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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome to today's ISS update.

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It is Thursday, June 14, 2012.

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This is a live view inside the
International Space Station's

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flight control room.

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The Expedition 31 crew is
busy onboard orbiting complex,

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which is presently about
245 miles above Africa.

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They're working today on
a series of experiments

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and some maintenance work.

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Oleg Kononenko who
is the commander

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of Expedition 31 is beginning
the process of packing

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up the Soyuz that
will soon bring he

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and Andre Kuipers
and Don Pettit home.

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He is packing up full of items
to come home with the crew.

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They are in their final days
aboard the International Space

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Station as they are
due to land on Sunday,

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July 1 at 3:15 AM central time

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in the southern landing
zone there in Kazakhstan.

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Of course we'll have
live coverage of all

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that here on NASA television.

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Additionally today Kononenko has
been doing some surface sampling

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inside the Russian segment.

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This is basically where
they take some swabs of some

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of the hard surfaces there
in the Russian segment

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of the orbiting complex
just to make sure

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that everything is neat and tidy

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and there's no bacteria
growing in certain sections.

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Gennady Padalka another member

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of Expedition 31 has been
doing some routine maintenance

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on the Elektron system.

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This is the Russian version

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of the oxygen generator
onboard the station.

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There's also one
inside the US segment.

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Sergei Raven has been
transferring oxygen

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from the Progress vehicle
that is currently attached

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to the International
Space Station.

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That Progress brought up two
and a half tons of supplies

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to the crew but it also
transfers over fuel and water

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and air to the space
station itself.

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There you see the Progress
47 docked with the Poisk,

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excuse me the Pirs docking
compartment on the bottom side

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of the International
Space Station.

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Poisk is up top.

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That is where the Soyuz 30 or
the TMA-04M is currently docked.

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That is the vehicle
that brought up Padalka

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and Sergei Revin and Joe Acaba.

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There is the Soyuz
29 or the TMA-03M.

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That is the vehicle we mentioned
earlier this morning that going

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to be bringing home Kononenko,
Padalka, excuse me, Kononenko,

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Kuipers and Pettit coming
up in a couple of weeks.

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And then back there in
the back is the ATV-3,

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the European Automated Transfer
Vehicle that came up back

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in March that is
currently stocked full

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of supplies the crew
continues to unload

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and pack it full of trash.

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That ATV is going to be burning
up in the Earth's atmosphere

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at the end of the summer.

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Joe Acaba has been
updating software on one

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of the station's
laptop computers.

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He is also been working
on the Glacier experiment.

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This is an onboard freezer that
keeps samples and other items

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that the crew needs to
store at low temperatures.

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He's also been working
on the BASS experiment.

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This stands for Burning
And Suppression of Solids.

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The crew has been working on
this for the last several days.

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BASS is an interesting
experiment.

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It takes a look at how
flames burn in space.

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They act a little
bit differently

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up there with no gravity.

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The accepted approach for
putting out fires here

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on Earth is to aim the
extinguisher or suppressant

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at the base of the flame
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where the flame is born.

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It's where it's most stable.

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But of course up in space it
acts a little bit differently.

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So this takes a look at
that and will be important

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to future space flight in terms
of dealing with fires onboard.

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Andre Kuipers has been
inspecting the water

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on off valves that are in
the Columbus laboratory.

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He is also reviewing procedures

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for software updates
on Express rack four.

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And there as the
Nile River comes

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into view the crew continues

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to work including Don Pettit
who's been taking samples

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from the Fluid Physics
Experiment Facility.

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This is inside the
Kibo laboratory.

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That particular rack came
up on STS-123 and is one

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of the core experiment
components inside the

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Japanese laboratory.

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The crew also has some Earth
observation opportunities today

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including Argentina,
Burundi as well as Singapore.

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Of course if you
want to take a look