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you

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and goodmorning discovery now for those

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of us down here with gravity not looking

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down there's probably good advice but I

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guess you folks don't have to worry

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about it I got my pill since this thing

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is action-packed there's not much time

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to do much else besides fulfill all all

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of this mission can you can you give us

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a brief synopsis of the duties you have

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over the next few days bet in that I'd

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actually like to start out with a five

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day one and you're right this is an

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extremely packed mission I'll be more so

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than most just with all the scientific

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experiments we have on board so we had a

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very aggressive flight day one in which

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we have a satellite called crystals fast

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but essentially it's a telescope that we

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deployed on Friday one which takes a

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certain amount of maneuvering of

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preparations to go ahead and deploy it

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we use a robotic arm to hook up to it

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Florida powder payload Bay release it

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and then we fire some jets to maneuver

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the orbiter away from it the event just

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started everything off we've got plenty

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of other experiments I this morning

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recently fired up a combustion

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experiment we do combustion experiments

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in space because up here Mike on earth

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we don't have convection lighter gases

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don't rise so on earth and a lot of gas

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Rises it pulls oxygen into the plane

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sees the fire and helps it travel and

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burn you don't have that up here so

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flames burn differently they tend to

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burn themselves out more rapidly but

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they also tend to burn harder is that

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oxygen is not there to cool the flame or

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take the heat away from the surface

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there are also many experiments you're

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doing and exercises studying the Earth's

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atmosphere in the ozone layer how will

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that data be used or what what kind of

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data are you looking for a first yeah

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the telescope Christmas files that we

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deployed on Friday one is primarily

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doing that and the it's looking back at

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the Earth's medium atmosphere where

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those gases are such as ozone and it's

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looking at the dynamics

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you know sometime at any time on earth

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we can look up at those gases and see

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what the ozone layer is or where the

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holes tend to be in the ozone layer so

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we don't really know with almost

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certainly why that moves around or the

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dynamics of such the apsara satellite is

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covering most of the earth it's looking

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from 70 degrees north 47 degrees south

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approximately to try to look at these

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dynamics on the nine days it's out there

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flying so we can better predict how the

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gas dynamics affects the earth and when

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where these holes are going to move and

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when they're going to fall so how are

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you doing up there this is your third

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flight yeah you're the pilot of this

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flight is there any time to do anything

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else but all these experiments hey I'm

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doing very Richard I've gotta admit

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though this is only find a three and

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I've been busy enough I've had very

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little time to look out the window and

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take photos and that's kind of a

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secondary mission of ours we photograph

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as much as the earth as we can which

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goes to meteorologist and earth

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scientists and just NASA in general and

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haven't really had enough time to get

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into that yet because we've been busy

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but from the time the main engines cut

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off up here I felt at home since it

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hasn't been all along since I've been

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tell me about the work day if it is

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indeed the day I assume it's more than

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an eight-hour day up there how does it

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go what's a schedule look like yeah we

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have 16 hour days and we're scheduled

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for nine hours of sleep will soon as we

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get up we have a couple hours to what we

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call post ly but we get ready we get up

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we bathed we wash our hair we eat

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breakfast and we started and organized

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the they send up message traffic that

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changes the timeline the original one

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it's kind of flexible it changes

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somewhat so we start looking the message

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traffic and getting organized for the

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day then after a couple hours we started

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the events that we're scheduled the ones

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you've been talking about which actually

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includes teal that's probably one of

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these every other day as the average is

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my guess on this mission and then

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towards the end of the day a couple

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hours before we go to sleep for 14 hours

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into our day now we have pre sleep

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tivities and now we start configuring

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the space shuttle for us all to go to

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bed and it's the left with just the

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ground watching after it and again

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during that time we'll eat our dinner

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meal get our little sleeping bunks out

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and they get ready to go to sleep how

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about your personal division of labor as

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the the pilot on duty is there much good

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to do when it comes to monitoring the

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craft itself as opposed to all these

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experiments during the nine days on this

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flight along with the experiments such

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as a Christa satellite we deployed there

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is some a fair amount of Paula Deen

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duties to do a couple times a day we are

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burning the big cats the reaction

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control system jets on board to make

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sure we were phasing anywhere from 25 to

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45 miles we want to maintain that

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distance from spas we also there's a

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fair amount of pointing maneuvers the

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instruments that I mentioned earlier

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that may look at Jupiter or the Sun or

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when we point to the earth for a

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different laser ops on board that sets

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the polity the pirate or a commander's

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job to go ahead and put in those

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attitudes to moon but it was the shuttle

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to point it in the right direction and

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they also wanted you to make aware of a

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son word jet or spike on the comment and

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that will cause the shape to be a little

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bit asymmetric okay that matches what's

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my plan to call down each obstinate

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number I'll be looking for that in the

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comet I was able to see the comet a

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couple of hours ago visually as a very

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very faint targeted by I and was not

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able to get the binoculars on it in time

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but at least we did cite the comet the

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setup has gone very smoothly and we'll

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be putting the telescope on the window

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in just a couple of minutes here there's

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a lot of first sign that's even though

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the shadowing seems to be effective and

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does Jan has done a really good job

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putting the shadow right over the window

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there's a tremendous amount of hers