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>> Good morning from NASA's Johnson Space Center.
This is Mission Control Houston.
You're joining the International Space Station Flight Control
Team here in Houston, as a team of flight controllers watches
over systems aboard the International Space Station,
as the complex is in great shape orbiting the earth every
93 minutes.
The crew, made up of Expedition 35 is led
by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield.
He's on his third flight into space, his first flight
as a long duration crew member.
He flew on two previous space shuttle missions.
He is joined by Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanekno,
and US astronaut Doctor Tom Marshburn.
Those three gentlemen have been aboard the station
for 104 days now, 106 days total in space after the launch
and arrival at the station aboard their Soyuz TMA07M
spacecraft back in mid-December.
The other three crew members in their sixth day in space.
That day includes their launch and docking
with the International Space Station last Thursday.
The three newest crew members include Pavel Vinogradov,
Alexander Misurkin, and astronaut Chris Cassidy.
Those three crew members arrived
at the station late Thursday night US central time,
and they plan to stay aboard the station until early September.
The crew has been awake since about 1:00 this morning.
Their early start to the day was kicked off by the continuation,
the day 2 activities associated with the reconfiguration
of the high-rate communication system on the station
in a supporting rack inside the Destiny laboratory.
There's been quite a bit of human research activity
on board, some human research sample gathering
by the Russian crew members to continue
to evaluate the transition
of crew members during long duration stays in space,
and how their body reacts
to that long duration activity as well.
The crew members conducted their early morning teleconference
with all of the flight control teams on the ground about 2:30
in the morning, and that set the stage for their work day,
which will conclude when they go to bed
about 4:30 in the afternoon.
So a busy day once again for the crew members onboard the
International Space Station.
They'll watch as a reboost maneuver is conducted a little
bit later in their day as they prepare for bed.
And that reboost maneuver
by the progress supply vehicle's thrusters will support
and put the station in the proper orientation and altitude
to support the Soyuz return of Hadfield, Romanenko,
and Marshburn in May, and also the launch
of the next three crew members scheduled for the end of May.
So that's the day set aside for the Expedition 35 crew,
another busy aboard the International Space Station.