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Good day and welcome
to Mission Control,

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Houston where a flight
control team is watching

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over the Expedition 31 crew
aboard the International Space

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Station as they work their
way through a cornucopia

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of scientific research today.

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Commander Oleg Kononenko and
his Russian Gennady Padalka

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and Sergei Revin along with
NASA astronaut Don Pettit

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and Joe Acaba and European Space
Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers

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have been working on a variety
of different medical experiments

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and other technology
demonstration work today.

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Right now they are
putting up Robonaut

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after conducting some tests
with that humanoid robot.

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Ground controllers did
all of the work in terms

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of controlling the robot's hands

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and helping him manipulate
a special task board

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in the Destiny laboratory
module, but it's up to the crew

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to unstow and return Robonaut
back to his stowage place

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out of the way in the
Destiny laboratory module

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when he's not actively
being involved in tests.

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And so they're finishing
up work right now.

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Joe Acaba and Don Pettit also
spent some work today again

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with the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency thermal

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control system.

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They were doing some
troubleshooting testing

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of the electrical
connections for help

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that system keep
the Kibo laboratory

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in good shirtsleeve conditions.

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They finished

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up the troubleshooting
testing using voltmeters

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and multimeter testers
in cooperation

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with the control center in
Tsukuba, Japan, which is used

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to help maintain the activities
inside the Kibo laboratory.

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And then they rotated the
rack that's in the floor

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of that laboratory back
into place so that it's

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out of the way, then
they can continue

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to do their research activities
in the Kibo laboratory provided

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by the Japanese space agency.

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Otherwise, the crew members were
getting ready to say goodbye

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to three of their crewmates.

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Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers
and Don Pettit are scheduled

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to undock their Soyuz spacecraft

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from the International
Space Station on June 30.

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That undocking is scheduled
for 11:48 p.m. Central time

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and will lead to a
landing in Kazakhstan

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at 3:14 a.m. Central time, which
is 2:14 p.m. Kazakhstan time.

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The change of command
ceremony for those activities,

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in which Kononenko
will hand over command

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of the space station to Gennady
Padalka remains scheduled

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for 6:35 p.m. Central
time on Friday.

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That's tomorrow, June 29,
and we'll have live coverage

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of that on NASA Television.

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Otherwise, all systems on the
space station working very well.

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The crew did have an opportunity
to shoot some photo and video

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of the large Colorado wildfires
that are raging Rocky Mountains.

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Earth observations, one

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of the very useful things that's
available in the unique platform

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of the International
Space Station.

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It allows space station crews
to help monitor the condition

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of the planet below,
whether it's relating

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to natural disasters such as
forest fires and hurricanes

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or also whether it is looking at
crop production and the change

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in the environmental systems

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and the water levels
throughout the planet.

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For more information about that
you can check out the Benefits

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for Humanity section

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on the International
Space Station section