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Good morning and welcome to today's
International Space Station update hour.

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You are joining us here at the International
Space Station flight control room

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at the Johnson Space Center in Houston
Texas where the Orbit 2 Team is currently

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on console monitoring all the systems
onboard the orbiting laboratory.

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That team being led today by Flight
Director Chris Edeland, there in the middle

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of your screen, and joining him in the
upper left portion is capcom Dan Tani,

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serving as the communication link
between all the controllers here

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on the ground and the astronauts up in space.

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Those astronauts right now are the
current three-man crew of Expedition 31,

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just kicking-off their first
full week since the departure

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of their previous Expedition 30 crewmates.

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Starting on the left, you have NASA astronaut
Don Pettit, one of our flight engineers.

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In the middle, Russian cosmonaut and
Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko.

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On the right, European Space
Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers.

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The three have been on board the station
since December, and will remain there

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for the next couple months, as again, they are
beginning Expedition 31 on board the station.

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Some of the activities for them today,
starting off with Commander Kononenko,

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who is spending much of his
time unloading some items

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from that Russian resupply ship the
Progress 47 craft, which is docked to Pirs,

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on the Earth-facing side of the Russian
Zvezda service module since April 22.

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He will be unloading some cargo items
man updating the station's inventory

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management system.

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Moving on, Andre Kuipers is going to be doing
some cargo unloading activities of his own,

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but the from the European Space Agency's
cargo craft the ATV-3, or Edoardo Amaldi.

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He will be spending a good time, a good
portion of his time today doing that,

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and then also later moving later on to working

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with the Integrated Cardiovascular
Monitoring Experiment.

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This is a U.S. experiment that
looks to study heart atrophy,

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or the weakening of the cardiac muscles
inside the human body as they are exposed

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to the microgravity environment of space over
the long duration of their expedition flights.

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Then our NASA astronaut Don Pettit, will be
conducting some more vision tests today working

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with Robonaut, the station's
robotic guest currently onboard.

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They will be using it, setting up a task
for it while robotics controllers down here

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on the ground look through Robonaut's eyes
and move him through a few more exercises,

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testing out his hands and
also his visual acuity.

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You can see Robonaut here with Don
Pettit in the background there,

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set up in the Destiny laboratory.

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And then aside from that Robonaut
work today, Don Pettit is also working

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on replacing the Bio lab, or the Biological
Experiment Laboratory in the Columbus module,

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working on changing out one
incubators inside of it.

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The Bio Lab is used to onboard the station
perform different space biology experiments

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on microorganisms among cells
in different tissue cultures,

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and also small plants and invertebrates.

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And this is just one of the many
experiments onboard station looking

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to get a better understanding
of the effects of microgravity

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and also space radiation
on biological organisms.

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Aside from all this activity today on
board the station, again were currently

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in the three-man crew since the undocking last
week of Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank

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and fellow Russian cosmonauts Anton
Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin.

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We will be in this three crew rotation.

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As you can see here that their Soyuz
Descent craft landing in Kazakhstan.

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That happened early Friday
morning Central time, last week.

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The three had been on board the station since
mid-November and their landing brought a close

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to Expedition 30 and the
beginning of Expedition 31.

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The three remaining crew members of Expedition
31 will launch about two weeks from now.

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That will be Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka
and Sergei Revin and NASA astronaut José Acaba.

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You can see them here.

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So some of the of vehicle traffic
that was going on over the weekend,

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the previous Progress craft, the Progress
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than a week ago was de-orbited on Saturday,
after doing a series of engineering tests.

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And that Progress spacecraft,
unlike the Soyuz, did not land,

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it was burned up in the Earth's atmosphere
as planned over the Pacific Ocean loaded