Good morning this is mission control Houston and welcome
to today's Iinternational Space Station update.
You are joining us here
in the flight control room in Houston, Texas.
The Orbit 2 team right now
on console monitoring all their respective systems
for controlling this orbiting laboratory, just about 260 miles
over the Earth's surface.
Right now the station out over the Pacific Ocean heading
northeasterly about made a pass over North America
in just a little while.
The team today inside mission control here being led
by flight director David Korth, there in the blue shirt,
joining him at the Capcom position is Anna Fisher serving
as the communication link between all or controllers here
on the ground and astronauts up in space.
And those astronaut, or the crew of Expedition 32,
a couple of them only onboard the station for a few more days,
starting over on the left we have our three crew members
who will be remaining onboard to become Expedition 33.
All the way on the left there we have JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide,
and in the middle Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko,
and then NASA astronaut Suni Williams will be taking
over command
of the Iinternational Space Station this Saturday.
And then right next to her is NASA astronaut Joe Acaba.
Next to him is current Expedition 32 Commander Gennady
Padalka, a Russian cosmonaut, and all the way
on the right there, our third Russian Sergei Revin.
The three on the right there coming home next Sunday.
They have been docked
to the International Space Station since May 16.
You can see the split up of the two different Soyuz crews here
that are currently comprising Expedition 32.
And again, a couple of them only onboard for a few more days.
Meanwhile, on board International Space Station
today though, a lot of prep work for the departure
of another vehicle, the Japanese HTV cargo vehicle is scheduled
to on unberth and be released
from International Space Station tomorrow.
You can see a couple
of our astronauts right now installing awesome thermal
protection over the airlock to the unmanned cargo craft.
Aki Hoshide there and he is joined right now
by Suni Williams.
But onboard the station, Joe Acaba, a couple of tasks today
with that HTV vehicle,
he started off his day though setting
up some air sampling monitors inside
of the International Space Station as they continue
to monitor the air quality
of throughout the astronauts breathing atmosphere.
He is also doing some work inside that HTV vehicle,
reoving a few the lighting assemblies inside
and then closing up the hatch alongside of Aki Hoshide.
He is also on installing a common berthing mechanism inside
of Node 2 or the Harmony module where it is currently docked.
He is installing the control panel assembly
and a little bit later he will be having an unberthing
conference with controllers down here on the ground.
Meanwhile, Suni Williams was continuing some work today
with the VO2max.
It is a ongoing medical research experiment on the station
as these astronauts document any changes
in their maximum oxygen uptake as their exposed to microgravity
for long periods of time.
The astronauts bodies can undergo a series of changes
so VO2max looking to document any of those changes
in their oxygen uptake.
As you can see just a few seconds ago she has also been
working to help prepare that HTV vehicle for its departure.
She was working on the of the vestibule
to disconnecting a few the power jumpers, also installing some
of these thermal blankets on the hatch
to minimize the thermal loads on the station structure.
And then a little bit later this afternoon she will take some
time out of her day to talk with a few reporters on the ground,
giving them more inside look inside to life
on board International Space Station.
Our third OSUS crew member Aki Hoshide
from JAXA started his day off setting
up some acoustic dosemeters inside
of the International Space Station.
They will be monitoring for about 24 hours and are looking
to monitor different sound loads throughout the station.
He is also doing a lot of work today on that HTV vehicle.
He will be closing out, took some video
of the interior set up, making sure everything was
in place a little bit earlier,
also activating the re-entry breakup recorder.
This HTV vehicle, once it enters the Earth's atmosphere,
will break up upon re-entry, not returning any
down mass back to the ground.
He was also inside the vehicle removing some smoke detectors
and helping Suni Williams prepare that vestibule
for demate and then closing the hatchwith Joe Acaba,
then setting up the control panel assembly.
He will be joining Acaba a little bit later
with that unberthing conference with controllers
down here on the ground.
Meanwhile, our Russian cosmonauts onboard are
continuing for the departure of their Soyuz craft.
Commander Padalka doing some crew departure preps
as he gets some things in order for his descent back
down the Earth's surface in his Soyuz spacecraft
on this coming Sunday.
Also storing a few items inside and setting
up some experiment equipment for the Immuno experiment,
which he was assisted Sergei Revin in today,
and will be conducting tomorrow, which looks to track any changes
in the immune systems of these astronauts during their
long-duration spaceflights.
And as mentioned Sergei Revin now is working
on that immune experiment himself today,
taking some blood collection samples and then storing them.
Some of those will be brought back down on the Soyuz craft
as it does have a limited amount of space for a down mass,
returning things like experiment samples, or vital hardware
for testing, are things of that nature.
So he was doing that Immuno experiment
and gathering some more equipment for Soyuz storage.
Our thierd Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Malenchenko,
will remain on board the station following the departure
of the other two Russians, was setting up
and testing some proximity communications equipment gear
today inside of the Russian segment.
It consists of a antenna switchbox
and also a control panel for the European ATV,
or the automated transfer vehicle another one
of these unmanned cargo crafts that is currently docked
to the aft end of the Zvezda service module.