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Greetings from Mission
Control Houston.

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Welcome to today's International
Space Station Update.

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Onboard the International
Space Station today a lot

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of work being done for
the upcoming arrival

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of that Dragon spacecraft
launched

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by SpaceX a little
bit earlier this week.

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Suni Williams, much of the work
she's been doing today focused

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on that.

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She started off relocating one
of the laptops that'll be used

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for the robotic capture
operations.

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We're looking at one of
the laptops as she goes

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through some on-orbit training.

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Williams will be going through
some training simulations

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for the Dragon rendezvous
capture,

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also the vehicle operations
also found on the computer

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for once the craft is docked.

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She was also gathering
some equipment

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for the Dragon vestibule
outfitting, basically fitting

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out some of the particulars
of the hatch port

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between the Dragon spacecraft

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and the International
Space Station.

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She's also spending
some time going

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over all the cargo
being carried up.

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A total of about 882 pounds
of supplies being delivered

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to the orbiting laboratory

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from the unmanned
robotic Dragon spacecraft.

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Throughout all these ops
today she's being joined

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by Japanese astronaut Aki
Hoshide who's also going

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through some of this
on-orbit rendezvous

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and capture simulation
as he'll be standing

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by with Suni Williams at
the robotic arm controls

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as they guide Dragon in
on its final approach

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and for eventual berthing
to the Earth-facing side

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of the Harmony module
onboard the station.

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Aside from all these Dragon
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Hoshide also doing
a thorough analysis

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of the Japanese experiment
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microbiological environment.

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He's taking some
surface water samples

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and air biocharacterization
samples using a device known

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as SWAB, or the Surface Water

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and Air Biocharacterization
air sampling device.

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Our third astronaut onboard
the International Space Station

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right now, Russian
cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,

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began his day immediately with
the Russian SPRUT experiment

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which is a medical
research program designed

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to study the distribution
and behavior

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of different human body
fluids in zero gravity.

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Gravity while you're down
here on Earth has a tendency

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to push all of the
fluids in the human body

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down towards the legs.

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So once these astronauts
are exposed

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to that microgravity environment
for long periods of time

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that doesn't happen so SPRUT,

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one of many biomedical
experiments onboard the

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International Space Station, is
looking to continuously document

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and track the changes
the human body goes

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through as it is
exposed to microgravity

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for long periods of time.

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Aside from that, he was working

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on a fairly complex
physics experiment known

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as the Kulonovskiy Crystal.

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It's a Russian look into
studying the dynamic

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and structural characteristics
of different crystal systems

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that are formed when ions
are stored in something known

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as an electromagnetic trap.

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Aside from this, he'll be doing
some routine maintenance work

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onboard the station cleaning
out some of the filters

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and replacing a few
components inside

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of the Russian toilet system.

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All eyes, though, on the
SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

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as it continues its trip towards
the International Space Station

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currently scheduled to be
grappled tomorrow morning