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Good morning everybody and welcome
to NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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You're looking at the International
Space Station Flight Control Room here

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in the mission control center.

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This is Tuesday, December 27.

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Aboard the International Space Station the
Expedition 30 crew was onboard the station

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as a team of flight controllers
here on the ground watches

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over their shoulders throughout their workday.

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Aboard the complex, the current crew aboard
the station, augmented the this past week

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with the three more crew members,
includes the Commander Dan Burbank

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and Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov
and Anatoly Ivanishin from Russia,

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along with Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers from
the Netherlands and U.S. astronaut Don Pettit.

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Those last three will become
the newest additions

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to Expedition 30 aboard the
International Space Station.

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They arrived at the complex back
on December 23, on Friday morning.

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They will be aboard the station
until of May of next year.

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The six crew members are supported on the
ground by flight control teams around the world.

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The team here in Houston today is being led

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by a veteran flight director Royce
Renfrew, he is in the white shirt.

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Serving as the overall will management the link

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between the International Space Station
Flight Control Team here in Houston

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and all the other flight control
teams around the world as well.

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Serving as the primary communications link,
the voice between this team and the crew

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on board the station, is Jeremy Hanson.

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The six crew members on board the station
arrived at the station at different times.

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Three of the crew members
Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin arrived
back in mid-November.

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They enjoyed their 44th day in space today.

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42 of those aboard the International
Space Station.

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The three newest members, Oleg Kononenko,
Andre Kuipers and Don Pettit are six days

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into their six-month voyage aboard the station,

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four of those days now aboard the International
Space Station since arriving this past Friday.

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They have been spending a good deal
of the weekend acclimating themselves

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to the station environment and also
of being, having reference meetings

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with the other three crew members on the
station, orienting themselves to the complex,

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and of course this being a holiday weekend,

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the Christmas celebrations aboard the
station the obviously allow the crew members

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to have the weekend off primarily, and
they spent a good deal of time talking

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with their families and the flight
control teams around the world.

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With a good holiday wishes going back and forth

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between the flight control teams
the crews onboard the station,

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and of course their family members as well.

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So a quiet weekend for the crew, they get
back into experiment work onboard the station.

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Maintenance activities as well, exercise
and also some additional onboard training