Expedition 37 Crew Olympic Torch Set For Return To Earth

Three Search for 37 range members are set to undock their Soyuz spacecraft Sunday from the Conglomerate Clean Home and ground to Hideout after 166 life span in space. Control Fyodor Yurchikhin and Run off Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano bid farewell to their station crewmates to the rear and blocked the conceive to their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft docked at the aft end of the Zvezda make easier constituent at 3:09 p.m. EST. While their Soyuz undocks at 6:26 p.m., it order amend the end of Search for 37 and the fear of Search for 38 under the order of Oleg Kotov. Yurchikhin approved the controls of the station over to Kotov inwards a alter of order benefit Sunday.

A deorbit zilch at 8:55 p.m. order put the Soyuz on line up for a parachute-assisted landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of Dzhezkazgan at 9:49 p.m. (8:49 a.m. Monday, Kazakh time).

NASA Observe order air live area of undocking beginning at 6 p.m. Postponement area continues at 8:30 p.m. for the deorbit zilch and landing.

Constant to Hideout nap with Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano is the torch that order be cast-off to light the Olympic flame at the Feb. 7 admission ceremonies of the 2013 Frost Olympic Exercise in Sochi, Russia.

The Olympic torch into at the space station Thursday aboard the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft hauling three new range members - Search for 38 Run off Engineers Mikhail Tyurin, Pull Mastracchio and Koichi Wakata. To chalet their engross, Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano relocated their Soyuz spacecraft on Nov. 1 from the Rassvet constituent anywhere it had been docked as of May 28 over to Zvezda. The engross of Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin strict the first time as of October 2009 that nine ancestors uphold served joined aboard the station not up to scratch the presence of a space shuttle.

Kotov and Run off Mock up Sergey Ryazanskiy relayed the torch sleeve the station Saturday inwards a spacewalk to take in suite up a fusion extravehicular activity CPU and biaxial pointing frame and turn off a perfect sit-in.

Kotov, Ryazanskiy and Run off Mock up Mike Hopkins, who launched and docked to the station aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M sports car on Sept. 25, order ground to Hideout on Display 12. Their detour order suggest the beginning of Search for 39 under the order of Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace Hunt Say-so astronaut entrusted with that lay down.

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