1 00:00:00,036 --> 00:00:06,656 Good morning and welcome to Mission Control Houston 2 00:00:06,656 --> 00:00:08,336 and the International Space Station Update. 3 00:00:08,336 --> 00:00:15,026 The three Expedition 29 crew members onboard the International Space Station have been joined 4 00:00:15,026 --> 00:00:21,596 in space, though not yet at the space station, by three additional Expedition 29 crew members. 5 00:00:21,596 --> 00:00:26,066 NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov 6 00:00:26,176 --> 00:00:32,046 and Anatoly Ivanishin launched in their Soyuz TMA-22 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome 7 00:00:32,106 --> 00:00:36,086 in Kazakhstan at 10:14 p.m. Central time on Sunday. 8 00:00:36,626 --> 00:00:41,336 They are currently orbiting the Earth above the Atlantic Ocean east of South America 9 00:00:41,936 --> 00:00:44,036 and trailing behind the International Space Station 10 00:00:44,096 --> 00:00:47,406 which is 234 miles above Indonesia at the moment. 11 00:00:47,606 --> 00:00:53,406 The two vehicles are scheduled to meet up at 11:33 p.m. Central time tomorrow Tuesday 12 00:00:53,406 --> 00:00:57,056 when the Soyuz will be docking to the station's Russian Poisk module. 13 00:00:58,116 --> 00:01:01,086 NASA TV coverage of that event will begin at 11 p.m. Central 14 00:01:01,556 --> 00:01:05,266 and the docking itself will be followed by a post-docking news conference from Russia. 15 00:01:06,766 --> 00:01:11,566 Then at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday the Expedition 29 crew currently at the station, 16 00:01:12,066 --> 00:01:15,556 U.S. Commander Mike Fossum, Russian Flight Engineer Sergei Volkov 17 00:01:15,996 --> 00:01:20,856 and Japanese Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa, will be opening the space station hatches 18 00:01:20,856 --> 00:01:22,656 and welcoming their new crewmates aboard. 19 00:01:25,256 --> 00:01:30,516 Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa spent part of their day, which began at Midnight Central time, 20 00:01:30,796 --> 00:01:33,446 preparing for their colleagues arrival, but they've also spent part 21 00:01:33,446 --> 00:01:35,086 of their day preparing for their departure. 22 00:01:36,196 --> 00:01:40,626 They launched to the space station in their own Soyuz vehicle on June 7 and docked 23 00:01:40,626 --> 00:01:45,866 to the space station on June 9, which means that they're wrapping up now their 160th day in space 24 00:01:46,456 --> 00:01:48,806 and their 158th day at the space station. 25 00:01:49,456 --> 00:01:52,626 That in turn means that they've almost reached the end of their stay. 26 00:01:53,066 --> 00:01:57,166 They're scheduled to undock from the space station a week from today on November 21 27 00:01:57,936 --> 00:02:00,676 and return to earth for landing in Kazakhstan. 28 00:02:01,676 --> 00:02:06,186 Despite all of those comings and goings and the preparations associated with them, 29 00:02:06,316 --> 00:02:09,676 the crew currently on board the space station has also managed to squeeze 30 00:02:09,676 --> 00:02:11,216 in a good bit of scientific work. 31 00:02:12,096 --> 00:02:14,346 Fossum worked today with the SpaceDRUMS, 32 00:02:14,346 --> 00:02:20,736 or Space Dynamically Responding Ultrasonic Matrix System experiment which aims 33 00:02:20,736 --> 00:02:22,916 to provide a suite of hardware capable 34 00:02:22,916 --> 00:02:26,116 of facilitating containerless advanced materials science. 35 00:02:26,806 --> 00:02:30,566 He also performed an ultrasound on his leg as part of the Sprint experiment 36 00:02:30,566 --> 00:02:36,156 which evaluates the use of high-intensity, low volume exercise training to minimize muscle, 37 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:39,396 bone and cardiovascular function loss during long stays in space. 38 00:02:40,406 --> 00:02:46,096 And he worked with the BCAT-6 experiment, or Binary Colloidal Alloy Test-6, 39 00:02:46,706 --> 00:02:52,166 which uses microscopic particles, or colloids, as models for studying the fundamental physics 40 00:02:52,166 --> 00:02:56,416 of a theoretically predicted, but until now unseen, liquid crystal phase.