well thank you very much and I guess the
first thing I want to say is for all the
folks that that are here and for all the
folks that were part of our getting
ready for this flight is with our
sincere thanks and appreciation
I think this flight was was extremely
complex as we all know especially those
of us that are close to it and we were
trained for anything that potentially
could have happened and kind of did
happen but we were ready for whatever
the situation was and we felt ready for
anything that could possibly even happen
and I noticed that mr. Abbey published
the note that I sent to him from from
orbit and and it's the way we feel if
there's a chance that we could take each
and every person that would like to go
with us we'd be more than happy to do
that unfortunately the system just can't
work that way but if it could we would
certainly accommodate all those it
wanted to go in so the best thing we can
do is try to come back and share
everything with you all at the same time
realize that what got us there or the
are the hearts and the souls and the
efforts that the people have made down
here on the ground to get us there and
we definitely do appreciate it and that
we are just an extension of what you
prepare us to do when we go a lot of it
with that we're gonna go ahead and show
some slides of course the hardest thing
that the crew has to do is
is to decide on what their patch is
gonna look like to take seven very
different people with seven different
personalities strengths and weaknesses
and I'll come up and put a patch
together it takes some work we did come
up with one and we're very happy with it
we actually had the help of a friend and
a co-worker here Mike Santee and and we
he came up with a very nice idea for us
and we were gonna had to put it together
just a brief introduction we had lots of
flight data file that's me with some of
the flight data file on board we're
gonna go through the slides kind of
rapidly just so everyone gets an idea
but what we look like without a coat and
tie on which is our preferred mode and
of course you can't fly the Space
Shuttle without cool glasses so here's
your pilot's cool glasses ready to go
and I guess I'm about as happy as I can
be when I've got a camera with some nice
lenses on and looking out the window so
I was real happy I guess that I am
looking at the glove box which was a
very neat experiment we had in a mitten
the midnight this was mission specialist
number three European Space Agency
astronaut and I'm here at my favorite
spot near the galley holding on my left
hand I'm very happy to be on this flight
I would like to take this opportunity to
think to thank NASA for signing me to
this mission well this is my mother son
possibly go wrong and that was my job
onboard I mean taking care of the
computers TSS T V T and this was
actually David before the deployment
when I was downstairs in the mid-deck
as was already mentioned there was an
important international aspects to this
mission there were three space agencies
NASA and the Italian space agency which
were cooperating on the tethered
satellite project and you see whom
better in the middle has a Europe the
Italian space agency patch on his
shoulder but of course NASA and the ISA
were the other two agencies each eye
contributed in the loan of two astronaut
or circadian myself and this is a view
of the mid-deck at the time of the
launch you can see that in this flight
we had the me the glovebox that was just
in front of Franklin and he was pretty
good I mean he didn't feel anything
different with this big thing just on
top of it because we are sitting on our
on our back of course well here's a
here's a vantage point you don't get to
see every day and you may be wondering
who took the picture I'll just let you
ponder that
the orientation is you're up on the nose
of the shuttle looking down at us st and
the flight deck on the pad pretty
interesting view that was a two-person
job
actually we're gonna go and show the
movie there's a Columbia she was all
ready to go
launch morning just waiting for the crew
to show up and here comes the crew and
of course for the thing that sent us in
a cruise mine is what is some super have
scripted for us that day and the best we
can hope for is an on-time lunch and
this is my third flight and my third
on-time launch so I'm very grateful
I was lucky pilot on board so my eyes a
real big stare at those main engine
gauges about this point of course the
left engine said 40% so we were
convinced that we're not going anywhere
we're pad abort today so we were getting
ready for our pad abort and all of a
sudden main engines sour easily
well it's exciting enough to ride the
rocket but it's even more exciting right
about now because we also have the fact
that the computers not talking to the
the engine at least it says so but Annie
calls the roll program tells them what
we got and the ground comes back and
says you got three good engines so we're
off to space it's a heck of a ride
especially for a rookie I mean it's just
a tremendous amount of power it's it's
smooth it shakes on the SRBs and once
you come off the SRBs it's like an
electric jet going as fast as you can
imagine probably the most awesome sight
during the ascent was leaving Earth's
atmosphere behind and going into the
darkness of space quite a ride as soon
as we get into orbit we have to
configure the shuttle for orbit
operations this is a nice picture of
opening the payload bay door as you can
see the shadow of the starboard side of
