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>> It's Wednesday,
May 29th, 2013.

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You're looking

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at the International Space
Station Flight Control Room.

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Welcome to Mission
Control Houston.

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This team is on consoles,

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while the crew aboard the
International Space Station is

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sleeping after a busy
Tuesday afternoon

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and evening aboard the complex,
and of course on the ground.

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The team throughout
the day is being led

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by veteran Flight
Director Brian Smith.

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He's in a dual role today,

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serving as not only the Flight
Director, but also serving

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as the communications link

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between the flight control
team here in Houston,

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and the crew aboard the
International Space Station,

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since the crew primarily
is off duty today,

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although there is some
troubleshooting work that's

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going on with some video
equipment onboard the station.

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We now have a 6-member crew
again aboard the International

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Space Station.

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On the left side of the view,
we have Pavel Vinogradov seated,

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who is the commander
of Expedition 36,

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standing behind him on the
far left is Russian cosmonaut

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Alexander Misurkin, and standing
just off his left shoulder is

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astronaut Chris Cassidy.

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Those three gentlemen are
in their 62nd day in space

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and aboard the International
Space Station.

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The three newest crew
members that arrived

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after a single day launch

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to docking profile aboard
their Soyuz spacecraft,

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seated is Soyuz commander

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for the TMA09M spacecraft,
[inaudible].

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He'll also serve as the
Expedition 37 commander once

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that transition occurs
in mid-September.

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He's also joined standing, the
tallest member of the crew,

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from the European Space Agency
and the Italian Space Agency,

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Luca Parmitano, he's serving

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as a Flight Engineer
throughout the expedition,

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and also Karen Nyberg,
US astronaut serving

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on her second flight into space,
first long duration mission.

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Those three crew members
launched aboard a Soyuz rocket

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Tuesday afternoon at 3:31.

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Just under 6 hours later at 9:10
p.m. they docked their Soyuz

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spacecraft to the Rassvet
mini research module

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on the Russian segment of the
station, and then just a couple

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of hours later, after their
pressure checks were completed

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between the hatch seals
of the two spacecraft --

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the International Space
Station and the Soyuz,

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the three crew members joined
the Expedition 36 crew,

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combining now as a 6-member crew
for the next several months.

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Today marks the first
day of course --

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full day for that crew,
essentially an off-duty day

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for the crews aboard
the station.

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They will get back to work
in earnest on Thursday,

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with their sleep schedules
pretty much reset back

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to where they normally
are, with a --

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an 0600 GMT wakeup
call on Thursday,

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that's 1:00 a.m. US central
time for a normal routine day.

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So the International Space
Station back to a 6-person crew

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after a couple of weeks of
3 crew members on board,

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ready to get started
with Expedition 36