Sept 11, 2012

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly o humphries@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-179

SOYUZ LANDING COVERAGE PLANNED FOR NASA TELEVISION

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of events surrounding three International Space Station crew members who are scheduled to end four months on the orbiting laboratory with a landing in Kazakhstan on Sunday, Sept 16

Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency will undock their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 7:11 p m EDT, heading for a landing at 10:53 p m (8:53 a m Kazakhstan time Sept 17) north of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan Their return will wrap up 125 days in space since their launch from Kazakhstan on May 15, including 123 days on the station

At the time of undocking, Expedition 33 formally will begin aboard the station under the command of NASA's Sunita Williams She and her crewmates, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will tend to the station as a three-person crew for a month until the arrival of three new crew members in mid-October, including NASA astronaut Kevin Ford

NASA Television coverage on Sept 16 and 17 of the Expedition 32 landing and post-landing activities will include:

Sept 16: 3:30 p m -- Farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure at 3:55 p m )

6:45 p m -- Undocking and departure (undocking at 7:09 p m ) 9:30 p m -- Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn at 9:56 p m ; landing at 10:53 p m )

Sept 17: 10:30 a m -- Video File of landing and post-landing activities

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its crews, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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