ISS Crew Returns to Earth, 7:53 pm CT (8:53 pm ET), Kazakhstan

18-Nov-2012 through 18-Nov-2012

Three International Space Station (ISS) crewmembers will return to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-05M on November 18, 2012 at 7:53 pm CT (8:53 pm ET), landing in Kazakhstan, where it will be 7:53 am local time on November 19, 2012.  The three returning crewmembers are NASA's Suni Williams, Japan's Aki Hoshide, and Russia's Yuri Malenchenko. 

NASA TV will cover the undocking at 4:26 pm CT (5:26 pm ET) and landing live.  It will also cover the change of command ceremony on Saturday, November 17 when Williams turns command over to NASA astronaut Kevin Ford.    The schedule for TV coverage is in the NASA press release, which is reproduced below:

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-215

NASA TELEVISION TO AIR SOYUZ LANDING COVERAGE NOV. 18

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage as three of the
crew members on the International Space Station come back to Earth
Sunday, Nov. 18.

Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams of NASA, Flight Engineer Aki
Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian Soyuz
Commander Yuri Malenchenko will undock their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft
from the station, heading for a pre-dawn landing in Kazakhstan,
northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 7:53 p.m. CST (7:53 a.m.
Kazakhstan time on Nov. 19). Their return will wrap up 127 days in
space since their launch from Kazakhstan on July 15, including 125
days spent aboard the station.

At the time of undocking, Expedition 34 formally will begin aboard the
station under the command of NASA's Kevin Ford. He and his crewmates,
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, will tend to
the station as a three-man crew for one month until the arrival of
three new crew members in December. They are Tom Marshburn of NASA,
Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut
Roman Romanenko.

NASA Television landing coverage will begin Saturday, Nov. 17, with
the change of command ceremony when Williams will transfer the helm
of the orbiting laboratory to Ford. Coverage will continue Nov. 18
and 19 with Expedition 33 landing and post-landing activities.

(All Times Central)

Saturday, Nov. 17:
1:15 p.m. -- Expedition 33/34 Change of Command Ceremony

Sunday, Nov. 18:
12:45 p.m. -- Farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure scheduled at
1:10 p.m.)
4:00 p.m. -- Undocking (undocking scheduled at 4:26 p.m.)
6:30 p.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn scheduled at 6:58
p.m.; landing scheduled at 7:53 p.m.)
9:00 p.m. -- Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing
activities

Monday, Nov. 19:
9:00 a.m. -- Video File of post-landing activities and interviews

For live streaming of NASA Television and program schedules, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information on the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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