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This is the International Space Station
Update for Tuesday September 13.

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The six-member Expedition 28 crew has
been busy preparing for the departure

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of expedition Commander Andrey Borisenko along

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with Flight Engineers Alexander
Samokutyaev and Ron Garan.

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Garan, Borisenko and Samokutyaev are
in their Soyuz spacecraft again today,

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rehearsing for descent procedures
and reviewing emergency roles

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and responsibilities one last time before
they undock from the Poisk module on Thursday.

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The three will land in the southern steppe
of Kazakhstan at 11 p.m. Central time.

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Coverage begins on NASA Television at 9:30
Central time for deorbit burn and landing.

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Before wrapping up their 162 days on the
station, Borisenko will hand over Command

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to fellow crew member U.S.
astronaut Mike Fossum.

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He'll do that on Wednesday in a ceremony
planned for 4:40 p.m. Central time.

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It will be televised on NASA TV.

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Expedition 29 will officially begin
with the undocking on Thursday.

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Remaining on the station with Fossum

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for Expedition 29 will be
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov

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and Japanese space agency
astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.

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Joining them later will be
Dan Burbank, U.S. astronaut,

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and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly
Ivanishin and Anton Shkaplerov.

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In activities on the station today, the crew
is continuing to monitor Texas wildfires.

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There have been reports of a few new
fires including one in East Texas,

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and they've been keeping an eye on
that Tropical Storm Maria as she churns

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across the Atlantic away from the United States.

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Flight Engineer Ron Garan today activated
the microgravity glovebox in the lab.

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Monday he cleaned that filter in the glovebox.

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And Furukawa also completed his work
on that Marangoni Surface equipment.

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The Japanese space agency experiment is a
study of surface-flow tension of liquids

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that will continue on the
space station through 2015.

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Knowledge from that experiment
should help improve semi-conductors

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which means better electronics
like cell phones and computers.

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Crew members are also scheduled to capture video
and photographs of cites of Damascus and Riyadh

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and also Washington state's
famous volcano Mount St. Helens.

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Furukawa also checked on the status
of the [Bioserve] experiments.

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This one focuses on the production
of antibiotic processes.

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It could one day improve the
production of antibiotics here on Earth.

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Furukawa also relocated [the] Tissue
Equivalent Proportional Counter

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which actually is a[n] instrument that measures
the radiation inside the space station.