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This is Mission Control,
Houston.

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Good morning to everyone
and welcome

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to the International Space
Station flight control room here

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at the Johnson Space Center.

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This is today's ISS update.

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It is Monday, June 11, 2012.

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The crew on board the space
station is busy working

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on a series of experiments
and routine maintenance work.

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The team down here on
Earth is being led today

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by Flight Director
Royce Renfrew.

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He is standing up there.

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He is joined by the Capcom today

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which is veteran
astronaut Sandy Magnus.

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She herself lived on board
the space station complex,

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also flew the last space
shuttle mission STS 135.

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Today is her actual final
day of training as a Capcom,

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so we'll be seeing her face

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and hearing her voice a bit more
here inside mission control.

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Today, the three Russian
crew members including Oleg

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Kononenko, Gennady Padalka

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and Sergei Revin are spending
some time observing Russia Day,

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which is a holiday for
our colleagues in Russia

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that recognizes national
pride and social

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and economic achievements
throughout history.

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Of course, there are
many from that nation,

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the space program not the least

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of which gets recognized
on Russia Day.

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Joe Acaba, one of the
flight engineers on board,

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is performing a quarterly
inspection of one

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of the onboard treadmills.

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Those treadmills are an
important piece of equipment

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for the crew to use
each and every day.

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It requires some
upkeep up there on board

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so he is taking care
of that today.

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He is also doing some work

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on what is called the
Combustion Integrated Rack,

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or the CIR. This rack,
including its twin

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which is the Fluid Integrated
Rack, are large pieces

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of experiment hardware on
board the space station.

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The Combustion Integrated
Rack is used

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to perform combustion
experiments just

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like its name sounds
up in space.

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It's fairly large.

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It has a 100-liter
combustion chamber,

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which you see the
majority of there,

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and five different
cameras that the crew

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and also the ground
teams can use

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to see the different
experiments that are inside.

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The crew actually helps maintain
the racks and the fuel bottles

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which are mounted down
below that provide the fuel

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to burn inside the rack, but the
actual experiments themselves

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are run from the ground.

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So they're remote controlled.

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Acaba also spending
some time moving cargo

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out of the Automated Transfer
Vehicle that is still docked

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with the station back there
on the Russian segment.

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That ATV, which is called the
"Amaldi," came up back in March

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and docked with the
International Space Station.

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You see this very
large spacecraft here

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with its x-wing solar arrays

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which set it apart
from other vehicles.

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It's going to spend the
next several months attached

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to the station.

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It brought up more than seven
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so they've been spending
the last several weeks

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and couple months unloading it.

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They will continue this
throughout the summer,

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and then pack it full
of trash and other items

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that they don't need anymore.

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And ultimately, coming up in
August, September or at the end

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of the summer, that ATV will
be undocked from the station

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and sent into a destructive
reentry

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in the Earth's atmosphere.

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This ATV is the third of
the ATV's that have come

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up to the station complex.

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Andre Kuipers is working on
some routine work inside Kibo

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on the ventilation system.

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This is some routine maintenance
work that he and the rest

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of the crew have

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to do throughout the
entire space station complex

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on the different modules there.

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He will take care of that and
take some photos of his work

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and send that down to the
ground team so they can verify

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that everything has been
done according to plan.

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He's also working on
what's called the Integrated

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Cardiovascular ambulatory
monitoring experiment.

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Obviously the human body
is one of the main focuses

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of station experiments to find
out what happens to us as we're

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up in space for extended
periods of time.

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These lessons learned from the
space station will be important

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as humans venture beyond low
Earth orbit to destinations

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such as an asteroid or back to
the moon or the moons of Mars

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or whatever it may be.

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This particular experiment has
the crew member wear a device

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that monitors blood
pressure for 24 hours.

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After that takes place, then
they basically do the same thing

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with an EKG machine

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which records electrocardiogram
signals from heart.

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All this is put together to find
out exactly what happens to us

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up there on board
the space station.

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And finally Don Pettit
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on an experiment called BASS.

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It stands for Burning
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of Solids up in space.

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It's an interesting experiment,

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sort of like the
Combustion Integrated Rack.

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It takes a look at how
things burn in space.

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Fire behaves extremely
differently inside the

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weightless environment of the
International Space Station.

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What BASS actually takes a look

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at is how do you
extinguish fires up in space

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because the accepted
theory is that here

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on Earth the way
a flame behaves,

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that you aim the fire
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down at the base of
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where the flame is basically
created and also serves

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as its stabilization point.

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But that may be a bit
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so this BASS experiment
takes a look at that,