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good day and welcome to Mission Control

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Houston where a team of flight

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controllers some of them in festive garb

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is following the activities aboard the

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International Space Station as the

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expedition 34 crew continues its work

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and gets ready for the arrival of three

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new crew members today the crew is

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working on a variety of different

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research and maintenance tasks and also

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of course anticipating the arrival of

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Tom Marshburn Chris Hadfield and Roman

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Romanenko for a little pre holiday party

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Ford had a trading session today on how

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to catch the fish that are part of the

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JAXA medaka experiment this is an

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osteoclast experiment that uses the

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bones of these tiny fish to determine

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how microgravity stays affect the human

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skeletal system it's not always easy to

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catch the fish in the new aquatic

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habitat that's in the Kibo laboratory

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the bubbles that develop in that habitat

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to tend to obscure the fish and so the

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training was well-received by Kevin Ford

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today you'll have an opportunity to talk

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with the investigators for that

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experiment about how that all went and

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any suggestions for improvement for it

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also today is removing or placing the

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laboratory bacteria filter and the

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desiccants in the microgravity

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experiment research locker or incubator

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known as Merlin those helped hold down

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the humidity levels in that locker old

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novitskiy did some maintenance on the

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air heater fan and the Soyuz that's

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currently docked to the station and for

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a second day he did work with the lower

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body negative pressure experiment that

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it is used to pull fluids that tend to

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collect in the torso of the body down

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into the lower extremities in

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microgravity your fluids tend to pull up

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into your torso because there's no

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gravity pulling dip down into the feet

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and leg area and this lower body

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negative pressure experiment looks at

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whether some forced change in the

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distribution of bodily fluids can help

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astronauts better respond to the return

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to one gravity on earth when they come

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home after four to six

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months on orbit if Gator Elkin is doing

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some routine maintenance on the electron

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system that's the Russian alloxan

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generating system as well as some

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emergency valves in the Russian segment

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of the space station the crew is going

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to go to bed as usual about 3:30 p.m.

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Central time today but we'll have a

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12-hour sleep period that'll help them

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shift their schedules to support a busy

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day of rendezvous and docking activities

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tomorrow as the Soyuz tma-07m spacecraft

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which is currently doing very well in

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orbit makes its final approach to the

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International Space Station delivering

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NASA's Tom Marshburn Canada's Chris

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Hadfield and Russia's Roman Romanenko

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our docking coverage for tomorrow will

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begin at 7:30 a.m. Central time and

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docking is a plan for 8:12 a.m. Central

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and then several hours later we'll have

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the hatch opening and welcoming

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ceremonies aboard the space station

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a reminder that during the holiday

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periods you can send a special greeting

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to the crew onboard the space station