good morning endeavor your start me up
music this morning is from pam and mick
for ms4
thanks a lot ken that's a great way to
start today
this is mission control houston
spacecraft communicator ken cameron
waking the crew on board endeavour to
the tune of start me up by the rolling
stones today's greeting for
mission specialist number four mark
garno
on board endeavor
adelaide this is houston please call
endeavor for a voice check
endeavour this is adelaide how do you
hear me
uh andrew it's uh dean brown speaking to
you again from adelaide and at this very
moment i think you're about to pass over
adelaide itself
and certainly warm greetings to you and
the rest of the crew from all the people
in south australia
it's particularly a pleasure to have
this chance to talk with you
and so near to the end of your mission
and i ask you how do you feel at present
well i feel fine and good evening to you
mr brown and people of south australia
yes we are
about to fly over adelaide it'll be uh
night time for you but we'll still be
sunlit and i believe if the clouds are
clear enough which i'm not sure they are
today you may be able to see us right
now i think we're uh south of perth
crossing across the
great australian bike towards adelaide
i'm feeling good we've had a wonderful
mission
we've uh done some outstanding
experiments both uh in some technology
and in some science and i'm sure you've
probably seen some of the pictures that
we've sent down of the satellites that
we've deployed and the instructor that
we inflated on orbit as they've really
been uh breathtaking to watch all of
this unfold
uh it's been a wonderful mission i'm
thoroughly enjoying it i'm sorry it's
coming to an end
andrew
what do you see as the next major
challenges in space for mankind
obviously you've had this
challenge
but
over the next 20 years do you see us
then moving out away from earth
and to what planets
and what do you see are some of those
challenges that mankind will achieve
over the next 20-year period
i think the biggest immediate challenge
facing us is to learn
to live and function on a day-to-day
long-term basis in space and that of
course is what we will achieve with the
international space station and that
will provide a platform for which to do
that a platform from which to
perform uh life sciences experiments
human habitation in space and a platform
from which to do earth observations and
resource monitoring and ecological
studies of the earth something which i
think will be profoundly important
and after we've
operated that facility then i think
we'll be in a position to
start uh further colonization of the
solar system we'll begin i think with a
return to the moon
and colonization of the moon
followed some years later by a
colonization trip to mars it's still a
long way off i certainly don't think
it'll happen in my professional lifetime
although i hope to live to see it
but i think that's the direction that
we're going to be going
and you're conducting all sort of
experience that will be useful uh to
canadian can you give us a little bit of
insight about the success of what you've
done
yes sir i can
one of the experiments that i've spent a
lot of time on during this mission
has been the commercial float zone
furnace and that's a furnace that
melts
materials
and then re-solidifies them and these
materials are semiconductor materials
and semiconductor materials are the
materials that we use
to make integrated circuits and chips
that we use in our computers and in a
lot of our electronic equipment and
we're trying to make a better quality of
crystal
and there are two
canadian
scientific organizations that are flying
crystals on our mission
one is called canmet from ottawa and the
other is the university of dalhousie in
halifax and we've had some very good
results
with the floatzone furnace another
experiment that is canadian on board is
the aquatic research facility
and this is a an experiment to study
the effect of weightlessness on
sea life forms
we're carrying sea urchins
starfish and blue clams and we're
looking at their embryonic development
uh up here in space and those are
uh experiments with scientists coming
from
the university of british columbia and
also once again from dalhousie
university we also have two other
experiments in the cargo bay which are
uh thin organic films and another one
semi-ar semiconductor materials the
vapor diffusion experiment and they come
from the university of toronto and the
university of moncton so canada is well
represented up here in space research
mark the houston chronicle dr lucid can
you
characterize your spirits at this point
how are you how are you doing near the
midway point and could you also touch on
your working and personal relations with
your russian hosts how is that going
well i think i can sort of answer
both questions at the same time because
uh from my viewpoint i think everything
is going along just really great i mean
i couldn't ask for anything more out of
a flight than what i've gotten out of
this flight so far and if the second
