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>> This is Mission
Control Houston here

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in the International Space
Station Flight Control Room.

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A team of flight
controllers is watching

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over systems aboard
the orbiting complex

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with the Expedition
37 crew on board

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as they await the September
25th launch and arrival

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of three new crew members
to augment their own crew.

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Fyodor Yurchikhin,
Luca Parmitano,

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and Karen Nyberg
practiced robotics ahead

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of their new cargo spacecraft,
the G. David Low Cygnus,

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which is scheduled to
arrive early Sunday morning

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with 1,300 pounds of cargo.

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Following its launch
Wednesday morning

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from the mid-Atlantic Space Port

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at NASA's Wallops Flight
Facility along the eastern shore

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of Virginia, the Cygnus has
performed near flawlessly

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in its checkouts and maneuvers
in route to the station.

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The rendezvous' activities
began early Sunday,

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and NASA TV will cover the
final hours of approach, grapple

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and birthing to the station's
Harmony Node 2 Earth facing

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docking port.

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This week Parmitano, who will
operate the Canadarm2 robotic

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arm from the cupola, and
Nyberg, trained and refreshed

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on all the procedures
ahead of the capture,

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which will occur once
Cygnus is within reach

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at a distance of 35 feet.

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Cygnus represents the
culmination of many years

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of work to supplement the
cargo delivery capability

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to the station with
commercial customers.

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And with arrival Orbital
Sciences Corporation will join

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SpaceX, along with
Russia's Progress,

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European Space Agency's
ATV, and Japan's HTV

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in maintaining the outpost with
supplies, hardware, experiments,

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and logistics on a
consistent basis.

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The launch from Virginia was
the first station US mission

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beginning from a location
other than Florida.

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The three crew members on board
also were eagerly anticipating

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the arrival of the Expedition
37 and 38 crew, which now is

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at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan awaiting
their launch next Wednesday,

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September 25th.

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Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy,
and Michael Hopkins launch

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at 3:58 p.m. Central Time
and arrive four orbits later

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at about 9:48 p.m. With
everything else going on,

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the crew also conducted
science investigations focusing

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on human research.

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Nyberg and Parmitano served
as doctor and patient,

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gathering urine and blood
samples for preservation

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in the hi-tech freezer on
board for later analysis

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by investigators on the ground

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to help understand how
different crew members adapt

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to space travel over
long periods.

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The two also performed
eye exams on each other

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to measure any changes
that may occur

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in eye pressure and
visual acuity.

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Now the crew will set up
cameras and equipment needed

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in the robotic work station
ahead of Sunday's Cygnus arrival

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and have some off-duty time
Saturday before Sunday's full

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day supporting the cargo
vehicle's arrival following its

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launch atop an Antares
rocket Wednesday.

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Next week the crew
will spend a good deal

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of time unloading Cygnus