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This is Mission Control Houston.

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For the crew on the
International Space Station,

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Tuesday has been a day
of science research

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and maintenance activity.

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And for some of the crew members
also the start of preparations

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to conclude their six
month space flight.

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Station Commander Oleg Kononenko
spent the morning photographing

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windows in the Russian modules

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of the International
Space Station.

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He then moved on to the
Russian daily maintenance

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in the Russian segment toilet.

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His crewmate Gennady
Padalka spent a good portion

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of his day working on the
Plasma Crystal experiment

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that is examining behavior of
plasma dust crystals and fluids

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in the microgravity environment.

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Flight Engineer Sergei
Revin also working

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on Russian science today busy
with the Typologia experiment

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which is researching how
crew members reactions change

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over time as they spend time

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in the alien environment
of low Earth orbit.

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Flight Engineer Joe Acaba spent
time today doing maintenance

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on the Japanese robotic arm and
then moved to gather up hardware

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that will be used
for the maintenance

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on the thermal control system

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that he will perform
later on in the week.

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Flight Engineer Don Pettit had
time today to gather up hardware

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that will be used for the
assembly of the Amine Swingbed.

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That's scheduled to take
place on Wednesday as well.

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For Flight Engineer Andre
Kuipers, he worked today

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to prepare the Marangoni
inside experiment hardware

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and also conducted
some testing of water

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from the Environmental
Health System.

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After the crew members had their
lunch break the Russian crew

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members prepared some
memorabilia related

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to the mission of the Automated
Transfer Vehicle number three

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that will be brought
back to Earth.

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The three United States
operating segment crew members

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also spent time getting set
to talk about their mission

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in interviews with
Fox Business Channel

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and the American
Geophysical Union.

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All of the crew members finished

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up their second daily exercise
session just before the evening

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daily planning conference.

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Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit
looking ahead to the start

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of departure preparations ahead
of the end of their flight.

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Those three crew members are
scheduled for a Soyuz landing