>> YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE AT THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
THIS IS THE VEHICLE THAT WILL
UNDOCK FROM THE COMPLEX ABOUT
FIVE HOURS FROM NOW, BRINGING
DOWN THE CURTAIN ON 12 DAYS OF
MOVIE MAKING AT THE STATION BY A
PAIR OF SPACE FLIGHT
PARTICIPANTS, AND THIS IS THE
VEHICLE THAT WILL CARRY A
VETERAN RUSSIAN COSMONAUT HOME
AFTER SIX MONTHS ON BOARD THE
ORBITAL OUTPOST.
THEY'RE SCHEDULED FOR A LANDING
ON THE DESERT FLOOR OF
KAZAKHSTAN TONIGHT AT 12:36 A.M.
TONIGHT, 10:36 A.M. IN
KAZAKHSTAN.
WE'LL DISCUSS THE UNDOCKING AND
ENTRY TIMELINE IN DETAIL IN A
MOMENT.
GOOD AFTERNOON FROM MISSION
CONTROL FROM HOUSTON.
IT IS A HOME COMING FOR OLEG
NOVITSKIY, YULIA PERESLID AND WE
WILL NOT BE ON THE AIR FOR THE
HATCH CLOSURE ITSELF.
WE WILL REPLAY THAT ACTIVITY,
HOWEVER, THIS EVENING, AS PART
OF THE SOYUZ UNDOCKING COVERAGE.
ABOUT 1.5 HOURS AGO, THE SOYUZ
WAS ACTIVATED BY NOVITSKIY,
COMING OFF OF SPACE STATION
POWER SOURCES, AND GOING TO
INTERNAL POWER FOR THE REMAINDER
OF ITS UNDOCKING AND POWERED
FLIGHT AWAY FROM THE STATION AND
THEN ULTIMATELY THE DEORBIT BURN
LATER THIS EVENING THAT WILL
BEGIN THE TRIP BACK INTO THE
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE FOR CENTRAL
LANDING IN KAZAKHSTAN.
>> PERESLID AND SHIPENKO
LAUNCHED ON A DIFFERENT VEHICLE,
SOYUZ 19, BACK ON OCTOBER 5,
WITH ANOTHER VETERAN COSMONAUT,
ANTON SHKAPLEROV.
SHKAPLEROV WILL REMAIN ON BOARD
THE SPACE STATION FOR THE NEXT
FIVE MONTHS, RETURNING WITH
PYOTR DUBROV IN LATE MARCH.
NOVITSKIY RETURNS TO EARTH
TONIGHT AFTER SPENDING 191 DAYS
IN SPACE, COVERING 80 MILLION
MILES.
WHEN HE LANDS, HE WILL HAVE
CHALKED UP 531 DAYS IN SPACE.
PERESLID AND SHIPENKO RACKED UP
5 MILLION MILES OVER THE EARTH
ON BOARD THE SPACE STATION.
-- FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
WITHIN 30 MINUTES, FLIGHT
CONTROLLERS REGAINED CONTROL OF
THE SPACE STATION, OBVIOUSLY NOW
IN A STABLE CONFIGURATION.
THE CREW WAS NEVER IN ANY
DANGER, FLIGHT CONTROLLERS
CONTINUING TO EVALUATE DATA,
NASA AND ROSCOSMOS COLLABORATING
TO CONTINUE TO DETERMINE THE
CAUSE.
BUT EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER FOR
THE DEPARTURE OF NOVITSKIY,
PERESLID, AND SHIPENKO.
>> AT THE TIME OF THE UNDOCKING
THAT'S SCHEDULED FOR 9:14
EASTERN TIME, 8:14 P.M. CENTRAL
TIME, THAT WILL MARK THE END OF
EXPEDITION 65 AND MARK THE START
OF EXPEDITION 66, HEADED BY
C
THIS SHOWS THE ON COMING THREE
MEMBERS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH FROM
THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, AND
VANDE HEI AND DUBROV HEADED FOR
355 DAYS IN SPACE BEFORE THEY'RE
HEADED HOME WITH SHKAPLEROV.
AT THIS HOUR, THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION IS FLYING 358
STATUTE MILES OVER THE EARTH
OVER THE PACIFIC OCEAN, COMING
INTO AN ORBITAL SUNRISE OVER THE
VEHICLE.
