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good morning discovery
good morning houston great wake-up music
well just because you're 179 miles up
doesn't mean you can get away from that
little guy he's after you
we had a feeling we'd hear more about
that
you will
go ahead discovery
so mark just wanted to tell you you
could pass along to jeff stone that
we're very impressed he got us an ifm
within the first 28 hours
okay we'll do that nancy and you'll be
happy to know that the
ontadris the two single axis antenna
reflectors are now deployed so all
appendages have been deployed and the on
on-orbit checkout is continuing
nominally
that's terrific news mark everything
went just so smoothly yesterday we were
all really pleased
happy
being panned over in an effort to
discover houston for bds
in an effort to look at tropical storm
chantal
yes don our suggestion is possibly that
you check the jumpers
that were
part of the ifm for that cable
we are asking you to do that in view of
the number of restarts we think that
there might be a possibility of
intermittent contact
and when you're
certain that
the
jumpers are solid
we suggest you restart with step 8 on
page 1-4 the payload ops
okay i'll get the multimeter out and
recheck our connectors and then
our jumper cables and then we'll begin
with step 8 again
good read bay
again the instrumentation communications
officer here in the new mission control
center is panning the
af port camera discovery to take a look
at tropical storm chantal in the gulf of
mexico off the coast of cuba
as discovery orbits 200 miles above
meanwhile spacecraft communicator mark
garneau talking with mission specialist
don thomas on board discovery about the
in-flight maintenance procedure
designed to get the bioreactor
development system working
on the crew to check that they have gray
taped the appropriate pin connectors
properly and a
new cable that will be used to make the
experiment active
he asked don thomas to check and make
sure that the rotating wall was rotating
which he did which indicates there's
power to the experiment
houston discovery with words on bds
go ahead don
mark i took out the multimeter and
checked our connectors they looked good
uh i reconnected them
and started performing step eight and we
got a message ecc detected so it looks
like uh
we're back in business here we got our
experiment timer counting and met clock
is counting
that's good news dan
and we're with you on the flight pitch
good morning welcome aboard discovery
we're 160 miles above the earth just
approaching the southern tip of baja
and we like to share a moment with you
to
dedicate the new consolidated control
center
after 30 years of hard work
which included over 100 man space
flights from our old control rooms we're
now entering the next century by opening
the new control center which will lead
our manned space flight program into
future benefits aboard the international
space station and into the next century
continuing our exploration of the solar
system for the benefit of humankind
aboard discovery on this flight we have
a plaque
that commemorates the opening of the new
control center and it says in
recognition of the first flight flown
from this mission control room this
plaque was flown on the flight sts-70 on
board the space shuttle discovery
built by the pirate teamwork empowered
by pirate spirit
and we dedicate it to all the folks who
have worked in the flight control rooms
and who will work in the new control
room and it's our honor
to carry this plaque for those folks
and we do dedicate it to their teamwork
and effort and it's not the rooms that
make the difference it's the people that
man those rooms
and we trust our lives and our nation's
man space program to those folks
and we are proud to be a part of your
team
as one of the members of the crew as
well as don thomas that did work as a
capcom for at least a year in the
mission control center i'd just like to
pass on my word of thanks to those folks
it's one of the most professional
organizations i've ever seen
it's so well run people give their heart
and soul on every day of every mission
to support each and every one of us and
we can't thank you enough
again congratulations to the mission
operations directorate and john moratore
and his folks that put so many long
hours into preparing the room to be
prepared for sts-70
congratulations and we're looking
forward to this flight and many more in
the future thank you
well thank you very much tom
in the orbit one
shift we're certainly proud to be
working in the new facility we also
think it's great you'll be glad to know
that
since you're the first mission to fly
out of this new flight control room we
have a very nice plaque of your mission
patch
as well as your crew photo hanging in
our room
well that's quite an honor for us and
we're going to try and downlink you a
closer picture of the
plaque
and we hope that many more patches adorn
a new control center
and the
historical missions that were flown from
the old i'm sure will be followed by
future historic missions
from this new control center and again
we'll try and show you a good picture of
the plaque
thanks tom and kevin that looks good we
have a great close-up of the patch
sts-70 commander tom hendricks we're now
flanked on the left
stf70 commander don
tom henrichs flanked on the left by
mission specialist nancy curry and on
