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Good morning and welcome to Mission Control
Houston and International Space Station update.

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We're joining the International
Space Station flight control team

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in the space station flight control room here
at the Mission Control Center here in Houston,

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where the Orbit 2 team is on console at this
time, led today by flight director Emily Nelson,

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who's getting help from Capcom
Josh Matthew today.

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Onboard the International Space Station,
the Expedition 29 crew is more than halfway

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through their day, which began
at midnight, central time.

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U.S. Commander Mike Fossum as well as
Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov

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and Japanese Flight Engineer Satoshi
Furukawa are currently orbiting 238 miles

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above the Pacific Ocean, heading
for the coast of California.

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In the next few minutes Fossum, Volkov and
Furukawa will be passing over California,

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Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming,
Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota.

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They're working on their 156th day in space
and their 154th day at the space station.

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They launch in a Soyuz June 7, and
docked to the space station on June 9,

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which means that they're coming up now on
the end of their stay at the space station.

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They actually spent some time
earlier today performing leak checks

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of their Russian Sokol suits they'll
be wearing for the return home,

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which is schedule for November 21.

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But before they can leave their
replacements have to arrive,

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which they'll be doing next week.

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NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin are already in
Kazakhstan at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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where they'll be launching to the space
station inside of their Soyuz TMA-22

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at 10:14 p.m. central time on Sunday.

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Countdown will actually begin at 2:44
p.m. on Sunday with NASA TV coverage

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of the activities kicking off at 9:30
p.m. Crew has been busy this week

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with pre-launch preparations in Baikonur.

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We actually have some photos of
their preparations to show you.

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Photo here of Dan Burbank during an inspection
of, a final inspection of the Soyuz that he

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and his crew will be riding in
at the Integration Facility.

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And here Burbank is seen signing a poster of a
Soyuz launch at the Korolev Museum on Wednesday.

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He and his crew members and their backup
crew all toured that museum on Wednesday.

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And here is a photo of Burbank
with his crew in front

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of the Soyuz again during the final inspection
of the vehicle at the integration facility.

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From left to right.

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From left to right here you can see Anatoly
Ivanishin, Anton Shkaplerov and Dan Burbank.

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And here's the crew with
their backup crew members.

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In addition to the individuals you've
already seen there's also Joe Acaba,

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NASA astronaut who'll be backing up Dan
Burbank and Sergei Revin and Gennady Padalka.

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This again is taken at the Korolev Museum
on Wednesday when the crew was touring

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to get a look at some of the history
behind the Russian space program.

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And Dan Burbank here during some
downtime in their preparations for launch.

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Again Burbank, Ivanishin and Shkaplerov are
scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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on Sunday at 10:14 p.m. central time.

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That'll put them on course to dock to the
space station's Poisk mini-research module 2

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at 11:33 p.m. central time on Tuesday.

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And in the meantime Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa
are spending their day in space preparing

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for their own departure,
again with that leak check

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of their Russian Sokol suits
and some packing work.

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Also be doing a few science experiments
including one that Fossum is working on,

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an integrated cardiovascular experiment,