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And good morning from Mission
Control Houston and welcome

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to today's International
Space Station Update.

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Joining us here inside of
the Flight Control Room

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at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas,

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looking over as the Orbit Two
Team is monitoring all the

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systems onboard the
orbiting laboratory.

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Today's team is being led by
veteran Flight Director Paul Dye

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and joining him at the Capcom
position is Anna Fischer.

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She'll be serving as the
communication link between all

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of our teams down
here on the ground

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and the astronauts up in space.

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Those astronauts right now
are the crew of Expedition 34.

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They're being led by
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford

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and he is joined by three
Russian cosmonauts, one Canadian

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and one fellow NASA astronaut.

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Kevin Ford there in
the front row the left,

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behind him Russian
cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin who joined

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with Ford onboard the
International Space Station back

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in October.

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And then there on the right we
have our three newest station

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crew members, Russian
cosmonaut Roman Romanenko,

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Canadian astronaut
Chris Hadfield

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and NASA astronaut
Tom Marshburn.

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A very busy day as work is

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in full swing onboard the
International Space Station

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starting off with
Commander Kevin Ford

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who a little bit earlier this
morning was performing a monthly

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periodic fitness evaluation.

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He was doing that on the
station's CEVIS device

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which is the cycle ergometer
with isolation stabilization.

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It's one of the stationary
cycle bikes onboard that is used

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for exercise by these
astronauts doing

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that fitness evaluation doing is

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that constantly monitor their
health during their six-month

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increments onboard the station.

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Aside from that,
Commander Ford was working

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on the Combustion Integrated
Rack doing some hardware gather

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for some upcoming experiments.

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And following that
and a little bit later

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in this hour he'll be doing
a ham radio pass using a

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traditional ham radio, much
like those found on the ground

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down here, talking
to some participants

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of the Missoula Family
YMCA in Missoula, Montana.

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Meanwhile, Russian cosmonaut
Oleg Novitskiy was emptying

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out the soft tank over
in the Russian portion

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of the International
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He was also working to
open up some of the holes

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in the partitions near the
Russian service module,

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also known as Zvezda,
working to run a few cables

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for the eventual Mini-Laboratory
Module's integration

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with the rest of the
station structure.

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His colleague Russian cosmonaut
Evgeny Tarelkin was doing some

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cleaning work throughout the
Russian segment today cleaning

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off some of the panel vent
screens throughout the Air

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Revitalization System inside
of the station systems.

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He's also cleaning out
some of the dust filters

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and replacing those inside of
the Mini-Research Module 1,

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also known as Rassvet, where
the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft is

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currently docked.

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He'll also be doing a
few routine replacements

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on the Russian toilet system.

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Our third Russian
cosmonaut Roman Romanenko,

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again who just joined the
station crew back in December,

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is working on the Plasma
Crystal experiment today.

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It's a fairly complex look
into studying the growth

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of plasma dust structures
in zero gravity.

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This study also looks at
particle cloud behavior

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and internal flow
structures inside

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of these plasma dust crystals.

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He'll also be joining
with Evgeny Tarelkin

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in their ongoing efforts
to make a documentary

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about life onboard the
International Space Station

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being done for Russian agencies.

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Our Canadian astronaut Chris
Hadfield was in his second day

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of collecting biological samples

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for the Human Research Facility
taking blood and urine samples

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and then storing them in one

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of the cryogenic freezers
onboard the International

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Space Station.

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He'll also be running
the InSpace-3 experiment.

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InSpace a fairly
long acronym standing

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for Investigating the Structure
of Paramagnetic Aggregates

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from Colloidal Emulsions,

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this another fairly complex
study taking advantage

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of that microgravity environment
looking to obtain data on fluids

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that contain ellipsoid
shape particles

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that then change their physical
properties of the fluids

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that they're in response
to magnetic fields.

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And our final Expedition 34
crew member Tom Marshburn,

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another NASA astronaut,

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was working with the
Environmental Health System

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onboard the station setting
up some acoustic dosimeters

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which measure noise
loads throughout the

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station structure.

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He was also working