let me a Houston we're set up down here
for pmc on your call no rush we realize
you're finishing up with the ifm and
will be el Oso in about 11 minutes we
get it in before the elois great if not
we'll pick it up on the other side
astronaut dr. Michael gurnard who is
from Mansfield is joining us right now
along with astronaut Roger crouch and
astronaut Janice Voss and Michael let's
start with you if it's okay I understand
that you're over the South Atlantic just
about now 185 statute miles straight up
what's the most significant part of this
mission that you are directly involved
with Omar on this mission is to be the
lead of the orbiter during now it's
called the blue ship it's a two ship
mission if some red job is to keep the
Space Shuttle flying and working on the
lease or that Roger and Janice back in
the lab here can tell you on two very
important science side that they're
doing it's certainly impressive that
you've been able to come back into space
so quickly after the shortened mission
this past spring how are the fuel cells
doing this go-around they're doing great
then as you can imagine that NASA good
to them with a front tooth comb and
they've been performing flawlessly and
we don't just been having that same
problem again any time in the future
I'm still Spacelab 760 was phenomenal
and we had more of a elliptical slave as
opposed to the when the jobs were the
same size it was more spherical this
time it seemed to be more elliptical it
wasn't biased towards the Roger drop at
all Bevers maybe we're clear and Leo I
adore today I'm doing great Jim yeah
lucky son of a god how are you doing
George is right about yourself well
we're doing great y'all looking pretty
good up there on sts 94 judge just went
out there because I noticed a few
minutes ago you were passing over the
Gulf of Mexico and silly me I thought I
might be able to actually see you there
another southern hemisphere but either
you pass too fast and there was too much
cloud cover below you'll be glad to know
that just as you were looking for us we
were looking at on here we had a
beautiful sunrise pants over the United
States it look like we hit Baton Rouge
Louisiana just about the time the Sun
was coming up for you and there was a
lot of high cloudiness that kept them in
the ground really clearly which is
probably what committed you from seeing
us because i think the lighting would be
pretty good for that bass yeah i was
really kind of had my hopes out there
but anyway i had to come back in here
and talk to you this way where are you
right now well let's see right now we
are talked about to hit africa after
having passed over the United States
we're about to hit the Africa and then
of course there we had Arthur head on
eastbound and next up will be Australian
Susan still the pilot of STS 94 Susan
you're a pioneer not only just for women
but for all of us who love the idea of
space travel what inspired you to be
sort of an amelia earhart type this is
watching TV with day and thoughts and
saw something on flying in airplanes and
decided that I wanted to be a pilot and
I just couldn't stop there I had to go
and fly the the fastest airplane we have
in the United States the space shuttle
and how those Columbia handle
gotta be honest I gotta fly yet our
commander does the landing so I can't
really speak to that I have for Michelle
training airplanes and a handle kinda
like a very old commercial jet plane
kind of like a Mack truck compare it
compared to the fighter jets and I'm
used to wine well be careful now in
Colombia there is just 16 years old so
she's kind of on the old side Jim I went
through pilot training to didn't get
quite as far as you did because I don't
think i can get past those power on
stalls I kept turning those things in
the spins and couldn't quite follow you
on the sr-71 blackhawk but a lot of
pilots here do wonder is the Columbia
for the most part on autopilot or do you
have to take the stick and fly that
thing well of assets we stay on
autopilot that we do practice in the
simulator if something were to go wrong
with the automatic guidance we can't
take over banjo and fly it up into orbit
on on orbit as we are now we can let the
autopilot Wyatt or if we're doing a
run-through which we're not this Bishop
but we have on other bishops that will
do in the future we can fly it manually
as we approach it dark with some the
target dental or landing we typically
take over manual control at about 50,000
feet or somewhere around five minutes
prior to the actual touchdown that's
about the time on TV when you see us
making them wide sweeping turn the
lineup with final approach that's about
when I've taken over manual control and
i'll be applying it down and then
landing a manually from that point on
don't let sue the kid you he has an
important job that only she backing me
up in case I should do something wrong
but also she uh she does such important
assets but the landing gear down he also
pops the drag chute out after touchdown
so it's very much a team effort we also
have a flight at it again between us all
behind us that he's watching over
everything so we have three people till
the flight deck and laughing really
concentrating on the task by the way
speaking of Selma still we just flew
over of course we sleep I Baton Rouge
that means we also flew by monroe and i
was able to see the airport in the Dom
as we flew right well they show up
pretty good in the binoculars you're
pulling my leg right no absolutely no
we've got to play high-powered
binoculars here here I'll get Greg
Garcia the gyro stabilized and it's
amazing
my position to south of New Orleans and
Baton Rouge we could see very far north
as matter of fact the Twin Lakes of
around Paducah Kentucky come into view
we can't quite see up to the Great Lakes
but in any given direction you can see
about a thousand miles with the naked
eye at about 1,500 miles but these
binoculars to work so it's just a
fantastic view out here that you've
never get tired of taking advantage of
okay well how many fingers am i holding
up now okay it's pretty good you're also
telepathic that's pretty good welcome
back to the experiments I got to ask you
this of course would come from a prime
timber growing area we understand you're
growing trees up there too what's that
about yeah that's one of the experiments
that both Susan and I have we're helping
out on i should say they were
conducting it we do have a little garden
back in the laboratory that we're going
pine saplings in addition to some other
plants it's a small box with a
controlled environment with the
pineapple is growing at one of our jobs
every day is a new video take video
photography to track the progress of the
growth of those plants you know in
talking to some professor of LSU this
week as well as people who are just
outside the academic fields you touch
