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good morning it last time to get down to
the business of space flight and orbital
ops oh thanks about here cuz i guess
that'll get us started and Ethan we did
want to thank and congratulate money
Schmidt on the prep console who has been
working 50 flights this is his 50th
flight and I tell you we don't worry it
all about top when he's on the console
and we thank him for all his years of
good service all of the questions that
he's answered for me over the years so
thanks a lot to Lonnie
Thank You Jimmy heard the words and if
you look off to your northeast there's
people outside waving at you right now
and Atlantis mere houston we got a nice
picture back in the space I have okay
great
Houston Atlantis fair go ahead Misha
receives the message she will talk to
Moscow at the appointed time and the
professional equipment of growth crew
members has been transferred the seat is
being installed and check out is not yet
complete got all that Jim thanks for the
update
okay when I copy down was he want us to
notify you the completion of the
treadmill test also notify you when the
VRC s test begins and it's scheduled now
to begin at 1725 i also need to notify
me or the start of that test and i need
to update the flight Pan Am pages 34 and
35 to start shuttle free drift at 1754
and near takes control at 1755 thanks
Whitney that's good read back
go ahead
as well we've just completed the Miz the
treadmill exercise and all that was
executed for the timeline on time great
Mike thanks like to welcome you on
behalf of the ground as the newest crew
member on board Atlantis great pleasure
to be shredding it on the US metal if
not soiled thank you very much sir NASA
didn't decide to send you up in the
shuttle until the last minute last week
apparently because of concerns about
your safety now that you're up how do
you was a decision okay you're a little
broken at the end but I think you asked
him am I happy with the decision and the
answer is absolutely yes I always
believed that I was going on this
mission and I'm thankful that everybody
looked carefully at the options and the
safety issues that I felt confident the
more they looked the more comfortable
they would be with the whole mission mr.
wolf all the world knows about the
problems that the space station has been
plagued with aren't you just the
slightest bit worried I've got one of
the finest spacecraft commanders in the
world sitting right next to me here
floating right next to me and
particularly after being up here and
seeing the quality of this machine first
of all I'm having too much fun and
enjoying it too much to be nervous and
really the answer is no I'm very
comfortable we're well trained to handle
any reasonable emergency well we wish
you well now to the soon to be departing
American astronaut michael foale mr.
pole you're leaving near after four and
a half months stand how happy are you to
be getting off the space station oh I
wouldn't be honest to say that I was not
happy I have a good friend here and I
told you so
and Pavel Vinogradov livia support
engineer the flight engineer on one
station but I have a son at home who a
party has grown twice this height since
I last saw him and my daughter of my
wife and so I really do want to see them
badly and I would have been disappointed
if the talking hadn't gone on time I'm
very pleased to be going back to them
and seeing them again soon this is one
of the most rewarding experiences I've
had in my life it will have changed me
I'm sure and what I wrote back on this
only we were the greatest fondness for
the times I spent with Anatole Bible and
the crew before that the city civil air
and faster was it can there were many
problems during your tour of duty could
you tell us what the worst or scariest
thing was that happened well it was
definitely when the the progress cargo
vehicle was about to hit the spectra and
at that time I do something bad was
going to happen and I follow the
instructions of the crew and went
towards the Soyuz spacecraft which is
our 50 vehicle and for crew return of in
case of an emergency and at the moment
of impact that was probably the scariest
moment because I didn't know what was
going to break and how fast the air was
going to rush out the door turned out it
was ok and we managed to control the
league and we feel dr. Spector Anatoly
started work in doing the repair and
establishment again of the power from
that module for the station so it all
worked out well but at that time I was
quite scared are you at all frustrated
that so many problems kept you from
doing more scientific experiments well
there are pluses and minus and when you
have problems the pluses are those that
you suddenly find your serving you
problems you didn't expect quite
challenging ones for example I actually
got to do a spacewalk and EBA without
atole quite unexpectedly I did not
expect that because of the problems so
that was a very interesting and
rewarding thing
for me to do however one of the mine
instances that I didn't really start
turning on some of the experiments I was
meant to do imperata and so it's just
this last week and so there's some
disappointment there but David's going
