good morning Columbia and we hope
winston appreciated the fight song from
his alma mater Florida State
good morning from Columbia I can't think
of a better way to start today that
hearing the the Florida State fight
softly good morning to everybody and
godo how was your Thanksgiving it was
great we had a lot to be thankful for
for a successful mission for the most
part especially the capture and of
course we did have our traditional
turkey dinner talking about the capture
wrestling a satellite beams to the
layman on earth to be such a simple
thing in zero gravity but it's really a
complicated procedure there to grab
something even in a weightless
environment about a trivial event that
far the leg is several thousand pounds
is weight as much as most automobiles
and yes spacesuits themselves of course
are very bulky so not only do you have
to fight the suit but you get to I'll be
very careful as to how you handle that
massive satellite you could go out of
control on you and that its ability is
the grand-am of the fleet and she is
really applying flawlessly the folks
Kennedy Space Center and have Buster sir
it turned her around give us a really
clean bird and she's doing just fine now
you onboard have an experiment from
Philips laboratory here in Albuquerque
the sodium sulfur battery flight to
Paris develop what it is not going yes
the nasbe as we call it was sodium
sulfur battery experiment you're right
isn't the payload bay and it's a
spearmint that that is testing how well
a different type of battery using sodium
itself is going to work
to pay packages back it's about three
times the electrical unity that we can
get from a comparable battery of that
size using traditional chemicals the
baptism working real well
it went with startup procedures see the
procedure we've had a couple of charging
cycles a couple of discharge cycles and
the Schloss working real well that has a
great potential for use on Space Station
Baptist God I'm sure the folks at
Philips would be glad to hear that
doctor to cowboy you were the first
Japanese astronaut to walk in space and
obviously this was a an incredible event
for you and your country what was it
like to actually float outside the
spacecraft final experience I was very
excited about to just settle this time
we it was also spectacular I am really
happy that we could have this kind of
great experience of course there's a lot
of kids out there who are watching and
spaceflight is such a fascinating thing
for kids of all ages
what would your recommendations be to
kids out there on what they should focus
on if they want to study to be an
astronaut what should be the top subject
that they should be studied in school
well since I was a kid I liked watching
sports and just I I have been pursuing
what you start and studying the universe
and my dream is evident just exploring
the universe and the door about outer
space
I'm just passing my dream the most
important thing I can tell too many many
other people's that I just cover your
own dream and pursue it and this is a
microgravity experiment very quickly
could you explain what that is all about
right now we are conducting the material
science experiment
so in the mid take in a player to be
especially today we are going to
experience which may give us very high
quality crystal which can be used for
computers many other electronics yes I
understand they're making the decision
on Monday whether or not to let Spartan
free again but some of the wire stories
we're hearing is that the Space Shuttle
is going to have to backup 30 or 40
miles to give it some room to do its
thing what is that all about can you
explain that simply to us well very
simply at when we release the satellite
we go into what a station keep boat is
we just use normal orbital mechanics let
us drift slowly 30 40 miles away and
that gets us in a position where we
won't flicked in subsequent orbits with
the sport and also we're close enough
that way it's time to retreat it we can
do that in a very efficient manner I did
a story just this week in Palmdale where
they're refurbishing another space
shuttle Atlantis and I think I know
where you guys are right now I think
you're at the flight deck if I'm not
sure can you just tell me where you are
and show me something behind you and
give us a little quick tour sure we are
the flight deck right behind Winston is
the pilots peak where Steve Lindsey sits
where Takano is is the center console
and that is looking right at the the
flight deck and the commander seats off
to the left back out the aft here is our
two windows where we can see out through
the tail and we happen to be belly to
the earth so we can look down way
through these overhead windows and look
out and see those and we're passing over
the Pacific Ocean at this time captain
Scott one of the things that I noticed
was how cramped the quarters are in
there can you tell me a little bit about
how weightlessness makes it not quite as
crammed as it would be
on earth wanted here as you can imagine
