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The duration of the Soyuz TMA-04M crewmembers\u2019 busy stay aboard the ISS was also unusually short, at only four months instead of the usual six, due to a delayed launch resulting from a problem with the original Soyuz TMA-04M Descent Module being over-pressurised during preflight processing.<\/p>\n
With Expedition 32 \u2013 which began on 1 July with the undocking and landing of Soyuz TMA-03M\/29S \u2013 having being led by the now departing Gennady Padalka, command of the ISS was handed over to NASA\u2019s Suni Williams yesterday by Padalka.<\/p>\n
Expedition 33, under the command of Williams, will begin upon Soyuz TMA-04M\u2019s undocking from the ISS.<\/p>\n
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Soyuz TMA-04M undocking and landing:<\/p>\n
In preparation for Monday night\u2019s undocking and landing, hatch closure between the ISS (at the MRM-2 Zenith port) and Soyuz TMA-04M occurred at 8:12 PM GMT September 16, following which standard leak-checking will occur, followed by the Soyuz TMA-04M crew suiting up in their Sokol launch and entry suits, transferring to Descent Module (SA) and closing the hatch to the Orbital Module (BO).<\/p>\n
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Soyuz TMA-04M undocking from the MRM-2 Zenith port was on schedule at 11:09 PM GMT September 16, followed by the usual separation and departure burns, prior to a few final laps of the planet for the Soyuz TMA-04M crew, prior to the de-orbit burn being conducted at 1:56 AM GMT September 17.<\/p>\nRe-entry then followed, with parachute deploy then occurring prior to touchdown on the Steppe of Kazakhstan at 2:53 AM GMT. Communications were lost for a large part of the entry, although the crew did manage to communicate with ground crews.<\/p>\n
This was the fourth Soyuz re-entry and landing for Gennady Padalka, and the first for Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba, although Acaba has previously completed a re-entry aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-119 mission in March 2009.<\/p>\n
Upcoming ISS flight events:<\/p>\n
Following the beginning of the three-crew Expedition 33 upon Soyuz TMA-04M\u2019s undocking, the next event aboard the ISS will be the undocking of Europe\u2019s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) on 25 September, with its re-entry coming two days later on 27 September.<\/p>\n
Also scheduled for the 27 September is the first ever CubeSat deployment from the ISS, using the Japanese Experiment Module-Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) hardware.<\/p>\n
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A major event to occur during the Expedition 33 3-crew stage is the SpaceX Dragon CRS-1 mission, which had been scheduled for launch on 8 October, but L2 info now shows may be re-aligned due to concerns there is not enough margin on the range at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS).<\/p>\nThe next Soyuz launch \u2013 Soyuz TMA-06M\/32S \u2013 which will bump the ISS back up to six crewmembers, has been delayed from 15 October to 23 October, due to an apparent failure of some on-board equipment inside Soyuz TMA-06M. For a 23 October launch, docking to the ISS at the MRM-2 Zenith port would come on 25 October.<\/p>\n
The next flight event would then be the 31 October unberthing, re-entry and splashdown of Dagon CRS-1, and on the same day the launch and fast-rendezvous and docking of the Russian Progress M-17M spacecraft. Expedition 33 would then end on 12 November, with the undocking and landing of Soyuz TMA-05M\/31S.<\/p>\n
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