good morning Columbia we of course we're
playing the flight of the bumblebee and
we thought it would be appropriate with
all the pollination that Leonid has been
doing over the past 14 days and of
course yesterday when we saw the sprint
free flyer in the payload Bay it
reminded us of a bumblebee buzzing
around above it so we thought that was a
good selection good morning a good
morning mark
thank you very much this very important
day for queue experiment they I will the
finish the Cobra to Ukraine experimental
work Columbia and we think you've done a
great job so far Leonid keep it up one
more day thank you very much Anja to
Columbia
hello Columbia this is prime minister
Goodall from India can you hear me
now we are proud of you each one of us
in India is proud of us proud of person
like you who has done such a pioneering
work and particularly the women and
youth of India a greater pride in seeing
what you have done in the space my
hearty congratulations you know when I
think of you I think what a long journey
you have covered from Colonel to space
long distance and therefore when I talk
to you I feel I'm talking to a person
with representing India in the space now
my all good listen to you
thank you so very much
those are they code words you know
calplan I do not know if you remember
they saying one of our poets was very
well known in the subcontinent Iqbal he
said this seat ROC Agha jaha our behave
their world beyond star and now you have
seen them how do you feel about them
look at it what you are saying does
because the neutral it's a dome of a
dark sky and stars everywhere the earth
lifetime covered with thunderstorms here
a girl with some small phase of
lightning every once in a while city
lights the clouds it is very much like a
storybook the crew that I'm working with
out here all of us work so well together
and it's such an honor to be able to
this very special mission with us
it was a wonderful feeling that your
journey is expanded the frontiers of
science and technology also at the same
time you are built another new and very
formidable and a strong bridge between
India and America and in our bit Kalpana
how do you feel without weight
weightlessness is it very difficult
experience
as you can tell right now via sweet a
bird I think I just moving all over I
will start just moving things out of my
way with my legs actually it's that very
difficult at all
you get very used to it very fast so to
go from one thing to another
well this end up telling yourself take
it easy don't try to do very fast
because otherwise you are just tumbling
all over so zactly is the way to go
must be very interesting to sit with
colleagues and friends in the same
weightlessness
it is a very interesting experience and
friendship that you have formed no
cultures together and it's just a lot of
fun it was fun while we came together
and now it's face to I don't know if
from your satellite you can see some
other Indian satellites also which are
also in the space projecting Indian
television program to every home yes but
you know we are also our scientists and
our technologies are sharing the same
experience of space they have not gone
themselves to space like you but the
following news out here and I want to
extract the promise from you that when
you come back to the earth please come
to India
with all your friends in the satellite
and also your the whole family you will
be most welcome guests of the Indian
people and the government they all take
so much pride in you and excited about
you that when you come and meet them
they'll be extremely delighted and you
must come just take a second I'd like to
introduce my crew members to you first
of all I'm going to break the pallet at
word his name is Steve Ricky and Steve
and I tripped together with the class
that I can it thank you very much but
also kindly to convey my invitation to
your fellow travelers but in space with
you the captain and everybody else
please and to tell them that there is a
very warm and hearty invitation to all
of you and you know Kalpana the you come
regionally your family came from Colonel
and it was in that area where a famous
poet Kalidas was there wrote that famous
song about swim of this man and you are
dead
strand no swimming in the speed
and thank you very much once again my
feeling of thanks to you all that you
are performed you have made all of us
proud of you thank you sir thank you
very much thank you for calling us
doctor orbiter if you would just take a
second
the couple of days ago we took the view
of him always from the orbiter and I
would downlink it to you for a minute or
so and we can be talking while that's
happening thank you surprised uh all the
people from Italy we took this view a
few days ago I hope that maybe by chance
and the Koala came we'd be flying over
some regions that folks to us and we
love it but the view of Somalia's is so
magnificent that it really locks to all
of us as you can see on this video thank
you very much
Kevin good morning for us think good
afternoon or good evening for you it's
amazing that we are on day seventy six
of our 91 day stay in this chamber and
you're on day 14 or 15 out of one more
day to go and we feel that the end of
this test is right around the corner
we're wondering it's strange to see that
we may have the same feelings on
different duration flights well now to
your right we're just about ready to
finish our mission we only have one day
left but it sure has flown by I hope
yours has done the same if you're doing
some good work and you've done some good
science good research for a good fall
cause things tend to go very quickly I
just want to say hi to yourself and the
Vicki we miss her and all the food that
she supports with and also the John and
Laura and if I could I want to show you
one thing now I was there when you went
into the chamber and we took chatted a
couple of times over email and I you
folks it came up with a possible problem
with iodine in the water and as you know
there was a last-minute addition to our
flight and thanks to your research that
you're doing and then the folks on the
ground find a solution we have that
incorporated right here and let me show
you
as your filtration system that takes out
our I indict a water we also have the
filter and as you can see it just sucks
in quite nicely between our cabinet on
the Mar and the galley so it really
hasn't been a an inconvenience at all
the water comes out a little bit slower
but hopefully in long-term health
benefits especially on the shuttle and
the International Space Station will all
benefit from it certainly can sympathize
with you on that one Kevin and the hard
way you have in your hand is one that I
had slated for STS 89 but I guess we'll
get another one for Terry for that we'd
like to hand it on to John now I think
he has a couple of other questions for
you morning yeah I'm glad to see that
something that one of our former test
directors worked on work great in the
payload Bay and more was IDI was a
Nigel's test director for his 15 days
with the wheat plants and he was also
one of the key guys working on the
sprint cam I was wondering what your
thoughts were on his performance in the
CVA well we were real happy to get a
second chance for do a spacewalk and to
fly the sprint and Steve did the flying
of a sprint and if you saw any pictures
of it it just handled like a dream it
actually handled handling qualities
better than the simulator and the
virtual reality lab it really has
tremendous potential the video was a
little bit intermittent but we knew that
going into the test because the antennas
aren't optimized at this time but I
think for future shuttle missions and
definitely on the international space
station that technology really has great
potential and this is a homegrown
Johnson Space Center project it was done
a very tight budget and the guys really
did hit a grand slam it just worked
great