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>> Welcome to Mission
Control Houston

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on a Friday morning
Houston time as the team

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of flight controllers led

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by Flight Director Royce
Renfrew continues to watch

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over systems aboard the
International Space Station.

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On board, it's the
ending for a very busy

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and eventful week aboard the
International Space Station

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for the Expedition 36 crew.

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The week started out with
preparations for a six

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and a half hour spacewalk to
conduct a variety of tasks

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that are associated
with preparations

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for a new Russian research
module that's going

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to be launched within the next
year to relocate a Wi-Fi antenna

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for helmet camera
views for spacewalkers

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and replace a camera on the
external facility or front porch

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of the Japanese Kibo Laboratory.

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On Tuesday, Cassidy and
[inaudible] began that spacewalk

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on schedule but after
completing their initial task,

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[inaudible] reported water
on the back of his head

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and Cassidy was able to
determine that the amount

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of water was increasing, so much

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so that Flight Director
David Koresh decided

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to end the spacewalk early.

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It lasted a total of one
hour 32 minutes and experts

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on the ground are continuing
to troubleshoot the cause

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of the serious problem and
to work on details of whether

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or not it might be something
that is cross spacesuit

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or just isolated to this one
spacesuit worn by [inaudible].

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Cassidy and [inaudible]
talk with reporters

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from San Francisco and North
Dakota, along with Karen Nyberg

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and they describe the
situation in their own words.

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>> Now I wanted to talk real
briefly about that spacewalk

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and I know Luca, you were -- you
had some tense moments there,

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can you guys talk a little
bit about what happened there?

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>> Yeah, for I think for
a couple of minutes there,

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maybe more than a couple of
minutes, I experienced what it's

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like a goldfish in a
fishbowl from the point

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of view of the goldfish.

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So about half an hour into the
[inaudible] 45 minutes maybe,

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Chris and I were
ahead on our tasks

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so we were starting our third
task and I felt some water

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on the back of my head and I
realized that it was cold water,

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it was not a normal
feeling so I told ground.

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Chris came by to give it a
look, he couldn't see anything.

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He took some pictures of it
but it wasn't until a couple

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of minutes later that we
actually saw the water trickling

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in the front of the helmet and
then I felt it covering my ears

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and at that point, we called a
terminate for the [inaudible].

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I started going back
to the airlock

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and the water kept trickling

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until it completely
covered my eyes and my nose.

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It was really hard to see.

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I couldn't hear anything.

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It was really hard
to communicate.

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I just -- I went back using
just memory basically,

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going back to the airlock until
I found it and then went inside

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and Chris was there in split
seconds to come inside,

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close the airlock
and re-pressurize.

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Karen was already there,
ready to re-pressurize.

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Our Russian colleagues were
all there to help and they --

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as soon as the two
compartments were equalized,

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they [inaudible], meaning
they took off my helmet,

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wiped my face from all
the water, about 3 pounds

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of water, I would say.

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And that was the end of it.

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For me, the worst part,
as Chris mentioned,

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I was miserable but okay.

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He just -- mentioned walking
around with your eyes closed

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in a fishbowl; really that's
what was going on at moment.

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It's just a very uncomfortable
feeling to be with your face

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under water for all the time.

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But the reaction of the crew
was outstanding, I think.

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The crew on the ground
and the crew on board,

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Chris really supported
me and I was just lucky

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to be back inside in no time.

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>> Also this week, the
team continued research

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about the International
Space Station,

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working with several
Russian, U.S., Japanese

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and European experiments,

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setting up a new
fluorescent microscope

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and replacing an imagery cable
on a Japanese fluids experiment.

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They also did routine
emergency drills.

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Today, the crew is doing
regularly scheduled post

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spacewalk suit refresh tasks

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but they are performing cooling
[inaudible] on Cassidy's suit,

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instead of on [inaudible]
suit, they are doing it

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on a backup suit that would
be used in an unlikely event

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that there would be a problem
outside the station significant

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enough to warrant a spacewalk
before the troubleshooting work

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is complete.

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The work continues by the
mission control team here

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and engineers familiar with
the spacesuits on the ground.

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This weekend, the crew
has a couple of days off

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and likely will celebrate
the 44th Anniversary

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of the Apollo 11 first moon
landing by Neil Armstrong

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and Buzz Aldrin on
Saturday night.

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And then next week, the
crew will be doing a variety

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of activities as they
prepare for the departure

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of a Progress 50 Spacecraft from
the peers docking compartment

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on Thursday and the
launch and arrival