NASA Television to Air Upcoming Cargo Ship Launch to Space Station

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July 30, 2012

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1100 
jbuck@xxxxxxxx 

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-137

NASA TELEVISION TO AIR UPCOMING CARGO SHIP LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the launch and for the 
first time, the same-day rendezvous and docking of a Progress cargo 
spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Coverage begins 
at 3:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday, Aug. 1. 

ISS Progress 48 is scheduled to launch at 3:35 p.m. from the Baikonur 
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will dock later that day at 9:24 p.m. in 
a test of an abbreviated launch-to-rendezvous schedule designed to 
reduce the typical two-day flight between a launch and docking. The 
goal would be to use this new approach for future Soyuz crew member 
flights. Progress 48 will dock at the station's Pirs port and deliver 
about 2 tons of supplies. 

NASA TV coverage of the Progress' arrival at the station will begin at 
8:45 p.m. 

Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space 
Agency and his five crewmates, including NASA astronauts Joe Acaba 
and Sunita Williams, will monitor key events during Progress 48's 
rendezvous and docking. 

Russian flight controllers retain the option to revert to a normal 
2-day rendezvous if developments require. If that occurs, the craft 
will dock Friday, Aug. 3, and NASA TV will provide live coverage. 

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink 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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