NASA TV Coverage Planned For Space Station Soyuz Landing
NASA Television will provide live coverage March 13-15 as three crew members aboard the International Space Station end almost five months at the orbiting laboratory. Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford of NASA, Russian Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin will undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the station at 01:30 UT, March 15, heading for a landing in Kazakhstan northeast of the remote town of Arkalyk at 10:57 a.m. Kazakh time March 15. They will have spent 143 days in space since launching from Kazakhstan Oct. 23. Read more
After launching in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft, Expedition 34/35 Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency arrived at the International Space Station on Dec. 21, docking their craft to the Rassvet module on the Russian segment of the complex.
New Trio Lifts Off to the International Space Station
With temperatures well below freezing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency launched Wednesday to the International Space Station at 12:12 UT (6:12 p.m. Baikonur time). Read more
Expedition 34/35 Launches to the International Space Station
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Expedition 34/35 Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft on Dec. 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a two-day journey to the International Space Station. The trio will dock to the station Dec. 21 to start a five month mission, joining station Commander Kevin Ford and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, who have been on the outpost since late October.
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft was mated to its booster rocket on Dec. 16, and the spacecraft and its booster were moved to the launch pad on a railcar Dec. 17 for final preparations before launch to the International Space Station on Dec. 19. The Soyuz TMA-07M will carry Expedition 34/35 Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency to the orbital outpost. The trio will spend five months on the laboratory, joining station Commander Kevin Ford of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, who have been in orbit since late October. The footage also includes interviews with Mike Fossum, Associate Director of Flight Crew Operations, JSC, and with William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration Operations.
Cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut, Chris Hadfield, participate in pre-launch activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The trio is slated to board a Soyuz rocket and liftoff for the International Space Station on Dec. 19.
The next residents of the International Space Station speak about their upcoming stay on the orbiting laboratory with members of the media at Star City, Russia. NASA's Tom Marshburn, the Canadian Space Agency's Chris Hadfield and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko are scheduled to launch to the ISS on December 19, where they'll become the second half of the Expedition 34 crew. They'll be joined on Expedition 35 next March by NASA's Chris Cassidy, and cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin.