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the joy they have found
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Columbia Houston with some inspirational
music for your musculoskeletal
experiments today good morning this is
Mission Control Houston a crew of space
shuttle Columbia being awakened to the
tunes of George Thorogood and the
destroyers and a song called bad to the
bone spacecraft communicator ki are
indicating to the crew that that tune is
in honor of their work with
musculoskeletal research this and in
particular one of the experiments
onboard sdfs 78 this flight is the
direct measurement of initial bone
response to spaceflight investigation
scientists are hoping to discover
countermeasures for this detrimental
effect of spaceflight and that research
into the loss of bone mass on orbit
could also lead to treatments for the
debilitating effects of the disease
osteoporosis on earth throughout the
night experiments have continued to work
in a space lab module while the crew
slept included among those experiments
is the bubble drop and particle unit
which we're seeing some downlink video
from right now this is a fundamental
science research into theories of
nucleation and boiling as a function of
temperature and pressure and the
long-term possibility of developing
cooling mechanisms for electronic
applications possibly even for
spacecraft applications is the end
result that's hopeful from these
experiments know Bobby looks great on TV
now and his TV d configuration climb be
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this is Space Lab mission operations
control we are continuing to receive
live downlink from the shuttle Columbia
and in particular the space lab module
in the orbiters cargo bay and we see
preparations continuing a pillow
commander Susan Helms assisting mission
specialist Rick lenihan & 2 getting into
the torque velocity dynamometer for his
series of tests this afternoon
and also in this live down like view we
can see payload specialist John Jacques
5ea in the striped shirt and payload
specialist Bob Thirsk in the foreground
here just performing last-minute
activities prior to their lunch period
again this view as live downlink from
the shuttle Columbia and the life and
microgravity Space Lab at a mission
elapse time of two days three hours and
nine minutes this is Space Lab mission
operations control