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>> Brandi Dean: Good morning,

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and welcome to Mission
Control Houston

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and "Space Station Live".

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The International Space
Station is one vehicle short

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of where we expected it to be
today as yesterday's docking

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of the Cygnus cargo
vehicle, launched last week

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by Orbital Sciences Corporation,
has been delayed a few days.

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A new docking schedule is
still being determined,

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but the earliest possibility
is now this weekend.

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That's meant some changes to the
Expedition 37's crew' schedule,

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but the Space Station
Flight Control team here

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in the Space Station Flight
Control Room had been working

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diligently to make sure the
crew stays busy all the same.

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Flight Director Mike Lammers
is leading the team today,

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and astronaut Scott Tegel
is assisting as cap com.

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The Expedition 37 crew
is now more than halfway

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through their day, which began
at 1:00 a.m. Central Time.

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Currently orbiting 260 miles
above the Pacific Coast

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over Washington State.

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They are Russian
commander Fyodor Yurchikhin,

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U.S. flight engineer
Karen Nyberg,

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and European Space Agency
flight engineer Luca Parmitano.

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Those three arrived at
the Station on May 28th

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and now have spent
117 days in space.

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They've been alone at the Space
Station since the other half

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of what was then the Expedition
36 crew left on September 10th,

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but they'll be getting
some company soon

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with the Soyuz launch
scheduled for Wednesday,

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which will deliver flight
engineers Michael Hopkins,

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Oleg Kotov, and Sergey
Ryazansky.

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That's scheduled to lift off
at 3:58 p.m. Central Time

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and arrive at the
Station six hours later

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at 9:48 p.m. on Wednesday.

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Soyuz TMA [inaudible] that
they'll be traveling in rolled

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out to its launch pad at
the Baikonur Cosmodrome

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in Kazakhstan this morning.

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While they await the arrival
of both the Soyuz and Cygnus,

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Nyberg, Parmitano, and
Yurchikhin, have a hard day

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of work on a number of science

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and maintenance projects
ahead of them.

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Parmitano is working
through several runs

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of the inspace 3
experiment today.

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That looks at how magnetic
fluids are influenced

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by magnetic fields
and microgravity,

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which could help engineers here
on the ground design structures

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such as bridges and buildings
to better withstand earthquakes.

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He also spent some time on
the skin bee experiment,

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which is a European Space
Agency project aimed

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at better understanding
skin aging mechanisms.

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Those are so slow on Earth
that they're nearly impossible

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to study, but they
accelerate in weightlessness.

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And toward the end of the day,

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Parmitano will spend some
time reviewing procedures

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for the nano racks
experiments, which are a set

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of seven new experiments
devised by high school students

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and being carried to the
Space Station by Cygnus.

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Karen Nyberg, meanwhile,
has been working

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on the combustion
integrated rack,

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which is an experiment hardware
intended for use specifically

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with combustion related
investigations.

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It's recently been used
for the flex experiment

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or the flame extinguishment
experiment,

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and she spent some time
today replacing one

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of the manifold bottles
that help runs,

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that helps run experiments
on the hardware.

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And Fyodor Yurchikhin is
also working on a couple

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of experiments in
the Russian section

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of the Space Station today,

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including the [inaudible]
crystal experiment,

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which studies crystals, the
build special structures,

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the particles and the strong
electrical magnetic fields,

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and also the [inaudible]
experiment,

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which studies the
radiation environment

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on board the Space Station.

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That's what's going
on in space this week,