Nov 13, 2012

Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 rachel h kraft@nasa gov

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 josh byerly@nasa gov

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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