hello Mike you look terrific huh how do
you know not how do you look um things
have been going pretty good here we just
got up and we're getting ready for a new
day to unload the progress a little bit
more and start getting ready for this
it's pretty exciting e vai think the too
much you guys are gonna do for sealian
Sasha and about a week's time we think
did you get everything you need in the
progress vehicle yes i did i'm really
grateful to the guys who really hustled
i mean they did an amazing piece of work
in there about two weeks get some pieces
together for me and i'm pretty much set
up now in the command to module which is
where the airlock is going outside the
space station and it joins on through
the the node of this station complex
where the EBA we've done by bazillion
Sasha please are you getting enough rest
and do you think everyone will be ready
for the EV a yes I think so i think the
ground understands that you know we have
an awful lot of work to do here and
we're getting very pretty fast and
efficiently i think and we'll probably
get the extra day or two of grace that's
gonna be me decision yeah i think it's
important that we know what your own
physical constraints are and you're
living constraints and i'm glad to see
that you feel comfortable about that how
do you feel about your safety you feel
comfortable sanguine with it at the
present time say your ad you come just
dropped a safe to say that again please
how do you feel about the safety
conditions on board right now are you
sanguine with it I've always been
signing with it um I think basically we
have time to move even in pretty extreme
situation where we have a leak and the
pressure is falling pretty fast we had
time to think and consider about what
we're doing oops but this is our friend
that we put up on the progress it's
going to be used to seal up to fill out
the pass through the umbilicals from the
module spectra
and what's this is going to attach onto
the module Specter on to the end cone
imagine inspector stretching off this
way to the side and on the inside of a
node there will be accessible to us
under North pressure these connectors
but what the sealian sash we're going to
do is on the back side there were
already been stuck for the cables like
the kind of Medusa room tables and then
during the EV a the city of special
connect to these cables the parquet was
that about floating free inspector that
would provide the means to get the power
prospective to the base block so I've
got distracted there by this thing
plating infamy generally the safety
concerns here though I think or wilmette
and I'm not I'm not worried tell you my
hats off to our Russian colleagues
that's one incredible piece of hardware
to put together in days I wish we had
the rapid reaction time in the united
states that i see sitting in your hand
there we have a lot to learn from the
Russians i agree with you i am
particularly impressed by this is the
way the the plan is come together exec
Gary cross was on the console asking us
questions even if I a day or two after
the the access and sweet I had to ask
you what are you extending I could tell
there something going on is that this is
what they invented and I must say the
plans with mike is coming together and
you know we had a lot of questions
there's still are questions about how to
do the VA where i'll be during it in the
Soyuz and what we'll do but i think
those questions are being offered well i
tell you i think this is a very valuable
experience and I salute your courage and
Vasily and Alexander because this could
cover a contingency situation which
could occur in the International Space
Station and learning how to work through
this I think is very important and
sticking with the mission is very
important well I agree with you entirely
on that I think the biggest message I'm
getting out of this is is how do we
respond to a situation and the situation
isn't going to be a one-off occurrence
so we're going to have events like this
i think in the future in our combined
space programs and the way we're going
to work together the way we are
standing how people respond to these
emergencies very very useful you know
we're getting down on the surface of
Mars and I don't think you've had the
privilege of seeing some of the
incredible pictures Michael train
because you're still young enough to go
to Mars I love to hear that no I i we
have been really thrilled to hear about
the Mars landing and I must say I think
we were the sum of the few people I see
were off the planet but you know from
Earth who have not seen those pictures
yet we want to very much and and i've
only been thinking about what's going
although Mars with that that fantastic
land apart find it when we're playing
over northern Africa it's it's a red red
sand now there's almost no clouds
present and of course it's a little bit
of a blue tint to the horizon but it
makes me think about what it would be
like to be an orbit around Mars and I do
think we should be doing that pretty
soon got wonderful briefings today from
the brilliant young people here at the
Johnson Space Center and I challenged
them to get us to Mars for a very very
low price in a short period of time and
do outstanding work and I tell you we're
gonna pull it off and I think we're
gonna do it in your career time all
right well I could believe that because
I'm so impressed by the way the
Pathfinder mission has gone off i think
the way that was done for so much less
money than in the past and done so
quickly was really really impressive
should see the excitement of the young
engineers and the mature young engineers
at the JPL they are just on fire I've
been watching them on television I'm so
proud of them I tell you I'm so proud of
the whole NASA team you folks in space
or Russian colleagues and the people
here on the ground and i'll try my best
to get some pictures up to you and
facility and alexander as soon as
humanly possible because I'd like you to
share the excitement with us thank you
very much we'd appreciate that and I'd
like to offer my congratulations to the
GPS even the NASA team that has called
all this stuff off and I'd like to thank
you I'd like to thank everybody in
particular for the incredible response
in our own presence at a moment I found
a response instantaneous helpful there
was never any feeling that you know the
communication was down or lacking
and I'm very grateful for the NASA team
and for the Russian team for what
they've done well I tell you Michael we
think you're terrific we think Vasily
and Alexander's terrific there's a lot
of people on the ground that read about
you and see you on TV day and night our
thoughts are with you and play it safe
name is Natalie woods from Shaw hice
well and what is your role as the
mission specialist my role as a mission
