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And this is mission
control Houston.

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A very busy day for the
three-person crew aboard the

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International Space
Station today, now commanded

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by Chris Hadfield the Canadian
space agency's first commander

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of the international
research outpost.

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On board with him are
Tom Marshburn of NASA

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and Roman Romanenko of the
Russian federal space agency.

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The trio' been working
on a variety

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of different activities today.

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They're adjusting to the smaller
crew size after the departure

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of previous commander Kevin
Ford and his Russian colleagues,

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Oleg Novitskiy and
Evgeny Tarelkin

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who returned home this weekend

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with a landing in
the Kazakh steppe.

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Kevin Ford already
back home in Houston

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and reportedly doing very well
after his more than four months

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in space and his crewmates
are back to Moscow.

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It was a very cold
and wintry time

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on the Kazakh steppe
for the landing.

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Several of the helicopters
that were part of the search

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and recovery group were not able
to fly out to the landing site

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and so there was just minimal
attribute to recover the crew

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but they did very well in the
landing and all were healthy

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after they were extracted.

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The capsule landed in a
normal vertical condition.

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And the crew was
extricated as planned.

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Today the crew is
working on a variety

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of different experiments
onboard the space station.

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Hadfield has been reinstalling
a computer that's used

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for the material
science research rack

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after a software upgrade.

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He's also been changing out
samples on the Coarsening

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In Solid Liquid Mixtures
2 experiment

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and that's an experiment in
which small particles shrink

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by losing atoms to
larger particles

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and that creates a larger
particles that grow or coarsen

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within a liquid matrix
of lead and tin.

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The study is trying to
find mechanisms and rate

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of how fast things coarsen that
would be useful for anything

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from turbine blades to dental
fillings to aluminum alloys.

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Hadfield also copying images
and installing the new samples

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in the Binary Colloid [Alloy]
Test experiment that looks

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at how well things
that are mixtures

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of solids their liquids behave
in the microgravity environment.

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Tom Marshburn has been
swapping out some cartridges

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with the Hicari experiment
on board the station.

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The Hicari experimenter is the
Japanese experiment and it looks

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at the growth of homogenous
crystals in microgravity

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and is hoping to learn some
things about that kind of growth

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that will help improve
solar cells

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and semiconductors
on the ground.

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Marshburn also is stowing
away some of the hardware

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from the Medaka fish experiment.

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Much of that is coming back
on the Dragon spacecraft

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when it returns home
at the of the week.

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Roman Romanenko working on
removing a controller panel

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for the Automated
Transfer Vehicle,

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that's the European Space
Agency's cargo vehicle,

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and he's doing that work in
the Zvezda service module.

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And all the crew
members are going

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to be conducting a conference
with the future crew members

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for upcoming Expedition
36 - Karen Nyberg,

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Fyodor Yurchikhin
and Luca Parmitano.

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We've had one of our two
public affairs events today.

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The second will be the
Expedition 35 in-flight event

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with the popular band
30 Seconds to Mars.

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That's coming up at
12:10 PM central time,

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and over the coming week the
all the crew members shall be

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involved in final storage of
cargo to be returned to Earth

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on the Dragon cargo spacecraft.

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Stowage is about 54
percent complete now

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and Dragon is scheduled to
be robotically unberthed

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at 5:20 AM central
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and then re-enter the Earth's
atmosphere and splashdown

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in the Pacific Ocean recovery
and return of those samples

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of other equipment to Earth

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from on board the
International Space Station.

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All systems on the space
station working very well

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as the crew continues
through its day

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and the flight controllers
on the ground work

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on a periodic test
of the efficiency