good morning Atlantis and to let you
know Bonnie run help with the wakeup
music this morning
good morning Sam a lot of clear and I
think we're gonna be reluctant alone I
guess we'll be ready when the time comes
while this work continues in the space
lab science module the entry team of
flight controllers led by entry flight
director Wayne Hale has been on console
since about two o'clock this morning as
they cycle themselves into the same
shift they'll work tomorrow in support
of all the preparations required for
Atlantis as deorbit burn and return to
the Kennedy Space Center entry flight
director Wayne Hale has already had one
weather briefing from the spaceflight
meteorology group this morning is
expecting a more detailed weather
briefing from those forecasters about a
half an hour from now as he continues to
formulate his strategy and that of the
entry team to present to the mission
management team of top NASA managers and
their meeting about two hours from now
and a Space Lab Houston for Bonnie to
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let me start with a big picture question
commander gibson one of this mission was
to go up and get norm thagard and to do
some long-term experiments about
long-term space days but the other part
of it was to prove it could be done
technically to prove it could be done
politically that we could work with the
Russians put those on a balance and tell
me which was the most important part of
this flight Nancy I guess it's hard to
say that one was more important than the
other because they all had their very
specific purposes you mentioned that it
was done to show that it could be done I
think we really integrated it more into
a a long-term picture than just to go
show that it could be done we are all
interested in building International
Space Station and working together and
making that work and this is one of the
first steps on the way we have divided
it up to call what we call phase one and
then leading into phase 2 phase one is
the flights to mirror and those are
doing many of the projects many of the
techniques many of the tests that will
be doing in phase 2 so this is just one
small part of the of the whole overall
picture again commander Gibson norm
thagard has been pretty open about
saying that this is likely to be his
last flight I'm wondering about you how
likely are you to fly again and what is
it that NASA could offer you after you
have done what you have said is pretty
much the pirating challenge of a
lifetime well fancy I guess I had to
admit that's a pretty good question and
I've been wondering to myself well gee
what what am I going to do after this
one
oh you know if I don't know that I need
to top this one but how am I going to
get a more interesting and more
challenging flight in the future after
this and the answer is i guess i don't
know i'm not exactly sure when i move to
next or what what i do within NASA I
think I've learned quite a few things
that would be very useful and very
valuable to NASA maybe this is the last
time I fly I don't know I guess I'm
keeping an open mind and I'm keeping all
the options open still at this point
Nancy let me ask Greg Harbaugh a
question you've had the chance to talk
with norm thagard and he has said that
three months in space is doable but that
six months or a year is in his mind
pretty difficult thing to do I'm just
wondering would you be interested in a
long-term stay and what is it that you
have what is your reaction to what norm
thagard has had to say is that
discouraged you in any way from wanting
to make a long stay yourself Lillian see
I don't know that I'm a candidate for
that kind of a flight I think having a
medical doctor do that kind of long
duration activity to do the self
analysis self-diagnosis that would be
most useful from a scientific return
standpoint would be probably the optimum
but nonetheless answer to your question
I'm not sure that I have the mindset to
go stay someplace for three to six or
twelve months if I wasn't going
somewhere I think maybe if we were on
our way to Mars I'd be very interested
but going up and staying on Space
Station I don't know but I haven't been
confronted with that question and I
guess I'll beg off until somebody asked
me whether I really want to do it put me
in that position let me ask commander
deser off the question and he spent
three months aboard mir tell me what it
is about your character your personnel
that makes you able to stay for long
terms in space and would you be
interested in six months a year or maybe
even a length of time it would take to
go to Mars what would make you able to
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actually longer the flight the more
person becomes more intense in all of
his aspects in the good and kind of the
not-so-good make long flights on
existing in new new stations and
stations that are working on a more
contemporary level and are more
technologically advanced or is certainly
interesting and I would with great
pleasure would agree to do this if I
have the opportunity to fly to the new
alpha station I think this would be very
interesting to try and how this would be
it would be even more interesting if
there would be a big international team
that consists not only of Americans in
Russian cosmonauts and astronauts but
also astronauts and cosmonauts from
other countries commander Desert Storm
has said he got lonely up there
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no no I wasn't lonely actually there was
