oh
from the bush to the opera house
and tomorrow's just another town to show
bush vallarta
such a lot to
southern oh and freedom ever shine
my song is for australia every time i
pray
my songs
good morning endeavor mir and especially
to andy this being of course australia
day
good morning houston and good morning
mark greetings from space and uh happy
birthday to australia from the crew of
endeavor and space station beer
houston endeavor
terry we see and hear you go ahead
good uh just talked with andy he's very
pleased with his suit fit they did
adjust it it fits the way it was
supposed to fit to begin with so he's
very happy with it that includes the
pressure check
well that's great news terry you can
pass on that we
have been working this pretty hard here
on the ground to try and get to that
conclusion we're very happy to hear that
you got it solved on board
yeah that's all taken care of and if
you're meeting with bill reidy please
tell him we said hello
welcome
good evening to all of you from phoenix
if i could address perhaps this first
question to mission specialist andrew
thomas
andrew we've heard much talk today about
this space suit that apparently did not
fit maybe you could tell us about that
and how you fix the problem
uh yeah the suit that i would wear in
the event of needing to do an emergency
evacuation in the soils
uh it wasn't quite sized properly and
when i tried it on yesterday and to do a
pressure test of the suit it wouldn't
fit i couldn't get it on this morning we
made some adjustments there's some
adjusting strokes on the suit and after
we did that i was able to down and off
the suit properly and we did the
pressure checks and it worked out fine
now so
i feel good about it
that's why you should never travel
without your sewing kit okay if i could
talk to commander terence wilcott now
commander why don't you describe the
area that you're in for us and maybe
give us an idea where you're at
well it's uh we're in the mirror base
block and uh this is uh the area we're
surrounding is their kitchen table
basically and i guess like uh most homes
uh guests like to gather in the kitchen
and also in here we have the cosmonauts
sleeping quarters off to right just
behind me to the left and over to the
right
they've got
the main control for the entire
newer space station located in front of
us behind the camera as you would be
looking at us
and also there's other things that would
make life comfortable here there's a
cassette player
other lots of camera equipment movies
books you name it this is where people
gather to live
also pilot joe edwards is uh joe frank
edwards is also aboard i'm assuming that
there's been much talk about sending
john glenn back into space there that's
been a lot of talk amongst the crew what
do you think of that
well we're actually we're all excited to
see him coming back to the office and
looking forward to sitting around with
him and talking and and i guess pretty
much everyone here looks forward to
having the opportunity to fly with him
okay endeavor this is wsbt how do you
hear me
loud and clear go right ahead
all right some questions for our fellow
hoosier uh dr wolfe who was up there uh
doctor you have just passed a milestone
of sorts four months in space uh
question would be despite the rigorous
training that you go through any mental
or physical problems that you never
thought of being up in space for four
months
well it surprised me just how good a
person can feel in space uh even after
four months i still feel better and
better every day
and uh it's amazing the human body can
adapt so well
it's a heavy workload and that's
something that you just have to be
prepared to do when you work in space
but we got a lot done
uh you will have a colleague in space
senator john glenn who was a good by the
time he gets up there he's 35 years
older than you
your view on that of course he's a man
who is in exquisite physical condition
i think that would just be fantastic to
bring senator glenn back into the
astronaut office and to fly again it
would be a great privilege any of us
would love to do that
uh if you could tell us uh the image of
the space station mirror and to a great
degree it's perpetuated by stand-up
comics uh down here on earth is that
it's somehow a contraption held together
by duct tape and baling wire that can't
be tell us about the condition of mir
well i can assure you that the
workmanship is of the highest quality
possible the welds are the finest
quality all the electrical wiring and
connectors are pristine
uh of course it could use some new
carpet and uh some fixing up but it's
mostly cosmetic it's a very safe station
and commander celovia here maintains it
and as does provo
vinogradov the main engineer
in top condition
uh doctor why don't you tell us
what we see on the screen what is
surrounding you up there right now that
we can see
what you're looking at is the dinner
table
