Fwd: Three Space Station Crews Get Ready for Relocation, Launch, Landing

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From: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Date: October 31, 2013 3:50:01 PM CDT
To: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Subject: FW: Three Space Station Crews Get Ready for Relocation, Launch, Landing

 

 

 

 

Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Three Space Station Crews Get Ready for Relocation, Launch, Landing International Space Station crews commuting to and from their orbiting laboratory will be busy this November, and NASA TV will provide live coverage of their launches, landings and relocations.   Traffic starts to pick up Friday, Nov. 1. Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will climb into their Soyuz spacecraft, back out of one Russian docking spot and fly a short distance to dock at another port at the end of the station. NASA TV coverage starts at 3 a.m. CDT. The 24-minute maneuver begins with undocking at 3:34 a.m. The Soyuz move opens up the Rassvet docking port for another Soyuz transporting Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the station. Aboard their spacecraft is the Olympic torch, which is taking an out-of-this-world route -- as part of the torch relay -- to Fisht Stadium in Sochi, Russia. There, the torch will be used to light the Olympic flame at the stadium, marking the start of the 2014 winter games.   The trio is scheduled to launch at 10:14 p.m. CST Wednesday, Nov. 6 (10:14 a.m. Kazakh time on Nov. 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV launch coverage begins at 9:15 p.m. Docking to Rassvet is scheduled at 4:31 a.m. on Nov. 7, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 4:45 a.m. Hatches are scheduled to open at 6:40 a.m., with NASA TV coverage starting at 6:15 a.m.   Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata will join Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, plus Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Michael Hopkins of NASA. Their arrival will be the first time since May 2009 that nine people have served together aboard the space station without the presence of a space shuttle.   On Sunday, Nov. 10, after Yurchikhin has transferred command of the station to Kotov, the Soyuz carrying Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will undock for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan at 8:50 p.m. (8:50 a.m. Kazakh time on Nov. 11), wrapping up a 166-day mission. Hatch closure coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 10 with a replay of the change-of-command ceremony. Undocking coverage begins at 5 p.m., and deorbit and landing coverage begins at 7:30 p.m.   Special video feeds of pre-launch activities by the crew will resume on Friday, Nov. 1, and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 6.     JSC, Ellington Field, Sonny Carter Training Facility and White Sands Test Facility team members with wired computer network connections can also view NASA TV using the JSC EZTV IP Network TV System on channels 404 (standard definition) or 4541 (HD). Please note: EZTV currently requires using Internet Explorer 32bit on a Windows PC connected to the JSC computer network with a wired connection. Mobile devices, Wi-Fi connections and newer MAC computers are currently not supported by EZTV.If you are having problems viewing the video using these systems, contact the Information Resources Directorate Customer Support Center at x46367.     All the times of International Space Station programming, key Soyuz event coverage and other NASA TV programming can be found at:   http://www.nasa.gov/stationnews   For information about the International Space Station, research and its crews, visit:   http://www.nasa.gov/station   JSC External Relations, Office of Communications and Public Affairs x35111

 

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