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: M11-241
COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ CREW LAUNCH AND DOCKING
HOUSTON -- Fresh off the arrival of three new crew members at the
International Space Station, the next trio of residents is set to
launch to the outpost Dec. 21. NASA Television will cover prelaunch
activities, launch and docking to the orbital laboratory during the
next several weeks.
Expedition 30 NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg
Kononenko and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers are
scheduled to launch at 7:16 a.m. CST on Dec. 21 (7:16 p.m. local
time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz
TMA-03M spacecraft to begin a two-day trip to the station. They are
set to dock to the station's Rassvet module at approximately 9:20
a.m. on Dec. 23.
Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers will join Expedition 30 Commander Dan
Burbank of NASA and Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and
Anatoly Ivanishin, who have been on the station since Nov. 16.
Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers will remain on the station until May as
members of the Expedition 31 crew.
NASA TV's scheduled coverage includes (all times Central):
Thursday, Dec. 1
2 p.m. -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-03M crew news conference in Star
City, Russia, and visit to Red Square in Moscow
Thursday, Dec. 8
11 a.m. -- Video file from Star City of crew departure for Baikonur
Friday, Dec. 16
11 a.m. -- Video file of crew activities in Baikonur
Monday, Dec. 19
11 a.m. -- Video file of rocket rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur
Tuesday, Dec. 20
11 a.m. -- Video file of final prelaunch crew news conference and
Russian State Commission meeting in Baikonur
Wednesday, Dec. 21
5:45 a.m. -- Video file feed of the crew prelaunch activities in
Baikonur
6:30 a.m. -- Launch coverage begins (launch scheduled at 7:16 a.m.)
9:30 a.m. -- Video file of prelaunch, launch and post-launch
interviews
Friday, Dec. 23
8:45 a.m. -- Docking coverage begins (docking scheduled at 9:20 a.m.),
followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in
Korolev, Russia
11:45 a.m. -- Hatch opening and welcoming ceremony begins (hatch
opening scheduled at 12:20 p.m.)
2 p.m. -- Video file docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony
For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
