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Greetings from mission
control Houston and welcome

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to today's International
Space Station update.

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You are joining us here inside
of the flight control room

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at the Johnson space
Center in Houston,

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Texas where the orbit
two team is currently

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on console monitoring all the
respective systems onboard the

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orbiting laboratory.

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Today's team being led today
by Flight Director Ed Van Cise,

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there on the right,
and joining him

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at the capcom position
is Kathy Bolt,

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serving as the communication
link between controllers

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down here on the ground
and astronauts up in space.

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Those astronauts right now
are the crew of Expedition 32.

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Moving into well over 100 days
for three or crew members,

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on their 107th day onboard
International Space Station.

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We will start over on the left,

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we have Japanese
astronaut Aki Hoshide,

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then Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko,

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then another NASA
astronaut Suni Williams.

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Next to her is NASA
astronaut Joe Acaba,

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then Expedition 32
Commander Gennady Padalka

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of the Russian space agency, and
all the way on the right there,

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is our third Russian
cosmonaut Sergei Revin.

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The crew in a half duty
day today as they continued

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to prepare for tomorrow's
spacewalk,

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where NASA astronaut Suni
Williams and Japanese

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as Aki Hoshide will be stepping
outside of the station's airlock

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for 6 1/2 hour excursion to
replace a faulty power unit

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and then rig-up a
couple of power cables

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for future Russian
laboratory module,

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and also replace a camera.

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You can see them going
through and getting their suits

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and all their tools ready for
their final preparations here.

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So again, the crew
in an off-duty day.

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Joe Acaba was reviewing some of
those spacewalk procedures along

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with Williams and Hoshide.

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And while he won't be stepping
outside, he will be kind

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of quarterbacking the
entire thing from inside

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of the space station and
providing them robotic support.

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Aside from that, Acaba
was also working today

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to install a secondary
power distribution assembly,

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that is a power jumper designed
to ensure the powers provided

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to vital station systems
should anything occur,

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and while they're out there

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on replacing those failed
multi-switching unit power relay

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out on the station's truss.

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Astronaut Suni Williams
is spending most

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of her day today preparing
that equipment lock

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and configuring all
the tools that her

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and Aki will be using
during their spacewalk.

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You can see them here inside

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of the airlock getting
those suits ready.

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She was joined by Hoshide
in all the preparation

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and Aki was also going through
his last procedure review

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with teams down here on the
ground, along with Williams,

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while they continue to make
sure everything is choreographed

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up correctly and
they're ready to go.

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Meanwhile, our Russian
cosmonauts onboard the station

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are doing a few maintenance
activities

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and biological experiments.

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Commander Padalka replacing a
battery unit inside the Zvezda

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service module, tagging up
with experts down on the ground

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at the Russian mission
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While he goes through
with that process,

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Sergei Revin working today
on the Typology experiment,

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which looks to study
and develop methods

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to improve the cosmonauts
readiness for on various types

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of operator activities, which
can be impaired due to the rush

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of blood to the head
that is natural

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in the weightless environment of
the International Space Station.

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So he goes through a number

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of tasks including
question-and-answer games

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on a computer, and then they
are all logged and then studied

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by researchers down
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Revin was also going
through the Zvezda

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and Zarya modules today
taking some air samples,

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as they constantly monitor
the breathing atmosphere

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for these astronauts
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checking for any contaminants

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or potential hazardous gas
buildups, like a carbon dioxide.

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The third Russian cosmonaut and
final Expedition 32 crew member,

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Yuri Malenchenko,
is doing an audit

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of the station's medical kit,

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making sure everything
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These medical kits onboard the
station always there in case

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for emergency should anything
happen all the crew members

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having some medical proficiency
training and always being backed

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up by teams here on the ground.

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Malenchenko also worked today
on the Pneumocard experiment,

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which looks to study
the adaptation

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of the cardiovascular
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of these crew members
during their long-duration

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microgravity missions.

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But again, crew on a
half-duty day for today.

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All things looking forward
to that spacewalk scheduled

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to begin tomorrow
at 7:15 a.m. CT.

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We will be bringing you
coverage of the EVA live here

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on NASA Television, coverage
kicking-off at 6 a.m. CT,

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7 a.m. ET, with the
two astronauts Williams