There are 1,300 pounds of goods to be moved from the Progress into Zvezda, the station's living quarters. The items are for the first resident crew and include clothing, medical kits, personal hygiene kits, laptop computers, a color printer, vacuum cleaners, food warmers for Zvezda's galley, trash bags and critical life support hardware. The first toilet for the station will also be delivered to Zvezda. While Boris Morukov is busy unloading the supplies from the Progress, Rick Mastracchio will be in charge of unloading two tons of equipment from the Atlantis Spacehab module. Much of the equipment from Atlantis is for checking and ensuring the crew's health on-orbit, including a bicycle ergometer and a treadmill for keeping in shape.
Daily exercise is necessary for space travelers to prevent bone and muscle loss.
This is especially true for long duration stays on the station. But that's not all that will be going on, in the Shuttle or the station. Working through educational programs at NASA, students from elementary, middle and high schools across America will be waiting anxiously for the results of the scientific experiments they designed, built and are now in space. K-12 and University level who want to discover more about space by building experiments to fly on a Space Shuttle. A group of SEM experiments are flying on Atlantis in a five cubic foot canister mounted in the cargo bay.