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good morning endeavor the naval officers
around here on coastal there you go the
naval officers down here on council
would like to wish their maritime
members of the crew smooth sailing for
endeavor for the rest of the days you
maneuver in proximity to spam stew and
mark and Andy we're with you in space
have good morning
they said Park endeavor good morning
good morning Andy space at park with you
good morning let you know burning the
midnight oil I guess I'm ready to give
you the status briefs anytime get ready
to copy I'm ready anytime Andy the
suicide lad is on its way we copy sounds
great and you said ever it looks like it
has a bit of a tip-off after it left the
field of view I'll Pan the camera up see
to see it
as you'll see this to exit towards left
side of the screen here in this field
looks pretty stable as i mentioned got
to fill those me if they go on to this
will pass that on Mary we got a nice
stable picture with no line
Deborah Houston that's a super zoomed in
image now that's really helping us out
thank you
ever we're going to give you another
view that we took from the flight deck
here copy we're getting that other view
now and we have about another 30 seconds
or so of my life
this is Mission Control Houston this
television is live from endeavour
looking at the attitude measurement
system for Pam stew in the cargo bay
again have pointed towards the fams to
satellite as endeavour crosses over the
Midwest United States
he said if okay well have downlink the
downlink you're getting hours from the
hab and it is live thanks that's great
this is Mission Control Houston this
television is a live shot of the Pam's
to satellite this have you taken of my
camera pointed out the window of the
space hab module Pam's to satellite
about 2,200 feet from endeavor and
endeavour Houston we are we're ready for
your downlink at this time okay this is
John Manley in Montreal do we have you
endeavour this is john kenneth commander
of the spaceship endeavor we're talking
to you about 150 miles in space and
we're currently flying over the pacific
ocean headed for hawaii i was like it
just give you a little recap of what
we've done the last few days let me
introduce the crew that's which we have
for the six crew members we know Marc
Garneau tomorrow night and in the back
and comment and dan burisch and we've
had a very productive and busy for days
in our space flight to date on the last
Monday we deployed the little ant eggs
from N&N went very well and then
yesterday we're on the boot and Mark did
just an absolutely superb job traveling
in and putting inside the payload Bay
that's part that's part man tennis then
sports satellite Retta and I will
dismays it how easy he made that look
with the Canadian arms on another busy
day today with a small satellite that
deploy and and rendezvous with that went
very warm
and we're looking forward to another
about six days of productive ever here
on this science technology and some
microgravity science and technology
demonstration site mark perhaps you
could pick up on some of the continents
that the commander made and tell us a
bit about the Canadian scientific
experiments that you're carrying with
you and how you expect to see these
carried out in the next few days well
mr. Manley in fact I'm spending a good
part of my time on an experiment which
is a joint Canadian us and german
experiment it's canadian land it's
called the commercial floats on furnace
and basically it involves processing
some semiconductor materials heating
them up in a furnace and then melting
them and in this particular case we have
the advantage of doing what we call
container less processing in other words
the heating up in the melting of the
material itself does not make contact
with the container also because we're in
microgravity we don't have usual
convective effects that are due to
gravity so we have the opportunity of
melting and then reforming a material
with a better crystal structure and with
greater purity and that furnace has been
working pretty well since the beginning
of a flight and will continue to do so
until the end of the flight in our
scientists in Canada from Ottawa and
from Halifax who have samples on board
that we are processing and hopefully we
will be able to come back with some
materials that have a crystal structure
that is better than anything that has
ever been produced I'm also doing an
experiment called the aquatic research
facility in fact 23 laid beside me by my
right knee and it contains again a
Canadian except in this case it contains
sea urchins which are part of an
American contribution as well as star
shells
and blue clams and what we're doing here
is looking at what effect the absence of
gravity has on the development the very
early embryonic development of these
green aquatic species what we're trying
to do is to understand whether gravity
plays a major role in the formation of
these species which as you know are
primarily their outer cells are
primarily formed of minerals and what we
learn here could have implications in
terms of telling us more about what is
important bone formation and then
indirectly possibly help us know more
about things like osteoporosis which
affect older people so there those are
two of the main experiments from Canada
and there are also two under experiments
say in the cargo bay in get away special
canisters that both have to do with both
sensing material semiconductor materials
and thin organic films and they are from
the University of Toronto and from the
University of Moncton so Canada is well
represented on this flight mark me say
to you and to your colleagues there are
there are several million Canadians who
are watching you and who are longing to
have the experience that you're having
one of them happens to be the minister
of industry but I know there are lots of
others as well what what would you say
what you've been up twice would you like
to go again so I have to say that
there's no other job that I would prefer
to do than the one that I'm doing right
now I also am very conscious of the fact
that a very fortunate person I know a
lot of people who would like to go into
space and possibly some time in the
future it will be commonplace and it
unfortunately at this time it's still
early days of the space program but it's
that it's a far cry from what it was
that
25 or 30 years ago when I was a teenager
so things have changed dramatically and
I'm sure they will change in the future
and for those who do want to become
astronauts that possibility does exist
it requires a lot of hard work and
determination and a lot of focus and but
it is something that is accessible let
me take you back to all of you on behalf
of the government of canada how
enormously proud that we are that we are
sharing in this in this great
international experiment that mark
you're there as as our representatives
as Canadians we envy you but we also
admire you and your source of great
pride to us we wish you a very
successful voyage a safe returned earth
and I know the Prime Minister had hoped
mark that he could do this particular
uplink with you and we we weren't able
to coordinate it with his schedule in
Western Canada but I extend to you and
to your fellow crew members the the
Prime Minister's greetings and best
wishes and we're looking forward to
seeing you on your return thank you very
much Minister manly on behalf of all of
us it was a pleasure talking to you and
to Canadians important endeavour Houston
as usual another superb job by the
Endeavour crew we certainly enjoyed that
then we're just very pleased to hear
from Minister manly and the best wishes
from Canada take it out
bill you should have a change of it here
listen words just escaped me when I see
a picture like this one usually for this
point of view we'd like to be looking
here through this window but that's not
to be at the moment so we'll just take a
look out as the Sun comes up
then as the shuttle rises on the space
shuttle Endeavour will close out this
busy workday and say good evening