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>> Good morning and welcome
to Mission Control Houston

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and Space Station Live.

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Today is all about eye exams,
experiments and EXPRESS racks

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on the International
Space Station.

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A good portion of the
crew's time on the US side

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of the space station is being
devoted to the eye exams

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that have been going
on this week as part

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of the ocular health experiment.

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After taking part in regular
eye chart and tonometry exams

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on Monday and a fundoscope
exam yesterday.

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Nyberg and Parmitano are
today enlisting Cassidy's help

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to perform ultrasounds
of their eyes

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and take blood pressure
measurements.

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This is part of an
ongoing experiment aimed

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at gathering data on how being

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in space affects astronauts
intracranial pressure

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and in turn their vision.

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Meanwhile on the Russian side

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of the space station Commander
Vinogradov is working again

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today to unpack the almost
3 tons of supplies delivered

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to the station on Saturday
by Progress 52 while Misurkin

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and Yurchikhin work with
Nyberg to gather some

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of the NASA tools
they'll be borrowing

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for their next space
walk on August 16th.

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They'll also spend a
good deal of time going

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over the procedures
for that space walk

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which will prepare the
station for the arrival

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of the new multi-purpose
laboratory module

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that will be launching to the
space station in the future.

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Nyberg and Parmitano
again took part

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in the reaction self-test
today looking

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at how fatigue affects their
performance and they'll repeat

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that test tonight
before they go to sleep

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and Nyberg also joined
Parmitano in an experiment

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that he's been taking part in
all week the Pro-K Experiment,

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which looks at how changes

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in an astronaut's diet can
decrease their bone loss during

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long stays in space.

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Plus Parmitano did a bit of
work with a BCAT Experiment

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with a binodal colloidal
test which is an experiment

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that looks at how liquids
and gases separate in space

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as gravity masks the
fundamental physics that drive

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that separation here on earth.

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It allows a space scientist
to get a better look

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at what is actually going
on in that separation.

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The bulk of Cassidy's time
today was spent working

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on the station's EXPRESS Rack 7,

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which has a filled rack
interface controller.

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EXPRESS is actually an acronym
for the Expedite, the Processing

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of Experiments for Space Station

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and they are refrigerator-sized
houses for science experiments

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in a number of different
disciplines.

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Cassidy devoted about 4 hours
of his day today working

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to rotate the Rack away from
the space station's wall