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Good day, and welcome to mission
control Houston, where a team

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of flight controllers
is watching

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over all the systems aboard
the International Space Station

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as it orbits 250 statute
miles over the Himalayas

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on an easterly course.

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On board, Commander
Oleg Kononenko

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and Flight Engineers
Andre Kuipers, Don Pettit,

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Gennady Padalka , Sergei Revin
and Joe Acaba are working

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through a very busy day
of activities that range

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from robot operations with
the small Japanese arm,

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to some preparations
for some experiments

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on board the International Space
Station, and also getting ready

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for the departure of
Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit,

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coming up at the
end of the week.

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The crew members are
getting ready to depart

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and they are going
through a number

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of different activities
associated

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with their preparations,
packing up

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and making sure they
have got all

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of their personal items
ready to go home with them.

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aboard their Soyuz spacecraft.

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Some of the Russian
cosmonauts are going

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through some lower body negative
pressure sessions to try

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to pull fluids back in
their lower extremities

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since extremities tend
to pool in the midsection

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and the upper portions
of the body.

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That is one potential
countermeasure.

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They are also getting some
exercise to help them get ready

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for the return to Earth gravity
after six months in orbit.

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A change of command ceremony
is officially scheduled

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for 6:35 p.m. CT coming up
on this Friday, June 29.

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And that will involve
the handover

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from Commander Kononenko
to the new commander

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of Expedition 32
Gennady Padalka.

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All crew members will be
participating in that.

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We will have that live on
NASA television for you.

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On Sunday, actually
Saturday U.S. time,

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starting on June the
30th about 11:48 p.m. CT,

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will be the undocking

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of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying
Kononenko, Kuipers and Pettit.

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And then they will land on
the steppe of Kazakhstan

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on early Sunday morning.

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Scheduled for 3:14 a.m. CT,
which works out to 2:14 p.m.

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in the afternoon Kazakh time.

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Of course that will be seen
here live on NASA television.

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Today the crew is working
with several different types

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of maintenance activities.

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They are greasing the rails

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on the Advanced Resistive
Exercise Device,

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which lets them mimic
weightlifting,

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even though there is
no gravity in space.

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They are making sure those rails

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which use the exercise
arms have free travel.

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Here is a graph that
shows you a look

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at the Advanced Resistive
Exercise Device.

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They are also doing some
ventalation system maintenance

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and are checking dust filters

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in the Russian segment
of the space station.

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They are also inspecting
the window condition

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in the Russian segment
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something done periodically
to take a look

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for any possible micrometeorite
or orbital debris hits,

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or any damage or any cleaning
that needs to be done there.

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Russians are also
working with an experiment

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that measures radiation dosages
aboard the space station.

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Joe Acaba is working with some
equipment for an upcoming run

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with the Combustion Integrated
Rack experiment that looks

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at how flames and other
fire affects smoke happen

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in micro gravity where you don't
have a normal affects accompany

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Earth gravity.

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Flames in space tend to
be a round ball instead

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of the normal candle shape flame

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and those experiments are
expected to look deeply

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into the nature of combustion
and hopefully lead to advances

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on the Earth related to more
efficient combustion for engines

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and should save energy in the
long run and also help protect

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against fire in space.

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Don Pettitt is going to do a
self scan using the ultrasound

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device aboard the space
station of his leg, this is part

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of an experiment
known as Sprint.

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The Sprint experiment to
is one that takes a look

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at long-duration stays on
aboard the space station

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and how it effects
the human body.

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Sprint stands for integrated
resistance anaerobic training

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study and it's designed to
look at the high-intensity,

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low volume exercise training
and to try to minimize muscle,

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bone and cardiovascular
degradation during long-duration

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missions on the space station.

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This could also have some
value to folks on the Earth

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that to end up in a
situation where they might be

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on extended bed rest
and the like.

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Also, a lot of work going
on with the robotic arm

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on the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency's

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Kibo module.

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That module has an airlock and
a front porch for experiments,

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and the next Japanese
resupply vehicle is scheduled

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to launch to the space station.

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That's coming up
later on in July

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and it will be delivering
some external cargo

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and what's affectionately
known as the trunk of HTV-3.

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The robotic arm just
got a software upgrade

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that the crew is testing it
out to make sure it's ready

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to remove that cargo
from the external trunk

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of the HTV-3 vehicle
and places it

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on the external experiment
rack that's on the outside,

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also known as the front
porch, of the Kibo laboratory.

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So a very busy day on board the
International Space Station.

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All systems working well and the
crew very active today with here

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in mission control Emily Nelson
in charge of the team watching

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over and Robert Hanley
talking with the crew as needed