THE SPACECRAFT IS STILL DOCKED
AT THE INTERNATIONAL RUSSIAN
POISK MODULE BUT NOT LONG.
YOU ARE SEEING LIVE HERE INSIDE
OF THE FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM WITH
THE TEAM IS PREPARING FOR THE
UNDOCKING OF SOYUZ MS20 AND THE
THREE CREWMEMBERS WILL BE
CARRYING HOME TODAY.
ALEXANDER MISSION SUR KIN ALONG
WITH PRIVATE CITIZENS YUSAKU
MAEZAWA AND YOZO HIRANO.
SINCE THEN, THE STATION HAS
MANEUVERED INTO UNDOCKING
ALTITUDE AND THE CREW HAS BEEN
WORKING THROUGH LEAK CHECKS AND
OTHER PREPARATION FOR LANDING.
ALL OF THAT WORK HAS GONE
SMOOTHLY, SO WE ARE STANDING BY
FOR THE SOYUZ UNDOCKING WHICH IS
SCHEDULED AT 5:50P.M. CENTRAL
TIME.
JUST ABOUT 18 MINUTES AWAY FROM
NOW.
UNDOCKING WILL BE FOLLOWED BY
DEORBIT BURN AT 8:18P.M. THAT
WILL PUT THEM ON COURSE OF
LANDING AT 9:13P.M. CENTRAL.
THAT WILL WRAP UP 1-DAY STAY AT
THE SPACE STATION FOR THE
CREWMEMBERS THEN ALL GOES
ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE TONIGHT
BUT RETURNING TO EARTH HAVING
SPENT SHORT OF JUST 12 DAYS IN
SPACE.
SINCE THIS IS THE FIRST TRIP,
THAT WILL BE THE FULL TOTAL OF
MAEZAWA AND HIRANO.
BUT FOR MISURKIN, 346 DAYS IN
SPACE.
HERE IN THE FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM,
FLIGHT DIRECTOR PAUL WILL WRAP
UP THE SHIFT A LITTLE WHILE AGO
AND HAND IT OVER TO FLIGHT
DIRECTOR JEFF ABANDON HAS BEEN
TRAINING WITH THEM.
YOU HAVE CAN SEE THEM HERE.
LLOYD IN THE BLUE COAT.
JUST TO THE LEFT OF THEM ON THE
SCREEN IS CAPCOM FOR THE NIGHT
JACKIE.
TEAM HAS ALREADY PERFORM THE
GO-NONE GO FOR THINK SOYUZ
UNDOCK AND READY TO PORT FROM
HERE IN HOUSTON.
IN KAZAKHSTAN, A NUMBER OF
VEHICLES ARE STANG BY.
A TOTAL OF 12 MI8 HELICOPTERS
HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED TO VARIOUS
AREAS TO AWAIT TOUCHDOWN.
EIGHT AT THE EXPECTED LANDING
SITE SOUTHEAST FROM KAZAKHSTAN
AND READY 250MILES AWAY IN THE
AREA WHERE TOUCHDOWN WOULD OCCUR
AT THE BALLISTIC ENTRY HAPPENED.
>> WHAT DOES IT MEAN THE FINAL
TWO HELICOPTERS WILL LOITER
MIDWAY BETWEEN THE TWO AREAS AND
NOT EXPECTING BUT ARE ALWAYS
PREPARED FOR ONE.
SIX AL=TERRAIN VEHICLE AND THREE
AIRPLANES THAT SERVE AS FLYING
COMMAND CENTERS AND WILL HAVE
DIRECT COMMUNICATION THE CREW
AND RELAY BACK TO MOSCOW.
THINK JOURNEY OF THE MS20 CREW
STARTED JUST 11 I DAS AGO IN
KAZAKHSTAN WHERE THEY LAUNCHED
FROM THE BAIKONUR COSMODROME ON
DECEMBER8th AT
1:0036:00A.M. A.M. YOU CAN SEE
THAT VIDEO HERE.
FOUR ORBITS IN SIX HOURS LATER,
MISURKIN, MAEZAWA AND HIRANO
ARRIVED AT 7:45A.M. CENTRAL
TIME.
