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well the safe return home yesterday of

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expedition 43 commander terry virts

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along with flight engineers anton

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shkaplerov and samantha Christopher

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ready after their stay aboard the

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station signaled the start of expedition

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43 and to get a preview of some of the

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highlights of the increment that has

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just started I'm pleased to welcome

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Scott Stover here Scott is the lead

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flight director for actually expedition

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43 and 44 so he's staying on for for

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another increment through the expedition

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44 and Scott welcome I know you you're

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very familiar with this room you've

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worked right over there but now you're

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kind of overseeing the team from the

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crow's nest and I guess representing

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this team to the outside mission

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management team and other entities

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within flight operations right yeah

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that's a great way to put it as a flight

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director you know sitting here in this

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room you you're in charge of the

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day-to-day what's going on entering crew

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calls making sure the timeline is

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getting done as an increment lead what

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we do is we look I often say I live a

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couple weeks in the future we're always

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looking at what's coming up and making

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sure that the overall requirements and

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big picture plans for the the rest of

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the increment is is getting planned out

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and and hopefully successfully completed

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you know we always have hiccups here

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there or if a piece of hardware doesn't

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work the way we want or something like

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that but our goal is to you know the the

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program NASA and the international

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partners all have requirements whether

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it's science experiments or adjusting

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the the space stations configuration or

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anything like that and we plan to to get

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that all accomplished as crew time is

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available to do that you and I actually

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chatted yesterday afternoon about this

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but and there's been a name any

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significant impacts to the schedule with

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the kind of the one month delay in the

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start of expedition 44 I know we chatted

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about expedition 43 staying a little

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longer so I talked about the impacts if

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there even are any for the expedition

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that just got underway yeah so we've had

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to rearrange a few things the the

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benefit of having the

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31's crew stay longer was we did

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relocate the permanent multi-purpose

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module that had been planned to do later

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in the summer but with the additional

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crew time that was available early in

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the increment we were able to get that

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accomplished now we do have here about

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six weeks we're down to just three crew

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members on board included in that will

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be the SpaceX seven mission so one of

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the things that we're sort of

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constrained on is how much we can

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actually do with only three crew members

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on board we're going to be pulled pretty

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tight during that timeframe and we'll

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have to make up for it once we get back

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up to six crew the the planning team

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your team is also working toward

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potentially some space walks this summer

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the dates are still I guess to be

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determined based on how the schedules

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fall out with the launches and

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everything but these spacewalks actually

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constitute a pretty significant change

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to the station in terms of its outer

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mold line which we call in the business

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I guess but give us an overview of what

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that means when we get to that point yes

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specifically the one space u.s.

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spacewalk that we're trying to get into

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the schedule right now has to install

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the international docking adapter that

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that piece of equipment flies up on the

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SpaceX seven mission and it enables the

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actual first docking of a commercial

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crew vehicle to the ISS so it takes two

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crew members to go outside and then also

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the help of the Canadian robotic arm and

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the the spdm to install this docking

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adapter on the front very front end of

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the ISS on PMA to once that gets

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installed and of course after our

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commercial partners get fully ready ISS

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will be ready to accept a commercial

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crew vehicle so we're very excited about

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having that capability brought on board

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you also have a number of visiting

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vehicles that are planned during during

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this increment and and potentially one

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of those being relocated at some point

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after it arrived what's the story there

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so yeah I'm still trying to figure that

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out myself um we have this basic seven

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mission coming up here in late July and

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so once that gets there lots of science

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experiments coming up a lot

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hardware coming up and including that

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international docking adapter and will

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the crew will be performing those

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experiments trying to transfer all the

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cargo and we have dragon stays on board

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for about 30 days we might extend this

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one closer to 40 if if we can and get it

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loaded up with important science samples

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and hardware to come home and then later

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in August the plan is to launch the HTV

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number five which is our jaksa our

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japanese transport vehicle and that one

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will initially birth to the nadir side

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or the bottom side of no 2 that's where

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we put most of our cargo vehicles

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however the there's the possibility that

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the next SpaceX will be coming up right

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right after that and we may have to keep

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HTTP on board Wow SpaceX is there so we

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may be moving the HTTP module to the

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node one nadir that's where the

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permanent multi-purpose module was just

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relocated from and that way we may

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actually have two cargo vehicles there

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at the same time lots going on and HTV

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is plan to stay beyond in the end of

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increment 44 into the increment 45 at

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the same time will be so use operations

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will be going on progress operations

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began very busy time what I guess and

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early September looks like obviously

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there's a lot of science that's going on

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related to the one-year mission and that

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those that science keeps coming up right

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so as with the SpaceX flight correct and

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and just because the crew members are

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onboard science keeps going you know is

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you can imagine a normal person has to

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go to the doctor once a year or you may

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depending on your health condition need

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to go to the doctors more often well to

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in order to get good science samples the

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crew members are scheduled at regular

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intervals to have science samples taken

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you talked about vo2 max earlier that's

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one of the examples and as you said it's

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about once a month if that happens so we

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have very flight days specific samples

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and activities for the crew that

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monitors their health and and that's the

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data that the doctors are gathering to

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understand the impacts on the body one

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last question to touch on it's a busy

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agenda obviously especially with three

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people up there right now but is it

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helpful

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having an experienced crew like this one

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up up there oh yes I would say it's it's

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definitely beneficial to us you know if

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we launch new crew members that have

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never flown in space before we have to

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give them some adaptation time everybody

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is affected differently and 20 g some

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some people it's like a fish returning

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to water other people it's the fish out

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of water kind of kind of thing where the

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body just needs time to adjust you know

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ISS is a very large complex where we

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store things everything like that can be

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confusing if you have a crew member

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that's been there before has served long

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duration there before they sort of know

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it and we don't have to give them all

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that adaptation time and they know where

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things are and whatnot so they come up

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to speed and can be plugged in really

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quickly great well Scott we appreciate

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you taking a few minutes to stop by I

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know you're in this room all the time

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and I'm glad I was able to snag it today