>> GOOD EVENING.
WELCOME BACK TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM THE MS-16
SOYUZ IS DOCKED TO THE RUSSIAN
POISK MODULE TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION BUT
NOT FOR LONG.
HERE THE TEAM IS PREPARING FOR
UNDOCKING OF THE SOYUZ MS-16 AND
THE THREE CREWMEMBERS IT'S
CARRYING INSIDE.
6:00, THAT IS STILL A FEW
MINUTES A WAY.
THAT IS COMING UP AT
6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
I AM BRANDI DEAN.
NASA EXPEDITION 63 COMMANDER
CHRIS CASSIDY AS WELL AS ANATOLY
IVANISHIN AND IVAN VAGNER, BOTH
OF RUSSIAN COSMOS CLOSED WITH
THE REST OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION AT 3:24P.M.
CENTRAL SINCE THEN THE STATION
MANEUVERED INTO UNDOCKING
ATTITUDE THAN THE CREW HAS BEEN
WORKING THROUGH THE LAST LEAK
CHECKS, GETTING INTO THEIR
SO-CALLED SPACESUITS TO PREPARE
FOR LANDING AND WORK THROUGH THE
OTHER ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE TO
HAPPEN BEFORE TODAY'S UNDOCKING
DESPITE A SLIGHT DERAIL IN HATCH
CLOSING WHILE THE CREW DID
TROUBLESHOOTING WITH A VIDEO
CAMERA, ALL THE WORK SINCE THEN
HAS GONE SMOOTHLY AND NOW
STANDING BY FOR THE SOYUZ
UNDOCKING SCHEDULED FOR
6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL TIME,
COMING UP IN JUST 31 MINUTES.
THAT UNDOCKING WILL BE FOLLOWED
BY THE DEORBIT BURN AT 9:00 P.M.
WHICH WILL PUT THEM ON COURSE
FOR LANDING SOUTHEAST OF
KAZAKHSTAN AT 9:55P.M. CENTRAL
TIME TODAY.
THAT IS GOING TO WRAP UP A
196-DAY STAY AT THE SPACE
STATION.
AND MARK TRANSITION FROM
EXPEDITION 63 TO 64.
AS EXPEDITION 63 COMMANDER CHRIS
CASSIDY TRANSFERRED AUTHORITY TO
EXPEDITION 64 COMMANDER SERGEY
CEREMONIAL ON TUESDAY BUT THAT
WON'T BE OFFICIAL UNTIL THEY
UNDOCK.
IT IS STILL EXPEDITION 63 UNTIL
THE SOYUZ MS-16 HAS LEFT THE
SPACE STATION AND IT WAS A VERY
BUSY AND HISTORIC MISSION, OVER
THE COURSE OF THOSE 196 DAYS,
THE CREW WELCOMED FIVE VISITING
VEHICLES INCLUDING THE FIRST
COMMERCIAL VEHICLE TO DELIVER
CREWMEMBERS TO THE SPACE
STATION, THE SPACEX DRAGON WITH
NASA ASTRONAUTS BOB BEHNKEN AND
BOB HURLEY ONBOARD AND JOINED
CASSIDY, IVANISHIN AND VAGNER
FOR TWO MONTHS DURING THE FLIGHT
TEST OF SPACECRAFT WHICH
LAUNCHED ON MAY30th AND
LANDED ON AUGUST SECOND, OTHER
THAN THE THREE HAVE BEEN ON
THEIR OWN EXCEPT FOR ABOUT A
WEEK THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE
STAY IN SPACE BEFORE THEY
RELIEVED THE EXPEDITION 62
CREWMEMBERS, ANDREW MORGAN AND
JESSICA MEIR AND OLEG SKRIPOCHKA
AND MADE UP OF SERGEY RYZHIKOV
IN ADDITION TO THE SPACECRAFT
CARRYING PEOPLE ONBOARD THE
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF A
NUMBER OF CARGO VEHICLES AS WELL
AND ON HAND TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO
NORTHRUP GRUMMAN CYGNUS 13 AND
AGREED THE REPLACEMENTS PROGRESS
13 AND PRESENT FOR THE ARRIVAL
AND DEPARTURE OF THE JAPAN
AEROSPACE EXPLORATION VEHICLES
HTV, HTV VEHICLE, NUMBER NINE.
AMIDST THE TRAFFIC, THE CREW
MANAGED TO GET A GREAT DEAL OF
WORK DONE.
