Coverage Set For Next Soyuz Space Station Crew Rotation

June 14, 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: M12-113

COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

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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