1 00:00:01,560 --> 00:00:05,540 Good morning and welcome to today's International Space Station update hour. 2 00:00:05,540 --> 00:00:10,570 Getting a live look now inside of the flight control room here in Houston, Texas, as the 3 00:00:10,570 --> 00:00:17,929 Orbit 2 team is currently on console orbiting… monitoring systems onboard the orbiting laboratory. 4 00:00:17,929 --> 00:00:23,699 Today's Orbit 2 team is being led by flight director Brian Smith, and joining him at console 5 00:00:23,699 --> 00:00:28,339 there on the screen as Capcom, Rob Hayhurst, serving as the communication link between 6 00:00:28,339 --> 00:00:33,000 controllers here on the ground and astronauts up in space. 7 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,110 And those astronauts currently onboard are the crew of Expedition 30, and they’re comprised 8 00:00:38,110 --> 00:00:43,180 of NASA astronaut and Expedition 30 commander Dan Burbank, there on the left middle of your 9 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:44,830 screen. 10 00:00:44,830 --> 00:00:49,750 Standing behind him, arrived on the station alongside Burbank, are Russian cosmonauts 11 00:00:49,750 --> 00:00:53,040 Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin. 12 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:57,150 On the right side you have the three newest members of the International Space Station 13 00:00:57,150 --> 00:01:04,930 crew: Andre Kuipers there in the back left, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko there in 14 00:01:04,930 --> 00:01:09,439 the right-center and then on the far right rounding out the crew is NASA astronaut Don 15 00:01:09,439 --> 00:01:10,509 Pettit. 16 00:01:10,509 --> 00:01:16,390 The crew woke this morning at about midnight central time and started off their day with 17 00:01:16,390 --> 00:01:21,100 some presleep activities and then a daily planning conference. 18 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:27,890 Commander Dan Burbank is spending much of his day rounding out the EPIC software upgrade, 19 00:01:27,890 --> 00:01:31,780 EPIC standing for the Enhanced Processor and Integrated Communications. 20 00:01:31,780 --> 00:01:37,579 And this is a major overhaul of the guidance, navigation control… command and control 21 00:01:37,579 --> 00:01:42,340 and payload computers, providing them with faster processors and more memory and an Ethernet 22 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:44,590 interface for data output. 23 00:01:44,590 --> 00:01:49,999 You can see a little bit of video here as he works on replacing those cards, and he 24 00:01:49,999 --> 00:01:55,030 was assisted throughout the day by fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit. 25 00:01:55,030 --> 00:02:00,220 Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov spent much of his day today doing some inspection and 26 00:02:00,220 --> 00:02:05,619 photography of the windows on the Russian Zvezda or service module. 27 00:02:05,619 --> 00:02:11,060 He will also be participating in the Russian BAR experiment, which is a selection and testing 28 00:02:11,060 --> 00:02:17,260 of detection methods for means of detecting any depressurization on International Space 29 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:19,670 Station modules. 30 00:02:19,670 --> 00:02:24,320 Fellow Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin will also be participating in that BAR experiment 31 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:31,069 and also doing some work on the Zvezda ventilation system, some routine maintenance and also 32 00:02:31,069 --> 00:02:37,440 some stowage work with the remaining cargo in the 45 Progress vehicle. 33 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:43,379 Final Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko is working today for the third day in a row on 34 00:02:43,379 --> 00:02:46,030 the Plasma Crystal-3 experiment. 35 00:02:46,030 --> 00:02:51,280 Very complex Russian experiment observing dust particles and… that are charged and 36 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,290 behave as a plasma. 37 00:02:54,290 --> 00:02:58,810 He will also be taking part in the Seiner experiment, an investigation of the world 38 00:02:58,810 --> 00:03:04,409 oceans, and also doing some photo and video for that BAR experiment. 39 00:03:04,409 --> 00:03:08,930 European astronaut Andre Kuipers started his day gathering some more trash from the US 40 00:03:08,930 --> 00:03:14,480 segment for disposal on the Progress, then also taking some O2 readings in the service 41 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:16,989 module and the Columbus module. 42 00:03:16,989 --> 00:03:23,650 He’s doing some work on the Water Recovery and Management System as well as taking some 43 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:27,510 time out of his day earlier to talk with Dutch media. 44 00:03:27,510 --> 00:03:34,730 And the final member of the exhibition 30 crew, NASA astronaut Don Pettit, did some… 45 00:03:34,730 --> 00:03:41,109 some assistance work with those EPIC upgrades with Commander Burbank as well as doing some 46 00:03:41,109 --> 00:03:46,770 tests on his own body doing a vision test and an on-orbit hearing assessment, and those 47 00:03:46,770 --> 00:03:49,010 will be his major activities for the day.