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This is Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome to today's ISS update.

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It is Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

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The crew did make good
progress over the last couple

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of days unloading the
SpaceX Dragon cargo craft

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as of yesterday evening.

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The crew has completed all
of the removal of the cargo

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that came up to the
International Space Station.

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There was more than 1,268
pounds of supplies and research

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that came up to the
orbiting complex.

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The crew is way ahead
of the timeline in terms

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of unloading all of
that cargo to the point

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that the ground controllers
have asked them

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to take a pause while
they figure

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out exactly how they
want the crew

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to pack this cargo craft full
of the items that will come back

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to Earth at the end
of the month.

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There's 2,668 pounds of
materials and experiments

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that are going to be coming back
home including some unneeded

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crew supplies, some experiments
from the Canadian Space Agency,

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the European Space Agency,

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JAXA which is the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency

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and of course NASA itself.

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So all of that will get
packed onboard Dragon

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and will come back what
is scheduled for March 25.

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Dragon also has some
external cargo.

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There are two grapple bars that
weighed 602 pounds together

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that are in the unpressurized
section of Dragon,

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basically the bottom
inside of the spacecraft.

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Those are going to
be removed tomorrow.

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But in preparation
for that the crew

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and the ground controllers
here in Houston are going

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to be doing some
robotic operations.

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The ground teams are going
to command the station's arm

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to take a peek at
Dragon's trunk,

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which is the bottom portion of
the spacecraft, to make sure

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that everything looks good and
is ready to support the removal

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of those grapple bars
coming up tomorrow.

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That should begin around
1 p.m. Central time,

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2 p.m. Eastern time.

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Those grapple bars
will be stored

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on a payload attachment point
on the mobile base structure

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of the International
Space Station.

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Ultimately, they will be
stored one on the S-1 truss

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and the second one will be put
on the P1 truss, both the left

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and right hand side
of the station,

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coming up during a
future spacewalk.

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Meanwhile, as we mentioned
Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin
getting ready to wrap

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up their time aboard the
International Space Station.

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Their Soyuz will undock on March
14 at 7:30 p.m. Central time,

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that'll be 8:30 p.m.
Eastern time.

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It'll be the morning
of March 15 there

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in Kazakhstan at
the landing sight.

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They're going to be landing
in the northern side just

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to the northeast of
the town of Arkalyk.

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That is, as we mentioned,
the northern zone.

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The ground forces will be
based in the city of Kustanai.

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As that Soyuz undocks the
recovery helicopters will lift

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off the ground and head out
toward the landing zone.

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The deorbit burn for the
Soyuz will actually take place

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at 10:04 p.m. Central time.

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That'll be 9:04 a.m. the
next morning in Kazakhstan.

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And then the actual
landing will take place

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at 10:57 p.m. Central time, or
9:57 a.m. there in Kazakhstan.

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Of course we'll have live
coverage here on NASA television

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of all of the day's activities
as Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin get ready
to wrap up 143 days in space,