joining us now from somewhere above the
earth our astronauts Janice Voss Mike
bernhardt and Roger crotch welcome to
the program nice to see you guys out
there I know that this is the second
go-around the first mission was cut
short back in April because of a
generator problem how does it feel to be
back in space Danna's will begin with
you as you know this is the first chance
to refi a payload and a crew all
together the same groups so quickly and
I think all of us are marveling at how
much it feels like we just left here
yesterday it's been much easier to get
back in the swing of things all the
experiments are going great and we all
feel extremely comfortable and well
prepared because we've done this so
recently it's really been a great
opportunity and I really have great
kudos to the folks down to Cape and all
the people in Mission Control in Houston
center that works so hard to get
everything turn around force soon as I
understand that to all of you set up
your orbiting laboratory up today and
that you actually lit a controlled fire
inside the module we should have you got
our first experiment run on a next
combustion module experiment of looking
at producing suit which as you know is a
heavy pollutants and also a very
dangerous component of forest fires one
of the great things about getting a
chance to refi like this is this is why
the experiments we ran two runs last
time and after looking at the date of
post flight and having a chance to think
about what all the different downlink
data they got meant they redesigned
experimental to change some of the
parameters and this first run on 94 was
much better than either the runs on 83
now Roger I understand that today you
had a chance to quickly see the MIR
space station that you had caught a
glimpse of it you're in different orbits
but he'd get a chance to talk to the
crew at all all right fortunately that
was another shift and I talked to those
guys it's learn and they said it was
absolutely bringing out in the sky I
believe they said they were within about
50 miles of the orbit of mere they could
see it it looks like a big penis or
about the size of the star or the planet
Venus when you see that but there was no
radio communication today later on
hoping the possibility of having a
chance to talk to them but they're
pretty busy over there right now no they
certainly are busy Mike let me ask you
for a moment there are a lot of people
were concerned about the activities are
going on mirror right at this time there
are concerns that maybe we should all to
get a scrap the partnership with the
Russians until they get the MIR space
station fixed what are your thoughts
about that do you think it's safe and
what are your thoughts about that aspect
of the program well I think that we are
justified it being concerned however the
situation is stable there and the thing
that we have to remember is that they do
have the Soyuz lifeboat so they can
leave that station at any time and I
think that it's only partnership with
Russia has been a good thing for us I'm
not saying that it's good that these
contingencies have happen but we are
learning from that it is making us a
stronger team and bitterness for the
International Space Station and I think
don't we need to hang in there with them
I think we've learned a lot working a
lot more and we're working together well
as a team and I can assure you that the
management of NASA in Russia's is got
safety for most in their mind and we'll
do everything the right way flame is
very very steady truly study it looks
like a signal image it so study
I'm dumb tricks already but that might
be too far up one it's pretty close down
one that looks like it might still be
open to me guys don't go down one more
unless you stop me all rights definitely
open another going down hi Susan saw the
pilot this is our site day two for the
road team you can see I busily working
on a laptop computer we call the pgs see
that's the computer we used to talk to
the ground also talk to our family if we
need to panting around the cockpit here
you can see it's pretty light outside so
it's hard to see the commander's seat
and becoming to add you see it better
computer it's all started to spoil where
we are the world so we always there
exactly where we are in the wall a lot
of camera equipment that we use for
Earth Observation program will be the
first drink on the ass panel and the
overhead the ass windows you can see
those now this is you are outside
station if we were to eat decide the
shuttle for that that is quite wall rod
or but of course we wish you jostle and
be coming around the right side we have
all recorder so we can freak your place
and pictures for going to and coming
back down for landing that takes us all
around the cockpit this is entering the
space that module I'm working on the
Express rack which is a rack that will
be flying on our future Space Station
missions this will allow us to
accommodate many of the mid-deck
experiments that we currently fly back
in the space station and this is the
first flight of a track and we have a
number of experiments two of them days
which is a physics of hard spheres and
Astro p GPA which is a plant growth
experiment like a little mini greenhouse
that we're carrying on board
okay what i'm doing here is taking down
some readings are as an experiment it
measures the very low level
accelerations on board now I'm moving
over to the droplet combustion
experiment we use this experiment to
study combustion how things burn in this
case heptane fuel droplets because the
combustion of liquid filled is very
important for our economy and for
pollution in this country important part
of our daily routine up here is staying
exercising we each of us get to ride for
about maybe half an hour a day on the
bike and at 17,000 miles an hour that
lets us go maybe eight thousand miles of
cuddling on the bike Here I am done in
the mid-deck working on a stroke p GBA
the we have a number of plaster bird
species of plants growing inside a
decotis GBA one of my duties every day
is to take video of these plants
actually growing up from day to day we
can actually tell how they are growing
in space and how their growth different
differs perhaps than what we see on her
what a mad dog mentioned about after a
PCB oil here we are we're removing it
stops a big deck which is part of the
orbiter and we're going to take it back
through the tunnel into the space lab
and mount it on the Express rack here
you see is coming through the tunnel
we're now in the space lab and we're
going to bound it into the express rat
which dunno I explained to you with the
right that we're going to fly on Space
Station this is it one of the most
important things we're doing on orbit
because it's getting us ready for space
station we're getting to try out this
hardware for the first time and if
there's any problems with the hardware
will go before Space Station
okay we got that get that quiz and we're
just gathered up here on the on the
flight deck is accrued to a celebration
of our nation's birthday tomorrow will
be July 4th and we know that everybody
around the country will largely be taken
the day off it leads us somewhere at
other recognizing the importance of this
day and I in our country's history and
and we recognize just how lucky we are
due to be Americans maybe even more so
because we're not in the country right
now we're orbiting 185 miles above the
surface of the earth but you know we're
not the only Americans through out of
the country on this fourth of July their
military members foreign service members
number of Americans throughout the world
serving their country to country in a
number of different ways we also want to
mention that that's right Mike's in
space Mike full orbiting in mirror and
our hearts are with him our hearts and
minds are with him and we know he's in a
great adventure and he's certainly
serving his country also so to sum it up
from the crew of MTX 94 and for all
Americans around the world okay you said
that what you should be looking at now
is on the mid-deck this is a procedure
that we use to remove the locker tool
what we did was tighten the tool first
and then apply the first to pry bar and
it actually broke off and you can you
can see this piece here Susan's going to
go in and show you the back of the
locker we think that's mechanism still
works spying and that the locker screw
will work and it's the house and it's
broken on we're not sure when the
housing broke off practice earlier
before we did this procedure or in
between Greg extra got in there with a
vice grip and we think maybe that was
the final threat
okay we're getting a real clear view as
we understand it the screw is properly
in place the housing that was on to
retain it has come loose but otherwise
everything is working all right yeah
that's how we read it and the image is
there's a robot like it has a lot of
birds on it like it's definitely worn
and we would not want to use it again we
have other tools on board copy
you