{"id":55419,"date":"2017-05-31T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-402784"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:55:45","slug":"nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-return-of-two-space-station-crew-members","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-return-of-two-space-station-crew-members\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA TV Coverage Set for Return of Two Space Station Crew Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy celebrate Pesquet's birthday\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=900,599 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=1200,799 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?resize=2000,1331 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy celebrate Pesquet\u2019s birthday aboard the International Space Station. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Two crew members on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a> 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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasatv\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> beginning Thursday, June 1, with the space station change of command ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expedition 51 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thom_astro\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Pesquet<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, the Expedition 51 crew members pursued hundreds of experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard humanity\u2019s only orbiting laboratory. Their return will wrap up 196 days in space, since their launch on Nov. 17, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA TV will air coverage of the departure and landing activities at the following dates and times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, June 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>11:50 a.m. \u2014 Change of command ceremony with NASA\u2019s Peggy Whitson handing over station command to Roscosmos\u2019 Fyodor Yurchikhin<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, June 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>3 a.m. \u2014 Farewell and hatch closure (hatch closure at 3:35 a.m.)<\/li><li>6:30 a.m. \u2014 Undocking (undocking scheduled at 6:50 a.m.)<\/li><li>8:45 a.m. \u2014 Deorbit burn and landing (deorbit burn at 9:17 a.m., landing at 10:10 a.m.)<\/li><li>1 p.m. \u2014 Video File of hatch closure, undocking and landing activities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Monday, June 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>12 p.m. \u2014 Video File of landing and post-landing activities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/instagram.com\/iss\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a class=\"twitter-timeline\" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"750\" data-dnt=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Space_Station?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweets by Space_Station<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tabatha Thompson<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-1100<br>\ntabatha.t.thompson@nasa.gov<br>\nDan Huot<br>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br>\n281-483-5111<br>\ndaniel.g.huot@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s website beginning Thursday, June 1, with the space station change of command ceremony. Expedition 51 Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58444,"template":"","meta":{"nasa_hds_core_meta_l10n":"en-US","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_editor":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_article_contacts":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_topic":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_linked_locations":[],"nasa_hds_core_meta_article_related_articles":[],"hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_id":"M17-065","hds_migrate_meta_pr_release_type":"MEDIA ADVISORY","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_x":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_location_y":"","nasa_hds_core_meta_gallery_images":[]},"categories":[8357,2735,2861,2867],"news-tags":[12348],"internal-terms":[9514,9508],"coauthors":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NASA TV Coverage Set for Return of Two Space Station Crew Members","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-return-of-two-space-station-crew-members\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-return-of-two-space-station-crew-members\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg"},"articleSection":"Missions","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA"}],"creator":["NASA"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":["NASA Centers & Facilities","NASA Headquarters","Expedition 51","International Space Station (ISS)","Johnson Space Center"],"dateCreated":"2017-05-31T23:58:00Z","datePublished":"2017-05-31T23:58:00Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T18:55:45Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"NASA TV Coverage Set for Return of Two Space Station Crew Members\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-coverage-set-for-return-of-two-space-station-crew-members\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2017-05-31T23:58:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Missions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Centers & Facilities,NASA Headquarters,Expedition 51,International Space Station (ISS),Johnson Space Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":2,"featured_image":{"id":58444,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/pesquet_and_novitskiy.jpg","title":"pesquet_and_novitskiy","alt":"ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy celebrate Pesquet's birthday","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370244,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55419\/revisions\/370244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=55419"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}