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good morning and welcome to space lab j

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crew post flight press conference i'd

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like to turn the program over to the

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commander

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hoot gibson go ahead

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thank you barbara good morning and uh

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thank you for the opportunity to speak

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to you after the conclusion of a very

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successful mission uh we of course are

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the crew of space lab j

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uh sts-47

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which of course was the 50th flight of

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the space shuttle and i'd like to

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reintrodu introduce the crew

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uh right to my right our mission pilot

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major kurt brown

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who was making his first flight aboard

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space lab j

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our payload commander mission specialist

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number one

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mark lee making a second flight aboard

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space lab j

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our flight engineer or mission

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specialist number two

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jf making his second fight on this

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mission

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jan davis

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making her first flight aboard sts-47

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our mission specialist number four dr

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may jemison making her first flight

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and our payload specialist number one

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dr mamuru mori

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uh the first japanese astronaut making

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his first fight aboard sts-47

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we're here today to tell you our story

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to tell you the story of space lab j and

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i think we can best do that with some of

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the images from the mission so

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with that if we can uh start the video

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uh the crew will describe the mission as

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we saw it

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using our video images and our still

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well at t-minus six seconds main engine

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was starting and uh shortly

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at t zero we started the 50th mission of

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once we clear the tower we begin our

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roll maneuver which puts us in the

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orbital plane that our mission would be

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in and that was 57 degrees of

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and shortly after liftoff

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we reached 20 000 feet and already by

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then we're at mach 1 and you'll be able

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to see some of the shock waves off the

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and not much longer after that about two

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minutes into the flight uh we've used

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all the energy we can get out of our

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solid rocket boosters and we separate

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from those

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and now we're only on the uh the main

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once we got up we turned our

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uh rocket ship into a spacecraft by

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opening the payload bay doors there and

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got ready uh to activate that laboratory

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and heading down the tunnel the more i

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look at this picture is kind of like

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taking the subway to work here

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it's about 20 feet long and

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it's fun to go down you just give a push

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off at one end you have to make a little

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jog as you go into

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the

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lab here and you can see you got to

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stick your hand out to stop

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a little bit but once you're in the lab

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we started activation we got back there

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about three and a half hours into the

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mission and the activation went very

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smoothly

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a relative started working on a material

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science experiment uh this is

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accessorization experiments using image

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mirror furnace

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and i became also a subject of four

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different japanese experiments

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this is a

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perceptual motor function experiment

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using a joystick and in those

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experiments scientists on the ground

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checked my eye movement while i

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twice a day of course we would hand over

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the vehicle we were working the dual

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shift mission we had the redshift in the

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blue ship so in the morning we'd hand

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over from blue to red

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in the evening we would hand over from

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red to blue

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handing over both the orbiter functions

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on the blue shift we did the free flow

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electrophoresis experiment which is a

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japanese experiment we're passing

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electrical current through

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some biological materials to separate

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them out according to their electric

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we had three of these experiments

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scheduled and we were able to do two

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extra ones during the flight so we feel

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like we had a really good experiment

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there very successful even though we did

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lose some of the downlink data

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one of the experiments that you've heard

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a lot about was lower body negative

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pressure and these are just images from

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the lower body negative pressure the

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objectives of that experiment was to

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really see how the heart adjusts to

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microgravity and to figure out can you

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use lower body negative pressure as a

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counter measure to help people to

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readjust when they come back some of the

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other experiments that we did that dealt

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with medical issues were fluid therapy

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whether or not you're able to

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successfully administer them but we did

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spend a lot of time working with lower

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body negative pressure and we got lots

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well the space lab crew was busy working

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also busy on the mid deck we had several

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experiments that we ran

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one of these is the protein crystal

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growth which we see here being activated

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the another experiment we had going was

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data take of energy utilization and we

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some blood samples tests for glucose and

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we logged all the food and water and

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some urine samples we took to better

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understand how the body actually uses

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the food that we intake while we're in

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zero-g environment

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the first thing i had to do in the body

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right after i woke up

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was to attack three different directors

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except the fourth and fifth days i wore

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all the time a backpack called pms

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and to monitor my exocardiogram and

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conduct cell culture experiments using a

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specially designed culture kit

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we mainly observed how cells are

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developed under micro g and took many

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microscopic pictures

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i'm not sure if we had a record number

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of in-flight maintenance procedures but

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we did have some fairly critical ones

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early in the mission we had a water leak

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in the materials science rack and we

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went in there and it was a fairly simple

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thing to fix once we took the insulation

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away it was similar to just fixing a

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leaky faucet

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at home but it

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kept the loop intact and were able to

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continue with furnaces such as this

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work on on orbit because it was rather

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interactive you had to establish a melt

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zone in this particular scene we're

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putting a quartz tube

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around the sample and then once we got

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the image mirror closed we went ahead

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and brought the samples together and

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we bring them together so that the focus

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of the there's a light bulb in the back

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this was one of them that we did we did

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experiments in the in the image mirror

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furnace one of them was a glass cube

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experiment

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this glass cube where the objective was

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to turn it into a glass sphere and do

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some measurements in this particular

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the temperature got a little bit higher

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you do experiments to try to understand

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the reaction to certain materials in

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zero gravity and the other one that was

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sample we have a sample here that's

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about oh it gets

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six to eight millimeters long

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material science racks we had four other

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major furnaces including this one which

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was a continuous heating furnace which

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had two heating chambers and two cooling

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isothermal furnace and the gradient

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heating furnace as well as our acoustic

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levitation furnace which were able to

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conduct our experiments because we had

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racks for a total of 22 material science

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we kept in place in different parts of

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the orbiter every time i came back to do

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of coming back to perform pilot science

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this is a little bit of pilot science

