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Tom Miller of NBC 19 ready
Tom Miller please give endeavor a call
yes I am in Charlotte North Carolina
where we just got through with a tail
end of a winter snowstorm how are you
okay Tom and reading you loud and clear
good same here and thank you the crew of
the space shuttle Endeavour is nearing
the halfway point of its nine-day
mission in space the six men blasted off
from Cape Canaveral Thursday morning
just yesterday they successfully
recovered a four-ton Japanese satellite
and they still have a lot to do
including releasing and retrieving a
u.s. satellite and conducting two
spacewalks before returning to Earth on
the 20th and we're pleased to have them
with us now from aboard the shuttle
Endeavour good morning gentlemen good
morning tom
accepting a piece of space junk you had
to maneuver around the other day how
would you characterize the mission is
going so far well it was just a little
surprise for us but it's not something
that's all that unusual
the missions going great and we had a
real big day yesterday
big day for you know for us the crew
burn answer and furnesto the Japanese
Space Agency as we as we grapple their
satellite it was a great thing
yeah it was a good day in fact you
completed your primary mission
I think mr. Walcott are you responsible
for operating the robotic arm that
snatched in your country's satellite can
you describe how you felt after you
completed that successfully yes the
other what become of the space shuttle
works are very fine and this successful
retrieval the SFU showed a very good
example of the illumination and the
international cooperation between Japan
and the United States and I'm very happy
to be part of this effort
you're gonna go back to your country
hero you know how are you going to
handle the success well after this
mission since this mission is a very
interesting mission for all of us and
this involves the retrieval of satellite
random viewing and extra vehicle
activity and I learned a lot through the
training and through this mission to
prepare for the space station assembly
mission so after this mission I will be
ready to be trained for future space
station assembly mission I want to know
how you felt when you were awakened to
theme music from the movie Godzilla you
don't have to answer that let me go to
you're the only medical doctor on board
and in addition to your degrees in
engineering what's your specialty on
this mission being both a medical doctor
and an engineer well I'm doing a number
of different things on on this flight
tomorrow I'm excited about the
opportunity to go outside and do a
spacewalk in addition to that as you
said I'm the medical officer although
that Duty has been very easy since
nobody's had any kind of medical
problems I also am responsible for a
photo TV documentation so I'm taking
pictures like crazy we're hoping to
bring back some absolutely spectacular
views of the earth and the satellites
and the DDA's and I'm also responsible
for some of the secondaries that we have
on board including FSB V and some of the
mid decks great I hope we get a chance
to look at those pictures I hope some of
them will be shared with us in the media
absolutely good dr. cha your designated
as the prime space Walker what does that
mean you walk twice and what do you hope
to accomplish out there oh that's right
I'll be performing through the
spacewalks what it means to be the lead
was that pre-flight for the previous
year I've been following all the issues
and developing and getting our timelines
getting all the
we're developed for our spacewalks and
we'll be going out tomorrow dan and I
will and Western I'll be going out
couple days later the primary objective
or the objective of the spacewalks is
for the International Space Station
we'll be evaluating the design concepts
the maintenance concepts and the
assembly concepts to make sure that and
all these data will keep directly back
into the space station program to make
sure that we come up with a design and a
method that will work now you practice
these I would imagine quite extensively
back on earth probably in another water
tank or something like that that's
correct
three of us have undergone many hours of
training in the weightless environment
training facility which is you know the
big swimming pool where we get in our
suits and get down there and get
neutrally buoyant so we can float around
in the water and simulate our tasks
I imagine though doing the real thing is
quite different are you a little bit
nervous about it at all I think you're
right it's gonna be quite different but
no I think the wood is excited we're I
think we're all very excited to get
outside tomorrow and then I'll get again
on Monday or Tuesday yeah you'd lose
time up there we lose time here on the
night side too when you're on your
appetite and sleep yeah let me ask you
how takeoff wise on Thursday I think I
think you fellas took off in the coldest
weather since since Challenger and the
old wing problem it was about 44 degrees
I understand in Cape Canaveral were you
what you fellows anxious at all about
that I know Tom actually we weren't
we're very aware of the temperature
limits and the procedures that NASA has
to launch the space shuttle so we are
very comfortable with the temperature
the ride itself was actually pretty much
what we expected it's been described to
me several times and they do a pretty
good job simulating it the first two
minutes really reminded me of a catapult
shot back in my days flying off aircraft
carrier so rather than a two second cat
shot it was more like a two-minute cat
shot and then once the booster separated
it was a pretty smooth ride all the way
to Meco so
it was real exciting and you know we got
a lot of we saw a lot of the light
coming in through our windows - I heard
we lit up most of the East Coast
okay or on the flight deck now
I don't know what to think I'm going to
go and put the oath preheat mode and
work them big ray winstone
and he stood up Rose pre-heat boat is
complete standing by for the air is yes
update don't you go copy winter
nevermind
that's right yeah further analysis of
SFU thermal during different attitudes
here shows us that we may not have any
heater elements failed in engineering
thermal analysis of SFU shows that we
have adequate SFU thermal margin
throughout the entire host deploy in
rendezvous profile currently we are
working toward a deploy with a window
opening per the flight plan in three
days one hour and 51 minutes during
orbit 49 that deploy Rev we will have
very adequate come s-bend
and we will do both for the release
intercept burn we'll be doing an early
handover tour sure that come that's
great news very glad to hear that and
they will certainly be ready for that
I'm glad to hear well calm with us wrong
don't keen brain
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run the flight day
hey story you want me to proceed with
SLA disabled and we'll coordinate that
sir we'll get the lid open and get lazy
stand by one okay
scores you're done with the kayuu we're
gonna do block 3b then be fine
at store the is yes examine
that is my time in the hand from there
one hour 29 minutes a delta will launch
out of Florida with a career set you
probably will not have a chance to see
it but we didn't want to pass up the
opportunity
and ever the Delta did launch thank you
guess we're just going by la fenix milk
never no need to reply we're going to
turn the shutter on the alpha camera
of the 34 update it turned out we were
able to see that Delta and it was a
beautiful sight up above the atmosphere
with a long food that is fantastic
and maybe at first it was truly
something at the last minute we grabbed
the camcorder and maybe we will be able
to bring some of that home okay we look
forward to talking with you about pain
this is Mission Control Houston is a
well is the less than then it's always
worthwhile trying even if it seems
impossible you bet in fact it was a
beautiful clear night across the United
States we saw Dallas Houston and then
looked up and saw this bright white ball
of light almost look like the moon
rising and then it stretched out into a
long line then that line faded into a
deep speckled red and then finally faded
off thanks Dan
you
at about 5 10 a.m. Central time as they
were preparing a for the release the
Yoast flyer again that Delta launched a
launch of courious at a Korean
communication satellite it occurred from
the Kennedy Space Center at to 5:10 a.m.
Central Time
the crew are there reporting that they
were able to see that endeavour at that
time was approaching at the Gulf of
Mexico and of course going right across
the southern United States and then a
South across the Gulf of Mexico
and he said start you ready for the
rookie partner we sure are Brian