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Good morning from
the PAO console here

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in Mission Control Houston

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for today's International
Space Station Update.

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Right now the Orbit Two team is

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on console monitoring all
the systems onboard this

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orbiting laboratory.

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Today's team is being led by
Flight Director Mike Lammers.

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At the CAPCOM position
is Jeremy Hanson serving

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as the communication link
between controllers here

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on the ground and the
astronauts up in space.

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And those astronauts
right now are the crew

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of Expedition 32 being
led by Russian cosmonaut

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and veteran space flier
Gennady Padalka currently

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on his fourth spaceflight.

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And then starting on the left,
we'll go across the back row

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with Japanese astronaut
Aki Hoshide.

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Then joining him on the front
row there is a Russian cosmonaut

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Yuri Malenchenko on
his fifth flight,

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another veteran space flier
from the Russian Space Agency.

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Moving across the back row,
NASA astronaut Suni Williams

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on her second long-duration
spaceflight and then right next

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to her another NASA
astronaut Joe Acaba,

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a veteran of one previous
space shuttle mission.

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And then finally all the
way on the right there,

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is our third Russian cosmonaut
Sergei Revin, a rookie flyer

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on his first flight onboard the
International Space Station.

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So the crew quite busy today.

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They all just finished

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up reviewing some
emergency procedures just

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in case there's an
ammonia release inside

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of the station's atmosphere.

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They walked through
their emergency handbooks

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and conferred with teams on
the ground the different steps

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that they would have to take
should such a situation arise.

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That was all completed
successfully and the crewmates,

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the crew members were led

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by Expedition 32
Commander Gennady Padalka

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who also today was
reviewing some procedures

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for his upcoming spacewalk

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which will be occurring
on Monday, August 20.

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This will be the 31st
Russian spacewalk or EVA,

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extravehicular activity,

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in support of the
International Space Station.

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He'll be stepping outside

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with fellow Russian
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko

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and relocating the
Strela-2 telescoping boom

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from the Pirs docking
compartment to the Zarya module

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in preparation for the
future undocking of Pirs

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which will pave the way for
the new Russian multipurpose

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laboratory module just a little
bit later in 2013 or 2014.

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So again, spacewalkers
Gennady Padalka

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and Yuri Malenchenko reviewing
those procedures today.

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Our third Russian cosmonaut
Sergei Revin is auditing some

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supplies of spare
lighting equipment inside

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of the Russian segment.

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He spent some time yesterday
replacing a few lights

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on the Zvezda and
Rassvet modules

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on the Russian side
of the house.

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He will also be doing some
routine maintenance activities

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on different life, Russian life
support systems pending a few

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ground recommendations on
which exactly he'll be working

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on whether it's the
oxygen generation system

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in the Russian segment or also
be doing some more routine

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toilet replacement work.

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Moving on to our
USOS crew members,

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Joe Acaba spent a good portion
of his day today working

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in the Combustion
Integrated Rack.

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He's been replacing
some hardware

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in the Multiuser Droplet
Combustion Apparatus.

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That Combustion Integrated
Rack includes a number

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of different components like a
combustion chamber and also fuel

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and oxidizer controls and
five different cameras

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for performing combustion
experiments safely

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in microgravity.

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His fellow NASA astronaut Suni
Williams is doing some work

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on the Extravehicular Mobility
Unit, or the spacesuits,

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that our U.S. astronauts wear
during their own spacewalks

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in preparation for her
upcoming EVA, or spacewalk,

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outside of the station alongside

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with Japanese astronaut
Aki Hoshide.

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That's scheduled to take
place on July, or August 30.

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And that will see the two
astronaut's step outside

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to replace a failing
main bus switching unit

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which is a vital portion

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of the station's electrical
power system working to act

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as a distribution hub
to route the power

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to the different
station systems.

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It first showed indications of a
failure back in October of 2011.

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So they'll be stepping outside
to get on the station's truss,

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which is basically the
backbone portion of the station,

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and replace that
failing switching unit.

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Then if time permits they'll
also be rerouting some cables

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for that upcoming Russian
multipurpose laboratory module

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in the future and maybe
installing a few debris

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and thermal covers as well

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on the Pressurized
Mating Adapter-2.

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And her fellow spacewalker Aki
Hoshide today not doing any EVA

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preps just yet, but he was
taking some water samples

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from the Environmental
Health System inside

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of the station's Water
Recovery System, specifically

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from the Total Organic
Carbon Analyzer which looks

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to analyze the level of carbon

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in the astronaut's
drinking water.

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It's constantly monitored for
different potential contaminants

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and other things of the like.

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And other than that he'll also
be stowing some unnecessary

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hardware from the airlock
actually in preparation

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for the upcoming EVA procedure.

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Aside from all these
crew activities today,

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controllers down on the
ground continuing some

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of the robotic work that's
been taking place this week.

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They were using the Special
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or Dextre, today to transfer
the Space Communications

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and Navigation, or SCAN, payload
off of the external pallet

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which was unloaded from
the HTV-3 vehicle yesterday

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and they are transferring

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that to the External
Logistics Carrier-3

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and a little bit later today
will perform a space test

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program payload survey
and then stow Dextre back