{"id":130939,"date":"2018-12-15T05:55:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgianewsdesk.com\/news\/story\/130939\/nasa-tv-to-air-international-space-station-crewlanding.html"},"modified":"2018-12-15T05:55:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T05:55:17","slug":"nasa-tv-to-air-international-space-station-crewlanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.honolulunewsnow.com\/news\/story\/130939\/nasa-tv-to-air-international-space-station-crewlanding.html","title":{"rendered":"NASA TV to Air International Space Station Crew\u00a0Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three residents of the International Space Station, including one NASA astronaut, are scheduled to wrap up their stay aboard the orbital laboratory Wednesday, Dec. 19. Live coverage of their return to Earth will air on NASA Television and the agency’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NASA Flight Engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Expedition 57 Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) and Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos will close the hatch to their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft and undock from the station’s Rassvet module, with a landing scheduled for 12:03 a.m. EST Dec. 20 (11:03 a.m. Kazakhstan time) southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan.<\/p>\n

The crew is completing a 197-day mission spanning 3,152 orbits of Earth and a journey of 83.3 million miles. Auñón-Chancellor and Prokopyev are completing their first flights into space, while Gerst will be returning from his second long-duration mission. With a total of 362 days in orbit, Gerst will hold the flight duration record among ESA astronauts.<\/p>\n

Coverage of the Expedition 57 departure and landing activities is as follows (all times EST):<\/p>\n

Tuesday, Dec. 18<\/strong><\/p>\n