1 00:00:08,790 --> 00:00:06,789 the expedition 36 crew onboard the 2 00:00:10,950 --> 00:00:08,800 international space station has spent a 3 00:00:13,110 --> 00:00:10,960 week concentrating on a lot of 4 00:00:15,509 --> 00:00:13,120 laboratory science in a range of 5 00:00:18,550 --> 00:00:15,519 disciplines all while taking care of the 6 00:00:21,269 --> 00:00:18,560 station and setting up for the going and 7 00:00:23,509 --> 00:00:21,279 coming of russian cargo ships 8 00:00:25,870 --> 00:00:23,519 on monday commander pavel vinogradov 9 00:00:28,630 --> 00:00:25,880 began with the evaluation of his 10 00:00:30,710 --> 00:00:28,640 cardiovascular function during a series 11 00:00:33,110 --> 00:00:30,720 of progressively more strenuous 12 00:00:36,150 --> 00:00:33,120 exercises conducted on a stationary 13 00:00:38,709 --> 00:00:36,160 bicycle that information is added to the 14 00:00:41,190 --> 00:00:38,719 studies that have been ongoing for some 15 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:41,200 time providing more data for scientists 16 00:00:45,110 --> 00:00:42,719 who are looking at the ways the human 17 00:00:47,029 --> 00:00:45,120 body is affected being in a weightless 18 00:00:48,709 --> 00:00:47,039 environment for an extended period 19 00:00:51,270 --> 00:00:48,719 they're trying to find ways to 20 00:00:53,670 --> 00:00:51,280 counteract the bad effects so future 21 00:00:56,229 --> 00:00:53,680 explorers can stay healthy on longer 22 00:01:01,910 --> 00:00:58,389 also spent time monday then stowing 23 00:01:04,789 --> 00:01:01,920 items into the progress 50 spacecraft in 24 00:01:07,030 --> 00:01:04,799 advance of its undocking on thursday 25 00:01:08,710 --> 00:01:07,040 flight engineer alexander misurkin spent 26 00:01:10,710 --> 00:01:08,720 part of his monday on routine 27 00:01:13,270 --> 00:01:10,720 maintenance tasks in the russian segment 28 00:01:15,350 --> 00:01:13,280 of the station and the afternoon working 29 00:01:17,749 --> 00:01:15,360 along with flight engineer fyodor 30 00:01:20,070 --> 00:01:17,759 yurchikhin on a russian experiment 31 00:01:23,350 --> 00:01:20,080 that's looking into new ways to identify 32 00:01:25,429 --> 00:01:23,360 the sources of depressurization inside a 33 00:01:27,350 --> 00:01:25,439 pressurized vehicle the russian crew 34 00:01:28,469 --> 00:01:27,360 members worked on that experiment known 35 00:01:31,109 --> 00:01:28,479 as bar 36 00:01:33,030 --> 00:01:31,119 throughout most of the days of the week 37 00:01:36,230 --> 00:01:33,040 flight engineer karen nyberg started the 38 00:01:39,109 --> 00:01:36,240 week with robonaut operations she set up 39 00:01:41,590 --> 00:01:39,119 the r2 robot and the tele operations 40 00:01:43,830 --> 00:01:41,600 equipment in the destiny module 41 00:01:45,990 --> 00:01:43,840 monitoring the commanding of tasks from 42 00:01:48,389 --> 00:01:46,000 the ground and directing the robot's 43 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:48,399 actions with their own motions through 44 00:01:51,749 --> 00:01:50,640 the use of the instrumented gloves and 45 00:01:54,630 --> 00:01:51,759 goggles 46 00:01:57,190 --> 00:01:54,640 the robonaut is a test bed for evolving 47 00:01:59,990 --> 00:01:57,200 robotic operations in space it is 48 00:02:01,910 --> 00:02:00,000 demonstrating