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good morning endeavor hope you're ready
for another day of hard work in the
Milky Way good morning can't certainly
are and we had a few last night to boot
Roger that things are going well and we
will have the uplink mail for you here
real soon I'd like to pass along to john
that that wakeup music is a special
greeting from a vice principal of a
school very close to home ok kids thanks
so much I do appreciate it will do
Deborah Houston Andy and Mark were with
you in space f
good day from the space shuttle
endeavour and shuttle mission st s77 i
will shuttle pilot curt brown from
elizabethtown North Carolina and at this
moment my crewmates and I orbiting Earth
at an altitude of approximately a
hundred and eighty miles we'd like to
take a moment to wish a happy memorial
day through all the NASCAR racing fans
attending to Charlotte 600 NASA and the
entire crew but wish you all a very safe
race and with that it's down race time
so gentlemen start your engines and ever
this is Houston are you ready for the
event and everybody CNN this is Houston
please call a dever for voice check
endeavors CNN good mornin I'm you ready
to go come on econ we're ready to go
yeah I want to talk about the the
inflatable antenna experiment with you
because you were in position to watch it
pretty carefully as it came out it was
of course spectacular here on earth
probably even more so up there but the
ground-based side has said to us it you
saw the rippling across the surface of
the antenna at one point and said might
omit it wasn't fully inflated give us
your take on how well it worked and what
those ripples might have been well the
rippling males may have taken place
seriously I think we'll have to wait
till we get the data back on the ground
and take a look at it inside the
satellite there was attached to the
antenna was a device video devices to
measure the accuracy of that surface and
so will had to take a look at that data
and he was watching us from the space
helmet when he meant let him comment on
this a little bit okay Andy Thomas yeah
i was watching had there were a few
ripples in its surface it's not
surprising that as it deploys and
inflates that it might pick up a few
vibrations and those of his be
maintained in a surface pick given long
enough they would probably all set
stamp out but like John says says when
he played we had the data back to see
Jacomo in his plate how well a contour
was maintained for my vantage point it
looks fantastic it was a great site it
was quite a show here on earth I'll tell
you that tell me what the launch felt
like for you what went through your mind
what went through you emotionally and
what went through your body during the
first eight or nine minutes of this
flight well obviously China was a pretty
amazing experience sending one of the
most amazing experiences that I've ever
undergone I really enjoyed it though I
must say I was on the flight deck and I
had a mirror so that I could look out
the overhead window during the climb out
I heard the engine start I felt the
vibration I saw in the mirror the
exhaust coming out the base of the
vehicle I saw a bright flash of light as
the solid Rockets ignited then I felt a
jolt and I saw the launch tower parts
away and I knew we're on our way I as we
went up I was still looking out the
window I saw the earth roll away under
the cards recede and as we got hired
higher and faster and faster i could see
shockwaves forming around the vehicle
and a red glow out the afte the end of
the vehicle it was truly a great
experience one that I'll never forget
any what's been the biggest surprise of
the mission for you to this moment
learning to function in weightlessness
is a big challenge you'd be amazed at
how easily you can lose things when
you're weightless on the ground if you
lose something it just falls to the
floor but up here it can go anywhere you
can lose things so easily and I've spent
some time looking around for things that
I've lost 50 kind of way how quickly you
can lose things CBC this is Houston
please call endeavor for moisture good
morning marc garneau are you able to
hear me
Sam Dartmouth this is a pleasure thanks
for joining us who's with you today my
fellow crew member Danvers okay thank
you both know mark you were lucky enough
to earn a second ride aboard the shuttle
how did you win that honor well I guess
I just have to be in the right place at
the right time in 1992 Canada was
invited to send to mission specialist
down to Houston to train in preparation
for the space station program if sent me
there also to Europeans and one japanese
astronaut that the came to work at NASA
because of the International Space
Station that and my mom asked me if I
was available and I said yes so here I
am I nope in 1984 you brought up some
classical music to listen to during the
mission what went with you this time so
I still have a lot of plastic oh yes but
I also have some more modern stuff
yesterday i was listening to some fan
for a system crash test dummies dire
straits these are some of my favorite
groups and then I've got some other
stuff too that's the guy hope you enjoy
the rest of your mission and i know will
be talking to you next week in a news
conference from space and we'll be
asking you about some of the canadian
experiments that you will be working on
thank you very much I sure Norman better
prepare you have a picture curity Mario
good downlink
this is Mission Control Houston this
television up from endeavor is a
playback are showing operations earlier
with the vented tank resupply experiment
this experiment studying methods of a
venting tanks in weightlessness venting
tanks is that not easily done in
weightlessness says air doesn't
accumulate in a single position as is
the case on earth and under the
influence of gravity this experiment
explores a new methods of having air
accumulator in a position where it can
be vented that from a tank such as a a
propulsion tank for a spacecraft
view now is the Northern California
looking up the coast toward the
California Oregon border
I got a picture and we do Mary oh thanks
base at Park have ever received via go
ahead mark this clay before you go over
the hill I just want to let you know
that hampi go change out is complete the
can't to sample is in and ready to be
processed Capulet