one liftoff of Atlantis
welcome to introduce you to the rest of
the crew 44
Lanta
standby for a call from the Johnson
Space Center Johnson press center go
ahead with your call Atlantis this is a
Johnson press Center we're ready to
begin the press conference hi this is
Frank bass with the Houston post I've
got a question for dr. Musgrave can you
give us an early assessment of how the
bioreactor system has worked this is
Mark kuroh at the Houston Chronicle for
Fred Gregory and story Musgrave wonder
if you could comment further on your
observations of the quality of the
Earth's atmosphere you made some
comments earlier today if you could
elaborate on those and sort of compare
what you're seeing on this mission with
what you've seen on your earlier
frederica castel from the french agency
this is Steven go Vayne with ktrk-tv I
have a question for anyone I was with
you this past summer when many of you
went visited the Oilers camp and picked
up Oilers jerseys with the number 44 on
them to commemorate your trip to space I
was wondering if you were aware that the
orders will be going for the
championship on Monday night and if you
intended to celebrate that on Monday
with wearing of the shirts
this is Laura Talley with The Associated
Press and for Mario Ronco I was I want
to ask you based on what you've seen so
far on the military man in space can
astronauts serve the military in space
platform so as they as a real time
operational asset to the military at the
moment I would say that if our
capabilities were marginal however that
may not be true in the future with a
little investment in some better
equipment and some more training
mr. Springfest with the post and I have
a follow-up for commander Ronco we've
heard quite a bit about the two m88 one
experiments the battle view and Moses
how his night nest been working for
y'all had y'all had any success in
communicating there
patience have been real good when we
have we have two modes of communication
so one mode we call network and that's
going through a network of satellite
systems to a field user at the site of
observation or close to the side of
observation and then we have another
method a direct method where we can go
from the shuttle to the ground
unfortunately on the direct method when
we first got going with that we had a
problem with the connector on her head
set and the regulars are working fine
but the means to get the information in
and out of the radio has been a problem
at this point Atlantis that concludes
the JSC portion of the press conference
stand by for a call from the Kennedy
Press Center Atlantis this is the
Kennedy press Center and we're ready to
begin bill Harwood you know a person can
you give us a we asked you before launch
rather military man in space and human
observers could what they could do that
satellites can't do now that you've been
up there firsthand and you've been able
to look down and see these targets as
you go by what can the human observer in
orbit bring to tactical reconnaissance
that you can't get just as well or
better with that particular
kind of characterize how a human
approves this particular environment we
won't have a specific man in the loop if
you will on orbit in that particular you
want to direct
to a military man in space might be for
situations where the tactical field
commander doesn't have the information
that he needs readily something like
where his adversary might be located in
that case if you happen to have a space
platform such as the shuttle or a space
station or some other future platform in
orbit at a time and that station is
going overhead of the area where that
field commander is operating in that
case he might be able to help the field
commander on the ground and relay the
information and that's kind of what
we're we're working on at this point
Marsha Dunn Associated Press sir
Lieutenant Commander Renko are you able
to see more or less detail with the m88
cameras than you would anticipate it and
could you give us some idea of just how
much detail you can pick out airplanes
that's kind of the level of detail
whether I can identify those ships as
particular types or airplanes I haven't
been able to do mainly because the
imagery I'm getting is kind of at the
limit of its resolution and that's what
I was getting at earlier with regard to
a little bit better equipment that
sticky with Reuters for Fred Gregory the
failure launch dr. Lenoir said that the
shuttle software would be adapted so the
orbiter can land on autopilot the
question is would you be happy to let
the computers take over at that
this is Irene Brown of Florida today I
also have a landing question for Fred
Gregory I was wondering if you and Tom
Henrik have subscribed to the mike
coates brian o'connor shuttle landing
video club to help you keep help keep
you prepared for landing after 10 days
in space sure is daunting with the
Orlando Sentinel I guess for Jim Voss a
couple of you got like four hour stints
coming up in the elbe I'm just wondering
what you plan to do to me come
Aviation Week for Tom Henin are there
any observational qualities that
surprised you from space as opposed to
the work you had done before I think one
of the biggest things that helps the
observation even with the naked eye
before going any further that we're not
trying to compete with any existing
equipment that's out there with then
we've run on or we're just going to
characterize a variety of different
observation techniques skills and ways
of doing business
they probably the biggest thing that has
at it from the vantage point of color
the tonal qualities that you get with
return fill based or electro-optical or
digital type of product it just don't
seem to have the same kind of color
properties as you have here with your
naked eye right out the shuttle window
so probably color is probably the
biggest factor that I really hadn't
anticipated dan billow here at W esht V
for story story you and some of your
crewmates have shown that that you're
not really afraid to show people you
have a sense of humor with that in mind
I'd like to hear how you describe lost
cabin with WFTV you know Orlando this
especially for the for first-timers up
there this mission like a couple of the
recent missions is studying the effects
of weightlessness on the human body what
effects have you noticed immediately
upon going into orbit and since you've
been up there what's been happening to
your bodies what have you noticed that
perhaps has been unexpected although we
don't want to get light and you wouldn't
expect us to see much on the front
window about six minutes six minutes and
a descent we were climbing directly
toward Orion and I was absolutely
spectacular from my point of view once
we had a engine cutoff the floating
sensation wasn't as strong as I expected
but I did make sure that went through
motions very small
shortly after that nothing was the human
ABS UPI radio network
well the commander bred you served as
NASA's operational space flight safety
chief after the Challenger accident more
than three years after return to flight
how do you view agency wide attention to
safety and can it be maintained in
future years with a heavier flight
schedule and four orbiters coupled with
diminished resources and personnel to
process those
this is dick uliana the ap radio network
for commander Fred Gregory you've landed
twice at edwards are you looking forward
to adding kennedy to your resume and if
you do land here what differences do you
expect to edwards and you think the
painful experience last time this is jim
Bankia Florida today I have a Star Trek
question for Mario the show it's famous
for its special effects drama and
optimistic vision of the future how does
the show compare with the real thing and
how has your spaceflight experience
affected your vision of what this nation
should do in the future in space toward
goals that are common to all mankind
toward where we can work together and
our differences and work toward
beings in all creatures whether they be
the animals on the face of the earth our
environment or otherwise and I think
working up here and seeing the
perspective this is a soft start in that
direction we're trying to achieve that
when you're up here looking at the earth
you get a global perspective you see
past orders doujin earth news story
Musgrave eight years ago on challengers
maiden flight you helped launch the
first I us from the shuttle was launched
in the commander Gregory Marshburn at
the AP again you became the second crew
in less than three months forced to
dodge space junk is an increase in all
other liquid
after had recovered in the Atlantic
Ocean that's picky with murders for a
story this is your fourth flight after
this flight you will have more hours in
orbit than any other Shuttle astronaut
this particular experience manifested
Kennedy presenter that concludes our
press conference thanks for taking the
time out to talk with us