{"id":55456,"date":"2018-09-27T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-433276"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:12:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:12:26","slug":"nasa-tv-to-air-live-coverage-of-international-space-station-crew-landing","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-to-air-live-coverage-of-international-space-station-crew-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA TV to Air Live Coverage of International Space Station Crew Landing"},"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\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Drew Festal (right) and Ricky Arnold (left) of NASA, along with Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (center)\" 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\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=300,165 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=768,423 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=1024,564 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=1536,846 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=400,220 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=600,330 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=900,496 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=1200,661 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?resize=2000,1102 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\">Expedition 56 Commander Drew Festal (right) and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold (left) of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (center) will return to Earth on Oct. 4, after 197 days in space. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Three of the astronauts aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a>, including two NASA astronauts, are scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, Oct. 4. NASA Television and the agency\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/live\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> will provide complete coverage of their departure from the station and landing back on Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expedition 56 Commander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/andrew-j-feustel\" rel=\"noopener\">Drew Feustel<\/a> and Flight Engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/richard-r-arnold\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricky Arnold<\/a> of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=158\" rel=\"noopener\">Oleg Artemyev<\/a> of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will close the hatch to their Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft and undock from the station\u2019s Poisk module, heading for a parachute-assisted landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan a little more than three hours later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crew is completing a 197-day mission spanning 3,152 orbits of Earth and a journey of 83.4 million miles. During their time on the orbiting laboratory, the crew of Expedition 56 carried out science experiments ranging from physics to biological studies and conducted tests to expand navigation capabilities in preparation for future travel far from Earth. They also participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/foreducators\/stem-on-station\/year-of-education.html\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s Year of Education on Station<\/a>, which links students on Earth directly to astronauts aboard the space station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After landing, the crew will return by helicopter to the recovery staging city in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, where they will go their separate ways. Feustel and Arnold will board a NASA plane and fly back to Houston, while Artemyev will return to his home in Star City, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/expeditions\/expedition56\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Expedition 56<\/a> departure and landing activities is as follows (all times EDT):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wednesday, Oct. 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>10:10 a.m. \u2013 Change of command ceremony, during which Feustel will hand over station command to crewmate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Astronauts\/Alexander_Gerst\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Gerst<\/a> of ESA (European Space Agency)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, Oct. 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>12:30 a.m. \u2013 Farewell and hatch closure coverage (hatch closure at 12:55 a.m.)<\/li><li>3:30 a.m. \u2013 Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 3:57 a.m.)<\/li><li>6:30 a.m. \u2013 Deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn at 6:51 a.m. and landing at 7:45 a.m.)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of undocking, Expedition 57 will formally begin aboard the station, with Gerst, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/serena-m-aunon-chancellor\" rel=\"noopener\">Serena Aunon-Chancellor<\/a>, and Roscosmos\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=201\" rel=\"noopener\">Sergey Prokopyev<\/a> comprising a three-person crew for one week until the launch of the next group of residents on Oct. 11, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctc.ru\/main.php?id=196\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexey Ovchinin<\/a> of Roscosmos and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/tyler-nick-hague\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Hague<\/a> of NASA will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft, to join Expedition 57 after a six-hour journey to the station. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get breaking news, images and features from the space station on social media 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\n<p>Joshua Finch<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-1100<br>\njoshua.a.finch@nasa.gov<br>\nGary Jordan<br>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br>\n281-483-5111<br>\ngary.j.jordan@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, including two NASA astronauts, are scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, Oct. 4. NASA Television and the agency\u2019s website will provide complete coverage of their departure from the station and landing back on Earth. Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":58204,"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":"M18-145","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":[2800,8362,2656,2735,2861,2867],"news-tags":[12345],"internal-terms":[9508,9505],"coauthors":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"NASA TV to Air Live Coverage of International Space Station Crew Landing","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-to-air-live-coverage-of-international-space-station-crew-landing\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-to-air-live-coverage-of-international-space-station-crew-landing\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg"},"articleSection":"Humans in Space","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","Astronauts","Expedition 56","Humans in Space","International Space Station (ISS)","Johnson Space Center"],"dateCreated":"2018-09-27T20:32:00Z","datePublished":"2018-09-27T20:32:00Z","dateModified":"2023-07-26T19:12:26Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"NASA TV to Air Live Coverage of International Space Station Crew Landing\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-tv-to-air-live-coverage-of-international-space-station-crew-landing\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"post\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2018-09-27T20:32:00Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Humans in Space\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"NASA Centers & Facilities,NASA Headquarters,Astronauts,Expedition 56,Humans in Space,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":3,"featured_image":{"id":58204,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/28438093857_a18448f947_k.jpg","title":"28438093857_a18448f947_k","alt":"Drew Festal (right) and Ricky Arnold (left) of NASA, along with Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (center)","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55456"}],"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\/55456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369893,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-release\/55456\/revisions\/369893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55456"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=55456"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=55456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}