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good morning Columbia what a ride and
early hand over in five seconds
the crew is planning to work with a
number of experiments that are
associated with the United States
microgravity payload which is a platform
of experiments in the payload Bay
overseen by a NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville Alabama
those experiments are mounted on a
support structure in the back end of
Columbia's payload bay which is also
filled with that Spartan satellite and
also the extended duration orbiter
pallet of cryogenics there's a series of
experiments the the one on the
television now in the downlink from the
orbiter is the isothermal dendritic
growth experiment which is an experiment
that hopefully may improve manufacturing
processes involved in the production of
steel aluminum and various super alloys
that are used in the production of
automobiles and airplanes the
investigation is designed to unlock
advanced processes that will create some
new alloys that may be stronger and may
even have better control and more
reliable properties than are currently
available here on earth
i use in columbia for a filthy and go
ahead for so c-come on just to be sure
all synced up here I hold myself about
to begin DTV startup or about the two
minutes and we all set up here to record
the door opening and we copy and you can
start any time and we have it on the
downlink cut out really great this is
Mission Control Houston this television
from Columbia's cargo bay showing the
shuttle ozone limb experiment as the
door opens the instrument will begin its
first observations of the mission it
observes the Earth's horizon from orbit
end up from ultraviolet light to reflect
it off of the earth slim or horizon
gauges the amounts of ozone present in
our supper at Monsieur
also under way is a an experiment on the
lower deck of Columbia in a glove box
unit that will be the focus of us
several different experiments during the
flight in that glove box at present is a
experiment called the wedding
characteristics of immiscible this video
is from that glove box experiment this
experiment again being done in a glove
box on the lower deck of Columbia
studies metal alloys and mixing of those
metal alloys and wedding effects that
are caused as those alloys are melted
and mixed and they can sometimes cause
layering as those alloys are created
looking at ways that that wedding could
be alleviated
here's the Columbia we're going to break
it to them into the flight deck and
we're ready and Kevin were up there with
you
coming
commander Kevin kregel peddling his way
around the world on the bicycle
ergometer down in the shuttles crowded
mid deck area this is kregel third
flight into space after two stints as a
pilot aboard the shuttle discovery on
sts 70 in 1995 and again in 1996 on the
STS 78 mission which was a two-week
microgravity Sciences mission aboard
Columbia Columbia Houston we know you're
busy Kevin but if someone else is
available we'd like to maneuver to that
biased pitch attitude and we've got the
numbers if you need them both that's a
target to which you already have in and
then body vector 5 the pitch is 95 jaw
and Omicron or zero
as a complete concur
standing behind Kregel down in the mid
deck is ukrainian payload specialist
leonid Kadeem yuck japanese astronaut to
cowboy poked his head up through the
mid-deck area actually the bicycle
ergometer is set up on the aft flight
deck of Columbia Kadena is standing near
the passageway from the flight deck down
to the mid-deck where doy is currently
located at the aft flight deck mission
specialists or mission specialists cult
niche Avila will be joined by a pilot
Steve Lindsey tomorrow for the operation
of the shuttles 50-foot long robot arm
in the deployment of the Spartan
satellite which is scheduled at 303 p.m.
central time tomorrow afternoon again
kriegel is peddling the bicycle
ergometer on the aft flight deck of
Columbia being watched by leonid kadena
who has been operating the q experiment
today the collaborative ukrainian
ukrainian experiment which investigates
the progress of plant growth in the
absence of gravity
Columbia Houston for pgdf deactivation
if you could give us a status on that
start it up right now copy Steve
lumbia Houston the orbit for shift is
now trading places with orbit too it's
been a great first day for us we've
really enjoyed it you're off to a great
start and Jeff vandal is here with his
team and ellen ochoa will be talking to
and look forward to tomorrow working
with you on the Spartan deploy Thanks
market bill appreciate work with all um
we'll see you tomorrow