the
good morning Columbia a nice tribute to
perhaps a show that got us all
interested in space when we were quite
quite young deported bill
yes there's a great view of our launch
site looks like you had a cloudy day at
you
yeah we copy story we're hoping those
clouds will clear out and we'll have
some nice weather this weekend okay that
what you get of it
well that's true we may not see much a
daylight good weather but we'll enjoy
the cool night
where do you sleep number one well we
have four sleep bucks on this flight and
of course we do have five people four of
us are in the bunch which are just
little compartments for the sliding door
on it and story who enjoys a little more
freedom than that is sleeping just
floating around the midday so one of the
astronauts sleeps floating around is
that what you're telling me that's right
that's really hard to keep story
Musgrave in any one place for very long
and and that's the way he prefers it so
he's just floating around when he sleeps
when you look down on the earth is it
like it looks on a map or can you see
distinguishing things like the Himalayas
and things like that and when you look
down you can't pick out things but it's
not like on a map if the one thing we
don't have here are borders so it you
don't see borders between countries but
when we do go past the Himalayas you see
the snow which sometimes looks like
clouds but it's a brilliant white and we
did pick out man Everest the other day
on the past and it does look massive
even at 200 miles in space what's the
biggest thrill about being in space to
me it would be walking the spacewalk
that two of you are going to do but I
have been up there so maybe there is a
bigger thrill than that what's the
biggest thrill of being there yeah
unfortunately Ken and I don't get to do
the spacewalk they keep us inside but I
would think that would be a very big
highlight I'm sure for Tammy and Tom
will will be for us there are three
things that really stand out one is the
action and when the solid walk that's
like our main engines already running
you know you're going somewhere and you
really can feel that tremendous amount
of thrust on you from that eight to 1/2
minute ride you're in a sense that's one
thing that's really stands out the
second is just the sheer thrill of
floating it's kind of hard in the
smaller space here for me to show you
that but just being able to float and
fly around without any kind of wings is
a thrill and then lastly two views the
views from space are just incredible to
see the occur the earth the sunrises
sunsets
and the world going by it just it's
incomprehensible for me to even try to
project what you're seeing out there do
you ever see anything that you can
identify and you know the UFO phenomenon
is everybody just continues to debate is
there anything that you ever see or
photograph that's strange to you we see
a lot of interesting sites them and you
see things from a new perspective the
first time you see a shooting star
meteor hits the atmosphere it's very
unusual because it's all happening below
you but none of us from this crew and I
as far as I know any other crews have
seen anything that hasn't eventually
been explained the difficulty comes now
when you have to come back in two weeks
correct well it said another phase of
fight that it's one that so Kent and I
are going to enjoy a lot being pilots
and we get to guide this fantastic
machine all the way from 17,000 miles
per hours Mach 25 down to what we hope
is a smooth and graceful landing in
Florida
in Colombia in the on-orbit multi-axis
RCS learn procedure orbit ops we were
thinking we'll probably to burn with
that open and up the homes helium if you
could sir we copy and concur okay we're
just gonna leave it configured as is you
won't see us going through those we copy
wanna be Houston we see good config for
the burn
Columbia Houston good burn
Houston Colombia for you kappa go ahead
okay we just sixty degrees and we are
ending the current tip and turning off
the power we copy