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uh i i had a quick question the does uh

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weightlessness

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have an impact in terms of

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we just arrived here uh just a few days

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ago and uh it's taking a while to get

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used to for me personally missing a

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pillow you're used to laying down on a

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mattress and having a place to rest your

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head and uh so it's it's taken uh taking

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well the uh i know

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the kids got a chance to ask some

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questions i want to make sure that uh if

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there are any members of congress who've

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got

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uh some questions that they're

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interested in that they've got a chance

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too

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okay hold on this is uh k bailey

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i understand that you are doing uh

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experiments on salmonella and watching

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those organisms and how they react and

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grow and we've had some salmonella

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problems here on earth

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what do you think you will be able to

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learn from the the

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environment in space that maybe you

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actually going to have a bit of a hard

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time answering that question we do

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indeed have a an experiment called the

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national laboratory program vaccine

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experiment in which salmonella

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um

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are in which certain micro organisms are

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exposed to salmonella my job as an

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astronaut was basically to turn the

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crank and activate the experiment and

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then after about four or five days turn

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the crank again and deactivate it

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i'm not exactly sure what the scientists

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are going to do with the data back at

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home or with the samples we are

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returning however eight big vials or

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samples of these uh of these cultures

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cultures with microorganisms and

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salmonella and let the scientists go to

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there's bill nelson he's uh he knows a

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hey guys i wish i were up there with you

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uh

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you are just getting to the point where

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it's really looking like a full up

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national laboratory where we can really

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do the experimentation

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when will you have it full up ready to

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go where we can then reap the results of

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it's nice to hear you again sir um

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the international space station has

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already been delivering uh some of the

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science we've promised what the

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where we are now is uh and expedition 18

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our crew has uh we're making the turn

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from three people to six people the next

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crew that comes after us a few months

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after uh after we get replaced we'll

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have uh we'll have six people on board

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the international space station so

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that's why we needed the solar power

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that's why we needed the second toilet

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and other things so that we have a room

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and uh facilities for six people

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and uh once we have six people we'll

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have enough time and energy uh solar

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power i mean to uh to run all the

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experiments that we can and then it's

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just a matter of getting enough

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experiments up and down from the space

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station

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to really reap on on that science we've

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already been delivering and we got a lot

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more to come and like sandy said there's

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a lot of things we don't know so there's

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some really interesting discoveries out

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do any of the young people have any more

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questions hold on one second we've got

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one here

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i asked if you'd love doing your job

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yes it's wonderful to work in space ever

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since i saw apollo 11 at luna landing

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when i was 5 years old i always longed

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for going to space and work and i hear a

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dream came true i had to study hard and

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work hard but i'm so happy to be here

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and i love loving living here and

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working with so many wonderful people

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the uh just a couple of logistical

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questions how long did it take from the

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time of launch how long did it get uh

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station uh well mr president let me

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answer that in two uh uh two ways first

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of all it takes us about eight and a

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half minutes to get to orbit and at that

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time we're we're going 17 500 miles an

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hour but we're in a bit of a tail chase

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with the space station and it's

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approximately about a day and a half to

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two days later that we actually rejoin

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okay so eight minutes just to get into

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orbit

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but then you've got to

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basically try to to catch up with the

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space station