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1. EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
2. NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:38:23 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

October 24, 2008

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

Report #H08-269

EXPEDITION 17 CREW RETURNS FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

HOUSTON -- Spaceflight participant Richard Garriott and two members of the 17th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth at 10:37 p m CDT, Thursday Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononeko landed their Soyuz spacecraft at its targeted site in the steppes of Kazakhstan after completing 199 days in orbit and 197 days on the station

Garriott spent 10 days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency He is the son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, who was a member of the Skylab-3 crew in 1973

The Expedition 17 crew members undocked their Soyuz from the station at 7:16 p m The deorbit burn to slow the Soyuz and begin its descent toward Earth began at 9:45 p m

Before undocking, the returning crew bid farewell to the new station residents The new crew consists of Expedition 18 Commander and U S astronaut E Michael Fincke, and Expedition 18 Flight Engineers Greg Chamitoff and Yury Lonchakov, a Russian cosmonaut

Expedition 18's main focus is to prepare the station to house six crew members on long-duration missions beginning in spring 2009

For more information about the space station and how to view it from Earth, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:53:17 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY

October 24, 2008

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

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4715

Report #M08-215

NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew members, one that urges all Americans to exercise their right to vote and another marking the station's 10th birthday

The messages will be broadcast beginning at 11 a m CDT, Monday, Oct 27, on both standard definition and high-definition NASA TV The HD version also will be broadcast at 11 a m CDT, Tuesday, Oct 28, and Wednesday, Oct 29

Speeding 210 miles above Earth at five miles per second, Expedition 18 Commander E Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff will join millions of Americans and cast their votes in the Nov 4 election Thanks to a Texas bill passed in 1997, Fincke and Chamitoff will join several past astronauts who have voted from orbit

Joined by Russian Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov, Fincke and Chamitoff also beamed down a message celebrating the upcoming 10th anniversary of the station's launch The first space station component, the bus-sized Zarya module, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov 20, 1998 During the last 10 years, 76 flights have launched to the complex The orbiting laboratory has grown to a mass of almost 600,000 pounds and an inside volume larger than a four-bedroom house

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For the latest information on the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 18 Oct 2008 to 25 Oct 2008 (#2008-113)

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