you
good morning Atlantis your wakeup music
was a special request from Emily Gibson
damn good morning thank you very much
for that great wakeup music I happen to
know that's one of her favorites uggs
good morning Katie thank you very much
pleasure to be with you here thanks so
much for joining us this is really a
thrill doctor you of course have
been in space rather than another
American how are you feeling these days
physically I feel fine I think
emotionally and psychologically I'm
probably ready to go home but over all
right today we all fared pretty well
we're all healthy and now it's just a
question to get back and get back into a
our usual earthbound routine I'd like to
talk with you about the staggered a
little bit about the emotional and
psychological effects are being in space
and of this entire mission you've talked
a little bit about cultural isolation
you say that physiologically you're fine
but the cultural isolation was a little
tough to deal with can you explain that
to us well actually I would say and I
think I can honestly say I had no
serious difficulties I worry really more
about longer flights I knew going in and
I've said this before I can do anything
for three months and that was exactly
the case and on board we got along fine
and we're great friends now and probably
will be for the rest of our lives still
in all year long American on a Russian
spacecraft no one else really speaks
English and there were times when I went
days without talking to our folks in the
Mission Control Center in Moscow all of
which adds up to a fair amount of
isolation three months was no problem I
i I'm probably as crazy as I was but no
more so now than when I before I flew
and I was our big problem for me but
it's something we'll have to look at for
longer flights Josiah how is being in
space with Russians how does it compare
to being in space with American
in terms of how they do business up
there as you might expect because it's
the same business and they're really not
very many good ways to do it the
similarities are more striking than the
differences the fact that they were were
Russians did didn't seem to play a large
role in what I saw going on and I'll say
again there were really no problems from
a crew in a relation standpoint all that
work probably even better than most of
us expected but the American who will be
one person with two Russians and dealing
with a mission control center in which
everyone speaks Russian will add up to a
fair amount of isolation commander
Gibson hoot I just like to say that name
who'd tell me why you think this mission
was so crucial to the United States
space program locatie if we're serious
about doing an international space
station and building an international
space station and we are this flight is
a carbon copy of what we're going to be
doing with the International Space
Station we're going to have
multinational cruise we're going to fly
the sort of maneuvers with space shuttle
that we flew for the first time on this
mission we're going to be transferring
equipment we're going to be transferring
people in short we're going to be doing
all the sorts of things that we did on
sds 71 with international space station
and so this has been a real proving
ground for us and it was something that
we needed to do correctly and and I
believe we haven't and I hope we have
sorry now that the clinical part of your
mission is over but will you all be
doing on the way home is Right seen what
kind of things will you be busy getting
as you travel back to earth
ok we have been running pretty fast and
hard for the last how many days has it
been down further for the last stage of
the mission that the whole time that
we've been up here and we've had very
little time to look out the window hours
observation folks are going to be
unhappy with us because we haven't shot
very many pictures of the earth just
because we've been running so hard to
get all the things done that we had to
do and that we want it to get done we
are going to be continuing with with
medical data getting situation medical
data on on our test subjects which are
the mere 18 crew and and getting the
orbiter generally ready to come back
home we do have a little bit more
breathing room in the next couple of
days to get everything ready to come
back so that's the first thing you're
going to do when they just that space
suit and get back on on earth try to do
is stand up if I'm able to head then
after that I hope my family will be
there and I'd like to give out of my
wife and my kids life or the hugs and
kisses I know you really missed some
gentlemen but every bit is that sign
behind you say I love eaa what does that
mean the entire crew members of the
Experimental Aircraft Association which
is an outfit out of Oshkosh Wisconsin
and before we launched couple of us are
already were members and lake before we
wash all of the whole entire crew became
ever so that's kind of our group I guess
where that's the kind of that money
can't buy gentlemen thank you so much
for talking with us this morning this is
Mission Control Houston at a mission
elapse time of seven days 15 hours 28
minutes into the flight of Atlantis this
live television coming from the shuttles
space lab science workshop in the rear
of Atlantis's cargo bay as the orbiter
passes out over the Pacific Ocean east
of the Indonesian chain everything
aboard atlantis in good working order as
u.s. astronaut norm
in the background of the Space Lab there
begins to prepare himself for the
donning we have switched to TBC 3 at
this time saggart is preparing to done
baroreflex equipment that's the the neck
cuff that he and his crew mates from the
muir 18 mission will wear for several
hours of testing of their cardiovascular
response to prolonged weightlessness
thagard zuroff vladimir du jour off the
mere 18 commander in flight engineer
Gennady struck a lof are in their 113th
day in orbit if Atlantis lands on Friday
at the Kennedy Space Center weather
permitting they will have completed a
journey of 115 days aboard the MIR space
station and the shuttle Atlantis again
this live television from the shuttle
space lab module showing astronaut
Bonnie Dunbar in the science workshop as
she continues to collect biomedical data
from the mere 18 cosmonauts using the
baroreflex device the neck collar which
is measuring cardiovascular performance
of the two cosmonauts and u.s. astronaut
norm thagard who are in their 113th day
in orbit
go ahead charlie babe we've got
everything hooked up that securely up
through the 15 here go for the break up
am I
Lana's Charlie or go for step 16 okay 15
and 16
affirmative charlie 15 and 16
this is Mission Control Houston activity
in the space lab science module as
payload commander Ellen Baker and mere
18 flight engineer Gennady struck aloft
help we're complete with 16 and we'll
get started on kpa up we've got 24
pictures to set down to you in the first
batch and then we'll have some more
after that as well I was thinking that
if we could get some down like time
earlier in the day that we do is get in
the head caught back up with every one
of the headset via copy will coordinate
the times
this is Mission Control Houston at a
mission elapse time of seven days 17
hours 36 minutes into the flight of
Atlantis this picture are coming live
from the shuttle Atlantis of space lab
module and in the rear of the cargo bay
kissin Park copies on thank you this
picture shows dr. Ellen Baker and mere
18 flight engineer Gennady struggle off
collecting biomedical data on u.s.
astronaut norm thagard who is in the
lower body negative pressure device
meantime on the right side of your
picture astronaut Bonnie Dunbar is
working with a mere 18 commander
vladimir toujours off this picture
pretty much says it all as far as the
day's work in orbit is concerned Bonnie
we do not have live down link at this
time
and far as you can see the Space Lab is
a beehive of activity today thank you
for the great camera work
Lana's we are a minute and a half to
attend SMOS interbank at 23 hours and 26
minutes you can keep down Linkin KCA
right until we have loss of signal and
then take the P tipped off please