Soyuz launch and landing programming events (all
times CDT):
Sept. 17
11 a.m. - Expedition 21 and spaceflight participant video file of
departure in Star City, Russia, for Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Sept. 28
11 a.m. - Video file of crew activities in Baikonur, Soyuz rocket
mating and rollout
Sept. 29
11 a.m. - Prelaunch news conference, Russian State Commission video
file feed from Baikonur
Sept. 30
12:45 a.m. - Prelaunch activities and arrival at launch pad video file
from Baikonur
1:30 a.m. - Launch coverage and replays from Baikonur (Launch
scheduled at 2:14 a.m.)
5 a.m. - Prelaunch activities, launch and post launch interviews from
Baikonur
Oct. 2
3 a.m. - Coverage of Soyuz docking to station (docking scheduled at
3:36 a.m., post-docking news conference follows)
6:15 a.m. - Hatch opening, welcoming ceremony (hatch opening scheduled
at 6:40 a.m.)
9 a.m. - Video file of the docking to the station, hatch opening and
welcoming ceremony
Oct. 6
9:10 a.m. - Joint crew news conference of Expedition 20, 21 and
spaceflight participant
Oct. 10
4:30 p.m. - Expedition 21, 20, spaceflight participant farewells and
Soyuz TMA-14 hatch closure (scheduled at 5 p.m.)
7:45 p.m. - Coverage of Expedition 20 and spaceflight participant
undocking from station (scheduled at 8:05 p.m.)
10:15 p.m. - Deorbit burn (scheduled for 10:36 p.m.) and landing
coverage (scheduled for 11:29 p.m.) in Kazakhstan
Oct. 11
4 a.m. - Landing video file
12 p.m. - Barratt post-landing interview, return to Star City and
Kazakhstan welcoming ceremony video file
For NASA Television streaming video, downlink and schedule
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