and kind of the main living area where
people gather there's some tools over
there
on that side there's a group of
computers where we receive mail and
operational information
this is where we get water
that's the food over there so this is
kind of a kitchen gathering place and
also kind of a work table area
doctor your view uh somewhere down the
road of the merits of say a u.s based
space station
well it's an international space station
on the books we'll begin assembling it
later this year
and it includes many countries europe
japan uh south america north uh canada
uh and of course our main partners are
russia and in fact we're on of course a
russian space station right now and they
bring a great deal of experience
to the table
uh i have to ask did you get to watch
the super bowl up there yesterday
did we get to watch it no i'm afraid not
because there was some talk that they
might try to get the feed to you but you
you didn't get to see it i was just
wondering what your
russian colleagues might have thought of
american football up there but they were
probably working too hard i would guess
so while we asked them
football
american football
you have to not only live it and feel it
to be able to appreciate it
well he said that he's only one time
been to a real american football game
but it's not a big tradition in russia
but uh as in any sport event it's a
great thing to go to
and doctor final question for you what
has this meant to you personally you
know expanding your thoughts your mind
being up there
it's incredible what it what this does
psychologically to a person uh to be
away from the earth and then come back i
can only hope that i can drag back the
feelings uh that i have for instance
pulling in in your car to a stop and go
and getting a cup of coffee sounds like
just a great great deal of fun to me and
i hope that every little thing is as fun
as it seems like it will be i'm going to
try to hold on to that
that would be what would what's your
lasting memory you think will be of
being up there in space
it's our partnership between the people
the relationship that we develop between
the
between ourselves and in fact that's a
big part of the goal of the
international space station is to it's
probably the biggest project ever been
attempted in peace time between
countries and uh
it it'll be a great difficulty and a
great uh benefit to as we do this
international space station
it must make you feel that it really is
a small world isn't it
yeah we get around it about every hour
and a half
where are you right now as we are
speaking you are still over russia i
knew you were as before we went into the
interview but hey you fly fast up there
we're just approaching the east coming
off the east coast of siberia
approaching japan
in the western pacific
when we first started talking with you
we were just north of india we've maybe
gone
4 000 miles
to those of us who are you know forever
down here on earth i mean it just it
seems so fascinating i mean
almost you can't even understand it
did you really have to get up there
doctor to to get a feel for all of that
no matter how much training you had you
had to see it with your own eyes
i guess uh the the space travelers
paradox is that
it's it's incredible to describe the
feelings and the
the emotions and what you see
in space
uh
it's frustrating to try to describe but
you and in fact you do have to be here
to feel it but we sure want to try to
share it with the whole world in fact we
look at that as an important part of our
job
and doctor tell us then just how your
journey will finish give us the dates
and the times where you'll be landing in
all of that
uh
we're going to be unbacking day after
tomorrow
and then we'll spend a day and a half in
orbit preparing for entry and
then this great crew that's practiced so
hard to do fly the space shuttle will
do their good work and we will land on
the 31st i believe at about six in the
evening roughly florida time
and as they say god speak to you thank
you endeavor wsbt clear
thank you
it looks like we're getting down to the
end of things here pretty we've got to
take out the mgbx tonight yet and change
over this uh
tissue culture equipment
but i think we're pretty much closing
out most of our items uh we've got a few
hard ones yet that we're waiting on but
uh
they're little items that i think we can
come home without that's how i see it
right now
glad to hear it dave i know you've had a
very busy four months and i know that
the guys who brought endeavor up to you
have had an extremely busy four days so
we'd be happy to have the pace slacking
off just a little
very good i'll tell you the team's quick
and real nice up here and
it's just a pleasure
being with
my american friends again and
this whole thing's just a wonderful
experience i can't wait to see on the
ground and
and maybe you'll get dragged me through
the ski course a time or two
will do
you