In Expedition 49/50, three crew members are scheduled to launch to the Intenational Space Station at 4:05 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct.19 (2:05 p.m. in Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Live launch coverage will begin at 3:15 a.m. on NASA television and its website.
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, along with Roscosmos cosmanauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko, will travell for two days in Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft to test the upgraded spacecraft systems before docking to the space station's Poisk module at 5:59 a.m. Friday Oct. 21. NASA TV coverage of the docking will begin at 5:15 a.m.
Soyuz and station will open at approximately 8:35 a.m. and the arrival of the crew members will be warmly welcomed on board by Expedition 49 Commander Anatoly Ivanishin of Rocosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, who have been aboard the complex since july. The original launch date of September 23 was posponed due to some technical issues with the Soyuz spacecraft.
NASA TV will air their space coverage of the departure and landing activities at the following dates and times:
Friday, June 17
*9:15 a.m. - Change of command ceremony in which Kopra hands over station command to NASA astronaut Jeff Williams.
*10:15 p.m. - Farewell and hatch closure coverage( hatch closure is scheduled for 10:35 p.m. )
Saturday, June 18
* 1:30 a.m - Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 1:52 a.m.)
*4 am - Deorbit burn and landing coverage ( deorbit burn scheduled for 4:21 a.m., with landing at 5:15 a.m)
*7 a.m - Video file of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities.
*6 p.m - Video File of landing and post-landing activities and post-landing interviews with Kopra and Peake in Kazakhstan.
Check out the full NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at :
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