the shuttle on the door and the earth in
the background it's some spectacular
visual effects soon after you get into
orbit we're in the post insertion period
we're using primary thrusters and a lot
of the ice which is formed in the main
engines because we're burning hydrogen
and oxygen oxygen is coming out as
crystals you could see the RCS fire in
there it's it's quite exciting and next
is the view of the flight deck one hour
into the post in center you see somebody
still wearing the underwear we but we
were already hungry and you can see we
had a big appetite at this point
everybody felt great the and this is a
view of the first sunrise on the on the
cargo bay on the foreground you can see
the Terra satellite on the background
there was a us and pea well a lot of
stuff to do lots of equipment to set up
computers cameras video stuff audio lots
of wires and all of it in preparation
for the big moment which was deployment
of the tether and here I'm setting up
one of our major computers which are
only helped us on the science but also
to keep in touch with the ground and and
also our family
in our homes next there will be some
shots about the boom deploy we are very
much into pre TSS deploy activities the
first thing of course is to deploy the
boom the purpose of the boom was to
basically take the satellite away from
the orbiter structure this is an
accelerated view which normally would
take about 12 minutes the boom is an
incredible piece of engineering you can
see it in this in these shots you can
see the tears actually actual tether in
the middle and all the electrical wires
the satellite was lodged on top of the
boom and just underneath the satellite
you could see what we call it a vernier
motor which was basically an auxiliary
motor which helped extract the wire we
had an attitude
this kind of attitude with flying
basically backwards with nose pitch down
about 40 degrees and that was due to the
particular dynamics of the this is the
initial flyaway of the satellite it's
pushed by two sets of two newton
thrusters so very small thrusters
pushing that half metric ton satellite
upwards the cold gas thrusters
everything happens very slowly at the
beginning this is accelerated three
times but the velocity initially was
about one centimeter per second
everything went very well at this time
of the deployment everything was
controlled and you see here in later the
tether is taut which is always something
we desire to see because it's much more
controllable in this way slight
oscillations but we were predicting
those and that was not a problem so very
controlled initial phase of the
deployment of the tethered satellite
we're going to see a few sequences here
of the phases of deployment this is the
early phase and as you see it looked
pretty straight low tension and you can
see a little bit of the Wiggles of the
tether and the bottom but everything
completely nominal the tether speeds up
and it gets to a high speed of about 2.2
m/s maximum and as it does that it
begins to of course
develop a little bit of a bowl and you
can see the bow as it begins to grow as
the teller gets longer and longer of
course as a teller it gets longer and
longer also begins to generate more and
more power we were generating quite high
voltage and of course able to collect
lots current and all in all on the order
of about a couple of kilowatts of power
where you were being generated and you
can see also the progression of the bow
at this in this longshot picture near
the satellite itself and at 19.7 km/h
clearly the tether had gone slack either
because of the jam or a tether break
looking back we quickly saw that in fact
the tether had broken this was a very
it's a big shock it's a kind of an empty
feeling in the pit of your stomach when
you look and you realize that there
there is the tether moving away from us
at about 80 feet per second and you just
wanted to reach out and grab it and pull
it back of course there was nothing we
could do there you can see the end of
the tether coming up in the lower part
of the field of view and so at this
point of course we have some procedures
which were trained in basically here at
this point in time there's four words
that were awake the four veterans the
three rookies were sleeping and of
course the very first concern we have is
to make sure that none of this ball of
tether starts coming back towards the
orbiter we were concerned pre-flight and
we did it pretty sure good share of
training pre-flight but if we had a ball
of tether coming back at as we do the
proper base and maneuvering to make sure
we didn't have a big problem but it all
stayed with the satellite the tether
actually broke inside the boom so there
was nothing required on the orbiter side
of the house other than to monitor the
satellite and this is all that's left or
that was left just a stub of tether and
in close view with a very powerful lens
we had we could see that it was charred
and
burnt and this was further confirmed
later with the hardware of the cake
there was nothing much to do except to
retract the bull and and really get
ready for for the remainder of the
flight which was concentrating on
microgravity science it was a whole
mission to do this spectacular views
actually were taken from the ground by
Paul Meili from mo D he was in Australia
and he was able to capture a glimpse of
the tether and you even see a meteorite
go by just for a glimpse there so we are
very appreciative too powerful you know
what do that after the data was over we
still used the top camera that was
