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this is mission control houston welcome

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to iss update it is uh wednesday march 6

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2013. you're looking at a live view

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inside the international space station

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flight control room here at the johnson

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space center this team today is being

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led by flight director michael lammers

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he is sitting there at the center

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console there on the right astronaut

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dougly lock there on the left and the

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white shirt he is today's capcom the

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voice up to

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it's going to be a busy day on board the

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international space station lots of

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activity taking place inside as the crew

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works on various science and maintenance

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tasks and then outside the space station

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quite an unusual activity going on today

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as this will be the first time that

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an unpressurized cargo piece is going to

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be removed from the spacex dragon

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spacecraft which you see they're docked

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with the international space station it

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is currently plugged into the harmony

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node

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this is a view from the bottom side of

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dragon you're looking up inside the

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trunk there you can sort of make out to

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what looks like a y-shaped uh devices

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there those are grapple bars

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those were flown up in this

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unpressurized section of dragon up to

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the international space station together

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they weigh about 602 pounds those are

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going to be removed later on today

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beginning at about 1 pm central time

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this will be a completely ground

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commanded maneuver with the teams here

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in houston uh commanding the station's

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giant 58 foot long robotic arm to reach

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in there and to pull these grapple bars

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out now what these gravel bars are

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are pieces of equipment that will be

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used to remove a failed radiator on the

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s1 and p1 truss of the international

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space station should that ever be deemed

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necessary

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these grapple bars are stored inside

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dragon they're sort of canted or tilted

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over

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diagonally a little bit just to make

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them a little bit smaller make it a bit

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easier to back them out of the dragon

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spacecraft coming up later on today but

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those are going to be stored temporarily

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out on a payload attachment point on the

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outside of the station and then later on

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this summer they will be moved over to

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the s1 and p1 trust on the left and

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right hand side

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in addition to that kevin ford the

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commander of expedition 34 has been

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working on

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the majority of his morning

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taking down the marangoni experiment

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which is inside the international space

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station this is a japanese experiment

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that takes a look at fluid tension and

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how that works in zero gravity you see

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fluid tension here on earth all the time

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if you ever washed your car

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you see how those water droplets sort of

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form into little balls that is surface

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tension

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so this marangoni experiment or the

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marangoni effect takes a look at that

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and also takes a look at how heat

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is transferred through those fluids and

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how that is different up in gravity

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versus here on earth

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kevin ford also working uh to review

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some procedures today on the carbon

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dioxide removal assembly uh this is part

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of the device on board the space station

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that removes carbon dioxide does exactly

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what it sounds like it keeps the air

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acceptable and keeps it clean for the

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crew members to breathe there were some

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spare parts flowing up on the spacex

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flight some new

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beds that helped scrub the air itself

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but there's going to be some ongoing

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maintenance taking place later on this

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week and he's taking a look at the

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procedures for that

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today

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ford oleg novitskiy and evgeny tarelkin

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also in their final uh week almost

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aboard the international space station

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they are due to come home on march 14th

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they're going to be landing just to the

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north of the town of arcolak in

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kazakhstan

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but they're getting everything gathered

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packing items up

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there's some very specific instructions

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that were sent up to the crew in terms

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of what they need to keep what they need

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to bring home and what they need to

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throw away so it's almost like packing

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whenever you're coming home from a

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vacation they're going to be gathering

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all that atom up all those items up and

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getting ready for the return to earth in

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terms of the timeline on march 14th

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their soyuz which is the soyuz tma-06m

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will be undocking the evening of march

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14th we're going to have coverage of the

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farewell and hatch closure beginning at

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about 3 45 pm that afternoon the central

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time here on nasa television the actual

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farewells and hatch closure will take

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place at 4 15 pm

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then undocking coverage begins at 7 15

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with undocking at 7 30 p.m central time

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as the soyuz backs away from the

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international space station and then

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we'll return at 9 45 pm central time for

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landing coverage the deorbit burn

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will take place at 1004 pm central time

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with landing uh there on the ground in

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kazakhstan less than an hour later at 10

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57 p.m central time even though it is

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march in kazakhstan

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the weather is still extremely cold it's

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in the single digits during the day uh

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falling into negative single digits so

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quite a frosty greeting for this crew as

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they return home

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after uh five months in space

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while they are doing that chris cassidy

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paul vinogradov and alexander misurkin

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which will be the next crew to fly up to

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the station have been undergoing final

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preparations at the gagarin cosmonaut

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training center they've been going

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through some final qualification

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simulations and tests

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and being officially certified to fly

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they will wrap up some simulation runs

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and then tomorrow they're going to hold

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the traditional news conference at

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gctc and they'll take a ceremonial tour

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of red square they're in moscow and

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we'll lay flowers at the kremlin wall

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where several space icons are interred

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including yuri gagarin

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so uh quite a bit of tradition and

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activity taking place as this crew gets

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ready to fly up to the station on march

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28th they will be the first crew to

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perform a single day launch to docking

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flight as they head to the space station

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so they will talk about six hours

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after they lift off from the baikonur

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cosmodrome of course we'll have live