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Morning from NASA's
Johnson Space Center.

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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Inside the International Space
Station flight control room team

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of flight controllers
here has been on console

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since about seven o'clock
this morning central time

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and is watching over all
the activities aboard the

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International Space Station.

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Those activities of
the Expedition 34 crew.

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The crew onboard the
International Space Station

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consists of Commander Kevin
Ford from the United States

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and two Russian cosmonauts Oleg
Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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Novitskiy and Tarelkin on
their first flights into space

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and Ford on his second.

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All three however on their first
long-duration voyages into space

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as part of Expedition 34.

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Kevin Ford flew previously on
STS-128 a space shuttle flight

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as part of the assembly sequence
of International Space Station.

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The three crew members have
been onboard for 43 days now,

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45 days total space, and 18 of
those now as the Expedition 34.

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They are eagerly
anticipating the arrival

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of three additional
crew members.

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Those three crew members made

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up of Russian cosmonaut
Roman Romanenko,

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Canadian Space Agency
astronaut Chris Hadfield

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and US astronaut
Dr. Tom Marshburn.

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Those three gentlemen
earlier Thursday flew

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from their training facility

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at the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center outside Moscow

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and Star City to the Baikonur
Cosmodrome, the location

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of the launch site for the Soyuz
rocket that will deliver them

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to the International
Space Station.

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Their launch targeted for
the early morning hours

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of December 19 Wednesday.

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They arrive at the
station two days later

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to join Expedition 34.

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The six crew members then
will serve as Expedition 34

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until the return of Ford,
Novitskiy and Tarelkin

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which is scheduled
for mid March of 2013.

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On board today the crew
is focused primarily

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on some routine housekeeping
chores on board.

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There is some experiment
activity ongoing

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as well in the background.

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Ford has focused much of his day

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on a routine periodic cooling
loop scrubbing and cleaning

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of the Extravehicular
Mobility Units, the spacesuits

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that are utilized for
extravehicular activity

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or spacewalks out of
the US airlock Quest.

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These spacesuits and their
systems very elaborate system

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to maintain the health of those
spacesuits so they are ready

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to support any spacewalk
should one be required

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for any maintenance work on the
outside of the orbiting complex.

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So a busy day for the crew
members once again this Thursday

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aboard the International
Space Station.

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They wake up at midnight
central time and go

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to bed each afternoon
about 3:30,

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and in between they have various
teleconferences with the ground,

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the flight control
teams on the ground

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to support their timelined
activities and also