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Good day and welcome to Mission
Control Houston where a team

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of flight controllers watches

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over the activities aboard the
International Space Station

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Today on the International Space
Station the Expedition 34 crew

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is working on experiments
that look at plumbing concepts

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for future spacecraft, capillary
flow experiments that look

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at how fluids work
in microgravity,

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how liquids like paint and
milk react to microgravity

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and setting up a student
guided Earth camera

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and a long-term project
to look at giving crews

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in space more autonomy
the their work.

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For Capillary Flow Experiment-3
their work is starting some new

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experiments on flows
in weird containers

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that passively separate fluids.

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The researchers at the
Portland State University

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in Oregon intend to use the
results to guide development

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of a new system for spacecraft
that'll make plumbing more Earth

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plumbing where the effects

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of surface tension replace
the role of gravity.

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The colloid experiment that
works with solids suspended

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in fluid is called
Investigating The Structure

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Of Paramagnetic Aggregates

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From Colloidal Emulsions
2 or InSPACE-2.

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Researchers at the University
of Delaware will obtain data

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on fluids that change properties
in response to magnetic fields

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and see if they can
use that to improve

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or develop new braking
systems and robotics.

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Crew also setting up EarthKAM,
which is an experiment

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that is organized
by the University

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of California in San Diego.

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It enables thousands of
students, middle school mostly,

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to photograph and
examine the Earth

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from a space crew's perspective.

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They use the Internet

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and control a special digital
camera that's mounted inside the

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space station's observation
section and this enables them

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to photograph the Earth's
coastlines, mountain ranges

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and other geographic
items of interest

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from this unique vantage point.

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The International Space
Station as Testbed

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For Analog Research
experiment is working

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on a spacesuit cooling loop
maintenance activity today.

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They're working with the
extravehicular mobility unit,

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the US spacesuit that
they use for spacewalks

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and subdividing the spacesuit
maintenance jobs beyond normal

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blocks of time that
they would use

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if coordinating with
mission control.

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The idea is to develop
procedures for the future

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that allow the crew to
complete the work with minimal

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or no interaction with mission
control which will be important

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when time delays grow longer

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as voyages get farther
away from Earth.

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The crew also will be
replacing some bolts

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in the protein crystallization
research facility

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and doing several days of
Capillary Flow Experiment work.

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Coming up a little bit later
today the mobile servicing

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system elements --
Canadarm2 and Dextre--

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will begin a transfer of a
failed Main Bus Switching Unit

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from its temporary
storage location

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on the External Stowage
Platform 2

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which is outside
the quest airlock

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to the External Logistics
Carrier 2 which is

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on the starboard or
right side of the truss.

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The failed switching unit was
replaced last summer during

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spacewalks by Expedition
33's Commander Suni Williams

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and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide,
and they're just moving back

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into the final storage location.

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Other than that there's a
lot of continued maintenance

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and other research going on the
International Space Station,