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>> Good morning, and welcome
to Mission Control, Houston

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and Space Station Live.

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Although we're coming
to the end of busy week

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for the Expedition 36
crew, there's still more

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to come tomorrow with the launch

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of the Japanese Kounotori
H-II transfer vehicle number 4

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from the Tanegashima
Space Center in Japan.

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That is scheduled for
2:48 PM central time,

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but in the meantime,

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the International Space Station
[inaudible] control room --

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the control team is here

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in the Space Station's
[inaudible] control room,

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watching over all of
the crew's activities.

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Flight Director Tony Ceccacci
is leading them today,

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and Anna Fisher is
assisting as CAPCOM.

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The Expedition 36 crew
is now more than halfway

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through their day, which
began at 1:00 AM central time.

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They are Russian Commander Pavel
Vinogradov, US engineers --

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or Flight Engineers Chris
Cassidy and Karen Nyberg,

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European Space Agency Flight
Engineer Luca Parmitano,

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and Russian Flight
Engineers Aleksandr Misurkin

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and Fyodor Yurchikhin.

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Cassidy, Vinogradov, and
Misurkin launched into space

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on March 28 and docked
a few hours later,

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so they've now spent
126 days in space.

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Nyberg, Parmitano, and
Yurchikhin followed

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in their footsteps on May 28,
so they've now spent 65 days

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in space and at the
Space Station.

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Together, the crew is
currently orbiting 260 miles

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above the South Pacific Ocean

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and heading towards
the coast of Chile.

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This week has been a
long one for the crew

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since they didn't get much of a
weekend, thanks to the arrival

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of the Russian transfer
vehicle Progress 52 on Saturday.

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That vehicle brought almost
three tons of supplies

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and equipment when it docked

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to the Station's Pirs docking
compartment at 9:26 PM central,

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and the Russian members
of the crew,

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and Commander Pavel
Vinogradov in particular,

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have been working steadily to
unpack it since the hatches

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between the two vehicle
were opened on Sunday.

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Meanwhile, the crew
members the US side

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of the Space Station have spent
much of their week getting ready

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for the next vehicle
scheduled to visit, the HTV-IV.

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Its launch at 2:48 PM tomorrow
will begin a week-long journey

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to the Space Station
culminating in its birthing

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at 6:29 AM central on August 9.

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Flight engineers Karen Nyberg
and Chris Cassidy will be

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in charge of capturing it with
the Space Station's robotic arm,

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which you can see here how
that activity will work.

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And then they will bring it

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in for a birthing
to the [inaudible].

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They've been practicing
for that task all week

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with the Station's robotic
workstations inside.

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Another activity that
took up a good deal

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of time this week was the
ocular health experiment.

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That's part of a new effort
to gather data on the effects

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that long stays in space
have on astronauts' vision.

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Over the course of the week,

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Nyberg and Flight Engineer Luca
Parmitano each performed regular

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eye chart exams of their
eyes, checked the pressure

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in their eyes with tonometers,
and looked inside their eyes

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with fundoscopes
and ultrasounds.

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They are the first to
participate in this new study

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and will be doing such checkups
every month while they are

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in space.

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They started in June, so this
was their second round of exams.

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The equipment they
used was delivered

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by Space X-II earlier this year,
and the experiment is expected

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to last about four years in all.

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Nyberg and Parmitano were also
taking part in other studies

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that looked at various aspects
of astronaut health this week.

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They've both been on
special diets for all or part

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of the week as part of the
pro-K study, which is aimed

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at determining whether changes

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in the astronaut's diet can
help decrease the amount

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of bone loss they experience
during long stays in space.

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And every morning right
after they wake up

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and every night before
they've gone to sleep,

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they've performed runs of the
reaction self-test experiment,

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which is aimed at trying
out a way for astronauts

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to objectively assess whether
fatigue might affect their

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performance in space.

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Nyberg did some work yesterday
getting the in-space III

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experiment set up, and today,

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she is starting a new
run in that experiment.

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It looks at how magnetic
fluids are influenced

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by magnetic fields
and microgravity,

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which could help engineers here
on the ground design structures,

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such as bridges and buildings,
to better withstand earthquakes.

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And both the US side
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and the Russian side have been
doing some spacewalk-related

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work this week with Cassidy

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and Parmitano continuing
their efforts to help teams

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on the ground troubleshoot
the issue

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that Parmitano experience
during his spacewalk last month,

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where a water leak developed in
the suit and made it necessary

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for the spacewalkers
to end their day early.

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Cassidy spent some time in the
Quest airlock today, In fact,

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on an activity referred

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to as scrubbing the water
loops on their spacesuits.

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That's part of the
work necessary

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to keep the suits clean between
spacewalks and is also part

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of the continuing
troubleshooting effort.

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Meanwhile, on the Russian
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Flight Engineers
Aleksandr Misurkin

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and Fyodor Yurchikhin
are making preparations

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for their spacewalk
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They will continue work started

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on their previous spacewalk
together to prepare for the --

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to prepare the Station
for the arrival

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of the Russian multipurpose
laboratory module.

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Today, they're gathering
tools for that.

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And that's what is going
on in space this week.