NASA Television Will Air Next Soyuz Landing And Launch
HOUSTON -- NASA Television will air the Thanksgiving Day return to Earth of three crew members from the International Space Station and the preparation, launch and docking of the newest trio of station residents three weeks later.Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker are scheduled to land in the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft on the northern steppe of Kazakhstan on Nov. 25 (Nov. 26 local time).
On Dec. 15, Soyuz Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer
Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli
will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz
TMA-20 spacecraft (Dec. 16 Baikonur time). They will join NASA
Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineers
Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, who have been aboard the
station since early October.
Wheelock will hand over command of the station to Kelly at 3 p.m. CST
on Nov. 24.
NASA TV will air a video file on Nov. 26 that will include a prelaunch
news conference by Kondratyev, Coleman and Nespoli at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and their tour of Red
Square in Moscow.
The scheduled landing, launch and docking coverage and events include
(all times CST):
Thursday, November 25
3:30 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-19 farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure
at 3:50 p.m.)
7 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-19 undocking (undocking at 7:22 p.m.)
9:30 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-19 deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn at
9:54 p.m., landing at 10:46 p.m.)
Friday, November 26
11 a.m. -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-19 landing in Kazakhstan,
post-landing activities and interviews with NASA astronauts Doug
Wheelock and Shannon Walker
Noon -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-20 crew news conference at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia, and tour of Red Square
in Moscow, Russia
Friday, December 3
11 a.m. -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-20 crew departure ceremonies at
the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City, Russia
Friday, December 10
11 a.m. -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-20 crew activities in Baikonur,
Kazakhstan
Monday, December 13
11 a.m. -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-20 crew activities in Baikonur,
Kazakhstan, and Soyuz TMA-20 vehicle mating and rollout to the launch
pad
Tuesday, December 14
4 p.m. -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-20 State Commission and final
pre-launch news conference in Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Wednesday, December 15
11:30 a.m. -- Soyuz TMA-20 crew pre-launch activities in Baikonur,
Kazakhstan
12:15 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-20 launch (launch at 1:09 p.m.)
3 p.m. - Video file of Soyuz TMA-20 pre-launch activities and launch
from Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Friday, December 17
1:30 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-20 docking to ISS (docking at 2:09 p.m.,
followed by post-docking news conference)
4:30 p.m. -- Soyuz TMA-20 hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch
opening at approximately 5 p.m.)
6:30 p.m. -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-20 docking, hatch opening and
welcoming ceremony
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Source: NASA
