Archive - Apr 4, 2007
Expedition 15 Crew to Launch from Baikonur
With them will be Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi. He is an American flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
He will return to Earth with Expedition 14 crew members, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, on April 20. Expedition 14 launched to the station last Sept. 18.
After its April 7 launch, Expedition 15's Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft is scheduled to dock at the station a little after 3 p.m. on April 9.
Complete release at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/exp15...
FBI Recovers Astronaut's Missing Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom that was prepared for award to Apollo 13 astronaut Captain James Lovell, Jr., and which was missing since 1970, was recently recovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the bureau's Chicago office announced on Tuesday.
NASA TV Coverage for Space Station Crew Exchange
The launch of Expedition 15, the next crew to the International Space Station, and the landing of Expedition 14 are among the events scheduled for broadcast live on NASA Television April 7-20.
Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg Kotov, Expedition 15 flight engineer, and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, a U.S. businessman, are scheduled to launch Saturday at 1:31 p.m. EDT for a two-day trip aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-10 craft to the station. Their spacecraft is scheduled to dock Monday at approximately 3:12 p.m.