1 00:00:02,076 --> 00:00:04,266 Hello and welcome to Mission Control Houston. 2 00:00:04,266 --> 00:00:07,306 We're inside the International Space Station Flight Control Room. 3 00:00:07,846 --> 00:00:11,136 Where this team you see is monitoring systems onboard the space station. 4 00:00:11,636 --> 00:00:13,536 All is functioning well at this time. 5 00:00:14,386 --> 00:00:15,376 It's Friday Oct. 6 00:00:15,376 --> 00:00:18,836 14 for today's Expedition 29 ISS Update. 7 00:00:22,906 --> 00:00:27,436 The crew members onboard the space station include station commander Mike Fossum 8 00:00:27,846 --> 00:00:32,976 and flight engineers cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. 9 00:00:41,446 --> 00:00:45,976 The crew members today are focusing on some maintenance work inside the space station. 10 00:00:45,976 --> 00:00:51,236 Fossum is putting together and installing a cable 11 00:00:51,356 --> 00:00:55,656 for the Inter-Satellite Communications System in the Japanese Kibo laboratory. 12 00:00:55,716 --> 00:01:00,756 It is a jumper cable that is to provide power to components in an alternate method 13 00:01:00,846 --> 00:01:06,126 since the system has been shut down due to a possible short circuit inside. 14 00:01:11,796 --> 00:01:15,936 Furukawa is working inside the Columbus laboratory. 15 00:01:16,846 --> 00:01:25,856 His task is to inspect, clean, disinfect and cover a few water on/off valves. 16 00:01:29,456 --> 00:01:35,006 That procedure was developed after debris was found on another valve and determined to be 17 00:01:35,006 --> 00:01:37,686 from condensation collected on the cold valve. 18 00:01:37,686 --> 00:01:45,246 So the covering is to prevent the condensation from collecting on these valves as well. 19 00:01:46,156 --> 00:01:52,106 Inside the Russian segment, Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov is working on packing up equipment 20 00:01:52,106 --> 00:01:56,076 and supplies, or equipment and trash, that are no longer needed 21 00:01:56,076 --> 00:02:01,056 on the station inside the 42 Progress cargo vehicle that is attached 22 00:02:01,056 --> 00:02:03,336 to the Pirs docking compartment and airlock. 23 00:02:03,336 --> 00:02:05,486 That will be undocking on Oct. 24 00:02:05,486 --> 00:02:10,786 29 to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere to discard that trash. 25 00:02:11,876 --> 00:02:14,446 Volkov is also continuing work with an experiment 26 00:02:14,566 --> 00:02:17,676 that he's been conducting this week called the Coulomb Crystal 27 00:02:17,676 --> 00:02:22,686 which observes how a magnetic field can control materials that do not mix or react. 28 00:02:28,956 --> 00:02:34,626 The crew members are then scheduled for a light-duty or off-duty weekend as usual 29 00:02:34,626 --> 00:02:37,016 and will continue on with their science