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This is Mission control Houston.

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A very busy day onboard the
International Space Station

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as the crew onboard...Commander Dan
Burbank, fellow NASA astronaut Don Pettit,

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European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers
and Russian cosmonauts Anton SHkaplerov,

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Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg
Kononenko continue there work.

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Today's activities focusing on a
variety of different experiment

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and maintenance tasks aboard
the orbiting outpost.

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It's currently at an altitude of 240
statute miles on a southeasterly track

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over Southeast Asia heading for a crossing over
the central portion of Australia on this orbit.

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Here in the Christopher C. Kraft, Jr.
Mission Control Center in Houston,

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Chris Edelen is the Flight Director
on console in charge of the team.

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He's got Josh Matthew available to talk with
the crew on any number of different activities

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that the crew might have
questions or need information on.

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And he's also got communication with flight
control rooms around the world in Europe,

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Russia and Japan where they are helping

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to manage the experiment activities
aboard the multinational research outpost.

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Today another busy day as the crew is
focusing primarily on the SLICE experiment

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which is an experiment that looks at
combustion and with research activities

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into how the human body reacts to microgravity.

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Dan Burbank also conducting some maintenance
on the space station's food warmer device

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and installing a couple of Joint Space Station
Local Area Network power and data cables

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into the Harmony module that
will help connect it

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to the European Space Agency
lab and Columbus module.

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Don Pettit again working
with the SLICE operations

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and Andre Kuipers is taking photographs
of the evaluation and monitoring

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of biofilms inside ISS or the Viable payload.

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He's also doing some maintenance
on the Waste Recovery System.

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This is some live video of the
cmbustion experiment that's going

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on right now, the SLICE experiment.

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For more information about that you can go to
www.nasa.gov/slice or www.nasa.gov/station.

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Just to recap the week, again it's
been a very busy week onboard.

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Monday the crew worked with
some maintenance activities.

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They did a replacement on the
Advanced Resistive Exercise Device.

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It's one of the ropes that's used on the
different exercises that they perform.

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They also had a downlink for the NASA
Future Forum honoring the 50th anniversary

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of astronaut John Glenn's first
American orbits of the Earth.

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On Tuesday they worked with a
variety of different experiments.

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One of those the SPRINT experiment.

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They also did some cleaning in the
Leonardo Permanent Multipurpose Module.

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They worked with the Microgravity Small
Payload Rack combustion chamber preparing it

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for some samples.

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On Wednesday, they had an educational event
with a consortium of schools in New Jersey.

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And they did alot ventilation system
maintenance in the Columbus module.

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They are checking all of those
ventilation systems to make

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that they are providing good air flow.

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Here's some video of Dan Burbank who worked
on that with Andre Kuipers in particular

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as they checked all of the seals and the fans
and the ventilation system ducts that are used

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to circulate air throughout the space
station making sure in this case that those

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in the Columbus module are working very well.

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Very important for the crew
to have good air circulation

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so that they don't have carbon dioxide
bubbles form around their heads

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which could be a health hazard for them.

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They also had some EVA tool stowage activities.

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Dan Burbank stowed the American pieces that
were used by his Russian cosmonauts as they went

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out the previous week on a spacewalk to
move a large cargo boom on the outside

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of the Pirs docking compartment to another
docking compartment outside the station.

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And the crew also worked on
the Capillary Flow experiment.

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This particular experiment portion was the Vane
experiment where they look at how fluids flow

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in unusually shaped containers with the
goal to be able improve our understanding

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of the mathematical models that are used
to build in particular tanks that are used

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to hold fluids for rocket
engines that are used in space

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as microgravity fluids flow differently.

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This is video of some of the documentation

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of that Capillary Flow experiment
Vane system overview that occurred.

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On Thursday, it was work with the
Atmosphere Revitalization bacteria filter.

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They did some cleaning on that and
Don Pettit did some additional work

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with the Capillary Flow experiment.

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And that brings is up-to-date for this week.

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The crew is going to have an easy weekend,
just some routine maintenance activities