WHILE THE CREW DRAGON WAS AT THE
SPACE STATION, CASSIDY CONDUCTED
FOUR SPACEWALKS WITH BOB BEHNKEN
SPENDING 24 HOURS AND 27 MINUTES
OUT IN THAT VACUUM OF SPACE
WHILE THE TWO REPLACED AGING
NICKEL-HYDROGEN BATTERIES WITH
NEW LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES.
THAT BROUGHT CASSIDY'S
SPACEWALKING TOTAL TO 54 HOURS
AND 51 MINUTES OVER TEN
SPACEWALKS THAT SPANNED HIS
THREE MISSIONS, HE IS TIED FOR
MOST SPACEWALKS BY U.S.
ASTRONAUTS AND IS NINTH ON THE
ALL-TIME LIST OF TIME SPENT
SPACEWALKING.
CASSIDY ALSO WORKED ON A NUMBER
OF SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS DURING
THE TIME.
JUST TO NAME A FEW, HE HELPED TO
INVESTIGATE CANCER THERAPIES
USING MICROGRAVITY AS PART OF
THE ON COAST LIFTER EXPERIMENT
AND CONTRIBUTED TO RESEARCH ON
WATER FLOW AS PART OF THE
DROPLET FORMATION STUDY, AND
WORKED WITH CUBE-SHAPED
FREE-FLYING ROBOTS TO TEST OUT
THE USE OF ASTRONAUT ASSISTANT
FOR ROUTINE DUTIES.
WITH THE LANDING COMING UP AT
9:55P.M. CENTRAL TODAY, CASSIDY
WILL HAVE SPENT A TOTAL OF 378
DAYS IN SPACE OVER THE THREE
SPACE MISSIONS PUTTING HIM AT
FIFTH PLACE ON THE LIST OF MOST
TIME SPENT IN SPACE BY A U.S.
ASTRONAUT.
AND JUST A REMINDER FOR THOSE
FOLLOWING ALONG AT HOME,
WE WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER SOME
QUESTIONS OVER THE COURSE OF
COVERAGE TODAY.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT
EXPEDITION 63 UNDOCKING AND
LANDING, YOU CAN SEND IT TO US
ON SOCIAL MEDIA USING THE
HASHTAG ASK NASA AND TRY TO
ANSWER A FEW OF THOSE OVER THE
COURSE OF THE NIGHT, SO AGAIN,
GO AHEAD, START SENDING THOSE TO
US AND WE'LL BE WATCHING FOR
THEM.
HERE IN THE FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM,
CHRIS EDELMAN IS LEADING THE
TEAM WITH DAVE BESIDE HIM
MANNING THE CAPCOM CONSULTANT
TEAM HERE IS GETTING READY TO
PERFORM THE UNDOCKING AND
ENSURING THEY ARE READY TO
SUPPORT FROM HERE IN HOUSTON.
AND IN KAZAKHSTAN, A NUMBER OF
OFFICIALS AND VEHICLES ARE
STANDING BY IN PREPARATION FOR
LANDING, A TOTAL OF 12 MI8
HELICOPTERS WILL BE DEPLOYED FOR
SOYUZ LANDINGS TO VARIOUS AREAS
TO AWAIT TOUCHDOWN.
EIGHT ARE AT THE EXPECTED
LANDING SITE SOUTHEAST, TWO MORE
WILL BE READY 250MILES AWAY IN
AN AREA WHERE TOUCHDOWN WOULD
OCCUR IF BALLISTIC ENTRY WOULD
OCCUR AND FINAL TWO HELICOPTERS
WILL GO MIDWAY BETWEEN THE TWO
AND NOT EXPECTING A BALLISTIC
ENTRY AS ALWAYS, WE WILL BE
PREPARED FOR ONE.
ALSO DEPLOYED FOR LANDING SIX
ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLE AND THREE
AIRPLANES THAT SERVE AS FLYING
COMMAND CENTER WILL HAVE DIRECT
COMMUNICATION WITH THE CREW AND
RELAY THOSE COMMUNICATIONS BACK
TO THE FLIGHT CONTROL TEAM
OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
THE WHOLE TEAM SHOULD HAVE GOOD
WEATHER FOR ALL THE ACTIVITIES.
THE WEATHER FORECAST IS FOR
TEMPERATURES AROUND 345DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT AND A FEW CLOUDS AT
5,000FEET SCATTERED CLOUDS AT
20,000FEET AND WINDS OUT OF THE
WEST AT 14 KNOTS.
