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>> Good day, and welcome
to Mission Control Houston

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where the team of flight
controllers is watching

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over the activities

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of the Expedition 33 crew aboard
the International Space Station.

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Space Station currently orbiting

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about 240 statute miles just
off the eastern coast of Canada,

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heading out over the Atlantic
Ocean over cloudy skies.

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On board, Commander Suni
Williams is continuing to work

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with her crew mates,

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which include fellow NASA
astronaut Kevin Ford,

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Japan aerospace exploration
agency astronaut Akihiko

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Hoshide, and Russian Federal
Space Agency cosmonauts Yuri

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Malenchenko, Oleg Novitskiy,
and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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As the six crew members get
ready for the departure of three

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of those crew members and
the continued operations

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of the Space Station with three

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of the newly arrived
crew members.

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Here at Mission Control
Houston guiding the activities

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of the team today is flight
director Tomas Gonzales Torres

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on the second shift of the day.

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He's working with spacecraft
communicator Jay Marschke

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and a visiting payload
operations control center work,

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who is here in Mission Control
to get some familiarization

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with how things go
here in Houston.

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With maintenance work
completed earlier this week,

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today is devoted to
science experiments,

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particularly ultrasound
data takes.

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The ultrasound is
going to be used part

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of the integrated
cardiovascular experiment,

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which looks at how
the heart relates

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to long duration space flight.

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It's also going to be used to
look at the human eye as part

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of an ongoing set of
research that looks

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at how long-term stays in
space flight affect vision

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for astronauts.

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Some of that can be long
term changes to the vision

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of the astronauts that last

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after they have returned
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Going to be taking advantage
of these ultrasound studies

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of the eye to get more
information on that.

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Williams, Hoshide,

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and Malenchenko are continuing
their departure preparations

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for their return to
Earth a week from Sunday.

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They have all week
to continue working

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on those activities
while Ford, Novitskiy,

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and Tarelkin are continuing
to familiarize themselves

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with their new home in space.

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Just to wrap up the week.

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The week started out with the
station completing its 80,000

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orbit of the Earth, which
is about 2.1 billion miles

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or roughly the distance from
here to Pluto and was set

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up so the integrated
cardiovascular experiment work.

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They also did some
troubleshooting for the waste

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and hygiene compartment
toilet that had clogged

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over the weekend and were
working on their familiarization

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and departure preparations.

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Tuesday started on a
challenging note with both

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of the local area
network servers

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on the space station failing.

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Those laptop servers support
non-critical computer activities

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like messaging, scheduling,
and procedure holding.

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Mission Control was able to
perform some work arounds

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to the schedule so that all

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of the day's work
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but the crew spent much

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of Monday morning
replacing hard drives

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so that Mission Control could
restore the server software.

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Additional troubleshooting on
the toilet plumbing continued,

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but Kevin Ford was able
to do his first work

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with the elite experiment.

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That's a European space agency
investigation that looks

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at the connections between
the brain, visualization,

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and motions in micro gravity.

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Wednesday was devoted
to more plumbing work,

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but the crew also conducted
an emergency equipment

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familiarization drill to be sure
that the new crew members know

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where all the portable
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and other emergency
equipment are located and how

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to operate them on orbit,

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although they would
receive thorough training

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on the ground before
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Always good to get an
on-orbit training session in.

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On Thursday the crew
finally fixed the toilet

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by replacing a pre-treatment
liquid tank.

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Kevin Ford actually got
his hands dirty doing

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that plumbing work.

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Good familiarization
with the toilet

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in the U.S. operating segment

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of the Space Station before
the experiment crew members,

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the experienced crew
members head for home.

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And that means the two restrooms
are now conveniently available

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to the crew on board
the Space Station.

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This is recorded video
of Kevin Ford doing

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that last troubleshooting work.

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Aki Hoshide also had
an opportunity to work

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with the newly arrived
Jacks Aquarium,

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which he performed some
collection and freezing

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of the sample [inaudible]
fish that are being used

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to study how bones are
affected by long stays in space.

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The [inaudible] fish, which
have skeletons, are good analogs

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for the human skeleton,
and the fact

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that their lives are much
shorter allows more exposure

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to the micro gravity environment
from a comparative aspect.

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And meanwhile at the [inaudible]
Cosmonaut Training Center

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in Star City, Russia, two of the
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[inaudible] and Chris Hadfield,

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are conducting additional soil
use simulation runs today.

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Hadfield eventually will become
the first Canadian commander

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of the International
Space Station.

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Meanwhile, their crew mate,
Tom Marshburn, is returning

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to Star City Monday to begin
final pre-launch training.

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The current crew is looking
forward to a two-day weekend,

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but while International
Space Station update

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on NASA television
has the day off Monday

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for the Veterans' Day holiday,

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the station crew will
work a full day on Monday.

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They'll be completing
their preparations

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for the upcoming change of
command ceremony on Saturday

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and the Expedition 33
crew's departure on Sunday.

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There's several other
big-ticket items coming

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up for the final
work for that crew.

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The advanced resistive exercise
device, that cable arm rope,

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an exercise rope are going
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There'll be some work

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on the combined operation
load bearing treadmill.

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Regular six-month maintenance,
and some additional work

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on the local area network
plan during the week.

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There's also some installation

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of ultrasound background noise
sensors on the laboratory.

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And some additional
work on Friday next week

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with the carbon dioxide removal
assembly to check and see

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if Aki Hoshide can isolate a
small leak that's been noticed

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in that system that's used

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to scrub excess carbon
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NASA TV will provide
full coverage

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of the departure activities
beginning on Saturday

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with the change of
command ceremony

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at 1:15 P.M. Central time,

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and then on Sunday NASA
TV will begin its coverage

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of the actual departure with
farewell and hatch closure

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at 12:45 P.M. That will
be the start of coverage

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with the closure expected
at 1:10 P.M. Central time.

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Undocking coverage
starts at 4:00 P.M.

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with the undocking planned
about 4:26 P.M. Central time,

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and then deorbit burn and
landing coverage begins

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at 6:30 P.M. with landing
expected on the step

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of Kazakhstan at 7:53
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On Monday we'll have a video
file, on the November the 19th

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that provides a lot

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of post-landing coverage
and interviews.

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With the International
Space Station now