>> A GREAT VIEW HERE.
THEY ARE NOW BACK IN THOSE SEATS
GETTING READY TO RETURN TO
KAZAKHSTAN FOR THEIR LANDING
DURING THE TIME AT THE SPACE
STATION THEY DID NOT JOIN
EXPEDITION 66 CREW OFFICIALLY,
INSTEAD, MISURKIN WAS CONSIDERED
A VISITING CREW MEMBER WHILE
MAEZAWA AND HIRANO WERE SPACE
FLIGHT PARTICIPANTS FOR THE
JOURNEY BACK TO EITHER TONIGHT,
MISURKIN WILL BE THE SOYUZ
COMMANDER AND MAEZAWA IS TAKING
THE BOARD WITH MAEZAWA BOARD
TWO.
THE THREE SAID GOOD-BYES AT
APPROXIMATELY 1:20 CENTRAL TIME
AND DID REOPEN BRIEFLY AT 2:30
AND CLOSE FOR GOOD AT 2:32.
THE CREW DIDN'T COME BACK OUT OF
THE SOYUZ THAT TIME.
YOU CAN SEE VIDEO HERE OF THE
LAST GLIMPSE WE GOT OF THEM
BEFORE THEY GOT INTO THEIR SOYUZ
SUIT AND STRAPPED INTO THEIR
SEATS FOR RETURN.
>> YES, I DID.
JUST A REMINDER.
024200S THE COMMAND.
AT 02:40 I SUGGEST YOU ISSUE 12
COMMAND.
>> DEFINITELY.
>> THANK YOU.
AGE TON SHKAPLEROV WAVING
GOOD-BYE.
THE FINAL HATCH CLOSURE AROUND
2:32P.M. MISURKIN, MAEZAWA AND
HIRANO LEFT BEHIND SEVEN MEMBERS
OF THE EXPEDITION 6 CREW IN
ADDITION TO THE COMMANDER
LEAVING BEHIND PYOTR DUBROV AND
NASA ASTRONAUT MARK VANDE HEI,
RAJA CHARI, TOM MARSHBURN AND
KAYLA BARRON AS WELL AS MATTHIAS
MAURER.
ALL THAT CRIES PREPARING ANOTHER
SPACE STATION VERSION OF THE
HOLIDAYS NOW AND HOPE FOR
PRESCRIPTION MASS DELIVERY
ABOARD SPACEX 24 AND CARGO
DRAGON THAT IS HEADED TO LAUNCH
ON TUESDAY ARRIVE AT THE SPACE
STATION ON WEDNESDAY.
THE NEXT STEP IN TONIGHT'S
JOURNEY OF COURSE WILL BE
UNDOCKING COMING AT 5:50P.M.
CENTRAL TIME ABOUT 13 MINUTES
FROM NOW.
>> ABOUT 12 MINUTES WAY FROM
TODAY'S UNDOCKING TIME BUT TEN
MINUTES WAIL FROM THE COMMAND
WILL BE SENT.
AT THAT POINT AND TIME,
ALEKSANDR MISURKIN WILL BE SEND
AC COMMAND OPEN HOOK AND LATCHES
BETWEEN THEIR SOYUZ AND THE
POISK MINI RESEARCH MODULE 28
WHERE I IT HAS BEEN DOCKED SINCE
DECEMBER8th ONCE THEY ARE
DISCONNECTED TWO MINCE LATER THE
THRUSTERS WILL FIRE AND BACK
AWAY FROM THE SPACECRAFT BACK TO
SPACECRAFT FROM THE POISK AND A
SEAT OF JUST OVER A QUARTER MILE
PER HOUR THEN WITH WITHIN THREE
MACHINE MIFF UNDOCKING THE
VEHICLE WILL BE 50FEET AWAY
FROM THE SPACE STATION WHICH
THEY WILL CONDUCT THE FIRST
SEPARATION BURN FIRING THE SOYUZ
JETS FOR ABILITY SECONDS TO
BEGIN MOVING AWAY FROM THE SPACE
STATION AT A RATE OF 1. 2MILES
PER HOUR.