what a robot can do and 49 00:02:04,230 --> 00:02:01,920 helping developers as they test the 50 00:02:06,630 --> 00:02:04,240 boundaries of what a robot might do in 51 00:02:09,350 --> 00:02:06,640 the future including helping the human 52 00:02:11,670 --> 00:02:09,360 crew with tasks inside the station 53 00:02:13,030 --> 00:02:11,680 perhaps someday outside the station as 54 00:02:15,190 --> 00:02:13,040 well 55 00:02:17,030 --> 00:02:15,200 flight engineer luca parmitano spent a 56 00:02:18,869 --> 00:02:17,040 good portion of his monday in the 57 00:02:21,830 --> 00:02:18,879 european space agency's columbus 58 00:02:24,550 --> 00:02:21,840 laboratory reinstalling the microscope 59 00:02:26,949 --> 00:02:24,560 and spectrophotometer in the bio lab 60 00:02:28,790 --> 00:02:26,959 which had been removed for refurbishment 61 00:02:31,510 --> 00:02:28,800 back in 2011. 62 00:02:33,830 --> 00:02:31,520 this is the start of bio lab maintenance 63 00:02:35,670 --> 00:02:33,840 in advance of some advanced 64 00:02:37,509 --> 00:02:35,680 extended ground testing and 65 00:02:40,070 --> 00:02:37,519 commissioning to demonstrate that 66 00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:40,080 facility's ability to support some 67 00:02:44,390 --> 00:02:42,080 upcoming experiments looking into the 68 00:02:45,830 --> 00:02:44,400 effects of microgravity on biological 69 00:02:47,910 --> 00:02:45,840 organisms 70 00:02:50,630 --> 00:02:47,920 flight engineer chris cassidy set up the 71 00:02:53,589 --> 00:02:50,640 fluids integration rack for a physical 72 00:02:56,390 --> 00:02:53,599 sciences investigation called advanced 73 00:02:58,390 --> 00:02:56,400 colloids experiment it is the first in a 74 00:03:01,190 --> 00:02:58,400 series of microscopic imaging 75 00:03:03,990 --> 00:03:01,200 investigations of materials that contain 76 00:03:05,350 --> 00:03:04,000 colloidal particles the investigators 77 00:03:08,229 --> 00:03:05,360 are looking into the flow 78 00:03:10,229 --> 00:03:08,239 characteristics and the ordering effects 79 00:03:12,470 --> 00:03:10,239 of those materials 80 00:03:14,070 --> 00:03:12,480 on tuesday vinogradov and yurchikhin 81 00:03:16,470 --> 00:03:14,080 completed their refresher training on 82 00:03:19,030 --> 00:03:16,480 the toru system that's the system that 83 00:03:21,990 --> 00:03:19,040 allows a cosmonaut located in the zvezda 84 00:03:24,390 --> 00:03:22,000 module to take over manual control of an 85 00:03:26,070 --> 00:03:24,400 approaching progress cargo ship 86 00:03:29,110 --> 00:03:26,080 that training in advance of the 87 00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:29,120 departure of 50p and the expected 88 00:03:32,550 --> 00:03:31,120 arrival of a new load of supplies that 89 00:03:35,110 --> 00:03:32,560 are targeted for launch from the 90 00:03:36,789 --> 00:03:35,120 baikonur cosmodrome on saturday 91 00:03:38,470 --> 00:03:36,799 cassidy focused his maintenance 92 00:03:40,869 --> 00:03:38,480 attentions tuesday on the science 93 00:03:43,509 --> 00:03:40,879 hardware working on the marangoni 94 00:03:46,789 --> 00:03:43,519 apparatus in the kibo laboratory that's 95 00:03:48,550 --> 00:03:46,799 an experiment into marangoni convection 96 00:03:51,110 --> 00:03:48,560 that's designed to learn about heat 97 00:03:52,470 --> 00:03:51,120 transfer in microgravity 98 00:03:54,390 --> 00:03:52,480 parmitano took care of station 99 00:03:56,869 --> 00:03:54,400 maintenance that day too including a 100 00:04:00,229 --> 00:03:56,879 routine inspection of the portable fire 101 00:04:02,470 --> 00:04:00,239 extinguishers and breathing apparatuses 102 00:04:04,309 --> 00:04:02,480 he did that in the morning he also took 103 00:04:06,869 --> 00:04:04,319 time to speak with officials of the 104 00:04:09,830 --> 00:04:06,879 european space industries they were all 105 00:04:11,589 --> 00:04:09,840 gathered at the altec center in italy to 106 00:04:12,550 --> 00:04:11,599 talk with him about the progress of his 107 00:04:14,070 --> 00:04:12,560 flight 108 00:04:17,189 --> 00:04:14,080 the science started off the day for 109 00:04:20,310 --> 00:04:17,199 parmitano on wednesday as he initialized 110 00:04:22,550 --> 00:04:20,320 samples for runs in the binary colloidal 111 00:04:24,870 --> 00:04:22,560 alloy test experiment 112 00:04:26,790 --> 00:04:24,880 while karen nyberg gathered up hardware 113 00:04:28,870 --> 00:04:26,800 and installed the centerline berthing 114 00:04:31,590 --> 00:04:28,880 camera in the window of the nader hatch 115 00:04:34,950 --> 00:04:31,600 of node 2. that's to support next 116 00:04:35,909 --> 00:04:34,960 month's arrival of the next h2 transfer 117 00:04:38,070 --> 00:04:35,919 vehicle 118 00:04:39,749 --> 00:04:38,080 then she joined with parmitano and 119 00:04:42,230 --> 00:04:39,759 cassidy for a conference with the 120 00:04:44,230 --> 00:04:42,240 spacewalk specialists in houston as they 121 00:04:46,950 --> 00:04:44,240 reviewed the procedures for the next 122 00:04:48,710 --> 00:04:46,960 round of inspections designed to try to 123 00:04:51,189 --> 00:04:48,720 isolate the cause of last week's 124 00:04:54,550 --> 00:04:51,199 malfunction that allowed water to leak 125 00:04:57,270 --> 00:04:54,560 into parmitano's helmet during spacewalk 126 00:04:59,749 --> 00:04:57,280 the hatch to progress vehicle attached 127 00:05:01,189 --> 00:04:59,759 to the piers module was closed on 128 00:05:02,870 --> 00:05:01,199 wednesday morning 129 00:05:04,710 --> 00:05:02,880 and on thursday vinogradov and 130 00:05:07,189 --> 00:05:04,720 yurchikhin had a conference with the 131 00:05:08,950 --> 00:05:07,199 team in moscow to review procedures that 132 00:05:10,870 --> 00:05:08,960 they would follow in the event there was 133 00:05:13,110 --> 00:05:10,880 an issue and crew members had to take 134 00:05:14,070 --> 00:05:13,120 over manual control to redock that 135 00:05:17,029 --> 00:05:14,080 vehicle 136 00:05:19,510 --> 00:05:17,039 but there were no such issues and 50p 137 00:05:21,830 --> 00:05:19,520 departed the space station on time on 138 00:05:25,510 --> 00:05:21,840 thursday afternoon and was deorbited 139 00:05:27,670 --> 00:05:25,520 above the pacific ocean thursday evening 140 00:05:29,670 --> 00:05:27,680 parmitano spent his thursday morning in 141 00:05:31,430 --> 00:05:29,680 the combustion integrated rack 142 00:05:33,749 --> 00:05:31,440 installing some new hardware components 143 00:05:36,629 --> 00:05:33,759 in the multi-user droplet combustion 144 00:05:39,189 --> 00:05:36,639 apparatus that's in anticipation of the 145 00:05:41,830 --> 00:05:39,199 next set