1
00:00:00,950 --> 00:00:05,280
Good day, and welcome to Mission Control Houston
where the team of flight controllers is watching

2
00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:11,100
over systems aboard the International Space
Station as it travels about 230 statute miles

3
00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:13,820
over the eastern coast of the United States.

4
00:00:13,820 --> 00:00:18,610
On duty today as the flight director in
charge is Emily Nelson, with Shannon Lucid,

5
00:00:18,610 --> 00:00:21,690
a veteran astronaut, serving as
the spacecraft communicator talking

6
00:00:21,690 --> 00:00:25,920
to the Expedition 29 crew aboard
the International Space Station.

7
00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:27,580
Of course that's Commander Mike Fossum

8
00:00:27,580 --> 00:00:31,860
and Flight Engineers Sergei
Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa.

9
00:00:31,860 --> 00:00:35,990
Of course Volkov from the Russian
Federal Space Agency and Furukawa

10
00:00:35,990 --> 00:00:40,720
from the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency, two of the key partners for NASA

11
00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:46,700
on this orbiting outpost, along with European
Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.

12
00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:51,860
Today has been a day for these three
crewmembers devoted primarily toward preparation

13
00:00:51,860 --> 00:00:56,700
for the arrival of new crewmembers
and for their departure.

14
00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:02,370
The newest members of the crew are scheduled
to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

15
00:01:02,370 --> 00:01:07,420
in Kazakhstan late the evening
of November 14, Houston time.

16
00:01:07,420 --> 00:01:12,810
That'll be Dan Burbank, the future commander of
the space station along with Anatoly Ivanishin

17
00:01:12,810 --> 00:01:17,090
and Anton Shkaplerov two of the Russian
crewmates that'll be joining this crew,

18
00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:21,960
these existing three crewmembers for
a relatively short handover period.

19
00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:26,960
The handover period only about six days
long because of the delay in launch

20
00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:31,770
of the next three crewmembers following the
failure of one of the Progress launch vehicles

21
00:01:31,770 --> 00:01:36,520
which had some similarities to the Soyuz rocket
that will be used to launch those crewmembers.

22
00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,630
The Russian team in the Russian
Federal Space Agency

23
00:01:40,630 --> 00:01:44,600
and their contractors have done a
thorough view of the cause of that,

24
00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:47,570
determined it was some debris
in one of the fuel lines.

25
00:01:47,570 --> 00:01:50,740
They had a successful launch
of the Progress 45 spacecraft,

26
00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:56,260
which has arrived at the International Space
Station, is in the process of being unloaded,

27
00:01:56,260 --> 00:02:00,300
and have reported in today's flight
readiness review conducted here

28
00:02:00,300 --> 00:02:05,290
at the Johnson Space Center in Houston by
mission managers led by Bill Gerstenmaier,

29
00:02:05,290 --> 00:02:10,460
the head of Human Spaceflight operations
for NASA, that everything is looking good

30
00:02:10,460 --> 00:02:15,400
for the upcoming launch of the remaining
three crewmembers and the return of Fossum,

31
00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:21,100
Furukawa and Volkov back home to
Earth after their six months on orbit.

32
00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:26,020
Among the things the crew did today in addition
to preparing for their departure and the arrival

33
00:02:26,020 --> 00:02:31,280
of their new crewmates was to do a
reconfiguration of some power systems.

34
00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:37,790
They did a jumper installation on Destiny
laboratory secondary power distribution system

35
00:02:37,790 --> 00:02:41,350
to add some additional redundancy to
the power systems on the space station.

36
00:02:41,350 --> 00:02:44,770
They have been noticing some
irregularities in the signals

37
00:02:44,770 --> 00:02:49,390
from one of the main bus switching units.

38
00:02:49,390 --> 00:02:54,060
There are four of these located on the S0 part
of the truss; that's where the truss connects

39
00:02:54,060 --> 00:02:56,170
to the Destiny laboratory module.

40
00:02:56,170 --> 00:02:59,970
And just to provide the maximum
redundancy of that switching unit

41
00:02:59,970 --> 00:03:05,180
that routes power throughout the space station,
they installed a jumper inside the lab,

42
00:03:05,180 --> 00:03:08,210
and that all has been completed well.

