good morning Atlanta smear hey good
morning dad I thought we talked to you a
walk before this yeah I did too but it's
real real happy to give you an on-time
wake-up call this is Mission Control
Houston this live picture male from the
shuttle Space Lab module this picture
showing mission specialists Ellen Baker
and Bonnie Dunbar in the space lab
science workshop in the rear of Atlantis
is cargo bay beginning to set up the
lower body negative pressure device
that's the white sac that you see
floating on the left side of the screen
next to Baker that device so we've used
in which near 18 crew members lat
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the North a gird we'll each take turns
climbing into over the next several days
and in fact after Atlantis is undocking
from the earth and to help draw fluids
evenly throughout their bodies in a
countermeasure activity designed to help
them adapt to Earth's gravity once
Atlantis returns to Earth on Friday
Dunbar has also been involved in
activities aboard the space lab this
morning with a mere 18 crew who are in
essence the three guinea pigs being
perfect subjects for the study of the
effect of long exposure to
weightlessness on human body
in this picture from the shuttle Space
Lab module d'azyr off is putting his
shirt back on after having been
instrumented for the lower body negative
pressure device by Bonnie Dunbar payload
commander Ellen Baker is on the left
side of the picture she is working to
hook up all of the telemetry wires and
and monitors for the lower body negative
pressure device pilot Charlie Precourt
in the foreground they're armed with a
camera to document all the activity
that's taking place in the shuttle space
lab
yeah and I understand you're also
looking forward to getting a good
old-fashioned American hot dog hot dogs
and hamburgers and ice cream will be
great all right if you would pass the
microphone please back to commander
Gibson I have a few questions for him
about the work he's done this week
commander Gibson you managed to dock the
shuttle you brought it in on schedule
under budget and within an inch of its
life how much training did you get on
the ground in a simulator for that and
then how did the real thing compared to
the training well Leon there's a there's
a real important point that I want to
make here and that is that we brought
the shuttle in on time and successfully
accomplished a docking I was the one who
had his hand physically on the controls
but I would not have gotten there
without the help of a awful lot of folks
who you're looking at right now and an
awful lot of folks on the ground in
Mission Control and the entire team that
put that all together as you mentioned
we have spent a tremendous amount of
time in the simulators training to do
this particular task and training to do
it under ideal conditions and training
to do it under less than ideal
conditions and all of those things all
of those things play together to to
really prepare you to go out and
actually do it
we had somewhat ideal conditions in some
ways and we had less than ideal
conditions in other ways for the actual
docking and the fact that the fact we
wanted to make it look easy and the fact
that we came close to making it look
easy it was because of all that training
and because of all the great and
excellent work that got done by a lot of
people on the ground and and the people
that we had up here well of course now
that you've put them together you the
whole crew you're going to have to take
them apart coming up this Tuesday if all
goes according to schedule on July 4th
why don't you tell us how that works or
if you wish pass it to another crew
member and they can answer the question
I'd like to have our pilot Charlie
Precourt talk about that well we're
looking forward to the undocking for a
couple of reasons we are going to be
able to show it to you through video
from both the Soyuz and from the shuttle
and we'll be able to share with you the
experience in a little more detail and
you saw it during the docking it's
basically operationally for us is pretty
much the reverse of the process that got
us to the docking the Soyuz commanded by
Anatoly here and also accompanied by the
flight engineer Nikolai they will undock
the Sawyer's return capsule before we
leave the station and they will move to
a position where they can actually film
our undocking of the shuttle and then we
will move out further and distance from
the station when we undock and we will
station keep in a position where we can
refill the docking of the soyuz capsule
by anatoly all of that should make for
some very interesting and be able to
demonstrate on film the processes that
we went through to coordinate bringing
these two massive vehicles together in
the first place so we're really looking
forward to that we're really looking
forward to sharing it with you on the
ground
let me ask anatoly then a few questions
since he will be out taking pictures
Natalia
commander Folio I'm ready
what are you looking forward to
understand we're talking about the
undocking about flying around the
complex and taking pictures when the
shuttle is undocking is this correct
first of all I think it will be a very
beautiful sight because when we were
approaching the MIR station the entire
complex is very beautiful and we can
also see through the window and look
through the window and see the shuttle
which is very very close and it's a very
beautiful bird so I think that when we
see all of this from the Soyuz
spacecraft if we how we see Atlantis
depart from mere we will put this on
film and share our feelings and opinions
with you commander how long will you be
on the mirror once the shuttle Atlantis
depart
shuttle Atlantis rustic woods substance'
dancing a rather short mission and on 30
August we will return to Earth the next
crew just slightly over two months and
we'll be relieved by another crew
commander briefly how do you think the
