[amsat-bb] NASA to Broadcast Soyuz Landing 09/15

[Clint Bradford]

Sep. 07, 2011

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NASA TV WILL BROADCAST SOYUZ LANDING ON SEPT. 15

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the return to Earth of three 
crew members who have called the International Space Station (ISS) 
home for more than five months. 

On Sept. 15, Expedition 28 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA 
Flight Engineer Ron Garan and off-going station Commander Andrey 
Borisenko will undock from the station's Poisk module to return to 
Earth in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft. 

They are set to land on the southern region steppe of Kazakhstan near 
the town of Dzhezkazgan at 11:01 p.m. CDT on Sept. 15 (10:01 a.m. 
local time, Sept. 16). Their return was delayed a week due to the 
Aug. 24 loss of the unmanned ISS Progress 44 cargo craft. 

Expedition 29 station Commander Mike Fossum of NASA, Russian Flight 
Engineer Sergei Volkov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight 
Engineer Satoshi Furukawa will remain aboard the complex to conduct 
research until their planned return to Earth in mid-November. 

The schedule to launch three new Expedition 29 crew members, NASA 
Flight Engineer Dan Burbank, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov and 
Russian Flight Engineer Anatoly Ivanishin, is under review as NASA 
and its international partners assess the readiness to resume Soyuz 
launches. 

The full schedule of the Expedition 28 Soyuz TMA-21 hatch closure, 
undocking and landing coverage is below. All times are CDT. 

Wednesday, Sept. 14 
4:40 p.m. - Expedition 28-29 change of command ceremony (Borisenko 
hands over station command to Fossum) 
Thursday, Sept. 15 
4 p.m. -¬ Soyuz TMA-21 crew farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure 
scheduled at 4:35 p.m.) 
7:15 p.m. - Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled at 7:37 p.m.) 
9:30 p.m. - Deorbit burn and landing coverage (Deorbit burn scheduled 
at 10:06 p.m., landing in Kazakhstan scheduled at 11:01 p.m.) 
Friday, Sept. 16 
2 a.m. - Video File of the landing and post-landing activities 
(repeated at 4 a.m. and 6 a.m.) 
11 a.m. - Video File of the landing and post-landing activities that 
includes post-landing interview with Garan and the cosmonauts' return 
to Chkalovsky Airfield near Star City, Russia 

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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Clint Bradford
clintbradford at mac.com