VISIBILITY SHOULD BE ABOUT SIX
MILES OR MORE AT THE LANDING
SITE BETWEEN THE TIME SOYUZ
ARRIVED SCHEDULED FOR 9:55P.M.
CENTRAL TIME, SO NOT A BAD DAY
AS TEMPERATURES GO IN KAZAKHSTAN
IN THE FALL.
AS USUAL, THE LANDING TEAM WILL
QUICKLY ERECT AT THE MEDICAL
SITE SO THE CREW CAN WORK
THROUGH THE REGULAR POST LANDING
CHECKOUTS BEFORE BOARDING
HELICOPTERS WHERE THEY WILL GET
ON AIRPLANES TO TAKE THEM HOME.
WRAP UP OF EXPEDITION 63 BEGAN
ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON WHEN
EXPEDITION 63 COMMANDER CHRIS
CASSIDY HANDED AUTHORITY FOR THE
SPACE STATION OVER CEREMONIALLY
TO EXPEDITION 64 COMMANDER
SERGEY RYZHIKOV AND WILL BECOME
OFFICIAL AND UNDOCKED FROM THE
SPACE STATION IN 24 MINUTES BUT
IN THE MEANTIME, LET'S TAKE A
LOOK BACK AT THE CHANGE OF
COMMAND CEREMONY.
>> WELCOME ABOARD TO EXPEDITION
63 TO 64 CREW CHANGE OF COMMAND
I AM NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS
CASSIDY HERE WITH ALL SIX OF US,
IT IS AN HONOR TO BE WITH US,
THIS EVENT WITH YOU GUYS RIGHT
NOW.
YOU KNOW, EXPEDITION 63 HAS GONE
BY SUPER FAST.
NOW WE ARE RETURNING TO EARTH
AND THE FELLOW CREW MATES HERE
HAD TO TRAIN THROUGH THE SIX
MONTHS.
OUR TIME ONBOARD HAS BEEN VERY
INTERESTING.
WE HAD SOME TIME AS THREE-PERSON
CREW, WE HAD SOME TIME AS A
SIX-PERSON CREW, BOTH AT THE
BEGINNING WITH DREW AND JESSICA
AND OLEG, AND NOW, WITH SERGEY,
SERGEY, AND KATE.
IN THE MIDDLE, WE HAD A TIME AS
FIVE-PERSON CREW WITH BOB AND
DOUG AND WE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF
WELCOMING THE SPACEX DEMO
MISSION ONBOARD THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
SPRINKLE IN THERE SOME
SPACEWALKS AND SOME PROGRESS
CARGO VEHICLES AND AMERICAN
CARGO VEHICLES, AND SOME CRAZY
SITUATIONS WITH THE SPACE
STATION SYSTEMS, IT HAS BEEN AN
INCREDIBLE SIX MONTHS OF OUR
LIVES, BUT EXPERIENCES ARE
NOTHING WITHOUT THE PEOPLE THAT
YOU ENJOY THOSE EXPERIENCES
WITH, AND I MUST SAY, IT HAS
BEEN REALLY AN HONOR TO BE WITH
MY FRIEND ANATOLY AND IVAN.
I COULD HAVE NOT ASKED FOR
BETTER TEAM OF PEOPLE TO BE HERE
WITH AND WHEN WE HAD JUST THE
CREW OF THREE, WE SPENT SEVERAL
COZY DAYS IN JUST THE SERVICE
MODULE AND IT WAS JUST A
WONDERFUL TIME.
AND I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT
OUT AS I MENTIONED TO DREW,
JESSICA, OLEG.
IT WAS GREAT TO BE WITH THEM.
BOB AND DOUG CERTAINLY TWO
WONDERFUL MONTHS THEN THIS WEEK
HAS GONE BY SUPER FAST WITH
SERGEY AND KATE.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF IT
WITH US.
AND SO, AND SO, WITH THAT, WE
HAVE THIS SMALL TRADITION WHERE
THERE IS A KEY TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WHICH DID NOT EXIST WHEN I WAS
HERE SEVEN YEARS AGO.
I DON'T REMEMBER THIS.
NOW WE HAVE THIS.
I THINK IT IS VERY COOL AND IT
SYMBOLIZES, IT SYMBOLIZES THE--
IT IS-- A TOOL THAT WE USE ON
THE RUSSIAN HATCHES TO OPEN AND
CLOSE THE HATCHES, AND IT IS A
VERY APPROPRIATE KEY OF THE
SPACE STATION, IT SYMBOLIZES THE
CAMARADERIE THAT WE HAVE BETWEEN
OUR SPACE AGENCIES AND SERGEY,
IT IS GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOR
THAT I PRESENT YOU THIS KEY AND
COMMAND OF THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
CONGRATULATIONS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
IT IS A GREAT DAY.
