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Good morning and welcome
to Mission Control Houston

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and the International
Space Station update hour.

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We are here with International
Space Station Flight Control

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Team inside the space
station flight control room

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where flight director Judd
Freely is a leading the team

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with help from capcom
Anna Fisher.

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Onboard the space
station three members

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of Expedition 34 crew are more
than halfway through their day

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and currently orbiting 258
miles above the coast of Burma.

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They are Commander Kevin Ford

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and Flight Engineer
Tom Marshburn of NASA,

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Russian Flight Engineers Oleg
Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin

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and Roman Romanenko and Canadian
space agency Flight Engineer

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Chris Hadfield.

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Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin
have been at the space station

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since October when their Soyuz
TMA-06M vehicle docked the

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Russian Poisk module.

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They are now working on their
120 day at the space station

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in their 122 day in space, and
they were joined in December

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by Marshburn, Hadfield
and Romanenko

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who docked their Soyuz TMA-07M

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to the station's Rassvet
module on December 21.

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They are on their
65 day in space

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and their 63 on the station.

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The crew has quite
a mix of activities

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on its agenda for the day.

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Commander Kevin Ford and his
fellow Soyuz crewmates Oleg

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Novitskiy and Evgeny
Tarelkin spent some time

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in their Soyuz this
morning checking

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out the special seats
they will be sitting

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in on their return
to Earth on March 15.

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Soyuz seats are specially
designed

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for each individual crew member

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to provide them the
best cushion possible

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for their landing in Kazakhstan.

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Ford also spent some time
putting away the Inspace-3

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experiment, which
wrapped up on Wednesday

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and getting the space station's
combustion integrated rack

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prepared for an upcoming
series of experiments.

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Chris Hadfield and Tom
Marshburn, meanwhile,

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both spent much of
their morning working

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through some regular checks

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of the station's
environment making sure

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that it's healthy
for the crew members.

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Hadfield took some samples off
of various station surfaces

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and in the station's air,

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while Marshburn monitored
the noise level aboard

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and took water samples.

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Marshburn also had
some time set aside

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to get the station's light
microscopy module set

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up for an upcoming run of the
advanced colloids experiment,

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which could provide important
data that is not available

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on Earth and give us
better understanding

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of crystallization
production, quality control

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and phase separation, or
shelf life, and product lacks.

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Back on the ground, flight
controllers are continuing

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to work through the software
update that caused a loss

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of communication with
the crew on Tuesday.

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Since Tuesday, everything
has been going smoothly

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with that work and yesterday
the team here with able to catch

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up on the work originally
scheduled for Tuesday.

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Today they are moving on with
the loading of the final command

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and control computer
with new software.

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The transition should be
wrapped up by Saturday.

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In addition team here on the
ground has been preparing

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for reboost that the station is
scheduled to perform tomorrow

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at 4:34 a.m. Central Time.

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That adjustment to the
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will use the Progress
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firing them for four minutes
and 37 seconds, and that's going

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to increase the station's
perigee, or the low point

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of its orbit, by 1.3 miles
and leave the station in a 257

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by 252 mile orbit, putting them
in place for Ford, Novitskiy

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and Tarelkin's undocking
in March,

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as well as preparing the station

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for the single day
launch-docking schedule

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with the crew that will
be taking their place.

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That is what has been
going on in space today