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>> Good morning from mission
control in Houston and the
international space station
flight control room as you look
live at the Soyuz MS-12
spacecraft flying 260 miles
above the south Atlantic.
On a track from southwest to
northeast in honor bit inclined
51.6 degrees to either side of
the equator in the center
section of that Soyuz, three
crew members, nasa astronaut
Nick Hague, Roscosmosnaut alexey
and Hazzaa Almansoori the
visiting astronaut from the
united air' Emirates are
buttoned up in the module.
Suited up in their Russian
launch and entry suits ready for
undocking from the international
space station about 36 minutes
from now.
To begin the ride home and a
Land on this step of Kazakhstan
in their spacecraft with landing
scheduled at 5:59 and 45
seconds a.m. central time
6:59 and 45 seconds a.m. eastern
time.
Which will be just a few second
before 5:00 p.m. Kazakhstan time
at the landing site.
Everything is ready and they
suited up and in their entry
suits if he dock interface twine
their Soyuz space croft.
Of the international space
station, their suits are in good
shape.
The systems are activated and
all up and running in great
shape as you can see the
positioning of the crew as they
will be seated in the question
sent manage you would.
Alexi in the center seat is the
commander.
It to his letter the backup to
the Soyuz commands are and the
right side, Almansoori the
visiting astronaut who will be
board engineering number two the
Ovchinin.
Just a few hours from now to
complete their mission.
They leave behind six crew
members, led now by the new
expedition commander Luca in the
sent even of your screen.
In the crew portrait trot from
the European space agency is he
took over command on witness
morning from off going ex-pa I
think 60 commander alexey
Ovchinin.
They remain on board.
With NASA astronauts.
The entry and landing operations
are being controlled from the
Russian mission control center.
>> Reporter: You can see the
live view from a balcony camera.
That operates the international
segment operations of the
international space station.
They have been talking to
Ovchinin and other members
aboard the Soyuz MS-12.
The call sign for the Soyuz
vehicle from this point on
through landing is burr lock.
That is the call sign taken up
by Ovchinin as was the case for
the launch phase back in March
of this crew to the
international space station.
That's the name of people who
help to haul barges and other
vessels upstream from the 17th
to the 20th centuries in the
Russian empire.
Burr lock will be the call sign
that you'll hear.
The flight director call out as
he is addressing Ovchinin aboard
the Soyuz vehicle.
Through landing phase of
activities.
When Ovchinin, Hague and
Almansoori land a few hours from
now, Ovchinin and Hague will
have logged 20 throw days a
board international space
mission a mission that en could
bed 2,348 or it's bits of earth.
Almansoori who launched last
week from the Baikonur
cosmodrome under an
intergovernmental agreement
between the united arab Emirates
will have spent eight days in
space, 128 orbits of the earth.
3.3 million statute miles in
this his first flight in to
space.
>> 2 1/2 hours ago this trio
coming home in their Soyuz
spacecraft had an a opportunity
to say farewell to the other six
crew members on board the
station.
This replay of the hatch closing
activities that took place at
11:20 p.m. central time on
Wednesday night.
You see Hazzaa Ali Almansoori on
your right.
A ex-I Ovchinin.
And NASA astronaut Nick Hague as
they pose today a few final
pictures taken by by their crew
members, waved Goodbye and one
by one made their way through
the hatch way in to the descent
module of the Soyuz MS12
spacecraft.
They then closed the hatch
behind them.
Alexander remaining on board.
Closed the hatch on the station
eyed of the docking interface
between the two weeks and ban
the process of conducting leak
checks leading to the
depressurization of the small
vestibule of passage way between
the Soyuz and the Ross via the
module to this which vehicle has
been attached since March 15th
earlier this year.
This completes a long cycle of
activities.
Almost one year ago on October
11th 2018 they were involved in
the now infamies launch on board
that took place in the Soyuz
MS-10 spacecraft that experience
aid booster separation a no
thinkly two minutes after
launch.