IT IS AN UNFORGETTABLE EVENT.
THIS KEY REMINDS ME OF THE TIME
WHEN I WAS A PILOT AND WE KEPT
THE KEY OF THE SKY AND NOW WE
KEEP KEY OF SPACE AND IT IS VERY
HONORABLE FOR ME.
WE ARE HAPPY TO JOIN OUR CREW
MATES AND BE REASONABLE OUR
MISSION IS GOING TO BE VERY MANY
ACTIVITIES AND WE ARE READY TO
CONTINUE TRADITION TO SHOW HOW
ONBOARD PEOPLE HAVE EXAMPLE HOW
WE WORK TOGETHER, HOW WE HELP
TOGETHER AND HOW WE LIKE TO BE
ON THE STATION.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO THE TEAM.
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO
WORKING WITH YOU IN THE UPCOMING
SIX MONTHS.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, HOUSTON.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND
OVER TO YOU.
>> STATION, HOUSTON, WE.
WE ARE THRILLED TODAY AS WE MARK
THE END OF AN AMAZING INCREMENT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND
ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
YOU HAVE SET AN IMPRESSIVE
EXAMPLE, THE WORK ETHIC AND THE
DEDICATION TO THE MISSION.
CHRIS, ANATOLY IVANISHIN, SAFE
TRAVELS HOME TOMORROW.
SERGEY, SERGEY, AND KATE, WE'RE
LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT
INCREMENT OF WORKING WITH YOU.
>> THAT AGAIN WAS VIDEO OF
YESTERDAY'S CHANGE OF COMMAND
CEREMONY.
NEXT STEP FOR THE CREW WAS THIS
AFTERNOON'S HATCH CLOSING WHICH
OCCURRED AT 3:24P.M. CENTRAL
TIME.
YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO SEE THAT IN
REAL-TIME BECAUSE OF A
MISCONFIGURATION ON ORBIT.
THE CREW WAS ABLE TO SEND DOWN
RECORDED VIDEO OF THOSE FINAL
MOMENTS TOGETHER WHICH YOU ARE
SEEING HERE.
KATE IS IN THE FOREGROUND
GETTING PHOTOS WITH CHRIS
CASSIDY FLOATING UP WITH ANATOLY
IVANISHIN IN THE HATCH.
AGAIN, THIS IS RECORDED VIDEO
FROM JUST AROUND 3:20P.M.
CENTRAL TIME.
YOU CAN SEE THE HATCH BEING
CLOSED.
AGAIN, THAT OCCURRED AT
3:24P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
THAT IS THE SOYUZ HATCH THERE
THAT YOU SEE CLOSING.
THE NEXT STEP WAS ALSO TO CLOSE
THE SPACE STATION'S SIDE OF THE
HATCH SO WHEN THE SOYUZ MOVED
AWAY A SPACE STATION WILL BE
PROTECTED.
IT OCCURRED A COUPLE OF MINUTES
LATER AT 3:26P.M. CENTRAL.
THAT IS THE NEW SPACE STATION
COMMANDER CLOSE TO SPACE
STATION'S SIDE OF THE HATCH THAT
IS SERGEY SVERCHKOV.
IT TOOK PLACE AT 3:26 AND THAT
WAS SOME RECORDED VIDEO OF THOSE
ACTIVITIES WE WERE ABLE TO SEE
IN REAL-TIME.
THAT ACTIVITY SET THE STAGE FOR
EXPEDITION 64 CREWMEMBERS NASA'S
KATE RUBINS AND SERGEY RYZHIKOV
AND SERGEY SVERCHKOV.
NEXT STEP ON THE JOURNEY WILL BE
UNDOCKING.
AGAIN, THAT IS COMING UP AT
6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL TIME JUST
ABOUT 14 MINUTES AWAY NOW.
ONCE ARRIVED,
SOYUZ COMMANDER ANATOLY
IVANISHIN WILL SEND A COMMAND TO
OPEN THE HATCH BETWEEN THE POISK
MINI RESEARCH MODULE TO WHERE IT
HAS BEEN DOCKED AT THE SPACE
STATION SINCE APRIL.