supposed to you to be used during the
terror activity while we had the current
flowing the Vader to observer glowing
and we used to point to the earth glow
and to the lightning that we had one
during our night pass a lot of things
behaved strange and wait with this
you've seen pictures probably of
astronauts doing strange things with
water drops they they behave very
counter-intuitively but a little
goldfish here which is putting in a tank
blow air bubbles inside the water
bubbles but other things behave strange
too such as flames combustion and we did
these combustion experiments in orbit
and here is the place where we did him
this glovebox facility which lived in
the mid-deck and in it we actually
burned different kinds of materials this
is one of them is there just a birthday
cake candle just like what you see on
the ground but the the flame looks a lot
different it's more round and it's more
determined controlled by the amount of
oxygen in it in its proximity and when
the flame extinguishes itself the smoke
just stagnates there inside the cavity
just like what you see is not dominated
by convection or anything like that the
flow has stopped if we actually induce a
flow you can see what happens is very
loving are very slow and we use this to
test some of the new
narration smoke detectors this is
another one of the combustion
experiments called thrifty you can see
all the little numerical data is giving
temperatures of the probes you can see
in the flow it's a cylindrical paper
type sample and there's a very yellow
flow the little ball on the left side is
showing you the flow in centimeters per
second and this sort of look like a jet
engine to me and here comes another
combustion experiment to read see we are
burning the paper samples in this case
flash lamp is used to ignite the the
sample and the setup was such that there
was higher flow circulation from the
right and in fact you see that the flame
tend to go on to the right that is quite
uncommon with respect to the experiment
we do on earth while the flame is trying
to go the other way and you see that in
fact the flame is on the right and until
the old all the paper is gone and then
it start to move on the left rate cig
which stands for radiative ignition and
transition to spread basically and use
the same paper samples but two different
types of investigations one was a
flaming investigation which will you
just saw and the next one we'll see was
basically a smoldering investigation
they were carried out inside this
enclosed compartment was what was called
glovebox which provided a safe
environment for combustion experiments
even this sample paper was ignited by
radiative basically by radiation and the
smouldering was really very interesting
as you can see it assumed form such a
quite strange somebody said don't let
the animal out of the cage there
and and scientists are still working on
the data we brought back back from space
to explain all this we're doing all that
in the mid-deck out in the payload Bay
we had a lot of microgravity experiments
this is a picture of us some of those
and one thing to be careful with it's
like if you were doing exercise so here
I'm on the ERG ometer and it's not
during a microgravity period obviously
because this actually could shake the
whole orbiter and we had to be careful
that even simple activity like moving
into the cabin has to be done carefully
when you are in a microgravity
environment we had the axillary meter
onboard that allow us to see real-time
our contribution to the micro G
environment and that was very used
useful to keep it very low of course
there are lots of other things you can
do while being by ascent for of course
eating and taking care of the cabin and
of course we had to update all our
documents the updates came up on sort of
fax machine that we had on board and
with Scott and Umberto I asked first
time flies we try to spend as much time
as possible free time of course looking
out of the window here we are flying
over Chad and unfortunately the movie
doesn't really do justice to the real
colors that we will be able to see from
space we are around the tip st region
and the colors are really really bright
and vivid and this is something really
catches your imaginations imagination
after this we'll move on to the nile
valley which is of course one of the
places it's very easy to detect from
from space because you can really see
the difference between the green of the
area around the nile and of course the
desert around it we try to take shots of
the pyramids several times unfortunately
always overflew the pyramids around noon
and so we couldn't use the shadow to
detect them and strange enough there was
always a a thin cloud layer overhanging
of the pyramids maybe next time
this is a zoom shot of the Mount Everest
region you can see Mount Everest right
in the middle McAloon below it on the
arm valley and then we zoom back and you
see really the whole Himalayan Massif
with the Indian subcontinent on the Left
crashing into the Tibetan Plateau on the
right and if you take a strong zoom lens
you aim it at these mountains this is
the easternmost part of the Himalayas
that's the top of the world and we're
over flying China now actually out over
the Pacific Ocean and you can actually
see the Himalayas set behind the horizon
it's a pretty spectacular view it really
puts you in orbit one of the very
important things to us onboard obviously
is our personal map from home this is
just a picture of coloring that my
daughter did this is what the water damp
