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Good morning and welcome to
the Mission Control, Houston

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and the International
Space Station Update.

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We're joining the International
Space Station flight control

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team in the space station
flight control room here

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at the Mission Control
Center in Houston,

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where the orbit two team
is on console at this time.

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They're led today by
flight director Paul Dye

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with Jack Fischer
in the Capcom seat.

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On board the International
Space Station,

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the Expedition 31 crew has been
awake since 1 a.m. Central time

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and are now more than
halfway through their day.

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After a whirlwind of activity
surrounding last week's SpaceX

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undocking - and before
that the arrival

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of both the SpaceX vehicle
and the Soyuz TMA-04M -

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activities are finally
getting back to normal,

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for a little while anyway,
for the six man crew

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on board the space station who
are currently orbiting 249 miles

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above the North Pacific Ocean,

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heading south towards
the tip of South America.

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The crew includes
Commander Oleg Kononenko

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and U.S. Flight Engineers
Don Pettit and Joe Acaba,

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as well as European Flight
Engineer Andre Kuipers

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and Russian Flight
Engineers Gennady Padalka

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and Sergei Revin.

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Kononenko, Kuipers
and Pettit have been

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at the space station
since December.

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They launched into space on Dec.

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21 and docked on the 23rd.

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Now with 166 days in space
and 164 at the space station,

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they're coming up on the
end of their sojourn.

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They're scheduled now to
return to Earth on July 1.

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Their crewmates Acaba, Padalka
and Revin only just arrived

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and will be staying
behind when they leave.

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They launched from Baikonur
on May 14 and arrived

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at the space station on May 16,
so they're currently at 20 days

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in space, 18 at the
space station.

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They won't be alone for long,
however, after Kononenko,

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Kuipers and Pettit leave.

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They're going to be joined in
a couple of weeks after that

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by what will by then be the
rest of the Expedition 32 crew.

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That's Suni Williams, Yuri
Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide.

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Those three are scheduled to
launch from Baikonur on July 15.

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Preparations for all of these
activities are ongoing both here

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on the ground and in space.

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Williams, Malenchenko
and Hoshide are currently

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at the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center in Star City,

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Russia, and today they took
part in a suited simulation.

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Meanwhile on board
the space station,

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Pettit and Acaba are going

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to be spending an hour
together later today

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for handover activities
in preparation

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for Pettit's departure.

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Meanwhile, work goes
on in space as well.

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Today the crew has
a mix of science

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and maintenance activities
on their agenda.

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Don Pettit is performing
his final session

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of the VO2 Max experiment,
which documents changes

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in the crew member's maximum
oxygen uptake while they're

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in space, and he's also
changing out filters in three

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of the four crew
quarter compartments

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on the U.S. side of
the space station.

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Joe Acaba has spent much of his
morning in the Quest airlock.

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You can see video of his
work there earlier today,

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performing some regular
maintenance

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of the U.S. spacesuits'
cooling water loops,

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and then later today, he'll
be going over procedures

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for the BASS experiment.

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That's an acronym for Burning
And Suppression of Solids,

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a study of whether materials
burn as well in microgravity

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as they do in normal gravity.

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Andre Kuipers has been working

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in the Japanese Kibo
laboratory with the Ryutai rack.

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"Ryutai" means "fluid"
in Japanese,

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and the equipment is used

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for fluid physics
experiments among other things.

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You can see him working
with that rack

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in this video also recorded
from earlier this morning.

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He's got it tilted out of
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of the space station there.

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Its image processing unit power
supply had a short circuit

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in January, so Kuipers was
removing the unit today

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and Pettit is going

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to be replacing the power
supply in it tomorrow.

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And finally on the Russian
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cosmonauts were also
participating in a couple

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of science experiments.

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Gennady Padalka was
scheduled to work

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on both the Kulonovskiy
Kristall experiment,

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which studies the
effect of microgravity

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on charged particles
in a magnetic field,

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and the Constant
experiment which looks

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at how spaceflight
influences fermentation.

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That's what's been
going on in space today,