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2008-Oct-12, 04:01 AM
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NASA: Expedition 18 (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition18/index.html)
Wikipedia: Expedition 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18)
CBS News Space Place (http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html)
Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov and Richard Garriott, a space tourist, are scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 12 aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft. Garriott, the son of former Skylab and shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott, will be the first second-generation American to fly in space.
Fincke and Lonchakov will replace Expedition 17 commander Sergey Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko, who were launched to the station April 8 aboard the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft. Volkov, Kononenko and Garriott are scheduled to undock from the station around 8:20 p.m. on Oct. 23 for a landing in Kazakhstan three hours later, at 11:46 p.m. EDT.
The two previous Soyuz entries ran into problems that triggered steep, off-course landings. Russian engineers believe the electrical environment around the station caused arcing that, in turn, affected specific pryo bolts used to separate the Soyuz crew module just before atmospheric entry.
NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) coverage starts about 1 hour before launch.
NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) (or NASA TV Yahoo! source (http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html) or high-resolution (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163))
NASA TV Media Channel (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=media)
Launch target:
2008, October 12, 00:01 PDT, Sunday
2008, October 12, 03:01 EDT, Sunday
2008, October 12, 07:01 UTC, Sunday
3 hours to launch
NASA: Expedition 18 (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition18/index.html)
Wikipedia: Expedition 18 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_18)
CBS News Space Place (http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html)
Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov and Richard Garriott, a space tourist, are scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:01 a.m. EDT on Oct. 12 aboard the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft. Garriott, the son of former Skylab and shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott, will be the first second-generation American to fly in space.
Fincke and Lonchakov will replace Expedition 17 commander Sergey Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko, who were launched to the station April 8 aboard the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft. Volkov, Kononenko and Garriott are scheduled to undock from the station around 8:20 p.m. on Oct. 23 for a landing in Kazakhstan three hours later, at 11:46 p.m. EDT.
The two previous Soyuz entries ran into problems that triggered steep, off-course landings. Russian engineers believe the electrical environment around the station caused arcing that, in turn, affected specific pryo bolts used to separate the Soyuz crew module just before atmospheric entry.
NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) coverage starts about 1 hour before launch.
NASA TV (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html) (or NASA TV Yahoo! source (http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/nasa/index.html) or high-resolution (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163))
NASA TV Media Channel (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=media)
Launch target:
2008, October 12, 00:01 PDT, Sunday
2008, October 12, 03:01 EDT, Sunday
2008, October 12, 07:01 UTC, Sunday
3 hours to launch