Author Topic: Soyuz MS-11 EOM Events (Undock, Entry, Landing) June 24, 2019 (Read 17378 times)

jacqmans · « **on:** 06/23/2019 01:41 pm »

Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques to return to Earth

Longueuil, Quebec, June 20, 2019 — After being in orbit since December 3, 2018, Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut David Saint-Jacques will leave the International Space Station to return to Earth on June 24.

His return will mark the end of his 204-day mission. This is the longest mission ever conducted by a CSA astronaut.

Media are invited to the CSA to watch the broadcast of his landing. Those who are unable to attend can watch it live (or after the fact) on the CSA’s YouTube channel.

IMPORTANT

Media will not be granted access to the CSA’s premises until 5:00 p.m. ET.
Starting at 3:30 p.m. ET, the steps preceding the landing of the Soyuz capsule carrying David Saint-Jacques will be broadcast live on the CSA’s YouTube channel.

Date: June 24, 2019

Time: 10:15 p.m. ET

What: CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques returns to Earth

Who: Jeremy Hansen, CSA astronaut
Bob Thirsk, former CSA astronaut

Where: John H. Chapman Space Centre
6767 Route de l’Aéroport
Saint-Hubert, Quebec J3Y 8Y9

jacqmans · « **Reply #1 on:** 06/23/2019 01:43 pm »

June 20, 2019
MEDIA ADVISORY M19-057

NASA Television to Cover Departure, Landing of Astronaut Anne McClain and Space Station Crew

NASA astronaut Anne McClain and two crewmates on the International Space Station are scheduled to conclude their stay aboard the orbiting laboratory Monday, June 24. Live coverage of their return will begin at 3:30 p.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

McClain, a flight engineer for Expedition 59, expedition and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, will close the hatch to their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft Monday afternoon and undock from the station. A little more than three hours later, a parachute-assisted landing is planned southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan on the Kazakhstan steppe.

The crew is completing a 204-day mission spanning 3,264 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 86.4 million miles. When they land, Kononenko will have logged 737 days in space on his four flights, putting him in sixth place on the all-time list of space travelers for cumulative time. McClain and Saint-Jacques will be completing their first flights into space. Saint-Jacques’ mission will be the longest single spaceflight by a Canadian astronaut.

After landing, the crew will return by helicopter to the recovery staging area in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where McClain and Saint-Jacques will board a NASA plane for their return to Houston, and Kononenko will return to his home in Star City, Russia.

Also on June 24, NASA TV will broadcast live coverage of the launch of the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STP-2 mission will carry four NASA payloads including scientific instruments and technology demonstrations to test the performance of non-toxic spacecraft fuel and an advanced atomic clock to improve spacecraft navigation.

Full NASA TV coverage is as follows. All times are EDT:

Sunday, June 23:

3:35 p.m. – Space station change of command ceremony, during which Konenenko will hand over command to Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin.
Monday, June 24:

3:30 p.m. – Farewell and Soyuz hatch closure coverage (hatch closure at 4:10 p.m.)
4 p.m. – U.S. Air Force/SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy STP-2 prelaunch press conference (Media Channel only)
7:00 p.m. – Soyuz undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 7:25 p.m.)
9:30 p.m. – Soyuz deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn at 9:55 p.m. and landing at 10:48 p.m.)
11 p.m. – Coverage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy STP-2 launch (Media Channel only)
At the time of undocking, Expedition 60 will begin aboard the station, with NASA Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Christina Koch and Commander Ovchinin comprising a three-person crew until the next residents launch July 20 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Andrew Morgan of NASA, Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Luca Parmitano of ESA (European Space Agency) will launch aboard Soyuz MS-13 to join Expedition 60 after a six-hour journey to the station.

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jacqmans · « **Reply #2 on:** 06/23/2019 01:45 pm »

(June 17, 2019) --- Astronaut David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency wears his Sokol launch and entry suit during a leak check before he departs the International Space Station on June 24. He and fellow Expedition 59 crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos will wear their Sokol suits when they return to Earth inside the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft completing a 204-day mission.

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #3 on:** 06/23/2019 07:50 pm »

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1142880631501836289

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1142881641326624769

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #4 on:** 06/23/2019 07:50 pm »

Article:

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/06/soyuz-ms-11-return-iss-trio-earth/

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1142882235017809920

ddspaceman · « **Reply #5 on:** 06/24/2019 12:53 am »

https://twitter.com/AstroAnnimal/status/1142847664406401024
https://twitter.com/AstroHague/status/1142815663733563392
https://twitter.com/nasahqphoto/status/1142935111060676609

Hog · « **Reply #6 on:** 06/24/2019 04:07 pm »

ISS is passing over the province of Ontario, Canada where I live. Just a few more revs before Soyuz undocks and deorbits heads for home.

Best wishes to Oleg Kononenko of Roskosmos, Anne McClain of NASA and of course, Canada's own David Saint-Jacques representing the Canadian Space Agency for a successful deorbit, entry and landing in Kazakhstan.

During this rotation David St Jacques participated in the first Canadian Extra Vehicular Activity in 12 years. The last space walking Canuck was CSA's Steve MacLean, the physicist, during STS-115 Atlantis.

A pic of the Unidentified Flying Object spotted during STS-115.