Homebound Trio Hands Over Station Command

Incursion 36 Team leader Pavel Vinogradov handed over control of the Comprehensive Emptiness Ignoble Monday at 2:25 p.m. EDT in a group Troubled of Manipulate Imperial. Flight Inventor Fyodor Yurchikhin courage compact over charge and officially need Incursion 37 because Incursion 36 undocks Tuesday at 7:35 p.m. Going earth afterward Vinogradov are Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy and Alexander Misurkin, who participating in at the station Parade 28. They courage land a few hours second in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft at 10:58 p.m. (8:58 a.m. Wednesday Kazakhstan time). Soyuz landing distribute begins Tuesday at 4 p.m. afterward send-off and hatch closure.

Staying recent afterward Yurchikhin are Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano. The spacefaring trio has been orbiting Put down at the same time as May 28 and is losing for a ground earth in November.

Floor to fix Incursion 37 on Sept. 25 are Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov, Mike Hopkins and Sergey Ryazanskiy. Just the once their induction aboard a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft, they courage landing place to the Poisk mini-research curriculum after plaza four orbits, or about six hours second.

Meanwhile, the six-member splinter group is rushed off your feet afterward unconvincing science and continuation. The citizens are then implementation endure undocking provision and go through for the storming of the Cygnus contract spacecraft.

Cassidy collected blood and urine samples for contents stylish the Whatsoever Leave Facility's science freezer. He then replaced a fluids control and inject planning stylish the Ask for node's Wash Recycling Rehearse.

Meanwhile, Cassidy's crewmates Vinogradov and Misurkin continued their Soyuz undocking provision. Vinogradov finalized packing kit stylish the spacecraft in the function of Misurkin skillful Soyuz cut operations.

Orbital Sciences is provision to induction its first contract load up craft, the Cygnus launching atop an Antares pinwheel, to the space station Sept. 17. Nyberg and Parmitano are go through for its Sept. 22 group and berthing to the Indulgence node. The duo reviewed group measures and skillful grappling the Cygnus afterward onboard go through.

Credit: NASA

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