ready to go again
and atlantis they tab for biorack we
have a good view of space hab
and elena
okay
for fo 14 step 12 that actually needs to
be started
about 10 minutes before the timer goes
off
so that you are at the appropriate sub
step
which is sub step 10
when the timer goes off
this started about 10 minutes before the
timer goes off
to have the sub step 10 started off time
and we copy
just want to give you a little tour of
mir i'm jerry lenninger of course and
i'm in the base block where you see most
of the pictures that come out of mirror
it's the table where we all gather to
eat uh when the time is available
got quite a bit of gear we have a little
sleep cabin over this way
and charlie's gonna have a hard time
flying with all the cords so but he's
gonna do the best job he can given the
circumstance
but inside the sleep cabin there's also
a little window that you can look out
with good earth observation
bag sitting right here
this happens to be the commander sleep
station
and he's got a little mirror he's got
some personal pictures uh
pens
patches
mirror 23 patch for example
decorating his walls got a cd player
little uh tape players to relax and take
life easy so this is where the commander
normally sleeps
what else we have interesting this is
actually a little tool area where you
can pull the table down and do some
pretty heavy pounding it's a good solid
steel surface and comes in very handy
when you're doing repair work so that
one of the air generating systems is
here and also the co2
cleaning system is here along with a
with a block threading premises which
takes out contaminants in the air and
all those run in this module and this is
also a module where we're having some
cooling leak problems and we did some uh
repairs where we cut two
and basically blocked them off with some
plugs
and it's as you can see it's very
difficult to work uh the area has to get
cleared we had it totally cleared for
about four weeks
looking for the leaks and it's very very
difficult to work back here we're able
to find one leak but we still have some
problems so uh mike's gonna have his
hands full uh working back here
finding the leak is one thing and then
getting access to the leak is a
different uh ball game
and we'll back back out by the way the
fire i guess is kind of interesting
people have heard about the fire the
player was basically in this region here
with the flame shooting across this way
and therefore as you can see where the
camera is is basically where i was at
and we had one other body in front of me
i was passing the fire extinguisher
but we can only get one person in
here to fight the fire because of the
flame location and uh at that time the
other soyuz was on the other side where
progress is now docked so as you can see
it would have been very difficult to get
through the flame itself to get to the
one of the rescue vehicles
and it was very difficult to fight the
player because you could only get one
body close enough to the player itself
visibility in here was basically
no visibility and where charlie is with
the camera right now
it was you could
sort of see your fingers if you looked
hard so it was very very dense smoke and
uh
interesting experience uh something you
don't want to repeat of course but
player in space is a different sort of
entity than player down on the earth is
what i learned through that experience
what you're hearing right now is the
system right over here which is a co2
cleaning system
and a ventilator right next to it the
ventilator is aimed at it because one of
the repairs that we did
was to a fan the cooling release of
course cools the air uh coming through
the uh
a series of tubes basically and a fan
blows through those two and the cool air
helps cool this system
commander's post right here which is of
course interesting and commander
vasily's here
and facility says hello to everybody
doing a little work at the command post
he's got his uh scope down here a couple
crt tubes and there's a lot of different
commands in this area
and over here is actually your uh signal
of that
bolt or your
panel that gives you all your caution
and warning alarms
fire extinguishers are here and they're
located there at every module
vital piece of gear and the things that
i think pretty much uh saved our lives
are these uh
oxygen breathing devices and uh during
the fire of course that had to go on
quickly so they're located in nice
location and we've been resupplied
and everything's in place on the last
progress
this is my little corner at the moment
for uh the greenhouse experiment
um
greenhouse we'll show you in a minute
it's in another module called the
crystal module
but uh
when we grow these uh basically going to
try and grow plants over a period of uh
a month cycle
from one seed planting
uh through a pollination through a
flowering
and then through a harvest of the seeds
and then a replanting of the seeds i
hope to uh do this with sasha zootkin
the bought engineer on this flight
and do this over a period of um
about 90 days three cycles
this is a glove box that came from ames
and we'll use this glove box to uh do
all the very fiddly tricky operations
with the seeds and the fixations with
chemicals
it's a major part of my experiment
so down the outside of the station it's
a sprawling station when you're doing an
eva it's uh not like being inside the
concave surface of the payload bay and
instead it's convex the whole way you
feel like you're falling
the entire time it feels like the space
station itself is falling
