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This is Mission Control Houston.

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The International Space
Station's Expedition 32 crew is

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wrapping up a week dominated
by the comings and goings

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of cargo ships while they've
been keeping up a strong pace

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of science operations as the
6 crew members finished their

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first three weeks
as a group on orbit.

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Saturday, July 28 the
crew opened the hatch

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on the H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV
number three, which had arrived

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at the space station
the previous day

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and started unloading
ton of supplies.

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They in fact worked so much
on that they got days ahead

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of the schedule timeline.

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That evening they
monitored the re-docking

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of a Progress cargo
ship which was testing

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out an enhanced version of
the automated rendezvous

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and docking system
which worked just fine

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after Russian specialists
raised the temperature inside

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that module.

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Over the weekend
and even on Monday,

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Flight Engineers Joe
Acaba, Suni Williams

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and Aki Hoshide spent a lot

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of time unloading the material
inside that Japanese cargo ship.

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In the meantime,
Commander Gennady Padalka,

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Flight Engineers Sergei Revin,

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and Flight Engineer Yuri
Malenchenko monitored the final

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departure of 47P.

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In between times Aki
Hoshide installed,

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prepared the solution
crystallization observation

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facility for a JAXA
biotechnology investigation

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which is aimed at refining our
understanding of the mechanisms

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that drive the growth of
crystals in microgravity.

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Acaba and Williams joined him
for body mass measurements

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and ultrasound examinations.

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Williams also fed the
spiders that are part

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of the YouTube Spacelab
experiment

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that was delivered on HTV.

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That is a suite of two
experiments that were developed

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by high school students and
were selected by proposals

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that were delivered via YouTube.

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On Tuesday the crew
took readings

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from several life sciences
investigations and started work

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with the Advanced
Colloids Experiment

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which will examine materials

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that contain small colloidal
particles to learn more

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about how those particles
behave in microgravity.

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Williams also took time
to talk to a radio station

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to Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
her home state,

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and to Dr. Sanjay Gupta
on CNN about the progress

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of her mission so far and plans
for the future, and finished

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up the day with more
body mass measurements.

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Padalka and Malenchenko
had a refresher course

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in the operation of the TORU;

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that is the manual
backup docking system

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in the Russian segment of
the station that is used

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in case the automated
docking system fails.

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But they were testing
out Toru in advance

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of another imminent arrival.

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Wednesday saw for the first
time ever the launch and docking

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of a Russian cargo
ship on the same day.

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48 Progress made the trip
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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to the space station docking
port in just four orbits

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of the Earth instead
of the usual 34 orbits.

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This was a test of
the new flight profile

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that could save future
human crews a lot

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of hours spent inside
the cramped Soyuz vehicle

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on the normal 2-day transit
to the space station.

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Earlier in that day Joe Acaba
set up and performed operations

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with the Capillary
Flow Experiment,

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which is a fluid
physics investigation

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to learn how fluids
behave in microgravity.

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Hoshide set up the
ultrasound equipment

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for the Integrated
Cardiovascular experiment

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and then assisted
Acaba in gathering data

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for the integrated experiment
to quantify any atrophy

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of the heart muscle due
to the absence of gravity.

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On Thursday afternoon the
Russian crew opened the hatches

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to 48P and started unloading it.

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All crew members took part in
routine station maintenance.

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Acaba worked with what is known
as the Vascular experiment.

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That's the Canadian
investigation looking

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into the mechanisms that
are responsible for changes

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in blood pressure and
particularly those

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that parallel changes that occur
in people on Earth as they age.

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The crew members have been
working in split shifts due

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to the Progress operations,

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but the whole Expedition crew
got their schedules synced

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up for Friday, which featured
Progress unloading, Joe Acaba

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and Aki Hoshide training
for robotic arm operations

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that are coming up next Monday

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when they will fly
the Japan robotic arm

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to receive a handoff
from Canadarm2.

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The handoff item will be an
unpressurized cargo pallet

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that ground controllers
will extract from the HTV.

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The station crew members
will move that pallet

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over to the Kibo exposed
facility on Monday

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and to kick off even more
groundbreaking science