ONCE THE TWO VEHICLES ARE
DISCONNECTED THE SOYUZ THRUSTERS
WILL AUTOMATICALLY FIRE AND BACK
THE SPACECRAFT AWAY FROM THE
POISK AT A SPEED OF OVER A
QUARTER MILE PER HOUR WITHIN
THREE MINUTES OF UNDOCKING THE
SPACE SOYUZ WILL BE 50FEET AWAY
FROM THE SPACE STATION AND WHICH
POINT MISSION WILL BE ABLE TO
INDUCT THE FIRST SEPARATION BURN
FIRING THE JETS FOR ABOUT EIGHT
SECONDS TO BEGIN MOVING AWAY
FROM THE SPACE STATION AT A RATE
OF ABOUT 1.2MILES PER HOUR.
YOU CAN SEE GRAPHIC HERE OF HOW
THAT WILL LOOK.
WHEN IT IS ALMOST 200FEET AWAY,
IN ABOUT 4.5 MINUTES AFTER
UNDOCKING THE ENGINE FIRES AGAIN
FOR 15 SECONDS AND SPEEDING THE
SPACECRAFT UP TO 3.5MILES PER
HOUR.
THAT SHOULD GET TO A POINT OF
20MILES AWAY IN TIME FOR THE
SCHEDULED 9:00 DEORBIT BURN.
AS YOU CAN SEE AFTER THIS BURN,
THE DECENT MODULE WILL BE
SEPARATED FROM THE REST OF THE
SPACECRAFT FOR THE FINAL PORTION
OF THE LANDING.
PARACHUTES THEN SOFT LANDING
JETS WILL SLOW IT DOWN FOR ITS
LANDING IN KAZAKHSTAN AT
9:55P.M. CENTRAL.
SINCE BETWEEN THE SOYUZ AND THE
POISK MINI RESEARCH MODEL CLOSED
AT 3:24 P.M., THE CREW HAS BEEN
STEADILY MAKING THE WAY THROUGH
THE ECONOMIC LIST IN PREPARATION
FOR THE LANDING TONIGHT.
SOON AFTER THE HATCH CLOSURE WAS
CONFIRMED THEY TOOK THE SOYUZ
AND PIT ON ANTONYMOUS POWER AND
STARTED ENTERING THE SETTINGS
NEEDED FOR THE ORBIT SUCH AS THE
CHANGE IN SPEED FOR THE DEORBIT
BURN.
THEY DEPRESSURIZED THE VESTIBULE
BETWEEN THE SOYUZ AND POISK
MODULE AND PERFORMED A SERIES OF
LEAK CHECKS THEN THEY GOT
THEMSELVES READY BY GETTING INTO
THE CIRCLE SPACESUITS THAT THEY
WILL BE WEARING DURING THE
JOURNEY HOME.
THEY ARE READY TO MOVE INTO THE
MODULE OF THE SOYUZ WHICH
CONTAINS THE CUSTOM SEATS THAT
THEY USED DURING LAUNCH AND
LANDING AT THE TOUCH-UP AND HAS
ALL THE CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS
NECESSARY FOR FLIGHT AND BATTERY
FOR RE-ENTRY AND LANDING.
OF COURSE, IT ALSO HAS THE
PARACHUTE AND LOFT ARE SOFT
LANDING ROCKETS THAT WILL SLOW
THE SOYUZ BEFORE THE TOUCH JUN
AND THE ONLY PORTION THAT WILL
STAY WITH THE CREW ALL THE WAY
BACK TO EARTHED AND THE ORBITAL
MODULE DIRECTLY CONNECTED WILL
SEPARATE FROM THE DECENT MODULE
ABOUT 28 MINUTES AFTER THE
DEORBIT BURN WHEN THE SOYUZ IS
87MILES ABOVE THE EARTH.
WE ARE ABOUT MINUTES A TODAY'S
SCHEDULED 6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL
TIME UNDOCKING.
HERE THIS IS VIEW COMING FROM
THE SOYUZ LOOKING OUT AT THE
SPACE STATION AND IT IS WHERE
THE CREW WE ARE SEEING AS THEY
MOVE AWAY TRILLION THE SPACE
STATION.
AGAIN THAT UNDOCKING IS
SCHEDULED TO START IN ABOUT NINE
MINUTES NOW.
AT 6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL AND WILL
SET THE CREW ON THEIR WAY FOR
UNDOCKING FOR DEORBIT BURN AT
9:00 P.M. AND THEN LANDING AT
9:55P.M.
>> WE ARE ACTIVATING THE
TRANSMITTER.
>> COPY.
THE MAIN TRANSMITTER AND
ACTIVATING DISPLAY.
AND READY TO ISSUE THE E2
COMMAND.