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that we're seeing right here

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and this is a study in angular momentum

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the way an ice skater

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starts out with their arms out and

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retracts their arms to increase the

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rotational speed and uh our pilot is

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here uh checking it out to see that it

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does in fact work in in weightlessness

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this spooled him up pretty good watch

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we had a relatively new piece of gear on

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board the bicycle odometer and this is

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really a wonderful contraption and we

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were able to use this up on the flight

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deck and it's quiet enough that we're

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able to to exercise during sleep periods

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well after a busy day doing experiments

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and uh working out we headed for the

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galley and the child up there is really

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pretty good here's mark making a meal

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we were very fortunate to eat

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early and often during this mission

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and uh we all liked it and we found

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chopsticks up there pretty practical in

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zero g although you'll notice our

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japanese payload specialist is having

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cross-cultural experience he's the one

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using the spoon

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uh but we found uh curry rice up there

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with superb and uh i'm gonna recommend

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taking it uh as a standard item

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chopsticks were real good for most the

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foods we ate up there but not for all of

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them so we used other techniques

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certain foods that we ate there and

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getting ready to get dark up there which

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uh it gets dark in a big hurry as you're

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just like on earth you have certain

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personal hygiene things you must take

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day and uh doing a little uh teeth

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washing our hair and

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our commander you know he you can only

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he's doing his best here and it's

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actually pretty easy in space you don't

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have to find a wall to hang a mirror on

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you can kind of just let it hang around

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but uh he's

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it takes a little while to get ready

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i understand that four members of our

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flight had a lot of interesting

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publicity down here the fog embryology

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experiment was one that i think was very

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successful

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we

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gave them humor chorionic gonadotropin

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causing the ovulate were able to

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actually

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have over a hundred live tadpoles that

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were brought back that were actually

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conceived and born in space

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the experiment went very well

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the results now the investigators out at

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ames research center working busily on

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things but very

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generally the gross appearance of the

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tadpoles that were conceived in zero g

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are

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looked very normal they seem very normal

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so it was a good experiment one of the

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things we also wanted to look at was how

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what was the behavior was there a

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problem with

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their

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tadpoles interpretation of what goes on

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on zero g can they swim normally so we

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actually took up tadpoles that were

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hatched here on the on the ground and

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watched their swimming behavior some of

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the things it seemed like is that they

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had a difficult time figuring out

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which way to swim as you can see so they

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swim in circles but we're able to bring

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tadpoles back down and also observe

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we also did our studies on a blue shift

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of angular momentum and since i am an

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ice skater it was kind of fun to play

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with pulling my arms in going faster and

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then putting them back out and

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we also had fun with

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other things

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and watching the physics of how they

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behave

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when we spin them around there's a pair

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she is using thorax which is amazing

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radio equipment to communicate directly

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to the people on the ground we contacted

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many schools around the world

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here we flew over japan it was very

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impressive for me to see my hometown

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from space

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this is hokkaido i just resold the

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northern ireland of japan

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sapporo is the capital of the uh

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hokkaido where i used to work

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most of the time when we flew over japan

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was cloudy but i had a long time

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to see a tokyo metropolitan area

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i was very much impressed that the tokyo

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bay was very clean

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as you see there

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this is hurricane

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bonnie which was about 500 miles north

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northeast

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of bermuda when we took this photo and

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you can see the spiral bands around the

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well-developed eye it's a classic

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hurricane

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just after that we got ready to check

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out the vehicle uh for landing and here

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we are checking out the elevons during

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what we call the flight control system

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checkout you can see them moving back

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there

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on the wing in this wide-angle view and

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we were well satisfied the vehicle was

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ready for entry and so was the ground

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well after a very successful mission

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it's time to come home even though we

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got an extra day so we had to prepare

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the vehicle for entry got in our suits

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got all strapped back in

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uh made our deorbit burn that was very

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successful and we're on our way home

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this is a view out my window we're in

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the the red is a globe from the entering

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the atmosphere the

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excitation that orbit does and you can

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see the sunrise we're in a big right

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bank at that point

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back

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in our atmosphere with the hoop flying

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here

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we are starting to get some

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tips off the wings

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and uh then doing some more checking

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we'll be in our right turn here on our

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heading alignment circle preparing to

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roll out on final

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uh

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the orbiter as you see looks like it's a

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very nice flying aircraft it looks very

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uh

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very happy in that environment there

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on the ground it looks like it's falling

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we had had a lot of concern about the

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weather at the cape and being able to

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get back in there but as you can see we

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had just an absolutely beautiful day to

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come back to the kennedy space center

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air suit rolling out on final and

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shortly you'll see him put the nose down

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a little bit we'll pick up some more air

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speed and prepare for the final landing

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phase

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i got to fly the orbiter for a few

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seconds on entry and uh thanks to hoot

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and

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the older flies very nicely it felt like

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a much smaller aircraft than it really

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is

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a view from the vertical assembly

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building as we come in you can still see

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the the moisture off our wings getting

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ready my primary job in life now is to

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put the gear down there comes the gear

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and

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hit all the parameters that we're

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looking for as we come into land very

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we touched down at 205 knots and shortly

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after that we were calling out airspeed

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we're looking for 175 knots and at a

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point we uh i got to deploy the drag

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chute

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we were the first deploy with the nose

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still in the air a test that we're doing

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to hopefully expand the envelope

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and then the nose touched down about 130

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approaching about 60 knots we've gotten

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about all we could out of drag chute so

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we go ahead and jettison and then we let

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the orbiter roll to a stop

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like in the previous emissions

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as i mentioned this was the conclusion

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of a very successful mission we had just

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uh one

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one redshift handover one redshift tag

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up left to make

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and this is uh kurt and i having our