A GOOD VIEW THERE OF THE SOYUZ
MS-18 SPACECRAFT, WHICH IS THE
RIDE HOME FOR NOVITSKIY,
PERESILD, AND SHIPENKO TODAY.
THIS VEHICLE RELOCATED A COUPLE
OF WEEKS AGO FROM ONE DOCKING
PORT TO NAUKA TO PREPARE FOR THE
ARRIVAL OF THE SOYUZ MS-19 THAT
BROUGHT PERESILD, SHIPENKO, AND
SHKAPLEROV UP TO THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, THE
NAUKA THE NEWEST AND LARGEST
PORT ON SPACE STATION.
AGAIN, AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER,
PERESILD AND SHIPENKO WILL BE
FIRST TO BOARD THE SOYUZ TO
BEGIN THE PROCESS OF SUITING UP,
ASSISTED BY NOVITSKIY, WHO WILL
JOIN THEM A BIT LATER PRIOR TO
THE CLOSING OF THE HATCH TO THE
SOYUZ ITSELF.
THE TIMELINE FOR TONIGHT'S
ACTIVITIES CALLS FOR THE
UNDOCKING COMMAND TO BE ISSUED
AT 8:12.30 CENTRAL TIME, AT
WHICH POINT SPRINGS WILL PUSH
THE VEHICLE AWAY FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, TO
A SAFE DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE
VEHICLE, WITH A 4:39 RETROGRADE
FIRING OF THE SOYUZ ENGINE TO
SLOW THE VEHICLE DOWN TO 128
METERS PER SECOND TO ALLOW THE
DESCENT BACK INTO THE EARTH'S
ATMOSPHERE.
ABOUT 29 MINUTES AFTER THE
DEORBIT BURN, THE PYROTECHNIC
SEPARATION WILL OCCUR AS THE TOP
PORTION AND THE REAR SECTION,
THEY WILL SEPARATE FROM THE
CENTER SECTION, WHICH IS THE
DESCENT MODULE, IN WHICH THE
CREW WILL BE STRAPPED IN, IN THE
CENTER WILL BE NOVITSKIY, THE
FLIGHT COMMANDER, AND TO HIS
LEFT WILL BE SHIPENKO, AND TO
HIS RIGHT, PERESILD.
THE PARACHUTES WILL BE COMMANDED
TO OPEN AT 11:21.28 SECONDS P.M.
CENTRAL TIME, 11:21.28 SECONDS
P.M. CENTRAL TIME, AND FROM THAT
TIME, IT TAKES ABOUT 15 MINUTES
UNDER THE CHUTES FOR SOYUZ TO
DESCEND UNDER THE CHUTES, WITH
LANDING SCHEDULED ABOUT 11:36
CENTRAL TIME.
RUSSIAN SEARCH AND RECOVERY
FORCES ARE, IN THE EARLY MORNING
HOURS OF SUNDAY MORNING, WHERE
THEY ARE IN THE STAGING CITY FOR
TONIGHT'S OPERATIONS, WHICH HAS
BEEN THE CASE FOR ALMOST ALL OF
THE SOYUZ LANDINGS THAT WE'VE
BROUGHT YOU OVERALL THESE YEARS,
AND THERE ARE HELICOPTERS IN
KARAGANDA, THE LANDING SCHEDULED
JUST BEFORE 11:36 P.M. CENTRAL
TIME TONIGHT AT A SITE 92 MILES
TO THE SOUTHEAST OF THE TOWN OF
JEZKAZGAN.
NOVITSKIY, AFTER 191 DAYS IN
SPACE, PERESILD AND SHIPENKO,
AFTER 17 DAYS IN SPACE, THEY'LL
BE BROUGHT TO A NEARBY MEDICAL
TENT, TO GET OUT OF THEIR SPACE
SUITS AND INTO MORE COMFORTABLE
CLOTHING, WHERE AN AIRCRAFT WILL
BE STAND BY TO TAKE THEM BACK TO
THEIR TRAINING BASE IN STAR
CITY, RUSSIA, OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW.
THE UNDOCKING ITSELF, THE
COMMAND SCHEDULED FOR ABOUT 4:42
FROM NOW, WITH PHYSICAL
SEPARATION EXPECTED ABOUT 4:44
MINUTES FROM NOW, WITH THE
UNDOCKING SCHEDULED FOR ABOUT
9:14 P.M. EASTERN TIME, 8:14
P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
IT IS A BUSY TIME OF MOVEMENT
FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION.
