Columbia Houston good morning and a
special good morning to Japan's real
Ultraman to cowboy thank you very much
for waking us with a great song the last
night we are watching every 76
correlation where I came from thank you
very much
copy that and I hope that music helped
everybody wake up this morning because
we have good news for you you are go for
an e ba and today is going to be a bit
busy
in preparation for clearing the plate
for tomorrow and in the morning you'll
have vgs UPS and in the afternoon
winston into cow will have a chance to
finish the e DFT and also a chance for
air cam so it's going to be a good
couple of days that's a great way to
wake up there Chris we're all for it
would you like to make some opening
remarks before we begin questions
I'm Kevin cradle the commander and this
is my crew of SES 87 that I'm proud to a
friend before you we're on the United
States microgravity payload for it's
been a highly successful for the United
States by gravity for payload
experiments are really working well of
course we did have a glitch at the
beginning of the mission where we had a
problem with the sports satellite we're
not really sure the whole facts of that
but luckily due to the hard work of the
folks on the ground and the crew here we
put together a plan and I think put
together a pretty spectacular grab and
retrieval of the sportin and then
tomorrow we're going to go out and do
another spacewalk where we're going to
evaluate some more of the tools that
they did at the end of the first-base
walk that we're going to be used from
the International Space Station we also
have onboard the Ukraine
collaborative Ukrainian experiment that
Colonel Leonid can NEX been working on
and it's been going quite well so we've
had a very long and somewhat eventful 13
days and we're looking forward to your
questions
this is sue Butler for The Associated
Press for captain scott how important do
you consider the second Evie a and the
testing of this crane how crucial do you
think it is is test for the future of
the space station are you just a little
bit worried that the crane won't work as
advertised do you think it snake it
since it couldn't be tested legal
because of this attached as a matter of
fact we had a very successful test of
the crane during the first EBA what we
did not do was to get a chance to
exercise all of the options what we're
going to do this time is just expand the
UH knowledge base that we gained the
first time the clinic actually operates
very very smoothly it's meeting both of
our expectations I say most because
there's a little bit of flexibility in
the boom that we did quite anticipate
but certain things ought to be to be
expected us nothing's gonna be 100% what
we're gonna do tomorrow very briefly is
to operate the crane using a small or
you are small carrier and just expand on
the information we got the other day but
actually we think the clang is working
quite well do you have confidence that
Americans can successfully complete more
than eleven hundred and fifty EVs in the
first year based on what you've seen so
far I'm not sure I I think if you talk
about because such assembly of a space
station in the number of EBA is that
we're gonna have to do oh yes there's no
doubt in my mind we're gonna be able to
handle that workload we are gearing up
in terms of the number of ETA
experienced people
well the equipment the ISS tools and
procedures are coming along very rapidly
and I think we're ready to go build a
space station start with 88 next year
and one follow-up for kalpana chawla
please would you please explain since we
haven't heard any your own words what
happened what this glitch was that Kevin
Prager referred to when you deploy this
patent and it failed to period then you
try to grab it was it a signal nuisance
patent that did not receive for some
reason or was a signal not sent bill
Harwood with CBS News well let me just
follow that up just very briefly for dr.
Chawla to the best of your memory and I
realized that there's still
troubleshooting and you guys will be
talking about this on the ground to
figure out exactly what happened but to
the best of your memory did you send all
of the required commands pre deploy to
the satellite yes or no okay question
from Steve Lindsey I guess looking ahead
to air cam sprint I'm not sure how much
time that will be remaining in the a VA
for the AirCam sprint test I know that
originally y'all were hoping for 30
minutes isn't it pretty much what you're
expecting now and I'm I'm just wondering
if everything goes well trying to get a
feel for how high above the bay the
camera might ultimately get I mean do
you have any ideas along those lines
today we're going to go with it it'll
kind of depend on how much time we have
the flight envelope Dadar 60 feet
whether we take it that high or not will
depend that's just kind of secondary
objective our primary objectives to test
these flying qualities of this
flying at just about the as well as
observing and evaluating work and trying
to use the camera views their work this
is the function of Earth News for KC a
rather esoteric question when you were
growing up in India did you get to the
gervilen have one of the chicken wire
antennas to view the 80s six satellite
which NASA had launched a way back then
and did that help influence you in your
career as an astronaut and I understand
from your family that they're fourth
generation vegetarians so I'm wondering
how your Thanksgiving dinner was what
did you do with your turkey dinner and
how good was the beans and rice dinner
that you had and when you were pulling
back with the RMS after the Spartan
attempt to grab it after the pirouette
didn't work when did you first realize
that it went into a tumble what was your
reaction then did you think that you
might have had something to do with tip
or freighter or did you suspect that it
was the RMS that was malfunctioning and
can you lead us through that process
we have from the Time magazine question
is for the mission commander and it
comes from my editors in New York or
want to send along their congratulations
on a spectacular mission but in that
crew of yours all high achievers all of
them highly qualified most of them
pilots and even a windsurfer among you
question is is there a poet among you
and is anyone one of you going to write
a bit of poetry about this mission or
how it feels to flown around out there
please enjoy poetry fact Casey has to
try to get us all together and write our
own poetry but not to a whole lot of
success
cacao is doing some drawing for his home
country of Japan so we have certain
talents
unfortunately poetry is not one of them
this is su battle a game for the
Associated Press I don't want to appear
to be picking on doctor traveler but are
you fairly on blaming yourself for the
mix-up when you try to catch
bill Harwood again for a Winston Scott
again for AirCam would you walk us
through briefly how that process works
you're obviously going to be standing
there on the foot restraint I guess and
simply release it into space but would
you just describe the test procedure
that happens and then recapturing it and
taking it back inside well yes at least
I'll describe my part of it quite a bit
of a test procedure will be done by
Steve from inside the cabin but what I'm
going to do is retrieve the spread from
the airlock I'll make my way up to the
other foot restraint myself in the foot
restraint once I've done that I'll
simply power it on I'll look for a light
sequence the sequence of five flashing
lights that tell me the power of went
real well everything is working properly
then when Steve gives me the go I'll
rotate it it has to be rotated about one
or more axes to perform another self
test when we get the indication that
that self test is complete two three
flashing lights I'll just stand by see
we'll go through a series of tests and
checks from his console inside when he
gives me the word I'll simply release it
sit back and watch and catch it what's
the flag is over again I'll release it
what seems that he will pilot back to my
location I'll reach out and grab it put
a tether on it power it down and that
will be white this is Phil Chen again
for Casey let me try this ting
everybody's favorite question around a
little bit do you feel a little bit like
the silly sibley of with everybody
pointing their fingers at you and
second-guessing and accusing you of
closing all the mistakes and everything
even before your mission is over I'd
like to ask to command a quick mr.
Krieger
since this is an international mission
do you find any difficulties in
communicating each other among crews
now actually this crew was you know
we've been working together for over a
year so we know how to communicate
whether it's in English or sign language
or or just a small glance so
communication is really not a problem