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good afternoon this is the sts 29 post

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flight crew press conference

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we're going to look at some home movies

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slides video film and

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listen to the crew tell us

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their tales of

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sts-29 i'm happy to introduce the sts 29

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crew commander michael coats

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thank you jeff

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i have the distinct pleasure and i'm

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very proud to introduce

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the crew of sts-29

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john blaha to my right

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to his right is jim buckley

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and to his right is jim vagin

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and i'd like to start off by

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expressing my thanks and gratitude to

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everybody that worked so hard to get us

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ready to fly and to get the discovery

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ready to fly

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we have a

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movie a home movie we put together

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we'd like to show you

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and then some slides we'd like to talk

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to a little bit after that

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so jeff if we're ready to

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there's a discovery sitting in the

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launch pad we hope to see that quite

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we had a hard time getting uh jim

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beijing to wear coat and tie and our

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last chance was launch morning so we all

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got dressed up and he finally agreed to

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do that so

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here we are in the suit room

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getting those uh

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launch and entry suits on

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if they look uncomfortable that's

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and we're walking out of the crew

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quarters into the astronaut van looking

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like five orange doughboys here

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if we ever end up in the water we'll be

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glad we have those suits on but they

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sure are uncomfortable to wear

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especially if you're used to the old

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years of course most of you realize we

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had a a couple hour launch delay waiting

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for the fog to burn off and the upper

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exceedences to go away

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so we're really uh

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pleased when they started

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the countdown out of the nine-minute

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hole after four hours on our back it was

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a relief to start counting down again

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turned out to be a beautiful day once

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one of the things we did during this

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flight was uh activate a camera to

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recording debris striking the windows

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during the first couple minutes while

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the sidewalk boosters are

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are firing john the camera was on john's

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side over there

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and we got down to 10 seconds before

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liftoff and all five of us in unison

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said get the camera john

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and of course after two minutes uh the

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solid rocket boosters come off and

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now here we have a shot of uh

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the indian ocean the southern tip of

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india with

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the island of sri lanka

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used to be a salon

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called salon

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down there i think that's a beautiful

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once we got past the uh the launch and

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into fully into the orbit phase we

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started reconfiguring the cockpit to try

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and get things ready for the ios deploy

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i think one of the more difficult things

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about this particular mission is the uh

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the post insertion timeline and getting

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ready for the deploy operations uh

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you've got to get

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configured from your launch

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configuration reconfigure the entire

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orbiter for the deploy operations for

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the on-orbit operations we facilitated

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this to some extent as soon as we got on

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orbit by going ahead getting out of the

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launch entry suits and getting into our

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uh are more comfortable on orbit

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clothing which you can see varied

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somewhat getting ready for the tdrs and

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ius deploy once we got everything

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started uh six hours and 12 minutes into

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the mission we went ahead and deployed

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the ius tdrs

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it was a successful deploy we had a

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hearts almost stopped about two minutes

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before deploy we got a series of

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anomalies and warnings that looked like

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everything had failed and it turns out

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it was just a data drop on the

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communication link between the ius and

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the orbiter we got a quick go for the

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deploy from the ground when they saw

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that the their telemetry was all right

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so we proceeded with the deploy

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uh and got it off uh on time

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we were very delighted uh shortly

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thereafter uh the had the two uh burns

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that it took to get the ius up to its

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geosynchronous orbit

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and we found out that those two burns uh

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went on schedule and as programmed

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the tdrs was put into its uh initial

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i think it had initially had a 40 foot

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per second under speed as far as getting

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to its uh its geosynchronous altitude

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but it turns out that uh that was not

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all bad it was a slight underburn and it

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the right side of things as the orbital

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mechanics of it go and was actually

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i had to get into uh experiment

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activation this is the protein crystal

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growth experiment uh fascinating

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experiment because it's one of the

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things we've learned to do in the

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microgravity environment of space is to

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be able to grow crystals in this case

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protein crystals that are used in a

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variety of applications in pharmacology

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our biggest job after activating the

