Fwd: LANDING UPDATE: Russian State Commission waives off Soyuz landing tonight...

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From: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Date: March 14, 2013 3:44:23 PM GMT-06:00
To: "Moon, Larry J. (JSC-EA411)" <larry.j.moon@nasa.gov>
Subject: FW: LANDING UPDATE: Russian State Commission waives off Soyuz landing tonight...

 

Weather at the landing site is – to put it mildly – horrible. The recovery forces could not deploy to Arkalyk tonight/Friday morning. Conditions are forecast to improve greatly by tomorrow, so the clocks have been reset for a Soyuz TMA-06M landing at 10:05:58 pm Central (11:05:58 EDT) Friday.

 

Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and E34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin will return home after completing…

·         142 days aboard the ISS

·         144 days in space

·         2,304 orbits of Earth

·         60,998,150 statute miles

 

This is the third time in four years that a Soyuz return has been delayed in the last four years.

 

Here's the NASA TV plan for Friday:

 

NASA TV:

·         3:00 pm Central (4:00 EDT) – Exp 34 farewell & Soyuz TMA-06M hatch closure coverage

·         3:25 pm Central (4:25 EDT) –Soyuz hatch closure approximate

·         6:15 pm Central (7:15 EDT) – Soyuz undocking coverage

·         6:43 pm Central (7:43 EDT) – UNDOCKING

·         8:45 pm Central (9:45 EDT) – Soyuz deorbit burn & landing coverage

·         9:12:44 pm Central (11:04 EDT) – DEORBIT BURN (TGO 4:30 / DV 286 mph)

·         10:05:58 pm Central (11:05:58 EDT) – LANDING northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan