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Good day and welcome to
Mission Control Houston

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where a multidisciplinary team

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of flight controllers
is watching

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over the systems aboard the
International Space Station

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as the Expedition 34
crew continues its work.

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Today the crew has assembled
Robonaut for another set

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of on-orbit tests that
are looking at what kind

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of an assistant a
humanoid Robonaut might be

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for humans in space.

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They are also doing ultrasound
background noise testing.

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They continued work
started earlier in the week

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to characterize the sound
levels on the station

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and replacing the
manifold bottle

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on the Combustion
Integrated Rack

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which allows flame
experiments to go

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on aboard the international
outpost.

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Ford and Hadfield were the
prime crew members working

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with Robonaut taking
the humanoid Robonaut

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out of its sleeping compartment
and setting up a task board

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for upcoming remote commanding.

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Meanwhile engineers on
the ground today worked

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with new software that could
allow Robonaut to be controlled

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by virtual reality gear
on orbit in the future.

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And it was Ford who also worked

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with those ultrasound
measurements.

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Tom Marshburn meanwhile
worked on updates

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to the Automated
Payload Switch Upgrade

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that will help facilitate
remotely controlled research

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on the International
Space Station.

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Novitskiy, Tarelkin and
Romanenko did a variety

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of experiments as well as
station maintenance tasks.

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Novitskiy did air
filter cleaning.

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Tarelkin worked on
water purification

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and filtration maintenance

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in the Russian segments
of the station.

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And Romanenko installed
experiment hardware

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for the Kristall experiment.

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Later on today ground
controllers will be stowing the

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Dextre Special Purpose Dexterous
Manipulator which has been

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on the end of Canadarm2
for the past two weeks,

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last week for remote
refueling mission activities --

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so looking at how we might
use robotic spacecraft

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to go refuel spacecraft
that never were designed

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to be refueled in orbit.

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All those tests went very
well, a combined project

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of the Goddard Space Flight
Center of NASA up in Maryland

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and the Canadian Space Agency.

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Flight controllers
here in Mission Control

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and at the Canadian Space
Agency's Robotic Support

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Facility in St. Hubert,
Canada, worked together

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on those remote-controlled
activities.

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They also earlier in this
work moved around a couple

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of different orbital
replacement units on the outside

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of the space station moving
them from one rack to another

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and putting them in
the right position

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so the degraded components
are out of the way

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and that there are components
that may be needed soon

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for upcoming replacement
tasks are right at hand.

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Today the crew on the ground
is going to use the robotic arm

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to stow the Dextre manipulator
on the Mobile Base System.

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Meanwhile, at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan the work
is continuing to prepare

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for the next Russian cargo
craft Progress 50 for launch

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on February 11 to
the space station.

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Ahead of that the Progress
48 spacecraft which arrived

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at the station in
August will be undocking

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from the Pirs docking
compartment.

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That is coming up on
Saturday, February the 9th

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at 7:15 a.m. central time.

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We'll have live coverage of
that on NASA TV and after

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that it'll be deorbited
three hours later so it burns

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up into the atmosphere
and plunges

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to a destructive demise
in the Pacific Ocean.

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And that will clear Pirs for
the accelerated single day

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launch-to-docking of the
Progress 50 on March...

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excuse me on Monday,
February the 11th.

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Launch from Site 1 Launch Pad
where Yuri Gagarin launched

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at Baikonur is scheduled

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for 8:41 a.m. central
on February the 11th.

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And then four orbits
later it will be docking

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to the space station at
2:40 p.m. central time.

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A new Progress is going
to be carrying 1700 pounds

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of propellant, more than 100
pounds of oxygen and air,

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more than 900 pounds of
water and some 3000 pounds

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of spare parts, experiment
hardware

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and logistical equipment a total

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of almost 3 tons
of supplies in all.

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And that single day
launch-to-docking is

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in preparation for potential use

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of that single day
launch-to-docking for humans

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to minimize the stress on
crew members as they head

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up to the International
Space Station.

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Space station managers and
partners met this morning

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to review all the preparations
for the undocking of 48 Progress

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and the launch of Progress 50

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and so far no issues
have been identified