Columbia Houston your mission and we
know you'll be glad to accept it is to
extend 217 days on orbit congratulations
could work in the IFM
we didn't respond to your previous call
because the speaker with all the flight
deck because applause today and I hope
you were watching me live in the ground
and you could see the crew response with
your announcement and we are really able
and eagerly anticipating all the data
we're gonna gather with that extra day
on orbit so thanks Lots amazing before
giving us an extra day this television
picture from the Space Lab module
showing payload commander Susan Helms on
the left with her crewmates mission
specialists Chuck Brady who is at the
top of the picture jean-jacques favi a
French payload specialist on the right
as life science research data continues
to be collected
near the center of our screen we can see
mission specialist Chuck Brady
participating in the canal and otolith
integration study or Co eyes Chuck Brady
is wearing some electronic light
occlusion goggles part of the hardware
for the co eyes investigation and he's
involved in voluntary head movement
protocols in which he follows a target
on the luminous target display which we
are viewing from the back near the
foreground and this picture on the other
side a series of light-emitting diodes
or LEDs lighting up at various times and
Jeff Brady must follow the movement of
these LEDs to complete these protocols
Bailey commander Susan Helms - Chuck
Brady's immediate right is assisting
with the operation of the Coe eyes
hardware
I'm still for Pedro does this remind you
of anything
this looks like an eel or maybe
something that lives on the ground
okay thank you for the Association
this was taken this morning when dr.
Brady was exercising and we thought this
was setting a new standard for ham radio
operators he's operating this rx
simultaneously with getting his daily
exercise and we thought this was above
and beyond the call of duty
happy birthday Canada from the space
shuttle Columbia okay okay keep going
finally the Sara Canada Dupree Lana that
special Columbia
happy birthday British Columbia from the
space shuttle Columbia
and specially we've got the view and we
like it
okay
and Yuri was a little bit out of focus
but we could appreciate all the details
in there
this is Space Lab control Huntsville
we're currently looking at video from
the bubble drop and particle unit
facility multi-user facility currently
loaded in BD PU is this Stroud
test cartridge and this is a test
cartridge to investigate the
fundamentals of boiling heat transfer on
small heating elements of different
shapes and sizes and hopefully
investigators will attempt to determine
the conditions at nucleation and to
optimize heat transfer Bob Thirsk in the
center of our screen working the canal
internal integration study is actually
still performing the voluntary head
movement portion of the experiment the
goggles that he has done or they
electronic light occlusion goggles and
these have a crystal lens incorporated
into modified ski goggles the lens are
opaque in its natural state but will
become translucent when an electric
current is applied when he is completed
with the voluntary head movement portion
of this experiment he will continue to
the optic kinetic nystagmus portion of
the experiment