Date: September 14th 2006

Sept 13, 2006

Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-146

NASA TELEVISION SETS COVERAGE OF STATION CREW EXCHANGE

The launch of the next International Space Station crew, Expedition 14, and the landing of the current crew, Expedition 13, are among events that will be broadcast live on NASA Television Sept 17-29

Astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria, Expedition 14 commander and NASA station science officer, and cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Expedition 14 flight engineer and Soyuz commander, will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:09 a m EDT Sept 18 (10:09 a m Baikonur time) They, along with Spaceflight Participant Anousheh Ansari, a U S businesswoman who will visit the station for nine days under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft

Expedition 13 Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams and Ansari will land in north central Kazakhstan at 9:10 p m EDT Sept 28 (7:10 a m Sept 29 local Kazakhstan time) aboard the Soyuz spacecraft that is currently docked to the station Vinogradov and Williams have been on the orbiting laboratory since April

Video highlights of Expedition 14 pre-launch activities in Russia and Kazakhstan will air on the NASA TV Video File Sept 16-17

NASA TV coverage of Soyuz pre-launch, launch and docking Sept 17-20 will be interspersed with the around-the-clock live broadcast of Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-115 mission coverage For the latest on broadcast coverage of Soyuz events, check the continuously updated STS-115 mission NASA TV schedule at:

http://www nasa gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule html

The events and planned broadcast times include (all Eastern times):

Sunday, Sept 17: 10:30 p m -- Video B-roll replay of Soyuz crew pre-launch activities 11:30 p m -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant NASA TV launch coverage begins

Monday, Sept 18: 12:09 a m -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant launch 2:30 a m -- Video File B-roll replay of Expedition 14/Spaceflight participant Soyuz crew pre-launch activities, launch and post-launch interviews

Wednesday, Sept 20: 12 a m -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant station docking coverage begins (docking is at 1:24 a m ; post-docking news conference is at 1:45 a m ) 4:10 a m -- Expedition 14/Spaceflight Participant hatch opening and welcome ceremony coverage begins (hatch opening is at 4:20 a m )

Thursday, Sept 21: A Crew News Conference with all six crew members on the station will be conducted with a multi-center question and answer capability for media at participating NASA centers The time will be 12:15 p m

Thursday, Sept 28: 2:15 p m -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant farewell and hatch closure coverage begins (hatch closure is at 2:45 p m ) 5:15 p m -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant undocking coverage begins (undocking is at 5:54 p m ) 8 p m -- Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn is at 8:20 p m ; landing is at 9:10 p m )

Friday, Sept 29: 5:30 a m -- Video B-roll of recovery activities at the remote landing site in north central Kazakhstan for the Expedition 13/Spaceflight Participant crew 10 a m -- Video B-roll of the crew's return to Star City, Russia

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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