looks like in space the water
immediately crystallizes through ice
crystals and as we are crossing the
Terminator it's really a beautiful sight
we were doing this periodically to
maintain the water in the tanks all
about the orbiter within predetermined
limit and this is Jeff and I looking out
the window at the sunrise and during the
night we had a lot of light during the
nights and you see these crystals of ice
that are following us and are twinkling
in moonlit over the moonlit landscape
really a beautiful view during the night
oh it's been one heck of a journey we've
done a lot of experiments we've seen a
lot of great sites and now you can see
the folks on your flight deck you're
probably this glasses again ready to go
and we're already on the flight deck in
our suits ready to come on home and the
same situation seen from the mid deck we
were very busy getting ready for reentry
and you see a lot of stuff floating
around included our parachutes that are
still still up in the air you see and we
have to do these flies because of the
extra day this is the last pass over the
Himalaya and you see the full moon
it's always very impressive to see how
fast the moon and the Sun rise and set
this is a view of the moon sets with the
telephoto net sparf and telephoto lens
about 40 millimeters and due to the
differential refraction the atmosphere
you have the whole world that is
completely crushed to the penetrates the
lower layers of the atmosphere very
beautiful sign and now we're re-entering
if you look closely you can start seeing
kind of a red glow out out the side
window there as exciting as launch was
the reentry was just as a fascinating
especially as you come into the in the
atmosphere going Mach 25 the sky turns a
pink and then a deeper and deeper red
and orange and then you break out and
then you can see below going a mere Mach
15 over Houston we went zipping by and
Andy was nice enough to leave us in a
right bank so I could look out my window
those puffs of smoke or the RCS Jets
that shut off just prior to Mach 1 as
we're coming into the Kennedy Space
Center we did have a wave off day but
finally it was a pretty day there's east
coast of Florida going by Scott's right
window there and we're in a right-hand
turn here to land on KSC runway 33
heading towards the North atmospheric
conditions were great that day for the
folks on the ground to see us as well as
when they heard us when they when we did
our double sonic boom so we made some
nice contrails coming around the
vertical Assembly Building down on
Scott's right window again this is over
his shoulder as we come on back in it's
the standard world's worst glider at
this point 390 I've 20 degrees down to
the ground probably and Scott finally
gets the gear out down there at about
350 feet
but that was just like we had planned
and at that point we continually
continuously decelerate as we're coming
across the runway the shuttle training
error data previously is coming by our
left hand side there tried to make the
black marks there but landed just a
little bit short some wind shears that
day and headwind to help me do that we
put the drag chute out to continue the
deceleration process it's a real hard
thing to do to lift your legs up to get
on those brake pedals and you got to do
it because you don't want to look bad on
CNN I get the legs up there get on the
brakes but the decelerates from the drag
she provides us quite a bit of
deceleration so it's not that hard of an
effort we drop the drag chute off at
about 60 knots or so just prior to
coming to wheel stop and we were just
real happy to be home few minutes into
post inception it's a very busy period
as you can see here and we are trying to
get rid of our suits and make room for
all the stuff that we have to store well
there were three rookies on the flight
and this is just after getting to orbit
and as you can see everyone said you
know be careful you may not feel good we
all felt great so I decided just come on
diving down the hatch into that mess
downstairs to let these guys get me out
of my suit and I'm probably smiling
because I know I'm gonna get out of my
suit here soon well I'm packing for
seven and we have to make the airlock
the place to put all the stuff and of
course it also had to be somebody's
bedroom so we have to make provisions
for somebody to actually sleep sleep
right in there we are already into the
payload operation activity you can see
the satellite just left the top of the
boom and on the satellite you can see
the the nitrogen small nitrogen jet that
they used to provide some initial
tension for the
tella this is a view of the after flight
deck during the initial flyaway of the
satellite as you see there was a very
high density of bodies in the earth like
that
frankly the Scot went forward flight
tech can you see Andy on the left
flying the orbiter jet is in the middle
of guiding us from the procedures and
using the binoculars I was busy with
operating the CCTV cameras and Mauricio
is using a laser rangefinder to
determine the range and range rate of
the satellite so it was very busy but
everything went well this into
deployment as I mentioned before but
each of us had certain procedures he had
to perform in case we were going to have
problems so it was a big team effort the
satellite actually as it left did not go
completely straight up the boom like
we'd liked it to
and on this is 46 the first flight a
tensor I didn't do that either but it
was such a easy thing for us to do
because we had seen it in practice so
