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   ARLS002 Three Hams Venture to ISS Next Week   
      
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   Space Bulletin 002  ARLS002   
   From ARRL Headquarters     
   Newington, CT  May 10, 2012   
   To all radio amateurs   
      
   SB SPACE ARL ARLS002   
   ARLS002 Three Hams Venture to ISS Next Week   
      
   NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the   
   International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for May 14. NASA Flight   
   Engineer Joseph Acaba, KE5DAR, and his two Russian crewmates, Soyuz   
   Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin,   
   RN3BS, are completing their training as they undergo Soyuz   
   spacecraft fit.   
      
   Live NASA TV coverage of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft launch from   
   the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan begins at 9 PM CDT on Monday,   
   May 14 (0200 UTC May 15), with the launch scheduled for 10:01 PM CDT   
   (0301 UTC).   
      
   The trio will arrive at the station May 16, joining Expedition 31   
   Commander Oleg Kononenko, RN3DX, of the Russian Federal Space   
   Agency, Flight Engineer Don Pettit, KD5MDT, of NASA and Flight   
   Engineer Andrei Kuipers, PI9ISS, of the European Space Agency, who   
   have been aboard the ISS since December 2011. Padalka, Acaba and   
   Revin will transition to the Expedition 32 crew in July and return   
   to Earth in mid-September.   
      
   NASA TV's scheduled coverage is as follows:   
      
   Thursday, May 10   
      
      * 11 AM CDT (1600 UTC) -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew   
   activities in Baikonur.   
      
   Friday, May 11   
      
      * 11 AM CDT (1600 UTC) -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M crew   
   activities in Baikonur.   
      
   Sunday, May 13   
      
      * 11 AM CDT (1600 UTC) -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M rocket   
   mating and rollout to the Baikonur launch pad.   
      
   Monday, May 14   
      
      * 11 AM CDT (1600 UTC) -- Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M final   
   pre-launch crew news conference and Russian State Commission meeting   
   in Baikonur.   
      
      * 9 PM CDT (0200 UTC May 15) -- Soyuz TMA-04M launch coverage   
   (launch scheduled at 10:01 PM 0301 UTC), including video of the   
   crew's pre-launch activities and launch replays.   
      
   Tuesday, May 15   
      
      * 12 AM CDT (0500 UTC) -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M pre-launch,   
   launch video and post-launch interviews.   
      
   Wednesday, May 16   
      
      * 11 PM CDT (0400 UTC) -- Soyuz TMA-04M docking coverage (docking   
   scheduled at 11:38 PM 0438 UTC), followed by a post-docking news   
   conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia.   
      
   Thursday, May 17   
      
      * 2 AM CDT (0700 UTC) -- Soyuz TMA-04M hatch opening and   
   welcoming ceremony (hatch opening scheduled at 2:20 AM 0720 UTC).   
      
      * 4 AM CDT (0900 UTC) -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M docking,   
   hatch opening and welcoming ceremony.   
      
   You can watch live online on the NASA TV Public and Media channels   
   at, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html, or on your   
   television set. Contact your local provider for the NASA TV channel   
   in your area.   
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