it ain't no country club
he
fun in his says
on that lunch life
is
good morning endeavor welcome to flight
day eight
morning good morning houston and we're
ready to have some more fun
yeah i thought you might be
yeah that was a great selection carl i
really loved it
oh you ain't heard nothing yet
houston looks like a nice night down
there
now brent we have the weather
radar and the visible satellite picture
up on our screens right now and there is
a front coming by we're clear now but we
expect some
squall weather
towards morning here
glad you got a good look
yeah tom we just passed right overhead
and we could see that stuff out to the
north and west
we're just concerned that it goes
through florida by the time you guys are
ready to come home
whenever
endeavor no reply 90 seconds to a tdrs
handover
and endeavor we have a great view of the
cape going underneath you right now
those lacy webs across the states as we
went over it look forward to getting a
chance to see that again brian
yeah you know you'll have a great time
and a hands up your conversation with
south africa is still on at one hour and
40 minutes
okay we copy and we're setting up for
that now
thanks winston
is uh koishi done with his exercise and
yet if not i'll call him on the west
side
i didn't have as much length as the that
of imus and i cleaned them off
okay thanks
during your off-duty time did you get to
play go
yes we demonstrated a very famous uh go
play in a novel of a noble award
novelist
dan is a good player and we really
enjoyed
the game
can we ask who won
well actually uh
dan gave me this a good part
and uh
i was playing the person who who won the
game so i was supposed to be one but
it took so long and we didn't come to
the uh
the end of the game
okay we're going lost here you sure have
a lot to space a lot of territory play
that game up there
never houston are you ready to talk to
johannesburg south africa
yes sir we sure are sorry
okay here they come johannesburg this is
houston please give endeavor a call
another this is johannesburg how do you
hear me
jonasberg we read you loud and clear
welcome aboard the space shuttle
endeavour
ryan winston
thank you so much giving us a few
minutes to talk to you we really
appreciate it
this is teddy school in south africa we
have some students from pro tech who
have some fascinating questions for you
and we're going to go to our first
student who is sashim over to you sasha
hi captain
my name is sachin i'm from kempton park
we are students of pro-tech and we
really consider this a great privilege
because this is really a once in a
lifetime opportunity
and my question to you is how long have
you been in space and when can we expect
your return
well actually just past the seven day
mark in space we've been up for uh just
over
seven days and one hour right now
and we're going to be up here for about
two more days before we come home
our next question comes from a young
lady imalda i hope to you melda hi this
is inela
i just wanna ask attend brian
how did you choose to become an
astronaut
well i'll tell you i'll start off with
that question i
have have been a navy pilot most of my
adult life and i chose to become an
astronaut because i thought that would
be a nice next step a nice next
challenge for me in the work that i was
already doing in aviation and science
and i tell you since being up here on my
first flight i haven't regretted that
decision at all this has been a
tremendous experience and i wish you all
could be here with me and share it's
really a tremendous experience
in koichi good
our next question will come from ashley
yeah i'm actually from sorento
i heard that i had rumors about like are
you going to land on math soon is it
true
ashley went into know that about mars
okay you want to know if we're going to
land on mars soon well i have to answer
uh
no we're not going to land on mars soon
however we at nasa do
have plans and work
long-term plans at work to go to mars i
think probably the next big step will be
to go back to the moon as you know we
walked on the moon
about 25 26 years ago the next big step
would go back to the moon and then
hopefully from there we'll go on to mars
but i don't think that's going to happen
anytime soon i will add though that by
the time you get to be my age and a
flying space maybe you'll be one of the
first people on mars
thanks so much gentlemen our next
question comes from another young lady
candice
over to you candace hi there winston um
i spoke to you before
about preparation mentally and
physically or what you experienced in
space where you prepared for it
completely
okay i
i think i was as best prepared as i
possibly could have been the training we
have is very very excellent but of
course we have no way of truly
simulating zero g the only way to
experience it is to come up here and uh
physically we all have gotten along very
well in space of course our commander
brian and uh our ms-1 mission leader
chow have flown before but the other
four of us were brand new but you'd be
