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>> Good day and welcome to Mission Control Houston.
Today is Monday, November 4,
2013 and this is Space Station Live.
Today in Mission Control,
the team of flight controllers is being led
by Flight Director Scott Stover, he's working
with Canadian Astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who is serving
as spacecraft communicator, talking with the crew
of Expedition 37, aboard the International Space Station.
That crew includes Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin,
as well as American Astronauts Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins
and European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano
and Cosmonauts Sergey Ryazansky and Oleg Kotov.
The crew of Expedition 37 is conducting research
and getting ready for the arrival
of Expedition 38 crewmates on Thursday,
as well as for a spacewalk on Saturday.
NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg, Commander Yurchikhin
and ESA's Parmitano are packing and stowing items in preparation
for their Sunday departure.
Among those items are the fan pump separator
from Luca Parmitano's spacesuit that has been the subject
of much troubleshooting after water collected in Luca's helmet
and required an early end to a spacewalk with Chris Cassidy.
Yurchikhin is taking special precautions in packing that item
to ensure its condition remains pristine so that engineers
on the ground can examine it once it returns.
Meanwhile, Mike Hopkins and Russia's Oleg Kotov
and Surgey Ryazansky are doing work on a variety of Russian
and American research activities, as well as preparing
for the upcoming spacewalk by Kotov and Ryazansky
who did a translation review of their movements
about the exterior of the space station.
Hopkins is working with the synchronized position hold,
engage, reorient experiment satellite's experiment;
we're seeing a live video of that right now as it works
with the RINGS component of the experiments.
RINGS is short for resonant inductive near-field
generation system.
It's a Department of Defense experiment,
designed to demonstrate and test wireless power transfers.
The floating bowling ball size satellite is encapsulated
in a ring that will also be used to study techniques related
to micro electromagnetic formation flight.
It may also help enhance attitude control performance
between separate satellites in the future.
Parmitano worked with the in-space, the structure
of paramagnetic aggregates from colloidal emulsions study;
that looks at particle dynamics of magneto rheological fluids;
that is fluids that change properties in response
to magnetic fields to help understand how those fluids can
be used for new applications
such as braking systems and robotics.
Yurchikhin also went through a training session
on the lower body negative pressure device;
that will be used to help pull fluids back
into his lower extremities after his long duration stay
on the space station and get his body ready for a return
to one gravity on earth; that's a countermeasure device
and method that's been studied for years on various spacecraft.
Kotov and Ryazansky worked on the preparation
of two Orlan spacesuits that will be used
in their Saturday spacewalk,
which will involve several assembly and maintenance tasks
on the outside of the space station
and also involve the display
of an Olympic torch outside the station;
it will be returning home with Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano
and eventually make its way
to the 2014 winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia.
The rundown on launch of EVA coverage coming
up for this week includes PAO event tomorrow;
that will be an event with Karen Nyberg and Mike Hopkins,
they'll be talking with the weather channel
and KSDK television in Saint Louis.
That event will start 8:15 a.m. Central time, 9:15 a.m. Eastern.
Then coming up later on in the week,
we'll have the preparations for launch coverage from Baikonur;
the launch coverage on Wednesday starts at 9:15 p.m.
with launch expected at 10:14 p.m. and then the day will cross
over and we'll move into Thursday, November 7
and Soyuz docking coverage will begin 3:45 a.m. with docking
of the Soyuz, carrying three crewmembers that are headed
up to the space station.
Mikhail Turin, Rick Mastracchio, and Koichi Wakata
to the International Space Station;
that docking coverage will then be followed
by a joint crew news conference with --
for the first time since 2009,
nine crewmembers aboard the International Space Station.
That crew news conference is scheduled
for 7:50 a.m. Central Time on Friday, November the 8.
And then on Saturday, November the 9, we'll have coverage
of the Russian spacewalk number 36 with Kotov and Ryazansky
and that coverage begins at 8 a.m. Central Time; again,
all that coming up on NASA Television.
Meanwhile overnight, the Albert Einstein ATV4 was deorbited
at 6:28 a.m. Saturday Central Time and it broke
up over the Pacific Ocean,
shortly after 4 a.m. Central Time
in a normal deorbit maneuver conducted
by European Space Agency Flight Controllers in Toulouse, France;
this is video recorded
by the crew aboard the International Space Station
of that breakup.
There is one more ATV in the fleet;
the final ATV5 is scheduled for launch no earlier than June 5
of next year and that's name [inaudible]
after the Belgian physicist and father of the Big Bang Theory.
Otherwise, all systems working aboard the International Space
Station, as it continues to circle the globe,
supporting research in the unique microgravity environment.