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experiment going ahead and mixing the

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ingredients the precipitates that would

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help to form the crystals was to do some

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photography of it we did a activation

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photography to capture what the

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this is the chromex experiment it's a

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plant growth experiment we flew to see

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how plant roots that would just start to

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germinate would develop one orbit

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without the influence of gravity and

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that way to see if the chromosome

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divisions that normally take place would

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proceed as you'd expect

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and allow the growth of the plant this

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is particularly useful for future ops

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where people worry about both food

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growth and closed environmental control

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systems where you can not only scrub co2

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this is one of the life sciences

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experiments it's a transcranial doppler

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it's one of the dsos and here we're

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looking at some blood flow in the middle

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cerebral artery and that's the velocity

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waveform look in there on mike

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and we hope to try to carry light

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blood flow in the brain with possible

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symptoms of space adaptation syndrome

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better handle on what the cause of that

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to try to get that wrapped up

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here's a little thing we did on the side

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there was concerns for space station

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about how to because we'll be there for

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a longer period of time how to deliver

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normal type health care how to care for

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people and this is an iv bag intravenous

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fluid you have bubbles in it well on

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earth they just drift to the top and you

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look like effervescence just bubble

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centrifuging it by hand like that you're

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the one end and just bleed it right off

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with any extra equipment on board just

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just as you would here on earth so it

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pressure measurement and by blowing in

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that mouthpiece he raises his pressure

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flow and he was measuring the flow in

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the external jugular vein there with the

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to look at changes in intraocular

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pressure just as you measure intraocular

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which i just did with those little drops

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continue to tap it and you got to get

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used to that just staring in the eye as

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you bounce it off your corner you can

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tell when you touch it not because you

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but it changes your refractive area you

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can see everything get blurry

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this is uh john vellinger's experiment

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senior at purdue university now he

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started this experiment many years ago

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he really did a great job with this i

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really congratulate him

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we saw him last friday he told us

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preliminary results so far

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as it turns out the embryos that

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launched that were two days old were all

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on landing for some reason up in orbit

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that launched that were nine days old

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maybe some very significant results and

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a lot of unanswered questions from that

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this is a another thing for space

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concerned could you use standard type

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medical equipment like for suturing

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wounds stitching up wounds as you would

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in 1g so we just had a little little

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block with some basic like artificial

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skin with various lacerations made in it

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since they didn't want us to lacerate

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ourselves plus it's a little tougher to

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get volunteers for that

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uh we're gonna first though anyway

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uh we got the suture material out and

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wound in the same way you would here on

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and bob did a good job focusing on the

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suture you can see it right there it

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doesn't tangle up the normal links like

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what you see on the laundry on here is a

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share experiment which is a space

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though it didn't perform as we had

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predicted the nasa engineers and mission

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control team were able to get an awful

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lot of very very good data from this

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tells us why it's so important to fly

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pieces of the space station and

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equipment on early shuttle flight so we

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can get a good engineering basis for

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here we are in the mid deck mike's

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were going to be clear around the world

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on the flight deck we did several

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experiments this one happens to be a

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coast

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which is an optical device allowing the

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crew to realign their inertial platforms

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in the event that they should

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malfunction and

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lose their nav base

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mike was able to do that sighting on the

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sun

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this is the imax camera and

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you see jim here uh loading the magazine

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putting the film into the camera i might

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compliment the imax people

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excellent support and training they gave

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us throughout the lead-up to the mission

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which really enabled us to be very

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successful uh we found operating with

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the camera in xero g to be

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quite similar to 1g and had no

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here's a scene on the flight deck uh

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jim's holding the camera here and i'm

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trying to put a 100 millimeter lens on

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in this case

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and you see mike up front talking to

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mission control this is usually the

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sequence mike was trying to maneuver the

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orbiter

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here's a shot of me

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taking a picture of this case

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florida

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and coming into the bahamas here i

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believe

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but basically the way we worked with

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imax is we had somebody filming we had

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somebody as a spotter looking out the

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window because when you look through the

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viewfinder of the imax it really shrinks

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your field of view

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and so you need a spotter and somebody

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maneuvering the orbiter and of course

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jim was working

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changing out the magazines in the black

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bag usually and i was loading the camera

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so

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quite a team effort to pull off the

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some of the other cameras we had on

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board that we use for earth observations

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are 70 millimeter hasselblad this

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happens to be a shot over cuba

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of note is all of the active

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coral reefs just to the south side of

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cuba we added some very very good shots

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of that

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and showed some live coral

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and reformation just south of that

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as you can see the whole east coast was

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uh

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was very clear for most of our mission

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including the caribbean so we got some

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footage that

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another camera that we used extensively

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was the errol linhoff

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it's a handheld aerial photography

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camera a little bit larger film format

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and as a result the resolution is is

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somewhat better than

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some of the smaller

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film

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cameras this shot is coming over central

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america

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looking down a chain of volcanoes you

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can see the volcano sticking up in the

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and again john using another hasselblad

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camera we're able to use with the

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attitude we were in use just about all

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of the windows

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the side windows for black shots

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overhead windows for directly down

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and it worked out very very well for our

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we have four good windows and five

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this is a shot of the himalayas uh it

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shows a

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view looking north you can see the

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orbiter tail at the top

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and the brownish area in the background

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is the tibetan plateau and it gives you

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a a nice feel for it

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look in the north looking view you see

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it more in profile it really gives you a

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feeling of the relief the elevation of

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the himalayas there because in the

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foreground the ganges river basin is

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basically sea level so you're seeing a

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29 000 foot rise down with 13 000 foot

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plateau behind

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and it's uh even more impressive in

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person

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that's the problem of having your

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satellite deploy on the first day is

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that after that uh somebody has to get

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stuck with the housekeeping chores so uh

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here's a shot of

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of the food preparation process uh

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actually uh what i would note is that uh

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number one the galley worked very very

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well for us i was

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since this is my first flight i was very

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pleasantly surprised at

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how palatable the food was the cold

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water was cold the hot water was hot

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just the way it's supposed to be and and

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that was actually a bit of a surprise we

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actually have an oven on board that we

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can use to heat up the food

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and it's a bit like a camping trip in a

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way that there's a lot of overhead that

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goes into

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maintaining the shuttle and the food

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preparations part of it

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we did finally get together for a crew

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dinner although that was a rarity

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actually on this flight we we stayed

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busy enough that uh for most of the

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meals we just worked right through the

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meal and and somebody that was available

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would do the food prep down on the mid

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deck and then as you had a couple

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minutes you'd

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float by and grab something and have

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your dinner on the run so to speak or on

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the fly i guess it's more appropriate

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but we did sit down i think on the

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fourth night or fifth night and have a

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a dinner all together and it was a it

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was the one family meal that we had on

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board the shuttle on this this

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we wanted a shot of the

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sleeping bags you can see i'm getting

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into one sleeping bag and jim buckley's

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getting in the other uh

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he's more or less heads down and i'm

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somewhat heads up here

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you can obviously sleep any way you want

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you don't need to sleep in a sleeping

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i like it because it keeps the

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temperature pretty constant it keeps you

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from floating off and bumping into

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things in the middle of night

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and i found that very comfortable just

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to put the sleeping bag up against the

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lockers and

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this is uh jim and bob actually one time

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i came to the mid deck and i saw them

438
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doing this so i grabbed the 16

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millimeter and started taking this

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footage

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i couldn't figure out what was quite

442
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going on here

443
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here we had a doctor and a marine trying

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to prove prove who could do the most

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pull-ups so i

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one the next time i came

447
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the next time i came through the mid

448
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deck uh jim happened to have this set up

449
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the our treadmill so i jumped on there

450
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they looked like they were doing real

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good i thought i'd try it and uh

452
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unfortunately that was a lot tougher

453
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well despite the fact that uh we were

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working very hard there's always the the

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ever-present uh

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fluid experiments that uh that we wanted

