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Good Wednesday morning from the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, this is Mission Control.

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You're looking at the International
Space Station flight control room,

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from the back of the room looking
forward across the consoles,

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each staffed by a flight
controller watching over all

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of the systems aboard the
International Space Station,

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looking forward at the forward graphic showing
the location of the International Space Station.

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The flight controllers watching
over station systems

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as the orbiting complex tracks toward
the equator and the African continent,

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about midway through a daylight pass
around this Earth from this vantage point

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of 238 statute miles above the Earth.

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The station's in excellent shape as the team
of flight controllers which has been on console

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since early this morning watching
over all of those systems.

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The team once again today is being led
by veteran flight director Matt Abbott.

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He is joined at the flight director console
by Shannon Lucid, a veteran astronaut

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who is serving as the communications
link between this flight control team

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and the crew aboard the International
Space Station.

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That crew of Expedition 29, a three member crew.

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Astronaut Mike Fossum serving as commander
of Expedition 29 is joined on the left

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in this photo, Sergei Volkov
as flight engineer number four,

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who this the Soyuz TMA-02M commander,

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and Japanese Aerospace Exploration
Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa,

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flight engineer number five
on the right in this view.

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The three crew members have been aboard the
station 132 days now, and 134 days in space

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since their launch to the International
Space Station back on June 7 of this year.

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They plan to return home on
the evening of November 21.

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Their day began about 1 a.m. central
time, and they'll end their day with going

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to sleep about 4:30 in the afternoon.

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That's a typical routine day for crew members
aboard the International Space Station.

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Today their focus is on experiment work, some
life sciences, human research activities onboard

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for the crew members and also some
routine periodic maintenance activities.

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They continue with their work to stow unneeded
equipment inside a Progress supply vehicle,

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the Progress 42 vehicle you see docked to
the Pirs docking compartment at the far end

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of the Russian segment of the station.

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It's scheduled for departure from
the complex this coming Saturday

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with undocking scheduled just after
4 in the morning, central time.

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Their Soyuz spacecraft you see in the foreground
atop the Rassvet mini-research laboratory

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of the Russian segment of the station is
their trip, their ride home on November 21.

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An identical Soyuz is targeted to bring
three new crew members to the station

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to join them a little bit earlier than
their departure to give them some time

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for a handover period and then they will
depart and leave the station in the hands

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of the oncoming crew members who
will then serve as Expedition 30.

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Mike Fossum, the commander of
the crew, has spent a good deal

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of his day conducting some routine maintenance

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with the spacesuits onboard the
International Space Station.

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A number of maintenance activities occur
periodically, including battery recharging

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and also purging of some of the coolant loops to
ensure that they have a clean flow in the case

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of a need for a spacewalk aboard the complex.

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So a busy day for all three
crew members as they head off