Live: Soyuz TMA-8 undocking and landing

[Suzy]

Undocking in 5 minutes!

[psloss]

Station in free drift; less than 3 minutes to undocking.

[psloss]

Getting video from Soyuz; less than two minutes to undocking...

[Suzy]

2 minutes... View from the Soyuz prior to undocking (the computer is in free drift mode):

[psloss]

There it goes...backing away from Zarya...

[Suzy]

Just undocked at 21:53.

[Suzy]

Drifting down away from Zarya:

[George CA]

Only a few hours to go before they land? Have I got my dates right?

[Suzy]

Yes - land at 01:14 GMT/UTC on the 29th September, about 3 hours or so later.

[triddirt]

Hey Nasa TV is staying with the coverage... Coverage of landing is 7pm Central 8pm Eastern

[Chris Bergin]

Is that UTC or GMT? There's a one hour difference between the two. I'll change it to Soyuz TMA-8 in the title too.

If NASA TV cover it as well as the last one, I'll bump this up to newsfeed for exposure.

[Suzy]

Here you can see Zvezda is pointed towards the Earth, so the ISS is facing upwards! The Truss is parallel to the Earth. (Y-axis in the velocity vector?) The ISS and Soyuz are travelling in the same direction.

[Suzy]

Ooops! I got my Soyuz-es mixed up    GMT and UTC are virtually the same (UTC is more often used than GMT, which is a bit old-fashioned - Greenwich Mean Time at Wikipedia).

...Coverage ended a few minutes ago. 

[Chris Bergin]

Here's the list of events (All EDT Times):

ISS attitude handover to RS --- 2:40pm;
ISS maneuver to 12S undocking attitude --- 5:20pm;
ISS in free drift --- 5:49-5:58pm;
Hooks Open command --- 5:50pm; automatic undocking from FGB on DO15
Separation springs action (delta-V ~0.12 m/sec) --- 5:53pm; (retrograde to ISS flight)
Manual separation burn (15 sec, ~0.56 m/sec) --- 5:56pm;
Deorbit Burn start (delta-V 115.2 m/sec) --- 8:23:47pm;
Deorbit Burn complete --- 8:28:08pm
Tri-Module separation (140.1 km) --- 8:47pm;
Atmospheric entry (101.8 km, ~170 m/sec) --- 8:50pm;
Max G-load --- 8:57pm;
Parachute deploy command --- 8:58:48pm;
ISS attitude control handed back to US --- 9:10pm;
12S Landing (before daylight, nominally 89 km from Arkalyk) --- 9:14pm EDT; 7:14am on 9/29 local Kustanai/Kazakhstan time;
Local Sunrise --- 9:28pm (7:28am local on 9/29).

[tonyq]

Anousheh wrote in her blog earlier that she was expecting a rough ride down.

Anyone have any info. on what the 'g' profile looks like for a nominal descent ?