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Good morning and welcome to
today's Expedition 29 ISS Update.

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Onboard right now is the crew of Expedition 29,
which consists of NASA astronauts Mike Fossum

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and Dan Burbank, who's the current
commander of the International Space Station.

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On the far left you see Japanese
astronaut Satoshi Furukawa,

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and then Russian cosmonaut Sergei
Volkov, and they are further joined

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by Russian cosmonauts Anton
Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

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Big item for today is going to
be the landing of half that crew.

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Fossum, Volkov and Furukawa are
scheduled to return to Earth,

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landing in Kazakhstan later tonight.

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They've been onboard the station since June 9.

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Commander Mike Fossum was the commander
of Expedition 29 till yesterday

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when they participated in a change of
command ceremony where he passed that command

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over to NASA astronaut Dan Burbank.

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Crew is scheduled to get inside their Soyuz
TMA-02M later this afternoon for landing

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with hatch closure scheduled to take
place at about 1:45 p.m. Coverage

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of that hatch closure will
start, will begin on NASA TV

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at 1:15 p.m. central, 2:15 p.m. eastern time.

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Undocking coverage will begin on NASA TV
at 4:30 p.m. central, 5:30 p.m. eastern,

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setting up for an undocking at 5
p.m. central time, 6 p.m. eastern.

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That is when the Soyuz spacecraft will then
separate from the International Space Station,

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perform a number of deorbit or separation
burns as it maintains a safe distance away

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from the station prepping it
for its final deorbit burn.

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Coverage of that deorbit burn and landing
will begin at 7 p.m. central, 8 p.m. eastern,

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with that deorbit burn scheduled to take
place at 7:32 p.m. central, 8:32 p.m. eastern.

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And all this sets up for a
final landing in Kazakhstan

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at 8:25 p.m. central time, 9:25 p.m. eastern.

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Crew is moving into the beginning
hours of their day, with Fossum

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and Furukawa doing some deorbit
prep work and getting

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in their last day of exercise while on orbit.

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Furukawa is also participating in
some storing of medical samples.

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These are for the Integrated Immune experiment,

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which is just one of the many biomedical
experiments that are conducted on station.

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These astronauts themselves are
experiments while they are crew members.

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Rounding out that Soyuz spacecraft
will be command...

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Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, who's doing a
lot of stowage work moving any final experiments

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and supplies inside the Soyuz as they prepare
to leave the station and return to Earth.

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He's also taking some photographs of the
external surface of their Soyuz spacecraft

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and those will be downlinked to ground
controllers on the ground for analysis

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as they prepare to undock and
re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.

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And then once they're onboard

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that Soyuz spacecraft he will perform
all the final system activations

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and checkouts including the comm systems
and leak checks once the hatch is closed.

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Current space station commander Dan Burbank
started his day with some Reaction self tests,

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which again are part of those biomedical
experiments that the crews conduct on themselves

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and each other as they're onboard
the International Space Station.

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He then had some of his morning exercise.

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He then did some EXPRESS rack configuration,
which those racks contain the majority

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of International Space Station experiments.

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Later in the day he'll do some maintenance
work on the water recovery system,

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which is set up as part of a closed
loop system inside the station

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to help recycle both waste and spent water.

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He'll be assembling and activating a
fluid transfer pump, which helps to filter

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out any particulates from
any already stored water.

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And then at the end of his day he'll
relocate some emergency equipment

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and replace some batteries
inside an experiment camera.

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His Russian colleagues that'll be staying
onboard the station with him after Fossum,

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Furukawa and Volkov leave, Anton
Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin,

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will be doing some maintenance
work on the Russian side

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of the space station including
some maintenance activation

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of the Vozdukh emergency vacuum valves.

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The Vozdukh is a carbon dioxide scrubber that
helps maintain the atmosphere at safe levels

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for the International Space Station crew.

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And Anatoly Ivanishin will be working
on an atmosphere purification system,

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which also helps the crew maintain a safe
breathing atmosphere while they're onboard.

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They'll be helping Sergei Volkov transfer a
lot of items over to the Soyuz as it prepares

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to land including numerous biology experiments,
which will return to Earth for further analysis

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by controllers and scientists on the ground.

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They will help with some comm configurations
with the Soyuz as it prepares to leave

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and will also photograph
the Soyuz after it undock,

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making sure everything is going
nominally, and then following

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that they will return the International Space
Station to its normal communications operations