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Good morning, this is
Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome and thank you for
joining us for today's edition

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of ISS update this
Thursday, May 17.

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We're coming to you live inside
the International Space Station

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flight control room where the
team has been monitoring the

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systems aboard the station and
supporting today's activities

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of the Expedition
31 crew members.

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Leading the Orbit Two team here

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in the station flight control
room today is flight director

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Judd Frieling and next
to him is Anna Fisher,

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who is serving as Capcom.

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She's been relaying all ground
messages up to the crew.

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Aboard the orbiting complex
station Commander Oleg Kononenko

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and Flight Engineers Andre
Kuipers and Don Pettit who are

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in their 21st week in space,

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welcomed three new crew
members aboard the orbital home

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last night.

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Russian cosmonauts Gennady
Padalka, Sergei Revin

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and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba
aboard the Soyuz [TMA-]04M

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spacecraft docked
to the space station

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after their successful launch
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan late Monday night.

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After a two-day chase on orbit,
that Soyuz spacecraft docked

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to the Poisk module at the
space station last night

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at 11:36 PM central time as
the two vehicles were flying

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over the Mongolian
border with Kazakhstan.

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While anticipating their three
new crew members Kononenko,

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Kuipers and Pettit began
their day with a wake-up

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at 8:30 central time last
night to support the arrival

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of their new crew
members who joined them

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on board the International Space
Station after a series of leak

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and pressure checks,
and the hatches

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between both vehicles were
opened early this morning

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at 3:10 central time.

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The new trio joined the
crew for a greeting ceremony

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and conference with family
and mission officials

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and conducted a safety
briefing afterward.

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It is now back to business

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for the current station
residents while their newly

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arrived crewmates begin several
days of familiarization tasks

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as they adjust to life aboard
the orbital laboratory.

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The docking occurred on
Acaba's 45th birthday.

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In his first daily planning
conference aboard the space

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station, Acaba told ground
controllers around the world,

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"I couldn't have wished for
better birthday present."

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Acaba had previously visited the
station March 2009 aboard the

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space shuttle discovery as an
STS 119 mission specialist.

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This is Padalka's fourth
long-duration spaceflight

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and his third aboard
the station.

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His first mission was aboard
the Russian space station Mir,

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while Revin is making his
first trip into space.

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Awaiting for their new crewmates

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to join them aboard the
International Space Station,

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Commander Kononenko, Kuipers
and Pettit had launched

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to the orbiting complex
aboard their Soyuz spacecraft

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as the Expedition 30 crew
in December of last year.

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Their vehicle docked
to the Rassvet module

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of the space station two days

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after their launch
on December 23.

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Today the trio will complete
their 149th consecutive day,

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nearly 5 months in space.

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Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit
had adjusted their sleep shift

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with an earlier wakeup
at 8:30 PM last night

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to accommodate the
successful docking at 11:36 PM.

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The space station
with its crew aboard

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and the Soyuz TMA-04M now docked
is now flying at an altitude

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of about 245 statute miles.

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The orbiting facility
is on a night pass

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on a northeastern track
having made its way

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across the southern
Australia about 15 min.

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ago. It's now across the North
Pacific Ocean heading toward an

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orbital sunrise and
eventually a pass across Canada.

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Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit
had adjusted their sleep shift

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with that earlier wake
up at 8:30 PM last night.

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They began their active
long day with the first

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of two daily planning
conference a couple hours

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after their wake-up.

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These planning conferences are
held with ground controllers

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at mission control
centers around the world

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to review the day's
activities and also plan

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for the next set of task.

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The task at the top of
the list being the arrival

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of their new crew members.

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Along with the arrival of the
Soyuz today, Pettit worked

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with the SPHERES experiment
troubleshooting the

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reference clock.

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He also replaced
a manifold bottle

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in the Combustion
Integrated Rack experiment

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and observed microbial samples

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for the Environmental Health
System Microbial Capture Device.

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Kuipers worked on the Water
Recovery System to prepare

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for water transfers and
performed flow measurements

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on the temperature
and humidity control,

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the inner module
ventilation system.

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And new to the station,

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NASA astronaut Joe Acaba
spent some time setting

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up his crew quarters area.

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The six-member Expedition
crew is now settling

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down in their pre-sleep period
aboard the space station

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as they prepare for
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that will adjust
their sleep back

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to the normal station operations
clock for their first full day

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of work together as a full
crew aboard the orbiting

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complex tomorrow.

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The crew is scheduled go
to bed just at the end