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this is Mission Control Houston welcome

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to today's ISS update it is Monday

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October 15 2012 this is a live view

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inside the space station flight control

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room here at the Johnson Space Center

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right now clay Anderson the Capcom is

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talking with the crew up onboard the

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station and giving them some

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instructions about some repair work

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they're going to be doing standing

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beside him is Bob Dempsey the flight

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director the crew is very busy today

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working on a variety of different

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experiments unloading some cargo from

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the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft yuri

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malenchenko is working on what's called

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the relaxation experiment this is not

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what it sounds like this is actually an

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experiment that observes the earth below

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and takes a look at chemical reactions

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in the upper reaches of the atmosphere

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he is also getting ready to do some leak

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checks on some of the valves and the

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Russian segment Sonny Williams who is

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the current commander of expedition 33

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is working on some air quality

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monitoring they do this from time to

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time just to make sure that the air

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aboard the station is acceptable they

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also simple the surfaces there from time

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to time she's going to be working on

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replacing the water processor assembly

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pump which is what the crew is talking

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with now with the ground controllers

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she's also configuring some software on

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the Express laptop computers this is one

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of the laptops on board that helps

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maintain and run all the different

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experiment racks inside she's going to

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be transferring some samples from the

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Melfi one this is one of the minus 80

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laboratory freezers that is onboard that

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keeps samples at extremely cold

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temperatures to what's called the

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glacier which is another basically just

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a freezer for different samples she's

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also going to be working with us know

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what is called the micro six experiment

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this is something that was flown up on

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board the SpaceX Dragon it's one of the

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newest experiments onboard it takes a

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look at a certain kind of yeast that is

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present in pretty much everybody's body

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this yeast that's called Candida

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albicans Hill helps us maintain a

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healthy personal ecosystem inside

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ourselves but when our immune systems

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get stressed this yeast can start sort

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of growing out of control and cause

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infections so they're going to be taking

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a look at how

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these East grow in space compared with

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how they grow here on earth the hope is

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that scientists on the ground can learn

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how to combat infections because as we

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look to go further into space spend more

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time both in low-earth orbit and also as

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we look toward going to an asteroid

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maybe Mars one of these days controlling

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infections is going to be really

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important so they're going to take a

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look at how this yeast behaves in space

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and how they can combat infections using

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this yeast as an example in addition to

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the micro six okay aki hoshide a another

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member of expedition 33 is working on

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some medical experiments including one

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that takes a look at energy levels up

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onboard the station what they do is

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examine what the astronauts eat

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basically taking a look at what they

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ingest on their bodies and they record

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in very detailed form exactly how they

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expend that energies of basically taking

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a look at the mathematical equation of

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how much energy goes in and how much

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energy two astronauts expand the goal of

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this experiment is to determine exactly

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what the food requirements are for the

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astronauts up on board the space station

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while they live up there for about six

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months he is also relocating another

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piece of equipment from another

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experiment called elite s2 this is an

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experiment that takes a look at posture

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and body motion and the astronauts put

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on different kinds of markers almost

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like how they do the movies these days

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in Hollywood and it determines exactly

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what their body position is and records

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that through a series of cameras hosted

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a is also going to be recharging some of

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the batteries in the spacesuits inside

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the quest airlock he's also going to be

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helping Williams transfer those samples

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we talked about from the Melfi to one of

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the glaciers on board he is also going

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to be transferring the glacier that flew

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up on board dragon this is an actual big

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box that we've talked about before

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during our dragon coverage that will

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eventually be returned to dragon full of

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samples that have been onboard the

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station and the samples will finally

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come home after waiting for Dragon to

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arrive that is one of the biggest

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benefits that the SpaceX Dragon vehicle

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gives us is the ability to actually

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return science from the International

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Space Station and bring it

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for further research here on earth and

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finally aki hosted a is going to be

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taking a look at another experiment that

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came up on board the dragon vehicle is

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called the resist tube you'll experiment

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this is a plant experiment that takes a

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look at how different types of plants

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grow up in space and the lack of gravity

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fifty percent of the energy that plants

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require goes into just maintaining their

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structure and just overcoming the battle

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with gravity but of course up in space

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that is not a worry and not an issue

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those plants that do not have to react

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to gravity so they're going to take a

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look at the actual cell structure of

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these plants as they grow without the

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influence of gravity how they use that

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energy and it will impact genetically

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modified plants and other things like

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that here on earth in the future of

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course if you would like to take a look

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at any of these experiments and read

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more about them see some pictures of the

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astronauts and the crew members working

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with these experiments just log on to

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the NASA website at WWDC gov / station