we copy Roger of I 50 is telling me that
they are complete with this fo but they
would appreciate if you did not power
down and just leave this going until you
come back in the afternoon except for
turning off the laser in the back light
because they're both run by battery your
DCE activity for this afternoon at three
hours 52 minutes has been canceled you
need to go to your tpr however you will
have some cm1 power up procedures to do
later on at approximately five hours 11
does that mean I don't have anything to
do near for every day that's affirmative
is that what touch you responded to that
it is affirmative that you have about an
hour and a half a free time right now
okay talk about 15 min to that but then
I'd like to come back here go ahead and
start with some as a high of 50
activities for this afternoon if that's
okay that's okay with us just sort of
this sort of practice with it and stuff
like that it I'll just give you a call
when i come back in here okay sounds
great I me Houston Janice I'm Houston
Janice just a heads up your socks
contacts in about eight minutes yes
Janice we were just conferring on the
big picture of the DCE activities have
been deleted for this shift this is due
to the limited amount of fuel they have
available and they their science team
would like to rethink their test points
to be performed and ensure that they get
maximum science return through the end
of the mission and so they have pulled
out all their activities in a timeline
today we are trying to reschedule some
cm-1 on you after your meal which is
different than what we told you in daily
status good evening hour mark we're
right in the handover between the red
chef who's just waking up in the blue
chef who's getting ready to wind down
Janice just finished your exercise for
the day and Rogers still back in the lab
doing some experiments but hopefully
you'll be up here shortly and I guess
we're approaching the halfway point in
the mission and it really feels to us on
board like we're falling into a steady
routine but the minute you say the wood
routine you have to step back and
glanced out the window and when you do
that and see the beautiful oras whizzing
by it reminds you that this is anything
but routine
reminds me of Willie are and while we're
here to makes us appreciate all the
great work that the folks at miss
control and the Marshall have done and
for this mission together and support
this through it's in the mexis realized
that a special mission is anything but
routine and all aspects from the
groundbreaking science we're doing to
just what it takes to keep people flying
safely in space so today we're going to
give you this kind of a rundown of a
half way through the mission type day in
space and it turns out it was Janice's
half day off so she got to do all kinds
of these days and we'll show you what
astronaut to do on their days off or at
least what Janice did on street chaos
and then I'm doing a little experiment
in the back called the LIF sure so I'll
show you that it is me doing the LIF
scherstuhl experiment and big picture on
this is the materials processing
experiment ended measuring the diffusion
coefficient of various atoms through
different materials in space what you
see me they're doing is rotating this
your cell and what that does basically
they won this darn thing up and then
Adams diffuse through the materials and
then at the end of the run we actually
crank it which breaks it into small
pieces and then on the ground they can
measure how far the atoms to she is is
from that really determine the diffusion
bob far the atoms were able to migrate
in on earth because Adams ways different
amounts you can't ever totally measure
that property knowing that property will
help us design better material process
for everything from computers to
materials in here's Roger and this is a
yield an experiment we're doing of how
the internal flow of include an amex of
droplets and at above the mantel
pedestal there you can see a small
Gotham mission and water levitate we're
doing materials with different
viscosities or different consistencies
because they have different problems
limitations applications for this would
be to the shapes of planets that are
gaseous like Saturn and Jupiter and for
the formation of stars
discern and other kinds of Astrophysical
bodies as well as any kind of bridge and
garbage here on the ground this is
something else I like to do on my day
off I first got interested in flying in
space from reading science fiction you
can't leak where we go we call it time
is name of that book that's the first
science fiction book I ever read by
Madeleine L'Engle when I was in sixth
grade I got me it's been the space
program I reading science fiction I like
to bring science fiction up with me and
read it by Earth's light which is summer
I reflected off the earth you can
detergent on this top and it is bright
enough to read that I this is like
meeting in a room at home is having that
connection having read science fiction
to get me started on this path close by
reading science fiction space is really
special well good morning with Jenna
commander Susan still in commander Jim
Howell is peggy O'Leary with channel 12
in Augusta how are you this morning or
