Good morning, this is mission control Houston.
Welcome and thank you for joining us for today's edition
of ISS update this Thursday, September 6.
We're now getting a view inside the International Space Station
flight control room where the team has been monitoring the
systems aboard the station and supporting today's activities
of the Expedition 32 crew members.
Leading the orbit two team here
in the station flight control room today is flight director
Brian Smith.
Serving as Capcom today has been astronaut Jack Fischer,
not shown in this view.
He has been relaying all ground messages up to the crew.
Meanwhile the six crew members aboard the station include
Russian cosmonaut and Commander of the complex Gennady Padalka
and Flight Engineers cosmonaut Sergei Revin,
NASA astronaut Joe Acaba shown here on the right-hand side,
and then on the left-hand side is cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,
NASA astronaut Suni Williams and Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide.
Malenchenko, Williams and Hoshide arrived
at the International Space Station
after docking their Soyuz spacecraft to the Rassvet module
on July 16, and today they will complete their 55th day
in space.
Meanwhile, Padalka, Revin and Acaba had launched
to the orbiting complex aboard their Soyuz spacecraft
as the Expedition 31 crew just two months ahead
of their station crewmates back in May.
Their vehicle docked to the Poisk module
of the space station two days after their launch.
Today they will complete their 116th consecutive day in space.
The space station with its crew aboard is flying at an altitude
of about 260 statute miles.
The orbiting facility is
on a southeast track having just made its way
across the North East Africa about 10 minutes ago,
and crossing into an orbital sunset now
over the Indian ocean.
The Expedition 32 crew kicked off its day
after an early morning wake up at 1 AM central time followed
by the first of two daily planning conferences
with ground controllers at mission control centers
around the world to review today's activities.
Today the crew has a light duty day following yesterday's busy
spacewalking day.
Flight Engineers Joe Acaba, Suni Williams
and Aki Hoshide are working
on a few post-spacewalk activities coming
after yesterday's successful spacewalk
that was conducted complete the installation
of the main bus switching unit.
This morning, Acaba, who worked the station's arm
from inside the space station during the spacewalk,
along with the spacewalkers Williams and Hoshide,
participated in a post-spacewalk debrief
with the spacewalk specialists here on the ground.
Acaba then turned his attention
to some regular maintenance work.
He worked to remove the depress hose
from the water recovery system
to resume nominal urine processing assembly operations.
The water recovery system converts urine,
sweat and condensation into drinkable water supply
for the crew aboard the International Space Station.
Acaba also will take some time out to participate
in a private medical conference today and work
to deactivate some video hardware
that was used during yesterday's spacewalk operations.
He will later today work
to remove the secondary power distribution assembly jumper
and remove and replace a failed remote power control module.
Meanwhile yesterday's spacewalkers,
Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide,
conducted a few medical experiments early this morning
following their spacewalk yesterday.
Williams is busy today scrubbing the cooling loops
of the spacesuits that were used outside the complex yesterday.
This involves dumping and filling feedwater tanks
to maintain the requirement for on-orbit stowage.
It's also scrubbing and iodination of the suits
and airlock cooling water loops.
Today Hoshide will perform maintenance
on the water processing assembly to finish transferring water
from the water resource system.
He also earlier spent some time inspecting
and cleaning the bacteria filters in the station nodes.
Hoshide later will wrap up the day in some post-spacewalk work
to de-configure the spacewalk systems in the airlock
and also return some hardware gathered in support
of the two recent US spacewalks.
And on the Russian side of the house, Commander Gennady Padalka
and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin both spent some time
with crew departure prep work as Padalka,
Revin and NASA astronaut Joe Acaba are scheduled
to leave the station and return to Earth in a little more
than a week from today.
Also today Commander Padalka who is close to wrapping
up his fourth spaceflight reached the milestone
of having accumulated 700 days in space.
During this hour flight engineer Revin is working
with the Russian science experiment known
as the Bar experiment that looks at ways and instruments
for detecting the location of a loss
of pressure aboard the station.
Each of the crew members will put in their daily two hours
of exercise using the onboard gym equipment
that includes a station bicycle, treadmill
and an advanced resistive exercise device
that simulates weightlifting here on Earth.
They will then participate
in their final daily planning conferences
with the ground controllers around the world.
Crew is then scheduled go to bed at 4:30 PM central time.
This is Mission Control Houston