Resulting in the triggering of
the launch escape system that
enabled them to be pulled free
and enabled them to pair suit no
a safe entry and landing 19
minutes late on the step of
Kazakhstan not far from that
their landing will take place
this morning.
That launch aboard was conducted
in exactly the manner it was
designed to in event of a launch
problem that took place they
launched successfully
March 14th U.S. time along
with NASA Castro Now the
Christina Koch that will remain
there until next February in a
long duration flight and
extended mission that will last
328 days.
Again the hatch closing took
place followed by leak checks.
They climb ed in their suits and
conducted all the requisite suit
checked.
All being being in drought shape
the flight control team here in
Houston has completed its poll
of it's flee controllers to get
a go for undock the undocking
command to be issued 27 1/2
minutes from now.
Initiating the hooks.
About a 90 seconds on process.
And that will be the precursor
to the actual physical
separation of the Skvortsov from
the module.
Pushing off against one another.
To enable the soyuz to fly free
of the international space
station.
With again that physical
separation followed three
minutes later, by an 82nd
automated separation burn of the
soyuz engines to increase an
opening rate away from the
station to a safe distance for
the deorbit turn.
Again this live view of the
soyuz MS-12 as it moves just off
the southeast it were coast of
Africa to cross the coast of
Madagascar, moving from
southwest to northeast.
>> Once again the undocking
where that is scheduled about 27
minutes from now, will be
initiated with the soyuz vehicle
from the Rassvet module.
It will move a sieve distance
away, for the deorbit burn that
will be initiated at 506 a.m.
central time.
This is a 4:42 red great firing
a breaking maneuver, to slow the
soyuz down by 128 meters per
second.
Allowing it do drop out of orbit
back to the earth's atmosphere,
the pyro technique takes of
three sections takes place at
five there 4:00 a.m. central
time.
6:34 eastern time.
The heat shield the command the
command to open pair suit
5:45 eastern team.
A drogue chute and two chutes
and then the main chute that
significantly slows down the
descent rate of the soyuz
vehicle.
Just a few seconds before
touchdown, soft landing engines
in a final maneuver, touchdown
again scheduled at 5:59 if and
45 seconds a.m. central time.
6:59:45 eastern time just a few
seconds before 5:00 p.m. at the
landing site in Kazakhstan which
will be one hour and 58 minutes
before sunset.
The Russian search and recovery
forces and a NASA team embedded
with that search and recovery
team is airborne in a Russian
aircraft from the staging city
in Kazakh down to a staging
facility 90 miles to the
northwest of the landing site
itself.
Once the Antonov arrives there
the landing team members will be
deployed to a variety of almost
a dozen MI8 helicopters that
will be airborne around the time
of the deorbit burn for the
landing site itself.
They will arrive at the landing
site in a racetrack pattern
around the area of the final
trajectory of the descent.
And begin the work to extract
the crew, get them in to chairs,
so that they can have a few
minutes to regain their
equilibrium and to enable
television cameras to show the
whole process before they are
carried in those chairs in to a
nearby inflatable medical tent
to be attended to for initial
medical examines to get in to
more comfortable clothing.
They are put in for three
helicopters one for each crew
member with flight surgeons and
nurses to go flow back.
There they split up with
Ovchinin and Almansoori borning
an aircraft for the flight back
to their training base at star
city Russia just outside the
Moscow, Nick Hague will board a
NASA gulf stream jet for the
flight back to Houston.
>> This is a view from the
external camera on the soyuz
MS-12.
You'll he zero typical views at
the time of undocking from both
the soyuz and the cameras you
have been seeing on the truss of
the international space station.
That will show the departure of
the soyuz vehicle again
undocking as scheduled at
2:37:30 a.m. central time.
3:37:30 a.m. eastern time.
That will be about 90 seconds
after the command is issued to
initiate the opening of the
hooks that have held the soyuz
in place to the Ross via the
module docking port.
>> I have the video from the tv
camera on mock display.
