if your spirit is rolling around
somewhere tonight i hope you hear this
till
and good morning endeavor mirror
morning houston
all right chris it's kind of crowded
looking in the base block of the beer
space station we just looked at the crew
as we get ready to begin this interview
let's start with the shuttle commander
terry wilkin terry you've had a couple
days to get to me or a few days docked
you had a lot of stuff you needed to
move back and forth tell me about the
progress of that and tell me
specifically about this huge air
conditioning unit that was added to your
cargo at the last minute have you moved
it yet and uh was it a big hassle to get
through that narrow tunnel
actually we've been uh we have been very
very busy and uh frankly we're ahead of
schedule it did take a couple days to
get here you know to get things
organized and the docking went extremely
well from our point of view and uh
frankly jim reilly is in charge of our
transfer and he's got us ahead of
schedule and i'll let him tell you about
the air conditioning unit
okay
that's good
as you can see a happy looking crew go
ahead
yeah john everything's been going really
smooth with the joint efforts between
our two crews we've managed to transfer
just about everything we've got over a
thousand items we've already transferred
and we're just cleaning up the last ones
right now the air conditioning unit
unfortunately fit through the hatch with
just a little bit of elbow grease but it
works fine
good i have a question for you and for
michael and
and for pilot joe edwards uh you'll
remember when we talked in houston a
couple weeks ago i asked you to try to
uh put your your brain on uh real uh
intense record for the experience of
going up into space for the first time
so when we talked today you could tell
me about it how was it the three of you
all right john i remember your question
and i did my best to try to remember my
thoughts on accent but i tell you what
during the first few moments my thoughts
were kind of overtaken by my senses as i
was kind of
inundated by the vibration and the light
show and the sound and those are the
things that i remember most but uh right
after that the uh training took over and
i was able to catch back up with the
shuttle and pretty much uh monitor the
systems just like we were trained but
although it was a pretty fantastic
adventure
it looked great from the ground
joe and jimmy you want to talk to me too
about this
yeah john it was uh it was pretty
impressive from the inside it was so
amazing how calm i felt all the way up
to the to the final uh final one or two
seconds and then as soon as things
started rumbling i was kind of like mike
it was kind of like wow
this is it and then uh then it was
pretty impressive all the way to orbit
and just watching the light over the
overhead was was something that really
uh really impressed me
my first thoughts when everything was
going on was uh thinking about my family
and and the light show they were getting
which i thought was pretty
pretty impressive inside i imagine they
thought it was pretty impressive outside
too
i'll tell you why you passed the
microphone our viewers were able to see
the launch from a camera on top of the
vehicle assembly building which is up
above where you guys were and so we
watched the entire atlantic ocean light
up uh as uh as you guys zoomed past and
it was loud and uh i imagined it was
more rumbly and rattly for you how about
it joe
well i don't know that i could add a
whole lot to the sensations that mike
and jim talked about but he has a navy
fighter pilot i'm flying at an altitude
of 207 miles or so and i've gone 25
times the speed of sound now so i'm a
pretty happy camper
i'll bet pass the mic down to andy
thomas andy for the past couple of days
there has been some concern about the uh
the spacesuit you'd have to wear to come
home from beer in an emergency it didn't
fit but you fixed it have there been any
other surprises like that since you got
to mirror things that you just did not
anticipate at all
uh regarding the spacesuit we did fix it
the suit has a lot of adjustment in it
and we were able to adjust it out and i
was able to put it on and take it off
satisfactorily and it was a very nice
fit fit like a glove
uh the only other surprise i've had is
that
there's an awful lot of stuff in there i
mean it's like
we've got stuff stowed in every nook and
cranny on this vehicle and there's very
little storage space and that's the
biggest surprise that i've i've come
across is just uh how restrictive we are
on free storage space
yeah andy before you pass the microphone
off a senior russian space official said
yesterday or the day before that the
suit problem you pointed out was not
really a problem at all and i am a i
don't speak russian as well as you do as
you know but he expressed concern about
your willingness to actually complete
four months on mir at least he said that
talking about the suit was sort of
capricious on your part and he was
concerned that this capriciousness might
might last through the mission how do
you feel about the mission at this point
any chance you might not stay on mirror
for any reason
uh no i'm here to stay uh
no the suit problem was really i mean i
couldn't get it on i tried with uh
anatoly the commander here several times
to get it on and it was just impossible
until we uh made the adjustments and
then it went on fine uh now i'm prepared
