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This is Mission Control Houston
Onboard the International Space

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Station packing to come home
has become the focus of activity

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for the crew, half of
which is due to return

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to Earth this weekend
after four months in space.

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On Wednesday the International
Space Station mission management

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team met and conducted an
undocking readiness review

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for Soyuz commander
Yuri Malenchenko

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and flight engineers Suni
Williams and Aki Hoshide

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to come home in their
Soyuz vehicle.

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The MMT vote was go to bring
the 31 Soyuz home this weekend.

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The three crew members are
due to undock from the station

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in their Soyuz vehicle on
Sunday and land in Kazakhstan

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on Sunday evening US time.

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Each of them has spent several
hours over the course of the day

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on Wednesday packing the
gear from their crew quarters

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and working together
to stow those items

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and returning science samples
inside their Soyuz vehicle.

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They're also continuing the
daily exercise regimen that each

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of them has to counter
the negative effects

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on their muscles not
having to work as hard

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as usual while they
have spent all this time

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in the microgravity environment.

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Malenchenko who is the commander

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of the Soyuz vehicle spent
the day overseeing the packing

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of items into 31S..

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He did spend some time along

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with his two Russian colleagues
flight engineers Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin as they
conducted a public affairs

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interview with a Russian
television program.

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Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide.

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also spent time doing a
public affairs event today.

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He was answering questions posed
by Japanese college students

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who were gathered at the
Tsukuba Space Center in Japan.

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Commander Suni Williams
spent the middle part

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of her day preparing
hardware for installation

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of a new wireless access point

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for the station's
wireless computer network.

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Flight Engineer Kevin
Ford spent part

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of his time doing crew
medical officer training.

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He also exchanged
water in the enclosure

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that is supporting the
Medaka fish for an experiment

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into how gravity
impacts bone loss.

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And he also worked
in the US section

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of the space station
installing a sensor kit

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for taking measurements of
ultrasonic background noise.

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That is for an investigation

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that is developing the
technology that can listen

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for air pressure leaks in the
space station, but it will need

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to know what non-leak
extraneous noise sounds like,

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and the kit that Ford is
installing today is part of the

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of the development
to do just that.

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Station maintenance will
continue on Thursday

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with the crew members
working in the Quest airlock

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and performing software upgrade
for the urine processor assembly

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as the crew members move closer
to this weekend's departure