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Good morning and welcome
to Mission Control, Houston

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and the International
Space Station update hour.

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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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and they're led today by
Flight Director Paul Dye

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with astronaut C.J.
Sturckow in the Capcom seat.

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You can see Dye and
Sturckow here.

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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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Commander Oleg Kononenko

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and Russian Flight
Engineers Gennady Padalka

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and Sergei Revin, as well as
U.S. Flight Engineers Don Pettit

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and Joe Acaba and European
Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers,

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are now all more than halfway
through a busy day of science

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and maintenance activities
as well as transfer work.

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They're currently
orbiting 252 miles

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above southern Africa heading
north towards the Indian Ocean.

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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 167 days in space
and 165 at the space station,

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they're coming up on
the end their sojourn.

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

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Their crewmates Acaba, Padalka
and Revin still have most

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of their mission
in front of them.

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They only launched from
Baikonur on May 14 and arrived

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at the station on May 16, which
means they've now spent 21 days

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in space and 19 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'll be joined in a
couple of weeks after that

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by what will 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
launch from Baikonur on July 15.

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Preparations for all of those
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 Soyuz simulation.

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Meanwhile on board the space
station, Acaba spent an hour

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of handover time
with Pettit yesterday

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and today did the
same with Kuipers.

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Of course, this mission
still has a lot

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to do before the
next one starts.

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Today Don Pettit is working

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to replace a short-circuited
power supply

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for the Japanese
Ryutai experiment -

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its processing unit to be exact.

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He and Joe Acaba are also
spending some time today

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with the BASS experiment,
which stands for the Burning

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And Suppression of
Solids experiment

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that tests the hypothesis that,
all other things being equal,

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materials in microgravity
burn as well or better

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than they would in gravity.

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Joe Acaba is also doing
a round of monitoring

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for the Integrated
Cardiovascular experiment today,

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which looks at how the body's
cardiovascular system reacts

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to being in space, and Andre
Kuipers is doing some health

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monitoring of his own
for another experiment,

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this one the VO2 Max experiment,

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which works to document
how astronauts' ability

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to do strenuous physical
activity changes during their

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time in space.

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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 again
today scheduled to work

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on 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 Sergei Revin had some
time set aside to work

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on an experiment that
monitors group activities

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under spaceflight conditions.

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