Date: September 23rd 2006

Sept 22, 2006

Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

STATUS REPORT: SS06-041

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-041

A handover continues aboard the International Space Station, with the 13th crew ending six months aboard and the 14th crew starting six months in orbit

Joint crew operations continue through next week, until Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Jeff Williams, and Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari undock and land their Soyuz spacecraft on Thursday, Sept 28

The new crew, Expedition 14 Commander and NASA Science Officer Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, docked to the complex with Ansari on Wednesday European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, who arrived at the station aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in July and has served as flight engineer for Expedition 13, will remain on the station and join Expedition 14 Ansari is a U S businesswoman spending eight days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency

During the weekend, Vinogradov and Tyurin may work with the Elektron oxygen-generating system to install a new liquids unit, a component that overheated early this week

Several crew events will be broadcast live on NASA TV next week On Monday, Sept 25, at 5:40 a m EDT, all crew members will participate in a news conference with Russian media At 12:17 p m EDT Monday, Williams and Lopez-Alegria will be interviewed by CBS News and AP TV

On Tuesday, Sept 26, at 12:04 p m EDT, Williams and Lopez-Alegria will be interviewed by CNN Espanol and the Houston Chronicle On Wednesday, Sept 27, at 12:28 p m EDT the crews will hold a station change of command ceremony

On Thursday, Sept 28, at 2:35 p m EDT, NASA TV will begin coverage of a farewell ceremony and closing of the hatches as the Expedition 13 crew and Ansari prepare to depart The hatches between the station and the departing Soyuz will be closed about 2:45 p m EDT NASA TV coverage of the Soyuz undocking will begin at 5:30 p m EDT

Coverage of the Soyuz deorbit and landing will begin at 8 p m EDT The Soyuz will fire its engines at 8:20 pm EDT to begin its descent Landing is at 9:10 p m EDT in Kazakhstan

The next station status report will be issued after the Expedition 13 crew and Ansari land For information about the crew's activities and station sighting opportunities, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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