THE PROGRESS 78 CARGO CRAFT THAT
IS DOCKED TO THE POISK SIDE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WILL UNDOCK ITSELF AT 6:42 P.M.
CENTRAL TIME ON WEDNESDAY
EVENING.
IT WILL FLY OFF TO A DISTANCE OF
ABOUT 100 OR SO MILES AWAY FROM
THE STATION AND THEN APPROACH
THE STATION FOR A REDOCKING ON
THURSDAY EVENING, THAT REDOCKING
TO TAKE PLACE TO THIS SAME PORT
THAT THE SOYUZ IS CURRENTLY
LINKED UP TO, THE NAUKA MODULE.
THE UNDOCK AND REDOCK OR
RELOCATION, IF YOU WILL, THIS
WHOLE PROCEDURE, IS DESIGNED TO
PUT THE PROGRESS 78 CARGO CRAFT
TO PUT THE CRAFT AT NAUKA TO
PERFORM LEAK CHECKS, SO THIS
UNDOCK AND REDOCK ACTIVITY FOR
THE I.S.S. PROGRESS 78 CARGO
CRAFT WILL TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY.
WE WON'T BE ON AIR TO PROVIDE
COVERAGE ON WEDNESDAY, BUT WE
WILL PROVIDE COVERAGE ON
THURSDAY FOR THE REDOCKING OF
THE PROGRESS 78 TO THE NAUKA
MODULE.
AS MENTIONED, WE'RE JUST A FEW
MINUTES AWAY FROM RECEIVING DOWN
LINK TELEVISION INSIDE THE
PASSAGE WAY THAT CONNECTS NAUKA
TO SOYUZ MS-18 TO WATCH THE
INTERACTION THAT WILL TAKE PLACE
BETWEEN CREW MEMBERS.
NOVITSKIY SPENDING 6.5 MONTHS IN
SPACE, AND WHEN HE LANDS
TONIGHT, HE WILL HAVE CHALKED UP
531 DAYS IN SPACE ON HIS THREE
SPACE FLIGHTS.
>> AND NOW WE ARE INSIDE THAT
PASSAGE WAY TO THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION'S NAUKA MODULE.
KLIM SHIPENKO ON THE RIGHT,
YULIA PERESILD IN THE YELLOW
JUMPSUIT, PYOTR DUBROV ON THE
LEFT.
>> RIGHT NOW, OLEG IS ASKING AT
WHAT TIME SHOULD THE HATCHES BE
CLOSED OR CLOSED BUT NOT
LATCHED?
[indiscernible].
>> VERY GOOD.
WE'LL BE CLOSING IT AND THEN
COME BACK AT THE SCHEDULED TIME.
>> AND YOU CAN COPY.
OLEG NOVITSKIY ON THE RIGHT, OF
COURSE, THE SOYUZ COMMANDER FOR
TONIGHT'S UNDOCKING AND SOYUZ
LANDING.
>> HANDSHAKES AND HUGS, FINAL
FAREWELLS BEFORE PERESILD AND
SHIPENKO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO
THEIR RETURN CRAFT.
>> ANTON SHKAPLEROV IN THE FORE
GROUND.
HE RODE UP WITH PERESILD AND
SHIPENKO ON THE 5th, AND
NOVITSKIY WILL HELP PERESILD AND
SHIPENKO SUIT UP AND THEN HE
WILL DON HIS.
>> KLIM SHIPENKO, THE
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR FOR THIS MOVIE
MAKING MISSION ABOARD THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ON
BEHALF OF ROSCOSMOS AND RUSSIAN
MEDIA-BASED ENTITIES, WILL BE IN
THE LEFT SEAT OF THE CENTER
MODULE.
HE WILL SERVE AT BOARD ENGINEER
NUMBER ONE FOR -- AS BOARD
ENGINEER NUMBER ONE FOR
UNDOCKING AND LANDING.
PERESILD WILL BE IN THE RIGHT
SEAT AT BOARD ENGINEER NUMBER
TWO.
AND THERE WE ARE, THE SOYUZ
HATCH CLOSED.
>> AND THE HATCH CLOSED 3:41
P.M. CENTRAL TIME, THE CREW
DECIDING TO CLOSE THE HATCHES A
BIT EARLIER SO THAT THEY HAVE
AMPLE TIME TO GET SUITED UP.