Copy, thank you.
>> This view across the Indian
ocean moving from southwest to
northeast at an altitude of
260 miles, again, the -- at the
lower portion of your screen.
Said bulbous section is the
orbital module that contains the
avionics and the forward docking
probe.
The docking mechanism was
powered up a few hours ago in
reparation for the undocking of
the soyuz from the Rassvet
module.
The center section as we have
mentioned that's where the crew
is strapped in to their
respective seeds, Nick Hague in
the left seed, alexey Ovchinin
it the soyuz command never the
center seat and Hazzaa Ali
Almansoori of the united Arum
Emirates in the right seed just
to the right of Ovchinin.
The descent module the only
section of the soyuz that
survives reentry for a
parachuted assessed landing.
The lower section with the solar
arrays the instrumentation and
propulsion module that contains
the propulsion tanks and
hardware associated with the
engines and thrusters used up to
this point in the fly of the
soyuz MS-12.
>> This is Moscow, how are you
feeling?
We are feeling great.
You are go to activate M
transmitter.
SM25, just make a note.
102500.
Yes, that's correct.
102500.
Please send R17 command and
activate display and tv mode.
Copy.
And we will activate display and
tv.
Copy.
>> The weather at the landing
site which is about 91 statute
miles to the southeast of the
town of Kazakhstan that weather
is ideal clear skies,
temperatures around 62 degrees
Fahrenheit.
Forecast at landing time which
is about an hour and 58 minutes
before sunset local time at the
landing site with any luck at
all, we should be able to see
the vehicle under its parachutes
hopefully all the way down
shortly after shoot deploy,
which is typically about 15
minutes before touchdown.
Once again the search and
recovery forces the Civil Air
Patrol that provides civil air
service support for the Russian
federation this he have about to
arrive in the town of
Dzhezkazgan.
They will then board Russian MI8
helicopters, there are 14
helicopters in play for
tonight's landing.
A 12 prime helicopters and two
in reserve.
Two of those helicopters are
actually at the airport in
Baikonur at the launch site,
they would be dispatched to the
plastic landing site in the
unlikely event of a malfunction
on the soyuz that would result
in a shortfall landing short of
the prime landing site that you
see on this map.
There are 10 other helicopters
that are at the Dzhezkazgan
airport two of which will fly
between the midpoint between the
ballistic site and prime landing
site and 10 other helicopters
will be dispatch today the prime
landing site again, flop in
sequential fashion one by one
and arrive at the landing site
in a racetrack pattern, awaiting
the touchdown of the soyuz at
the landing site after which
they will land one by one.
The first series of helicopters
will be with the technical
personnel.
Who will see to the saving of
the spacecraft and is the
initial extraction of crew.
Other support helicopter
personnel including NASA
personnel, will be arriving whip
minutes thereafter, also at the
landing site, to welcome home
the crew.
And recover some of the cargo
samples that are being returned
in the soyuz spacecraft this
morning.
Now just 16 minutes away from
the initiation of the undocking
command to begin the opening of
the hooks, holding the soyuz in
place.
Taillight then will fly free.
And begin the journey home for
Nick Hague, alexey Ovchinin, and
Hazzaa Ali Almansoori.
There are two other soyuz
vehicles that are docked to the
international space station.
To provide the life boat support
if you will for the other six
crew members.
Left behind as part of the
expedition 61 crew, technically
expedition 61 begins at the
moment of undocking just about
16 1/2 minutes from now under
the command of European space
Agency astronaut luck Luca
Parmitano who Tack over command
in the command ceremony from off
going expedition 60 commander
alexey Ovchinin.
The soyuz MS-13 spacecraft is
docked to the space-facing side
of the Russian segment of the
international space station.
The soyuz MS4615 spacecraft that
was launched last week was with
Russian Astro notice Almansoori
and American as know that.
Is docked to the service mom
all.
>> Just to run down the key
times that lie adhere in the
timeline that will lead to the
landing.
