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Good morning and welcome
to mission control Houston

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and the International
Space Station update.

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We are here in the International
Space Station flight control

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room with the International
Space Station flight control

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team at the mission
control center in Houston,

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and leading the team today
is flight director Thomas

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Gonzales Torres.

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Sitting next to him
in the capcom seat,

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astronaut Sandy Magnus.

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Onboard the International Space
Station, are the six astronauts

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that makeup the Expedition
32 crew.

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They are Commander
Gennady Padalka

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and U.S. Flight Engineers
Joe Acaba and Suni Williams,

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Japanese Flight Engineer
Aki Hoshide

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and Russian Flight
Engineers Yuri Malenchenko

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and Sergei Revin.

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This crew has been together
for almost a full month now

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since Williams, Hoshide

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and Malenchenko arrived aboard
their Soyuz 31S on July 16.

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They have been in
space for 31 days,

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and at the space station for 29.

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They are planning to
stay until November.

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Acaba, Padalka and Revin on the
other hand launched on May 14

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and have been in space for 92
days, at space station for 90.

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They will be heading
back to Earth

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on their own Soyuz
vehicle next month.

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The crew is now more than
halfway through their day

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which started at 1 a.m. CT.

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They are currently flying 250
miles above the Pacific Ocean,

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on a course that is
going to take them

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over only the very southernmost
tip of South America.

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Activity in both the
Russian and U.S. sides

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of the space station today
are focused on preparations.

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Those two spacewalks
are scheduled

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to take place before
the end of the month.

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The first is a Russian
spacewalk planned for Monday.

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Commander Gennady Padalka

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and Flight Engineer Yuri
Malenchenko will be going

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out in part to get station
ready for the arrival

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of the Russian multipurpose
laboratory in 2013.

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They are preparing their
spacesuits for that venture.

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And in the Quest airlock on the
U.S. side of the space station,

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Flight Engineers Suni
Williamsand Joe Acaba have been

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getting their own extravehicular
mobility unit spacewalk

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spacesuits ready for their
spacewalk on August 30.

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They will be replacing a main
bus switching unit on the 30th

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and today they're getting
ready for that work

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by recharging the
spacesuits batteries

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and refilling the water tanks.

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Inside the Japanese Kibo
laboratory Flight Engineer Aki

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Hoshide has been
putting together one

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of the deliveries made by the
visiting H2 transfer vehicle

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which launched from
Japan on July 27.

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It's called the aquatic habitat,
and as the name implies,

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will eventually provide a home

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for freshwater fish
on the space station.

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And of course, no day in
space would be complete

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without a few science
experiments

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on the Russian side
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Flight Engineer Sergei Revin
is studying the process

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of full phase separation

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of the gas liquid
fine dispersion system

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in microgravity, as
well as the dynamics

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of crew member interactions.

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Hoshide, Williams and Acaba,

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meanwhile are performing
ultrasound examinations

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of their eyes as part of the
continuing study of how life

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in space affects
astronauts vision.

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That's what's been
going on in space today