good morning Atlantis and we sure wish
Mike Godspeed as the newest crew member
of mirror and send him off with a
tribute to his homeland well thank you
Bill we'll have to pass that over to
them as soon as we see them I guess
they're gonna wake up a lot of a half
hour after us but appreciate the woods
and we're off to a good start here this
morning ready to go start and lope
playing the loadmaster here
Lana smear Houston were now alive with
you in the AB
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nightmare houston weather quest for the
flight deck
okay yeah i hit look through the flight
data file and understand a 1001 so one
of the two the kids that you say will
return as it right charlie all five kits
are still stowed into a s01 okay
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Houston Atlantis how copy
one more question for commander sibling
police the recent problems you've had
with mirrors life-support systems have
caused quite a bit of concern in the
United States how serious were those
problems in your opinion and how would
you assess the station's overall health
at present given the repairs that you've
made and now that you have a new
electronic surgeon generator on board no
concession a as leading somebody certain
systemic problem seemed nervous Puccini
migliore escalate sustained stunts in
the soonest Nadine Hickock nishat it was
saying Stan supposedly antibody montegut
over she didn't see I'm alive and
healthy fully smiling so the condition
of the station is just as the same way
of course we've got now quite a bit of
cargo and equipment that's old and
outdated and we've either got to throw
it away for take it away from the
station the kind of stuff here but
otherwise the station is ballico is
normal everything is very reliable
though the problems that we had with the
thermal control system was fully
completely repaired so everything's
working working fine its present back up
now so we practically have no problems
well just one more on those lines for
your commanders simply as I mean given
the age of some of the components on
mirror how long do you think the station
can reasonably be expected to operate in
the future Kaku damages a pues aquí
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seems to know you complained about the
usual steadily you place them more often
the station will operate very long time
our station was originally planned for
three to five years and now it's here
for 12 years so it's rather more
reliable and originally expected
commander Precourt this of course is
your second visit to mirror I'm
wondering what are your general
impressions of the station's help as you
float around and look at everything and
I and as the American commander are you
satisfied mike foale has a safe place to
live and work for
for a half months yes I am very
satisfied when we went over there
yesterday I could tell you that it it
doesn't look a whole lot different than
what I remember two years ago except for
the fact its larger now as two
additional modules the parotta and the
docking module we're not here when we
docked on that's just 71 but in addition
they've had a lot more equipment
delivered so there's not really that
much more free space and has Vasily
hinted earlier one of the problems they
have is trying to find space to work and
the equipment that is no longer used on
station is somewhat of a bother and if
we could find a way to unload that as we
go on it'll help them be a lot more
efficient well commander getting back to
the current mission where if you can
maybe give us a sense of how Jerry
Linenger is feeling how eager he is to
get home to see his family what he might
have said to use and so you've had a
chance to chat Jerry's ecstatic he's had
a really good mission and I think he's
feeling a real sense of accomplishment
especially now that Mike is here he's
really directly applying the lessons
that he has gathered in his stay to
preparing Mike for the next part of his
mission and specifically with a transfer
Jerry and Michael working real hard
right now to get the equipment for the
science stowed where it's easily
accessible for Mike so he can be more
efficient than Jerry was and Jerry was
pretty darn efficient so he's got a real
sense of accomplishment and got a lot to
be proud of and he's real happy to be
coming home of us a question for
commander Sibley of along those lines
sir you spent three months with jerry
linenger four months i should say with
jerry linenger aboard mir and of course
you already knew mike foale what are
your thoughts about working with
Americans on the station how well do
they fit in and do they have enough
training to help you and your flight
engineer with station maintenance or
emergencies Papa says nice when you
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it is especially probably won't like
that it it's always easier for me to
deal with American astronauts because
everyone knows their tasks we don't
interfere with each other and we have to
help one another we don't never have any
problems so we say something like hey
Jerry helped us out with this and he'll
say okay where he'll come with to me and
he'll say I've got a problem and will
help him so we work together in this
fashion and it's very interesting would
you miss it but a major point is not to
interfere with one another because
everyone's got to know their own task
everyone's got to do their work
correctly so this professionalism is
what saves us a key party so come on get
a key part already missed a cookie have
to meet up with you proud yes well let
the booster kill them but am I good for
you so preparing for space is not
something that takes one or two days but
it takes years another person I prefer
and it's the idea that you just have to
answer for your actions or that you have
to know how to work with people thank
you and for commander Precourt changing
topics a little bit here this is the
sixth in a series of course of nine
shuttle Mir docking mission aside from
helping the Russians to keep the station
supplied what does NASA still have to
learn from this program now that you've
done six of these every time I come up
here we learn something new and really
our efficiency is growing immensely I
can remember just this just 79 and 81
listening the debriefings about the
level of difficulty doing the transfers
to coordinate the equipment that needed
to go across the hatch we have yet
another thousand pounds of equipment you
know efficiency i think is higher based
on the lessons from those previous
flights there's some incremental lessons
being learned here there's also some
conceptual things about rendezvous for
example some fairly large conceptual
changes in the way we are going to
approach the International Space Station
are being developed using flight test
from the flights that we're doing here
if you just compare a flight test
program for an airplane where you can
take
a flight a day and try to gain as much
information with a flight every four
months you can see the difficulty in
carrying those lessons forward so you
know 69 flights is not a tremendous
amount of flying when you get as complex
emission is what we're trying to do so
every flight that we get is going to
have immense benefit for our efficiency
on the space station that we're building
and that's really the key here is how we
can double or triple our efficiency over
the coming years with the International
Space Station it's going to be four
times as large four times the volume and
will hopefully get more than four times
the productivity out of it