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Good morning.

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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome and thank you for joining us for today's
edition of ISS Update this Thursday, March 22.

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We are now coming to you live from 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 the day's activities
of the Expedition 30 crew members.

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Leading the Orbit Two team here in the station
flight control room today is flight director

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Mike Lammers shown here in the right-hand
side of your screen in the white shirt

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with astronaut Dan Tani next to him in
the blue shirt who is serving as Capcom,

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relaying all ground messages up to the crew.

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Tani flew to the International Space Station

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for the first time aboard space shuttle
Endeavour STS-108 in December 2001 bringing

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with him the Expedition 4 crew to the station.

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On his second spaceflight Tani served
as Expedition 16 flight engineer

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and spent 120 days living and working
aboard the International Space Station.

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The six crew members aboard the station
now 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 as well as NASA astronaut
Don Pettit shown here on the right-hand side

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with cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European
Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers.

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Commander Burbank, Shkaplerov
and Ivanishin arrived

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at the orbiting complex mid-November last year.

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They will complete their 130th consecutive
day in space today with a little more

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than a month remaining

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of their five-and-a-half-month
stay aboard the space station.

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Meanwhile [Pettit], Kononenko and Kuipers
launched to the space station three months ago

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on December 21 arriving at the station two
days later and making up the complete crew

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of the Expedition 30 that is
now on board the space station.

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The space station with its
crew aboard is now flying

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at an altitude of about 248 statute miles.

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The orbiting facility is making a
northeastern track on a night pass

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across the North Pacific Ocean
just passing over Australia.

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Today, station Commander Dan Burbank,
Flight Engineers Andre Kuipers

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and Don Pettit are working on more cleanup
of the Permanent Multipurpose Module,

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also known as Leonardo or the space closet.

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The crew members are relocating items in storage

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to their permanent spaces aboard
the International Space Station.

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Much of this cleanup is being done in
preparation of the soon-to-arrive cargo ship,

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the European Space Agency's Automated
Transfer Vehicle-3 or Edoardo Amaldi.

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Edoardo Amaldi with its seven-ton
load of supplies is scheduled

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to liftoff aboard the Ariane 5
rocket from Kourou, French Guiana,

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late this evening at 11:34 p.m. Central time

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and begin its five-and-half-day
journey to the space station.

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Flight Engineer Don Pettit will
wrap up his share of cleanup work

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to continue work he began earlier
this week to install software

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and reconfigure a laptop computer that
was associated with an EXPRESS rack.

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These EXPRESS racks are housed

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in a refrigerator-sized container
that acts as an exterior shell.

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They enable quick, simple integration
of up to 10 experiment payloads.

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And Andre Kuipers will then take
a break from the cleanup activity

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to perform some maintenance
to the Water Recovery System.

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The system converts urine,
sweat and condensation

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into safe drinkable water
for the crew's consumption.

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Earlier this morning aboard the
International Space Station,

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Commander Burbank kicked off his day
with two hours of daily regular exercise.

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He participated in an inventory management
stowage conference and set up for several hours

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of transferring items from that
Permanent Multipurpose Module.

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Flight Engineer Don Pettit did some
preparation work for the configuration

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to the EXPRESS rack laptop computer, and
Andre Kuipers spent a significant amount

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of time early this morning collecting
personal data as part of the CARD experiment

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that studies blood pressure decreases in
the human body exposed to microgravity

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for long periods of time, as
that of a station resident.

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Kuipers then also tended to another science
experiment known as VIABLE or the eValuatIon

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And monitoring of microBiofiLms insidE
the International Space Station.

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That study looks at the development of
microbiofilm development on space materials.

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Results from this study may lead to solutions
to improve the environmental quality of manned,

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confined habitats in space, but also specific
bases and modules on Earth where humans have

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to stay for a long term,
particularly for scientific purposes.

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Meanwhile on the Russian side of the house,
Anatoly Ivanishin had spent a couple of hours

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with activities for the Pneumocard
experiment that studies the adaptation

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of the cardiovascular system of crew members
during a long-duration microgravity mission.

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Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko had snapped images
of the Earth for the Uragan, or Hurricane,

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experiment that studies Earth's natural
resources by monitoring catastrophes.

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A little after today's ISS Update
hour, Commander Burbank will work

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in the Japanese Pressurized
Module to measure resistance

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of image processing unit power
connector and fuse to identify

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where a shorted circuit is in the power line.

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And at the end of today, each crew member will
have exercise to maintain his physical fitness

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and help mitigate the negative effects
of microgravity on their bodies.

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The Expedition 30 crew members
will do some evening prep work

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for another busy day in space tomorrow.

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They will then participate in their final daily
planning conference with ground controllers

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around the world before entering
their pre-sleep period.

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Meanwhile back on Earth in Kourou, French
Guiana, preparations remain on track

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for the launch of the European
Space Agency's Edoardo Amaldi,

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the Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 cargo craft.

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Again, that launch is scheduled to take
place tonight at 11:34 p.m. Central time.

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Launch coverage will begin here on
NASA Television at 11 p.m. tonight.

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The crew is scheduled to go to bed at
3:30 p.m. Central time and is scheduled

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to be asleep at the time of launch.

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However, Mission Control Houston
will be uplinking the video