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Good morning this is
Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome and thank you for
joining us for today's edition

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of ISS Update this
Tuesday, November 27.

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Joining us now inside the
International Space Station

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Flight Control Room, where the
team here has been monitoring

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the systems aboard the station

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and supporting today's
activities

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of the Expedition
34 crew members,

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leading the Orbit Two team here

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in the Station Flight Control
Room today is Flight Director

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Tomas Gonzales-Torres
and next to him serving

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as Capcom is Leslie Ringo

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who has been relaying all
ground messages up to the crew.

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Now aboard the International
Space Station is commander

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of the complex NASA
astronaut Kevin Ford

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with Flight Engineers Russian
cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin who
will work aboard the station

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as a three-member
crew until the arrival

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of three new crew
members in a couple weeks.

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Ford, Novitskiy and
Tarelkin arrived

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at the International Space
Station docking their Soyuz

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TMA-06M, shown here in
this view, their spacecraft

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to the Poisk module last
month on October 25.

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And today they complete
36 days in space.

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The space station with its crew
aboard is flying at an altitude

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of a little more than
260 statute miles.

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The orbiting facility is on an
east-northeast track swinging

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across the southern ocean
just below the southern tip

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of Africa soon to come
across an orbital sunset.

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The Expedition 34 crew
members began their day

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with some time this morning
for work prep, breakfast,

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morning hygiene and a
daily station inspection.

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The crew then kicked off
the day with the first

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of two daily planning
conferences

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with ground controllers
around the world

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to review the day's
activities and plan

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for the next set of tasks.

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Earlier this morning Commander
Ford had activated the InSpace

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hardware for a science run

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of the InSpace-3
investigating the structure

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of paramagnetic aggregates
from colloidal emulsions.

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This is a microgravity
fluid physics experiment.

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Data from these studies
may be used to improve

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or develop new brake systems,
seat suspensions, robotics,

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clutches, airplane landing gear
and vibration damping systems.

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Commander Ford and
Flight Engineers Novitskiy

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and Tarelkin participated

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in an emergency medical
procedures review.

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Ford also reviewed procedures
for new upcoming data takes

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with the SPHERES experiment

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that employs three bowling ball
free-flying satellites known

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as Synchronized Position
Hold Engage Reorient

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Experimental Satellites.

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These are used to test
techniques that could lead

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to advancements in automated
dockings, satellite servicing,

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spacecraft assembly
and emergency repairs.

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And Commander Ford also took
time this morning to talk

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with reporters with WNDU-TV
of Indiana, his hometown,

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and the Notre Dame Observer.

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Meanwhile, on the Russian side

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of the house Flight
Engineers Novitskiy

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and Tarelkin will conduct
Russian segment maintenance work

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today cleaning air ducts
and vacuuming behind panels

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in the Zvezda service module.

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Novitskiy performed regular
daily maintenance to the Sozh,

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or the Russian life
support system.

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And each of the crew
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in their daily two hours

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of exercise using the
onboard gym equipment

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that includes the station
bicycle, a treadmill

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and an advanced resistive
exercise device

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that simulates weightlifting
here on Earth.

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The crew then will wrap the day

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with a final daily planning
conference with the ground

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and is then scheduled to go to
bed at 3:30 p.m. central time.

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Meanwhile, robotics officers

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in Mission Control are
commanding the Canadarm2

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to walk off from the
Mobile Base System power

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and data grapple fixture
to the Harmony power

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and data grapple fixture in
advance of a routine inspection

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of the space station robotic
arm latching end effector.

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Here now we're getting a
view of the, that activity.

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It was reported just moments ago
that the arm was in movement.

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And also back on Earth,
three more crew members are

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in Star City, Russia, preparing
for their launch next month

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to return the station
to a six-member crew.

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center Expedition 34/35

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prime crew members Roman
Romanenko, Tom Marshburn

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and Chris Hadfield along

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with their backups had
conducted the first of two days

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of Russian Soyuz and Russian
segment qualification exams

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and simulations today
that will lead

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to their final certification
for flight and a launch

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for the prime crew in their
Soyuz TMA 07M spacecraft

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that will dock to
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That launch is scheduled
take place on December 19