the right by pilot kevin kriegel
presenting a
commemoration of the first flight of
the new mission control center here in
houston
once again receiving down
down like television from the payload
bay cameras of the shuttle discovery as
it passes
about 200 miles
above the gulf of mexico
camera is now
zooming in on the florida peninsula and
the
cape canaveral area
on the previous orbit the crew
downlinked a good view of tropical storm
chantal which is
in the atlantic ocean just outside the
gulf off the coast of cuba
there's a good chance we'll get another
view of that on this orbital pass which
is very close to the same track as the
last pass
we're now looking at
oil droplets
that are
part of the embryo being looked at in
the space tissue loss experiment
on this image the oil droplets can be
seen in the upper right portion of your
screen while the
embryo is farther down in toward the
center of the screen
these embryos are very young and in the
glassula stage
again this information is very important
to understand the effects of
long-duration space flight
on living systems
this video
this video can be
viewed and recorded real time
at the kennedy space center
where scientists in the life sciences
support center are comparing
these embryos with a control group on
the ground
houston discovery for stl if you'd like
me to uh
do something different with the picture
or stay on it for a little longer just
let me know
okay nancy uh we'll we'll talk about
that
discover houston that's an excellent
view it gives us a real perspective on
what this storm looks like on a
planetary scale
yeah nancy's proud of that one
get that 40 millimeter hasselblad on it
kevin's cranking away
tell me if you can imagine the biggest
problem i was having controlling the
cameras was that i'm on the floor with
five people on top of me looking out the
window
woody's up there too
okay don't get any boot prints on your
back there
discovery this is houston are you ready
for the event
discovery's ready
new york times this is houston please
call discovery for a voice check
discovery this is new york times how do
you hear me
aboard discovery we're 160 miles above
the earth and we're just now crossing
the philippines
it's dark outside
and this afternoon you've got uh mary
ellen weber just now coming into view
and kevin kriegel and myself tom hendrix
and we're ready to take your questions
that sounds terrific the the uh
we're thrilled to have you with us the
the only things we'll ask is uh that you
speak in a moderate taste because we're
we're typing and transcribing your
answers as we go and uh the questions
are are mostly for both of you so if you
could identify yourselves before you
answer that would be terrific
okay we're gonna we're gonna we
understand with our with our first
question
the first question comes from bien do in
arkansas and uh she wants to be an
astronaut and a lot and she and a lot of
other people in our audience want to
hear about the biological experiments
you're conducting up there and the
communication satellite that you've
released into space
well we'll start with the satellite
first it was released yesterday and it
was the last of a series of satellites
to join a
system that transmits data from
satellites
or
telescopes or any other transmitting
device like the shuttle or the future
international space station
to earth and it acts as a relay system
so it takes the transmissions from
things in space
and passes them on to the earth and it
can do that at an extremely high rate
and can
maintain that system for many years and
this satellite is again the last to join
that system and i'll let
mary ellen weber answer the question
about our biological experiment
can we please move much slower and
identify ourselves at the point when we
start talking
uh houston discovery did you hear that
please
yes we copied that and we will
this is mary ellen weber and i'm one of
the mission specialists aboard the
flight and i'd like to tell you about
some of the biological experiments that
we're doing
the first experiment is the bioreactor
and this is a system it's a rotating
vessel and it has
nutrients for human cells in this case
human colon cancer cells to grow and
because it rotates it mimics what goes
on in the human body extremely well
and
because of that we can figure out how
cancer cells actually travel from say
the colon to the liver or the kidneys
and that's the objective of that
experiment
another experiment that we're doing is
protein protein crystal growth and uh
maybe i can tell you more about that
some other time uh next question
okay slower okay
and if we could just go a little bit
slower please
uh george in connecticut wonder with
that what you can uh wonders what the
difference between the shuttle's
commander and pilot is and could the
commander and the pilot be the same
person
well the biggest difference uh and this
is kevin kriegel the pilot
and the biggest difference is that the
commander is much much older
so but seriously uh both the commander
and the pilot
uh trained to do most of the same duties
the pilot backs up the commander
the commander usually has two flights
under his belt and there's a lot more
experience this is
tom's
third flight in my first flight it's a
lot like on an airliner when you have a
captain and a co-pilot you have the
captain who's highly experienced running
the ship
and the pilot who's learning and backing
him up
great
you