much in our simulations that having a
satellite go out a little bit cockeyed
was just a simple thing to do and all I
needed to do is keep the orbiter I had
to do something to keep the orbiter
within a little bit of a cone to make
sure that they get too far away from us
and the TSS science work at the really
flawless the during deployment we could
verify the the power generated while the
data was reeling out and actually was
was completely nominal I mean we got
very good data during this space well
that's the sad picture after the tether
did break we said there wasn't very much
we could do with it except shed a few
tears
trying to cry when there's no weight to
pull the tears off your face
well we had a few opportunities to
actually take a look at the feather
flyover and this is one of the pictures
taken with long lenses that we had and I
should also say that serendipity plus
the quick response of the ground
controllers was able to define a new a
new type of science I guess we call it
the detach science and they actually
turned on the instruments in the
satellite and were able to do a whole
bunch of new observations that were not
were not expected and also after tether
was over why we needed to get ready for
all the microgravity operations and that
all came in instructions from the ground
in miles and miles of teleprinter paper
which would then have to sort out and
put in our flight plan and execute it
here we are very much into the second
part of the mission we start to start
concentrating on mid-deck activities we
had basically three investigations that
all had in common burning we all became
a paramedics in one way and we use this
mid-deck glove box for to provide safety
for the for the shuttle this is a
montage of the sequence of burning
particulars experiment is ritzy as you
can see the flame and we used normally
we used video cameras to catch the whole
burning sequence on one video on
videotape and on top of the mid-deck
glovebox we had a 35-millimeter camera
to take these shots what is really
astonishing is that the flame is really
has to be is fear occur and it's
counterintuitive and it tries to move
into the basically upstream instead of
downstream the flow in that picture was
coming from the right side
we had an immense amount of photo TV
requirements for all of our payload plus
we some of some of the events to do just
with the public affairs I felt like we
had about as much electrical outlets and
cords on board as we did the tether that
was floating up there somewhere in space
so it was a it was quite a handful and
very crew intensive getting ready for
all the photo TV requirement a very
modest experiment but nevertheless very
important one was carried out in protein
crystal growth and was the first
experiment from a joint effort between
the countries of Latin America among the
countries and it was an effort to look
for potential drugs to combat Chagas
disease and we'll be looking to see more
of this in the in the years to come you
can't see yes as well as we can see you
down here sometimes but this is just the
shot of the Houston area the
Intercontinental up there on the upper
Center and Johnson Space Center clear
there's down there towards the bottom
right going to space it was a really
surprised how easy it is for the human
body to adapt to different environments
and I think this picture shares
basically the same flavor this was was
taken on the side in the side you can
see the dunes there an incredible view
and on the bottom right corner there's a
human settlement this is a good shot of
the Nile River on the upper left corner
there is the luxor temple the big
contrast between the green part and the
surrounding desert to give you an idea
how important is this piece of land for
for edge it almost 95% of the people
lives in this area even though it's only
5% of the entire land in Egypt although
later in the flight we got this
wonderful picture you're looking at the
southern tip of India and you can see
the little land bridge going over to Sri
Lanka and it's a fairly unusually a
clear day in Sri Lanka it's just a
gorgeous shot this is a view of East
Himalaya and what I would call the big
band of Brahmaputra Brahmaputra is a
very long river about 1,800 miles long
and it starts in the high Tibetan
Plateau close to the top of the picture
then flows to the East's which is toward
the bottom of the picture north of the
Himalaya then makes a band through these
very narrow gorges that you see in the
middle of the picture towards the left
and then you see it takes a course to
the west on the left-hand side of the
picture it was amazing to see the
different climate that you have here you
have the high Tibetan Plateau which are
rather dry or the Himalaya with all
these high mountains and ice and snow in
a very wet area on the left hand side in
northern India and Bangladesh that gets
up to 400 inches of rain per year an
amazing picture and here if we follow
the course of the Brahmaputra from the
low end of the picture towards the
center then he turns to the left and he
joins with the Ganges that comes from
the upper right corner of the picture
through Bangladesh and then he goes via
the area of Dhaka the capital of
Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal really a
very very clear view of this part of
Indian Bangladesh very unusual of all
the beauty of the Himalaya as euphoria
over China you see here the red base and
where the increasing population and the
use of coal burning fires has created a
pollution which has been measured now to
