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aboard the shuttle columbia astronauts

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have been conducting experiments all

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week making up for lost ground following

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the mission in april which was cut short

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due to a defective generator for details

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on just what's been accomplished so far

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and what's to come in the week ahead

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before columbia comes back down to earth

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we go far above earth this morning to

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the shuttle where we're joined by

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mission specialist michael gernhardt and

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roger crutch they join us from inside

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the space laboratory gentlemen thank you

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good morning it's nice to be with you

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roger crouch

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you got about a week to go left in the

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mission you uh it's the first reflight

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that seems to be going pretty well we've

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got a lot a few little problems that

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we're working on but overall i think

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everything's working real well

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getting some really exciting science

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results and we're all real pleased about

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you're studying in some of your

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experience experiments the behavior of

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fire in the absence of grav and gravity

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how are you conducting that experiment

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and what do you hope the results will

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we're conducting several experiments of

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that type and most of them are in a

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real safe environment so that none of

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the fire fuel could get out and cause a

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problem they're relatively small tires

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some of them are just a little droplet

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of fire hanging on a wire so that we're

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looking at that what we hope to learn

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from that is a better way to make have

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more efficient fires on earth so that we

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can cut down on pollution and through

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efficiency save a lot of fuel

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michael because this is the first reef

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flight in history what were you able to

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learn back in april that's being applied

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well actually as you point out this is

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the first re-flight in history and uh

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it's the fastest turnaround in shuttle

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history and the fastest turnaround of

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any uh astronaut crew

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it's a great opportunity for us because

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we trained for a year for the first

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mission and then we had a chance to do a

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dress rehearsal under fairly demanding

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circumstances with the fuel cell power

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down and from that we really fine-tuned

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all of the salient points of space

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flight and this mission has been

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really smooth uh roger could talk to the

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science we actually learned some things

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on the science that helped us

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change things and optimize uh this

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particular mission based on the past one

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michael full i understand by ham radio

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what's it like buzzing by seeing

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yeah we talked to mike the other day and

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at certain points in our orbit we're

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able to see the mirror space station it

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looks like a very very bright star maybe

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uh two or three times as bright as venus

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looks from up here and with binoculars

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the space station it was great talking

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to mike he sounded really good and and

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uh things seem to be progressing uh

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pretty much the way they want to on

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board they just got a new uh

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supply of food and and uh spray parts

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and so forth so uh the concept was it

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we've taken a look into your background

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it includes extensive experience in deep

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sea diving and oceanography we're

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wondering if you see any similarities

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between your work on the ocean floor and

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well they're actually very similar in a

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environment where you really can't

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breathe and work in the atmosphere

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without some type of life support system

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work that i did

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and then the other thing that's real

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and it's it's critical uh of critical

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importance that you'll be able to work

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as a team in a shuttle mission because

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the shuttle is so complex that that no

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one person can do it by themselves and

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so you know that that kind of teamwork

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uh translates very well into space

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roger you mentioned your age a little

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former astronaut john glenn said he

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would like to fly again even at age 75

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and nasa is said to be seriously

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considering the idea when you think

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about that he is 20 years your senior

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think back 20 years now for me is your

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going to be able to withstand that do

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you think going up there learning a

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little bit more about what we can do in

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oh yeah i think what a lot of times the

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chemistry of the body changes as we get

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older but i think that a person like

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senator glenn as it keeps himself in

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good shape i'd be glad to go along with

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him as a junior brother or sort of

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brother in arms or whatever and then go

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again when i'm 75 that'd be kind of a

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cool trip i think and then we could

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compare my data than his

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we saw also as we were setting up for

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the interview i believe you had a teddy

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bear strapped to your knee uh what's

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that keep you in touch with your family

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and i'm that's just a little bear that's

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been in my family between myself and my

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and my kids for several years and i take

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it on travel with me a lot and this is

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just a trip that i thought would be real

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nice to bring it along with me and nash

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will let me do that

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he sleeps with it too

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there's the tool you can see it's uh

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phillips and on the long ratchet wrench

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assembly and and mike uh roger was

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uh perhaps point to them the the places

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that's just so far we haven't tried the

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top yet

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understand mike and we're asking ifm if

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camera for any particular view so stand

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and we have not uh attempted to do these

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top fasteners yet because that was uh

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and we're back to the starting point

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and columbia mike that was excellent we

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really appreciate that that gives us a

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good idea of what the situation is and

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95 is fine and steam one says it looks

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the cm1 team knows ahead of time that

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from the beginning rather than having to

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in columbia houston jim we're with you

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okay great you can see susan is

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exercising we try to get in and uh we

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explaining some of the combustion

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processes back in the lab so what i'm

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it's a rack designed for multiple

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now is called the laminar soot processes

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experiment the purpose of this

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experiment is to study soot formation

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investigator the principal investigator

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on this project professor jerry faith at

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the university of michigan

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is one of the preeminent suit

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researchers in the world today

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that by studying soot formation in

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microgravity we can learn important

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insights about sit formation in many

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important practical devices here on

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large number of much smaller primary

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the soot formation process

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well that's it we had a successful day

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working uh glove box experiments for

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day and had a really successful day so

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we felt like chalk another one up for