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Good morning and welcome
to Mission Control Houston

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and the International Space Station Update.

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Onboard the International Space Station,

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the Expedition 30 crew is more
than halfway through their day.

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It began at midnight Central time.

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They are U.S. Commander Dan Burbank,

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as well as Russian Flight Engineers
Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

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Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are all
still fairly new to the space station.

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They launched on their Russian
Soyuz TMA-22 vehicle on November 13

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and docked to the station on November 15.

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So they're working on their 22nd day in
space and their 20th day at the space station.

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They've been alone at the space station
since Expedition 29 crew members Mike Fossum,

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Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei
Volkov left on November 21.

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They'll soon be joined by the remainder of the
Expedition 30 crew. Flight Engineers Don Pettit,

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Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers are already
in Moscow and will be moving Thursday

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to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
where their Soyuz TMA-03M is being prepared

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for their December 21 launch
to the space station.

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They're scheduled to reach
the station and join Burbank,

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Shkaplerov and Ivanishin on December 23.

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In the meantime, Burbank, Shkaplerov and
Ivanishin are all staying busy with a variety

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of maintenance and experiment activities.

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Today, Burbank is working
with the PACE-2 experiment.

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That's Preliminary Advanced Colloids
Experiment 2, which is a preparatory experiment

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for another study called the ACE
experiment, or Advanced Colloids Experiment,

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to see how the big the particles
used in the ACE experiment can be.

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Burbank also built earlier
in the day two new EДВs.

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That's an acronym for a piece
of hardware with a Russian name

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that stores urine inside the
Waste and Hygiene Compartment.

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And he did some work to calibrate and then use
the Total Organic Carbon Analyzer which is used

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to make sure that the water being recycled
on the space station is safe to drink.

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While all that is going on in space today,
the crew is staying busy for the Expedition 30