atlantis houston to our favorite crew
good morning
and my favorite crew says good morning
back thanks a lot for the wake up and
thanks for allison for the song and the
dedication
brent we're uh
looking at both you there on the flight
deck and it's uh at your discretion
okay if it's okay we'll bring them on
now
i mean if you want we can power them
down and then uh death cream and power
back up but if we're not going to take
more data just
it doesn't seem necessary
but we copy we're looking to see
that the gps
information overload the disk is has
26.5 megabytes available on 700-14.
okay we copy we're just puzzling over
your call and
wanted to make sure that we're
configured properly for the gps in this
troubleshoot procedure that's timeline a
little before 2300.
yeah i'll bring
i'll bring 700-12 back up
i guess
hello
terry chris how are you all doing over
in the chamber this is john blaha
we have you loud and clear john thanks
for the call we also can see you on the
monitor in front of us
you asked me what did i think about the
how did that go with the bps and the
cartilage is that correct
yes copy that john
okay uh well first of all i'll tell you
what uh i think that experiment in a
broad context
really shows the value of long duration
space flight
uh well let me explain
the people on the ground had done a
fantastic job designing it and
everything and uh had we tested it on
the shuttle uh we would have flown a two
or three week flight and we would have
landed and thought everything was just
great
as it turns out about four weeks into
the flight
the air that had been
processing when we mixed media in the
bag
there was no air and there's special
water that i had brought up and when i
mixed that water with the media just
like and then i noticed all fluids do it
in space
it just seems to create bubbles
and
over a period of uh
four weeks it took that long for the
bubble to propagate through the whole
system and finally get into the vessel
and when i saw the bubbles first in the
vessel i was really alarmed and of
course everybody on the ground was
but then the people on the ground as
usual came up with all sorts of
procedures
and then we opened up the box and tried
to evaluate the system and
the bottom line is
we ended up having to manually feed the
flash media
and then we'd make our samples at the
end of a period right before we i mixed
a new bag and
so we could tell the health of the media
so uh no that was a very
good experiment as it turns out i think
it was very successful and the cartilage
continued to grow and you know as
cartilage from a cow's knee
and uh but we just had to get the human
being involved so that experiment as it
turns out i know it wasn't intended it
showed the value of long-duration space
flight as well as human involvement
okay john this is fred smith again uh
congratulations congratulations to you
my question is dealing more with on the
psychological aspects of long duration
we're also doing some evaluation
psychological evaluations for our
tests here i was wondering were there
any some things that you found helpful
in uh
making your stay more enjoyable for your
for the duration of your mission
on mirror
yes i understand you know you're talking
about something now that i think is uh
crucial uh to a uh
long duration flight be it a flight on a
space station with an international crew
and i stress that international crew or
a
a fight to mars with an international
crew
when you put people together who are
from different cultures
cultures and who have different
language as their primary language
you even add to the psychological
problem for example the four of you
will or will not experience there in
your laboratory on the ground and in
fact
i think you could think of next time you
do something like this try and put
some people from different nationalities
together
and
who maybe don't speak the common
language real well
because that introduces i think another
element of psychological
pressure and stress
and in my case
i had trained with two russian cosmonaut
crews
in star city for a year and a half and
then unfortunately a week before their
launch
one of the people had a heart problem
unfortunately it's not bad and he's
happy now but uh so they had to change
the crew so i flew with a completely
different two russians than i had even
trained with
which even added more to i think uh some
stress in the first month of the fight
so but you're on to something that's
very very important uh
uh but i think there are many parameters
and we really need to think about it in
the future with our international space
station for example we have two
americans two russians
a european and a uh
a person from say japan uh the people
who
are
alone by themselves and don't have a
friend from their own culture i think
are going to even have a little more
special kind of problem that we need to
pay attention to
yes i was wondering if you had any uh
experiences or interactions with with
the mere
uh life support systems
that you'd like to share with us
absolutely
you know you're right on it those life
support systems are very important and
what i i would say a couple of things on
that that i noticed working with my two
russian colleagues valerie and sasha
first of all
uh the crew
probably needs to know those systems at
a deeper level than i remember i knew
the ecosystems here on the shuttle
uh when you're able to clean a vehicle
up on the ground as we do and then go
into orbit and stay for two weeks and
come home and clean it up again that's
one kind of level of knowledge
if you're going to go up there
on our new space station
you need to go to a deeper level of
knowledge and we need to make sure we
have a couple of people trained on that
new international space station uh into
that deeper level of knowledge because
when something goes wrong maybe the
spare part isn't there but if you have
people who are trying to go into the
boxes
and
take a small component out that's broken
and actually fix it
and then put it back in the box
that's the type of training we're going
to have to do and i saw a lot of that
during my flight
on mirror
kitchen lettuce for transfer
go ahead john
baha brought with him some mcds
that needed to be refrigerated
and we put them in ptcu one
which is a five degree c
container uh they're not supposed to be
frozen so we didn't put them in leslie
we just want to make sure that you and
the biorack folks know that that's where
they are
we see them and concur thanks
thanks
houston for cmrs we have a question do
you want all of our little data runs
here with only one
cmo or are we allowed to use two people
to restrain the patient
marcia we'd like to use two if possible
okay
okay the first one brent did was of
course a record time of 55 seconds of
getting john restrained and now we'll do
it with two
space have atlantis fo12 step 12 is
complete
and we copy thanks
lannis houston very impressive we're one
minute to the zoe we'll pick you up at
22 33.
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