Tuesday, September 25, 2007
WASHINGTON - The start of the next crew of the International Space Station, Expedition 16, and the landing of the current crew, Expedition 15, are between the events to be broadcast on NASA Television from Sept. 27 to Oct. 21.
NASA's Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko and Malaysian spaceflight contributor Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor are set to launch Oct. 10 at 9:21 a.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their Soyuz TMA-11 craft is designed to dock to the station on Oct. 12. Shukor will fly to the station under an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
NASA Flight Engineer Clay Anderson, who has been on the station since June, will stay with Whitson and Malenchenko until the appearance of space shuttle Discovery on the STS-120 mission. NASA astronaut Dan Tani will land on that mission to replace Anderson, who will journey home on Discovery.
Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov and Shukor will return to Earth Oct. 21 at 6:32 a.m. in their Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft now docked to the station. Yurchikhin and Kotov have been aboard the station from April.
On Oct. 4, NASA TV will broadcast highlights of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin and others presence events in Moscow to commemorate the 200th anniversary of U.S-Russian diplomatic relations and the 50th anniversary of the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1.
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