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4.09.2013
NASA Television will provide live coverage Tuesday, Sept. 10, as three of the crew members on the International Space Station return home, ending more than five months in space.
Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy will undock their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the station 7:37 p.m. EDT Sept. 10. They are scheduled to land on the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 10:58 p.m. (8:58 a.m. Kazakh time Sept. 11). Their return will wrap up 166 days in space. They launched from Kazakhstan on March 29.
Undocking marks the formal start of Expedition 37 aboard the station under the command of Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos. Yurchikhin and his crewmates, Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, will tend to the station as a three-person crew for two weeks until the arrival of three new crewmates. NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan Sept. 25, U.S. time.
NASA Television coverage will begin Sept. 9 with the change of command ceremony, in which Vinogradov will turn over the reins of station operation to Yurchikhin. Coverage will continue Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 with Expedition 36 landing and post-landing activities.
Quelle: NASA
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Update: 7.09.2013
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Soyuz Landing Programming Schedule
The full schedule of the Soyuz landing coverage includes (all times are Eastern):
Monday, Sept. 9:
2:25 p.m. EDT – Expedition 36/37 Change of Command Ceremony
Tuesday, Sept. 10:
4 p.m. EDT – Farewells and Hatch Closure (hatch closure scheduled at 4:19 p.m. EDT)
7:15 p.m. EDT – Undocking (undocking scheduled at 7:37 p.m. EDT)
9:45 p.m. EDT – Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn scheduled at 10:05 p.m. EDT; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 10:58 p.m. EDT)
Wednesday, Sept. 11:
1:30 a.m. EDT - Video File of Hatch Closure, Undocking and Landing Activities
1 p.m. EDT – Video File of Post-Landing Activities and Interview with Chris Cassidy in Kazakhstan
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Update: 10.09.2013
Wie der Feuer-Ritt einer Sojus beim Re-Entry aussieht kann man auf nachfolgenden Frams von Sojus-TMA-9 vom September 2006 sehen:
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Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov handed over control of the International Space Station Monday at 2:25 p.m. EDT in a traditional Change of Command Ceremony. Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin will take over command and officially lead Expedition 37 when Expedition 36 undocks Tuesday at 7:35 p.m.
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Expedition 36 Crew to Return to Earth
In preparation for the Expedition 36 return to Earth, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) handed over control of the International Space Station Monday, Sept. 9, 2013 at 2:25 p.m. EDT in a traditional Change of Command Ceremony. Roscosmos Flight Engineer Fyodor Yurchikhin will take over command and officially lead Expedition 37 when Expedition 36 undocks Tuesday at 7:35 p.m.
Going home with Vinogradov are Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, who arrived at the station March 28. They will land a few hours later in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft at 10:58 p.m. (8:58 a.m. Wednesday Kazakhstan time). Soyuz landing coverage begins Tuesday on NASA TV at 4 p.m. with farewell and hatch closure.
In the bottom half of this photo, left to right, are Vinogradov and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Misurkin. In the top half of the photo are, left to right, Flight Engineers Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, Cassidy, and Yurchikhin. This photo was taken on June 8, 2013.
Quelle: NASA
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Hatch Closure Coverage
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Update: 11.09.2013
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Expedition 36 Crew Lands in Kazakhstan
Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA landed their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft in Kazakhstan at 10:58 p.m. EDT. The trio launched to and arrived at the International Space Station on March 13, becoming the first crew to make a single-day rendezvous to the orbiting outpost. They spent almost six months aboard conducting research and exploration.
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Expedition 36 Soyuz Landing
The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA aboard, is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station.
Quelle: NASA
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Frams: Roscosmos-TV
Quelle: Roscosmos/NASA
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Update: 12.09.2013
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Russian Search and Rescue Helicopters
201309100001hq (10 Sept. 2013) --- Russian search and rescue helicopters are seen as they fly over Kazakhstan, Sept. 10, 2013, from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Russian Search and Rescue Helicopters
201309100002hq (10 Sept. 2013) --- Russian search and rescue helicopters are seen as they fly over Kazakhstan, Sept. 10, 2013, from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Russian Search and Rescue Helicopters
201309100003hq (10 Sept. 2013) --- Russian search and rescue helicopters are seen as they fly over Kazakhstan, Sept. 10, 2013, from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Russian Search and Rescue Helicopter
201309100004hq (10 Sept. 2013) --- View from the cockpit of one of twelve Russian search and rescue helicopters as they take off from the city of Karaganda to Zhezkazgan in Kazakhstan a day ahead of the scheduled landing of the Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft with Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy are returning to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Astronaut Chris Cassidy Returns to Earth
201309110005hq (11 Sept. 2013) --- Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA is carried to the medical tent shortly after he and, Commander Pavel Vinogradov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos landed in their Soyuz TMA-08M capsule in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Sept. 11, 2013. Vinogradov, Misurkin and Cassidy returned to Earth after five and a half months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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