specialist on this flight is to do a lot
of the science experiments I'm a member
of the orbiter of the payload crew here
we're split up into two halves at the
astronauts are running the shuttle and
taking care of all the shuttle systems
the other half or take care of the
experiments back in space that module
where I am right now and part of the
payload crew and we work back here in
two shifts around the clock 24 hours a
day my name is Katie arruda from
magnificat high school and how do you
start a controlled fire in space well we
have a number of combustion experiments
and to control the fires we have special
combustion chambers that they protect us
and the fires from spreading there are
many layers of containment so they don't
get out of control and I'm standing in
front of where the experiments right
here it's a droplet combustion
experiment and it's just an example it's
a pretty heavy steel chamber where the
combustion process actually takes place
so we'll well protect it from any
explosions are from the fires you know
getting out and detecting other parts of
the shuttle my name is David Laska I'm
from holy cross school I'm in a
university program for the summer my
question is do you ever get a chance to
talk to your family in private that's a
great question and it's a coincidence
that I just talked to my wife and my son
have a two-year-old boy and I was able
to talk to them and on this flight
that's the first flight uh driving an
astronaut that we've been able to have
two-way video so i could actually look
at a little video monitor of my
my son sitting there and they were
having they could see a monitor watching
me and we were having a conversation for
maybe 15 minutes and then maybe two
hours later I had a a chance on an
amateur radio to talk to my mother up in
Bloomington Indiana so long but
typically we get a chance maybe every
four days or so to talk to our families
to have one of these video conferences
we do have electronic mail that we can
transfer back and forth then we talk to
our families send messages back and
forth on a daily basis it for the
greatest things every day where the
highlights outside of doing the
experiments looking out the window it's
always great to get messages from home
hey my name is mya davis I'm from Laurel
high school and I was wondering how do
you go about preventing muscle and bone
degeneration okay I understand yeah up
here you don't use any muscles you know
if I want to move to outdoor but it just
takes a little push of my finger and I
go across the space that module here so
I don't have to use any muscles walking
or getting up and moving anything around
so your muscles do atrophy up in space
what we do is we have an exercise bike
called an odometer and each of us right
at about a half an hour a day and that
helps get your cardiovascular system
gets the blood pumping again and help
keep us in safe a little bit for landing
when we land you know you are a little
bit out of sake I feel like a thousand
pound person trying to get out of my
seat of landing but it takes a half an
hour 45 minutes or so and you're able to
get up walk around and feel pretty good
hi my name is Katie Halloran from
magnificat high school and my question
is what environmental information do you
hope to gain from your combustion
experiments the combustion experiments
the main goal a two-fold one is to maybe
increase the efficiency of burning you
know so much of our energy down to the
ground from the automobiles to power
plants and electrical generation that
all combustion processes in which I
understand maybe ways to improve the
efficiency if we can just improve it one
or two percent a very small fractional
increase it would have a major impact
around the
world secondly we're trying to
understand the fit process when flames
burn if you look at a candle flame
you'll see a black suit coming emanating
from the flame and we're trying to
understand better what creates the suit
how do you control that and that a major
impact potentially on the ground from
the pollution point of view hi my name
is Jael panag eres from north ridgeville
hi I was wondering what kind of
preparations do you have to go through
so that you are physically and mentally
ready to perform your tasks that's a
great question physically all astronauts
try to stay in pretty good shape most
people run we have a gym that we all
work out at it and my main activity I
like to go swimming so I swim a mile and
a half almost every single day that I
can we're back on earth and so that
that's the physical part of it mentally
you just have to get prepared you got to
know all your material and work really
hard at it for all these experiments
that were performing on the shuttle here
we've been training for your dad for two
years on each of the experiments to make
sure we know exactly how to perform them
inside and out so that if we have a
problem you know we can solve it up here
so it's a lot of mental training and in
physical training and and then come
launch morning you know you're pretty
psyched to get on the shuttle I'm
probably twenty percent a little frayed
and an eighty percent just you know
psyched out my mind and excited about
going on the trail this is some footage
from yesterday where roger and i did an
in-flight maintenance procedure back in
the lab and the purpose of this
procedure was to rewire a thermocouple
and LIF furnace and basically the way
this works is the ground researches it
for as much time as they need and then
they access our procedure which
basically in this case involves writing
some wires from pins on one side of a
connector two sockets on the other side
of the connector and so we got the wires
out of a little kit that we carry in the
orbiter and then Roger and I both
together very carefully made sure that
we got the wires going from the right
pan to the right socket as it sometimes
the case in space things don't work out
exactly the way you plan and as it
turned out the darn sockets on the ends
of the wires were
mental or the episode I were a little
loose in the sockets on the connector so
they wouldn't stay in and so here you
see me getting some duct tape and I'll
tell you I think we'd be lost without
duct tape up here we use it for pretty
much everything and anyhow we were able
to duct tape those things into place and
then you can see how we've got him
restrained there and it worked it was
very successful and we're back up and
working with his science so that was a
good example of how we can work together
as a team with the ground s6 little pump
that occurred during the flight none of
my jobs on sts 94 is earth observations
we have an extensive earth observation
program and it has been ongoing since
the beginning of the shuttle program
we're interested in all types of Earth
observation