{"id":55179,"date":"2018-05-29T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-425281"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:09:14","slug":"nasa-television-to-air-return-of-one-space-station-crew-launch-of-another","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-one-space-station-crew-launch-of-another\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Television to Air Return of One Space Station Crew, Launch of Another"},"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\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"International Space Station Expedition 54 return and Expedition 55 launch\" 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\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg 3861w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=300,153 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=768,392 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=1024,522 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=1536,784 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=2048,1045 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=400,204 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=600,306 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=900,459 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=1200,612 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?resize=2000,1020 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\">After 168 days on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Tingle returns to Earth June 3, 2018, with Expedition 55 crewmates Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The International Space Station Expedition 54 crew returns in the Soyuz MS-06 from their mission Feb. 27, 2018 (left). Tingle, Shkaplerov and Kanai launched to the space station on the Soyuz MS-07 (right). Expedition 56 astronaut Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor of NASA,  cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and astronaut Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) launch to the orbiting outpost June 6, 2018, in the Soyuz MS-09. <strong>Credits: NASA\/Bill Ingalls\/Joel Kowsky<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Three of the crew members currently aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\">International Space Station<\/a> are scheduled to end their mission on the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, June 3. A few days later, another trio of space travelers will depart for the station on a launch scheduled for Wednesday, June 6. Live coverage of both the landing and launch will air live on NASA Television and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In advance of the departure, the traditional change of command ceremony on Friday, June 1, will see Expedition 55 Commander Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos hand over command of the station to NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/andrew-j-feustel\">Drew Feustel<\/a> for Expedition 56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shkaplerov and Flight Engineers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/scott-d-tingle\">Scott Tingle<\/a> of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will close the hatch to the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft and undock from the Rassvet module as they head for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan a little more than three hours later. The crew is completing a mission spanning 168 days, with 2,688 orbits of the Earth and a journey of 71.2 million miles. The mission also marks the first spaceflight for Tingle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After landing, the crew will return by helicopter to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where Tingle and Kanai will board a NASA plane for a flight back to Houston while Shkaplerov returns to his home in Star City, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of undocking, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/expeditions\/expedition56\/index.html\">Expedition 56<\/a> will begin formally aboard the station, with Feustel, NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/richard-r-arnold\">Ricky Arnold<\/a> and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos comprising a three-person crew for several days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/serena-m-aunon-chancellor\">Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor<\/a> of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) are preparing to launch in the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft Wednesday, June 6, on a two-day journey to dock to the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coverage of Expedition 55 landing and Expedition 56 launch activities will be as follows (all times EDT):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, June 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>2:25 p.m. \u2013 Change of command ceremony with Anton Shkaplerov handing over station command to NASA astronaut Drew Feustel<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, June 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>1:30 a.m. \u2013 Farewell and hatch closure coverage (hatch closure at 1:55 a.m.)<\/li><li>4:45 a.m. \u2013 Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 5:16 a.m.)<\/li><li>7:15 a.m. \u2013 Deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn at 7:47 and landing at 8:40 a.m.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, June 6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>6:15 a.m. \u2013 Soyuz MS-09 launch coverage (launch at 7:12 a.m.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Friday, June 8<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>8:15 a.m. \u2013 Docking coverage (docking scheduled for 9:07 a.m.)<\/li><li>10:30 a.m. \u2013 Hatch opening and welcome coverage<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A full complement of video of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/schedule.html\">crew\u2019s prelaunch activities<\/a> in Baikonur will air on NASA TV in the days preceding launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crew members of Expedition 56-57 will continue work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/index.html\">hundreds of experiments<\/a> in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science aboard the International Space Station, humanity\u2019s only permanently occupied microgravity laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get breaking news, images and features from the station on Instagram and Twitter at:<\/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 is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><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<p>Stephanie Schierholz<br \/>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br \/>\n202-358-1100<br \/>\nstephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov<br \/>\nDan Huot<br \/>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br \/>\n281-483-5111<br \/>\ndaniel.g.huot@nasa.gov<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the crew members currently aboard the International Space Station are scheduled to end their mission on the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, June 3. A few days later, another trio of space travelers will depart for the station on a launch scheduled for Wednesday, June 6. Live coverage of both the landing and launch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58264,"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":"M18-086","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":[8361,2735,2861,2867],"news-tags":[12345],"internal-terms":[9514,9508],"coauthors":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NASA Television to Air Return of One Space Station Crew, Launch of Another","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-one-space-station-crew-launch-of-another\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-one-space-station-crew-launch-of-another\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.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 55","International Space Station (ISS)","Johnson Space Center"],"dateCreated":"2018-05-29T23:39:00Z","datePublished":"2018-05-29T23:39:00Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T19:09:14Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"NASA Television to Air Return of One Space Station Crew, Launch of Another\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-television-to-air-return-of-one-space-station-crew-launch-of-another\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2018-05-29T23:39:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Missions\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Centers & Facilities,NASA Headquarters,Expedition 55,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":4,"featured_image":{"id":58264,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/soyuz_launch_-_landing.jpg","title":"soyuz_launch_-_landing","alt":"International Space Station Expedition 54 return and Expedition 55 launch","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55179"}],"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\/55179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369988,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55179\/revisions\/369988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=55179"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}