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Good morning and welcome to this Friday's
edition of International Space Station update.

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Bringing a close to the first
week of Expedition 30's 2012,

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and they had quite a busy week doing
a number of computer hardware upgrades

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and biomedical experiments and maintenance work.

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Starting off on Monday the crew had
an off-duty day but Commander Burbank

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and Andre Kuipers did do some food
container location work in preparation

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for the SOLO experiment, SOLO
standing for Sodium Loading,

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which helps to study the mechanisms of fluid and
salt retention in the body during spaceflight.

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Andre, along with those nutrition activities,
also prepared for his Neurospat experiment

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which he would perform throughout the week
and also doing a monthly hearing assessment.

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And then Don Pettit completed his work with the
Integrated Cardiovascular experiment which looks

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at atrophy of the heart muscle, and
so he finished that and then set

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up for his Nutrition activities
for the following day.

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On Tuesday Commander Burbank continued
with the EPIC hardware upgrades,

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EPIC standing for Enhanced Processor
and Integrated Communications,

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which is a major overhaul the processor
cards in the Guidance, Navigation & Control,

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Command and Control computers onboard
the International Space Station.

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He spent about four hours on Tuesday
installing one of those cards.

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Anton Shkaplerov did some work
with the Uragan experiment.

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It is a Russian experiment that develops
a sequence of visual observations

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for the Earth's surface looking for natural and
man-made disasters whenever they are forecasted.

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Anatoly Ivanishin meanwhile on
Tuesday did some photo and video work

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of the Russian German Plasma Crystal
3 experiment which was being worked on

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and executed by fellow Russian
cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko.

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That Plasma Crystal 3 is very complex experiment
looking at wave propagation in dust plasmas.

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Meanwhile on Tuesday Andre Kuipers did some work

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with the Neurospat experiment
being assisted by Don Pettit.

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That experiment he affixed a
number of sensors to his brain

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and then using a few other mechanisms was
testing his prefrontal brain functions

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and spatial cognition, helping
to determine the effects

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of that microgravity environment
on decision-making.

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And then along that he began his own
Integrated Cardiovascular set up,

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again looking at the heart muscle's atrophy.

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Also assisting with that Neurospat experiment,

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Don Pettit did some human research
facility sample collection.

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And moving on to Wednesday, Dan Burbank
continued working with the CUCU,

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which stands for COTS UHF Communication Unit,
which will be the main source of communication

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between the International Space
Station and visiting vehicles

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from commercial resuppliers
scheduled to launch later this year.

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He also participated in a public affairs event
alongside Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers talking

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to some reporters here on the ground.

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Anton Shkaplerov did some housecleaning
work over in the Russian Zarya module,

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cleaning some filters and changing
out some ventilation screens,

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as well as beginning his
work on the BAR experiment

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which took up much of his time this week.

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The BAR experiment is a Russian
look at selection and testing

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of different detection methods for detecting
any potential depressurization onboard the

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International Space Station modules.

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Meanwhile on Wednesday, Anatoly
Ivanishin did some work on the Elektron

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or the oxygen generation
system on the Russian segment

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and also participated in that BAR experiment.

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Oleg Kononenko continued his work
the Plasma Crystal 3 on Wednesday,

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and Andre Kuipers continued his work
with the Integrated Cardiovascular,

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donning a number of sensors and cardiopress
gear, again taking his heart readings.

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Along with that Kuipers also did
some trash gathering for disposal

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on the ISS Progress 45 cargo craft, which
is scheduled to undock in about three weeks.

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Don Pettit assisted with that trash
gathering and then familiarized himself

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with the Vessel Imaging,
which he worked on today.

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Moving on to Thursday, Commander Burbank
continued with his EPIC card upgrades,

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spending the entire day in order to
replace the cards and one of the Guidance,

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Navigation & Control computers and Command
and Control computers, and he was assisted

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by Don Pettit who did a number
of cable routings,

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installing Ethernet cords for the systems.

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Meanwhile Shkaplerov and Ivanishin
continued with that BAR experiment as well

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as doing some routine maintenance
work in the Zvezda or service module

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on the Russian segment looking at
the windows ventilation system.

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And then their fellow Russian cosmonaut
Oleg Kononenko continued his work

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with the Plasma Crystal 3
for the third day in a row,

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and then also did the Seiner experiment
taking a look at the world's oceans.

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And then the last two crew members
on Thursday, Kuipers and Pettit,

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did some work on the Water Recovery
System, and Kuipers also took some time

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out to do his own media event, talking to
Dutch reporters in his native Netherlands.

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And all that brings us to today,
Friday, the last day of the week

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with Commander Burbank spending the vast
majority of his day stowing all the equipment

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from those EPIC software upgrades having
been completed and also taking some time

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out to do a public affairs event alongside Don
Pettit talking to reporters here in the US.

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And then moving onto the crew, Anton Shkaplerov
and Anatoly Ivanishin are doing a third day

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of the BAR experiment, again
looking at potential methods

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for detecting depressurization onboard
the International Space Station

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and also doing some inspection photography
work on the Zvezda or service module windows.

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Oleg Kononenko was doing some experiment work
on his own today working with the Pneumocard,

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which is a Russian experiment, kind of similar

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to that Integrated Cardiovascular you heard me
talking so much about, setting the adaptation

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of the cardiovascular system of these
crew members during their long-duration

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microgravity flights.

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He'll also be working with the Rusalka
experiment, an Earth observations experiment

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which looks to understand the role
natural processes and human activity

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and then determines the carbon dioxide and
methane content in the Earth's atmosphere.

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Andre Kuipers spending his day working on some

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of the Nano racks onboard the International
Space Station, doing some experiment routines

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with some smartphones that were recently flown
up to the station, and then assisting Don Pettit

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with some of his ultrasound activities.

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And those ultrasound activities will take
up the majority of Pettit's day today.

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He will be doing three separate scans, one on
the, one for the Integrated Cardiovascular,

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taking an ultrasound of his heart, as well as
doing something called the Sprint ultrasound,

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taking a look at the thigh and
calf muscles on the, on his leg.

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And again, studying how the muscles
have changed during spaceflight.

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His last ultrasound of the day
will be the Vessel Imaging,

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taking a look at the vessel wall
properties within his own body.

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One of those ongoing looks at the cardiovascular
functions inside astronauts during these

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long-duration spaceflights.

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The crew is scheduled to go to sleep
at about 3:30 p.m. central time today