WHEN IT IS 200FEET AWAY JUST
AFTER SIX MINCE THE ENGINES WILL
FIRE AGAIN FOR 15 SECONDS
SPEEDING UP TO 3.5MILES PER
HOUR AND SHOULD GET TO THE POINT
ABOUT 2000-MILE WAY FROM
8:18P.M. CENTRAL TIME DEORBIT
BURN.
>> COPY.
>> CONFIRMED.
I AM ON APPROACH.
FINAL APPROACH DISPLAY.
COPY.
I WILL BE READY.
>> WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO SHOW
YOU ANY LIVE VIEWS BECAUSE IT
HATS BEEN DARK BUT WE ARE NOW
COMING INTO THE DAYLIGHT PORTION
OF THIS ORBIT WHILE THE STATION
AND THE SOYUZ MS20 ORBIT ABOUT
260MILES ABOVE INDIA.
WE'LL BE CROSSING OVER TO CHINA
JUST IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES
THEN WE SHOULD PUSH HAVE WE
SHOULD HAVE SOME GOOD LYING FOR
THE ACTUAL UNDOCKING.
WHICH IS NOW ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES
AWAY.
SINCE THE HATCH IS BETWEEN THE
SOYUZ AND THE RESEARCH MODULE
THIS AFTERNOON THE SIDE OF THIS
SOYUZ THAT HAS V BEEN MAKING THE
WAY THROUGH THE CHECKLIST IN THE
PREPARATION OF THE LANDING
TONIGHT AFTER THE 1:20P.M.
CLOSING THE HATCH TO HELP
MAEZAWA AND HIRANO TO GET THEM
STRAPPED SO SOYUZ WAS TAKEN OFF
THE POWER AND PUT ON THE
AUTONOMOUS POWER THAN THE
NEEDED FOR DEORBIT SO THE CHANGE
IN SPEED FOR THE DEORBIT BURN
WERE ENTERED INTO THE SPACECRAFT
COMPUTERS.
THE POISK MODULE WAS ALSO
DEPRESSURIZED IN A SERIES OF
LEAK CHECKS WHICH PERFORMED TO
SEE SOYUZ COULD SAFELY UNDOCK.
MS20 IS NOW SAFELY THE SPACE
CREW IS NOW SAFELY IN THE DECENT
MODULE OF THE SOYUZ.
IT HAS ALL THE CONTROL AND
DISPLAYS NECESSARY TO FLIGHT AS
WELL AS SUPPORT SYSTEMS,
BATTERIES FOR RE-ENTRY AND
LANDING.
OF COURSE, I ALSO HAS THE
PARACHUTES AND SOFT LANDING
ROCKET ENGINES FOR THE SOYUZ
DOWN JUST BEFORE TOUCHDOWN.
>> IT WAS INITIALLY THE WIDE
ANGLE ONE BUT SWITCH OVER TO THE
NARROW.
>> LET'S DO THAT.
DONE.
>> THE ONLY PART THAT WILL STAY
WITH THE CREW BACK TO EARTH AND
THE ORBIT MODULE WHICH IS
DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE
STATIONS POISK MODULE TO
SEPARATE FROM THE DECENT MODULE
ABOUT 24MEN AFTER THE DEORBIT
BURN 87MILES ABOVE THE EARTH.
WE ARE SIX MINUTES AWAY FROM THE
UNDOCKING.
>> AND I HAVE ONE.
COPY.
I AM ACTIVATING THE COPY.
>> IT IS ACTIVATED.
COPY.
FOUR MINUTES NOW UNTIL MISURKIN
SENDS COMMAND TO UNDOCK THE
SOYUZ ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LEFT
UNTIL THE SOYUZ BEGINS BACKING
AWAY THE SPACE STATION.
>> WE ARE RECEIVING THE VIDEO.
>> JUST OUTSIDE OF MOSCOW WHERE
THE TEAM IS WORKING THROUGH
NEED FOR TODAY'S UNDOCK AND
LANDING AND SEEING VIDEO FROM
THEM OCCASIONALLY THROUGHOUT THE
FLIGHT AS WELL AS WE SHOULD BE
GETTING LIVE VIDEO BRACK THE
SPACE STATION IN JUST A MOMENT.
