Beginning today (Thursday, Dec 2) at 2 p.m. EST, NASA will hold a news conference "to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life."
The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA TV and streamed (live) on its website.
The full media advisory can be seen here.
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After being waived off yesterday due to the failure of a docking mechanism on the Poisk module, TMA-18 undocking is now set to proceed tonight at 10:02 p.m. EDT.
Live coverage will begin at 6:15 p.m. EDT (on NASA TV) with the closing of the Soyuz hatch. Further details can be found here.
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Three members of Expedition 24 (Alexander Skvortsov, Mikhail Kornienko and Tracy Caldwell Dyson) will be leaving the ISS tonight and are scheduled to land in Kazakhstan on Sept 24 at 12:55 a.m. EDT.
Having launched on April 2, 2010, all three have been in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for nearly six months.
As of 6:56 p.m. EDT, the hatch to the Soyuz has been reported closed and preparations for undocking are currently underway.
Undocking itself is scheduled for 9:35 p.m. and can be seen live, along with full event coverage on NASA TV.
UPDATE: As of 7:15 p.m. EDT, hatch closure problems on the ISS side are being reported. Leak checks underway to verify effective seal.
UPDATE (2): As of 9:35 p.m. EDT, undocking has been delayed due to non-operational hooks on the Poisk module of the ISS.
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