NASA TV to Broadcast Space Station Crew Soyuz Landing Events

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HOUSTON -- NASA Television will air the events surrounding the landing
of three International Space Station crew members who will return to
Earth Dec. 1. The space travelers have lived and worked aboard the
space station for the past six months. NASA TV coverage will include
the broadcast of farewells aboard the orbiting laboratory, hatch
closure and undocking on Nov. 30, and the deorbit burn and landing on
Dec. 1.

Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, Russian cosmonaut and
Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Bob Thirsk of the
Canadian Space Agency will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the
station at 9:53 p.m. CST Nov. 30. They will land in Kazakhstan at
about 1:16 a.m. (1:16 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on Dec. 1. The three men
spent 188 days in space, including 186 days aboard the station,
following their Soyuz launch on May 27 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

NASA's Jeff Williams took over command of the station on Nov. 24 from
De Winne, who served as the first European Space Agency commander of
the complex. Williams also will lead the new Expedition 22 crew along
with Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev. Expedition 22 begins with the
undocking of the Soyuz Monday evening. It will be the first time the
station has been tended by only two crew members since July 2006.
Oleg Kotov of the Russian Federal Space Agency, NASA's Timothy J.
Creamer and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Space
Agency, are set to launch in another Soyuz vehicle from Kazakhstan on
Dec. 21 and join Expedition 22 on the station on Dec. 23.

Upcoming NASA TV Soyuz landing programming events (all times CST):

Monday, Nov. 30:
-- 6:30 p.m. Farewells and Hatch Closure (hatch closure scheduled at
6:53 p.m.)
-- 9:30 p.m. Undocking (undocking scheduled at 9:53 p.m.)

Tuesday, Dec. 1:
-- 12 a.m. Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn scheduled at 12:25
a.m.; landing scheduled at 1:16 a.m.)
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Source: NASA