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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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We're joining the International
Space Station flight control team

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in the space station flight control room here
at the mission control center in Houston,

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where the Orbit 2 team is
on console at this time,

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led again today by flight director Paul Dye
with astronaut Shannon Lucid in the Capcom seat.

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Space station's currently out of the range of
communication with the team here on the ground,

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so many of the team members are taking
advantage of a quick break during that time.

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But although we can't communicate

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with them right now onboard the
International Space Station,

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the Expedition30 crew has been
awake since midnight central time.

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They're now more than halfway through their day,
which is full experiment work and maintenance.

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US Commander Dan Burbank as well as
Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin are currently orbiting
about 260 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean,

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just having passed the southernmost
portion of this orbit around the Earth,

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now heading southeast toward
the coast of Africa.

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Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin
launched to the station

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in their Russian Soyuz TMA-22
vehicle on November 13,

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and docked to the space station on November 15.

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So they're working on their 25th day in
space and their 23rd day on space station.

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They've been alone on 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 departed

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from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in
Star City, Russia near Moscow today to head

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

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for the December 21 launch the space station.

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Scheduled to go to the station and join Burbank,
Shkaplerov and Ivanishin on December 23.

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To get ready for that, the engines of
the station's Zvezda service module are

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to be fired tomorrow at 1:50 PM central time
to raise the station to the correct altitude

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to meet up with Soyuz on the 23rd.

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They'll be fired for one minute and 22 seconds
and raise the station's altitude by 2.8 miles

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at the perigee, or lowest point in its orbit.

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That's going to put the station
in a 259.9 x 231.5 mile orbit.

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Inside the station today Commander
Burbank has been working diligently

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with the Amine Swingbed prototype.

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He was scheduled spent a great deal of time

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on that today putting it
together and checking it out.

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That system's meant to test out in space
technology that could eventually be used

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to scrub carbon dioxide from the air
inside the new Orion multi crew vehicle.

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However it is a very complex piece of equipment,

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and Burbank ran into some
problems putting it together.

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Said it's actually been put
away for now while the team here

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on the ground considers what the
next steps in space should be.

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Meanwhile on the Russian side of the
station Flight Engineers Ivanishin

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and Shkaplerov each had a few experiments
and activities they were scheduled work on.

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Shkaplerov was going to be spending some time
today working with the Typology experiment,

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which looks at how living in space
affects astronauts' mental state,

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and also the Coulomb Crystal experiment.

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And Ivanishin meanwhile was scheduled to spend
some time unpacking the Progress 45 vehicle

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and the Soyuz that he and his crewmates arrived
on, and also working with the Seiner experiment,

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which is a test of information support
procedures that is used to gain data

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for the scientific community
and fishing operations performed

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at the state fish fishery committee
and ships in the world's oceans.