The six-member International Space Station crew will have a busy schedule in the coming days. On Sunday, October 28, 2012, the privately owned Dragon cargo ship, which arrived at the station on Oct. 10, is due to depart. The Space Exploration Technologies' freighter, making the first of 12 supply runs under a 1.6 billion NASA contract, will be returning with more than one ton (907 kg) of science experiments and gear from the orbital outpost, the first big load of cargo to come back to Earth since the space shuttles stopped flying more than a year ago. NASA-TV will provide live coverage of the private spacecraft DEPARTURE ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER, 28, 2012 AT 7:00 AM. The departure time from ISS is set for 9:26 AM EDT. Splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of California is expected at about 3:20 pm EDT. The astronauts and cosmonauts also are preparing for the arrival of a Russian cargo ship PROGRESS 49P (PROGRESS M-17M) on Wednesday, OCTOBER 31, 2012 and a spacewalk the following day, Thursday, November 1, 2012 by space station commander and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. The two will repair a leak in a station cooling system.
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