weightlessness does just that because
not only do you use the normal space
that you use on earth but you use all
the space in the overhead when we
translate for example it's very easy to
just go over a crewmembers head or go
float along the floor on a crewmembers
feet we really do use all all of the
volume available to us and not just a
portion that we would use on earth how
do you sleep what position and this this
particular flight we have sleep stations
and the three stations are horizontally
oriented compartment inside those three
phases a sleeping bag before the stop
ourselves in the sleeping bags to keep
from floating away and we literally trip
about inside those sleeping bags or
missions with no sleep stations each
team member will strap his or her
sleeping bag wherever they want it and
they sleep that way you can sleep upside
down sideways backwards forwards there
is no upper delegates face they were
afraid at first but when you get used to
this kind of fun that's great
mission specialist joy I know even you
trained a lot before you actually go up
and you know what to expect but what was
the most surprising thing once you
actually went on the mission and and the
thing that you that went as planned I
guess right and it was this amazing
experience I have just little time left
I'd like to go back to the commander
kragle just for a second if I could
commander I know you guys can't be
possibly working 24 hours a day is there
any free time at all and if so what do
you guys do with your free time up there
oh we works really hard but we do get
that big time from time to time and the
number one last time for everyone is to
look out the window
I can exercise and you can read a book
but you can do that on earth you can't
look out the window and get such a
spectacular view anyplace but here I
think that's the pastime of choice is it
hard not to think of philosophy and
religion and all those kinds of things I
guess when you're in a position to where
you folks are I would say it's a very
humbling position and I think all folks
get very introspective when they're up
here I just looking at this speck
there's a blue planet go beneath us
folks down here on earth were watching
with great interest when two of you grab
that Aaron satellite not quite with your
bare hands but close enough I guess
captain Scott you told reporters last
Saturday night you believe this could be
done even though I understand it's been
like five years since the last time
somebody was behind that really will be
a thing that boosted my carpets you've
made a number of spacewalks before I
know how do they prepare you for this
particular maneuver you're grabbing a
satellite of course you can't predict
every single maneuver that's going to
happen we claim the best we can we had
practice for grabbing a satellite but
never a grabbing one that was rotating
in this fashion and again we we looked
at the events as they occurred made the
best decision we could unfortunately
everything worked out real well for us
and like a giant fire rolling football
is that right trying to catch that
doctor doy now you work for Japan's
nazhde is Japan working toward its own
independent space program
right now we are working very closely
with Japan is working on the
presentation program and will Japanese
experiment module let me move on to
Commander Freegal working with an
international crew is certainly nothing
new for you is it folks the office yeah
my last mission of sports done to work
with a freshman jean-jacques ba ba
a Canadian Bob first then a to backup
Pedro to case from Spain and Luca Oh
Bonnie from Italy
commander Fingal in what ways is your
experience in space enriched by an
international crew and in what ways is
it complicated
I think it's complicated at all it's
just some challenges learning the
different cultures and and get the
common language but I think it's
enriched as we bring the different
cultures together because when you bring
different cultures you know each other a
lot of this stress goes away and a lot
of harmony comes out of it so I think
working in an international crew really
shows the way of how the world should be
in the future
gentlemen I guess this is a question for
for all or any of you when when did you
first know you wanted to be an out of
state this is what I wanted to do when I
saw the folks during the immersive a
Gemini and Apollo years it's that guys
were walking on the moon and exploring
the universe I said that's something I'd
like to do I'd like to go to the minute
of the Mars yard I walk in the Mercury
program it was like to do it but I never
had any inkling like it would come true
for me
fortunately things did work out well and
I am and in addition to that I like to
to say that if I can't
an image or a role model to other
pathologies who might get sick of the
program they certainly take that
responsibility very seriously but yeah
I'm very happy to be a part of the
program when I was 14 years old I
started to the stores and at the time
room as well then if I wanted to explore
and