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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome to today's ISS update.

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it is Friday, October 19, 2012.

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This is a live view inside the space station
flight control room here at the Johnson space

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center.

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This is the orbit two team that is currently
on console.

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The flight director today is Matt Abbott.

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He is there in the blue shirt.

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Sitting beside him is veteran astronaut Anna
Fisher.

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She is serving as today's Capcom, the voice
of this team up to the crew onboard the international

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space station.

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On board the complex right now is Suni Williams
who is the commander of expedition 33.

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She's there on the left.

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Yuri Malenchenko, who is a flight engineer
for expedition 33 as well as Aki Hoshide.

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They are busy today working on a variety of
different science experience, research activities

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and also some routine maintenance inside the
living quarters.

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There’s Suni Williams there working inside
unity node.

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She has been taking some surface sample today
for what’s called microbial analysis.

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We talked about this earlier this week.

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The crew takes various samples around the
complex, both of the air, the water and the

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surfaces themselves just make sure that the
station is in proper working order, is in

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a good clean condition for the crew members.

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So she will take those samples and they will
be analyzed using the environmental health

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system surface sample kit.

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She’s going to be performing a check out
of the SAFER.

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This is the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue.

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The SAFER’s sort of the jet backpack that
the crew uses any time you do a spacewalk.

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She and Aki Hoshide are getting ready for
a spacewalk that is currently targeted for

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November 1.

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This will be a 6 1/2 hour excursion outside
the international space station on that day

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to take care of an ammonia leak that has sort
of increased here lately.

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But they’re going to be mitigating that.

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That spacewalk will begin at 7:15 AM central
time on the first 8:15 AM Eastern time.

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Of course we'll have live coverage here on
NASA television of all that.

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Williams also has a ham pass today, a ham
radio pass with the Wattsburg area school

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district, which is up in Erie, Pennsylvania.

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She’s also going to be talking with the
ground teams later on today about that upcoming

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spacewalk, just reviewing the procedures that
have been scheduled for her.

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There you see the bag that holds the SAFERs
that she is working on right now, but they’re

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going to be talking with the spacewalk team
here in Houston that has designed a spacewalk.

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They’ve been running simulated spacewalks
in the neutral buoyancy laboratory here in

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Houston just to time everything out, make
sure they have everything scheduled for the

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crew.

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Again it’s going to be 6 1/2 hours and they’re
going to be going outside Aki Hoshide and

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Suni Williams to take care of an ammonia leak
that is on what’s called the P6 radiator.

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This is the portside truss, the left side
truss of the space station itself.

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There is ammonia that is circulated throughout
those radiators that helps cool the areas

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of the station out there by the solar panels.

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There's another loop in the middle portion
of the station that circulates fluids to help

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keep the actual modules themselves cool but
this is not that loop, this is a secondary

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loop that is out there on the end of the station's
truss structure.

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Aki Hoshide is sampling air inside the station
today just like what Suni Williams is doing

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with the surfaces.

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He’s going to be performing a checkout of
what’s called the multipurpose small payload

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rack of MSPR video signal converter, basically
a camera system.

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He’s going to be setting up some cameras
for the upcoming spacewalk, the two crew members

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will be wearing helmet cams on the top of
their spacesuits, which will give us up close

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views of what they’re going to be doing.

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And he's going to be installing some radiation
environment monitors throughout the station

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just to make sure that the radiation levels
there are safe.

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Yuri Malenchenko also working in the Russian
segment of the station doing some different

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experiments there.

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He’s been busy this week working on some
Earth observation experiments taking a look

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down at the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere.

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So he will continue that.

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Meanwhile, the three remaining crew members
of Expedition 33 are down on the ground at

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the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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They are getting ready for their launch coming
up on Tuesday but they are undergoing final

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checkouts and some final procedure reviews
as they get ready for that Tuesday launch.

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Their Soyuz spacecraft that’s going to be
taking them up into space which is the TMA-06M

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was encapsulated inside the upper portion
of that Soyuz rocket today.

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The rocket itself is going to be mated tomorrow
and then Sunday will be rollout day and then