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and good morning columbia as you're

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good morning bill that song sounded

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vaguely familiar to me

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well we're ready for another exciting

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day uh here in the space business

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for right now though we're going to

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this is mission control houston this

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morning's wake up call

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the air force song by the united states

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air force academy cadet chorus

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that for pilot steve lindsay who is a

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major in the air force and

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commander kevin kriegel formerly of the

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this is usmp4 science operations control

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huntsville science activities aboard the

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space shuttle columbia continue to go

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well this afternoon a new growth cycle

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is underway with the isothermal

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dendritic growth experiment

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the study is designed to improve metals

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used in automobiles and jet engines

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in the experiment materials are melted

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and re-solidified to observe the growth

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of dendrites you're looking now at live

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video downlinked from the shuttle

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columbia of the idge experiment as the

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dendrite grows in space in the

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microgravity environment idg's lead

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scientist professor matthew koss of

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rensselaer polytechnic institute in troy

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new york says the science team is

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repeatedly performing growth cycles at

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the same super cooling this allows

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researchers to obtain the best science

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data set possible for later analysis

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and the growth cycles continuing with

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the idge experiment on board the space

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shuttle columbia

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also today uh very uh

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good reports from the science teams both

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with mephisto and another furnace on

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board columbia

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the advanced automated directional

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these views showing some of the payloads

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in the cargo bay

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these payloads many of them have been

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operating throughout the mission

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mounted in canisters in columbia's

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payload bay

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they include

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various technology experiments so

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studying uh new technologies that can be

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used on future spacecraft

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among those are a study of a heat pipe

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technology that can be used for cooling

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a passive cooling system that would

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include no moving parts

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being studied for possible use on future

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that experiment is called the loop heat

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pipe experiment it's sponsored by the

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center for space power at texas a m

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also another experiment in the cargo bay

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along with the heat pipe experiment is

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uh called the

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sodium sulfur battery experiment looking

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in weightlessness a possible source of

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battery power for future spacecraft

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other experiments in the cargo bay that

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have been operating throughout

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columbia's mission include the turbulent

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that experiment

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seeks to understand the characteristics

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turbulent gas jet diffusion flames and

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training session underway as we see

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jerry ross here is to evaluate the

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handling characteristics of the

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satellite

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he and his colleague jim newman have

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been passing the uh

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the mock-up of the spartan

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back and forth to

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understand and get a good feel for its

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handling characteristics

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the spartan actually

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weighs in at about 1200 pounds of course

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in space with microgravity uh it really

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has no weight but its mass is still

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there so it is

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the prudent thing to do to understand

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the the handling characteristics of the

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so they'll continue this training

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session for another a couple of hours in

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the uh water tank

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which is uh

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near the johnson space center here in

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and this wider view

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gives a better idea of the size of the

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satellite in relation to the two

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astronauts

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and again in this view jerry ross is on

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the

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hoses which obviously are not used in

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space but underwater they are and

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jerry ross's is red and jim newman's is

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is