AND THE TEAM HERE ON THE GROUND
ALSO CONFIRMED WE ARE GETTING
DOWNLINK THE SOYUZ ITSELF AND
TAGGING THAT TO SHOW YOU
THROUGHOUT THE COVERAGE AS WELL.
>> WE ARE RECEIVING IMAGE AGAIN.
I AM READIED TO SEND THE COMMAND
YES.
AND THAT DON'T SET THE TIME FOR
UNDOCKING THAT OH COARSE A
COUPLE OF MINUTES LATER WHEN WE
SEE PHYSICAL SEPARATION BETWEEN
THE SOYUZ AND THE INTERNATIONAL
SPACE STATION.
THAT UNDOCKING EXPECTS TO COME
AT 5:50P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
>> COPY.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THE PROBE IS RETRACTED AND
HOOPS ARE CLOSED.
LATCHES ARE RETRACTED AND WE ARE
RECEIVE THE CONNECTION AND I AM
READY TO.
>> 30 SECONDS NOW THE UNDOCKING
COMMAND.
0249.
0 HON.
COPY.
>> I ISSUED THE COMMANDS TO
CLOSE THE HOOKS AND 249-00.
THE LED IS NO LODGER I
ILLUMINATED.
>> SETTING THE UNDOCKING IN
MOTION BUT AGAIN, A MINUTE AND A
HALF BEFORE THE UNDOCKING OH
COARSE WATCH FOR PHYSICAL
SEPARATION HERE ON THE SCREEN.
CONNECTIONS.
CONNECTION IS NO LONGER
ILLUMINATED THE TRANSFER HATCH
IS ILLUMINATED.
STANDING BY FOR UNDOCKING.
>> SPACES TO GROUND ONE.
>> MECHANICAL CONNECTION IS NO
LONGER ILLUMINATED.
>> GO AHEAD SPACE TO GROUND ONE.
>> AND WE ARE STANDING BY.
IT IS COMPLETE.
THE SECOND.
AND WE CONFIRMED THAT.
>> THERE YOU SEE IT UNDOCKING
OCCURRING NOW.
SOYUZ MS20 CREW IS OFFICIALLY ON
THE WAY LO HOME AND RIDE OF AT
THE SPACE STATION ON
DECEMBER8th AND SPENT 12
DAYS LIVING ONBOARD AND NOW
MAKING THE WAY BACK FOR LANDING
TONIGHT AT 9:13P.M. CENTRAL
TIME THAT OCCURRED ON TIME AT
5:50P.M. WHILE THE SOYUZ
TRAVELING 263MILES ABOVE
MONGOLIA.
MS20 THERE PULLING AWAY THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
UNDOCKING IN TIME AT 5:00 P.M.
CENTRAL WHILE THE SPACE STATION
AND SOYUZ TRAVELING 263MILES
ABOVE MANGOLIA.
THE CREW INSIDE ALEKSANDR
MISURKIN, YUSAKU MAEZAWA AND
YOZO HIRANO ARE SCHEDULED TO
TOUCHDOWN AT 9:00P.M. CENTRAL
TIME.
FROM CAMMING FROM THE SOYUZ
ITSELF LOOKING AT THE SPACE
STATION GETTING SMALLER AND
BACKS AWAY.
>> THE FIRST SEPARATION BURN.
NEXT UP IN THE FIRST TWO OF
SEPARATION BURNS THAT WILL MOVE
IT AWAY MORE QUARTERBACKING LANE
FULLY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL
PACE STATION.
THE FIRST ONE COME AT 5:53P.M.
CENTRAL TIME.
JUST A MINUTE OR SO AWAY.
AND THE VIDEO CRAM JUST SWITCHED
BACK TO THE WIDE ANGLE.
DO YOU WANT ME TO.
BECOME 30 SECONDS A TRAY THE
FIRST SEPARATION BURN.
THE SOYUZ FIRING FOR EIGHT
SECONDS FURTHER AWAY.
