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Good day and welcome to Mission Control Houston
where a team of flight controllers is watching

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over the activities of the Expedition 29
crew aboard the International Space Station.

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Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineer
Satoshi Furukawa of Japan and Sergei Volkov

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of Russia are continuing their
activities of the day which focus

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on research aboard the International
Space Station.

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Today's team here at mission control is
being led by Flight Director Derek Hassmann

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with Ricky Arnold, the astronaut
in charge of communicating by voice

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with the crew on board the space station.

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In addition to what working with
various pieces of experiment work today,

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the crew is also working on some
general house cleaning activities,

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gathering trash to be stowed into the 42
progress vehicle that's going to be undocking

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from the International Space Station coming
up later in October and in anticipation

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of the arrival of the next progress spacecraft
that is scheduled launch on the 30th of October.

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That undocking of Progress 42 is
scheduled for Saturday, October the 29th

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and will clear the Pirs docking
compartment of the arrival

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of the next Progress resupply vehicle.

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In addition today, the crew worked with mission
control to do some preparations for a bit

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of a combination reboost and
debris avoidance maneuver.

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There's a small about four inch or ten
centimeter piece of Russian rocket body

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that was launched in 1991 that
is coming a little bit too close

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to the International Space Station for comfort.

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There was a reboost activity
planned for next week to prepare

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for the arrival of the Progress 45 spacecraft.

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Another such maneuver is planned
for the 19th or 20th of October.

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But because of the proximity of the debris and
the upcoming reboost maneuver the team here

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in mission control Houston coordinated with the
team in the Moscow control center to conduct

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that reboost maneuver a little early to
take care of two birds with one stone,

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reboosting the space station partially to
get ready for that upcoming progress arrival

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and also getting it out of the way of
this piece of debris that's being tracked.

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The Zvezda service module engines will be fired
for about two minutes and 49 seconds today

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at 11:45 CT, and that'll a reboost the space
station by 4.7 kilometers or about 2.9 miles,

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putting it to an increased
altitude and getting ready

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for that upcoming arrival of
the Progress 45 spacecraft.

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Again this is a part of a small piece of an
old Russian rocket body that was launched

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in December of 1991 and the team here on the
ground in Houston and in Moscow worked together

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to come together with this plan as the
tracking is showing that it might come

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within a close proximity of the space station.

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As mentioned, they'll research
this and of course some

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of the preparations the crew is making
on that are to close the shutters

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on the exterior windows for
the space station and the folks

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in mission control are feathering
the solar arrays to make sure they're

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in the proper position for the firing
of the Zvezda service module thrusters.

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Among the different research
facilities being worked

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on today were the Combustion Integrated
Rack and the Fluids Integrated Rack

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and the Commercial Bioprocessing System.

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Those various experiments continuing the
almost 40 hours a week of research is going

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on every week aboard the International Space
Station as the assembly sequence is completed

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and the full utilization of
the space station is underway.

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We do have a video clip of that Mike Fossum
sent down early this morning of his work

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with the Fluids Integrated Rack which looks
at the how fluids behave in micro-gravity.

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We will take a quick look at that clip now.

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I wanted to make sure you guys have video.

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Yes we do Mike, we're on downlink one.

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Outstanding.

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Well I wanted to welcome everybody aboard
the International Space Station today.

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I have the Fluids Integrated
Rack open right behind me.

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I'm going to dig in here and do a
little bit of work this morning.

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First is changing out a camera to give us or
giving us a better view and then I'm going

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to be changing out some samples so we can get
this rack up and running in the next few days.

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So welcome aboard, glad to have
you watching over my shoulder.

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And so the Fluids Integrated Rack is one of
the two powered racks that compose Fluids

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and Combustion Facility on the
International Space Station.

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The other the rack is called
the Combustion Integrated Rack.

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This combined set of experiment
platforms provides the opportunity to look

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at unique challenges of working with both
fluids, flame or combustion in microgravity.

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The Fluids Integrated Rack which we're looking

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at here features a large user configurable
volume for experiments and it kind

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of resembles a laboratory optics bench.

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The experiment can be built on the
bench from different components

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and the data acquisition and
control sensor interfaces.

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There is also a laser and white light sources
and advanced imaging capabilities, power cooling

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and other resources needed for a
variety of different experiments.

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It's built to accommodate a wide
range of experiments and it focuses

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on the complex fluids, interfacial phenomena,
dynamics in instabilities of fluids,

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multi-phase flows and changes
in phase of fluids.