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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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The orbit two team is
on console at this time,

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and they're led again today
by Flight Director Paul Dye.

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He's joined today by Anna
Fisher 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

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since 1 a.m. Central
time despite being

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up a bit late last night,

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staying up to photograph
the historic Venus transit.

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Photo of what that
looked like here.

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Commander Oleg Kononenko and
U.S. Flight Engineers Don Pettit

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and Joe Acaba, as well

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as European Flight
Engineer Andre Kuipers

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and Russian Flight
Engineers Gennady Padalka

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and Sergei Revin are now more
than halfway through their day.

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Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit
have been at the space station

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since December, and they
launched into space on Dec.

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21, docking on the 23rd.

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Now with 168 days in space
and 166 at the space station,

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they're coming up on the
end of their mission,

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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 22 days

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in space and 20 at
the space station.

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A couple of weeks after their
crewmates leave, Acaba, Padalka

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and Revin are going to be joined
by what will then be the rest

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of the Expedition 32
crew - Suni Williams,

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Yuri Malenchenko
and Aki Hoshide.

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

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and they're already in Russia
preparing for their departure.

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Today they were at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Center

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in Star City taking part in
a Russian segment simulation.

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In space the day's work
has focused on maintenance

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and crew health monitoring
experiments.

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Don Pettit has been
spending a good deal

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of his time this morning
preparing for repair work

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that he'll be doing tomorrow on
the Amine Swingbed experiment.

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That experiment is working

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to determine whether a vacuum
regenerated amine system can

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effectively remove
carbon dioxide

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from the space station's air,

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but its control unit power
handler circuit board has blown

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a fuse that Pettit's going
to be replacing tomorrow.

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This week's work with the
Ryutai experiment rack is

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also continuing.

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Pettit and Kuipers have
been taking turns working

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to replace a short-circuited
power supply

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in its image processing unit.

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Pettit did the actual
repair yesterday,

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and today Kuipers is
reinstalling the repaired unit

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into the experiment rack.

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Joe Acaba is also doing
another round of monitoring

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for the Integrated
Cardiovascular experiment

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which looks at how the body's
cardiovascular system reacts

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to being in space, and he's
in the middle of a session

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of the Pro K diet experiment as
well which is an experiment see

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if dietary countermeasures
will help lessen the bone loss

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that astronauts often experience
during long-duration missions.

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And finally on the Russian
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the cosmonauts were
also participating

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in several 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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as well as the Bar experiment
which looks at different methods

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of detecting leaks
on the space station.

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He's also got some time set
aside to work on an experiment

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that monitors group activities
under spaceflight conditions.

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