well we'd like to say that we're happy
to be aboard Columbia on this very
successful mission this flight has shown
us that every once in a while life
throws you a little bit of a curve and
we would like to think that it's not the
curve that counts but how we react to it
I think we're gonna take advantage of
having this mechanical failure on board
to teach us more about hatches and make
us better prepared for future flights
and on the other side on the other hand
we're having an extremely successful
science flight Orpheus Paz and the waste
shield satellites both had performed
flawlessly the space vision system
experiment has performed flawlessly and
we've gotten a lot of myth big science
experiments and work done that will be
very beneficial to the space program
into the US and to the world population
so we're very happy about the way things
have gone and we're going to react to
and work with what we've seen happen
already in a very positive way and we're
ready for your questions now this is
Marsha Dunning The Associated Press for
dr. Jones or dr. Jernigan I realized
that the remote possibility but how much
thought have you given to what would you
need to do to open that hatch in case an
emergency spacewalk is needed what would
it take to get it open and how nervous
would you be forcing it open and knowing
it might not so properly on your way
back in even if we do have a mechanism
that would stick we could remove the
rigging from the exterior of the door if
we had to and use the Delta P across the
hatch in order to hold it on once we
pressurize the airlock so if we got into
that very remote possibility then we
would work very hard to get that hatch
open and very hard to get it sealed back
mr. Filch an earth news village and
Earth needs for tako realized didn't
want to fire the thrusters when a white
show was deployed to prevent
contaminating it but how much closer
would you have let it come to the shadow
and feel comfortable before you would
have finally quite
go and hit the thrusters to get out of
the way well Phil we had about 10 feet
of clearance across the roof of the crew
cabin and the closure rate was extremely
slow so we could have taken it right
down to probably a foot or several
inches so we had quite a quite a bit of
clearance and I think we might could
have even gotten away with firing a
forward firing thruster that wouldn't
have condemned contaminated it too much
so perhaps the science mission wasn't as
as much risk as as we as it could have
been but we had we had margin we had
plenty of margin and again I'd like to
emphasize that we were excited over the
fact that we might have to fire the
thrusters not over the fact that the way
shield was about to hit us which it was
not closure rate was so slow that
everything was a very slow drama
unfolding and the whole drama point was
that we didn't want to fire the
thrusters this is Irene brown with UPI
for a story Musgrave and it must have
gone through your mind with the hatch
jam if that had happened on your last
flight and I was just wondering what
your personal thoughts on lessons
learned from this is
well we've learned that that no matter
happening don't you turn over to try to
head off surprises then it is a kind of
business of exploration discovery uh
there is Chris and things do happen if
if we've not been able to get out of the
door my last night I will repair patient
none we'd have probably had to come back
and fix that fix any generic Bob and all
the hatches and gone and done it again
hurry for anybody the crew who wants to
take it how well have you just the
circadian shifting on this mission any
problems with I'm not falling asleep
when you're supposed to fall asleep
waking up too early would you prefer to
just slam shift a couple of nights
before landing or are you adjusting to
the cycles and then sleep in an extra
hour and get up later and human nature
being that it is that is the easiest way
to shift and originally we were planning
to shift eight hours and we've tacked a
couple more onto that because we are
shifting so well and it's easy to stay
up late especially here in space with
the tremendous views and then once you
go to sleep we all have been sleeping
very very well and we don't have any
problem sleeping the eight or nine hours
that they're giving us and so the shift
has really been in essence a non-event
on our CBS again for dr. Musgrave story
out of this isn't out of the blue
question because I don't know if
anybody's passed this up but there's
been a discovery today announced that
that there is evidence of ice on the
moon in the south polar caps which is
pretty interesting stuff and I know
you've given a lot of thought to
exploration in general since we're
talking about Mars tonight but what does
that say to you that if there was in
fact ice on the moon what sort of an
advantage that make being or a leg up
anyway down the road to colonizing or
having long term basis there Danny
probably know more about the natural
resources that we need to find out there
then I do they've probably done more
thinking about that but clearly if there
is ice in there
water out there that is a natural
resource which is extraordinarily
important to establishing you know a
permanent things such as an observatory
in the moon or some kind of colony
we need to eventually find a natural
resources be a mining community out
there extract the oxygen the
manufacturing and the materials we need
out there as opposed to carrying them
out there I think that extraordinarily
important finding in Mission Control did
that they'd send it up to us early this
morning bill this is the Stephen young
with Reuters to finish up here on a
light-hearted note four story
a wandering story if you would feel an
immense sense of irony if on your last
mission you finally made contact with
extraterrestrials and they came along to
pick you up but you couldn't get outside
because they had she stuck yeah if they
were so advanced to get here they would
open the hatch of Horace
at the firm Houston will go ahead and
cycle that handle and there we're
approaching sunset I'm hopeful as the
Sun sets there will get a much better
acuity with the spotlight on this in the
picture here's the cycle now
Columbia Houston for Rommel thank you
for cycling we are now convinced that
there is no binding in that area and the
those pictures you've provided us to
confirm that it's uncomfortable the
first ad we pick to look at picture is
available what do you think of it and
that's a great picture taco we couldn't
see that on the first survey before and
so that's a good data point and if we
could move around to the other ones but
you've you've angled the end-effector
camera perfectly for that one thank you
so this is the lower star birthday and
we're looking at it upside down and we
copy taco and you're moving there your
Rommels moving that arm around like a
fine microsurgeon we really appreciate
those views
maybe we're gonna roll the Edit vector
and translate up to get the next one on
the fourth side while we're up on the
port side would you like to look at the
foot on that side as well yes please
taco
okay well look at the first thing we
come to the field of view I think if
they'd be another guide
I use I was wrong here's this foot and
we will get the picture stable would you
like Mike hold on yes please
Columbia Houston for taco and Rommel
that completes our survey thank you for
a really outstanding job this is an
important visual record for when we get
back on the ground and we also now have
an accurate record of the situation on
orbit so we've completed the survey and
you're free to cradle the arm spaceship
Columbia position sts-80 the organ donor
program has the potential to benefit
millions of Americans we are here to
show our support for this program by
signing organ donor cards and space to
give a part of fuel for someone who is
in need is one of the most generous and
caring things that you can do you
continue to live in the life of someone
else
by becoming an organ or tissue donor you
can directly help friends relatives
neighbors all across America you can
touch lives in ways you've never
imagined let's find those cards
we entire crew of STS 80 we thank you
for considering the organ donor program
are you ready for the family probably
not go ahead good day America I'm
captain Ken cockerel and I'm commander
Kent Rominger aboard the United States
space shuttle Columbia over the 195
nautical miles above the earth we have
the following message to pass no Navy
Columbia Houston in your dreams