half is as good as the first half and
all i can say is
you just can't beat it um
right now
i'm feeling really good and i'm busy as
you might know we've activated proto and
i've gotten busy doing a lot of the
united states experiments in that and of
course there's a lot of activity on
board right now because yuri and yuri
have been doing several ebas and they're
going to be doing another eba this
weekend and so that keeps us all busy
involved in that
and
uh it's just been a lot of fun working
with jury and yuri and i think that
they have helped me out tremendously and
i hope that maybe i'll help them out a
little bit
and um
all along i've always said that
you know it doesn't make any difference
what kind of complicated science
experiments or complicated satellites or
what have you that you might uh do on
your flight what makes a flight
memorable what makes it something that
uh you will always remember the people
that you work with and
if you have you know really good people
that you're working with and it's a
great flight it doesn't make any
difference what the actual work is that
you're doing and um i just have
absolutely wonderful people in europe to
work with and
it's just been going really fine
and i have a final question
what have you found so far that you
would consider most insightful about
life aboard a space station the sort of
thing that you might like to pass along
to future colleagues who'll be involved
in the assembly and operation of the
space station
well i guess just from uh operators uh
point of view from a person that's
actually working here on the space
station the thing that has sort of um
taken up more time than i think is
really warranted is trying to find
things uh you know you put things
somewhere and then forget where they are
or things have been put somewhere and
you don't know where they are and it
just takes a lot of time just to get
everything together that you need to do
whatever activity you're going to do and
i think that that
some way of keeping track of just where
things are i think it's a very very
important activity
hey shannon this is phil chen earth news
i heard you talking to your family and
friends a couple of days ago telling how
exciting the eva looked from your point
of view how different is it aboard me or
where evas are just a regular normal not
day-to-day but week-to-week occurrence
as opposed to on a shuttle flight where
they're pretty rare
well i don't think that it was a
normal everyday thing for you and yuri
to go out and do an eva i mean it was
pretty exciting i've never had the
privilege of watching
an eva from uh the shuttle viewpoint now
i saw linda and rich do their eda on 76
but i was on the mere side i was on the
mirror side of the hatch and i saw that
the thing that struck me when yuri nuri
went out and did their eba was just
how big the station is you know um
they're out a long ways
and i'll admit that uh you know the
first time that i saw yuri out on that
long pole that the russians used to take
uh equipment and people from one uh
module over to the other the first time
i saw uh yuri way out on that pole and
going out you'll get to cause nothing to
get to the other module uh my heart went
up my throat just a minute and i thought
i sure hope the other year he knows what
he's doing as he's rotating the pole
around
this is irene brown with upi for dr
lucid
after two months in space what issues do
you feel need to be addressed for longer
duration flights such as those lasting
six months or longer
i really haven't had a whole lot of time
uh to think about that
the things that have made this uh flight
very enjoyable for me have been the fact
that i've had you know some regular
contact with my family and that's
for me that's very very important i've
been able to talk to them
on the radio i've been able to talk to
them by tv the two-way video contact and
also i've been able to get
you know letters or messages from them
uh by an email connection and that to me
is extremely extremely important
hang on we'll be here
here's one one person
us but we can't see you
you say that there's a lot of equipment
there and from various countries could
you describe some of it for us
which is being used by shannon mostly
because we're preparing for evas this is
a very interesting chamber
uh with these black gloves in which one
can
uh work
shades so you can see what's going on in
the chamber what do we do inside we
perform experiments here
for uh an uh ice microgravity isolating
platform
various weightless experiments over here
we have a very interesting uh furnace
it's a four hour timer you have an
experiment
processing of some
specimens
honestly speaking i don't know which
ones
have very good visibility when the
results are in
uh gotten rid of a lot of equipment here
so that we could pass through here so
it's a little bit further down there in
a box
maybe shannon will explain a little bit
in more detail
about the experiment
shannon
doesn't
want to uh
uh be
uh
talking anything specific so as not to
tire you
we just wanted to talk with you
from here
you