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Good Wednesday morning from
the Johnson Space Center.

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This is Mission Control Houston.

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This is the International Space
Station flight control room

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and our coverage

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of the Expedition 33's voyage
aboard the International

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Space Station.

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The Expedition 33 crew is
being watched over by a team

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of flight controllers today.

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The shifts here in mission
control cover crew activities 24

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hours a day, every day,
throughout the year.

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Shift changes occur about
eight or nine hours apart.

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So, the teams can be up to speed

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on activities ongoing
aboard the orbiting complex

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which currently is about
250 miles above Kazakhstan

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on a easterly, southeasterly
track that will take it

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down across China, Southeast
Asia and then across Australia

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into an orbital sunset
or sunrise

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across the South Pacific
chasing the Soyuz spacecraft,

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which is actually
chasing the space station,

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catching up with the space
station ever so slowly

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with the next three crew, crew
members headed for the complex

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of Kevin Ford, Oleg
Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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They launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in the early morning hours
Tuesday and are scheduled

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to rendezvous and dock with
the International Space Station

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on Thursday morning at 8:35
Eastern time, 7:35 central.

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They will join the current three
crew members aboard the station

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commanded by astronaut
Suni Williams.

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She is joined as
part of Expedition 33

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by Flight Engineers Yuri
Malenchenko from Russia

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and Aki Hoshide from JAXA,

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the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency.

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They're enjoying their 100th day
aboard the International Space

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Station this Wednesday
and 102 days now in space

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for those three crew members
scheduled to return home

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on Sunday late in the
evening, November 18.

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They are spending a quite
a busy day Wednesday

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with activities associated with
a number of spacecraft on board.

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The primary one of course
the Dragon spacecraft,

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which is docked to
the station serving

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as the Cargo Resupply
Services-1 mission.

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It is in its 17th orbital day.

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Dragon is being loaded
with cargo

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that will be returned home.

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It's a unique spacecraft
that has the ability

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to splashdown and be retrieved.

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It is scheduled to return
home on Sunday afternoon

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with a splashdown west
of Baja California

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in the early afternoon, mid
afternoon hours scheduled

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for a 3:20 PM Eastern time
splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

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The crew in addition to
stowing equipment inside Dragon,

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they're also wrapping
up experiment work,

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sortie experiment work
that was delivered

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to the station aboard Dragon

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and also will be returned
home aboard Dragon.

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That activity's being
completed as well.

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So it's a busy day for the
crew on board the station,

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all three crew members, as
they anticipate the arrival