Of the ex-pacific 60 true and
Hazzaa Ali Almansoori a few
hours from now, once again we
are standing by for the
undocking command.
On the earth facing side of the
Russian segment of the station,
that command to be issued just
13 minutes from now.
Ninety-second later at
2:37:30 a.m. central time.
We'll have physical separation,,
springs on both side.
Docking interface will push off
against one another and enabling
the soyuz MS-12 spacecraft to
fly free from the international
space station.
Three minutes later, an
eight-second automated burn of
the soyuz engines will be
initiated to increase an opening
rate for the soyuz away from the
space station.
To arrive for the deorbit burn
taking place at 50:16 a.m.
central time.
A 4:42 retro grade firing that
will slow the soyuz down by
128 meters per second enable
taillight to drop out of orbit
for its high-speed entry back in
to the earth's atmosphere.
The pyrotechnic separation of
the three sections of the soyuz
vehicle, the mom you would
separation.
That will be computer commanded
at 5:34:12 a.m. central time
140 kilometers above the
everything, atmospheric entry
the crew reaching the first
traces of the earth's atmosphere
is scheduled at 5:37:03 a.m.
central time.
61.9 miles above the earth.
At that point, Hazzaa, Ovchinin,
and Almansoori will feel the
first tug of earth's gravities
against their bodies.
For Hague and Ovchinin their
first sensation of gravity in 20
of three days and eight days for
Almansoori.
Within a minute and a half after
that, they will enter in to the
plasma regime where basically a
fireball will buildup around the
soyuz spacecraft.
That heat building up to
2500 degrees Fahrenheit will be
a plated by the soyuz heat
shield entry in to the plasma
regime, scheduled at
5:38:34 a.m. central time.
And will last for about four nab
1/2 minutes, follow their exit
from that plasma regime as they
go lower and lower in the
earth's atmosphere the command
to open up the parachutes at
6.6 miles above the landing
site.
Will be initiated at
5:45:24 a.m. central time.
And from that point on, we'll be
poised to see the vehicle under
the chutes if we are lucky.
And landing scheduled again at
5:59:45 a.m. central time.
Which will be 4:59:45
seconds p.m. Kazakhstan time at
the landing site.
>> Do you see the video?
Not yet.
>> 3000.
We are ready to send E2 command.
Copy.
And we confirm.
Please send E2 command at 10300
off using your control panel.
Copy.
>> Less than 9 1/2 minutes now
until the undocking command that
initiates the opening of the
hooks holding the soyuz MS12 in
place at the Rassvet mom you
would.
Severing in great shape.
All system are operating
normally.
Nick Hague in the left seed of
the descent module of the soyuz.
Along with alexey Ovchinin
having Marched March 14th in
the home stretch of the a
203-day mission Stan spanning
86.1 million miles, Hazzaa Ali
Almansoori of the united Arab
Emirates an F-16 fighter pilot
who launched last week on the
MS-15 spacecraft completing
eight days in space, a mission
of 3.3 million miles to become
the first Emrati citizen to fly
some space.
All the search and recovery
forces attorney el and the NASA
team along with them have
arrived at the air field in
Dzhezkazgan.
Which is the interim point top
landing operations.
The staging city for the
landing.
And be deployed sequentially in
the helicopters about the time
of the deorbit burn.
>> One minute remaining prior to
command execution.
Yes, we confirm.
>> Command has been sent.
Send.
Copy.
The international space station
is flying 260 miles over the
southern border of Russia, near
the Chinese border at the
moment.
5 1/2 minutes until the
undocking command, Hague,
Ovchinin, and Almansoori all set
to begin the ride away from the
station to say safe distance and
initiate of a deorbit burn at
5:06 a.m. central time that
begins the ride home from the
atmosphere to a landing site
91 miles to the southeast of the
town of Dzhezkazgan Kazakhstan.
Five minutes until the undocking
commands to open up the hooks
holding the Rassvet module.
>> So there is an inhibit
instruction.
