Return of ISS crew

JSC Special: NASA to Televise Return of Three ISS Crew Members

NASA TV will provide complete coverage Friday, Dec. 11, of the departure of three crew members from the International Space Station and their return to Earth beginning at midnight CST.   Expedition 45 Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will undock their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the space station at 3:49 a.m. The crew members will land in Kazakhstan at 7:12 a.m. (7:12 p.m. Kazakhstan time). Their return will wrap up 141 days in space since their launch in late July.   Activities and NASA TV coverage are as follows: Midnight - Farewell and hatch closure coverage (hatch closure scheduled at 12:25 a.m.) 3:30 a.m. - Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled at 3:49 a.m.) 6 a.m. - Deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn scheduled at 6:19 a.m., with landing at 7:12 a.m.) 9 a.m. - Video file of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities 8 p.m. - Video file of landing and post-landing activities and post-landing interviews with Lindgren and Yui in Kazakh

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