LIVE: Soyuz TMA-13M EOM Events (Undock, Entry, Landing) - November 9-10, 2014

[jacqmans]

November 5, 2014

NASA Television to Broadcast Return of Space Station Crew

Three of the crew members aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to depart the orbiting laboratory Sunday, Nov. 9 after almost six months aboard. NASA Television will provide complete coverage.

The prime crew members for International Space Station Expedition 40 take a break in training for a crew portrait on Aug. 22, 2013. From the left are Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA.

Expedition 41 Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA) will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the station at 7:30 p.m. EST for a landing in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. (9:58 a.m. Nov. 10 Kazakh time). Their return will wrap up 165 days in space since launching from Kazakhstan on May 29 and a mission that covered almost 70 million miles in orbit.

With their landing, Suraev will have spent 334 days in space on two flights, and Wiseman and Gerst will have logged 165 days in space on their first flights.

At the time of undocking, Expedition 42 will formally begin aboard the station under the command of NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore. Along with his crewmates Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova of Roscosmos, Wilmore will operate the station as a three-person crew for two weeks until the arrival of three new crew members. NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti are scheduled to launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Nov. 23, (U.S. time).

NASA Television coverage includes:

Sunday, Nov. 9:
 -- 3:45 p.m. - Farewell and hatch closure coverage. Includes replay of Nov. 8 change of command ceremony in which Suraev hands over station command to Wilmore; hatch closure at 4:10 p.m.
 -- 7:15 p.m. - Undocking coverage. Undocking at 7:30 p.m.
 -- 9:45 p.m. - Deorbit burn and landing coverage. Deorbit burn at 10:05 p.m., with landing at 10:58 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 10
 -- 1 a.m. - Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities
 -- Noon - Video File of landing and post-landing activities and post-landing interviews with Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst in Kazakhstan

For the NASA TV schedule and coordinate information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For b-roll and other media resources, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/stationnews

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

[Chris Bergin]

Moved for live coverage.

[jacqmans]

[Targeteer]

The Cosmonauts are exchanging checklist procedures with Moscow.  The crew sarcastically repeated a Go-Pro procedure call-out reminding the ground how it important that was compared to every thing else they have going on...

[mtakala24]

I just wonder when they'll release some of the gopro footage from landing. They do have it, one ESA video had a clips of one on a previous flight.

[northenarc]

 Hatch closure just completed.
 

[northenarc]

 More

   

[John44]

Expedition 41 - Farewells and Hatch Closure
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9158

[Targeteer]

CAPCOM just informed Butch there will be no Ku coverage during un-docking so TV coverage of his planned "bell ringing" to indicate Soyuz departure can't be shown live. They asked him to conduct the Naval heritage ceremony on SG 1 so that it could be HEARD live...

[Chris Bergin]

[Chris Bergin]

Rob Navias commentating.

[Chris Bergin]

16 mins to undocking.

[Prober]

Thunderbirds are go..me bad

[Chris Bergin]

Recovery helicopters were turned around due to icing concerns. They are awaiting instructions.

[Targeteer]

The first four recovery helos RTB'd due to icing conditions and are on the ground waiting further instructions

[Chris Bergin]

There's some real idiots on Twitter, that I'm blocking, talking about "watching this because things happen in threes". Morons. If you see such comments. Block them too. I won't name them as that's what trolls want.

[Chris Bergin]

It was four of the helicopters that were turned around due to weather. But the landing site isn't so bad.

[Chris Bergin]

[Chris Bergin]

Onboard:

[Prober]

4 min until