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>> This is Mission
Control Houston.

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It has been an incredibly busy
and whirlwind week for the crew

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of Expedition 34 on board the
International Space Station.

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Their week got kicked off
on Monday with quite a bit

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of cargo unloading from the
Space X Dragon Spacecraft

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that is currently docked with
the International Space Station.

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The crew made quick work of
getting all of this cargo

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and the supplies and
scientific experiments that came

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up on Dragon unloaded
within about 24 hours or so

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after Dragon first arrived.

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There was 1,268 pounds of
equipment that came up.

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They got all that moved out,
they're in the process now

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of moving back over 2,668 pounds
of equipment and supplies,

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and scientific experiments
that will come home at the end

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of March -- on March 25th,

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as Dragon makes a splashdown off
the coast of Baja, California.

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Dragon also brought up two
grapple bars that were removed

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in the middle of the week from
its external payloads trunk.

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This is an unpressurized
section of Dragon that brought

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up these two pieces of equipment

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to the ground team's commanded
station's 58-foot long robotic

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arm to reach in, and retrieve
these two grapple bars.

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They are currently stowed out
on a payload attachment point

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that is part of the station's
mobile base structure.

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That is where they will
stay until this summer,

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when Chris Cassidy [phonetic]
and Luka Parmatano [phonetic],

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as part of Expedition
35, will go outside

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and conduct a couple
of space walks.

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This first one will be
focused on a variety of things,

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including moving those grapple
bars from that temporary spot

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over to the S1 and P1 truss.

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These two grapple bars would
be used in the event that one

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of the station's radiators
needed to be replaced.

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Dragon also took up an
experiment called the coarsening

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and solid liquid
mixtures experiment.

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This takes a look at how
liquid metal solidifies

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in coarsens up in space.

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There's lessons to
be learned in terms

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of how zero gravity affects
that particular process.

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But this CSLM experiment
has been running inside the

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microsciences --
microgravity sciences glove box.

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Over the next several
days there's going

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to be 21 days' worth
of operations

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of this particular experiment,
and then it will come back home

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with Dragon at the
conclusion of the mission.

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Robonaut also being put through
it spaces earlier this week.

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Yesterday, on Thursday,

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the particular robot onboard
the Space Station was moved

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through a series
of arm movements.

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Also its vision sensor
was checked out.

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As ground teams watched on,
Robonaut checked out A-OK.

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Also Thursday and Friday
were spent doing some work

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on the carbon dioxide removal
assembly unit inside the Kebo

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[phonetic] laboratory.

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This particular procedure is
typically housed inside the

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tranquility node, but
Tom Marshford [phonetic]

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and Kevin Ford [phonetic]
spent a lot of time --

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almost two full days working
on this particular piece

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of equipment that's part of the
station's environmental system.

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It scrubs out carbon
dioxide from the air,

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makes it acceptable
for the crew to use.

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They had to swap out some of the
beds that help scrub that air,

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and also a valve
that you get a sense

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of exactly how big this
piece of equipment is.

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That is why they moved it
into Kebo, so they could work

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on it a little bit easier.

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And then over the weekend the
crew should be moving it back

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over to tranquility, and
reactivating it once again.

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In the meantime, Kevin Ford,
Oleg Naviski [phonetic],

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and Agini Torelkon
[phonetic] now

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in their final days aboard the
International Space Station

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as part of Expedition 34, this
trio getting ready to wrap

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up 143 days in space, 141
days aboard the International

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Space Station.

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We'll have live coverage
coming up on March 14th

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as they depart the International
Space Station and head home.

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Our first broadcast will begin
at 3:45 p.m. central time.

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We'll have live coverage
of the farewells,

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and the hatch closure, which
actually should take place

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at around 4:15 p.m. central
time, 5:15 p.m. eastern time.

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Our second broadcast will come
on the air at 7:15 p.m. central.

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We'll have live coverage of the
undocking of the Soyuz TMA 06M

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with Ford, Naviski,
and Torelkon inside.

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That undocking should take
place at 7:30 p.m. central time

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as they back away from
the [inaudible] module.

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Our third and final
broadcast will air

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at 9:45 p.m. central time,
with landing coverage.

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The deorbit burn will occur
at 10:04 p.m. central time,

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that'll begin the process
of sending Ford, Naviski,

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and Torelkon back through
earth's atmosphere,

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and they will land
less than an hour later

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at 10:57 p.m. central time.

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They're going to be landing just
to the northeast of the town

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or Arkelic [phonetic], that is
the northern landing zone there

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in Kazakhstan, the weather
due to be in the 20s,

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climbing up to the 30s
throughout the day.

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But it will be 9:57 a.m. the
next morning, March 15th,

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there at the landing site.

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Of course we will have
live coverage not only