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Welcome. This is Mission Control at the
NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston,

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and this is the Expedition 29 ISS
update for today, Monday, October 24.

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The Orbit 2 team is on duty here in the
International Space Station flight control room.

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It's being led today [by] flight director
Jerry Jason and spacecraft communicator,

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also known as capcom, astronaut Shannon Lucid.

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After two days off to give the Expedition 29
crew members a respite from their busy schedule,

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they are back today packing trash
into that Progress 42 vehicle,

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readying it to undock on Saturday.

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Progress 45 will launch on Sunday.

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Commander Mike Fossum and his
crew members Satoshi Furukawa

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and Sergei Volkov will be joined by
three new crew members on November 16.

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Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and
U.S. astronaut Dan Burbank are set to launch

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on November 13 on the Soyuz 28 docking
with the station on November 15.

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Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov will
return to Earth on November 22.

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Fossum will turn the command over to Burbank at
that point, and the crew becomes Expedition 30.

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They will work as a three-person
crew for 36 days,

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and the remainder of the Expedition 30 crew
- NASA's Don Pettit, Russian Oleg Kononenko

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and Europe's Andre Kuipers - will launch to
the station aboard the Soyuz 29 spacecraft on

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or about December 26 and dock
with the station two days later.

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In other activities today, the Russian flight
controllers will also conduct a routine checkout

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of the Kurs automated rendezvous
system for the both the passive side

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of that Zvezda service module and the
active side on the Progress 42 supply ship.

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This is part of the routine check of
that vehicle prior to the undocking.

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Fossum today will also conduct research
on the Binary Colloidal Alloy Test,

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known as the BCAT experiment, while
Furukawa continues maintenance

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on that Gradient Heating
Facility in the Kibo module.

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Fossum is working on the
first segment of the BCAT-6,

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which is the colloidal disc experiment test.

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It tests the organization of molecular
constituents in a new type of liquid crystal

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that is capable of rotating
the polarization of light.

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These experiments relate to the
applications and the design of nano-materials

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and new leading-edge materials designed
with molecular precision at the nano scale.

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[Binary Colloidal] Alloy Test experiments
lay the foundation for nano-technology

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and nano-mechanical systems in space.

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So how does that apply on Earth?

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Well, though direct applications
are not yet driven in the research,

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growth of these ordered colloidal phases
has attracted interest in such areas

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as ceramics, composites and optical fibers.

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Today Expedition 29 and 30 back at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

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Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin
conducted a news conference earlier today,

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and they are wrapping up their
tour of Red Square in Moscow

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where they laid commemorative
flowers at the Kremlin wall.

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The three crew members will fly to the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Monday

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for final preparations for
their launch to the station

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on the Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft on November 14.

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That's November 13 on U.S. time.

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Also on tap today, the three crew members
are meeting over tea with the head

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of the Russian Federal Space
Agency Vladimir Popovkin.

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For more information on the space station,
Expedition 29 and the upcoming launch

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of the Progress 45 and the Soyuz that will
carry the remainder of the Expedition 29 crew,

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