A new trio of International Space Station residents, Expedition 29 Flight Engineers Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:14 p.m. EST Sunday (11:14 a.m. Baikonur time Monday) aboard the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft.
In preparation for Sunday’s launch, the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft is scheduled to roll out to the launch pad Friday morning. The rollout will not be seen live on NASA TV. Video of the rollout will be played on NASA TV at 12 p.m. Friday. Photos of the rollout will be posted on http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/ when they become available.
Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin will join Expedition 29 crewmates Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov when their spacecraft docks to the Poisk mini-research module at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday.
Five days later Expedition 29 will end when Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov return home inside the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft. The trio is scheduled to undock from the Rassvet mini-research module Nov. 21 and land in Kazakhstan at 9:25 p.m. Expedition 30 will officially begin when the Soyuz TMA-02M undocks. Burbank will take over station command in a ceremony scheduled to take place on Nov. 20.
Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Thursday, Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov continued preparations for their upcoming departure, gathering and packing gear for return to Earth inside the departing Soyuz spacecraft. They also performed a series of leak checks on their Sokol launch and entry suits.
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