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deborah houston good morning and
especially good morning to colonel
select boss
good morning dan thanks a lot i
appreciate that
the intravehicular astronaut or iv crew
member is pilot ken cockrell
he may be assisting this morning during
some of the portions of this uh
spacesuit checkout procedure
cockrell
will be orchestrating
the space walk choreographing voss and
gernhard while they're out in the cargo
bay from the aft flight deck of endeavor
again this live picture being seen from
the airlock of the shuttle endeavor
showing astronauts jim voss with his
back toward the camera and mike
gernhardt conducting a checkout of the
extra vehicular mobility units or
spacesuits they will wear on saturday
for a six-hour spacewalk that is
scheduled to begin about 3 am central
time to test a new thermal improvements
made to those suits as well as the tools
and techniques which are being developed
for incorporation into the flight
planning for the assembly of the
international space station
this will be the second shuttle
spacewalk of the year to test out this
type of activity uh two additional
spacewalks are planned on the next
flight of endeavor sts-72 which is now
scheduled for launch in the mid-january
time frame
and we're with you in the middeck
okay welcome aboard mike and i are just
down here putting together our tools
he's got a couple of the debris shield
handling tools in his hand and i've got
one he's going to put those on his suit
i'm putting the other one in our tote
sack this big bag that we have here
where we're going to put all of our
miscellaneous tools that we're carrying
out for our evaluations
and i've got a little coffee cup shaped
device here that is a worksite interface
that we're also going to carry out in
the bag so you'll just be seeing us
putting a lot of our different tools
into the bag getting them ready for the
eda
and we'll try to pause once in a while
and tell you what it is that we're
putting in as we get to them
understand duck face
this uh this live television picture
coming from the middeck of the shuttle
endeavor we found working with our
checklist that was put together by our
dva trainer matt mickel mutt as
extremely easy as cross reference
alphabetically and uh here were the
configuration drawing has made it really
easy for us to find all of our stuff and
put it together
happy
this television from the mid-deck of
endeavor showing payload commander jim
voss
checking out the various tools that he
and mike gernhardt will use saturday
during their six-hour spacewalk in
endeavour's cargo bay
this view from the shuttle endeavor is
of a tropical storm maryland which is
formed out in the
atlantic in the caribbean area uh
maryland had been a tropical depression
until uh late yesterday early this
morning uh when its uh winds reached
tropical storm strength and it acquired
the name maryland
that view from the shuttle endeavour of
the newest tropical storm in this
current hurricane season
the latest named storm is maryland
this is mission control houston
as endeavor is sailing
just over the western coast of the south
american continent at an altitude of
about
216 nautical miles were are receiving
live television from the payload bay
cameras on board endeavor
go ahead and never
victoria hope y'all were watching on
that pass that was a beautiful one
across south america
you know we were
that's good i wasn't sure if you were
still taking it down or not
it was a really nice look at the amazon
river
it's much more clear than usual
yeah in fact that's what i was saying to
dave
in
this my third flight now it's the first
time i've ever actually seen the river
itself it's always cloud covered
i think we've kind of noticed uh that
you have fewer clouds all over the world
than a typical flight
you