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This is Mission Control,
Houston.

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Good morning to you from the
International Space Station

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flight control room.

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We want to welcome you
to today's ISS Update.

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It is a busy day for the
crew of Expedition 32

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on board the orbiting complex.

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The big news of the day
is last night's attempt

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by the Progress 47
cargo craft to re-dock

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with the International
Space Station was aborted.

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If you watched our live coverage
you saw that in the early part

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of that re-rendezvous with the
International Space Station

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that cargo craft did have
what's called a passive abort,

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where it called off
the approach itself.

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It was automatically aborted at
about 7:22 p.m. Central time.

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At that point in time, the
cargo craft was about 99

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to 100 miles away from
the space station itself.

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Since that time, the Russian
engineers have begun taking a

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look at that to find out exactly
what the cause of that is.

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This is not the first
time that one

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of these cargo craft have
the called off their abort.

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That is part of the
safety system on board

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as they draw near to the
International Space Station.

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But the team here in Houston
did verify that the Progress was

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on a safe trajectory away from
International Space Station.

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It passed down below it
at enough of a distance

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to not cause any sort of concern

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from the Houston team
or the Russian team.

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They also took a close look at
the proximity of this Progress

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to the Japanese HTV3 cargo craft
that launched last week and is

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on its way up to the
International Space Station,

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but HTV3 is currently at a lower
altitude than the Progress 47

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and the space station itself, so
there's no concern there either.

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About two orbits - or
about three hours roughly -

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after the abort, the mission
control team in Moscow activated

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that Kurs-NA system which is
a brand new system on board

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that Progress to check it out.

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They're taking a look at the
results of that as we speak now.

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They have uplinked a plan
to the Progress for it

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to perform a couple of
different burns tonight to slow

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down what's called
the phasing rate,

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basically how fast the
Progress itself is closing

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in on the orbiting
complex once again.

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So those burns will slow

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that down a bit while
they take a look at it.

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And then the preliminary
plan if all goes well is

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for the Progress to reattempt
its rendezvous coming

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up at some point this weekend,

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but the mission management
team here in Houston along

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with our Russian counterparts
over in Moscow will take a look

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at that, have some
talks later on today

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and will make a decision
in the coming day or so

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about the exact target for that
Progress to retry its approach

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to the International
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Now, this Progress has
already been buttoned up.

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It had its hatches closed
as the crew got ready

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for the actual undocking
this past weekend.

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There are no plans
for the Progress

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to be reopened should it
re-rendezvous and dock

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with the International
Space Station once again.

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So all in all, the role of
this Progress is complete,

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so if something were to happen

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that the progress
could not redock

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with the International
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that really does not present
any sort of issue for the crew

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of Expedition 32 or the
International Space Station

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since that Progress
is basically finished

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with its time aboard the
International Space Station.

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This also, as of right now,
really does not have any sort

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of effect on the launch
of the next Progress,

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which will be the Progress 48,

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since those two vehicles do not
share the same Kurs rendezvous

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and approach system on board.

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Of course for the latest on this
we'll have updates for you here

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on ISS Update throughout the
week, but we also invite you log

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onto the NASA website
at www.NASA.gov/station,

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and of course we'll
have the latest there.

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Other than that, the
crew is getting back

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on a normal schedule today.

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They had a shifted
sleep period yesterday

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and today getting ready for
all of this Progress activity.

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You see the entire crew
there, with Aki Hoshide

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on the far left-hand side,
Yuri Malenchenko second

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from the left, Suni Williams
there in the middle along

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with Joe Acaba, Gennady Padalka
there second from the right

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and Sergei Revin there on
the far right of that photo.

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Acaba is working on
medical experiments today

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and some sample processing.

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He is analyzing some
water on board

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from Water Processing Assembly,
which helps recycle the water

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on board the station itself.

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He's using what we
call the TOCA.

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This the Total Organic
Carbon Analyzer,

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which basically just
samples the water,

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makes sure that there's
nothing unexpected in there

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and that it's okay
for the crew to use.

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So he is doing that.

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He is also gathering equipment

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for the centerline
berthing camera system

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which will be installed
coming up in about two days.

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He's also performing
an air sampling session

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with what's called the
Air Quality Monitor.

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This is basically just a sniffer
that takes a look at the air

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on board and, much like that
water analyzer, just makes sure

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that it's okay for
the crew to use.

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He's also relocating
some hardware inside one

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of the Express drawers on board.

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Suni Williams is working
on setting up a computer,

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getting ready for the capture

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of the Japanese HTV vehicle
coming up later on today.

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You see the depiction of what
that's going to look like here.

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She's going to be sort
of serving as a backup

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to Joe Acaba and Aki Hoshide.

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Acaba's going to be doing the
first part of that capture,

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reaching out and
grabbing on to HTV,

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and then Aki Hoshide will
take over and bring it on in

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and install it on the bottom
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Hoshide himself is setting up

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and attaching a portable
fan assembly

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and some ventilation
ducts inside the Japanese

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Kibo laboratory.

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He's also taking care of
some other experiment work

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on board as well.

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Coming up on Friday, as
we mention HTV to you,

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the grapple of HTV
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for 7:04 a.m. Central
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That's 8:04 a.m. Eastern time.

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Of course we'll have
live coverage of all

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of that here on NASA Television.

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The actual berthing

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and installation
operations will begin

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around 9:45 a.m. Central
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with the actual final
installation of the HTV3

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on the Harmony node scheduled

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for about 10:35 a.m.
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that all depends on how
fast the crew works.

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But all of that coming
up on Friday,