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Good morning, and welcome to Mission Control Houston.
We're inside the International Space Station Flight Control Room
where this team is monitoring systems onboard the station and following along
with the activities of the Expedition 29 crew.
The crew onboard the space station is just wrapping up a midday meal,
halfway through their day onboard the station.
The crew includes the members we see here in this view.
On the left, cosmonaut Sergei Volkov.
In the center, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, who is the commander.
And on the right is Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
The crew members are working on various science experiments and maintenance today.
Fossum was working earlier on changing out a sample in the PACE experiment,
which stands for Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment.
We see this video recorded earlier during that activity.
That experiment characterizes the resolution of the High Magnification Colloid Experiments
with the Light Microscopy Module to determine the minimum size of the particles
that can be resolved by the Advanced Colloids Experiment which will be delivered
to the station and will fly samples that may have an important impact
on our understanding of fundamental physics.
Fossum will soon be working with Furukawa to help set
up the Robonaut 2 onboard the space station.
That's the first dexterous humanoid robot in space.
It has been powered up before onboard the station
since its delivery earlier this year but has not been moved yet.
The crew members will be helping set it up inside the Destiny laboratory module
and then the engineers here on the ground can send commands to do checkouts
of each arm and check out its vision system.
Earlier Fossum was also doing another checkout of an experiment onboard with the Cubelab
and checking out a microscope in that hardware.
The Cubelabs allow for the easy access of research onboard the space station.
They're small facilities for experiments to be conducted in microgravity.
Satoshi Furukawa also worked with an educational activity.
The Lego Bricks payload is a series of toy Lego kits
that are assembled onboard the space station and used to demonstrate scientific concepts.
Today's work involved assembling a satellite Lego model.
Another experiment onboard the station is being conducted by Sergei Volkov
in the Russian segment called Coulomb Crystal.
Studies the dynamic and structural characteristics of the Coulomb systems formed
by charged dispersed diamagnetic macroparticles in the magnetic trap
and the Coulomb systems are structures following Coulomb's Law which is a law
of physics describing the electric electrostatic interaction
between electrically charged particles that was involved in the development
of the theory of electromagnetism.