43
00:03:08,210 --> 00:03:11,100
Crew also today did some experiment work.

44
00:03:11,100 --> 00:03:16,680
One of the experiments that they worked
on was called SODI by its nickname,

45
00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:20,420
which stands for Selectable
Optical Diagnostics Instrument,

46
00:03:20,420 --> 00:03:23,540
and it's an aggregation of colloidal solutions.

47
00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:27,700
Colloidal solutions are those like paint,
where you have solids that are suspended

48
00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:33,610
within the liquid, and this particular
experiment studies how those kinds

49
00:03:33,610 --> 00:03:41,360
of colloids aggregate or mass within the
liquids onboard in the microgravity environment.

50
00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,010
One of the most promising
applications of this kind

51
00:03:44,010 --> 00:03:49,300
of colloidal engineering is the
fabrication of photonic devices.

52
00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:54,830
These devices have to have structures whose
scale length is comparable to the wavelength

53
00:03:54,830 --> 00:03:58,760
of light, and are ordered
in all three dimensions.

54
00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,010
Gravity plays a disturbing role in
the development of these on the Earth,

55
00:04:02,010 --> 00:04:06,500
so these space experiments are looking
at how we can improve on those materials.

56
00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:11,900
Satoshi Furukawa was the main person
working on those activities today.

57
00:04:15,170 --> 00:04:18,830
And you can see him in these live downlinks
as he's working with the setup of some

58
00:04:18,830 --> 00:04:24,080
of the optical equipment that's
associated with that SODI experiment.

59
00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,910
Also on tap today were some routine
water processing apparatus activities

60
00:04:29,910 --> 00:04:31,040
by Commander Mike Fossum.

61
00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:36,190
Fossum was working on doing...

62
00:04:43,310 --> 00:04:48,350
topping off of a water recovery
system waste storage tank.

63
00:04:48,350 --> 00:04:50,340
That's the tank that stores the brine

64
00:04:50,340 --> 00:04:53,950
from the water recovery system aboard
the International Space Station,

65
00:04:53,950 --> 00:04:59,580
which recycles human waste, urine, and
eventually turns it into pure drinking water

66
00:04:59,580 --> 00:05:04,360
that can be used by the crew for a variety
of purposes including meal preparation,

67
00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,300
hygiene and other uses onboard
the space station.

68
00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:16,290
Some pretty spectacular views coming down of
the eastern coast of United States and Canada

69
00:05:16,290 --> 00:05:22,350
over Newfoundland as the International
Space Station orbits about 230 statute miles

70
00:05:22,350 --> 00:05:27,630
over the Canadian partner in the
International Space Station effort.

71
00:05:27,630 --> 00:05:31,690
Fairly cloudy up there as
winter begins to set in.

72
00:05:36,850 --> 00:05:41,360
But overall, all systems on the International
Space Station functioning very well

73
00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:46,080
as we get ready for the arrival of the
new set of crewmembers scheduled to launch

74
00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:50,970
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan on November 13.

75
00:05:50,970 --> 00:05:56,050
That's going to be a Sunday night here
in Houston at 10:14 p.m. central time.

76
00:05:56,050 --> 00:06:02,080
It'll actually be just the opposite on
the clock at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

77
00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,690
in Kazakhstan, so it'll be a daytime launch.

78
00:06:04,690 --> 00:06:10,260
And then they'll be docking their spacecraft
to the Poisk module of the space station

79
00:06:10,260 --> 00:06:14,910
at 11:33 p.m. central time on November 15.

80
00:06:14,910 --> 00:06:17,940
And that will round out the
crew to six people once again,

81
00:06:17,940 --> 00:06:28,040
but only for six days while they conduct a
rapid handover before Fossum and his colleagues,

82
00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,250
Furukawa and Volkov, return home to Earth
after the end of their six month stay on orbit.

83
00:06:33,250 --> 00:06:36,580
Change of command ceremony from
handing over the command from Fossum

84
00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:40,060
to Burbank is schedule for Sunday, November 20.