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Good day. This is Mission Control Houston,
where a team of flight controllers is watching

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over the systems aboard the International
Space Station as it orbits 240 miles

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above the north Pacific, heading for a crossing

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of the Pacific northwestern
coast in just a few minutes.

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All systems onboard the space
station are working very well.

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Yesterday the team completed a reboost
of the International Space Station,

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putting it at almost the right altitude
for the arrival of the next cargo ship.

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The Progress 45 spacecraft is scheduled
to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan at 5:11 a.m.
Central time on October 30.

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That'll be immediately after the
Progress 42 spacecraft undocks

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from the space station's
Pirs docking compartment,

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freeing up that port on Saturday October 29.

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The new Progress is scheduled to
dock to the Pirs docking compartment

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at 6:42 a.m. Central time on November 2.

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Onboard the International Space Station
Commander Mike Fossum of Expedition 29 along

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with Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and
Sergei Volkov are conducting a day's worth

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of experiment activities and preparations for
the departure of that Progress spacecraft.

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They started their day about 1 a.m.
Central time, and have been working

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on a variety of different experiments.

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Furukawa working with some
educational activities

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in the Kibo laboratory module provided by
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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And with the construction of
some Lego bricks which were part

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of an educational experiment sent up
to the International Space Station.

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Commander Mike Fossum has been working
with the Capillary Flow Experiment,

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which is a fluids physics experiment that
investigates how fluids move up surfaces

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in microgravity that could lead to future
improvements in tanks for spacecraft

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that use this property to get flow fuel to
their engines in the microgravity environment.

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The team onboard the space
station also has had some help

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from Mission Control taking some images of
Tropical Storm Ophelia over the Atlantic Ocean.

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Here's a video replay of that view of Ophelia.

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It's a category 3 storm now
at 150 miles per hour.

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It's moving north-northwest at
12 miles an hour to far east

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of the Bahamas, not threatening any land masses.

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This was one of the items in the Crew
Earth Observation targets for today.

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As it pulled away from the northern
Leeward Islands heading north-northwest

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out over the open waters of the Atlantic.

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Showing some pretty compact
circulation and becoming better organized

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and so a very good target for Earth
observations as the crew and the team here

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in Mission Control watch the eye of the
storm which we can see in this close-up

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which was recorded earlier today.

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The crew onboard the space station also
taking some pictures of the configurations

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of the different experiment racks onboard the
International Space Station in preparation

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for the arrival of the next members of the
Expedition 29 crew, which are scheduled

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to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan on the 21st of November.

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That'll be...

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Correction, November 14.

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That'll be Dan Burbank from NASA, along
with Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin

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from the Russian Federal Space Agency.

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They're schedule to dock with the International
Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft

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at 11:45 p.m. Central time on November 15.

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And then it'll be the departing
crew of Volkov, Fossum and Furukawa

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who are leaving the space
station at 8:21 for a...

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on the 21st of November heading for a landing
in Kazakhstan at 8:21 p.m. Central time.

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Crew onboard the space station now conducting
some VHF communication checks with a couple

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of ground stations in the United States
as we are passing over these opportunities

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in preparation for possible emergency
communications in the event that we not be able

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to use our tracking and data
relay satellite system,

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which is the normal high-rate communication
system used by the space station

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for space to ground transmissions.

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Today in Mission Control Courtenay
McMillan is the flight director in charge

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of the activities of the team here.

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She's working closely with
Spacecraft Communicator Jay Marschke