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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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On board the International Space Station
the Expedition 30 crew has been awake

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since midnight central time; they're now more
than halfway through their day which is full

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of experiment work and maintenance.

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U.S. Commander Dan Burbank as well as
Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin launched to the space
station in their Russian Soyuz TMA-22 vehicle

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on November 13 and docked to the space
station on November 15, so they're working

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on their 24th day in space and
their 22nd at space station.

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They've been alone on the station since the
Expedition 29 crew members left on November 21,

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but they'll soon be joined by three new
crewmates to replace those that left.

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Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Oleg
Kononenko and Andre Kuipers are currently

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at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training
Center in Star City, Russia near Moscow.

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They've been conducting some administrative
work there today and they'll be moving tomorrow

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

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for the December 21 launch to space station.

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This photo shows the ceremonial
sendoff on Tuesday at the headquarters

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of the Russian Federal space agency.

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Can see the crew here on the right of the
screen, from left to right, you have Don Pettit,

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Andre Kuipers, and Oleg Kononenko.

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This is a close-up and that first
photo you also saw Joel Montalbano,

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the NASA head of human spaceflight programs
in Russia, and also Vladimir Popovkin,

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the head of Roscosmos, and
other Russian space officials.

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This photo shows the backup
crew for the main Soyuz crew.

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Yuri Malenchenko, backup Soyuz
commander, as well as Suni Williams,

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the backup NASA flight engineer,

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and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut
Aki Hoshide, another backup flight engineer.

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And then the group paused here for photo.

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From left to right you again got Don
Pettit, Andre Kuipers, Oleg Kononenko.

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Then in the center, Vladimir Popovkin, followed
by Yuri Malenchenko, then Alexei Krasnov,

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Roscosmos' head of piloted space
programs, and Williams and Hoshide.

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Pettit, Kuipers and Kononenko are scheduled
to reach the station and join Burbank,

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Shkaplerov and Ivanishin on December 23.

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But Burbank and his crew aren't
just waiting around for that.

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In the meantime they've got
plenty to keep them busy.

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Today Burbank began working
again on the PACE experiment,

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or Preliminary Advanced Colloids
Experiment, and changing out samples

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for an experiment inside the
Combustion Integrated Rack.

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He's also performing acoustic
measurements inside the station

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and helping to unpack Progress 45.

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Shkaplerov is working on the Coulomb Crystal
experiment, which looks at a special type

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of crystal and how it grows in zero gravity.