evening in your cave up there friday we
celebrated the birth of a nation but
also this weekend we celebrated the
rebirth of the excitement of space
exploration Susan if you're so proud
that someone from Augusta can be a part
of that tell us a little bit about your
mission here for 16 days studying the
effects of microgravity on combustion
and material science the purpose is to
fall but the main purpose is to let
somehow make life on Earth perhaps for
efficient fuel burning less bullets in
the air center medals for aircraft
engines and that sort of thing Jesus is
a very important mission when it came
down early in April of course we were
all disappointed but were you surprised
at the quick turnaround for your crew
the payload in Columbia an awesome job
getting this or that are ready to fly
again so quickly this is the quickest
turnaround ever for space shuttle and
the crew
ready to go we were well trained for sts
83 and so we just needed to maintain our
proficiency Leland SPF 90 park to talk
with your family at all since you've
been in Spain touch with our nation have
you do today on the radio and I talked
with my boyfriend on air-to-ground what
time and I have to speak with my dad and
a couple of days well you know Susan you
don't have to wait a couple of days to
speak to your father he's here with us
now live in the studios dr. Joseph still
do you have any questions for your
daughter Susan I have any questions I
just like to tell a hello from a mother
and myself I'm glad to see that she's
doing well what laughs and his name is
Astro what have you done today what are
they been like what we call the WCS we
just kind of the bathroom it up swing
dance on our radio system to get it
working a little bit better and we'll go
out on the computers project called wdi
rot which is a wireless data acquisition
system and it's something that we're
going to be using while we assemble
space station what has is there some
temperature probes out at the payload oh
and we listed somewhere we can monitor
the temperatures out there this will be
very important during Space Station
because it's so cold up in space where
the sun's not shining on you you ain't
of Athens a woman's work is never done
even in faith fascinator dress that
woman's work part it's because I'm a
pirate that I do all this job I just
wanted to make sure that was clear not
because I'm a woman the Pirates job is
cleanliness that's a slap for I should I
could never what this device does force
is very valuable allows us to practice
the landing task all throughout this
extended duration mission so that 60
days after launch and maybe 80 days
after last opportunity to practice of
the shuttle training aircraft we're not
trying to land for the first time every
day yes is a buyer but she and I make a
run or two on there on the pilot
simulator Christie to see from the
screen here that it's for desktop kind
of simulators acting pretty high
fidelity control response is certainly
not exactly the same as a shuttle or as
a shuttle training aircraft so you can't
really hang your hat on its flying
qualities but it does get your brain
working again as to what you ought to be
looking at and when you need to be
looking at certain parameters we r you
know lining up the balm are working on
the airspeed working on the side picture
just the mechanics of planning to show
and I think this is a valuable tool
you'll see a Susan's blabbing here just
a door BRB a touchdown partners which is
where we try to touch the shuttle down
down days so I can supply runs together
as a crew here's died in here I'm just
going to show you is just the path from
the fight back over to the lab here's
the mid-deck he goes to the airlock
hatch and there you'll see there's a
high to be 180 pass Susan coming the
other way 700 there has a lot of our
laundry in it both clean and dirty and
that's a good storage place for a number
of different items two rebounds up into
the lab you can see the the blueshift RT
at work there Jenna from the left and
Roger at the far end people told me that
fresh food was really nice to happen
that it ran out after a few days so I
did that growing sprouts on the ground
was pretty easy to do and I thought that
the growing amount orbit might be
possible people in the Food Lab really
helped out alot we got some alfalfa
seeds into a food bag and devised a
system for adding water to it without
letting the sprouts out and then all we
needed was a way to get the water out
without gravity so and that connecting
bags together and creating a little bit
of significant force we could squeeze
the water out of the bags so the spots
are growing along and a little bit of
luck we'll be able a time soon
oh I end up here with a couple of Bob
chats this is the the border between the
United States between Texas and Mexico
at Brownsville area right below us a
brownsville texas area and the border
with mexico and this is what everybody
has commented several times is probably
the most beautiful island sat that we
get anywhere around our read these of
the Bahamas Florida South to strip down
to the screen and Florida's off to the
right and just the beautifully blue
colors and we get it was fine with the
parliaments we just never get tired of
their