WHAT --
>> GUYS, YOU CAN TURNOFF THE
CAMERA.
>> AND WHAT WE'RE BEING TOLD IS
THAT THIS HATCH CLOSURE IS ALL
PART OF THE -- THE PROCEDURES
FOR SOME OF THE SCENES FOR THE
MOVIE THAT IS -- THAT WAS BEING
SHOT ON BOARD THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
THE ACTUAL FINAL CLOSING OF THE
HATCH WILL TAKE PLACE, AS WE
INDICATED EARLIER ABOUT AN HOUR
FROM NOW, AND THAT WILL SEAL THE
HATCH AND INITIATE LEAK CHECKS
AT THE DOCKING INTERFACE BETWEEN
THE SOYUZ AND NAUKA.
BUT FOR ALL INTENTS AND
PURPOSES, THE HATCH IS CLOSED AT
3:41 P.M. CENTRAL TIME,
4:41 P.M. EASTERN TIME.
AND WITH THAT, THE CAMERA IN THE
NAUKA VESTIBULE HAS BEEN TURNED
OFF, WITH THE CREWS HAVING SAID
FAREWELL TO ONE ANOTHER, AND THE
THREE CREW MEMBERS ON BOARD THE
SOYUZ VEHICLE.
>> ONCE THE LEAK CHECKS ARE
COMPLETED AT THE DOCKING
INTERFACE, THE SOYUZ WILL PUSH
OFF FROM THE UNDOCKING MODULE AT
8:14 P.M. CENTRAL TIME THIS
EVENING.
IT WILL BACK AWAY TO A SAFE
DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION FOR
A DEORBIT BURN THAT WILL LAST
4:39, THAT DEORBIT BURN TO BE
INITIATED AT 4:31 CENTRAL TIME
THIS EVENING.
THAT WILL SLOW THE SOYUZ DOWN,
ALLOWING IT TO SLIP OUT OF ORBIT
AND WILL ENABLE IT TO ENTER THE
EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE TO ALLOW FOR
THE PYROTECHNIC SEPARATION LATER
THIS EVENING.
ONLY THE CENTER SECTION, THE
DESCENT MODULE WHERE THE CREW
ARE STRAPPED INTO THEIR SEATS
WILL SURVIVE THE REENTRY.
TEMPERATURES WILL BUILD UP TO
ABOUT 2500°, THE SOYUZ SETTING
ITS SIGHTS ON THE LANDING SITE
FOR THE COMMAND TO OPEN UP THE
PARACHUTES THAT WILL BEGIN THEIR
FINAL DESCENT TOWARDS THE
LANDING SITE JUST OUTSIDE OF
JEZKAZGAN, KAZAKHSTAN, TAKING
PLACE AT 12:36 A.M. EASTERN
TIME, 10:36 A.M. LOCAL TIME IN
KAZAKHSTAN.
ONCE THE SOYUZ IS DOWN, THE
SEARCH AND RECOVERY FORCES WILL
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE
THEIR WAY TOWARDS THE SPACECRAFT
TO BEGIN THE EXTRACTION OF THE
CREW, BRINGING THEM INTO A
NEARBY INFLATABLE MEDICAL TENT
FOR CHECKUPS BEFORE THEY BOARD
HELICOPTERS TO FLY BACK TO THE
STAGING CITY OF KARAGANDA,
KAZAKHSTAN, WHERE THEY WILL THEN
BOARD A GAGARIN TRAINING CENTER
HELICOPTER FOR THEIR FLIGHT BACK
TO STAR CITY, RUSSIA.
SO PERESILD, SHIPENKO, AND
NOVITSKIY WILL RETURNING TO
EARTH JUST A FEW HOURS FROM NOW.
OUR UNDOCKING COVERAGE BEGINS AT
8:00 P.M. CENTRAL TIME,
9:00 P.M. EASTERN TIME LATER
THIS EVENING, AND WE'LL SET THE
STAGE FOR THE DEPARTURE OF THE
THREE MEMBERS RETURNING BACK TO
EARTH ON BOARD THE SOYUZ MS-18
SPACECRAFT.
FOR NOW, THAT WRAPS UP OUR
COVERAGE.
WE'LL SEE YOU BACK HERE IN A FEW
HOURS.
THIS IS MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON.