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good morning Atlanta smear
Atlantis mere Houston you have a go for
the next maneuver one special request
please notify the mirror when you are in
attitude so they can verify their
quaternion
and bill if it helps I can give you the
page number i'm working awesome
we've got a day okay attachment 18 of
the mayor procedures Roger
atlantis bear houston we're going to
hand over to East here in a little over
a minute will lose k band on the east
side we do appreciate the letting us
visit with you on the flight deck it's
fun watching the cameras float around
you guys too we're really enjoying this
bill it's a great view and an amazing
space station
and some very interesting news when I
first pulled out chamber one made it a
very delicately there was a large almost
what looked like a crystal made of cells
maybe the size of a golf ball a large
three-dimensional tissue and as soon as
I moved it it dispersed and I believed
we're observing the that very delicate
intermediate structure the leads to
three-dimensional tissue formation which
we use for our tumor modeling and are
planning to use for our tissue
engineering that delicate intermediate
structure I did have a chance to observe
and Dave we copied that sounds very
interesting commander over the eldest
change is a crying and Atlantis's Jets
are controlling the attitude is there
any specific extra risk or precaution
that needs to be taken during this
computer changeover that exactly is
going to be happening at that time and
is there any other moment to moment kind
of monitoring that's going on giving
some of the past problems that many
wouldn't have occurred otherwise so
there's no risk at all when they choose
the computer out by design when we're
when Atlantis is docked with mia we
control the attitude and we do that for
a very good reason we carry fuel up to
space but by the time we get back down
to the runway we want the dump old feel
so instead of dumping it we actually use
it for control near the core stays up on
all dizzy and so they would like to save
in microphones as they can so Atlantis
always controls the stack once we're
attached and therefore there's
absolutely no is when they change that
the control some beautiful mirror
because they are not controlling let me
ask mike foale there's been a lot of
talk about the spektr module will you
come back what do you and it will be
brief 20 min and tell people about
whether you think there's a possibility
that the hair
we'll ever actually be found and the
advisability of continuing to search for
those holes so the answer to that of
course depends on how easy it is to find
a hole and repair it but the EDA i did
with Anatole the commander here on
station Mir I told he worked very hard
to look for that Hall in an obvious
place and he did not find it he found
the whole wall was in good condition it
leads us to suspect a very very potent
air which is if the base of the solar
array and it's very likely that that is
where the leak is and their materials on
board now that Jim and his crew poor
thought on Atlantis that will be used by
Anatoly during a few VA to try and
repair that area and seal it up
basically I think that attempt will
certainly take place I'm very soon and
if it's successful than the chances of
restoring spectra i think is very high
and beyond that if that doesn't work I
can't have it together I don't know what
the specialists and Russia are thinking
if it's not in that area it does seem
that that is the most kind of it's the
smoking gun of the whole issue because
that is where the progress hit was on
the solar array anyway and that's where
the greatest force is transmitted to the
station very very ambitious science
schedule how confident are you that
you're going to be able to do that and
carry out all about science and is there
any one thing in particular that you
think is particularly significant that
you really want to get to I'm glad you
asked though we just made an observation
a few hours ago but I'm very excited
about I called most of the crew around
to take a look at a structure forming in
our tissue engineering experiment which
we're using for cancer research which
was a very delicate three-dimensional
formation which would not occur on earth
and which is the basis for our plant
tissue engineering work for the future
but we're already making critical
observations and we'll plenty of time to
do that throughout the mission let me
ask Mike so you lost a lot of your
sciences they're still say one thing
that you think occurred that perhaps you
are bringing back the information that
couldn't have been achieved any other
way one thing that you have to put up in
front of people and say look what I did
besides some of the different crises
that I've said here are some of the
things that I'm really bringing back to
you unfortunately I can't think of any
kind of big gleaming golden banner i can
put out in front of everybody and say i
learned from a personal point of view I
get it a lot of experience about how to
deal with these problems it's an
approach to problem solving rather than
the actual solutions of the problem in
themselves I would have learned from
Anatolia my Russian colleagues that just
perseverance and working at it and not
being flustered and working around your
problems is a great way to approach life
in space and I think I'm going to take
that back with me but that's something
people know already is just yet sort of
read it for yourself sometimes let me
have to nandos Olivia when the shutter
fit would die and they disappear with
the first order of business what's the
first thing that you're going to ask you
David Webster ordering the gun do
to engage in physical culture exercise
every day for us cosmonauts as soon as
we are in space and no matter how well
he has been trained he's got to always
train to land he's got to always got to
be prepared to anticipate his eventual
return to Earth well we got the trailer
person though the Ritter's the one thing
that you would like to say to all of
those people who are concerned about
you're going who raised some very
legitimate issues raft words that you
would like to say them now that you're
actually sitting there yeah I think this
is the time to show the Russians what
good partners we are and this is a
wonderful experience to be up here and
I'm going to do my best job and I have a
great crew on a totally improbable this
should be a great experience for NASA
and for our country as a whole so enjoy
the mission and we'll keep you informed
nevertheless how much did all the
problems affect your ability to carry
out your tasks on the mission oh there's
no doubt the collision drastically
affected the science program that I
always meant to carry out but there are
pluses and minuses and everything and in
this particular case the NASA five
flight which is what the mifi
represented we we lost some of that
science the right sides thats inspector
but we gained an enormous amount of
experience i'm looking about not just
myself but the whole NASA team working
with the Russians in approaching
reestablishing power to spectra and then
thinking about how they could actually
repair it and get the back inside that
volume and make it a useful module again
and just finally from me what is is the
future of the MIR space station do you
think well I think stations in very good
hands of an authority and Pavel
Vinogradov support engineer and David
and they will work very hard
to reestablish the condition that the
space station was in before the
collision they're a long way towards
doing that already we have one mud all
the modules powered now that are
accessible and david has an ambitious
science program to carry out in the
pirata module and anatoly has an n
viewable number of EVs to do outside and
also inside into spectra again who will
repair that module so I think there's a
good chance that in the next few months
maybe six months you'll see a pretty
much reestablished space station Mir
beyond that it's hard to say I've had
Russian news reports that new will carry
on for at least two more years do you
feel that a boy from Kent had to go to
America to become an astronaut right it
was a choice I had to take and I'm very
glad I took it because I wanted to go
into space and I do feel sorry for those
children that might think they have no
chance of doing that however I'm more
optimistic about that now and I believe
on the fact that this crew which
represents a lot of nationalities and
many more nationalities have been on
board this space station shows that very
much more internationally people from
different countries are going to
participate in work in space both on the
space station and I hope going towards
the moon and then landing on Mars and I
know that NASA wants to leap that effort
along with Russia and I think Britain
will eventually be involved in that
effort it's only a matter of time the
example of what we're doing is just
being seeing all over the world and I
think it's impossible to deny the
importance of that to their young
children that are growing up in Great
Britain
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