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This is Mission Control Houston.

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It’s been a full day of science operations
for the International Space Station’s Expedition

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29 crew.

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Early this morning, Commander Mike Fossum
did a battery change-out on the apparatus

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housing the Binary Colloidal Alloy Test.

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Once he got the hardware in good shape, he
then monitored another test run in that facility

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and later did a data take on the PASSAGES
experiment.

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That’s an investigation into how astronauts
interpret visual information after a long

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time spent in weightlessness , how they may
do so now differently than they did before

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that time in a zero-gravity environment.

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Fossum also spent time today working with
Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa conducting

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another eye exam protocol on one another as
part of the normal health monitoring for all

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crew members onboard.

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Today’s eye exam was devoted to a measurement
of the crew members’ retinas.

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For Furukawa, he started off his day gathering
more video of the northern hemisphere aurora

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using the super-sensitive high-definition
video camera that’s located in the station’s

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cupola module.

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Furukawa also had to update some computer
network printouts, and he conducted another

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data take in the PASSAGES experiment as Fossum
had done, before spending most of his afternoon

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working on trash collection.

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The station crew is trying to finish up the
pre-packing for Progress number 42 by this

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coming Monday and then start loading the cargo
ship for its departure, which is schedule

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for near the end of the month today.

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Fossum and Furukawa also took time in the
early part of their afternoon to conduct an

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interview with CBS news to talk about the
progress of their flight so far.

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Their crewmate, Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov,
spent time in the Russian section of the space

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station watering the plants in a biology experiment
module before moving on to monitoring an experiment

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run that took place in a crystallization experiment
that is running inside the Poisk module of

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the Russian section of the space station.

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Volkov also took about an hour during his
afternoon to shoot video of station operations.

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That video will be used in handover operations
with the next set of crew members who are

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due to arrive at the International Space Station
next month.

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The science operation are on schedule to continue
on Friday with more operations in the Capillary

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Flow Experiment, the gathering of seedlings
and planting new seeds in a plant habitat,