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Good morning from Mission
Control Houston and welcome

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to today's International
Space Station update.

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You're looking now 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's monitoring all the

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systems flying on board
this orbiting laboratory.

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Today that team being led

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by flight director
Tomas Gonzales Torres.

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Joining him in the blue
there, Mark Reagan serving

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as the Capcom, who
will be talking

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to our astronauts
up in space today.

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And those astronauts the
crew of Expedition 34

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in their final week
as the crew of 34.

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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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He's in his final days
Expedition 34 commander.

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Immediately behind him two
Russian cosmonauts Oleg

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Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin.

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And then moving across we
have a third Russian cosmonaut

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Roman Romanenko.

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On the front row there
Canadian Chris Hadfield

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who will be taking command

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of the space station a
little bit later today.

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And all the way on the right
there another NASA astronaut

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Tom Marshburn.

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Busy day for the crew as three

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of our Expedition 34
astronauts begin to prep

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for their homecoming a
little bit later this week.

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These three Kevin
Ford, Oleg Novitskiy

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and Evgeny Tarelkin will be
departing the International

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Space Station tomorrow
night as they home

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in their Soyuz TMA-06M
spacecraft wrapping up 143 days

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in space, 141 days
onboard the station.

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You can see a quick
timeline of all those events.

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Tomorrow we'll be bringing you
live coverage here on NASA TV,

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kicking off with farewell

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and hatch closure in
the mid-afternoon.

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That final landing
coverage starting

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at about 9:45 PM central time,

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all setting up for
a planned landing

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of 10:57 PM in Kazakhstan.

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Meanwhile on board
Commander Kevin Ford is hard

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at work doing some
final departure work,

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getting his things in order.

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He'll also be transferring some
supplies and experiment samples

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into the Dragon spacecraft

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and doing a quick inspection
of the MELFI coldbox.

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MELFI's one of the freezers
onboard the station.

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The Minus Eighty degree
Laboratory [Freezer for ISS].

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It's used to store a
number of biological samples

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from the research experiments
that's being done on board.

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So that'll occupy most of
Commander Ford's day today.

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Moving on, Oleg Novitskiy
is in the final stages

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of some cardiovascular exercise
which he was participating

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in yesterday and is
continuing today.

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It's just all part of an
ongoing Russian experiment

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as they continue to track how
these astronauts bodies adapt,

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are changed during
long-duration spaceflights.

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He'll also be on the hook to
stow a number of items inside

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of their Soyuz craft as it does
have some downmass capability.

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They'll be returning
in again that TMA-06M

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which you can see docked
to the space facing side

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of the station, currently
docked to Poisk.

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Again he'll be packing up a few
items in there in preparation

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for that homecoming tomorrow.

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Meanwhile our third Soyuz crew
member who'll be returning

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Evgeny Tarelkin is
collecting a number of air

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and microbial samples throughout
the Russian segment today.

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He'll be inside of the
Zvezda service module

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and also Zarya checking the
air for any traces of ammonia

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and Freon and also
the CO2 levels.

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And he'll also be doing that
same cardiovascular exercise

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that Novitskiy's
participating in as well.

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The third Russian cosmonaut
Roman Romanenko was inside

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of the Rassvet module
this morning,

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also known as the Mini
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He's changing out some
of the smoke detectors.

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Also just a little while
ago got some time inside

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of the Kibo module
to participate

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in a Russian public
affairs event speaking

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with reporters on the ground.

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Meanwhile a man with fairly
big day today, Chris Hadfield,

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scheduled to become the
first Canadian commander

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of the International
Space Station a little bit

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later today.

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Commander Kevin Ford our current
Expedition 34 commander will

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formally hand over the baton,
if you will, to Chris Hadfield,

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beginning his command of the
International Space Station

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which he will remain
for Expedition 35.

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You can catch that change

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of command ceremony later
this afternoon here on NASA TV

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at 4:10 pm central
time, 5:10 pm eastern.

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Asides from that change

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of command ceremony Chris
Hadfield will be working

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on upgrading the software

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which controls the Window
Observational Research Facility

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on one of the many camera
systems onboard the station used

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for Earth observations.

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He's also on the hook
to do some cargo work

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with that Dragon vehicle.

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Our final Expedition 34 crew
member Tom Marshburn spending

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most of his day today working on
the Capillary Flow Experiment.

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You can see it here.

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The Capillary Flow
Experiment is a suite

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of various fluid
physics experiments.

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It focuses on how fluids move
up surfaces in microgravity

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as the microgravity environment

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of the International
Space Station affects many

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of the properties of liquids.

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All these results gathered
from this task hope

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to improve the current
computer models that are used

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by the designers down
here on the ground

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as they develop low gravity
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could potentially have some
impacts on improving the systems

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for fuel transfers
and also water