NASA TV Coverage Set for Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Launch

May 17, 2013

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
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jbuck@nasa.gov

Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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josh.byerly@nasa.gov


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NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW LAUNCH

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the
launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the
International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28.

Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, Soyuz Commander
Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and
Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are
scheduled to launch at 4:31 p.m. EDT (2:31 a.m. Kazakh time May 29),
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

They will dock their Soyuz capsule to the Earth-facing Rassvet module
of the space station at 10:17 p.m. following an expedited four-orbit
rendezvous.

NASA TV coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m., and include video of all
pre-launch activities that day leading to the crew boarding its
spacecraft. Docking coverage begins at 9:30 p.m.

At 11:55 p.m., hatches between the Soyuz and space station will open
and Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano will be greeted by Expedition 36
Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight engineer Alexander Misurkin of
Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA. That trio has
been aboard the station since late March. Hatch opening coverage
begins at 11:30 p.m.

Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano will remain aboard the station until
mid-November. Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin will return to Earth
in mid-September, leaving Yurchikhin as the Expedition 37 commander.

The full NASA TV schedule of the Soyuz prelaunch, launch and docking
coverage is available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntvnews

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For high-resolution photographs of prelaunch, launch and docking
activities, visit:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto

Follow Nyberg on Twitter at:

http://www.twitter.com/AstroKarenN

Join the conversation on Twitter by following hashtags #Soyuz, #Exp36
and #ISS. To learn more about all the ways to Connect and Collaborate
with NASA, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For more information about the International Space Station, its crew
and ongoing research visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/station


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