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This is Mission Control Houston
welcome to today's ISS update.

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It is Monday, March 4, 2013.

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The crew of Expedition 34
onboard the station is busy

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working on quite a bit
of transfer work today.

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Of course the big news is

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that the SpaceX Dragon
spacecraft has arrived

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at the station.

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It launched last Friday at
10:10 a.m. Eastern time,

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that was 9:10 a.m. Central time.

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Dragon spent two days heading

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up to the International
Space Station.

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It performed a rendezvous
and docking

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with the orbiting
complex yesterday,

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Sunday at 4:31 a.m.
Central time.

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The crew of Expedition
34 was working

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at a robotics workstation down
in the cupola to take a look

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at Dragon as it closed in.

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They had control

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of the station's 58 foot-long
robotic arm as they got ready

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to reach out and
grab on to Dragon.

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The actual installation,
which was a ground command,

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took place at 8:56 a.m.
Eastern and then the crew opened

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up the hatches of Dragon
just a few hours later

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at 1:14 p.m. Eastern time.

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Dragon is bringing up
1,268 pounds of supplies

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and science operations
to the crew.

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It's going to be taking home
2,668 pounds of supplies.

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The crew's been busy
all day today

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and they will continue working

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over the next several days
getting everything unloaded

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out of this cargo craft.

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Kevin Ford, the commander
of Expedition 34,

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called down giving an update
they have finished moving

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the GLACIERS.

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There were two GLACIER freezers
flown up to the station,

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one that was powered
and was full of science.

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That'll be packed full of
return items and stored back

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on to Dragon at the
conclusion of the mission.

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There is an unpowered GLACIER
that was also flown up.

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That will simply be stored
aboard the International Space

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Station, also quite
a bit of cold bags.

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These are just basically
sample bags that are used

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to put scientific experiments
into and returned back to Earth.

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They're also going to be setting
up one of the experiments

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that flew up to Dragon.

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It's going to be taking place
during the almost 3 weeks

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that Dragon will be docked to
the International Space Station.

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One of the experiments
that is being flown

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up there is what's
called the Coarsening

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and Solid Liquid
Mixtures Number Three.

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This is a materials
science investigation

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that will take place while
Dragon is docked to the station.

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It takes a look at the growth
and solidification processes

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in lead, tin and
solid liquid mixtures

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that contain a small amount of
what's called tin branch-like,

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or dendritic structures,
or dendrites.

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What this will do is
help ground operations

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as they make different
types of metals

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and higher-quality products
as they study the differences

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between what you
see in microgravity

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versus what happens
on the ground.

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So that is CSLM number three.

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They're going to get that set
up later on this afternoon

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and that experiment will run

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for about 20 days
while Dragon is docked

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to the International
Space Station.

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Of course to read more
about CSLM number three,

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or the rest of the science
that Dragon has brought up,

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or any of the other
Expedition 34 operations,

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just log on to the NASA
website at nasa.gov/station

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and take a look at
Research and Technology.

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While the crew's busy working
on Dragon, they are also,

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half of them, getting
ready to come home coming

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up in a little more
than a week-and-a-half.

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Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy and
Evgeny Tarelkin getting close

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to wrapping up close

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to six months onboard
International Space Station.

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Their undocking will
take place on March 14

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at 7:30 p.m. Central time.

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That'll be 6:30 a.m. on
March 15 there in Kazakhstan

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which is the place
where they will land.

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Their Soyuz will undock.

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It is the Soyuz TMA-06M.

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It will undock at
7:30 p.m. Central time

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with the deorbit burn at
10:04 p.m. Central time

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and then landing will take place
at 10:57 p.m. Central time.

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Again that will be the next
day in Kazakhstan, March 15.

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Those times will be 9:04
a.m. Kazakhstan time