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Good day and welcome to Mission
Control Houston where the team

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of flight controllers
is watching

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over systems aboard the
International Space Station

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as it continues to circle the
globe 17,500 miles an hour.

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Onboard the space station
the Expedition 34 commanded

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by NASA astronaut
Kevin Ford along

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with his two Russian cosmonaut
colleagues Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin are
continuing their work today.

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Kevin Ford is working on a
number of different activities

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on this very busy day.

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He's unpacking medical
supplies delivered

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on the most recent
Progress 49 spacecraft.

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He's also going to be getting
into some work cleaning

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up the crew quarters
that will be used

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by Chris Hadfield
once he's arrived.

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That's a several hour
activity to make sure

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that everything is spic and
span and the team on the ground

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and on orbit likes to
try and clean those

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out when they are vacant and
make them all spic and span

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and ready for the newly
arriving crew members.

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Novitskiy did some
updates on the software

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of the Russian computers
and also worked

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on the Couloumb Crystal
experiment

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which is studying the dynamics
of solids that are dispersed

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in liquids using
a magnetic field.

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Evgeny Tarelkin is checking the
windows in the Russian segment

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to make sure they're all in good
shape and that they'll be able

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to be used for monitoring of the
arrival of the next spacecraft

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and to the space station
which is the Soyuz which going

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to be launching the next
crew coming up on Wednesday.

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That Soyuz spacecraft was rolled
out to the launch pad today.

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It's going to be delivering
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn

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and Canadian astronaut
Chris Hadfield

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who later will become the
first Canadian commander

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of the International
Space Station

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and Russian cosmonaut
Roman Romanenko,

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who will be the commander of the
Soyuz spacecraft TMA-07M itself.

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It is a particularly frosty day

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out in Kazakhstan
today for the rollout.

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It is setting records
that were set in 1950

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or updating records set
in 1950 with some areas

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of Kazakhstan going down as
far as -43 degrees Fahrenheit.

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The temperature at
the launch pad

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in Baikonur Cosmodrome
was -25 Fahrenheit today,

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very dangerous temperatures

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for the teams preparing the
spacecraft but they are managing

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to complete that
work as planned.

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Just a rundown on the plan:
the spacecraft is scheduled

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to launch at 6:12
AM central time.

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Here we see some video
that was downlinked earlier

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of the preparations.

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This is the escape rocket
system for the Soyuz spacecraft.

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And then on Friday,
December 21 the trio is going

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to be docking their Soyuz to the
space station's Rassvet module

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which is on the Russian segment
about 8:12 AM central time.

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Wednesday's launch coverage
begins at 5 AM central time

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with launch again
scheduled for 6;

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2 AM and then we'll have
a post launch video file

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at 9 AM central.

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On Friday we'll be getting
ready for the docking coverage

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which begins at 7:30 AM central

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and then docking again
is planned at 8:12 AM

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and the hatch opening
coverage begins at 10:15 AM,

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followed by hatch opening and
welcome ceremonies at 10:45 AM,

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and then our post docking
video file at 1 PM.

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The International Space Station
mission management team met

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today to go over all of
the plans and preparations

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for launch and docking
and gave a unanimous "Go"

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for the rendezvous and
docking of the Soyuz

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with the International
Space Station to round

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out to the crew of six.

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Right now the International
Space Station is orbiting high

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above China on a
southeasterly course.

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All systems are working well