CONFIRM AT 022500.
022500 COMMAND HAS BEEN SENT.
WE HAVE PRESSURIZATION.
COPY.
WE DON'T HAVE IT YET.
>> I PROMISED EARLIER WEE TRY TO
ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS OVER THE
COURSE OF THE NIGHT AND HAD FEW
PEOPLE USING THOSE IN USING THE
#ASKNASA.
CAN KEEP DOING SO ON SOCIAL
MEDIA IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION
ABOUT THE UNDOCKING AND LANDING.
WE WILL GO AHEAD AND TAKE A FEW
OF THE ONES THAT COME IN NOW.
THE FIRST ONE IS COMING FROM
KAITLYN WHO SKIING MEANS BETWEEN
HATCH CLOSURE AND UNDOCKING?
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS
THE CREW NEEDS TO DO ONCE THEY
GET THE HATCHES BETWEEN THE TWO
VEHICLES CLOSED.
ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS IS THEY
NEED TO GET TO THEIR SPACESUITS.
THE SO-CALLED LAUNCH AND IN TRY
SUIT THAT'S THE CREW WEARS BOTH
WHEN THEY LAUNCH INTO SPACE AND
FOR THEIR RETURN HOME AND FRONT
THEM IN THE CASE OF AN EMERGENCY
AND IS ONE OF THE KEY THINGS
THAT THEY HAVE TO DO BEFORE THEY
BEFORE THEY GET INTO THE SUITS
TO COME HOME.
ALSO, CONDUCT A NUMBER OF LEAK
CHECKS BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLE
TO MAKE SURE BOTH OF THEM ARE
GOING TO BE SAFE ONCE THEY
SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER.
AND THEN, THEN BEGIN ENTERING
SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT
THEY WILL NEED FOR TODAY'S
DEORBIT LEADING TO THAT
9:55P.M. LANDING.
NEXT UP WE HAVE JAKE WHO IS
ASKING HOW MANY G FORCES WOULD A
CREW FEEL ON REENTRY?
THAT IS ABOUT 5G FOR SOYUZ
LANDING.
IT CAN VARY A LITTLE BIT.
IN GENERAL, CREWMEMBERS SEEM TO
SAY THAT THE HARDER PART OF THE
ACTUAL TOUCHDOWN THAT'S A BEEN
COMPARED TO A SOFT CAR CRASH
EVEN WITH THE PARACHUTES IN SOFT
LANDING JETS SLOWING THE SOYUZ
DOWN.
IT CAN BE A BIT OF A WILD RIDE
ONCE THEY DO LAND ON THE STEPS
OF KAZAKHSTAN.
JONATHAN HAYLEY IS ASKING WITH
EXPEDITION 63 RETURNING TO EARTH
WHO IS GOING TO BE STAYING
BEHIND ON THE SPACE STATION.
THAT IS HE EXPEDITION 64 CREW.
THEY WILL BE ALONE THERE FOR A
COUPLE OF WEEKS AT LEAST THAT IS
NASA ASTRONAUT KATE RUBINS AS
WELL AS RUSH COSMOS SERGEY
RYZHIKOV AND SERGEY SVERCHKOV.
CREW ONE ARRIVES THE FOUR
ASTRONAUTS COMING UP ONBOARD THE
FIRST OPERATIONAL SPACEX CREW
DRAGON MISSION.
THEY ARE SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH IN
NOVEMBER.
AND THEY WILL BE BRING UP MIKE
HOPKINS, VICTOR GLOVER, SHANNON
WALKER AND SOICHI.
CAT IS ASKING IS THERE ANYTHING
SPECIFIC OR EXCITING THAT THE
SOYUZ IS BRINGING BACK TO HEART
FROM SPACE STATION.
THE MAIN THING THAT SOYUZ BRINGS
BACK TO EARTHS THE ASTRONAUTS
THEMSELVES IN.
THERE IS NOT AT ARE A WHOLE LOT
OF ROOM.
AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE TWO
MODULES THAT ACTUALLY WE WILL
SEE BACKING AWAY WILL SEPARATE
AND THE DECENT MODULE WILL
RETURN TO EARTH WITH THE
CREWMEMBERS INSIDE SO THERE IS
NOT MUCH ROOM FOR CARGO BUT THE
ASTRONAUTS DO PAIGE TO BRING
BACK A LITTLE BIT OF SCIENCE AND
RESEARCH IN PARTICULAR THEIR OWN
SCIENCE AND RESEARCH SINCE THEY
ARE THE MAIN GUINEA PIGS
ONBOARD.
