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tell me

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good morning endeavor your wake up music

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this morning is a special message for

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good morning p.r also and thank you very

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this is mission control houston on board

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endeavor the six-member crew is awake

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now

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their wake-up music this morning

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gloria estefan's version of hold me for

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pilot kurt brown

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and andy the ps says to tell you thanks

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uh

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all your words have been very helpful in

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describing this since you have a view of

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these crystals that we don't have here

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on the ground

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even with the video that we get

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and they really appreciate all the

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abc this is houston please call

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hello endeavor this is abc do you hear

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and we're yes to you from about 180

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miles up in space

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just crossing over central america right

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and with me i have uh

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three of the crew members and three of

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the six crew members

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on endeavor

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um

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there's uh dan burch from new york

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and of course you know uh andy thomas

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from uh

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from south australia i'd just like to

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tell you that we've had a very busy and

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productive

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five days on orbit here

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and andy has just done an outstanding

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tremendous job as payload commander for

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all the experiments here

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and andy had a part in recording the

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data for that and also a small

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satellite test unit

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which uh

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and he also participated in uh data

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takes on that

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and the other part the major part uh

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has been

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i wonder if you could tell us andy what

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it was like flying over australia and in

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uh it was great we flew over south

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australia about uh

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20 minutes ago and it was the sun was

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setting and

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it was shining on

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the gulf there and i could see

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the outline of the coast and i could

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make out the city of adelaide it was

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how much detail could you see

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quite clearly

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and i could see some of the coast

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beaches quite clearly as a white line

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we're about 180 miles up though so uh

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it's hard to see and we're moving very

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quickly too we can only had the view for

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a couple of minutes before it was gone

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with weightlessness in the in the cabin

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there how difficult is it to move around

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i see my boomerang

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it stays somewhere where i can't get to

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it

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moving around is very easy

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in fact it's a little bit too easy you

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have to be careful because you can end

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up uh moving too quickly and bouncing

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into things

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well i understand you've just had your

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breakfast uh what was on the nasa menu

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granola with blueberries uh some

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scrambled eggs

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a breakfast roll some juice and some

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all right thank you very much andy

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thomas it's been a pleasure to talk to

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you we wish you bon voyage and we hope

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to see you safe back on earth and

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thank you very much for the greetings

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and my greetings to everyone in adelaide

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and i look forward to visiting soon as

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if you let go of the side there what

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standby we'll demonstrate

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try doing that

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the third experiment uh

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is the liquid thermal type experiment

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and that is a basically an experiment

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that is using

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liquid potassium

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as a cooling fluid

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basically in normal refrigerants on the

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ground we use freon and freon is used in

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refrigerators and air conditioning to

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carry heat from where the work is being

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done the excess heat it goes to an

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evaporator uh gets cooled off and a

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condensation coil and the heat is uh

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dispelled but the transport medium is

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primarily freon up here we're

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experimenting with using liquid

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potassium which may be more efficient uh

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a more efficient carrier of

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but right now we're going to talk and

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say special greetings from westchester

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and from yonkers we're saying hello to

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younger native mario ronco it's good to

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talk to you also we want to say that

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cardinal hayes high school is giving you

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a special hello as well mario when you

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were a school boy were astronauts your

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and uh

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when i was younger i had a couple of

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role models actually several uh growing

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up in the bronx of course uh mickey

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mantle and joe dimaggio were a couple of

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role models for me

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and uh when i got a little bit older as

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the space program started to take shape

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uh of course uh alex shepard and john

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glenn and yuri gagarin

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when they first went into space uh i saw

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those uh gentlemen go up

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and uh saw the good work that nasa and

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the scientists were doing and i was

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quite excited by it and uh right then

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and there i i made the decision uh that

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i wanted to be an astronaut of course it

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was until uh 35 or so years later that

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i know that there are a number of

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important experiments going on could one

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of you and it makes no difference

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actually who sort of addressed the issue

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of which may be the most important if if

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yeah we have a variety of experiments in

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a module we're carrying in the payload

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bay

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called a space hab module there's 12

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experiments in there

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perhaps the most significant ones are

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crystal growth experiments which are

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improved higher quality

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crystal materials that can be used for

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semiconductor applications such as

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integrated circuits like you might use

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in a computer in a home telephone in a

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video camera

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or a radio or some such uh instrument

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like that

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in addition we've been carrying uh

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another payload out of the payload bay

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we've carried an antenna structure which

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we deployed on orbit and inflated with

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gas to prove that you can make large

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space structures with an inflation

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principle and we've deployed another

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small satellite which we're going to be

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tracking in the following days to see

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how well it stabilizes itself in orbit

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so this plane carries a number of really

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interesting experiments in space

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technology and space science

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which is the most important thing you're

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doing in this particular mission

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the direct answer to that uh

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the the gain experiment or the gps

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attitude and navigation experiment uh

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that experiment uh is using uh the

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global positioning system constellation

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of satellites and their information to

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determine the attitude of the space

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shuttle we have inertial measuring units

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which you asked about earlier on board

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which would do that normally for us but

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in the future we'd like to be able to

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use gps

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as a as a replacement or as an addition

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to or as a supplement to those inertial

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measuring units

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if the information from this experiment

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is accurate enough

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then we don't have to carry as many

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redundant imus on board we can we can

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maybe get away with carrying one or two

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instead of the tripoli redundant set

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that we have and use the information

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from gps so that translates to a weight

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savings when you try to get something as