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Columbia Houston your wake up this
morning was provided by the 1980 US Air
Force Academy drum and bugle corps good
morning alright good morning k and just
let everyone know we have to fund rebuke
or members up here and three former
caddy grads up here and it was really
happy you and a thought it fell off time
so we copy that this is Mission Control
Houston wake up music for the crew of
Columbia this morning was provided by
the 1980s Force Academy drum and bugle
corps featuring cadet Susan Helms on
xylophone playing flight of the
bumblebee actually three days into what
NASA hopes will be a record-setting
mission 17 days is the goal right now
and joining us from space traveling
along at about 28,000 kilometers per
hour about two hundred and sixty six
kilometers above the earth and I believe
somewhere over Africa are five members
of Columbia's crew let's begin with
commander Tom Henrik's commander first
of all the goal is seventeen days you on
track right now as I understand it
you're conserving power in an effort to
stay up there and set that record so
that's probably true we plan to conserve
power in any event with what we call a a
groupie fall down which is extended stay
on all this power down and midway
through the movement we hope that our
management will give us the go for that
70 a record 17 days I guess we had to
put that in perspective a little bit
because on the Russian space station Mir
we heard last week that the crew which
has been up there for some months will
be delayed by 40 days so the delay for
the Russians exceeds our record by about
three times give me a sense of how you
and the other crew members might feel
about spending as long as 40 days or
perhaps months in space
hi my name is Sarah rikler head on the
end this one the flight and I actually
look forward to spending more time in
space after this if we get the
International Space Station up will be
staying up there for periods of two to
three months at a time and this shuttle
flight is play lead of things to come in
that way we're trying to you all figure
out how the human body reacts one
relation space travel we get this data
we're getting a lot of good life
sciences data will be able to put that
to our work grunts also guts and data
will be building a station with that and
combining our resources and talents
despite all the data that does exist
between NASA and the Russians about
longevity and space there's still a lot
we need to know is that correct as I
understand it there are all kinds of
problems I guess you could call them
problems which astronauts encounter
whether they're in space among them bone
loss muscle loss problems sleeping and
not to mention the fact space adaptation
sickness now as I understand it
two-thirds of all astronauts have this
space adaptation sickness and I don't
not going to ask anybody here if they
ever have had it but if you could tell
me what the symptoms are how long it
lasts and what can be done about it okay
I'll be happy to take care what we have
to do it's an excellent work up here
looking for the answers of why and how
those really things happen she a little
bit of example solar systems people can
experience normally the body explains as
a major food shift immediately after the
advent of complete and this food shift
can bring on a lot of strange symptoms
such as fullness of the head stuffy nose
stomach awareness and headaches and is
it done is it goes on on people get used
to it and they adapted energy usually
within hours and our case everybody
hears you have two very very quickly
we've had just helped standing flight
from the standpoint of adaption so the
scientists were hoping to capture a lot
of date on down our career probably not
going to get a whole lot our mission is
looking at not only SMS which is the
state versus sickness adaption but we're
also looking at other areas of the life
science
rina to include both mom which is a very
very important thing to look at when you
took such a long duration space flights
because as long as ones that have been
documented in the past it is we got a
real social experiment here looking at
bachelor brought skeletal function and
still be done on earth at sport velocity
dynamometer meeting we have in the
background here and it went very well
we're hoping to bring back lots of good
times for the right scientist back on
earth you all are sort of acting as
guinea pigs up there and we're gonna
want to talk a little bit about some of
the tests that are ongoing but let me
introduce to you release of a syllabus
itting here beside me here at CNN center
she has a couple of questions for you go
ahead Lisa I'm interested a once you're
back on earth how do you adapt to the
earth conditions again what do you
experience you've had bone walls you
have muscle loss motion sickness how do
you feel when you when you get off the
shuttle for you readapt it's one of the
things that happen is it you feel very
heavy because we've been floating around
here in our case will be two and a half
weeks also your balance is a little bit
off your inner here those long hair
follicles tell you where gravity is but
we haven't been used them all up your
space and so they're out of calibration
so you tend to stagger a bit and you've
never passed any up we spend DWI test
bed Yuri adapt to gravity very quickly
and in my case after just one day and go
back from the news well must confess
looking at it all behind you it looks a
little bit like a health club an
orbiting health club tell me what's it
like exercising in space I guess there's
no weight lifting right
well believe it oh it's pretty similar
to what you would do back on earth
except you just don't have to still have
the gravity that'll hold you down to
think so because of that we have to use
special seats dropping Tippett harnesses
that'll keep it so on spot while we
exercise you can see if we let go we
just photo and that can't happen so
right now it back a bit shocked you
Sonny odometer it's probably a little
tough to see but he's coming off now you
just strapped down to a special seat and
with using special panels raising pedals
actually keep in the contraption and
exercise and get up to you are just
about the same workers you with down on
the tracks are more comfortable because
you kind of float relax while you're
exercising now everyone knows why they
invented velcro I guess tell me a dr.
Linehan we've been talking about the the
life science aspect as it relates to
humans they got a lot of critters on
board which are taking care of house all
that doing give us kind of a broad brush
and what you have going on there well
we're flying off a road that fish
embryos actually applying some white lab
rats and fish embryos study a biological
development and what we're really
looking out there is that they're
spending their time up the pace I saw
and though we're going to look at the
developmental changes that might occur
the fish up yours due to a lack of
gravity or should I say microgravity not
a lack of gravity and also look at the
changes physiological changes that might
occur in the rats that we have and
compare them to the physiology of humans
we get back but a lot that way putting
them on the treadmill let's talk to the
this mission excuse me the payload
specialist I didn't catch who that is
who just got off the machine there how
do you feel that's dr. Chuck Berry is
mission specialist number three
feel great in fact exercising really
helps you up here I first a real good
exercise I've had and we're doing some
studies on the maximal oxygen uptake
that the body can do in space but feel
wonderful coming off of it and get to be
back my crewmates here you seem out of
brass I'm very impressed you must be in
good shape thanks for coming aboard
we're signing off from 12 me a hundred
forty-six miles over here this is
Mission Control Houston this television
is from Columbia's cargo bay cameras
showing the East Coast the United States
Columbia just now passing off at the
Atlantic seaboard
it's from countries for LC doesn't just
remind that oxygen tank valve should be
open before the next three ft test or ms
ones you scattered in about 15 minutes
from now okay look of it so we don't
forget thank you
and there's something like 60 bit of a
mess and I'm ready to accept the beauty
magazine number three oh wait the bag is
snowing on the control panel it does
appear that it's really at all and of
course you know that the old still light
agreed by the straw vote