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>> Good day, and welcome
to "Space Station Live"

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and the International Space
Station Flight Control Room

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in Houston, Texas.

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Today the crew is preparing for
tomorrow's grapple unbirthing

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and release of Japanese
HTV4 cargo ship.

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It's been about a month

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since that cargo ship
arrived at the Space Station.

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All of the cargo's
been transferred

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from HTV4 to the Space Station.

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Tomorrow we'll be getting
coverage of that activity

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with an extended
"Space Station Live".

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We will expect to have
the robotic arm activities

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as they reach out.

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It's already been moved to a
[inaudible] grapple fixture

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on the harmony module, and the
crew will grapple the HTV4,

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move it away, and extend
it out to the full length

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of the 68-foot long
Canadian robotic arm known

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as Canada arm 2.

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Orient it properly
for its departure

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and then perform
the release of HTV4.

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HTV4 will be re-entering and
destroying a lot of trash

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that has been collected aboard
the International Space Station,

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freeing up much needed space
aboard the Space Station

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as it ends its journey

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to resupply the International
Space Station with a fiery burn

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up over the Pacific Ocean.

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The crew just now
closed the hatch.

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We have some views of Karen
Nyberg, Luca Parmitano,

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and Chris Cassidy as
they were finishing

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up the closure of that hatch.

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Again, release is scheduled
for about 10:55 a.m.,

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just 4:11 a.m. Central Time.

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Meanwhile, Pavel
Vinogradov, Chris Cassidy,

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and Alexsandr Misurkin
are loading items

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in their Soyuz spacecraft in
preparation for their undocking

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and landing in Kazakhstan
about one week from today.

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And this follows a
celebration on Saturday

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of station commander Pavel
Vinogradov's 60th birthday.

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Research is going to be
very important this week.

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Again, the crew members
will be working

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with reaction self-tests,
some fluid experiments,

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some combustion experiments.

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The sphere vehicles that are
testing automated rendezvous

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activities inside and gathering
some spinal ultrasound.

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They're also be doing some
periodic fitness evaluations,

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hearing tests, and
things of the like.

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Maintenance wise, they'll be
doing some recycling tank drains

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into the other cargo vehicle
that's docked at the station,

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the automated transfer vehicle,

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the European Space
Agency vehicle,

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and doing some weekly water
balancing among the different

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tanks and replacing
an air selector valve.

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This past weekend on Saturday,
ATV4 thrusters that are

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on the far end of
the Russian segment

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of the station were fired
for three and a half minutes

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to reboost the stations
to an altitude of less

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than half a mile
more than it was.

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It now sits at 262 by
252 statue mile orbit.

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That reboost puts the station at
the right altitude and phasing

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for the upcoming landing of
Expedition 36 next Tuesday,

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and then for the launch

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of Expedition 37/38
crew on September 25.

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That crew will be headed for
a same-day arrival and docking

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at the International Space
Station featuring NASA flight

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engineer Michael
Hopkins, flight engineer

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and Soyuz commander Oleg Kotov,

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and flight engineer
Sergey Ryazanskiy.

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Today, they were being
tested on their knowledge

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of Russian segment systems
on the Space Station.

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Chris Cassidy, with the
help of Karen Nyberg,

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spent about seven hours
on Saturday continuing

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to troubleshoot the problem
with Luca Parmitano's spacesuit

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that has been the focus of a lot
of attention since water leaked

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into his helmet during a July
16th spacewalk that ended

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up being cut short
because of that.

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The Saturday troubleshooting
did eat

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into their Labor Day
holiday a little bit,

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but they did get Monday
off like most folks