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>> Good Monday morning from
the International Space Station

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Flight Control Room.

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It's September 16th, 2013, and
you're watching the coverage

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of the day of the International
Space Station, and its control

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of an orbiting complex
260 miles above the Earth.

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The orbiting complex has
just moved into a sunset

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as it crosses the
southern ocean,

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heads toward the Indian Ocean
and the continent of Australia

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from this vantage point of
260 miles above the Earth.

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The crew on board the station
enjoys a sunrise and sunset

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about every 45 minutes as
the station circles the Earth

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about every 90 minutes.

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The crew on board
Expedition 37 settling

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in as a three-person crew
for a short period of time.

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That crew is made up of
Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin

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and European Space Agency
Astronaut Luca Parmitano

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representing the
Italian Space Agency.

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And, of course, also NASA
astronaut Karen Nyberg.

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Those three crew members have
been aboard the station now

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for 111 days.

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They're in their 111th
day aboard the Complex

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since their launch and arrival

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on the same day back
on Tuesday, May 28th.

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They launched late
in the afternoon

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and arrived late at night.

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And they will remain
as a three-person crew

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until the augmentation of
that Expedition 37 crew

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with three new crew members
that are headed their way

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in just a short while.

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In about nine days.

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Scheduled to launch on September
25th are three crew members

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that make up the additional
Expedition 37 crew, Oleg Kotov,

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representing the
Russian Space Agency,

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along with Sergey Ryazanskiy.

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Those two, Ryazanskiy will
be making his first flight

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into space, and they'll
also be joined

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by NASA Astronaut
Michael Hopkins

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who also will be
making his first flight.

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Kotov, no stranger to life
aboard the International Space

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Station, as this will be his
third long-duration voyage

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on the ISS, having served
as a member of Expedition 15

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and also jointly
Expedition 22 and 23.

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They are already at the Baikonur
Cosmodrome, the launch site

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in Kazakhstan, where they
will remain for the duration

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of their training preparing

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for that September 25th launch
atop Soyuz TMA-10 Spacecraft

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with a booster rocket which is
also known as a Soyuz as well.

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They are currently scheduled
to launch late in the afternoon

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on the 25th and arrive
late at night as well.

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The three crew members now

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on the Station had a
fairly quiet weekend,

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but they have a busy week
planned with the arrival

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of a brand new supply
ship on schedule now

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for launch on Wednesday.

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That Cygnus Spacecraft as
it's known will launch atop an

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Antares rocket from the
Wallops Flight Facility,

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the mid-Atlantic Regional
Spaceport that will serve

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as the focal point this week
with the launch scheduled

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for Wednesday at just before 10
a.m. Central Time, 9:50 Eastern.

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And of course we'll have all
the coverage of that launch

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as associated with the
rendezvous and docking

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as well just as few days later.

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So the crew will be doing
some onboard training today

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associated with the
robotics activity to capture

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that Cygnus Spacecraft

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which will be the
135th visiting vehicle

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to the International Space
Station when it arrives.

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So the crew, in addition
to experiments,

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is conducting some Cygnus
preparation training as well

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as the flight control
teams here in Houston

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and around the world anticipate
the launch and arrival