1 00:00:04,670 --> 00:00:02,869 good morning and welcome to Mission 2 00:00:07,130 --> 00:00:04,680 Control Houston in the International 3 00:00:08,660 --> 00:00:07,140 Space Station update on board the space 4 00:00:11,180 --> 00:00:08,670 station the three members of expedition 5 00:00:12,890 --> 00:00:11,190 34 are more than halfway through their 6 00:00:15,259 --> 00:00:12,900 day which began at one a.m. central time 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:15,269 this morning commander Kevin Ford of 8 00:00:19,700 --> 00:00:17,610 NASA and Russian funded nears Oleg 9 00:00:21,529 --> 00:00:19,710 novitskiy and Evgeny tarelkin are all 10 00:00:23,870 --> 00:00:21,539 onboard the station this time they've 11 00:00:26,599 --> 00:00:23,880 been there since October 25th when their 12 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:26,609 soyuz tma-06m vehicle docked to the 13 00:00:31,279 --> 00:00:29,490 russian poisk module ford novitskiy and 14 00:00:32,870 --> 00:00:31,289 tarelkin have been alone at the station 15 00:00:34,370 --> 00:00:32,880 since half of their crew returned to 16 00:00:36,590 --> 00:00:34,380 earth last month but that won't be the 17 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:36,600 case for much longer one week from today 18 00:00:40,819 --> 00:00:38,130 they'll be joined by the remainder of 19 00:00:43,549 --> 00:00:40,829 expedition 34 crew Chris Hadfield of the 20 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:43,559 Canadian Space Agency Tom Marshburn of 21 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:47,100 NASA and Roman Romanenko of Russia had 22 00:00:50,569 --> 00:00:49,170 filled Marshburn and romanenko are 23 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:50,579 scheduled to launch on December 24 00:00:55,639 --> 00:00:53,850 nineteenth at 612 a.m. central time from 25 00:00:57,830 --> 00:00:55,649 the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 26 00:00:59,959 --> 00:00:57,840 and they're already there in Kazakhstan 27 00:01:02,150 --> 00:00:59,969 awaiting their departure in fact their 28 00:01:03,799 --> 00:01:02,160 soyuz tma oh 7 m spacecraft was 29 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:03,809 encapsulated in the upper stage of the 30 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:06,450 soyuz boost ridges today in the meantime 31 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:08,579 ford Tarakan and Nowitzki are staying 32 00:01:11,989 --> 00:01:10,770 busy while they wait for had worked with 33 00:01:13,340 --> 00:01:11,999 a couple of different experiments today 34 00:01:15,769 --> 00:01:13,350 starting with the combustion integrated 35 00:01:18,529 --> 00:01:15,779 rack which holds the fluids and 36 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:18,539 combustion facility Ford was replacing 37 00:01:22,899 --> 00:01:20,310 the multi-user droplet combustion 38 00:01:25,429 --> 00:01:22,909 apparatus and preparation for upcoming 39 00:01:26,809 --> 00:01:25,439 experiment work and now he'll be 40 00:01:28,849 --> 00:01:26,819 spending most of his afternoon working 41 00:01:30,589 --> 00:01:28,859 with the spheres experiment which today 42 00:01:33,050 --> 00:01:30,599 is going to involve using the spheres 43 00:01:35,659 --> 00:01:33,060 satellites controlled by a smartphone to 44 00:01:37,639 --> 00:01:35,669 carry out simulated surveys of the 45 00:01:39,260 --> 00:01:37,649 inside of the space station on the 46 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:39,270 Russian side of the station novitskiy 47 00:01:43,550 --> 00:01:41,130 and tarelkin are working on their own 48 00:01:45,919 --> 00:01:43,560 experiments one of which looks at human 49 00:01:49,039 --> 00:01:45,929 adaptation to life and macro micro 50 00:01:51,979 --> 00:01:49,049 gravity and another that studies leak 51 00:01:53,330 --> 00:01:51,989 detection methods in space and so what's