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This is Mission Control Houston where experiment
operations have been the top priority of the day

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on Friday for the crew members onboard
the International Space Station.

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The first thing on the agenda after breakfast

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for the Expedition 29 crew
was a weekly conference

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with their Russian flight control team.

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A briefing on the work of
the week just concluded

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and the plan for the week still to come.

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They'll in fact be wrapping up
the day with a similar conference

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with their lead increment flight director
here in Houston later on in the day on Friday.

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During the morning on Friday, Commander
Mike Fossum spent his morning setting

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up the Capillary Flow experiment
hardware in the Maintenance Work Area

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and then he oversaw more fluid
test runs of that experiment.

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The Capillary Flow experiment is
investigating...well capillary flow and the flow

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of fluids that are inside containers
which have complex geometries.

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The hope there is to develop
improvements in fluid transfer systems

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that can be employed in future spacecraft.

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In the afternoon, Fossum spent time
working at the plant habitation module

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in the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing
Apparatus removing six germination flasks

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and then planting six new ones.

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After the crew's lunch, Fossum
and Flight Engineers Sergei Volkov

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and Satoshi Furukawa had a handover conference
wth their future crewmate Dan Burbank who is

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on the ground at the Johnson
Space Center in Houston finishing

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up some refresher training before
he leaves for Star City to meet

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up with Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

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The three of them will be making their
final preparations then for their launch

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to the International Space Station which is
currently targeted for the middle of November.

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On orbit today Sergei Volkov
was involved in science as well.

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He spent part of his day watering
plants in a Russian greenhouse facility

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and perfomed another experiment run in a
crystallization experiment in the Poisk module,

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as well as conducting some
regular Russian system maintenance.

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Satoshi Furukawa had a session
with the Lego bricks experiment.

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Some Lego kits that are being assembled
on orbit by the crew members and used

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to demonstrate scientific concepts.

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Furukawa planned to spend most

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of his afternoon taking sound level
measurements throughout the station to make sure

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that the sounds generated by station equipment
are at a safe level for the crew members.

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All three members of the Expedition 29 cew
have time off-duty and private conferences

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with their families coming up this weekend,
before resuming their science operations

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and packing up a Progress supply ship and
continuing their routine maintenance care