THAT IS ONE OF THE FIRST THING
THAT'S THE TEAMS ON THE GROUND
WILL DO ONCE THE CREW IS SAFELY
OFF AND OUT THINK OF SOYUZ AND
PICK UP THOSE SCIENCE SAMPLES
MAKE SURE THEY GET SAFELY
RETURNED AND IF YOU FOLLOW CHRIS
CASSIDY, ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AT
ASTRO UNDER SCORE SEAL, YOU CAN
SEE PICTURE OF SOME OF THE
SCIENCE HE PERSONALLY COLLECTED
EARLIER TODAY.
THE FINAL QUESTION FROM NOW IS
FROM JASON ASKING WHEN THE NEXT,
SPACEX CREW DRAGON ARRIVE.
AS I MENTIONED THAT IS GOING TO
BE BRINGING UP MIKE HOPKINS,
VICTOR GLOVER AND SHANNON WALKER
AND SOICHI SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH
IN NOVEMBER AND WE'LL BE TAKING
A LOOK AT THAT MISSION AND
MAKING A FINAL CALL ON THE
LAUNCH DATE SOMETIME SOON.
>> AND THE TIME IS 02:30:30.
TRANSFER HATCH IS ARE CLOSED.
INDICATORS ARE ALSO ELIMINATED.
WE ARE A COUPLE OF MINCE A WAY
FROM UNDOCKING NOW.
I ISSUED THE COMMAND.
THE SOYUZ COMMANDER THERE
CONFIRMING HE SENT COMMAND TO
UNDOCK AND WILL STILL TAKE TWO
MINCE BEFORE THE UNDOCKING
ACTUALLY OCCURS.
02, 31, 41.
MECHANICAL CONNECTION IS NO
LONGER ILLUMINATED AT 023141.
THERE YOU SEE UNDOCKING RIGHT
OWN TIME AT 6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL
WHILE THEY ARE 263MILES ABOVE
RUSSIA.
EXPEDITION 63 CREW OFFICIALLY ON
THE WAY HOME NOW.
THEY RIDE OF AT THE SPACE
STATION ON APRIL9th AND
SPENT 196 DAYS LIVING AND
WORKING THERE GREETING THE FIRST
COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT LAUNCH TO
HUMANS INTO SPACE AND COMPLETING
ANOTHER LINK IN THE ALMOST
20-YEARLONG CHAIN OF THE
CONTINUOUS PRESENCE OF THE SPACE
STATION.
FROM THE CROSS HAIRS FROM THE
VIDEO 6:00 CAMERA ONBOARD THE
SOYUZ ITSELF AND LOOKING AT THAT
POISK MODULE AS IT GROWS FURTHER
AND FURTHER AWAY.
THIS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
SHORT DROP OUT OF VIDEO AS THE
SIGNAL WAS HANDED OVER FROM ONE
SATELLITE TO ANOTHER, BUT WE
SHOULD BE GETTING THAT BACK IN
JUST A MOMENT.
COMING UP IN JUST A MOMENT AT
THREE MINUTES EVER UNDOCKING WE
WILL HAVE THE FIRST SEPARATION
BURN.
THAT WILL BEGIN MOVING THE SOYUZ
FURTHER OUT FROM THE SPACE
STATION GET GETTING INTO A SAFE
DISTANCE.
THERE IS THE VIDEO BACK.
THIS AGAIN COMING THREE SOYUZ
ITSELF WHAT THE CREW SEES AS
THEY BACK THE SPACE STATION.
>> WE ARE STANDING BY FOR
ACTIVATION.
WE CONFIRM THE THRUSTERS.
THE FIRST SEPARATION BURN.
SOYUZ JETS FIRING AT JUST OVER A
MILE PER HOUR.
WE.
>> WE CONFIRM THE MANEUVER.
THE SIDE OF THE MANEUVER.
THE TEAM ON THE GROUND REPORTS
GOOD SEPARATION BURN.
SOYUZ MS-16 NOW MOVING AWAY FROM
THE SPACE STATION AT ABOUT
1.2MILES PER HOUR AND COMING UP
THE SECOND SEPARATION BURN.
>> ALL RIGHT.
THRUSTER FIRING TIME IS 15
SECONDS.
BURN IS 15 SECONDS.
>> SECOND SEPARATION BURN
LASTING, YOU HEARD THERE, 15
SECONDS.
THAT WILL SPEED THE SPACECRAFT
UP BY THREE AND A HALF MILES PER
HOUR.
