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>> This is Mission
Control, Houston.

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Welcome to Space Station Live.

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It is Thursday, August 29, 2013.

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This is a live view inside the
International Space Station

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Flight Control Room here

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at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas.

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This team today being led by
Fight Director Matt Abbott.

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He is sitting at the center of
the console directing the team.

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He's there in the blue shirt.

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Sitting beside him in sort

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of the lighter blue
shirt is Jeremy Hansen.

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He is the cap com for
today and this team.

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Aboard the space station
we've got Expedition 36.

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The Commander is
Pavel Vinogradov.

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He is there second
from the left.

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On the far left Aleksandr
Misurkin.

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There in the back
is Chris Cassidy.

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Beside him is Luca Parmitano,
from the European Space Agency.

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There in the front
Fyodor Yurchikhin

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and on the far right-hand side
is NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg.

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The crew is very busy today on
board the space station itself.

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They're going to have
a busy weekend as well.

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We have an update for you on
this space suit investigation

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that is, has been
continuing ever since July

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when Luca Parmitano and
Chris Cassidy stepped outside

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and that water began
leaking into Luca's helmet.

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There was a checkup that
happened earlier this week

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where they basically
recreated the problem

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so what they're going to do is
actually ask the crew go ahead

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and swap out this water
relief valve that is one

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of the suspects inside the suit

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that will take place
this weekend.

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What they will do after that is
test out the suit once again.

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What this amounts to is
basically turning on the suit

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as if it were about
to go out the door.

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Of course Luca will not
be on the inside of it

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but it does allow them to verify
whether the problem exists

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or not.

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So they will swap out
that water relief valve.

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Turn on the suit once again.

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Check it out.

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See if that resolves the issue
and then they will remove

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and replace what is
known as the gas trap.

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This is another piece of
equipment inside the suit.

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And then we'll see
where we're at.

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So again that should
take place on Saturday.

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All three of those tasks
will be done by to crew.

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Karen Nyberg is already
gathering the tool

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for that today.

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Of course we will have an
update for you on Monday

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as this activity continues, to
see if we can solve this issue

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with this specific space suit

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that Luca Parmitano
did wear back in July.

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Chris Cassidy today also
working with Robonaut.

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He has been doing some
tele-operations with it.

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Basically he puts on some
virtual reality gear,

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some VR gear and commands
Robonaut through some paces,

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basically controlling
the robot himself.

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Robonaut can be controlled by
the ground controllers here

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in Houston or the
crew itself can do it

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so Cassidy was checking
that out today

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and everything went
according to plan.

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Chris also working to gather
up some item and some trash

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that are going to come
home and be burned

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up in the atmosphere once
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Space Station.

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Of course Orbital
scientists are getting ready

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to launch Cygnus their cargo
vehicle on a test flight coming

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up on September the 17th.

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That is the targeted
launch date.

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Launch time should be about
10:16 a.m. Central Time

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or 11:16 a.m. Eastern Time.

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If Orbital is able
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on that date it should lead to a
rendezvous on September the 22nd

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with the International
Space Second when Luca

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and Karen will use the station's
robotic arm to reach out

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and grab on to Cygnus
and install it

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on the bottom side
of the Harmony Node.

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They will unpack about
13 hundred pounds

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of cargo that's coming up there.

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It's basically some
noncritical crew supplies

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on board the spacecraft that are
coming up on this test flight

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but they will be packing it
full of trash and other items

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that are no longer needed and
at the end of about a month

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on board the space station
Cygnus will be undocked

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and be sent into a
destructive re-entry

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so Chris is working today to
gather up some of those items.

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Later on today Chris and
Karen will do an eye exam.

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What this is is taking a look
at this phenomena that some

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of the astronauts
have seen on board

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where their vision
gets a bit degraded.

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Their eyes do change a bit
while they're up there.

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So this new vision
test is something

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that the crew members do
while they're up there to see

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if they can figure out exactly
what could be causing this

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recent history that they've
seen with some of the astronauts

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and to determine what can
possibly be causing it.

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Karen Nyberg and her fellow
crew members Luca Parmitano

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and Fyodor Yurchikhin have been
doing an emergency drill today.

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This is done every know and then
just to keep their skills sharp.

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They did climb into
Soyuz that brought them

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up to the station here
several weeks ago and pretended

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like there was an
emergency on board,

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ran through all the procedures
for them and then talked

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to the ground teams here on
earth about how that went.

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Alexander Misurkin and Fyodor
Yurchikhin have been continuing

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today to put up the tools

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that they used during
their two space walks

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that happened last week
and the week before

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and there's quite a bit of
equipment that they needed

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for those space walks
as they stepped outside

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and completed all their
different tasks including

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installing a rotating
platform that will be used

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for an upcoming telescope and
also preparing the station

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for the arrival of the upcoming
MLM module that will come

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up to the station here
several months from now.

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So they're just gathering up
the items that they had during

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that spacewalk and all
the different tools

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and putting them back
into the tool boxes

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on board to space station.

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Also, Vinogradov and Cassidy and
Misurkin getting ready to wrap

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up their time on board the
International Space Station.

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This crew is due to come home

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to earth the evening
of September 10th.

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They each have some packing up
time that will take place today.

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We want to remind you

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that landing coverage will air
live here on NASA television.

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Undocking should
occur from the station

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at about 6:37 p.m. Central
Time or 7:37 p.m. Eastern Time

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and then landing will occur
9:58 p.m. Central Time

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or 10:58 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Of course, our live coverage
will be here on NASA television