when i up down touch the ground it puts
me
i improve my appetite when i exercise
well i'm guessing that that was for a
chubby little cubby little
bear well endeavor that music was
brought to you by tigger and eeyore and
ronnie and all the friends of pooh
and john about another minute or so and
pao should be set to go
and your stripes are nicely aligned now
this is um for all of you or anyone
let's try the coke and how has it tasted
yeah um the experiment you're referring
to is our fluid generic bioprocessing
apparatus
coca-cola is the
major corporate sponsor for that
experiment
um it's an experiment uh it's a
two-phase system meaning it does involve
a liquid and a gas uh the liquid uh
basically being um
a uh sweetened beverage and then the
coke or coke
and the uh and the gas being uh the co2
um no pun intended but it has had a
little bit of mixed success uh some of
it has worked perfectly um and uh it
tastes just like it does uh on earth and
in fact um several of us commented that
a lot of times when we're up here and
you know the meals that we eat aren't
exactly what you can
go down to your local restaurant or eat
at home so
they do tend to get old after a while
and it really was kind of nice to have
something uh different but it pretty
much uh tasted the same
we've had problems uh or we've had
some problems with differences in the
amount of carbon dioxide that does end
up in solution and that's the whole
problem about this experiment is
controlling how much co2 goes into
the solution and transferring it and
that that same amount stays there
stephen young with reuters question for
john casper when they come to write the
history books on this mission and the
flight has to be condensed to a few
short lines what do you think will be
the one or two highlights of this
mission
i think the dramatic highlights are
going to be the uh the visual
stimulating part
which are the inflatable antenna and the
small test satellite unit
uh i think some of the more dramatic
results in the long term may be these
semiconductor crystals
that we're growing uh it's it's hard to
know in the future
what the what the most beneficial thing
will be that comes out of this flight as
i said we have over 30 experiments on
board they're in many different areas of
technology and also commercial areas uh
plant uh plant animal science medical
experiments
uh in the years to come who knows it may
be something completely different that
we we didn't pay much attention to but
it will prove to be a definite benefit
to humankind
bill horowitz cbs news uh on pam stew
would whichever one of you is the expert
on that system if you cannot get the
laser system to work like you want it to
tomorrow
what does that mean to the overall
experiment in other words how good is
the data you get from radar and cameras
and stuff versus not having the radar
data
well i i can't tell you exactly i know
that the that the camera data we have is
not quite as precise
as uh as the laser in the payload laser
in the payload bay is my understanding
could get the angle could resolve the
angle
of the toning or the angle that the stew
satellite makes
to us
to within a degree or less probably
within a tenth of a degree now the video
that we get i believe we'll be able to
get it within uh on the order of a few
degrees so it's not quite uh probably
not quite as exact as they would want
but uh fortunately
mainly through the help of mario
setting up the cameras that and
fortunately we did have some cameras on
board with low light capability that
they could actually individually we
could see
the retro reflectors that are located
along uh or around the outside
are just inside the diameter of the skew
satellite and that's how they determine
the angle of the satellite and i believe
with that video they'll still be able to
get some excellent science
mark i wonder if you could talk a little
bit about the aquatic research facility
and specifically the sea urchin
experiment how things are going so far
yes the art facility is basically a
whole bunch of little aquariums and in
those aquariums we've put sea urchins
starfish
and blue clams now these aren't big like
the ones you might see by the seashore
they're very small
embryos really and what we want to do is
to
let them develop for a little while and
then fix them in other words we stop
their development so that we can then
see back on the ground
how they have developed in some cases
over a matter of a few hours in
weightlessness and sometimes over a
matter of a few days
what we're interested in seeing
basically is how does this development
occur without the effect of gravity in
other words what effect does gravity
play
in the development of these marine
species uh we hope in the process to
learn a little bit more about
i suppose the equivalent to human bone
formation but in this case
we're talking about shells and and the
bodies of these small marine animals
so that possibly we can infer other
things about bone development
and
possibly even something like
osteoporosis which happens in human
beings and certainly is a possibility
with astronauts who spend long periods
of time in weightlessness
this is stephen young with reuters again
a question for kurt brown
this mission was described as a
commander and pilot stream flight
beforehand i wonder if you could talk a
little bit about the flying that's
involved in the the rendezvous you've
been doing and the rendezvous that's
planned tomorrow and whether there's any
analogy
between the station keeping you do and
something that may take place down here
on the ground such as a helicopter
hovering over a particular site or a
ship fighting against the current to
keep itself in position
well the uh the flight itself has turned
out to be
very much as expected pre-flight
uh it is a uh i think the commanders and
pilots dream we have completed
uh three rendezvous so far the flight
looking for our next one tomorrow
the training we received on the ground
was excellent for for what we wanted to
do
it looked just like
we were in the simulator but the view
out the windows were was obviously much
more spectacular
the best way to describe flying a a
station keeping such as we're doing on
the pam's 2 satellite
is very similar
to flying formation in an aircraft which
a lot of folks do on the on the earth
the only difference is we're traveling
at much much greater speeds
uh however the relative motion between
the two bodies the satellite and the
shuttle is very very small
so it's almost almost imperceptible the
the changes that are taking place and
because of that
we have
quite a few different instruments on
board to help us out we have a coast
which is a
optical alignment device or a site very
much like the crosshairs on a telescope
to help us perceive motion
we have a
radar that's in the payload bay which we
carry on every shuttle flight we use it
as a
range and range rate and an angle
tracking device which locks onto the
satellite and tracks it
we also have
a handheld laser which is very much to
uh similar to the uh the ones the police
departments use to uh make sure folks
are not going too fast
and we shine it out the windows and
measure range and also range rate to the
satellite
and then finally
in recent years we have a laptop
computer which we put all this
information we're getting from the other
three devices into this laptop
and it gives us a exact position in
relation to the satellite and also gives
us predictors to show us where we'll be
going
in the next say 10 15 20 minutes and by
knowing that we can use orbital
mechanics to our benefit
and by using orbital mechanics which is
pure physics we can save a lot of props
and as shown on this flight due to our
great training we've had
we've started off
a couple hundred pounds in the negative
and right now i think our last um
our total uh after the first three
rendezvous we've made up basically about
400 pounds so we've uh
we've done a good job and we can't take
credit for it up here it has to be the
folks on the ground that did all the
planning all the training and all the
hard work and we just get to be the
folks up here to enjoy it
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