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Astronauts enjoy off-duty time; Soyuz moved to pad BY WILLIAM HARWOOD STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION Posted: September 16, 2006 The Atlantis astronauts, the major tasks of their space station assembly mission behind them, took a half-day off Saturday to relax and enjoy the view from 220 miles up. The combined space station and shuttle crews will enjoy a joint meal later this morning before participating in a news conference and network television interviews. Here is an updated timeline of the crew's activities (in EDT and mission elasped time): TIME/EDT DD HH MM EVENT 12:15 AM 06 13 00 STS/ISS crew wakeup 03:15 AM 06 16 00 STS crew off duty time begins 07:15 AM 06 20 00 Joint crew meal 08:15 AM 06 21 00 Joint crew photo 08:35 AM 06 21 20 Joint crew news conference 09:10 AM 06 21 55 Speed brake 09:15 AM 06 22 00 REBA removal 09:35 AM 06 22 20 CBS/NBC/ABC network interviews 09:50 AM 06 22 35 Transfers continue 09:50 AM 06 22 35 EVA prep for shuttle transfer 10:00 AM 06 22 15 Mission status briefing on NASA TV 10:30 AM 06 23 15 News conference replay on NASA TV 12:00 PM 06 00 45 ISS-14 video file on NASA TV 01:25 PM 07 02 10 Transfer tagup 03:45 PM 07 04 30 ISS crew sleep begins 04:15 PM 07 05 00 STS crew sleep begins 05:00 PM 07 05 45 Daily video highlights reel on NASA TV The next few days will be extremely busy for the space station, its crew and their U.S. and Russian managers, with the departure of Atlantis early Sunday, launch of the station's next crew aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket early Monday, undocking of a Progress supply ship Monday night and arrival of the Soyuz on Wednesday. At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late Friday night (U.S. time), the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft was rolled to the launch pad and erected for blastoff to ferry Expedition 14 commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and space tourist Anousheh Ansari to the space station. Ansari, a businesswoman and space enthusiast who helped fund the Ansari X-Prize competition for sub-orbital spaceflight, is the fourth "space tourist" to buy a seat on a Soyuz and a trip to the space station. "Everything looks perfect, everything's prepared just right and everyone's excited and ready," she told CBS News Friday. Ansari was added to the Soyuz crew when a Japanese space tourist was disqualified for medical reasons. Asked about the risk of riding a rocket into space, she said it was the means to realize a life-long dream. "To me, there are certain things worth taking the risk for," she said by telephone from Baikonur. "I am not a big adventurous person who would take risks just to have an adrenalin rush. So I'm not particularly fond of riding rockets, necessarily, but to me, that's the means for me to get to space, which is my destination. "The risks involved are what I felt comfortable (with) and the price to pay to be able to realize my dream. It's something that's hard to describe for me. I think space travel is important enough that you can see astronauts and cosmonauts taking risks every day because they believe in it, they believe it's necessary for the future of our species. ... There are people who are the pioneers, people who are moving to take this type of early risk to pave the way for the rest of us. I'm hoping to be one of those people." Launch is targeted for 12:09 a.m. EDT Monday. The Progress supply ship currently docked at the Zvezda command module's aft port will depart Monday night at 8:28 p.m. EDT, clearing the way for the Soyuz docking at 1:24 a.m. Wednesday. The station's current crew - Expedition 13 commander Pavel Vinogradov, Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter - spent the day today loading the Progress with no-longer-needed equipment and trash. Vinogradov, Williams and Ansari will strap into the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and undock at 5:54 p.m. EDT Sept. 28 for a landing that night at 9:10 p.m. EDT. Reiter will remain aboard the station as part of the Expedition 14 crew until December, when he will be replaced by astronaut Sunita Williams during the next space shuttle assembly mission. Here is a timeline of upcoming events (in EDT):
09/17/06
08:50:00 AM Atlantis undocks from ISS
10:33:00 AM Shuttle departs area after ISS flyaround
12:00:00 PM ISS-14 pre-launch news conference replay on NASA TV
10:30:00 PM Soyuz TMA-9/ISS-14 b-roll footage on NASA TV
11:30:00 PM NASA TV Soyuz TMA-9 launch coverage begins
09/18/06
12:08:40 AM Launch of Soyuz TMA-9/ISS-14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
02:30:00 AM Post-launch activities on NASA TV
03:25:00 AM Atlantis crew carries out final heat shield inspection
08:28:00 PM Progress M-56 undocking from ISS Zvezda aft port
11:27:00 PM Progress M-56 deorbit ignition (dT: 2:40; dV: 190 mph)
09/19/06
12:03:00 AM Progress M-56 falls into the atmosphere and burns up
(entry interface)
02:35:00 AM Atlantis crew tests flight control system; cabin stow
09/20/06
01:24:00 AM Soyuz TMA-9 docking with ISS at Zvezda aft port
04:20:00 AM Soyuz TMA-9 hatch open
04:55:00 AM Atlantis deorbit ignition
05:57:00 AM Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center
09/28/06
05:51:00 PM Soyuz TMA-8 undocking command
05:54:00 PM Hooks open, separation
05:57:00 PM Separation burn (dT: 8s; dV: 1.2 mph)
08:20:23 PM Deorbit burn (dT: 4:20; dV: 258 mph)
08:24:43 PM Deorbit burn complete
08:43:57 PM Soyuz module separation
08:46:52 PM Soyuz crew module hits discernible atmosphere
08:53:06 PM Maximum deceleration
08:55:09 PM Parachute open command
09:10:09 PM Landing (17 minutes before sunrise)
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