[Music]
payload specialist Fred Leslie is
continuing to work with a variety of the
payloads that are housed in that 23 foot
long Space Lab module most of the
experiments being conducted as part of
this u.s. microgravity laboratory are
contained within that Space Lab module
there are some however also on the
mid-deck of Columbia throughout the
night the primary focus for
ongoing science investigations onboard
Columbia will be the surface tension
driven convection experiment an
experiment that studies the basics of
fluid dynamics in the microgravity
environment
and Spacelab pumps before Katie we would
like to have that there mister down to
begin this test please
[Music]
Space Lab Huntsville for Katie if we
could get an IRF you please
we went through different quarantine
we're actually on the first flip have to
say the blue team even though he had to
walk and in the orbiter the blue team
with Don said but we see the Sun
4.3 coming up
Space Lab for Katie just let you know
we're now beginning to see some
oscillation so we'd like to hold here at
this power setting
[Music]
that's all okay
and now with the live video from the
Space Lab module we see Kathy Thornton
going down and to adjust one of the two
space lab TV cameras and
and we also see
payload specialist al Sacco at the
glovebox facility
thought I seemed pretty pretty randomly
distributed
meanwhile Kathy Thornton
as we can see is going about her work
which at this time is involving the drop
physics module she has one of the
DPM
bay doors open for getting the system
configured
and Space Lab Huntsville for Kathy and
they've been growing now over over about
five days
and you're free to go to lunch
[Music]
[Applause]
in this case we're looking towards deep
space
with an aft
mounted
camera in the payload Bay of Columbia
and now we switch camera views and when
we look from the forward end of the
payload Bay we get a excellent view of
the clouds and the ocean surface below
the spacecraft
as
Columbia now moves to
the southeast
on a diagonal track which will be
bringing it to the southern regions
extreme southern regions of Africa in
the next few minutes and
that'll be occurring in the latter
portion of this sunlit segment of orbit
51
this is a Space Lab operations and
coming down from the Space Lab module
now we have
we have a couple different types of
video as
as the onboard crew gets into some
surface tension driven convection
experiment work and
and at the moment we're seeing the
free surface deformation video which is
one of the special diagnostic tools
being used for the surface tension
experiment