you
knowing the day i was born
when i saw gather round
in the wild wonder
at the joy they found
is
endeavor houston good morning
and we're in great shape and how about
you joe
yeah feeling
good denver houston we're on the flight
deck
okay welcome i'm going to go ahead and
start our tape what this is is a little
tour that we took from space have down
the tunnel to the mid deck and the
flight deck and i'll introduce it by
saying that you know we're on the day
before landing so there's a lot of
activity as we prepare to
stow our hardware and finish up our
experiment ops
and i hope that what you'll see is the
environment uh that we've
been working in and uh get a feel for
what it's like this is not cecil did a
mill this is our eyeball view of living
in zero gravity so stand by
we're going into the hab right now from
the tunnel which runs from the mid deck
to the space tab
it's floating right in front of my eye
so you're seeing what we see as we come
in
we're looking at towards the tail of the
shuttle
that large white package you see in the
center is actually an empty foam cushion
that
contains some of our transfer cargo
we're now scanning to the starboard side
and now to the forward side you can see
uh the tunnel we just came through
and the space hab subsystem computer
that we set up every day
and if you've probably noticed we set up
our hardware a little bit differently we
don't have to lay it down on tables any
place we've got a good piece of velcro
seems to do
we have our cue cards up uh
a handheld mic their velcro and then
over to the starboard side you see many
of the soft containers that were used
for our cargo that worked out very well
now going back towards the aft end you
see the opm rack
lpm is safely secured within it
and the cushion that's uh
gently tethered to the front
now let's go back to the act and we just
missed jim we'll see him again a little
bit later he was working on mgm which is
in the center there you'll see it in a
moment
right in front of you are the two sam
sensor heads those are acceleration
measuring systems
and up there the blue box is the eof
freezer and now the two cgba's
that dave tended to during his flight
that we transferred during the flight
those are part of our status check every
day
and surrounding them are more of the
transfer containers the cargo containers
we get a closer look at the sands here
it's flown many flights
comes out of the lewis research center
it's an excellent acceleration
measurement system
these remote heads can be put anywhere
to measure in different frequency ranges
the ac accelerations that experiments
are exposed to
there are two chambers to the sams i'm
not showing you the active one right now
this is uh one of these test cells
that is operated at standby over on the
left-hand side and maybe we'll just take
a peek at an active run here
you have to pull the curtain and well
i don't know there's a run nope we
better not there's a run going on and we
don't want to interrupt
with the extraneous light
that's the mgm camcorder set up
and up on the ceiling there is part of
the japanese experiment for radiation
monitoring it's called a detector unit
strapped to the ceiling with uh
silver dosimeters trapped around it
another advantage of a weightless
environment is that you can use all
surfaces
and off to your right there on the
starboard side of the space hub is the
dto 11 25 certificate experiment now the
johnson space center
with its uh dosimeter balls that's
trapped in various places
that's also part of our status check
each day when i call down or jim calls
down the time and the dosimeter reading
it's called a tissue equivalent
proportional counter and we're also
testing various materials to use a
shielding in future spacecraft
now we scan to the port side we see a
large rack that is a combination of two
experiments
the vrafve
and the
japanese radiation monitoring experiment
we've been doing quite a lot of work
with the rmd it has a an electrical
panel there up at the top
and then a data recording unit next to
the computer and that's the rmd laptop
that we have set up for keeping track of
data
we've done a couple of different
configuration changes during the mission
this is the last configuration change
and we will deactivate this experiment
at the end of the day
we certainly were hoping that the vra
would be up and running i think it's a
great
piece of technology there sometimes it's
the little things that get you in feel
gravity and that's why we test them here
before we permanently install them
just below the space have logo there you
can see one of the control panels
and it looks like we're going to try to
take a trip down the tunnel but
i forgot to mention that we have two
windows in the overhead and here's
balajon
taking a look out of them
and giving us a greeting
and he's uh wishing a birthday uh
greeting to the president of uzbekistan
now we're going back down the tunnel
and we're going to pass through the ods
or the orbiter docking system which is
also now our external airlock
those yellow handrails on your left and
right are what i'm using to kind of
float myself down the tunnel
i'm going to come in under the emu's
in the external airlock and we're going
to just look up and take a look at what
we were calling ms7 and ms-8 on our
mid-deck for quite a few days
and we'll be uh
the center line camera as well today
now we're going into
a tunnel adapter which is where we keep
several bags of stowage
during the mission
here we keep our laundry bags and
flight data flaw that we're not using
now the mid deck is not only a
laboratory it's also our living area
mike's been working on a lot of our mid
deck experiments
here he's setting up a camera operation
for mtne
as you know we've been working uh some
anomalies with that and we're trying to
understand what's happening in that uh
experiment
just above that is the sea bass
experiment and certainly while you can't
see uh the fish the big ones or the
little ones or the snails we've been
peering through the screens because it's
back backlit back there and find it very
interesting
the commander is working out on the
bicycle and we'll all get our turn today
and you can see that we have quite a bit
of stowage that we've been moving around
on the mid deck
these two laptops that represent what's
happening on the gps experiment
dto
700-14 dto 700-15 which we call ziggy
unfortunately they don't need tables
sometimes things just get away from you
now we scan to our port side to the mar
area the galley area and the wcs area
and our prime payload just needed to
have something to do so we put him to
work and he's turned out to be very good
at this
we want to give this be a vehicle back
as clean as we got it it really has been
in great shape
i mentioned before this is a
straightening up and cleaning up day and
everybody's involved
just saw a little bit of joe there joe's
spending a lot of his time by the galley
working water fills and cwc and so forth
this is a check of the refrigerator the
tehm and one of the things we noticed is
that
we have to keep the filter clean and so
we just cleaned the filter for those
folks we had a small towelette they'd
been sucked in
but you can see the cwc bags down there
and he's also been
doing dtl 1331.
we also have activity up on the flight
deck so we'll just float up there
where jim has
quite a few cameras arrayed
and every time we all get a chance we
come up and take some photos for the
earth folks
these are 70 millimeter hasselblad and
this is the earth cam camera set up in
the starboard window
and it now is that taking uh good
pictures
we check it periodically to see if it's
healthy
and just to verify that we're in space
that we decide to put a few earth views
in here
with the overhead window
now we're going to look out the app
window at the tail
and the
docking
adapter out there
can't quite see the gas cans but we have
four gas cans in the back
the view of the front cockpit
that's the flight plan that's tethered
and floating in front of you
and the
oca
pgsc which now has the earth cam
software is sitting up on our port panel
we're still in the process of
reconfiguring from yesterday's undocking
where we had quite a few camcorders set
up to support dto 1114 which was the
mere photo survey so you still see a lot
of cables routed around
it's probably more wired than i've seen
on any flight
and i hope the earth can people can see
but there are three green dots down
there
well let's go back down the uh
inter-access deck area we'll go down
head first this time
and we'll say goodbye
to the commander
terry wilcock who's just done a superb
job with this flight
and i'll say goodbye as well and thank
you again for all the support that we
got from the ground