Author Topic: LIVE: Soyuz TMA-06M Undocking, Re-Entry and Landing - March 15/16 2013 (Read 55501 times)

jacqmans · « **on:** 03/07/2013 02:31 pm »

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-042

NASA TV COVERAGE PLANNED FOR SPACE STATION SOYUZ LANDING

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage March 13-15
as three crew members aboard the International Space Station end
almost five months at the orbiting laboratory.

Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA, Russian Soyuz Commander
Oleg Novitskiy and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin will
undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the station at 8:30 p.m. EDT,
March 14, heading for a landing in Kazakhstan northeast of the remote
town of Arkalyk at 11:57 p.m. (10:57 a.m. Kazakh time March 15). They
will have spent 143 days in space since launching from Kazakhstan
Oct. 23.

When the Soyuz undocks, Expedition 35 will begin aboard the station
under the command of Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency.
Hadfield will be the first Canadian commander. He and his crewmates,
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko,
will tend to the station for two weeks until the arrival of three new
crew members: NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts
Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin.

NASA TV coverage will begin Wednesday, March 13, with a change of
command ceremony in which Ford will hand station command to Hadfield.
Coverage will continue March 14 and 15 with Expedition 34 landing and
post-landing activities. The coverage includes:

Wednesday, March 13:
5:10 p.m. -- Expedition 34/35 change of command ceremony

Thursday, March 14:
4:45 p.m. -- Farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure scheduled at
5:15 p.m.)
8:15 p.m. -- Undocking (undocking scheduled at 8:30 p.m.)
10:45 p.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn scheduled at
11:04 p.m.; landing scheduled at 11:57 p.m.)

Friday, March 15:
2 a.m. -- Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing
activities
2 p.m. -- Video File of post-landing activities and interviews

For NASA TV schedule and video streaming information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information on the International Space Station and its crew
members, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Space Pete · « **Reply #1 on:** 03/11/2013 06:37 pm »

Today, the NASA Gulfstream III aircraft “NASA992” (tail number N992NA) is flying from Houston to Kazakhstan carrying the NASA delegation for the Soyuz TMA-06M landing, including chief of the astronaut office Bob Behnken. The same aircraft will be used to return the landing delegation plus Kevin Ford to Houston following his return to Earth on Friday.

The aircraft will fly from Houston, TX > Goose Bay, Canada > Glasgow, Scotland > Kazakhstan. At the time of posting, the aircraft is over the Atlantic Ocean en-route to Glasgow.

NASA992, also known (for some reason) by its older designation of NASA2, can be tracked on FlightAware here:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA2
(My my, that little jet does get around - looks like it was in Costa Rica a few weeks ago, as part of its Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) campaign duties.)

For those interested, more details on the aircraft are available here:
http://jsc-aircraft-ops.jsc.nasa.gov/GIII/index.html

Danderman · « **Reply #2 on:** 03/13/2013 04:18 pm »

The TsUP landing diagram for this mission.....

anik · « **Reply #3 on:** 03/14/2013 07:03 am »

http://interfax.ru/world/news.asp?id=295477
http://interfax.ru/russia/news.asp?id=295484

The landing can be postponed by one day due to bad weather on the landing site.

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #4 on:** 03/14/2013 03:41 pm »

Quote from: anik on 03/14/2013 07:03 am

http://interfax.ru/world/news.asp?id=295477
http://interfax.ru/russia/news.asp?id=295484

The landing can be postponed by one day due to bad weather on the landing site.

Well is the landing still scheduled in 11 hours or not? There are reports that the landing may be delayed by two days [1], yet sources at NK reports that any delays are still in a pending stage [2]. Has the final decision been made yet?

