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good morning 81 looking forward to
seeing tevis keeping you running today
i was just about to say that good
morning
and actually it's chivas assembly
keeping us running
atlantis houston we copy
hi chris
john looks like the foot switch is
working well
like a charm for a simian like me
space have atlantis for biorack isozyme
nine green pistons on my mark
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houston atlantis for the internet
go ahead
now this question was from jeff fox in
buffalo grove illinois and he'd like to
know what kind of temporary data storage
devices do we have on board
and jeff we actually have just about
every kind of data storage device on
board atlantis
we have tape drives in the orbiter we
have floppy disk drives we use in our
portable computers as well as hard
drives
we also have some optical storage drives
optical drives on board
and some cd-roms so we use just about
everything that one might use on planet
earth
and a lot of flight data file too we
copy thanks
minus houston bakes we're in the hab
with you
banks has begun the protocol and is at
walking speed on the treadmill now
roger we're about to lose the tv uh
great work everybody it was a long and
difficult road to get that thing rolling
but we're happy to see it coming down
that answers the question thank you
chris
disregard
copy dance
down in the mid deck of atlantis
commander mike baker swaps uh places
with uh jerry lenninger the soon to be
mir 22 crew member
lenninger now will take a shot at the
treadmill vibration isolation system uh
he then will yield his place on the
treadmill to pilot brent jett
as all three uh attempt to take a run
for brief periods of time
to collect as much data as possible in
an abbreviated session
mike
first of all i want to talk to you about
the smoothness of this mission we all
watch the countdown together uh
ground-based managers say it's never
been this smooth before i hope it
doesn't jinx you to talk about it so
what do you attribute the uh
remarkable smoothness and success of
your mission so far
i think we were also a little bit
surprised it was a great countdown
no problems whatsoever during ascent and
i mean the only thing i can think of is
that there this is an airplane and the
more you fly them the better they work
could well so if we keep flying atlantis
like we've been doing hopefully it'll
still uh keep working better and better
yeah jerry let me uh let me talk to you
for a couple of minutes you're about to
do something that's only been done by
three other americans live away from the
earth on another country spaceship for a
long period of time what has been the
hardest part of getting ready for this
for you
i it's been actually a very good
experience i don't know if i could say
one hard thing russian language is a
tough language so that's a barrier to
some degree uh but we had a great
reception my wife and uh one-year-old
son were over in russia for about a year
and a half
and i've been doing solid space training
and i love training so it's been a good
experience and nothing really too hard
about it
you think life on earth jerry is going
to be better because of what you're
doing in space between now and the end
of may
i i think uh you know it's a bunch of
incremental steps and we kind of lose
sight
when you're in the middle of it you see
these small increments and they just
kind of blend together and it it's uh
you know for example this flight they
say well you already did that on 79 but
uh when you step back and uh take a look
at it uh
and think maybe five years ago and look
forward you never believe that we'd be
flying up to a space station docking you
know mike making it
kind of look like a routine thing even
though of course it isn't so uh
i think we get
little by little we're making progress
we're moving forward uh we're making the
world i think a better place for our for
our children as we keep pushing the uh
the envelope a bit
it is at the uh the launch
of sts-81 on sunday morning
and i was there with general glashcloth
and valerie rieumann
and they told me the russians are really
happy with the arrangement on your
flight and
they thought you were doing just a super
job up there and they're very proud to
have you work with them
well thank you very much i've been uh
very happy to work with valerie and
sasha i think
the mirror 22 crew has had a great
mission