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Good morning.

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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Thank you for joining us for today's edition
of ISS update this Wednesday, February 8.

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Now looking at live view inside the
International Space Station flight control room

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where the team here has been monitoring
the systems aboard the station

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and supporting today's activities
of the Expedition 30 crew members.

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Flight director Ron Spencer is
leading the Orbit Two team seen here

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in the station flight control room today.

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Here in the blue shirt on the right-hand
side with Lucia McCullough there next

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to him on the left serving as Capcom.

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She's responsible for relaying all
ground messages up to the crew.

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On orbit the six crew members well

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into their busy work day aboard the station
include NASA astronaut and Commander

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of the complex Dan Burbank and Flight
Engineers and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin there on the left-hand
side, as well as NASA astronaut Don Pettit,

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cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European
Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers there

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on the right.

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Commander Burbank, Shkaplerov
and Ivanishin launched

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to the orbiting complex aboard
a Soyuz spacecraft

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as the Expedition 29 crew last November.

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They docked to the Poisk module
of the space station a few days

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after their launch on November 16.

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Burbank then assumed command of the
station only a week after they arrived.

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Today he and his crew members complete
their 88th consecutive day in space

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and have reached the halfway mark of their
stay aboard the space station with the return

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to Earth later this spring on April 30.

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Meanwhile, Pettit, Kononenko and
Kuipers launched aboard Soyuz TMA-03M

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from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on
December 21 and they began their two-day chase

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on orbit to catch up to the
International Space Station.

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With their Soyuz now docked
to the Rassvet module,

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they will complete their 50th
consecutive day in space today.

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The space station with its
crew aboard is now flying

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at an altitude of about 240 statute miles.

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The orbiting facility is
making a North Eastern track

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across the South Atlantic Ocean
before a pass across Africa.

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Now in the middle of week 11 of its mission,
the Expedition 30 crew continues to tend

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to a variety of science experiments that take
advantage of the microgravity environment,

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performed regular maintenance to the
orbital home and also continued preparations

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for next week's spacewalk outside the complex.

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Today station Commander Dan Burbank is
working with a science experiment known

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as Binary Colloidal Alloy Test, or BCAT-6,
that looks at how gas liquid separator

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and come together in microgravity.

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This study could lead to
the development of better,

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less expensive household
products, food and medicine.

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Flight Engineer Don Pettit will
lend a hand in this experiment

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after putting away equipment used for
an earlier session of the VO2max study.

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That measures the crew members'
aerobic capacity during spaceflight.

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And Burbank and Pettit also conducted additional
testing of the COTS UHF communication unit

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that will serve as a key rendezvous tool to
help with the maiden capture and berthing

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of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
once it is launched.

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Meanwhile in the Russian side of the house
Anton Shkaplerov is busy replacing a few smoke

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detectors in the Rassvet module while Anatoly
Ivanishin tends to Earth observation photography

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for long-term geophysics
research known as Uragan.

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Commander Burbank and Don Pettit took some
time out just before today's update hour

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to answer YouTube questions from the public.

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The pair answered questions like how a
helium filled balloon floats in space

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and on Earth observations of
the planet's natural changes.

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Pettit also earlier talked
with high school students

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at Inuksuk High School in Canada via ham radio.

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Earlier this morning aboard the
International Space Station, Commander Burbank

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and Andre Kuipers collected blood and
urine samples as part of the Sodium Loading

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in microgravity study that looks at fluid and
salt retention in the body during spaceflight.

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Kuipers also participated in the Lego
bricks study that demonstrates challenges

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in building things in the microgravity
environment of space, while Pettit spent much

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of his morning setting up for and assessing his
personal aerobic capacity for the VO2max study.

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Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko
continued their preparations

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for next week's spacewalk on February 16.

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The pair were busy working with the
Russian Orlan spacesuits they will wear

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for the 5 1/2 hour excursion
outside the complex.

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The duo spent some time adjusting the height
of their spacesuits and performed a leak check

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and valve test to the suits interface unit.

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Commander Burbank with his five
crew members also participated

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in an onboard training exercise to
review a new respirator purge technique

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of the onboard emergency mask.

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Shown here the crew is undergoing
that training drill.

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The crew periodically undergoes onboard training
drills to stay current on safety measures

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in the event a real emergency should
occur and those emergency mask be needed.

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Later today Commander Burbank and Andre
Kuipers will collect additional samples

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for the ongoing fluid and water retention study.

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Burbank and Pettit will spend some time on
entries to their individual Journals study.

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The commander also will participate

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in an Inventory Management System
conference with the ground.

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At the day's end each crew member will have
participated in his daily two-hour exercise

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to maintain physical fitness and mitigate
the weakening of muscle and bone loss

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that is experienced during
long-duration spaceflight.

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The Expedition 30 crew will then participate
in its final daily planning conference

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with ground controllers around the
world to prepare for another day

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of busy activity before entering
its presleep period.