You can start step three alexey.
For preparation.
Copy.
I am sending the seven command.
The seven is sent.
Copy.
S17 command is being sent and
activating satellite.
Copy.
And also 5AGC01.
That's correct.
>> Inside four minutes now until
the undocking commands is
issued.
International space station
flying over central China.
>> Copy.
>> That two is not eliminated at
16 indicators is not eliminated.
103500-7 will be sent.
Prepleis prepare this command.
And we confirm that the command
should be sent at 103500.
Copy.
We got the confirmation from you
of the time when this should be
sent.
The command is ready.
>> We are receiving the image in
Moscow, copy.
>> Coming up on the 2 1/2 minute
mark until the initiation of the
undocking command, as to what
has been their orbital home
since March 15th.
Had Ali Almansoori wrapping up
eight days under an
intergovernmental agreement.
Between united Arab Emirates and
Roscosmos.
Again, at the moment of
undocking, expedition 61 will
formally begin under the command
of European space agency
astronaut Luca Parmitano.
>> One minute now until the
undoing command is issues.
>> The seven command is sent at
103500.
The 1115 --
>> The international space
station now in free drift.
No thruster firings that would
prohibit the undocking from the
soyuz from the Rassvet module.
>> We are ready to send the 17
command.
Copy.
It is page 42.
>> It's a go.
So send the 17 command at
103600.
Copy.
>> 10 seconds away from the
initiation of the undocking
command to open the hooks
holding the soyuz in place at
the Rassvet module.
>> The command is sent at
103600.
>> And the unocking command is
now being issued.
>> Not eliminated, at 11 is
eliminated.
We are going to page 80.
>> The hooks are jibing open.
Less than a minute away from
physical separation.
>> The contact indicator is not
eliminated at 103705.
Copy.
>> Standing by for undocking.
>> We have undocking.
The soyuz MS-12 now flying free
from the international space
station undocking confirmed at
2:37:30 a.m. central time.
As the space station flew over
southeast Mongolia.
>> We can see the docking
interface, it is clean, no
foreign objects it are found
there.
>> The first lap on the way home
for Nick Hague, alexey Ovchinin
and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori
undoing occurring on time at
2:37:30 a.m. central time.
>> Two minutes away from the
separation burn an eight-second
automated firing of the soyuz en
I think to initiate a more
aggressive opening rate from the
international space station.
>> Hague, Ovchinin, and
Almansoori flying free from the
international space station,
which is now under the command
of Luca Parmitano of the
European space agency expedition
61 has officially begun.
>> The soyuz and the
international space station
flying over the far eastern
corner of Russia.
>> Copy.
Soyuz separation burn underway,
again an eight-second burn to
increase the opening rate.
And the separation burn is
complete.
One, two, and three.
Not eliminated and
accelerometer.
Messages, copy go to payment 85.
Copy page 85.
You can have the right one, I
will have the left one.
Copy.
In one, and two.
I am sending E1 command.
E1 is sent.
I have one and two.
Ago.
11 command, alexey, copy.
I am sending A11 command.
A11 is sent.
A13 is not eliminated.
Copy.
I am ready to deactivate the
docking internal transfer
system, copy, it's a go.
It is not activated anymore.
The 11 is not eliminated LED not
eliminated.
17 is not eliminated.
F11 not eliminated.
So I am sending S18 command
deaccuracy Ty straight the
headlight.
It's a go, copy.
In mark.
Big time 105235 critical 101,
pressure 176 in number two.
176 propellant 517.
Copy.
And with her your permission, we
are ready to deactivate the mode
and to send the four command.
Not to display it yet.
Let's go to the display.
In four and look at the descent
data.
Copy.
Going to in full display.
Servicing systems.
Is play open, yes, we can see
that on our screens, thank you.
We have already recorded you can
see here.
The data that we have on the
display is the data that we have
recorded in the procedures.
>> Yes, you can do that.
