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this is mission control we want to

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welcome you to today's

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space station live it is wednesday

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august 28 2013. this is a live view

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inside the international space station

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flight control room here at the johnson

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space center in houston texas this team

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today being led by flight director tony

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cicacci he's there in the white shirt

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sitting to his right but on your screen

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to the left is serena anand she's the

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capcom today she'll be the one talking

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to the crew

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up in space

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expedition 36 currently on board

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including on the far left there

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alexander misurkin there in the center

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of the screen pablo vinogradov as well

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as chris cassidy back there at the back

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on the right half of your screen is

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karen nyberg on the far right

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theodore your cheek and there in the

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center of the screen and then look at

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parmitano there

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at the back standing beside chris

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the crew is spending the day working

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throughout the entire complex on a

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variety of different robotics

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experiments and also some routine

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maintenance robonaut

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is out today chris cassidy spent some

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time earlier this morning setting up

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robonaut and as you can see robonaut

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there flexing his hands and his fingers

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being put through the paces by the

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ground teams here in houston uh these

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checkout procedures of this robot have

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been continuing for the past several

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months and this week will be no

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different robonaut's got a few different

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tasks in front of him including

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manipulating his task board this is

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basically a big project board

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that he can move switches and try

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different things he can also move his

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arms around flex them make sure that

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everything is up and running as expected

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as these checkouts on this big robot

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continue on board the space station

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cassidy also busy today setting up

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what's known as the frost freezer this

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is another one of these experiment

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refrigerators that was flown up on board

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the htv4 that has the japanese cargo

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vehicle that is currently docked

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with the u.s segment of the

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international space station this frost

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freezer

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keeps things and experiment samples

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extremely cold

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and can also function in the event of a

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power loss which of course we don't

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expect but it is important that these

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refrigerators

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and these freezers stay extremely cold

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in the event of that power law so that

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the samples are not ruined

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luca parmitano working on the bio lab

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this is one of the racks that is inside

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the columbus laboratory the european

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laboratory onboard the space station

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this bio lab is a big rack

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that is used for different experiments

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like microorganisms cells tissue

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cultures and even small plants but

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there's a microscope on that that has

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micro cassettes that are used for data

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and other

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items that are gathered as the crew uses

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that microscope and the ground teams

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watch along

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but it's not functioning as expected so

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he's doing some repair work on it as the

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ground teams there in the columbus

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control center watch along

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as he completes that

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karen nyberg is doing some surface

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sampling this happens from time to time

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aboard the space station they do some

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swabbing making sure that everything is

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as expected on the station surfaces and

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the parts that the crew members touch

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it's just like cleaning your house they

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have to make sure that nothing

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is growing there that shouldn't be so

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she'll be doing that later on today and

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taking those samples

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fyodor yurchikhin and alexander misurkin

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have been stowing some tools today of

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course these two gentlemen completed two

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spacewalks back-to-back over the course

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of a week the last one taking place last

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week so they're stowing everything that

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they used during that

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in the russian segment of the space

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station that'll take up the majority of

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vinogradov has been working on what is

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known as the lower body negative

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uh device what this does is it's a pair

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of trousers or pants that the crew

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members put on and they run some tests

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on them or they do some exercises

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and what it does is basically what

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happens to the crew whenever they come

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back to earth

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uh the crew members bodies are not used

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to being on earth since they're up there

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for about six months so what these lbnp

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pants do is basically draw the blood

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away from the head

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to sort of recondition them to get ready

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to come back to earth and also to find

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out how they react to that so he'll do

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chris cassidy alexander misurkin paul

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vinogradov also getting ready to come

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home they are in their final days aboard

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the orbiting complex so they've got some

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packing to do before they come back to

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earth the night of september the 10th or

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the morning of september the 11th over

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there in kazakhstan so they're spending

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about an hour today

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packing up the things that will come

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home aboard the soyuz of course they're

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going to be coming home aboard the same

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vehicle that brought them up to the

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station back in march so everything

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coming to a close for these three

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the crew also has several different crew

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earth observation targets for today

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they've got a chance to take a look down

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at the planet below and take some photos

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if they have time

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they're going to be taking a look at the

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floods that are happening in pakistan

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there's been a ton of rain happening

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since the early part of the month in

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that part of the world there's about a

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million people that are affected by

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these floods

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than 10 000 homes so if they have a

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chance to

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take some photos of that area they will

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do that as they pass overhead they also

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have a chance to

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on this next pass if you take a look at

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the orbit there take some photos of the

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mississippi river delta

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as you know the mississippi river flows

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with quite a bit of force down into the

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gulf of mexico and all the sediment that

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comes out of that river has been

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deposited into the gulf of mexico over

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eons

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and all that sediment has actually

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advanced the coastline but up to 50

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miles of the past 5 000 years which

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sounds like a long time but it really

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isn't in terms of advancing that

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coastline so if they have a chance to

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take a photo of that they will

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we also want to show you a fairly

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dramatic photo that the crew captured

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day before yesterday of these fires that

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are burning in yosemite national park

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it's quite quite an incredible image

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there of these fires that have destroyed

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about 287 square miles

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there's about seven thousand

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firefighters that are fighting these

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fires as we speak there in california

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and of course if you would like to take

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a look at that picture a little bit

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longer just log on to the nasa website

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at

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and finally today we're going to have a

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crew news conference beginning at 1 p.m

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central time today 2 p.m eastern time

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the crew that will be flying toward the

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end of this year up to the space station

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will be here to answer questions from

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social media members as well as the

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traditional media that'll be koichi

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wakata from the japanese space agency as

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well as rick mastracchio from nasa and

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mikhail tiren who is a of course a

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russian cosmonaut so those three will be