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Michael Lopez-Alegria
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Nasa TV's coverage of space station crew exchange
The launch of the next International Space Station crew, Expedition 14,
and the landing of the current crew, Expedition 13, are among events that
will be broadcast live on NASA Television Sept. 17-29.
Astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, Expedition 14 commander and NASA
station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, Expedition
14 flight engineer and Soyuz commander, will launch from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:09 a.m. EDT Sept. 18 (10:09 a.m. Baikonur
time).
They, along with Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari, a U.S. businesswoman
who will visit the station for nine days under a commercial agreement
with the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.
Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams
and Ansari will land in north central Kazakhstan at 9:10 p.m. EDT Sept.
28 (7:10 a.m. Sept. 29 local Kazakhstan time) aboard the Soyuz spacecraft
that is currently docked to the station. Vinogradov and Williams have
been on the orbiting laboratory since April.
Video highlights of Expedition 14 pre-launch activities in Russia and
Kazakhstan will air on the NASA TV Video File Sept. 16-17.
NASA TV coverage of Soyuz pre-launch, launch and docking Sept. 17-20
will be interspersed with the around-the-clock live broadcast of Space
Shuttle Atlantis' STS-115 mission coverage. For the latest on broadcast
coverage of Soyuz events, check the continuously updated STS-115 mission
NASA TV schedule at:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html
The events and planned broadcast times include (all Eastern times):
Sunday, Sept. 17:
10:30 p.m. -- Video B-roll replay of Soyuz crew pre-launch activities
11:30 p.m. -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant NASA TV launch coverage
begins
Monday, Sept. 18:
12:09 a.m. -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant launch
2:30 a.m. -- Video File B-roll replay of Expedition 14/Spaceflight
participant Soyuz crew pre-launch activities, launch and post-launch interviews
Wednesday, Sept. 20:
12 a.m. -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant station docking
coverage begins (docking is at 1:24 a.m.; post-docking news
conference is at 1:45 a.m.)
4:10 a.m. -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant hatch opening and welcome
ceremony coverage begins (hatch opening is at 4:20 a.m.)
Thursday, Sept. 21:
A Crew News Conference with all six crew members on the station will be
conducted with a multi-center question and answer capability for media
at participating NASA centers. The time will be 12:15 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 28:
2:15 p.m. -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant farewell and hatch
closure coverage begins (hatch closure is at 2:45 p.m.)
5:15 p.m. -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant undocking coverage
begins (undocking is at 5:54 p.m.)
8 p.m. -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant deorbit burn and landing
coverage (deorbit burn is at 8:20 p.m.; landing is at 9:10 p.m.)
Friday, Sept. 29:
5:30 a.m. -- Video B-roll of recovery activities at the remote landing
site in north central Kazakhstan for the Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant
crew
10 a.m. -- Video B-roll of the crew's return to Star City, Russia
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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