amazed at how quickly your body adapts i
felt a little uneasiness the first day
but i was not ill at all and we all feel
great we're having just a wonderful time
up here
konnichiwa
um
koichi wakata i hope i got that right
thanks for taking the time to talk to us
we've got a young gentleman here by the
name of sam who who really feels that
you gentlemen are a great role model for
him um and he's got a question for you
i just wanted to know um when you're
viewing the earth from space it doesn't
have any spiritual effect on you
well we've been in space for almost a
week and
i was very surprised to to see my body's
adaptation into this microgravity uh so
quickly
and uh we are feeling very good and we
are doing uh our job in here and uh it's
been great experience for me
very much uh
um our next question comes from another
one of our students it's your son over
here
hi
i like to find out
how
space exploration will benefit us in the
future
that was a little bit broken but i
believe your question was about how
space would benefit us in the future is
that correct
uh you saw would you ask the question
again
um i'd like to know how space
exploration will benefit us on earth and
in the future
yeah that's a very good question and
it's one that
that we consider all the time because
everything that we do has to have a
purpose and that purpose is generally to
better some portion of our lives on
earth that turns out we can come to
space and do uh lots of lots of things
we can do that we cannot do on earth
we can do medical experiments up here we
can perhaps invent new drugs to combat
diseases uh we may be able to grow new
crystals to be able to run faster
computers uh though the list is endless
and we could talk about that
for many many uh hours about how space
can benefit but it's not limited to any
one area it really spans uh every part
of the everyday life on earth and we
hope to be able to improve it from space
astronaut scots um we understand that
you you have three objectives on this
mission one of them being to retrieve a
japanese communication satellite um we
also have a question now from sean also
one of our students in connection with
the mission
okay um i dr scott and his crew
my name is sean i like to know what's
the purpose of your mission
and how do you retrieve your safe lines
are you absolutely right they we had
several uh main objectives on this
mission and uh one was which to uh
retrieve the japanese satellite space
fly unit
the other one was to deploy and then
retrieve a satellite called the host
oast satellite and the way that we went
about those retrievals is by doing a
rendezvous and the rendezvous
involved basic orbital mechanics in
other words we had to plan our launch
for a certain time and day so that we
have enough fuel and
enough time to catch up to the satellite
and approach it we have we used a what's
called an r bar approach whereas we flew
out of the earth's radius of vector
along the earth's radius up to the
satellite we opened up the payload bay
doors and koichi wakata here on my
left
operated the robot arm to reach out and
grapple the satellites and burst them
both inside the payload bay now that's a
very quick and simple explanation of a
somewhat complex uh
task but it was it's really really
fascinating to participate in it really
to see the crew operate as a single unit
was great we had myself sending commands
to the satellite through the computer uh
commander brian duffy was actually
flying the vehicle actually it was hands
on the stick and throttle flying when he
flew it close enough and stabilized the
koichi weeps out with the robot arm and
brought you into the bay that really was
quite uh an event and quite a sight to
behold even for those of us who were
participating
um my next question is to with
winston-scott sean mike here i just want
to find out about the evas otherwise
known as spacewalks could you tell us
more about the spacewalks um if you have
any plan if you've done any yet
oh i sure can this flight consisting of
two spacewalks the first was done by
leroy chow and dr dan barry the second
spacewalk was the one that i
participated on and dr chow participated
on that one with me the purpose of these
spacewalks was to uh
to test out uh equipment and structures
and techniques and so on that we might
use in building the international space
station the second purpose was to test
out improvements to our uh suits our
extra vehicular mobility in our
spacesuits and i guess that was the
highlight of my space space walk even
though it was a very busy six and a half
hours of space walking the most
important part i think was the 35
minutes that i used to stand still in
the most cold environment that we could
achieve and i activated the thermal uh
the heating units on my suit to see
whether or not they would keep me warm
and i'm happy to report that they they
worked very very well i
never once fell uncomfortable out there
in the coal of space so anyway we've had
two evas and uh i just enjoyed that i
