NASA Television to Air Next Space Station Crew Rotation

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Oct. 19, 2011

Michael Curie 
Headquarters, Washington                                     
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michael.curie@xxxxxxxx 

Kelly Humphries 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-215

NASA TELEVISION TO AIR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the launch of three new 
International Space Station residents and the return of three crew 
members in November. 

NASA astronaut and Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Russian 
Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are scheduled 
to launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur 
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:14 p.m. CST on Nov. 13 (10:14 a.m. 
local time on Nov. 14). 

The new crew will receive a six-day handover from Expedition 29 
Commander Mike Fossum of NASA and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa 
of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut 
Sergei Volkov. Expedition 30 begins when the current crew undocks. 

Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov launched in June and are scheduled to 
return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 8:25 p.m. on 
Nov. 21 (8:25 a.m. local time on Nov. 22). 

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and 
European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are scheduled to launch 
to the station in late December, when they will join Expedition 30 as 
flight engineers. 

NASA TV's scheduled coverage includes (all times Central): 

Monday, Oct. 24 
2 p.m. -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-22 crew news conference in Star 
City, Russia, and visit to Red Square in Moscow 

Monday, Oct. 31 
11 a.m.-- Video file from Star City of crew departure for Baikonur, 
Kazakhstan 

Thursday, Nov. 10 
11 a.m.-- Video file of crew activities in Baikonur 

Friday, Nov. 11 
11 a.m.-- Video file of rocket rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur 

Saturday, Nov. 12 
2 p.m.-- Video file of final prelaunch crew news conference and 
Russian State Commission meeting in Baikonur 

Sunday, Nov. 13 
8:45 p.m.-- Video file feed of the crew prelaunch activities in 
Baikonur 
9:30 p.m.-- Launch coverage (launch scheduled for 10:14 p.m.), 
including launch replays 

Monday, Nov. 14 
1 a.m. -- Video file of prelaunch, launch and postlaunch interviews 

Tuesday, Nov. 15 
11 p.m. -- Docking coverage (docking scheduled for 11:37 p.m.), 
followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in 
Korolev, Russia 
2:30 a.m. -- Hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch opening 
scheduled for 2:45 a.m.) 
4:30 a.m. -- Video file of docking, hatch opening and welcoming 
ceremony 

Monday, Nov. 21 
8 a.m. -- Replay of change of command ceremony (occurs on Nov. 20) 
1:15 p.m. -- Coverage of Soyuz TMA-02M farewells and hatch closure 
(hatch closure scheduled for 1:45 p.m.) 
4:30 p.m. -- Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 4:58 p.m.) 
7 p.m. -- Deorbit burn (deorbit burn scheduled for 7:31 p.m.) and 
landing (landing scheduled for 8:25 p.m.) coverage 
11 p.m. -- Video file of landing and post-landing activities 

Tuesday, Nov. 22 
11 a.m. -- Video file of landing and post-landing activities including 
interviews and return to Chkalovsky Airfield near Star City 

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




http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 


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



http://www.nasa.gov/station 

	
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