good morning Columbia good boy and we're
happy to stay Roger we know you're all
flying high and I have one more day to
go and we're ready to give you a good
day's work out of it run to that this is
Mission Control Houston the shift of
flight controllers here on duty and
mission control awakening the crew on
board Columbia this morning to the
Electric Light orchestras don't bring me
down this is scheduled to be the final
full day on orbit for the crew members
of Columbia in anticipation of a Sunday
morning landing at the kennedy space
center and setting a new record for and
the length of a shuttle mission
columbia the reboost go ahead are you
happy with the data or do you need some
more data looks good okay we're
terminating
this is Mission Control Houston this
television now coming from the space lab
science module aboard Columbia showing
the astronauts in the final phase of
their exercise and scientific research
work in the module itself at the rear of
the picture is payload commander and
flight engineer Susan Helms Bob Thirsk
Oh without the shirt on is the Canadian
payload specialist on board in the
foreground pumping away in the bicycle
ergometer is pilot Kevin Kregel French
payload specialist jean-jacques Xavier
is working with a lung function
experiment on the right side of the
picture again all of this coming from
the space lab science module where
research has gone on for the past 17
days and is continuing now in the final
hours of of that work before payload and
experiment hardware and finally the
space lab systems are deactivated later
this morning wrapping up the science
phase of this mission as the astronauts
transition to the pre landing
preparations which began earlier this
morning with the reaction control system
hot fire test and the flight control
system check out all of that activity by
the flight controllers here in Mission
Control successfully completed several
hours ago
this is Mission Control Houston in the
center of your view from the space lab
module is Canadian payload specialist
Bob Thirsk wearing the hockey jersey of
National Hockey League Hall of Famer
Bobby or a Boston Bruins all-star for
many years in the National Hockey League
they're squaring that in tribute of the
game that he loves and the national
sport of Canada again that Jersey
belonging to National Hockey League
great Bobby Orr carried onboard colombia
by Bob Thirsk contribute to the game of
hockey in the National Hockey League
hello commander Susan Helms is right
above thirsk pulling out some gear from
an overhead Locker Kevin kriegel at the
bottom of the picture continuing to
pedal along on the bicycle ergometer
while French payload specialist
jean-jacques 5ea continues to operate at
the lung function experiment on the
right side of your picture at the rear
of the picture coming into view is a
mission specialist Chuck Brady he'll be
holding the camcorder on the flight deck
tomorrow for the first in cabin views
aboard Columbia about 11 or 12 minutes
before landing while the orbiter is
traveling at about 11 times the speed of
sound in the final minutes before
touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center
mission specialist Rick Linehan is at
the rear of the picture near the tunnel
that connects the space lab science
module to the flight deck and the mid
deck of the orbiter
payload specialist Bob Thirsk is
performing a final calibration on the
astronaut lung function experiment and
he'll use a syringe containing a known
volume of air to calibrate the
instrument
crew and we just wanted to let you know
how much we appreciate it and how we
wish you were with us because we really
missed you thanks a lot very heartfelt
thank you okay yes I'm here I was not
laughing but i'm loving now and thank
you very much for everything and we
really didn't think that you are going
to make a hundred percent but you did
110 so it's a lot of joy here and
there's only one thing wrong with this
flight and f that you guys went with us
so we know you did good work down there
and we really appreciate the great job
you did but it would have been a perfect
brightest that have been a flight of
time as I think we can only agree to
that and where we will make a proposal
to install two more seats for next time
you get your chance we just hope we get
to fly with him
okay then see you tomorrow somewhere in
earth
the payload crew saying they're on orbit
farewells to Italian space agency
alternate payload specialist dr. Luka or
Bonnie and for later from a perspective
of not having a video from on orbit
they've also said they're on orbit
farewells to ISA payload specialist dr.
Pedro Duque of course the alternate
payload specialists do train alongside
the payload crew during all the
pre-mission preparation for the Space
Lab mission and support the on-orbit
operations from here in the Space Lab
mission operations control the life and
microgravity Space Lab now in flight day
17 the final day of payload operations
which are drawing to a close as the crew
of the shuttle Columbia prepares to
first return to Earth tomorrow
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