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Good morning.

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This is Mission Control,
Houston.

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Welcome and thank you for
joining us for today's edition

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of ISS Update this
Thursday, August 9.

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For those of you joining
us now, we're coming

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to you live inside the
International Space Station

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flight control room where the
team has been monitoring the

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systems and the crew's
activities aboard the

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International Space Station.

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This is the crew
of Expedition 32.

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Leading the Orbit Two team here

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in the station flight control
room today is Flight Director

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Greg Whitney, seen
standing here in this...

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seen in the blue shirt, and next
to him is Capcom Anna Fisher,

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who is relaying all ground
messages up to the crew.

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Meanwhile, the six crew members
aboard the station include

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Russian cosmonaut and commander
of the complex Gennady Padalka

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and flight engineers
cosmonaut Sergei Revin

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and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba,

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shown here on the
right-hand side.

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Padalka, Revin and
Acaba had launched

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to the orbiting complex
aboard their Soyuz spacecraft

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as the Expedition
31 crew in May.

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Their vehicle docked
to the Poisk module

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of the space station two days
after their launch on May 14,

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and today they will complete
their 88th consecutive day

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in space.

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Joining them there

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on the left-hand side is
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,

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NASA astronaut Suni Williams and
Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.

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Malenchenko, Williams
and Hoshide arrived

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at the International
Space Station

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after docking their
Soyuz spacecraft

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to the Rassvet module
on July 16.

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They're now in the middle of
their fourth week in space.

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The space station with its crew
aboard is flying at an altitude

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of about 250 statute miles.

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The orbiting facility
is on an Eastern track.

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It had just come across the
southern tip of Brazil and is

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about to swing a
northeastern track

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across the South Atlantic Ocean

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for an eventual pass
over Africa.

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The Expedition 32 crew kicked
off their day early this morning

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at 1 a.m. Central time.

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They followed that by the first

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of their two daily
planning conferences

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with ground controllers
at mission control centers

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around the world to
review today's activities.

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Today aboard the
orbiting complex,

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more robotics work
takes center stage

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as flight engineers Joe Acaba

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and Aki Hoshide work together
using the Japanese robotic arm,

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also known as the Remote
Manipulator System,

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that is anchored at the Japanese
Experiment Module, or Kibo,

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to unberth the Multi-mission
Consolidated Equipment

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from the Exposed
Palette and install it

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to the Exposed Facility
Unit number eight

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of the Japanese Experiment
Module's Exposed Facility.

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Just before today's update hour,

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Acaba and Flight Engineer Suni
Williams reviewed robotics

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procedures in advance of
tomorrow's work to return

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that Exposed Palette back

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into the Japanese HTV3,
the cargo vehicle.

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Then Williams and Flight
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and Hoshide will have a medical
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after the hour.

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Williams also will spend
some time with science.

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She'll work with the Commercial
Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus.

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This is a small research
facility that is used

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for biological experiments.

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Williams is working with the
six YouTube Space Lab Group

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Activation Pack experiments.

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She will also then
work on the Burning

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And Suppression of
Solids experiment.

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This experiment examines
the burning

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and extinction characteristics
of a wide variety fuel samples

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in the environment
of microgravity.

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Acaba, Williams and Hoshide will
conduct visual testing prior

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to complete eye exams that
are scheduled later next week.

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Acaba is currently working
to clean filters of bacteria

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within nodes 1, 2 and 3,
also known as the Unity,

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Harmony and Tranquility.

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And earlier this morning flight
engineer Japanese astronaut Aki

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Hoshide took some
time out to talk

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with the Japanese Young
Astronauts Club in Tokyo.

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And also today marks
a special day

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for an honorary crew member
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Smokey the Bear,
who turns 68 today.

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Flight Engineer Joe
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up a small plush Smokey Bear,
seen here in this picture.

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He had served as the zero-g
indicator aboard the Soyuz

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spacecraft that carried him

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up to the International
Space Station back in May.

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The space station serves as a
platform for studying Earth,

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natural, and man-made changes,
including the devastation

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of forest fires or
wild land fires.

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Smokey also serves as a
way to raise awareness

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about fire prevention
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We'll be talking
with Jeff Miller

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of the U.S. Forest Service
about its partnership with NASA

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in a few minutes here in
Mission Control, Houston.

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And meanwhile aboard
the orbiting laboratory,

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each crew member will have
completed their daily two hours

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of exercise to help
mitigate the negative effects

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of long-duration
spaceflight on their bodies

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and also maintain
their physical health.

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They will do some prep
work for the next day,

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participate in their second
daily planning conference before

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the evening meals and
that pre-sleep period.

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The crew is then scheduled go to
sleep at 4:30 p.m. Central time.