>> It's been seven minutes since
the soyuz MS-12 that you can see
in this view separated from the
Rassvet module of the
international space station,
alexey Ovchinin in the center
seat of the center section of
the soyuz and the descent module
flanked to his live by board
engineering number one NASA
astronaut Nick Hague and on his
right by visiting astronaut
Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the
united Arum Emirates.
Ovchinin is entering data in to
the onboard computer basically
descent parameters precursor
from the deorbit burn coming up
that will slow the soyuz down by
128 meters per second, a burn of
4:42 in duration, that will
enable the soyuz to drop out of
orbit to begin its entry back in
to the earth's atmosphere and a
slapping just second before
6:00 a.m. central time,
7:00 a.m. eastern time to be
precise the current landing time
is forecast to be 5:59:45 a.m.
central time, 6:59:40 a.m.
eastern time.
Just a few second before
5:00 p.m. at the landing site in
Kazakhstan.
47.20 degrees north latitude,
69.36 degrees east longitude.
That would put the landing site
about 92 Mills to the south ice
of the 10 of Dzhezkazgan.
>> We confirm it is correct. We
confirm that the data is correct
as well from the ground, come I,
Moscow.
>> Know the descent has
appeared, would you please
confirm.
I didn't copy.
We entered the defense settings
that you should have received
descent, yes, confirm, we have
that, copy.
>> If you have completed the
comparing data on the input
display now you can deactivate
the mode.
Copy.
We have completed and I am
deactivating television.
Deactivated and also relay
should be deactivated.
I have --
>> Flying 260 miles over the
northwest Pacific south of the
bearing seeing the soyuz MS-12
spacecraft continues to fly way
from the international space
station, Nick Hague, alexei
Ovchinin and alley Almansoori
having boarded the vehicle
several hours ago, bidding
farewell to their six crewmates
who remain on station as the
newly comprised expedition 61
crews under the command of Luca
Parmitano.
The undocking of the soyuz from
the Rassvet module of the
international space station
occurring on time, at 2:37 a.m.
central time.
3:37 a.m. eastern time.
Until a celebration burn to
increase the opening rate of the
station -- of the soyuz away
from the international space
station.
Eventually the soyuz will be in
a position some 62 miles away
from the station.
Well away from the complex, for
a four minute 42 seconds deorbit
burn retro great firing of the
main engine to slow the soyuz
down by 128 meters per second,
allowing it to drop out of orbit
to its descent back in to the
earth's atmosphere and a landing
at 55:94:52 a.m. central time.
650:90:45 he's time just to the
southeast of the town of
Dzhezkazgan.
>> Guys, this is Alexander, you
know, it was beautiful the
separation, the vehicle from the
station.
>> Alexander are you missing us
already?
>> Yes, we were waving to you.
We are also waving at you using
our feet and our hands.
>> Well, you know, we wish you
all the very best on the
station.
Thank you, guides and we wish
you success.
Thank you.
>> That final exchange between
soyuz commander alexey Ovchinin
aboard the free-flying soyuz
MS-12 spacecraft and his
colleagues on the international
space station who he bid
farewell to along with Nick
Hague and Hazzaa Ali Almansoori
a few hours ago, soyuz now
poised for its return to earth
having undocked at 2:37 a.m.
central time.
Over southeast Mongolia now the
stage is set for the deorbit
burn and the return to earth of
the three competition 60 crew
members with landing scheduled a
few circumstance before
6:00 a.m. central time 7:00 a.m.
eastern type.
With that, we'll wrap up our
undocking coverage.
And we'll be back on the air in
about an hour and a half from
now at 4:30 a.m. central time
for our deorbit and landing
coverage on NASA television.
As Hague, Ovchinin, and
Almansoori begin the journey
home to complete for Hague and
Ovchinin 203 days in space, for
Almansoori 8 days in space.
We'll be back at 4:30 central
time, 5:30 a.m. eastern time
with all of the coverage for
deorbit and landing.
Until then, have a good morning,
this is mission control Houston.
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