Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov
WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will
provide live coverage of events surrounding three International Space Station
crew members who are scheduled to end four months on the orbiting laboratory
with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, Sept. 16.
Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba
of NASA and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the
Russian Federal Space Agency will undock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from
the space station at 7:09 p.m. EDT, heading for a landing at 10:53 p.m. (8:53
a.m. Kazakhstan time Sept. 17) north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Their return will
wrap up 125 days in space since their launch from Kazakhstan on May 15,
including 123 days on the station.
At the time of undocking, Expedition 33
formally will begin aboard the station under the command of NASA's Sunita
Williams. She and her crewmates, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko
Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will tend to the station as
a three-person crew for a month until the arrival of three new crew members in
mid-October, including NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.
NASA Television coverage on Sept. 16 and
17 of the Expedition 32 landing and post-landing activities will include:
Sept. 16:
3:30 p.m. -- Farewells and hatch closure
(hatch closure at 3:55 p.m.).
6:45 p.m. -- Undocking and departure
(undocking at 7:09 p.m.).
9:30 p.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing
(deorbit burn at 9:56 p.m.; landing at 10:53 p.m.).
Sept. 17:
10:30 a.m. -- Video File of landing and
post-landing activities
For NASA TV downlink information,
schedules and links to streaming video, 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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