1 00:00:01,220 --> 00:00:03,160 This is Mission Control Houston. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:06,690 You're looking at the International Space Station flight control room 3 00:00:06,690 --> 00:00:12,850 where the Orbit Two team is on console watching over the Expedition 30 crew's work. 4 00:00:12,850 --> 00:00:17,690 On Wednesday the newest component of the space station is the focus 5 00:00:17,690 --> 00:00:21,560 of an abbreviated workday for the Expedition 30 crew. 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:27,190 The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle number three arrived 7 00:00:27,190 --> 00:00:34,930 at the aft docking port of the Zvezda module at 5:31 p.m. Wednesday Houston time. 8 00:00:34,930 --> 00:00:37,700 That completed a journey to the station which started 9 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:41,690 on an launch pad in French Guiana on March 22. 10 00:00:41,690 --> 00:00:48,610 The Expedition 30 crew members were awakened at 5 a.m. Houston time on Thursday. 11 00:00:48,610 --> 00:00:55,610 They had been up later than usual for the docking of the ATV. 12 00:00:55,610 --> 00:00:57,240 Flight Engineers Oleg Kononenko 13 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:03,540 and Andre Kuipers spent their morning completing leak checks ahead of the initial hatch opening 14 00:01:03,540 --> 00:01:07,020 of the ATV scheduled for later in the day. 15 00:01:07,020 --> 00:01:14,190 Once that first transfer hatch is open they will install air ducting into the Edoardo Amaldi 16 00:01:14,190 --> 00:01:19,110 and activate an air scrubbing system that will cleanse the environment and make it safe 17 00:01:19,110 --> 00:01:23,530 for crew members to breathe the air inside that cargo ship. 18 00:01:23,530 --> 00:01:27,030 The air cleaner will run all day on Thursday afternoon 19 00:01:27,030 --> 00:01:30,910 and then again on Friday morning if required. 20 00:01:30,910 --> 00:01:35,990 Flight Engineer Anton Shkaplerov spent most of his day removing a set 21 00:01:35,990 --> 00:01:39,860 of communications hardware from the Zvezda module. 22 00:01:39,860 --> 00:01:43,500 That was the space station side of the communications link 23 00:01:43,500 --> 00:01:50,630 that facilitated the exchange of navigation information between ATV-3 and the space station. 24 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:55,790 The other crewmembers performed a variety of routine station maintenance tasks as well 25 00:01:55,790 --> 00:01:58,220 as their daily exercise sessions. 26 00:01:58,220 --> 00:02:03,230 The schedule calls for the crew members to begin their sleep period on Thursday afternoon 27 00:02:03,230 --> 00:02:10,590 and then be back on their regular schedule with a 1 a.m. central time wake-up call on Friday. 28 00:02:10,590 --> 00:02:14,740 That's when the crew members will move to the aft end of the station again. 29 00:02:14,740 --> 00:02:19,130 They'll remove the air scrubbing system and make their first full entry