and good morning Columbia
we sure have a lot of work ahead of us
time to roll up our sleeves and gosh
maybe it would help if we had the galaxy
boys with us and to count our pleasure
good morning this is Mission Control
Houston as we heard they're there just a
moment ago they this morning's wake-up
call in honor of mission specialists to
cowboy who is from Japan the song Ginga
shounan tie which stands for Galaxy boys
actually a popular puppet show that
aired on Japanese television some years
ago the show as tuck how do I mentioned
one of his favorites and his childhood
and that is the music from that popular
television show which stands for the
galaxy boys a science fiction puppet
show
this time and Kevin that's what we're
seeing great to be with you down in the
airlock or up in the airlock this is
Mission Control Houston
this view shows a mission specialist to
cowboy and Winston Scott as they finish
up checkouts of their spacesuits that
they'll wear on a spacewalk currently
planned for Monday all of that check out
- going very well so far
no problems reported by the crew members
doyon Scott that will spend another
couple of hours that doing a VA
preparations spacewalk preparations
going through the procedures here to
restore the gear in the airlock and
prepare the airlock before that
spacewalk and also then going through
the tools that they'll use and making
other preparations that to have those in
order ready for the spacewalk on Monday
go ahead Casey Casey if you can make it
it by putting it into heat no later than
one hour 53 minutes we can do it on this
pass otherwise you need to wait for the
next pass and that is no earlier than
two hours 21 minutes and no later than
two hour okay that'll be great we can
get two of them in on this pass
Columbia Houston we really appreciate
the airlock video we'll let you get on
with your work at this point
this television from Colombia showing a
payload specialist Leonid cognac as he
works with the collaborative Ukrainian
experiment con yucca is a Ukrainian
payload specialist high-flying onboard
the shuttle the first Ukrainian to a fly
onboard the Space Shuttle the
collaborative Ukrainian experiment is a
plant growth experiment that studies 10
different plant growth experiments that
will operate during Colombia's 16 days
in space in conjunction with the plants
and a pollination of plants that is
being done on board Columbia in the
experiment students are also
participating by performing similar
experiments on earth both in the US and
in the Ukraine the experiment studies
the effects of weightlessness on plant
growth in general and the specifically
on the pollination of various plants and
weightlessness
and we see the happy birthday that mark
that birthday greeting was for by a
little Aswath careless copy we'll make
sure that she hears about that Thanks
happy birthday buddy we mentioned just a
few moments ago that there are two ways
to retrieve the Spartan satellite the
most dangerous being the spacewalk and
retrieving it by hand who can speak to
how dangerous it is and why we've got
two very good ways of retrieving there
the satellite of course we've got the
robotic arm and we've done that several
times we also have retrieved several
that several few satellites by hand we
plan these out very well in advance we
did the innocent rescue a couple of
years ago and I think will be quite
successful it capture in this part a
couple of days now which of you actually
will be positioned on board the arm of
the robot arm and then ferried out if
you will to the spartan satellite to try
to grab it will that be Winston Scott
are you they are but only one option but
I think the option we're leading towards
is the cowboy and myself being
positioned or the left and right sides
of the sport in Fez their business the
mounting structure that that part will
fit into we're thinking that that's
going to be the best decision for us so
we'll both the station ourselves or each
side of the Memphis and we'll fly via a
shuttle up to the BART will analyze its
rate and if it looks like it's slow
enough and safe enough to do the cow and
I will grab it
I'd like to add that we have a lot of
people taking a look at this we've got
astronauts on the ground who are
practicing or testing this material and
are due to sleep neutral buoyancy lab we
have folks with hanging in their virtual
reality and laboratory that we're taking
a good long
look at this you've had before we put it
into action I feel pretty confident that
we can pull it off you pull it off
safely
mr. Scott we've been told that the
satellite is spinning is it spinning at
an incredibly fast rate or is it just a
slow spin slow enough that you could
reach out and grab it no the satellite
is actually big at a relatively slow
rate we are down like some video of the
satellite and we had the folks on the
ground look at it and it's less than two
degrees per second and it's mostly about
one axis and those things are really
really good news to us because if the
defect is the case then the calorie I
will be able to grab the satellite and
we shouldn't have any trouble with it
Scott Lindsey let me ask you this
question how far away are you now from
the Spartan satellite and how close will
you have to get to retrieve it and is
the danger of a collision like we saw
with a Russian space station Mir a
possibility here by the way the name is
Steve not Scott but in fact oh right now
about 40 miles away from the sports
satellite as far as the law to do that
we're going to do with it it's a
standard rendezvous that we've practiced
many many constantly that have done it I
said of any many times so there
certainly is no danger within there on
to the last portion of the ride if you
only get close to the satellite is it
very controlled and well-known and well
rehearse and work Rex whatever one we've
done it many many times in fact the lot
of you will be doing on a satellite a
few days here is is not much different
than what we were originally planning to
do with it anyway so it's they're not
dangerous balls and you really can't
compare the two they're different
systems
Steven my apologies there are too many
Scott's on board the space shuttle
Columbia tell me about some of the other
experiments though that are planned
during this mission
and acrylic question from Lee Barker in
Lower Hutt New Zealand when going in and
out of orbit do you have to be aware of
other traffic such as telecommunication
satellites and space junk and maybe
dropping out of orbit believe it or not
we do have folks looking and making sure
that we stay away from other satellites
or space debris and that's tracked by
the Air Force NORAD in Colorado Springs
and they keep us well away from any kind
of debris or any other kind of traffic
ok real quickly joy song Naomi Natale
nihongo de message onigashima
person japanese and then in english as
such is a service is good real quickly
dr. Chawla and
everybody we are working very hard in
space at bells are having fun watching
the earth and in a microgravity visit
well wish we had more time Columbia
thank you all very much for taking time
for your busy schedule have a successful
mission and a Happy Thanksgiving
thank you very much with pleasure
talking to you