March 14, 2006
Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-4769
Kylie Clem
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(281) 483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-042
SPACE STATION CREW TAKING SHORT TRIP TO MOVE SOYUZ
International Space Station Commander Bill McArthur and Flight
Engineer Valery Tokarev will briefly vacate their orbiting home March
20 to move a Soyuz spacecraft.
NASA TV airs live coverage of the move starting at 1 a.m. EST. Tokarev
will undock the Soyuz at 1:45 a.m. EST. The crew will make about a
35-minute flight free of the station, moving the Soyuz from the Zarya
module docking port to the aft docking port of the Zvezda living
quarters’ module.
The maneuver frees the Zarya port for the March 31 arrival of the
Soyuz carrying the next station crew, Expedition 13 Commander Pavel
Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Jeff Williams. The new crew launches
March 29 with Brazilian Space Agency astronaut Marcos Pontes. He will
spend about a week on the station and return with McArthur and
Tokarev.
NASA TV’s Public, Education and Media channels are available on an
MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72
degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical
polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they’re on AMC-7 at 137 degrees
west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal
polarization. For digital downlink information on the Web, visit:
For information about the International Space Station, its missions
and crews, visit:
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