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>> Josh Byerly: [Background
Music] Good morning everybody,

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welcome to Space Station Live.

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It is Tuesday, May 7, 2013.

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This is a live shot inside the
international space station

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flight control room here at
the Johnson Space Center.

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This team has been
very busy today working

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with the Expedition 35 crew
onboard the International

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Space Station.

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Currently onboard, Chris
Hadfield, Roman Romanenko

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and Tom Marshburn are in
their final days aboard the

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orbiting complex.

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They completed the second
of two test out procedures

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for the Soyuz that will
soon bring them home.

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This is going to
be the Soyuz 33.

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It's the same vehicle that
launched them back in December

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of 2012 that's going to
be bringing them home.

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You see the current
layout of the station there

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with the Soyuz 33

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on the Rostvedt [Assumed
spelling] module

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that is pointing
down towards Earth.

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You'll see the Progresses
50 and 51 back at the back

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and the Soyuz 34 up on
top of the Poisk module.

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That is the vehicle that
brought up Chris Cassidy,

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Alexander Misurkin and
Pavel Vinogradov in March.

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But everything went
according to plan.

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The crew is also going to be
packing up some items today

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and tomorrow, just getting
ready for the return home

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after five months in space.

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Chris Hadfield also working

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on an experiment
today called NightPod.

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This is one of the cameras
onboard that takes pictures

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of the Earth below which, of
course, most people have seen.

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And NightPod does pretty
much what it sounds like.

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It helps the crew take photos of
nighttime cities and other items

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down on the planet below.

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It's a little bit hard to take
night pictures onboard the

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International Space Station

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because of how fast the
orbiting complex is traveling

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at 17,500 miles an hour
motion blur is a pretty

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significant issue.

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So, this is basically a
high-tech motorized tripod

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and that the crew mounted a
camera on and it takes care

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of that motion blur and takes
fairly crisp pictures of cities

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and other items down below.

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So, that NightPod has
undergone a software update

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and Chris Hadfield has
been taking it out today.

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Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander
Misurkin have been busy

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since yesterday unpacking
the Progress 51 vehicle

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as we mentioned is at the
back of the Russian segment

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of the International
Space Station.

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That is the Zvezda Service
Module and it brought up more

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than two tons of
supplies for the crew.

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So, they're going to be busy
unpacking that and keeping

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up with the inventory
management system, which is sort

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of the checklist of items that
are coming across the hatchway

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and where they're stored.

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Vinogradov also has a physical
fitness evaluation later

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on today on the treadmill that's
back in the Russian segment.

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They do that from
time to time just

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to monitor the crew's
health and he is also going

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to be collecting some surface
samples from some cabling

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and other elements that are
inside the Zayra module,

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also part of the
Russian segment.

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They swabbed those
surfaces just to make sure

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that they're staying clean,
that there's no bacteria growing

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up there and that everything
is comfy and ready for the crew

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to continue living
onboard the space station.

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Chris Cassidy has been
busy this morning working

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on Robonaut getting it set back

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up for some operational
activities that will take place.

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Here you see footage
from earlier today as he

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and Tom Marshburn back
behind him assembled

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that robot that's
on the station.

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Typically that robot is
controlled by ground commands

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from here in Houston
while the crew monitors.

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There's some activities
coming up later

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on this week for Robonaut.

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Cassidy is also going
to be working

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on the Capillary Flow experiment
today that takes a look

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at how fluids behave and the
capillary flow phenomenon

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up in space compares it to
what people see down on Earth.

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But the goal is for future human
space flying for better fluid

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and fuel systems in
spacecraft that will be built

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in the future, more efficient
ways to transfer fuel

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in those spacecrafts and also
it could have some impacts

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on water recycling systems

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like you find onboard the
International Space Station.

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It's going to be pretty
critical as we look

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to journeys beyond the Earth
orbit and going on to Mars

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and to asteroids and
places such as that.

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That Capillary Flow Experiment
the principle investigators

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behind are Portland
State University

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and the Purdue University.

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Tom Marshburn also is
we talked about helping

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out Chris Cassidy
today with a variety

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of activities including
Robonaut, like you just saw.

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He's also going through
some departure preparations.

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There's quite a lengthy
list of items

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that the crew has to pack up.

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So he is today as well as Chris
Hadfield and Roman Romanenko,

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they started their
process yesterday.

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Also, later on in the
early morning hours

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of tomorrow morning the
space station is going

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to be reboosted.

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That Progress 51 that we
talked about at the back end

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of the station will
fire its thrusters

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at 1:51 a.m. Central Time.

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It'll last for 14
minutes and 18 seconds.

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This is going to
set up the station

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for the upcoming undocking
and also the launch

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of Fyodor Yurchikhin, Luca
Parmitano and Karen Nyberg,

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so the space station
just getting positioned

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for all these upcoming
activities.

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At the end of that the
station's orbit will be 258.7

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by 255.4 statute miles.

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And finally today, the crew has
several different crew Earth

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observation opportunities
for them to take a look

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down at the planet below to take
some photos if they have time.

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There's some flooding
taking place in Saudi Arabia

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that they're going to be
flying over, so they'll try

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to get pictures of that.

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There's also an impact crater
in Libya that's fairly unusual

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because its only about
2 kilometers wide,

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which sounds fairly wide,

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but for an impact crater it's
really not all that large.

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But more importantly than that
it's actually not all that old.

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So, it's actually 120
million years old,

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which is fairly young
for an impact crater.

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In comparison to this
they're going to be flying

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over another one of these,

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which is called the
West Hawk Impact Crater

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in Manitoba, Canada.

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This is just to the
north of lake--

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over the woods up there on the
border over the U.S. and Canada.

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This one is 4.5 kilometers wide,

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so it's quite a significant
more larger size and it's

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about 350 million years old.

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So, if you would like
to take a look at any