NOT MOVING TOO FAST, BUT
CERTAINLY WILL BE COMING UP
LATER IN THEIR JOURNEY.
>> AND WE SAID THE COMMAND
UNINTELLIGIBLE.
HOW DO YOU COPY?
HOW DO YOU COP?
I U CAN SEE THE SOYUZ MOVING
THROUGHOUT THE SECOND BURN PUTS
THEM A SAFE DISTANCE AWAY FROM
THE SPACE STATION FORWARD TO THE
ULTIMATE DEORBIT BURN THAT WILL
DROP TO THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
AT 9:00 P.M. LANDING AT
9:55P.M. CENTRAL.
>> A1 COMMAND.
COMMAND.
>> I AM DEACTIVATE TAILING 0238.
>> I AM ACTIVATING THE
HEADLIGHTS.
DEACTIVATING.
I HAVE DEACTIVATED THE
HEADLIGHTS AND THE TRANSLATIONAL
HAND CONTROL IS IN TRANSPORT
POSITION.
>> EVERYTHING CONTINUING TO GO
SMOOTHLY AS THE SOYUZ MS-16
BACKS AWAY WITH CHRIS CASSIDY,
ANATOLY IVANISHIN AND IVAN
VAGNER IN TOW SETTING ON THE
FINAL SECTION OF THIS JOURNEY OF
THE MISSION, THE 196 DAYS IN
SPACE.
>> 171171.
DEACTIVATE.
>> WE ARE STANDING BY FOR YOU'RE
COMMENDATIONS, MOSCOW.
>> ANOTHER VIEW FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
CAMERAS OF THE SOYUZ GETTING
FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY.
THE WOE VEHICLES ARE NOW ABOUT
263MILES ABOVE THE SPECIFIC
OCEAN.
AS OF JAPAN AND JUST ABOUT TO
BEGIN HEADING SOUTHEAST ON THIS
ORBIT AROUND THE EARTHED.
>> WE ARE DEACTIVATING THE TV
SYSTEM.
EYE SENT THE COMMAND TO
DEACTIVATE THE TV SYSTEM AND
DISPLAY.
AFFIRMATIVE.
>> GUYS, WHAT WERE THE COM?
THERE IS SO MUCH INTERFERENCE.
>> OK.
WHERE ARE WE AT?
WE ARE MOVING ON TO PAGE 47.
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
>> STILL SEEING GOOD VIEWS OF
THE SOYUZ MOVING FURTHER AND
FURTHER AWAY FROM THE SPATIAL
STATION THESE COMING FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S
EXTERIOR CAMERAS SIGNED OF THE
SOYUZ MS-16 AND THE EXPEDITION
63 CREW NOW ON THE WAY BACK TO
EARTH FOR A LANDING THAT IS
SCHEDULED FOR 9:55P.M. CENTRAL
TIME TODAY.
AGAIN, THEY UNDOCKED AT
6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL SLOWLY
BACKING AWAY ARE THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NOW
WITH THE AIM OF GETTING FOR GOOD
SPOT FOR THOUGH DEORBIT BURN
THAT WILL BE TAKING PLACE AT
9:00 P.M.
[SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
SOYUZ MS-16 IS NOW SAFELY BACKED
AWAY ARE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION FOLLOWING THE
6:32:00P.M. CENTRAL UNDOCK AND
RIGHT NOW THE SPACE STATION
ITSELF IS MANEUVERING INTO THE
POST UNDOCKING ATTITUDE AND SO
AT THIS POINT, WE ARE GOING TO
TAKE A BREAK IN SOUR COVERAGE.
WE WILL BE BACK AT 8:30P.M.
CENTRAL TIME FOR THE SOYUZ'S
FIVE MINUTE AND 20 SECOND
DEORBIT BURN THAT IS SCHEDULED
FOR 9 P.M. CENTRAL TIME AND FROM
THAT POINT WE WILL STAY WITH YOU
UNTIL THE CREW LANDED AND OUT OF
THEIR VEHICLE.
AGAIN, THAT LANDING SCHEDULED
FOR 9:55P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
SO WE ARE HOPING THAT YOU WILL
BE BACK WITH US IN JUST ABOUT AN
HOUR AND 45 MINUTES FOR THE
CONTINUING COVERAGE IN THE SOYUZ
MS-16 LANDING TODAY AT 9:55P.M.
CENTRAL.
WE'LL SEE YOU BACK AT 8:30P.M.
FOR CONTINUING COVERAGE.
THIS IS MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON.