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VO: Houston, station on space to ground.

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Josh Byerly: Welcome to Space to Ground.

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Your weekly look at what’s happening on
board the ISS.

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I’m Josh Byerly.

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Steve Swanson, Oleg Artemyev and Alexander
Skvortsov are in Kazakhstan getting ready

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to launch to the station next week.

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The three are going through some final preps
for their trip into space and will talk to

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the media on Monday.

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Launch time is scheduled for 5:17 p.m. Eastern
on Tuesday, and we’ll have live coverage

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on NASA television and nasa.gov.

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This will be the first trip into space for
Artemyev, the second for Skvortsov and the

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third for Swanson.

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The station steered out of the way of some
orbital debris this week.

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On Sunday, Mission Control Houston monitored
a piece of a Russian satellite that was launched

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back in 1979.

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Just to play it safe, the station’s altitude
was raised late that night to clear it of

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debris’ path.

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This is the first time since 2012 the station
has had to conduct one of these maneuvers.

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Have you ever looked at one of those optical
illusion drawings that looks like one thing,

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but when you keep staring at it, it looks
totally different?

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Well, the crew is studying this effect on
board the station.

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It’s called Reversible Figures, and it’s
a European experiment that looks at how the

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crew’s perception of these drawings can
change when up in space.

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This will help us understand how our brains
work differently when off the planet.

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The way astronauts perceive the space around
them is really important when doing things

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like spacewalks or steering the robotic arm
around.

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We are happy to say that a longstanding tradition
continues in Mission Control.

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The Shelton family here in Texas started sending
roses to the flight control team during STS-26,

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the first mission after the Challenger disaster
and they have sent them for every single flight

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since.

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There are red roses for each crew member and
a single white rose to represent those that

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have lost their lives in the pursuit of spaceflight.

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As always, we send our thanks to the Sheltons.