1 00:00:01,416 --> 00:00:03,276 Good morning and welcome to Mission Control Houston 2 00:00:03,276 --> 00:00:05,196 and the International Space Station Update. 3 00:00:05,676 --> 00:00:08,166 We're joining the International Space Station flight control team 4 00:00:08,486 --> 00:00:11,676 and the Space Station Flight Control Room here at the Mission Cntrol Center in Houston 5 00:00:12,126 --> 00:00:15,456 where the Orbit Two Team is on console at this time and they're led again today 6 00:00:15,456 --> 00:00:20,126 by Flight Director Paul Dye working wiith Josh Matthews in the Capcom seat. 7 00:00:21,186 --> 00:00:24,816 Onboard the International Space Station, the Expedition 30 crew has been awake 8 00:00:24,876 --> 00:00:28,286 since Midnight Central time and they are now more than halfway through their day. 9 00:00:29,206 --> 00:00:33,906 U.S. Commander Dan Burbank as well as Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov 10 00:00:34,616 --> 00:00:41,626 and Anatoly Ivanishin are orbiting 234 miles above the Pacific Ocean heading southeast 11 00:00:41,626 --> 00:00:45,066 into the daylight portion of this orbit around the Earth. 12 00:00:45,326 --> 00:00:51,586 Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin launched to the station in the Russian Soyuz TMA-22 vehicle 13 00:00:51,696 --> 00:00:56,366 on November 13 and docked to the space station on November 15. 14 00:00:56,366 --> 00:01:00,436 So they're working on their 26th day in space and their 24th day at the space station. 15 00:01:00,986 --> 00:01:06,996 They've been alone at the station since the Expedition 29 crew members left on November 21. 16 00:01:07,556 --> 00:01:12,676 They'll soon be joined by three new crew members to replace those that left. 17 00:01:14,016 --> 00:01:18,286 Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers departed 18 00:01:18,286 --> 00:01:22,456 from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia near Moscow yesterday 19 00:01:22,966 --> 00:01:25,436 and are now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 20 00:01:26,236 --> 00:01:32,646 where there Soyuz TMA-03M is being prepared for their December 21 launch to the space station. 21 00:01:32,646 --> 00:01:35,036 This is a photo here of their arrival. 22 00:01:35,036 --> 00:01:39,436 They were greeted by Russian officials and again now are getting ready for their Dec. 23 00:01:39,436 --> 00:01:40,906 21 launch. 24 00:01:41,216 --> 00:01:44,676 Then they'll be docking to the station and joining Burbank, 25 00:01:44,676 --> 00:01:47,346 Shkaplerov and Ivanishin on December 23. 26 00:01:48,086 --> 00:01:53,736 To get ready for the arrival, engines on the station's Zvezda service module are going 27 00:01:53,736 --> 00:01:57,806 to be fired later today at 1:50 p.m. Central time to raise the station 28 00:01:57,806 --> 00:02:02,676 to the correct attitide, or altitude, to meet up with the Soyuz on the 23rd. 29 00:02:03,006 --> 00:02:09,656 They'll fire for 1 minute and 22 seconds and raise the station's altitude by 2.8 miles 30 00:02:09,656 --> 00:02:12,266 at its perigee, or the lowest point of its orbit. 31 00:02:12,706 --> 00:02:18,576 That's going to put the station in a 259.9 by 231.5 mile orbit. 32 00:02:18,916 --> 00:02:23,776 Inside the station today, the crew has been working on a variety of science experiments. 33 00:02:23,896 --> 00:02:28,936 Commander Burbank spent some time today, again, with the Combustion Integrated Rack 34 00:02:28,936 --> 00:02:35,206 which is used for microgravity research on droplet, solid fuel or gaseous fuel combustion. 35 00:02:35,826 --> 00:02:38,416 He also did some troubleshooting with the ISSAC experiment. 36 00:02:38,676 --> 00:02:42,436 That's the International Space Station Agricultural Camera which is used 37 00:02:42,436 --> 00:02:45,736 to study melting glaciers, ecosystem responses to seasonal changes 38 00:02:46,186 --> 00:02:48,306 and human impacts as well as natural disasters. 39 00:02:48,696 --> 00:02:53,626 And a little later this hour at 10:35 a.m. Central time, Burbank is going to take some time 40 00:02:53,626 --> 00:02:55,976 out of his schedule to talk with 5th and 6th grade students 41 00:02:56,316 --> 00:03:00,876 at Westchester Intermediate School in Chesterton, Indiana.