Soyuz Landing Coverage Planned for NASA Television

Sept. 11, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov


MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-179

SOYUZ LANDING COVERAGE PLANNED FOR NASA TELEVISION



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 7:11 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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