Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov
HOUSTON -- Over the next several weeks,
NASA Television will provide coverage of the departure of three crew members
from the International Space Station and prelaunch, launch and arrival
activities of three new residents.
Coverage will begin Wednesday, June 20,
with the first of a series of Video Files of Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineers
Suni Williams of NASA, Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)
participating in training and ceremonial activities at the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center in Star City, Russia.
On June 29, NASA TV will broadcast a
change of command ceremony aboard the orbiting laboratory in which Expedition
31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos will hand over the reins of command to
Gennady Padalka. Padalka, a cosmonaut for Roscosmos, will become the
International Space Station's first three-time commander. When the Soyuz
TMA-03M undocks on June 30, Expedition 31 will transition to Expedition 32
under Padalka's command.
Kononenko and Flight Engineers Don
Pettit of NASA and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency will depart the
station in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft June 30 for a July 1 landing in
Kazakhstan to complete their six-and-a-half-month mission. Two weeks later,
July 14 (July 15 in Kazakhstan), Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko will launch
to the station in the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan. The three will arrive at the station July 16 to join Padalka and
Flight Engineers Joe Acaba of NASA and Sergei Revin of Roscosmos, who have been
aboard the station since mid-May.
NASA TV's scheduled coverage includes
(all times Central):
Wednesday, June 20
11 a.m. -- Video File of the Expedition
32/33 (Suni Williams, Yuri Malenchenko, Aki Hoshide) qualification training
simulation runs at Star City, Russia.
Saturday, June 30
8:15 p.m. -- Expedition 31 farewells and
hatch closure coverage (hatch closure at 8:40 p.m.)
11:30 p.m. -- Expedition 31/Soyuz
TMA-03M undocking coverage (undocking at 11:53 p.m.)
Sunday, July 1
2 a.m. -- Expedition 31/Soyuz TMA-03M
deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn at 2:19 a.m., landing at 3:15
a.m.)
Saturday, July 14
8:30 p.m. -- Expedition 32/33 Soyuz
TMA-05M launch coverage (includes video b-roll of the crew's prelaunch
activities at 8:45 p.m.; launch scheduled at 9:40 p.m.)
Monday, July 16
11:15 p.m. -- Expedition 32/33 Soyuz
TMA-05M docking coverage (docking at 11:50 p.m. followed by post-docking news
conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia)
Tuesday, July 17
2:15 a.m. -- Expedition 32/33 Soyuz
TMA-05M hatch opening and welcoming ceremony coverage (hatch opening and
welcoming ceremony at 2:45 a.m.)
Additional Video File footage of the
Expedition 32/33 crew's pre-launch activities in Star City, Russia; Moscow; and
Baikonur, Kazakhstan will be broadcast on NASA TV on June 22 and July 2, 10,
11, 12 and 13. Post-launch and post-docking Video Files will air on NASA TV on
July 14 and 17. Video Files involving the Expedition 31 crew activities
following their Soyuz landing in Kazakhstan will air on July 1.
For NASA's complete list of Soyuz landing
and launch coverage, visit http://go.nasa.gov/NTVsched.
For NASA TV downlink and streaming video
information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
For more information about the
International Space Station and its crews, visit http://www.nasa.gov/station.
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The Soyuz TMA-05M rocket launched from
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:40 p.m. EDT on Saturday, July 14,
2012, carrying Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight
Engineer Sunita Williams and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight
Engineer Akihiko Hoshide to the International Space Station. 
The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is rolled
out by train on its way to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan, Thursday, July 12, 2012. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with
Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita
Williams and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Flight Engineer Akihiko
Hoshide is scheduled for the morning of Sunday, July 15, local time. 
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