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to do uh and and while on one hand it's

458
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a it's a bit of fun doing this it's also

459
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very useful when we're talking to school

460
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children uh it allows you to see what

461
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happens to a fluid when it's released in

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the microgravity of space and of course

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a food will tend to assume it's a

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minimal energy level which is a sphere

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and

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that's the science part of it uh the fun

467
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part of it is watching a bunch of grown

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men trying to play with uh bubbles of

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fluid and zero gravity

470
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you try very hard to get two bubbles

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two spheres to float together to see

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what they do that may be impossible i

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don't we couldn't do it in

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an hour or so trying

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this is a remarkable shot because we had

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this is just the the morning before

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our press conference on board the

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shuttle and we had all changed into

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clean clothes mike had gotten cleaned up

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put on a clean white shirt and then

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proceeded to play with drops of

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strawberry juice which he managed to

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splatter across his white shirt just

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before the press conference well this

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tells the truth we uh we said we won the

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fly tortillas and we're more interested

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in that than fresh bread but i think it

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was probably more for the aerodynamic

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qualities of the tortillas than

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their actual flavor

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interestingly enough though that that

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proved the tortillas proved a very very

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good uh bread substitute didn't crumble

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as well the uh

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the suits

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we normally stored in the airlock except

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when we first got on orbit when you're

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not in them there's no weight they just

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kind of take on a life of their own and

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they're you know they take a lot of room

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here we are just kind of playing around

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the night before we pulled the suits out

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to check them out to make sure

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everything was set up the way we thought

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they should be and if there's any repair

506
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or servicing they needed we could do

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that and

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it just shows you know there's only two

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or three suits in the picture and

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there's actually five from there it

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takes a lot of room

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here's uh we're just going through a

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suit donna here uh bob and i jim just

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helping us a little bit to get in

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and you find you just kind of float and

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just kind of

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with more or less effort pop on through

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i don't have to worry about catching my

519
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hair on the neck seal when i come

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through

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so it's probably a little easier for me

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but they're fairly fairly quick dining

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the biggest trouble is getting the

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zipper you have to pull around

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and you always can most of us need a

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it's the shot of a sunset again we

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really enjoyed the sunsets and sunrises

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as you've always heard whenever we have

529
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a

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slope

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getting ready to land on the runway

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00:20:48,149 --> 00:20:46,799
edwards 2-2

533
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we do so much training in the shuttle

534
00:20:52,789 --> 00:20:50,240
training airplane that uh once you get

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00:20:53,909 --> 00:20:52,799
down below about 15 000 feet you feel

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00:20:55,830 --> 00:20:53,919
like you've been there a hundred times

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before it's very comfortable

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00:20:58,870 --> 00:20:57,520
situation the only difference is the

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00:21:00,630 --> 00:20:58,880
wind noise of course in the shuttle

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00:21:02,870 --> 00:21:00,640
training airplane you have the engines

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running all the time even in reverse and

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00:21:05,909 --> 00:21:04,000
it's a little bit noisy and you don't

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00:21:09,029 --> 00:21:05,919
have that of course with a shuttle

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00:21:11,430 --> 00:21:09,039
so you can hear the wind noise

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we're very interested in doing a braking

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00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:13,200
evaluation

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which is why we landed on the runway

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and we wanted to follow

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00:21:22,070 --> 00:21:19,840
our normal

550
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braking profile and put about 25 million

551
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foot-pounds into each of the

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main brakes

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00:21:29,510 --> 00:21:27,679
main gear brakes

554
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and we hit that very close i think we

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had 22 million in

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the left side and 29 million foot pounds

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00:21:37,590 --> 00:21:35,200
on the right side so it was a very

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successful test and it had responded

559
00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:39,200
quite well we were very pleased with the

560
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brakes

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since it was so cool outside about 40

562
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degrees we elected to keep the

563
00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:47,200
launch and entry suits on instead of

564
00:21:52,470 --> 00:21:48,400
trying to struggle at them down in the

565
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it's really crew preference what they