be increasing over the last 50 years we
have extensive records going back that
long and so it's it's almost like a
laboratory to study the effect of human
beings on their environment well the
extra day in space provided us with
this unusually clear view of Costa Rica
you can see almost 90% of the country
both coasts and is basically looking
from north to south you can see the
under the clouds and the center there
the city of San Jose my hometown and you
can see my my home is right over there
to the left actually my mom told me that
it took me a thousand hours to to take
this picture and so I guess I must be
getting better such an international
crew onboard we all tried to have an
opportunity to bring in some of our
ethnic food from our cultures and our
backgrounds of course film a few soft
pretzels as bad as ethnic as I get but
we did manage to bring some on board it
was a great food especially for the
first and second days while we're up
there and why they were still fresh we
had a lot of food on board but the two
Italians had to fight for the last piece
of Parmesan cheese that we both
and I think firstly that the use of
Swiss chocolate should be mandatory in
every spaceflight it has been on every
front I was privileged to fly on and
this time the Swiss chocolate had the
shape of an orbiter this is white
chocolate is in the middle of the
picture and in the bottom in one hand is
the tethered satellite in chocolate also
so we we ate buy a lot of chocolate on
this market is very good well towards
the end of the flight when we're getting
a little tired of space food Franklin
whipped up some dynamite burritos he's
got all the ingredients here we thought
you'd like to see just how you make
burritos in space you've got the refried
beans which is which tortillas actually
are great in space if you don't eat them
you can make frisbees out of them put on
a little cheese which you have to
squeeze out of a tube but that's
spaceflight and put on a little taco
sauce Tabasco to taste put in a
toothpick in the oven wham-o and of
course the best part is getting to eat
the burritos and not having Mexican food
for quite a while I was very
appreciative of Franklin's handiwork it
was just wonderful
this is another meal this is the
blueshift meal and we had a mentor for
the the distinction of this meal jeff
hoffman himself who doesn't take meals
very lightly neither on the ground no in
space and he suggested that we have a
formal meal the whole blue team and we
went in our sleeping stations with trays
and we had napkins and we had appetizer
and entree and silverware and we were
listening to classical music we were
eating this meal this flight was very
special for Franklin and me who
completed 1,000 hours of space shuttle
time so we were quite pleased with that
and we're looking forward to lots of
other people joining the club but it's
nice to be charter members well I think
I made Andy nervous because every time
he'd wake up he'd find me out there with
the tools cuz I was looking for
something to fix and good news bad news
good news orbiter hard labor broke
there's hardly anything to fix bad news
was I didn't have anything to fix most
of the time so I just played with the
tools
I just never shot when we finally got
together again there's a little gray
blotch there on my head it wasn't there
before the flight maybe it's a misprint
in the color flying in space especially
for the first time flyers also also
means a lot of emotions are very
difficult to to transmit or to catch
basic describe it with words or pictures
and this is basically what what what
this picture is standing for I mean when
there's a beautiful view of the earth
and everything that represents space is
no less emotional for a third time
flying like myself or for people who
have flown thousands of hours in space
like the two of us this is a view at
night so surely before sunrise we had
the cargo bay illuminated by the moon
and you see the earth underneath with
the airglow and the Sun is starting to
illuminate the tail of the orbiter and
you can still see stars in fact the
Stars the two bright stars that are
dressed right of the tail are alpha and
beta Centauri and even further to the
right we had a Southern Cross and you
see also in the atmosphere on the left
hand side the beginning of a dawn just
before sunrise a very beautiful sight
it's incredible we try to share with all
of you some of the beauties of
spaceflight which which does make it so
special for all of us who have been
privileged to to be up there and are
sixteen times everyday you see the
sunrise and the sunset and the colors
are a little different every time
depending on the atmospheric condition
but it's always beautiful and this is a
kind of the slow-motion montage of what
the payload Bay looks like as the Sun
gradually sets on it that's kind of a
nice thought to bring us back to earth
Space Flight of course has all the
thrills chills challenges and rewards
that anyone for everyone it's an honor
and a privilege to have the opportunity
to go but as much as we do go in as much
as we enjoy it onboard it's it's also
extra special and we certainly look
forward to coming home Columbia there
that started out as a rocket ship and
turn into a spaceship and came back as
an airplane albeit it's a different kind
of airplane than most airplanes but that
was our home for 16 days and and we're
happy to be here and the crew was doing
doing great and we did our walk around
and tried to express our appreciation
for such a such a great machine