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This is Mission Control Houston.

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The Expedition 29 crew onboard the International
Space Station has devoted a good portion

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of today's work to a variety

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of science activities while also spending time
preparing the next vehicle that is scheduled

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to depart the International Space Station.

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That coming up later this month.

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Commander Mike Fossum completed a sample
exchange in the Materials Science Laboratory.

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That MSL facility is where a variety of
different samples are put in a furnace

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for an experiment that is studying metal
solidification, semi-conductor crystal growth

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as well as measuring the thermophysical
properties of materials in space.

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Also today, Fossum and Flight Engineer Satoshi
Furukawa performed eye exams on one another.

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That's for an experiment called Tonometry in
which the measurement of eye pressure is part

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of an attempt by scientists to
judge just what impact living

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in a microgravity environment
has on a crew member's vision.

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Both those crew members spent most of the
afternoon gathering trash to be packed

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up inside a Progress vehicle that's now docked
to the aft end of the Pirs docking compartment.

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Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov
also worked on 42P stowage.

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He also had time during his day today to
setup hardware for a Russian physics research

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on crystallization, as well as to
conduct a Russian public affairs event.

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The plan is for all of those crew
members is to finish up the prepacking

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of that Progress vehicle by Monday of next week.

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Then they will be spending time
over the course of the next couple

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of weeks getting everything stowed as
needed before Progress number 42 is undocked

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from the International Space Station Oct.

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29 in advance of the arrival of a
new shipment of supplies that's due

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on another Progress vehicle -- Progress
number 45 which is due to arrive