with a very good point there it seems
like the by now we should have already
had more manned missions there and it
seems like that the Mars Pathfinder sort
of rekindled that sort of the romance of
space travel interplanetary
interplanetary travel do you suppose
that that we can kind of get back on
track now and try to head that direction
only off at about willing to admit the
river off track you know when you think
about it it's only that's not even been
40 years since we first hesitating steps
up into up into space especially about
40 years or even less so up and here we
are on a tremendously complex vehicle
man by seven people with a laboratory
full of experiments were up here for
more than two weeks so in that in that
light it looks like we've come quite a
long way in a short period of time so
but but yeah I think
it's may I the future to continue to
seek to continue to explore to commit
continue to go forward and to be a
little part of that is it's really a
privilege any parting words for people
who would be looking out there right now
saying I want to do this one day oh yeah
certainly any young people in particular
don't be afraid to have a dream and to
go for it only good things can come from
that don't let anybody ever tell you
that you can't do something cuz you have
no idea what you can or can't do you put
your best foot forward so I think the
message from all of us here on
colombia's go for it great well we'd
like to say happy Saturday's everybody
at the I know it's a rest day for most
people but a young Columbia we're still
continuing to do the round quad science
that we've been doing for the last laugh
almost two weeks now what we'd like to
do for Chris Royce dowling today is
answer a few internet questions but with
a little bit of an added twist in
addition to talking about the answers
would like to present some visual
demonstrations to maybe get across the
answers a little bit better first up is
done with an internet question from
James garlits from lansing michigan and
james was wondering could you tell me
what fire actually does in microgravity
i'm not writing my senior paper for
college and i chose fire characteristics
and 0 microgravity i'm having a tough
time finding out exactly what Fire
doesn't space well James you've come to
the right place for the answer here
today for the last two days I've been
working on one of our glove box
experiments called fiber supported
droplet combustion and the principal
investigator for this experiment is
Professor Foreman Williams from the
University of California San Diego that
shows me working at the glove box and
pulling out one of our fuel cartridges
for the combustion experiment in our
samples rain from methanol ethanol
heptane decane and different mixtures
and this is a unique combustion facility
because we put the drop of a fuel on a
fiber and that's why it's called fiber
supported droplet combustion and because
we have a topless on a fiber we can
manipulate them in position exactly
where we want to wear some of the other
experiments
free floating in there this is looking
inside the glove box this is their
little test cell with clear windows on
it we have a fiber or full of silicon
carbide running down the middle of it
and we've been deploying drops of one
millimeter up to the six millimeter in
size and putting multiple drops on the
same fiber to see how they interact with
one another during the burning process
live a couple of burns coming up there's
two drops on a wire here on the
right-hand side of the image you'll see
the igniter igniting there the drops
will ignite in a almost explosive manner
there we have an orange flame it turns
to a bluish flame in right now you can
see that than two drops is nearly
invisible flame but they're still still
burning and getting smaller and smaller
here's another burn will show it to you
one more time with the two other jobs
well the igniter come up heats them up
to their ignition point where there's an
explosive ignition just about there you
go you see some soot particles coming
out it's a spherical flame as they're
burning at microgravity because we don't
have the competitive forces like we have
on the ground with hot air rising cold
air settling we can simulate the ground
effects like turning on a fan of
microgravity and that's what we're doing
here we'll turn on a fan as soon as we
have the ignition it'll create a
convective flow and you'll see the flame
form a point similar to a candle burning
on the ground hers ignition the fan
comes on and that's probably a typical
flame that you used to sing on the
ground okay next up de su this I have
two questions from different people but
they basically are asking the same thing
Mac users of Ontario Canada and Joe
margarine a victorville california they
both want to know how blood pressure
pulse and respiration change as we go
into space I'm going to take my blood
pressure now I know what it is from what
I left it was about a hundred over sixty
two days before we put into space and
now that we're up here i'm going to go
ahead and take it we've been up here now
for over ten days i believe
okay my blood pressure is a hundred fold
over 65 which is very close to what it
was on the ground I do take my pulse
earlier today my pulse was 53 which is
about my resting place on earth and my
respiration is unchanged thanks Susan
okay next from the redshift is Bregman
Terence we have a question from Harry
Seabrook and Hotch bill hodgenville
ottsville was pretend I've known as it
air bubbles in water on Earth or pretty
much went on the bottom I'm wondering
how that would work in space where we
can't do air bubbles in water but we can
do the efforts they can sue water
bubbles in air and my able assistant
here is going to deploy a drop of
tropical punch you're going to see just
how drops of liquid behave in space
after all the vibration staff found it
is a perfect sphere it's because of the
microgravity environment and the the
lack of gravity that were able to do
some of the research projects here at
space that we're not able to do on earth
okay Greg okay here I hope that answers
your question so stiff that Stefan go
push button for them at 71 was on time
ok we copy that DOM and as soon as you
wrap up the rest of the LIF steps we're
ready to call it a day for you and want
to thank you again for putting in an
extra hard and long day today yeah we're
complete with LIF involved with a weight
also for the great training that we had
on the LIF I've worked with him both on
IM l2 and msl one here and i did a great
job training us and I know we're running
out of samples here from LA I'm also and
appreciate your help down there Kimberly
you were looking over my shoulder all
day and keep an eye on the pre tripped
and procedures
and that was a great great help we're
really help out