to the point of free-falling parachuting
it gives you that sensation pretty much
the whole time
throughout and when it gets dark you
definitely don't want to be moving on
the surface when it gets dark
that instant you are basically blind
until your eyes adjust maybe three or
four minutes later then you start seeing
some of the form of the space station
but when i say it gets dark it gets dark
to the point where i've never seen dark
as dark as the instant uh the sun sets
and you're out there on the outside of
the space station falling even in the
dark it feels like you're falling for
some reason
on the surface of the uh space station
uh it is also very crowded with
experiments with solar sensors
and of course with the uh big solar
arrays and at many times i was
fairly trapped and could not go one way
or another the handrail in front of me
had an experiment attached that was
maybe a
meter or two across and so there were no
options to go anywhere
so on the surface getting from point a
to point b was not a straight line by
any means there was a lot of dead ends
along the way
and at one point actually to find our
way back to the uh
to the hatch to come back in uh silly
and i both pushed off as far as we could
uh to try to get a broader perspective
because you have just like i feel right
now you have things all around you you
can't see the big view you're kind of
the trees and you can't see the forest
and this is the soyuz rescue vehicle
right now
and the hatch is right here so it's a
tight squeeze i'll just demonstrate
getting in but it's
it's not a easy way to get in this
little vehicle and right now i am in the
uh the round ball that you normally see
the living section
okay
this table very nice soft velcro and i
found this the most effective place to
do work if i had surface sampling or air
sampling
i'd organize my work right here put
everything in nice order and then fly to
the place where i had to do the sampling
good
and
show you here is part of the t horse uh
freezer unit which we pulled out
yesterday
builds up isil around it and if you can
look down here on the floor
this thing is just
soaking with water and i've been using
um
jerry's old exercise equipment and
underwear
which i expect he's going to throw away
at least
i hope he does
i've been using it to uh wipe up all the
water on this
on this freezer unit
water everywhere a is a problem and it
does collect in the strangest places
generally over here um jerry and i have
been kind of joey's been using this area
as a as a wash area while uh we've been
doing our handover
um
and he's probably gonna clean out this
side i just been living on this side of
it
as a general principle i think the goal
is to reduce how much water we use and
how much wet tiles we leave around
because of the water problem condensing
on pipes everywhere so i'm going to try
and minimize all of the wet towels
as you all know john and shannon worked
quite a lot with the greenhouse
it's called svetin russian and i'm going
to be working with this uh on this with
um session lazukin as i say we're doing
a seed to seed experiment which has
never been done before in space taking
um basically rape seeds is related to
broccoli and growing down over a cycle
of 30 to 40 days three times we hope
during my mission
and this is where shannon and john did
their harvesting right now you can just
see loose pieces floating around i have
a mass of bags that i'm going to be uh
unpacking and organizing to set this up
again with a new gas exchanger and new
uh root modules that fit in the lower
part of this um orange rare as they call
it or greenhouse
mike i've come
on an ideal of the tight
spaces that we work in so when mike's
doing this experiment uh with sasha
they're going to be stacked up like this
a lot of times and
a lot of old gear and that's why uh we
really appreciate all the efforts of the
people on the ground to get gear out of
here and i uh for example the edls on
the late call this morning it was a
great call we got another locker open so
uh great work and we all appreciate it
we're about out of time i just want to
thank you all for your attention and i
hope you've got a feel for the space
station uh as we flew you through it
uh it's a pretty pleasant place to live
when you can get a space to look like
this
well uh rob i just like to say that uh
this is a great day for us it's a little
bit sad of course because uh thrilling
flight is coming to an end and we're
gonna have to
separate the vehicles here tomorrow
morning
and that'll be a bittersweet memory for
us
we've had a great time getting mike
ready to take over the place uh
and fill the big shoes that jerry's left
behind here with a lot of progress being
made on board we've had a great uh
progress towards making things uh work
better for our joint science program and
uh we're happy that we were able to pull
it off
this is marcia dunham the associated
press again for dr lenninger i'm
wondering do you plan to try to walk off
the shuttle upon landing or would you
just prefer to be carried off as your
predecessor was and do you think the
curtailment of exercise about a month
ago is going to affect your
rehabilitation
marcia i've been working very hard since
that time and we've had we've solved
that problem with the co2 and so i've
been able to exercise very
uh strongly every day i've got carlos
over here who's a marine and i'm going
to have him yell in my ear to get up and
walk so i plan on walking off the
orbiter
this is irene brown with upi also for dr
lenninger um knowing what you know about