a lot of work to do and there wasn't
even time to think about missing
anything norm was somewhat lonely i but
i wouldn't say very lonely and he was so
loaded down with work the same way that
we were with all sorts of technical
issues norm wasn't loaded down so much
that we we were a little late in
accepting a new model module with new
equipment linea not leave charlie
Precourt out of this you know always
there are detractors to the space
program it comes up every year for a
vote it's going to be the space station
is going to be coming up again in
Congress undoubtedly there will be those
who try to kill it are there people that
you just have to write off who are
always going to do this or after a
mission it's been given this much
international publicity and talked about
this much in terms of success do you
find it frustrating that you have to
fight these battles over and over again
I look at it to respects I think it's
good that there's some skeptics out
there to keep us honest and make sure
that we produce the maximum product for
the dollar that's spent on the program
on the other hand there's a little bit
of frustration that if you work in
something like this like we do it's our
life and we are very very dedicated to
it we believe in it completely and it's
somewhat frustrating that we can't
communicate how important it is to those
people who doubt it and I guess it kind
of falls back to your earlier question
to hoot about what was the most
important part of the flight whether it
be political or technical I think what
really goes on here is that there's a
little bit of everything for everybody
in what we're doing in space whether it
be research whether it be international
relationships whether it be new
technologies for everyday life on earth
whether it be from motivating our
children will it be for education you
can look all different directions and
what we do impacts every different area
of our lives so
yes there is some frustration but it
keeps us honest and I think it's healthy
and that's our process that was made our
country strong and now I think that same
process will make our entire globe
strong internationally as we join
together one of the biggest results I
think of this flight is that we've
demonstrated a willingness both sides
and now internationally to to carry on
with this kind of project and it's
really encouraging well that brings to
mind something that Greg Harbaugh said
before he left which is that remember
asking him about something what he
thought would come of this and and Greg
you said that 20 years ago there was a
lot of Hope after a parlor freeze but
the danger now is sitting back and not
committing ourselves the same thing that
happened 20 years ago if it were up to
you what would you do right this minute
right now or as soon as you got back on
the ground to keep this going to keep
this interest to generate it what would
I do personally be fancy and what would
you tell NASA to do and what would you
do personally well I think we've done
with what we can do on a personal level
we've accomplished our mission you know
we set out for a very with a very
challenging set of objectives and we
satisfied those and I think we did it
very well with regard to NASA you know I
think we could we need to do a good job
of telling the American people what what
we do and why we do it and to follow up
charlie's point to let folks know why it
is worthwhile any on the tax dollar that
the taxpayer spends that pays for our
budget you know we we do an awful lot if
you look back and created some sort of
an anthology at will we've done just in
the shuttle program with all the
satellite deploys and retreat
season and some of the amazing fantastic
things we've done with just the space
shuttle it's really quite an impressive
list of accomplishments and I think the
American public needs to have that kept
in front of them so that they appreciate
what the space program is really doing
for them and I guess I would try to be
aggressive at getting that word out okay
I think I lost the the end of the answer
to that question but let me go ahead and
ask 11 more of commander des Arras if he
can can hear me which is what is the
saying that he is looking forward the
real human thing that he is looking
forward to doing the most when he gets
back does he want to take a walk in the
woods you want to take a hot shower away
the first real human thing after saying
his family that he wants to do when he
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thing I probably want to do is to stand
under a hot shower for a pretty long
time and I've missed that and second
thing with I'd like to meet with my
family with my kids my wife to talk to
socialize take a little walk if there is
such an opportunity immediately tell you
the truth I miss I miss people pretty
much and kind of the everyday earth life
one last real quick question for hoot
its twenty years since Apollo Soyuz 20
years from now what do you want people
to say about this mission
Danny I hope they'll say it was it was a
very good success I hope they'll say
that it had been an incredibly long dry
spell between apollo-soyuz and SDS 71
but then look at all the other missions
that we did and look at how SDS 71
helped open the way between the United
States and Russia and that we existed in
cooperation and friendship thereafter
and Lena's we have you an air-to-ground
one through my life okay so you're clear
lanús you are loud and clear on here to
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