The residents of the International Space Station will take a spin around the block in their Soyuz spacecraft Friday. NASA TV airs live coverage of the move starting at 3 a.m. EST.

Expedition 12 Soyuz Commander Valery Tokarev and station Commander Bill McArthur will move the craft from the Pirs Docking Compartment to the nearby Zarya module. Tokarev will undock from Pirs at about 3:40 a.m. EST. It will take about 40 minutes to complete the trip and dock at the Zarya port. The move clears Pirs for a spacewalk in early December.

NASA TV’s Public, Education and Media channels are available on an MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they’re on AMC-7 at 137 degrees
west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is required for reception. For digital downlink information for each NASA TV channel and access to NASA TV’s Public Channel on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about the Space Station and the Expedition 12 on the Web, visit,

http://www.nasa.gov/station

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

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