history of this mission is going to be
written in your country yes 'muslim of
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well even during training in many
training and many interviews this
question was encountered many times and
I think that I think it is worthwhile
revisiting it because it is very
important we with this flight are
beginning a great program and I would
say it's more than a program it is an
absolutely necessary cooperative effort
to put forward cosmonautics and this
process must proceed quickly because
these two systems can supplement
complement one another and this
development process it's acceleration of
this process will be significant you
always want to be prepared we have an
expression onboard the crew which is
good Toby Thank You Toby but we have an
extra which which means prepared always
prepared
we had two cakes with us we had an
actual cake that one of our other
astronauts Marsha Ivins made for us and
we also had just in case it fell apart
in during the launch we also had a an
inflatable birthday cake with candles
that we use so we were well prepared
all right well to the crew of the mirror
and the space shuttle Atlantis who are
in orbit thank you spasiba and we hope
you have a safe return
this is Mission Control Houston work
continues aboard the shuttle space Space
Lab module in the rear of Atlantis as
cargo bay as a mission specialist Bonnie
Dunbar monitors the progress of
biomechanical tests which have been
ongoing most of the morning on the MIR
18 crew members vladimir Doozer off
gennady strike al off in u.s. astronaut
norm thagard
just two Dunbar's left is flight
engineer gennady struck a LOF who has
been in space for a hundred and ten days
now he and his commander to giraffe and
his crew mate thagard will be returning
to earth next Friday aboard the shuttle
Atlantis for a landing at the Kennedy
Space Center the tests have been in two
parts so far baroreflex testing using a
special type of neck cuff which measures
the arterial strength of the the veins
and the neck muscles as well as blood
pressure and other cardiovascular
responses after long exposure to
microgravity also on the left side of
the screen and this picture coming to
you from the shuttle Space Lab as the
lower body negative pressure device a
sort of silent cylindrical type sac in
which crewmembers crawl into to use a
negative pressure to more evenly
distribute fluids flowing through their
body preventing them from pooling in the
subjects head and thus being used as a
countermeasure against the effects of
long exposure to microgravity let's go
into the this is the flight deck this is
just like a flight deck of an airplane
this is the commander's seat please have
a seat
note that the view is just the same as
out of an airplane
we have screens here for displaying data
from computers that's the seat for the
pilot commander is the pilot and the
pilot actually is the co-pilot
that linear ticket area that's the
control for controlling the engines and
a area for the life-support system for
controlling computers
the commander controls the aircraft
using these controls we have the rear
deck or the aft deck and this is where
the commander's was during the
rendezvous and docking control the craft
from this station and to make
observations through these on the right
hand we have on the right hand side we
normally have panel to control the
manipulator arm arm right now this has
been converted for used by a mechanism
for controlling docking view through the
window here is extremely good
in the center we have a panel for
controlling the television camera system
Charlie was right here where we are
normally however he would be found in
the
don't charlie assisted in all aspects
during all aspects of the rendezvous
operation during rendezvous and docking
is very complex however there were no
problems during the rendezvous or during
the docking
I bet the various yes that leads back
and right now there is an excellent view
of the station through these windows
oh you hit that plane that maybe we can
show this view this is one of the
modules of the MIR station
it's the cristal module crystal the
crystal contains the docking mechanism
fortunately these mechanisms operated
well during the docking
Peruggia here are the other modules of
the station is called the clauncher -
and this module contains a service
module for doing performing
extracurricular activity cosmonauts use
this module during EPA's here we have
another deck on the shuttle a so-called
middle deck the middle deck resembles
the everyday deck or the housekeeping
deck of the Soyuz the members of the
crew spend much time here we have
instruments here for providing food we
have innocence a galley a toilet many
containers to store various instruments
in this metallic container on the right
hand side now proceed to the space lab
sometimes this is a laboratory that is
found in the payload Bay and the access
to this laboratory is through a tunnel
which is approximately 8 meters or 25
feet and it's rather dark in the tunnel
but the space lab is very bright there's
a lot of light here course the primary
reason for the laboratory is to perform
all sorts of different scientific
experiments for example we right now
have experiments
designed to study changes humans during
long term exposure to the weightless
conditions of space primarily this is a
system for controlling all of these
systems in the space lab this is Mission
Control Houston once again this live
picture coming from the shuttle space
lab module showing mere 18 flight
engineer gennady struggle off in the
lower body negative pressure device this
is the first use of the LB NP device on
this joint phase of the shuttle-mir
dockings mission strike Aleph will be
using this device every day now for the
next several days through landing with
the exception of undocking day
this abusing bar for Ellen not just TVC
are they we are now down linking the
treadmill on TV z1