go ahead Columbia copy that Mike stand
by one for any instructions Columbia
hunt oh yeah my god they're ready to let
you go ahead and activate those to
cancel also in addition to continuing
work on the mid-deck of Columbia
mission specialist Mike Lopez Alegria
will also take some time to exercise
today on the bicycle ergometer that will
be set up on Columbia's mid deck Mike
Lopez Alegria is also the astronaut on a
blue team can you verify that that is
Romeo tan echo that you're looking in
copy that Brett the Zaca CEQA insertion
is complete that's affirmative son now
step five point one four
copy that Fred five point one
they sell phones for Katy we did not
hear that affirmative
and Katie that is the termination fluid
the top plunger and the center plunger
would terminate so we do not want to
close that small gap
I'm so sad for a CBC go ahead put them
under step one point one six assists to
remove kept on tape from the isolator
from both hands let me sit on one hand
copy different
also upcoming for the crew in about 20
minutes one of the final activities for
the blue team will be a test of a new
system being flown for the first time on
a shuttle onboard duct Columbian STS 73
that system a system that allows a
ground tear television to be sent to
television from the ground to be sent up
a to the crew and a vice versa
two-way television essentially after
two-way conversations again the first
test of that system which is being flown
is a test objective on this flight will
be taking place in just about 20 minutes
or so this concludes the pre-recorded
oblique transmission of the GA TV this
is Mission Control Houston now that
again has been a test of ground to air
television uplink to Columbia that
equipment being flown for the first time
on this flight again allowing scenes to
be sent up to the shuttle from the
ground from Mission Control that segment
just a test segment with several
different test patterns and several
different highlights from past shuttle
flights just methods of illustrating the
this shot now is live from Mission
Control of a flight director Brian
Austin and spacecraft communicator Carl
Meade again being sent up to Columbia as
well again Columbia the first shuttle to
fly with this equipment it's a test
objective several other tests of the
ground air television capability will be
performed throughout the 16 days a
Columbia spins in general and we can see
payload specialist al Sacco they're
going into one of the stowage containers
on the ceiling of the Space Lab module
there are there's a great variety of
apparatus that has to be stored in
special areas of the module or
the shuttle mid-deck in lockers and all
of that comes under the heading of
stowage it's a one specialized aspect of
preparing for a shuttle mission is just
planning out where you're going to put
all the things that the crew will need
to get access to for launch and landing
many of the things that they'll be using
during the course of the mission are put
away in particular areas so that they
obviously saw that they aren't just
floating around loose during those
launch and landing periods and so now we
get a better look with Sacco in the
foreground pulling down one of those
stowage areas it's like a drawer that in
this case though comes down vertically
from the ceiling of the Space Lab module
Space Lab Huntsville with words on DPM
yes Kathy DPM would like you to manually
tune X to start with and see what
happens with that
this is in the Astro culture plant
growth experiment system and it's the
first opportunity that the science team
for that experiment is having to take a
look at sources for the next several
minutes this is their first opportunity
to see get a little insight into the
status of the plant growth inside that
facility which is which is intended to
allow potato seedlings to grow in
microgravity conditions the principal
investigator team here in Huntsville
advised that they're elated at the way
things look inside the facility it's a
rather close-up view showing the tops of
the leaflets there are about three of
the small potato plant leaflets that are
visible in this very detailed view the
tubers that are the actual substance of
the potatoes yes source of starch are
buried or obscured by the leaflets and
but the science team members are able to
judge the status of growth from what
they see in this video and they've
indicated that what they see tells them
that the plants so far at least are
maintaining the vigor that they would
like to see
and of course all of this is being done
as preliminaries preliminary steps to
starting to go into the actual science
work with liquid drops in the chamber
and Kathy we'd like you to go ahead and
move the injectors in please fully
inserted
and now we could see those injectors
coming in and contacting the small solid
sphere immobilizing the sphere this is
another of the steps that's affirmative
Cathy we'd like to see that
we get a pretty good close-up view of
the liquid injector systems here in this
video that's coming down they are one of
the portions of this system that have
been improved since the first flight on
STS 50 us ml one the injectors and tips
have been redesigned hand over to
teacher sees this is space will have
operations Huntsville where we are
currently receiving downlink video from
inside the chamber of the single Locker
protein crystal growth experiment this
particular experiment is crystal growth
by liquid liquid diffusion for this
experiment the protein crystals are
grown in for handheld diffusion test
cells which are often referred to as a
THD t sees each one of these contains
four test cells and by diffusing one
liquid into another crystal growth is
accomplished in this particular
experiment the two different liquids are
brought into contact with each other but
they are not actually mixed eventually
these fluids will intermingle with one
another what is often refer to as
diffusion through the random motion of
molecules by gradually increasing the
concentration of the precipitant in the
protein solution this causes nucleation
of the crystals
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