Two crew members on the International Space Station are
scheduled to depart the orbital outpost Friday, June 2. Coverage of their
departure and return to Earth will air live on NASA Television and the
agency’s website beginning
Thursday, June 1, with the space station change of command ceremony.
Expedition 51 Flight Engineers Oleg
Novitskiy of Roscosmos and Thomas
Pesquet of ESA (European Space Agency) will undock their Soyuz MS-03
spacecraft from the space station at 6:50 a.m. EDT and land in Kazakhstan at
10:10 a.m. (8:20 p.m. Kazakhstan time).
Together, the Expedition 51 crew members
pursued hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science
and Earth science aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory. Their return
will wrap up 196 days in space, since their launch on Nov. 18, 2016.
NASA TV will air coverage of the departure
and landing activities at the following dates and times:
Thursday, June 1
·
11:50
a.m. -- Change of command ceremony with NASA’s Peggy Whitson handing over
station command to Roscosmos’ Fyodor Yurchikhin
Friday, June 2
·
3
a.m. -- Farewell and hatch closure (hatch closure at 3:35 a.m.)
·
6:30
a.m. -- Undocking (undocking scheduled at 6:50 a.m.)
·
8:45
a.m. -- Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn at 9:17 a.m., landing at 10:10
a.m.)
·
1
p.m. -- Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities
Monday, June 5
·
12
p.m. -- Video File of landing and post-landing activities
At the time of undocking, Expedition 52
will begin aboard the station under the command of Fyodor Yurchikhin. Along
with his crewmates Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer of NASA, the three-person
crew will operate the station until the arrival of three new crew members.
Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos, and Italian astronaut
Paolo Nespoli of ESA are scheduled to launch July 28 from Baikonur,
Kazakhstan.
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