to uh undertake this mission now and uh
i'm looking forward to setting up our a
home in the parody module and uh
getting some personal things out and
making it livable and uh starting the
adventure
well it's going to be quite an adventure
pass the mic over to dave wolf if you
will dave you have given lots of advice
to andy since he came to relieve you i
am sure i
heard you were giving him some more uh
last minute training this morning you've
said it is hard you have said that
murphy's law plays a major role in in
mere operation what other kinds of
advice are you giving to andy
well andy and i are very busy working
together there's a lot of equipment here
to learn how to work
we've had training on the ground but of
course it's a little different in actual
use
but there's a lot of hints on how to
live and how to be efficient and how to
keep track of your items and in fact how
to keep out of each other's way and help
each other
and i've learned a lot about how these
cosmonauts like to live and i'm trying
to pass that knowledge on to handy
yeah dave you said the other day you can
feel really good in space and uh
another interviewer didn't really follow
up on that i am i'm fascinated by uh
what you mean by really good in space
tell me more about that feeling is it
can you feel better in space than you
feel on earth or is it better on mirror
than it is on the shuttle uh what is
this good feeling describe it to me more
well john it's really good and in fact i
feel better today than when than when we
last talked it has to do with your
mental perception of three dimensions
and your ability to move around
and your efficiency in motion
if you're a scuba diver or your first
few dives you may not be as comfortable
and you know how you can get your job
done much
when you get more experienced and it
just keeps getting better and better and
and i still haven't peeked out and it's
it's really good
that's great dave hand the mic to your
mirror commander
anatoly siloviov if you will commander
we watched dave walt on his space walk
with you a couple of weeks ago during
that walk it seemed that you were
critiquing his every action telling him
not to touch anything and not to move
his feet what was your main concern
during the space walk with wolf and and
how did he do
it
basically done by performed by dave i
helped him sometimes when he asked me to
so our functions
of course were
outstanding the experiment was performed
very well and when we were moving along
the station i
was giving dave some hints because this
is uh very naturally his first time in
open space
and we have a lot of uh
equipment particularly in the area that
we are for example there are star
trackers
and other equipment so i was uh
explaining to him the best way of
avoiding uh the equipment and i recall
the first time i went out into space
first eva i did i was given the same
advice
thanks commander we like the new haircut
by the way for bonnie dunbar you've been
conducting environmental experiments
back in the space have all week what
should we know about these projects so
far and uh one final question for you
you've been demir before and said before
launch you didn't expect to see much
different is it much different than your
trip a couple of years ago
well to answer your last question uh
it's nice to be back it's a lot more
familiar than it was in 1995 and of
course anatoly was my commander at star
city we trained together for a year so
it was nice to come back and see him
again
uh the experiments that i'm working back
on in a space hub are
basically technology experiments for
life support for future space stations
and vehicles one of them the vra
was designed to help
purify water the other one the voa for
detecting uh different compounds in the
air
and like in all technologies though you
have to test them sometime in their real
environment these devices were designed
on the ground to operate in a
microgravity environment and as you know
we don't have any
weightless rooms on the earth so you
have to bring them to space to test them
and right now we're testing them i think
dra unfortunately experienced a shutdown
of one of its regulators but we're
working on voa and we hope to bring it
back up today and we'll gain a lot of
valuable information on it that'll feed
into the future
all right we're all out of time for
those of you we didn't get to talk to
i'm sorry about that but uh we'll look
forward to seeing many of you back on
earth soon and andy thomas we'll talk to
you in space again hopefully in the next
few weeks to see how you're settling in
it's good to see all of you you look
great
this is mission control houston and this
view once again of the double space app
module in endeavors payload bay in the
aft section of the space hub module is
mission specialist bonnie dunbar and in
the foreground mission specialist jim
reilly and with his back to the camera
dave wolf who has just completed his 119
day stay as a member of amir crew
the astronauts have just completed
stowing away one of the experiments that
was conducted during wolf's tenure on
the mir space station for its return
trip back to earth and have been
conversing over the past several minutes
with the scientific community here in
houston to ensure that the stowage was
accomplished properly
and to provide the status of that
storage down to the payload community
here in houston
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