[1] http://www.interfax.ru/russia/news.asp?id=295610
[2] http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum10/topic12734/message1046257/#message1046257

Galactic Penguin SST · « **Reply #5 on:** 03/14/2013 04:08 pm »

If I am reading correctly, the decision of whether or not to waive off today's landing attempt will be made at 20:30 UTC: http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/news/5513/

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #6 on:** 03/14/2013 04:12 pm »

Moved for live coverage...but let's keep an eye on the decision above.

rdale · « **Reply #7 on:** 03/14/2013 04:49 pm »

Ground was just asked about any changes to undocking and the reply was that they are pressing forward as scheduled.

Mapperuo · « **Reply #8 on:** 03/14/2013 06:32 pm »

Crew was asking about any news regarding the landing, MCC said they wont know until the meeting in exactly one hour. Crew pressing ahead with procedures for hatch closure later.

mtakala24 · « **Reply #9 on:** 03/14/2013 07:48 pm »

Announcement right now on Nasa Television. Meeting is still ongoing.

dsmillman · « **Reply #10 on:** 03/14/2013 07:54 pm »

Rob Navias' description of the weather sounds pretty bad. If this were a shuttle landing, they wouldn't even bother having a meeting.

mtakala24 · « **Reply #11 on:** 03/14/2013 08:03 pm »

Decision made not to risk. 24h delay.

Tomorrow's weather will be better, according to Rob.

dsmillman · « **Reply #12 on:** 03/14/2013 08:11 pm »

New Event times:

Undocking: 7:43 PM EDT

Deorbit Burn: 10:12 PM EDT

Landing: 11:06 PM EDT

jacqmans · « **Reply #13 on:** 03/15/2013 08:48 am »

New Status:

32 Soyuz (S) Undock Preparation: The Soyuz Landing Commission postponed the 32S landing by one day due to weather conditions at the landing site near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Specialists are continuing to monitor the weather conditions at the landing site, and ground teams are re-working the landing plan for tomorrow.

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/reports/iss_reports/

mtakala24 · « **Reply #14 on:** 03/15/2013 11:45 am »

Quote from: dsmillman on 03/14/2013 08:11 pm

New Event times:

is Daylight Saving Time already in effect in the US? Or did you mean EST.

edit: oh, it is indeed. And not yet in effect here in Europe.

Frandolf · « **Reply #15 on:** 03/15/2013 11:47 am »

via Twitter from Bill Ingalls ‏@ingallsimages (part of a tweet-exchange with @Cmdr_Hadfield)

@Cmdr_Hadfield Too kind. In helo now heading to Arkalyk and it's sunny and clear!

So today is the day

ras391 · « **Reply #16 on:** 03/15/2013 11:48 am »

yes it is.

Targeteer · « **Reply #17 on:** 03/15/2013 12:19 pm »

Quote from: jacqmans on 03/15/2013 08:48 am

New Status:

32 Soyuz (S) Undock Preparation: The Soyuz Landing Commission postponed the 32S landing by one day due to weather conditions at the landing site near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan. Specialists are continuing to monitor the weather conditions at the landing site, and ground teams are re-working the landing plan for tomorrow.

http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/reports/iss_reports/

This is the first time I can remember any Russian space activity, let alone an ISS related launch/landing, being effected by weather. Anyone have a history of such (rare) occurences?

dsmillman · « **Reply #18 on:** 03/15/2013 01:01 pm »

Quote from: mtakala24 on 03/15/2013 11:45 am

Quote from: dsmillman on 03/14/2013 08:11 pm
New Event times:

is Daylight Saving Time already in effect in the US? Or did you mean EST.

edit: oh, it is indeed. And not yet in effect here in Europe.

Daylight Saving Time went into effect in the US on March 10. Add 4 hours to the EDT to get GMT.

asmi · « **Reply #19 on:** 03/15/2013 01:26 pm »

Quote from: Targeteer on 03/15/2013 12:19 pm

This is the first time I can remember any Russian space activity, let alone an ISS related launch/landing, being effected by weather. Anyone have a history of such (rare) occurences?

Yea I was thinking about the same thing. The weather must've been really bad out there...