If you happen to be up early tomorrow morning, you can watch live via NASA TV the Soyuz TMA-19 craft is relocated from the Zvezda Service Module aft port to the Rassvet module of the International Space Station.
Expedition 24 Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Shannon Walker will board the Soyuz TMA-19 vehicle that docked to Zvezda on June 18. They will fly the Soyuz vehicle a short distance to Rassvet. NASA TV coverage of the event will begin at 3:30 a.m. AEST tomorrow morning (29 June 2010).
The change of location will free the Zvezda port for the docking of a new Progress resupply vehicle on Saturday 3 July 2010 AEST. That port is the preferred location for the Progress, so it can help reboost the station and adjust its altitude. The Progress will carry 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the station.
The resupply vehicle will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 30. NASA TV will not broadcast the launch, but will show the live coverage of Progress’ docking at 2:55 a.m. AEST on 3 July 2010.
Story partly based on NASA Media Release M10-096.