of combustion experiments there 146 00:05:43,909 --> 00:05:41,840 are a few of those such experiments on 147 00:05:47,189 --> 00:05:43,919 board all dedicated to learning the 148 00:05:49,510 --> 00:05:47,199 details about how different fuels burn 149 00:05:52,230 --> 00:05:49,520 when there's no gravity around that's 150 00:05:54,950 --> 00:05:52,240 designed to improve fire safety as well 151 00:05:57,590 --> 00:05:54,960 as fire suppression techniques but also 152 00:06:00,550 --> 00:05:57,600 to learn more about the efficiency of 153 00:06:02,790 --> 00:06:00,560 engines which use liquid fuels 154 00:06:04,870 --> 00:06:02,800 nyberg devoted part of her thursday to 155 00:06:07,749 --> 00:06:04,880 preparing for next month's arrival of 156 00:06:10,790 --> 00:06:07,759 the h2 transfer vehicle by checking out 157 00:06:12,390 --> 00:06:10,800 the htv hardware control panel and then 158 00:06:15,189 --> 00:06:12,400 reviewing the procedures that she'll 159 00:06:17,670 --> 00:06:15,199 follow when she flies canadarm2 to 160 00:06:19,670 --> 00:06:17,680 grapple htv and birth it to the 161 00:06:22,150 --> 00:06:19,680 station's harmony module 162 00:06:23,830 --> 00:06:22,160 later on she joined cassidy the two of 163 00:06:26,230 --> 00:06:23,840 them talked about their mission in 164 00:06:28,390 --> 00:06:26,240 interviews with the washington post and 165 00:06:31,670 --> 00:06:28,400 the portland maine press herald the 166 00:06:34,070 --> 00:06:31,680 newspaper in cassidy's home state 167 00:06:35,909 --> 00:06:34,080 on friday the u.s segment crew members 168 00:06:38,230 --> 00:06:35,919 concentrated on a number of maintenance 169 00:06:41,110 --> 00:06:38,240 tasks that included troubleshooting of 170 00:06:43,270 --> 00:06:41,120 the spacesuit parmitano war last week 171 00:06:45,510 --> 00:06:43,280 and which leaked water into his helmet 172 00:06:48,309 --> 00:06:45,520 there were no obvious indications of the 173 00:06:51,270 --> 00:06:48,319 source of the problem that turned up yet 174 00:06:53,590 --> 00:06:51,280 parmitano prepared to command a robot on 175 00:06:55,830 --> 00:06:53,600 the ground in california 176 00:06:58,469 --> 00:06:55,840 that's part of the surface tele robotics 177 00:07:01,110 --> 00:06:58,479 investigation looking into how the human 178 00:07:03,830 --> 00:07:01,120 crew on board an orbiting vehicle can 179 00:07:05,670 --> 00:07:03,840 command robots which are hundreds or 180 00:07:07,990 --> 00:07:05,680 even thousands of miles away on the 181 00:07:08,790 --> 00:07:08,000 surface of a planet or asteroid or the 182 00:07:10,870 --> 00:07:08,800 moon 183 00:07:13,430 --> 00:07:10,880 in order to have those robots perform 184 00:07:14,870 --> 00:07:13,440 tasks that will help the people explore 185 00:07:16,309 --> 00:07:14,880 those places 186 00:07:18,710 --> 00:07:16,319 the station's russian crew members were 187 00:07:20,950 --> 00:07:18,720 all off duty on friday since they'll be 188 00:07:23,350 --> 00:07:20,960 working all day saturday to support the 189 00:07:25,670 --> 00:07:23,360 arrival of the new progress vehicle 190 00:07:29,670 --> 00:07:25,680 52 progress is to launch from the 191 00:07:32,070 --> 00:07:29,680 baikonur cosmodrome at 3 45 pm saturday 192 00:07:34,710 --> 00:07:32,080 houston time and docked to the station's