life on mir would you repeat the
experience and is there anything that
you would bring with you
if you were going up for a second time
it's been a fantastic experience we've
met all of our goals accomplished all
the tasks it's been a tough time
and when you get through something like
that a major adventure major exploration
we still have a critical phase to go to
the re-entry of course but when i get
back on earth
any adventure like that when you come
close to pushing the envelope and
survive it's a great adventure and in
retrospect i have no regrets whatsoever
something i would have brought is just
more plain old photographs from my
family
and when progress resupply vehicles came
up that was the
best gift i had is pictures of my son
this is james mates from itn of london
michael foale what do you think of the
physical condition of mir now that
you've seen it and do you have any
worries about spending the next four
months or so up there
the first question is basically uh the
condition of mirrors
is one of uh varied uh newness or
oldness depending on where you are
the place where we are right now the
base block was launched uh 10 13 years
ago and um there are newer elements that
were launched only a year ago
so
as you go around the space station you
find some things that are really quite
quite old uh they've had to be replaced
one or two three four times
and then there are places where it looks
brand spanking new um as for my worries
i don't really have many um
right now the uh the thing which we have
to concentrate on is how the uh the
systems of the mirror will
work and i'm gonna be helping sasha here
on my right and the cv commander on the
left over there
basically with some of the repairs and
some of the basic operations of this
station
but as long as we can keep working hard
with the ground and
we keep the supplies coming we can keep
maintaining these things
could you outline the possible problems
that you think might arise and the steps
that you have taken in advance or how
you will cope with them when they do
arrive
i think probably the biggest problem
that's being worked continuously now by
um
by the by us from the uh the soup the uh
control center in moscow is that of a
cooling system
um there's a number of different uh
cooling loops that carry uh cooling
refrigeration fluid around the station
and some of those have leaks and there's
one uh outstanding remaining leak just
behind us actually behind the flag here
in a compartment called front
and uh sasha and vasude especially will
be working on the pipes there to try and
isolate that leak
however the systems that depend on that
that
cooling system particularly the system
that scrubs the carbon dioxide from the
air now have other means of um getting
rid of their heat i mean in particular
using directed airflow
so there are always workarounds being
found and i have some faith in the
ingenuity of both us here on the station
and the people on the ground to keep
these things going
did you discover unsafe dangerous parts
or systems of the mere space station and
for how many years do you think the
security of mir can be guaranteed
i think that's the hardest part or the
most difficult part of all this it's
very hard to predict uh the future of
mechanical systems
the main thing to do is maintain them to
the best of your ability replace parts
when you can
and we did the best we could over the
last four and a half months to get the
station back into good shape um i
anticipate that we will have problems in
the future and then michael b challenge
and the my crewmates will be challenged
in the future uh
as far as how long it can last depends
on how much you're willing to keep
repairing and how often you get the
right parts up here
and also building in maybe a little
redundancy to some of the systems if one
system fails you back it up with other
systems and other means to provide what
you need oxygen for example
we'd just like to say to the control
center and to all the folks in phase one
all around the johnson space center at
kennedy space center and all of nasa our
colleagues in russia uh european space
agency and
the soup in moscow everyone that has
participated in this a giant team has
put together a very very successful
mission it was a privilege for us to be
out executing it for you as you planned
it you did superbly and we're really
proud to have been able to be part of it
hi charlie this is phil and it's uh
really great to look up at the screen
here and see all you guys together uh
you know it takes a lot of months to put
one of these together and get a lot of
folks here glad to see the final result
and uh this picture on the screen right
here is really heartwarming for
everybody you guys have done a fantastic
job up there
silly and sasha who've become our
wonderful friends they've let us share
their wonderful home and we thank them
very much for that
and with that in mind we'd like to leave
them a small gift from us
it's a t-shirt
one for each of them
with our name of our shuttle and our
crew patch
the philly
thank you very much and also one for
sasha
a momento you can remember our flight
and also from phase one the phase one
folks would like to leave their thanks
also with the crew of near
with the phase one sure representing our
program which has been so
just successful he's ready to close the
hatch and uh we wished him well had a
great flight and uh just kind of sorry
to see them
close the hatch on ourselves here but uh
we're sure they're gonna do great
okay guys
you