to pickle those up and I hope he will
execute them just fine and now I'd like
to turn to the Russian commander of
mirror Anatoly celeb commander with the
new equipment that Atlanta has brought
to a mirror how confident are you that
the problems aboard the space station
will be eliminated the shuttle has
delivered to mere new equipment oh my
own with the help of which we hope to be
able to obtain positive report results
of repair right now it's too early to
assess or to say that we'll be able to
do everything successfully and that will
be able to do all of this with regard to
the repair but the chances are very good
and very large and I think that in the
course of one or two Evie ASAP at all
what they put in having performed this
repairs I think will have positive
results and we will be able to say look
we'll be able to talk about the time
when we'll be able to open up the hatch
to Spector after mr. foal and Atlantis
leave the space station what's the first
order of business none of the shuttle
has brought us a new computer we will
replace the old one this will take do I
put it two or three days Oh in fact
while the shuttle will still be here boo
both gravity will be some small repairs
Portobello but we after the shuttle
leaves right after two days we will be
expecting a new cargo craft which will
also be delivering equipment a resupply
to the mere complex where this will
allow us to continue our work but i
think my impressions are what we are
we're placing more of an emphasis on our
scientific work over the next couple of
weeks and we have been doing this and
we've been working actively in
scientific experiments and the
percentage of our scientific work will
continue to increase well you're seeing
what do you make of the argument the
criticisms from people like congressman
james sensenbrenner that another
American should not have gone to the
mirror do not see a question on that
I've thought long and hard about
American involvement in this program and
also whether someone that should follow
in behind me and I think it's very
important that he continued the work
here is not always easy and some of the
experiments are interrupted by the
repair work in the the necessary
maintenance to start on this station but
the value in working together with our
Russian colleagues is I think priceless
and as a result of that work that we're
doing right now and the experience we're
gaining not just with David myself and
anatoly and our russian cosmonauts but
also on the ground most important we
will do so much better a great space
project together internationally with
Russia know if you realize this but
after you blast it off your mother was
quoted as saying she hoped you would
brought your screwdriver are you seeing
what for your screwdriver up there there
goes my comb but here's my screwdriver
what have you been hearing from dr. pol
what has he told you and shared with you
about what you can expect in the next
four months he's assured be and that's
very clear an experience of my life this
is just an amazing outpost of scientific
civilization with Russians meet
Americans in orbit at 18,000 miles an
hour in an orbiting laboratory it's just
an incredible place I wish you could get
a panorama of the equipment and the gear
and the people working behind
this shuttling gear back and forth this
is just an incredible of that going on
during the collision with the progress
back in June you were inside can you
describe for us what happened and what
it felt like the collision basically was
unexpected we were expecting the
progress to not talk with us for another
15 minutes or so but when I heard the
collision there was just a son of a tall
rumble in the station it was a bit like
distant thunder at that time I thought
it was behind us at the far end here
where the focus is expected to talk on
other than that the dark rumble and the
thud nothing much else happened over
about five or so more seconds we have an
alarm signal is the Karaka klaxon and
that went off telling us that the
pressure was decreasing which confirmed
my fear that we had had a breach of
station fall very quickly after that my
feelings were staged because I realized
the pressure in my ears is not dropping
very fast and so I knew immediately just
by the feeling in my ears that we had
time to try and find the leak and close
it off and that's how it turned out dr.
wolf briefly if you will explain what
you expect to gain scientifically over
the next four months or so and I assume
that there's some experiments you'll
pick up that dr. pol didn't get a chance
to complete that's right we're doing a
nice suite of experiments on the human
cardiovascular system and bone and
mineral loss of the people's bones
demineralized similar to osteoporosis of
the elderly when were in space in
looking very carefully at that and how
to prevent it exercise to keep the
muscle atrophy from occurring we don't
know how long
how much or what type at this point
protein crystals and alloy production
our material sciences experiments and
we're doing cancer research and
preliminary work for our tissue
engineering work that we plan for
station looking at how cells go from
generation to generation genetically
normal and cancerous cells