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>> Good morning, this is
Mission Control Houston.

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Welcome, and thank you for
joining us for today's edition

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of Space Station Live,
this Wednesday, April 17.

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Today Commander Hadfield

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and Flight Engineer
Marshburn continued

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to follow a special diet, and
logged their diet consumption

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as part of a couple
of human body studies,

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[inaudible] and energy.

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Hadfield also had to set

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up a continuous blood pressure
device, donned a leg/arm cuff,

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and worked with the
pulmonary function system,

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rebreeding protocol
for a periodic checkup

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for another human
body study that looks

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at long duration crew
members' pulmonary function.

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Hadfield also tended
to the ongoing research

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of binary colloidal
alloy test, or BCAT,

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checking out the camera system
that monitors its operations.

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He then also performed a water
analysis today using the total

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organic carbon analyzer at
the water processor assembly

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from the water recovery system.

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The system converts urine,
sweat, and condensation

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into drinkable water
for the crew.

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Commander Hadfield and
Flight Engineers Marshburn

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and Cassidy also take time
to talk to kindergarten

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through 12th grade
students and their teachers

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at the Fernbank Science
Center in Atlanta, Georgia,

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for Destination Station,
which is a traveling exhibit

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that showcases life, work,

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and science aboard
the Space Station.

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Today Marshburn worked much of
his morning loading software

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to an express rack that
provides science experiments

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with standard utilities,
such as power, data,

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cooling, fluid, and gasses.

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He then also loaded the
payload software to two

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of the onboard [inaudible]
incubators in the glacier,

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which are part of the
[inaudible] fleet of hardware

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that are compatible
with the express racks

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and store science
experiment samples

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that require refrigeration.

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And Flight Engineer
Chris Cassidy set

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up the robotics workstation
today to review

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and monitor today's walk off of
the Space Station robotic arm.

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The robotic ground controllers

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at Mission Control Houston will
maneuver the Canada arm too

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for a base change from the
power and data grapple fixture

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on the harmony module to
the mobile base system.

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And on the Russian side
of the house, Vinogradov

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and Romanenko donned their Orlan
space suits once again today

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for a suited dry
run dress rehearsal

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for the procedures they
will conduct during Friday's

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scheduled spacewalk just
outside the [inaudible] dock

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and compartment airlock.

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The spacewalk is
scheduled to begin Friday

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around 9:06 a.m. central
time, and is scheduled

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to last six hours, as
Vinogradov and Romanenko deploy

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and retrieve experiments on the
Russian segment of the station,

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and also replace a faulty
reflector device on the aft end

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of this [inaudible]
service module that is part

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of the navigational aid to be
used for the automated docking

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of the European space
agency's Albert Einstein,

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the automated transfer vehicle

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for a cargo ship
[inaudible] later in June.

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Meanwhile back on earth,
NASA is poised and ready

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for its test launch of the
orbital sciences Antares rocket

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from the Wallop Flight
Facility in Virginia.

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The launch is scheduled
at 4:00 p.m. central time.

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We'll have live coverage of that
launch that will set the stage

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for sending a new
commercial cargo ship