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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome to today's ISS update.

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It is April 11, 2012.

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Good Wednesday to you.

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You're looking at a live view

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of the International Space
Station flight control room here

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at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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This team here today being led
by flight director Ron Spencer.

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He is there standing up.

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Sitting beside him is today's Capcom the
voice of mission control of the astronauts.

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That is Jeremy Hansen.

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The Expedition 30 crew onboard orbiting
complex has a pretty busy day today.

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They've been working on a variety
of different maintenance activities

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and also some experiment work.

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Dan Burbank, second from the left there:
he is the commander of Expedition 30.

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He's been the working majority of his morning
and also this afternoon on rewiring the motor

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of what is called the Amine Swingbed.

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This is basically a test model for
what could become the future way

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of scrubbing carbon dioxide from the
International Space Station's atmosphere.

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Obviously regenerating that atmosphere and
the air inside orbiting complex is important,

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so experiments continue onboard
the complex to make those devices

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that scrub the air smaller,
more efficient, use less power.

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So this Amine Swingbed which are seeing a
video of here is one of those experiments

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that the crew is testing out with ground
teams to see if they can make it smaller,

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lighter and more efficient for
not only the space station itself

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but also future spacecraft as well.

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Anton Shkaplerov has been working
in the Russian segment today

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on what's called the Typology experiment.

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It looks at how the crew members
adapt to living and working in space.

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They take a look at the different visual cues
on a laptop computer and report what they see.

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This takes a look at their neurology, how their
eyes are working, how their brains are working,

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and just measure those changes that happened

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to the crew members bodies
while they're up in space.

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He is also packing up equipment and supplies

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that will come home aboard the
Soyuz at the end of the month.

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The crew getting ready to return
home toward the end of April.

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Anatoly Ivanishin also working in the Russian
segment, taking some water samples from inside

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that particular portion of the
International Space Station.

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This is done periodically just to
make sure that the water the crew uses

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and that they drink is acceptable,
doesn't have any bacteria

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or anything like that growing in its.

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So he will take care of that this afternoon.

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He is also working on a cardiac
experiment to measure and take a look

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at how the crew members' cardiac
systems react to being up in space.

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Obviously the human body is one
of the primary investigations

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that take place aboard the space station,
learning how our bodies react to being

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up in space for up to six months
while the crews are up there.

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Those lessons are going to be very
important as humans take a look

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at expanding beyond low Earth orbit,
traveling to destinations such as Mars.

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Oleg Kononenko also finishing up
some work, packing up the Progress 46

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that is currently docked to
the Pirs docking compartment.

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That is one of the cargo craft that visit the
International Space Station throughout the year.

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That particular Progress
launched back in January.

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You see the map of the station
there, the Progress 46,

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it's down toward the bottom right hand side.

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It launched in January, headed up to the
station, brought up a little bit less

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than 3 tons of food, fuel
and supplies for the crew.

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Its time aboard the space
station coming to a close.

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It's going to be undocked coming up on
April 19, and it will eventually be sent

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into a destructive reentry in Earth's
atmosphere packed full of trash and other items

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that the crew doesn't need anymore.

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Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers have
been busy this week including today.

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They kicked off earlier this week
two weeks' worth of onboard training.

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All of this is leading up to the SpaceX mission,
which is coming up toward the end of the month.

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That launch currently scheduled for
April 30 at 11:22 AM central time,

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12:22 PM Eastern time It'll take a couple
of days for the SpaceX Dragon to get

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up to the station and to perform
these demonstration maneuvers

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as part of this test flight.

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This is a look at some of the
onboard training that Pettit

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and Kuipers have been doing this week.

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Basically they will be running some
simulations inside the Destiny laboratory.

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There's two different robotic
workstations onboard the station,

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one in Destiny, one down in the cupola.

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They've been running these checkouts inside
the Destiny workstation, the US laboratory,

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basically practicing the
maneuvers that they will do coming

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up once Dragon nears the station
and performs a rendezvous.

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They'll be using the station's robotic
arm to reach out and grab onto Dragon,

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which you see here is little bit different
than what Progress and the Japanese...

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It's very similar to what the Japanese HTV
does, but it's very different from the Progress

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and also the European Space Agency's
Automated Transfer Vehicle do,

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which is those vehicles actually dock
themselves to the International Space Station.

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But Dragon will do something very similar to
what HTV does, which is where it'll just sort

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of hang out and loiter away from
the station, a few dozen feet,

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and then the crew will use this robotic arm,
taking a look at these laptops you see here,

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to reach out and grab onto Dragon, monitoring
the progress of this the entire way.

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In addition to all of this the crew had some
crew Earth observation opportunities today.

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They will be flying over
Oklahoma City and Los Angeles.

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They had a chance to take a look at
those two cities right before sunrise.

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They'll also be flying over Swaziland
and finally over St. Helena Island.

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Of course if you would like to take
a look at any these photographs,