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Good morning and welcome to today's
International Space Station update hour.

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Getting a look now inside the International
Space Station flight control room

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as ground controllers monitor the
systems on board the floating complex.

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Today's team is currently being led by Flight
Director Jerry Jason, and joining him at CAPCOM,

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it's veteran astronaut Shannon Lucid.

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Space station currently orbiting
off the southeastern tip of Africa

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at an altitude of about 260 statute miles.

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It's moving into an orbital sunset, and
then on board is the Expedition 30 crew.

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Here you can see them now.

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In the center is NASA astronaut and
Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank,

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and to the left is Russian
cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.

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And on the right joining them is another
Russian cosmonaut, Anatoly Ivanishin.

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The three docked to the space station back on
November 15 in their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft

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and then started their Expedition 30
increment last week after the departure

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of Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum.

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The remaining three members of Expedition 30
will launch on December 21 to join Burbank,

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Shkaplerov and Ivanishin and round
out the crew of Expedition 30.

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Here you can see them with
European astronaut Andre Kuipers,

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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko
and NASA astronaut Don Pettit.

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Again they will launch December 21 bringing
the station back to its six-man crew rotation.

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Fairly busy day today on orbit as the
crew awakened about midnight Central time,

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began their day with routine medical
checks, taking body mass measurements

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and other muscle measurements and then conducted
a daily planning conference with control centers

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around the world as they went
over the day's activities.

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NASA astronaut Dan Burbank started his
day off with some camera positioning

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as the crew is videotaping a lot
of their exercise activities today.

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He set up that camera to videotape the ARED,

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which stands for the Advanced Resistive Exercise
Device, just one of the many exercise pieces

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of equipment that they have
on board the station.

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You can see that now.

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It functions as a squat bar as the astronauts
can do muscle training to maintain bone mass

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and muscle strength while in
that microgravity environment.

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He's also doing some extensive work
today on the Combustion Integrated Rack

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and the Fluids Integrated Rack, which together
make up the Fluids and Combustion Facility,

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and he's getting that ready for
some upcoming experiment work.

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That Combustion Integrated Rack has an optics
bench, a combustion chamber and then fuel

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and oxidizer controls for performing a variety
of combustion experiments in microgravity.

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He'll be installing some alignment guides as
they prepare that for further utilization.

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Following that, he'll be completing
a periodic medical exam before moving

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on to replace an air filter in
the Waste and Hygiene Compartment,

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which is one of the crew Waste
Management System components.

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And following that, he'll move on to
a Treadmill Kinematics experiment,

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and this is a rigorous experiment which
helps to quantify the biomechanics

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of treadmill exercise conditions
as these astronauts are

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on board for long-duration space flights.

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Here you can see the TVIS,
which stands for the Treadmill

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with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization.

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That is a treadmill that the astronauts run on
and is insulated so the microgravity experiments

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on board the station aren't affected
detrimentally from any vibration that is caused

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by the astronauts running on those treadmills.

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The objective of that experiment today will be

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to determine the most beneficial exercise
conditions that can be used to maintain

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or improve crew member health during
their long-duration space flight.

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Later on in the day, Commander
Burbank will be doing some inspections

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of Portable Breathing Apparatuses
as well as some work

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in the Minus Eighty-degree Laboratory Freezer,
or MELFI, which is used to sustain a wide range

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of life science experiments by preserving
biological samples that are collected

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on board the station for later
return and analysis back on Earth.

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They store these samples at very low
temperatures to maintain their integrity.

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He'll finish off his day with some final
work on that Combustion Integrated Rack,

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relocating some gas delivery bottles and
then doing some software upgrades on one

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of the communication units on board the station.

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His crewmate Anton Shkaplerov
started his day off by rigging

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up his Human Research Facility Holter
monitor, which is a battery-powered,

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non-invasive electro-cardiogram device that
is used to accurately measure the heart rate

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of crew members over an extended period of time.

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He'll wear this for about 24 hours as part
of an experiment to monitor his heart rate.

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Following this, he completed a periodic health
exam and then got some exercise on that TVIS,

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that treadmill that we just
showed you previously.

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Then moving on through his day, he began
the transfer of items from Progress 45,

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which launched back on October 30 and
docked with the station on November 2.

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Progress is that cargo supply vehicle
launched on the Russian rockets.

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Here you can see it docked, and above it
is the Soyuz TMA-22, which brought the crew

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to the International Space
Station back in November.

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His day will be rounded out by changing
a dust collector filter cartridge

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on the Zvezda service module, which
is one of the Russian segment pieces.

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And then he will be copying some data from
a micro-accelerometer experiment to a laptop

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and then getting in one last bit
of exercise on that ARED device.

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Then the third member of the Expedition 30
crew Anatoly Ivanishin is also doing some dust

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collector filter work but on the Zarya
module and also getting some exercise in on

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that ARED device and doing a
monthly inspection of the TVIS.

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He did that earlier this
morning, checking device cables,

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harnesses and the control panel and gyroscopes.

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The rest of his day is taken up with some
cargo transfer from their Soyuz spacecraft

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and then doing some replacement work

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with the air purification system
in the Zvezda service module.

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He'll then do one last update to the
station's Inventory Management System,

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get some exercise on the TVIS
and that'll round out his day.

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The crew will have one more daily
planning conference with ground stations

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around the planet before moving into
their pre-sleep period where they will go

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over the day's items and do any wrap-up
work that's necessary before moving