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Good Monday morning from the
International Space Station

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flight control room.

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This is Mission Control,
Houston.

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You're looking at a team
of flight controllers

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that have been working
on console

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since early this
morning watching

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over all systems aboard the
International Space Station.

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The team is on a
nine-hour rotation shift,

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covering three shifts
around-the-clock

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to support International
Space Station operations.

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The team today is being led

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by veteran Flight
Director Emily Nelson.

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She is overseeing this
team throughout the day.

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She's also joined on her
right by Christie Bertels

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who is serving as the
communications link

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between the flight
control team here

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and the crew aboard the
International Space Station.

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The International Space
Station is currently flying high

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above Europe, currently
passing across Turkey

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on a southeasterly
trajectory that will take it

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into an orbital sunset here
in about 10 minutes or so,

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and from this vantage
point of 247 statute miles,

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the station is circling
the Earth every 92 minutes.

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And that, of course, means
the station's traveling

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about 5 miles per second or
about 17,000 miles per hour.

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On board the station now
a new crew, Expedition 32.

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Of course of these three
gentlemen have been aboard the

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station for 48 days
now, 50 days in space,

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but they have transitioned
to Expedition 32.

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In the center is the commander

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of Expedition 32
Gennady Padalka.

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On his left is U.S.
astronaut Joe Acaba,

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and on his right is Russian
cosmonaut Sergei Revin.

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These three crew
members transitioned

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to Expedition 32 late Saturday
night U.S. Central time,

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after the departure of
three other crew members

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that made up Expedition 31.

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Oleg Kononenko, Andre Kuipers

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and Don Pettit returned
home early Sunday morning

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after 193 days in space,

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191 days aboard the
International Space Station.

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They returned home to
partly cloudy skies.

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Beautiful video of
the return home

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of their Soyuz TMA-03M
spacecraft on the steppe

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of Kazakhstan just to the
southeast of Zhezkazgan,

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which is in the southern
landing zone targeted

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for that return home.

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Those three crew
members now safely back

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with Oleg Kononenko back in
Star City just outside Moscow,

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and Kuipers and Pettit returned
home aboard a NASA plane shortly

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after checkups and the landing,

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and they are now
back here in Houston.

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The crew on board today
spending some off duty time,

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but they also are continuing
to work on experiments

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and housekeeping chores around
the International Space Station.

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Padalka and Revin have been
inspecting some circuit breakers

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and some fuses in the
Pirs docking compartment

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of the Russian segment.

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They've also performed
some maintenance

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in the Zvezda service
module's ventilation system

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and some Earth observation
photography as well.

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Acaba's been working with
the flight control team here

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in Houston on several
experiments that are overseen

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by NASA's Marshall Space Flight
Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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He's also performed
a communications test

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between the onboard smartphone

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that is aboard the
station that's associated

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with the SPHERES experiment,

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known as the Synchronized
Position Hold, Engage, Reorient,

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Experimental Satellites -

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those small bowling-ball-sized
satellites that are used

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for interaction with
school kids on the ground

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through some autonomous
robotic operations.

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So, the crew members will wrap
up their day as usual with going

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to bed about 4:30
in the afternoon,

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but they continue throughout the
latter half of their day working

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with the station systems
and ensuring that all

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of the components
aboard the station are

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in good working order,
supporting their activities

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on board as they press through
what's now their 50th day