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Good Friday morning from
NASA's Johnson Space Center.

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This is Mission Control Houston.

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You're looking at the International
Space Station flight control room.

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From the front left of the room looking
across the consoles of flight controllers

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that are overseeing all of the systems
on board the International Space Station.

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The team has been on console since about
seven o'clock this morning, Friday morning,

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Central time, and today once again
as with the entire week has been led

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by flight director Royce Renfrew
who you see standing there.

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He is the flight director
for this shift all week.

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He's joined to his right by Hal Getzelman
who's serving as the spacecraft communicator,

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the communications link between the
flight control team and the crew

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on board the International Space Station.

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The ISS is currently tracking
southeasterly toward the coast of Mauritania,

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having made a pass across the North
Atlantic and now headed down across portions

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of Africa before moving into an orbital
sunset in about 30 minutes or so.

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From this vantage point of
240 miles above the Earth,

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the station is circling the Earth every hour
and a half or so, offering an orbital sunrise

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and sunset every 45 minutes as the station
circles around the globe with the crew members

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on board serving as the Expedition 30 crew,
continuing in their Friday which began

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about one o'clock in the morning.

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That crew consists of Commander Dan Burbank
who is a U.S. astronaut that launched

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with two Russian colleagues - Anton Shkaplerov

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and Anatoly Ivanishin - back
in November of 2011.

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Those three crew members are slated
to return home at the end of April.

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The other three crew members on board joining
them are Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers who is

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from the Netherlands and
U.S. astronaut Don Pettit.

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They launched and joined the other
three crew members in late December,

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and they're scheduled to
return home in early July.

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The first three crew members enjoying
their 125th day in space today,

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123 of those aboard the International
Space Station.

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The quote youngest three of the six - Kononenko,
Kuipers and Pettit - are in their 87th day

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in space, 85 of those aboard
the International Space Station.

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Burbank Friday has spent almost exclusively
his time working with cable routing associated

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with the high rate communication system.

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This procedure routes KU communications
to a joint station local area network

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and a secondary KU communications
unit avionics power cable,

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along with two multiplexer/demultiplexer
cables on board as well.

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These are located behind one of the avionics
racks in the Destiny lab, requiring the rack

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to be rotated forward for access.

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Pettit spent more time with investigations
into how flames are controlled.

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He did most of that on Thursday, wrapping up
all of that activity which helps investigators

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on the ground lead to improvements
and technologies aimed

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at reducing pollution emissions, while
also improving burning efficiency

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for a wide variety of industries.

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Kuipers has been working on stowage in

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and around the Leonardo Permanent
Multipurpose Module.

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He's also used the onboard ham
radio equipment to make contact

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with middle school students in Belgium.

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Russian crew members conducted research
and housekeeping chores that included work

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in the Zvezda service module on
its ventilation system cleaning.

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They've been collecting periodic
routine air samples as well,

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and they've also conducted some Earth
observation as part of their timeline,

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which is part of an experiment
to record color bloom patterns

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in the waters of the central eastern Atlantic.

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This weekend the crew will
essentially be off duty

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but will conduct routine housekeeping chores,
exercise, they'll check some autonomous payloads

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on board to ensure they're operating properly,
and they'll also have time to talk and visit

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with their family and friends
back here on Earth.

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While all of that's going on on orbit, down
here on the ground preparations for launch

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of the third Automated Transfer Vehicle
are continuing down in South America

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at the Arianespace facility in Kourou.

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The "Edoardo Amaldi" as it's named
currently is set for launch next Thursday -

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Thursday night Central time - pending completion

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of the ongoing Launch Readiness
Review, which should wrap up Friday.

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Launch at 11:34 p.m. Central time, March 22
leads to rendezvous and docking with the station

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at 5:34 p.m. Central time Wednesday, March
28, delivering supplies and logistics

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to the station's Expedition 30 crew.

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So that's all the activities that are ongoing,

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and that'll keep the crew busy throughout the
rest of Friday as the team of flight controllers

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around the world watch over
the crew throughout the day.

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It's been a very busy week aboard
the ISS for the six-member crew.

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Crew members spread throughout
the 13,000-cubic-foot facility,

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conducting science investigations,
housekeeping chores,

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internal robotic ops and Earth observations.

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Following last week's Robotic Refueling Mission
work by the station's Dexter robot on the end

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of the robotic arm outside, internal the
seventh crew member of the station, Robonaut 2,

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demonstrated its own dexterity by
signing, "Hello world," to the earth below.

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R2 also proved useful later in the week in
grasping an instrument used periodically

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to measure air ventilation
within the Destiny laboratory.

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It was the first time R2 conducted a task
that wasn't considered a checkout item.

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R2 will rest for a while as ground engineers
plan his next moves on orbit aboard the station.

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Quite a bit of Don Pettit's week was
devoted to the flame experiment on board,

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investigating the nature of flames
in microgravity and how they progress

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as experimenters can evaluate that data
for development of systems on the ground.

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Andre Kuipers was busy this week with
cardiovascular equipment on board,

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an experiment that develops countermeasures
to help crew maintain their health on board.

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He also worked with the fluid physics
experiment facility on the station.

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The Russian crew members also worked
with experiments and investigations

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on board the station as well as
Earth observations and also some work

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with the communications systems in
one of the Russian segment modules.

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Commander Dan Burbank also worked
with the U.S. space suits this week,

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checking them out to make sure
they're in good working order

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in the event a spacewalk is needed on board.

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There are no plans for an EVA,
or extravehicular activity,

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until Expedition 32 and 33 later in the year.

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Midweek Burbank and Pettit, flanked
by their seventh crew member Robonaut,

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talked about their mission with Fox
News channel's "America's Newsroom,"

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and they also have some additional media
interviews scheduled next week ahead

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of the Automated Transfer Vehicle launch.

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So, it's been a busy week in space with teams

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around the world assisting the
crew from here on the ground.

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This weekend the crew will essentially be
off duty but will conduct some routine chores

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on board, exercise, check some payloads and
also talk with their friends and family.

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We'll be back again next week
with another week of coverage

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of Expedition 30's voyage aboard
the International Space Station.