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You're joining us here inside

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of the International Space
Station flight control room

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at the Johnson space
center in Houston, Texas,

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looking down as the orbit
two team is controlling all

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of the systems operating on
board this orbiting laboratory.

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Today the team being led by
flight director Jerry Jason,

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you can see there
in the blue shirt.

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Joining him at the
Capcom position serving

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as the communication link
between all of our teams

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down here on the
ground and astronauts

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up in space is Josh Matthew.

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And those astronauts up
in space on the last week

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of Expedition 34, You
can see the crew here.

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They're being led by NASA
astronaut Kevin Ford there

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in the front row on the left.

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Behind him the two
Russian cosmonauts

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who will be returning
back down to Earth

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with him later this week, Oleg
Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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Rounding out our crew

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of Expedition 34 remaining
onboard the station are russian

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cosmonauts Roman Romanenko,

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Canadian astronaut Chris
Hadfield, and then all the way

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on the right there another
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn.

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As mentioned this is the
final week of Expedition 34

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on board the station,
currently engaged in a number

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of various science
activities today.

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Starting off with Commander
Ford who is currently inside

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of the Japanese Kibo module.

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He'll be working with the
SPHERES experiment throughout

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our update today and
for a few hours today.

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That SPHERES, standing for
the Synchronized Position Hold

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Engage Reorient Experimental
Satellites, are a system

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of satellites used to do various
formation flying activities

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provided a very unique
opportunity.

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on board station for these
self-contained satellites

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to test out various algorithms.

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Also now creating
three-dimensional models

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of various unknown
objects in space.

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He'll be working
with teams at MIT

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and the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency

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or DARPA on this SPHERES
VERTIGO activity today.

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Asides from that Ford
will be doing a number

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of crew departure
activities a little bit later

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as again he's preparing to
return back down to Earth

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with two Russian cosmonauts Oleg
Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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They'll be returning in their
Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft a

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little bit later this week,

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scheduled on Thursday
evening central time.

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As always we'll be
bringing you live coverage

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of all these events.

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You see a timeline with things
kicking off with a farewell

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and hatch closure at 3:45 pm.

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That undocking scheduled to take
place from the station later

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at about 7:30, all setting
up for the Soyuz crew landing

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in Kazakhstan scheduled
for 10:57 pm central time.

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So again tune in a little bit
later this week to follow along

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with the departure of our
Expedition 34 astronauts.

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Also on board the station one

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of those departing cosmonauts
Oleg Novitskiy also doing some

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crew departure work
installing some items inside

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of the Soyuz vehicle.

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He'll also be completing
his final cardiovascular

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conditioning training in advance

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of coming home a little
bit later this week.

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Also Evgeny Tarelkin finishing

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up another biological
experiment collecting some blood

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and saliva samples
that'll be brought back

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down inside the Soyuz vehicle.

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Also taking some microbial
samples off of a number

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of surfaces onboard the
station, just checking

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on their nominal levels.

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Our third Russian cosmonaut
who'll be remaining as part

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of the Exhibition 35 crew, Roman
Romanenko is working to clear

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out some the urine
tanks and push them

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over into the Rodnik water
tank in the 49 Progress vehicle

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which will eventually be
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and deorbited a little
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He'll also be flushing out
a few of the tank lines

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from the vehicle in preparation
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He's also doing one

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of two radiation
monitoring experiment works

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on board the station
today working

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with the Russian Matryoshka,
named after the set

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of Russian nested dolls.

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He'll be reading some
of the dosimeters

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and gathering the
data from those.

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Meanwhile the current
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and future Expedition 35
Commander Chris Hadfield was

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working on the CRUISE experiment

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or the Crew User Interface
System Enhancements.

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A little bit earlier he was
inside the Columbus module

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which you can see here.

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Aside from that he was
transferring some samples

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out of the Melfi of the Minus
80 Degree Laboratory Freezer,

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one of the cryogenic freezers
used onboard the station

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for storing various
biological research samples.

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He was also setting up the
SLAMMD device on which is used

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for measuring body mass
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in microgravity.

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SLAMMD stands for the Space
Linear Acceleration Mass

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Measurement Device.

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He'll also be collecting
a number of detectors

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for the RaDI-N or the
Radiation Dosimetry Inside ISS.

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Another radiation monitoring
research project on board

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that looks to study
the neutron radiation

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and how much these
astronauts are exposed

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to during long-duration
spaceflight.

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Our final Expedition 34
astronaut Tom Marshburn,

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transferring some
samples from the MELFI

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over to the SpaceX GLACIER
freezer freezers onboard the

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Dragon spacecraft.

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Dragon currently docked
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of the Harmony node as one

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of three cargo craft
currently docked

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to the International
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and will be returning quite
a variety of experiments

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and samples from ongoing
research on board the station.

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Aside from that Marshburn
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or the Biological Researching
Canisters experiment,

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which is a suite of hardware
that looks to support a variety

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of different plant growth
investigations onboard

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the station.

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He'll also be doing a little
bit of maintenance work

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on the Water Recovery
Management System cleaning out