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Hello and welcome to Mission Control Houston.

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We're inside the International
Space Station Flight Control Room.

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The team here is monitoring systems aboard
the space station and following along

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with the activities of the Expedition
29 crew onboard the complex.

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The crew members are working through
the early afternoon of their day.

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Today is Tuesday Oct. 11.

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The crew members include
cosmonaut Sergei Volkov

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and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut
Satoshi Furukawa and NASA astronuat Mike Fossum

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who is the commander of the space station.

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The crew members have started their
week off onboard the space station

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with some maintenance activities
and science work.

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The maintenance work involves some upgrades to
the Water Recovery System onboard the station

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that recycles the water and
urine onboard for later use.

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The work in that involved upgrading
a filter inside of the system to one

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that is reusable instead of
needing to be replaced occasionally

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and is now called the Advanced
Recycle Filter Tank.

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There's also been associated
maintenance that is done routinely

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with the Water Recovery System taking
samples and filling tanks inside the system,

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as well as some work with the Environmental
Health System aboard the station.

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Some other upgrades included some software
onboard the complex on one of the racks

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that support science experiments inside with
that upload of new software to the laptops

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that interface with the science experiments.

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Some of the experiments that the
crew members have been working

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on include one for educational activities.

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Furukawa was participating
in the Lego bricks payload.

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It's a series of toy Lego kits that are
assembled onboard the station and used

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to demonstrate scientific concepts.

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Some of the models include satellites and a
scale model of the International Space Station

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and the one working with
today is an exploration rover.

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An experiment that Fossum
will work with is called PACE,

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Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment,

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which is actually a pathway
experiment...pathfinder experiment

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for a later advanced colloids experiment
that will fly to the space station.

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The current experiment is characterizing
the conditions onboard the space station

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to allow the future experiment to fly
samples that may have an important impact

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on our understanding of fundamental physics
and also help with technology demonstrations

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in extending the shelf life of consumables
on future long duration missions based

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on the data from that experiment.

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Cosmonaut Volkov has also been working
with experiments, one called Pneumocard

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which is an integrated study of the
adaptation of the cardiovascular system

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of crew members during a long
duration microgravity mission.

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Students here on Earth are welcome to
participate in experiments onboard the station.

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One of those announced this weekend where
students can actually propose an idea

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for an experiment in a global competition
and two winners will be announced in January

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and both of those experiments will fly
aboard the space station next year.

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The experiments will be performed on
the U.S. portion of the space station

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that has been desginated a national laboratory.

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Students from 14 to 18 years old are
invited to participate in that competition.

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They are to submit a two-minute
video application by Dec. 7

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via YouTube in up to three experiments
in either life sciences or physics.

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There's more information on the YouTube website