wouldn't trade that experience for
anything else in the world it was
tremendous
absolutely absolutely incredible visuals
left sir our next question is for
astronauts uh were carson it comes from
one of our students karen
my name's karen and i'd like to know
what is wrong with the satellite that
you're retrieving from space
this satellite called
ffu space fly unit was launched by a
japanese rocket back in march of last
year and it has been conducting various
scientific researches such as material
processing astronomical observation and
systems which will be used in the space
station alpha which will start its
assembly next year
and they have been conducting uh very
successful experiments and we
successfully retrieved the satellite and
after we go back home on the earth the
japanese engineers and scientists will
gather a lot of
very
important data out of the satellite
gentlemen our next question comes from
nikita
in terms of japanese us relations
what does this mission hold what does it
hope to improve what what what in terms
of the us japanese relations the joint
mission are we going to see more joint
mission in space
and what what are the immediate benefits
for both u.s and japan if there are any
konichiwa it's a very good question
and this successful retrieval of the
space flight unit was achieved because
we had a very good coordination and
cooperation between
uh the mission control center in nasa in
houston and also sfu's mission control
center in japan
and we showed a perfect teamwork during
this retrieval together with the crew
members here
and this is one of the very good
examples of international cooperation
and i think international cooperation is
the most important thing to proceed on
to further frontier in space
and both united states and japan are
participating in the international space
station app program which will start its
assembly as i told you last next next
year
and
i think this is a very key
element of the future in space program
how far is the reality of an actual
space station where
different countries will be involved is
it still in the in the books or is it
how far is it going to be to be a
reality that is the us japan russia
the involvement of
countries in space establishing an
actual space station
okay this international space station
will start its assembly next year late
next year and the participants are
united states canada europe japan and
also russia
do you hope to invite us sometime in the
future
such as south africa
if we become involved in the space camp
space initiative
when i was a when i was five years old i
saw the apollo luna landing and for me
was just a dream at the time but now the
world is changing and i think it's it's
very uh i feel very happy that i'm
involved in this space program and i
feel and i hope that the many more
people from around the world will be
able to proceed participate in this
activity in space
i regard so especially
thank you very much our next question
comes from sashin
and it's um for you astronaut brian
duffy
hi mr duffy this is session
y'all said that the last
spacewalk was 25 years ago this walk was
before y'all
why has it been so long since the next
space mission or next since this moon
walk
yeah the uh the last moonwalk was uh was
approximately 25 years ago that's right
and um it turned out that the space
program of the united states um
after that time after we had been to the
to the moon a number of times it
continued on to the next step
of
space exploration and that was to create
a vehicle that could regularly
exit the earth's atmosphere and make it
to space to carry cargo and people into
space and be able to do it easily be
able to go up and to be able to come
down
so they the united states set out to
build the first reusable space vehicle
and that's the space shuttle which
we're aboard
right now as we speak
so we did need to continue going back to
the moon we could have and we perhaps we
have a lot to learn yet however at the
time when they made that decision
back in the 1970s their decision was to
build a reusable vehicle that we could
get to space and back regularly so
that's where we are today we have a
great future ahead of us we have a lot
of great things to do we really do look
forward to going back to the moon we do
look forward to going to mars we i don't
think they're that far away
and we're very anxious to get there
this is scott rudelsberger in washington
commander duffy uh thank you very much
as well as winston scott and koichi
wakata for joining us today
and also thank you to uh certainly our
pleasure thank you for coming aboard and
sharing this space with us
in johannesburg houston thank you very
much for sharing a space flight
experience
with us endeavors approaching hawaii at
this time but in
about 45 minutes at 26 after the hour
they will be above johannesburg
it'll be in the daylight you will not be
able to see them but they will sure
appreciate the view of your beautiful
country and thank you endeavor
thank you
you