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Good day and welcome to
Mission Control Houston

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where flight controllers are
monitoring the activities

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of the Expedition 33 crew aboard
the International Space Station

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On board of course is the
commander Suni Williams along

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with her crew members since
July, Yuri Malenchenko

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of the Russian Federal Space
agency and Akihiko Hoshide

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of the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency.

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In addition recently
joining the crew

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in October are NASA
astronaut Kevin Ford as well

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as Russian cosmonauts Oleg
Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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They will be taking
over operations

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of the International
Space Station

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when the Expedition commander

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and her colleagues depart
coming up on November 18.

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Among the experiments being
used today are the Medaka

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Osteoclast experiment.

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The crew is scheduled to
be doing some photography

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of the Medaka fish in that newly
arrived aquarium The experiment

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is looking at bone resorption,
and that is the process

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by which osteoclast break
down bone and release mineral

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so that new bone can be built.

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Scientist believe that the
decrease in bone mineral density

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in space is related to this, and
the Medaka fish is a good model

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in the animal world
for life research,

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and the Japanese experiment
folks are studying the effects

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of microgravity on the
osteoclast activity

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and the gravity sensing
system of these fish,

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using them as a model
for the human body.

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The fish are doing well

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but there have been some
additional bubbles introduced

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into the aquarium module and
tomorrow the crew is going

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to conduct a procedure to
remove those extra bubbles,

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but otherwise the
fish are doing well.

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Both Williams and
Hoshide have been involved

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in continued troubleshooting
of the Waste

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and Hygiene Compartment.

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That's the Russian toilet unit

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in the US operating segment
onboard the space station.

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It hasn't been working
right since Friday.

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They had previously replaced a
pretreat injector pump on worked

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on several pieces of equipment

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but the alert lights were
continuing to show early today

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that the pretreat urine wasn't
in the right mixture to be fed

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into the water recycling system.

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Eventually that water ends
up being reused by the crew

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as drinking water and to
prepare food and other uses.

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Williams did a lot
of inspections

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and then they replaced a
pretreat tank and that seemed

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to do be the job
that did the trick.

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All the following
tests were nominal.

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The lights went off as
they were supposed to

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and now the crew has been
cleared to use that toilet.

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The crew members also are
using ultrasound equipment

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to image blood vessels as part

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of the Integrated
Cardiovascular experiment.

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That's looking at the human
heart and how it tends to shrink

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or atrophy during
long-duration spaceflight.

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They've also been taking
readings overnight as they sleep

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as part of the experiment and
using an electroencephalograph,

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and there have been some trouble
with the batteries that are used

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to power that device,

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so the crews also been
troubleshooting those batteries

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and chargers.

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Jury's still out
whether it's a problem

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with the batteries themselves

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or with the way the
batteries are seating

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in the specialized
chargers that are used

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to keep them ready for use.

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Kevin Ford also getting ready

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to do some intraocular
eye pressure tests as part

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of the routine medical
examinations

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and continuing studies

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of how long-duration
spaceflights can change

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astronaut's vision.

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And the Russian cosmonauts
moved up their,

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some of their routine
maintenance of the toilet

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on their end of the station
which is virtually the same

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as the one in the waste
and hygiene compartment,

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but now that the newer toilet
has been fixed they've shifted

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that a little bit
later during the day

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since it's not as critical.

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The idea is to make sure that at
least one working toilet aboard

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the space station at all
times but now we have two.

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The crew also continued
the departure preparations

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for Suni Williams, Aki
Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko,

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who are scheduled again

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to depart the International
Space Station

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on Sunday November 18.

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Here's a rundown of all of
the coverage we have planned

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for the change command
ceremony on Saturday the 17th,

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the farewells and undocking
and landing on November 18th

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and then the postflight
post-landing video file

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on Monday the 19th.

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And of course the newly arrived
crewmembers, Ford, Novitskiy

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and Tarelkin continue their
orientation aboard the space

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station getting used to
the new home in space

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and getting a full rundown

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by their off going
veteran crew members

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so they can continue operations

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until the next crew
members arrive.

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That'll be Tom Marshburn
of NASA, Roman Romanenko

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of the Russian Federal Space
agency and Chris Hadfield

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of the Canadian Space Agency,

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who eventually will become
the first Canadian commander

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of the International
Space Station.

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Those crewmembers are
continuing their training

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in star city, Russia today.

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They are at the Gagarin
Cosmonaut Training Facility

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conducting rendezvous
and docking simulations

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and Marshburn is getting
ready for his return