>> COPY.
I AM STANDING BY FROM THE
FIRST SEPARATION BURN THAN IS
WHERE THE BORDER COMES UP.
SEEING THAT SEPARATION BURN
HAPPENING NOW THIS IS 8 SECOND
BURN THAT WILL MOVE AWAY THREE
SPACE STATION IN JUST OVER A
MILE PER HOUR.
THE TEAM ON THE GROUND
CONSIDERING GOOD BURN AND THE
TEAM IS MOVING AWAY THE RATE IS
1.2MILES PER HOUR AND WE'LL BE
STANDING BY IN JUST A MOMENT FOR
THE SECOND SEPARATION BURN.
THE LAST 15 SECONDS UP BY 3.
5MILES PER HOUR.
>> LESS THAN 30 SECONDS TO GO TO
THE SECOND SEPARATION BURN.
TWO.
CLOSE.
YES.
COPY.
>> YES.
YES.
ARE YES.
>> CONFIRMED.
>> SECOND SEPARATION BURN
STARTED NOW THIS AGAIN LASTED
FOR 15 SECONDS AND SPEEDS UP BY
3.5MILES PER HOUR.
STILL NOT MOVING TOO FAST AND
CERTAINLY COMING UP LATE HE WERE
IN THE JOURNEY.
>> AND ANOTHER GOOD BURN.
>> COPY.
BOTH SEPARATION BURNS NOW
COMPLETE AND SHOULD PUT THE
SOYUZ AT A SAFE DISTANCE TIME
FOR THE DEORBIT BURN THAT WILL
DROP BACK AT 8:18P.M. CENTRAL
TIME AND PUT THEM ON COURSE TO
ARE RETURN FOR KAZAKHSTAN
LANDING AT 9:13P.M. CENTRAL.
I ISN'T THE COMMAND.
>> CONFIRMED.
IT IS NO LODGER ILLUMINATE AND
IT IS NO LONGER ILLUMINATED.
>> IT IS NO.
>> THE VIEWS AGAIN FROM COMING
FROM THE SOYUZ ITSELF LOOKING A
THE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION MOVING OUT OF VIEW AT
THE TOP RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE
SCREEN.
POINT.
PLEASE SEND DELL TALL 8 COMMAND.
THE SYSTEM IS NO LONGER
ILLUMINATED THEN TURNING OFF OF
THE FLOODLIGHTS.
THE FLOODLIGHT IS NO LONGER ON.
WE ARE PUTTING IT ON THE
TRANSPORT POSITION.
AFFIRMATIVE.
>> BEAUTIFUL VIEW HERE OF THE
SOYUZ MS20 MOVING AWAY FROM THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND
FLYING 260MILES ABOVE THE COAST
OF RUSSIA.
CONTINUING TO MOVE AWAY THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
WORKING TO GET INTO PLACE FOR
IT'S SCHEDULED 8:18P.M.
DEORBIT BURN.
IT'S SCHEDULED 8:18P.M.
DEORBIT BURN.
.3.
1.6 IS THE PRESSURE THE 02 TANK.
COPY.
>> 486.
COPY 486.
6:00 AND WE'LL PROCEED ON THEIR
GO.
COPY.
WE CAN TURN OFF THE VIDEO
CAMERAS.
>> FOLLOWING THE 5:50P.M.
CENTRAL UNDOCK DOING AND
360MILES ABOVE THE MONGOLIA
WE'LL TAKE ANOTHER BREAK AND BE
BACK AT 8:00 P.M. CENTRAL FOR
THE DEORBIT BURN SCHEDULED FOR
8:18P.M. FROM THAT POINT ON AND
STAY WITH YOU UNTIL THE CREW HAS
LANDED AND OUT OF THE VEHICLE.
AGAIN AT 9:13P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
SO AGRAIN WE'LL BE BACK AT
8:00P.M. CENTRAL FOR CONTINUING
COVERAGE OF THE MS120 LANDING
BETWEENING YEW SA CUE MAEZAWA
AND YOZO HIRANO HOME AFTER 12
DAY MISSION.
THIS IS MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON.