you
have you out there a busy great how are
you guys up there oh we're doing just
fine it's the middle of our work our
work day we realize it's really morning
probably there the United States and
where you're located we've had just
completed lunch or we're gonna looking
forward to it after day of work and then
we'll be going to sleep and the other
ship will be getting awake to carry on
Mars is one of the hottest topics down
here on earth these dates have you folks
in facts photos from the Pathfinder
mission yet yes we have for the very
beginning Mission Control Center sort of
via email electronic photos and I'll go
up here we can't share an all the
experience we do feel like we've had
about five or six photos we know all
about barnacle bill bill and the other
rocks so we we have had the opportunity
to experience and enjoy just like the
rest you've been to me on a previous
shuttle resupply mission to the station
and you're currently on America's oldest
shuttle Columbia the hardware is getting
older for both countries are there more
concerns for problems these days on
flights well certainly as any mechanical
device gets older you have doing improve
and increase the amount of maintenance
but Columbia is the queen of the oldest
vehicle but still that she's got many
priceless dinner these vehicles were
designed according to specification for
100 slides and I think rolling up the
number 23 right now so as long as the
people at the Kennedy Space Center keep
maintaining her to the to the standards
as they have in the past I do a superb
job we'll keep rider uh for a long time
to come what do you see when you look
out the window how far can you see can
you see the Earth's and what we're doing
down here well we can say the earth we
can see roads and cities and runway
stand out really well we've seen
exciting things like Aswan Dam and Egypt
on the Nile River you seeing mountains
you're making bigoted debt that's
unbelievable
what is it like to be in space what does
it feel like like it it is being
underwater where you're coming up
floating underwater it's on your free
floating all the time so you have a good
feel for which ended up but John I mean
so that's kind of physically what it
feels like as far as mentally I just
find it fascinating as I below space
exploration program fascinating and
looking out the window all the world is
it is very exciting for me what does a
typical day like what do you do that's
like a typical day on earth pretty much
we get up in the morning and wash up
shave brush our teeth I have a quick
breakfast and we have about a half an
hour time to do our daily planning or we
review messages mail and kind of get
ready prepared for the day of work we
work in the lab module here about five
hours or so in the morning have an hour
off for lunch where we look out the
window and then it's back for about
another five hour session in the lab at
the conclusion of the day we have about
two hours before we go to bed again you
using that kind of getting ready for bed
brushing your teeth and changing your
clothes and looking out the window just
relaxing a little bit what is that your
favorite part about being in space to
any of you and then the opposite what is
your least favorite part
we're at cydia to build two most
favorite parts one is floating floating
is really fascinating because your whole
method of movement is different you just
push yourself Gentiles you try to stop
yourself from rotating you have to watch
that you don't bump into things you
maneuver around people and objects
differently so it's like a fish or
something it's it's like being in a
completely different world because you
move differently the other great thing
is just looking down at the earth I mean
abuser spectacular the way things look
at I'm not taking and it's just one
great you after another one we have a
chance to look out the window speaking
of looking to pick steps to leave
favorites the just as the lack of
gravity of floating is about today they
it's also sometimes to be honest a
little bit of a pain gravity can be good
for a lot of just normal functions
eating food for example you can't set
something down the table and present a
meal to yourself all of us you have to
eat like one entree at a time and eat it
in its entirety and then move on to
something else I think the problems
going to the bathroom might be
immediately obvious thing about who
gives it a thought so are the lack of
gravity is fascinating and also a
gravity is good for a lot of things also
any special messages for anyone back at
home here on earth yeah be a
two-year-old son Kai in Houston Texas
she's probably just getting up and
getting ready to go to daycare this
morning and I just want to tell my level
I think on behalf of the whole crew
whole crew we have we have a lot of
people who are watching hopefully this
TV down leg and taller loved ones of
dollars have made all of the fence we'd
let just like to say thanks for hanging
in there with us we love you and we're
going to be back home soon and we
certainly enjoyed this opportunity to be
in space and we're gonna enjoy getting
back home also and I'd like to say how I
digress to Georgia
yeah and I'd like to say hi to Denver
after New Jersey get a prevalence I was
with her Louisiana hello alrighty
anything else going on with the
experiments that you think we should
know about here on earth the combustion
work is going extremely well we had
planned to do about 150 burns total
combustion experiments up in space we've
completed over 165 already and we're not
done yet so I think we're getting in
over 110 percent of our science output
in the material science word world we're
processing a lot of semiconductor
materials and another new metallic
materials metallic glasses that have
other technological applications so we
have a lot of breakthroughs were working
on here it might be a few years before
they find their way into everyday life
Donna knows but this is a basic research
and we're pioneering out here and a lot
of great science will be performed by
this mission any message for budding
young astronauts especially women trying
to get into the field my biggest message
is there a dream follow your dreams
follow your heart and start to do your
boss and you never know what you might
be able to exceed if you did succeed
with if you just try to go over the tape
here we'll roll it for you and let the
dragon suitor thought about it what I'm
trying to demonstrate here is that
there's no up and down gets very
confusing here i'm sitting here
obviously up is up and up is down but we
can switch that around very quickly and
see that actually i was sitting upside
down i was sitting on the ceiling of the
space lab and it's only when the gym
turn the camera around and we see things
in there more normal configuration for
those customers clear with it that we
can see that i was upside down our Susan
here is looking out the windows and now
we're moving on down to the hatch down
to the mid deck which is on the opposite
side so we see the cheese actually lying
on
against the back of the flight deck
there now we're sitting on down to the
mid deck looks rough normal here my odd
one crew member sitting on the floor
gallery see Roger upside down which is
the ceiling in which 40 take its way
you're facing at that moment dance
assisted me with a I not really an
experiment what we're doing is we've
drawn water out of the Gally it's called
microbial capture device we are shooting
the galley water through a little filter
and we're going to let that filter sit
around for a few days we've added a
little agent to it in every 48 hours i'm
going to take a look at the filter to
see if things are growing in our galley
water this would be easy if this one of
us were to get sick or something they
would be able to tell whether the water
has been good to drink it's difficult
zero gravity to get all the water out of
the filter so I'm having to use my
imagination and trying to get the water
to go where it's supposed to go and now
white g it just sucks all out normally
because of the gravity we got one
internet question today who's from from
John Michaels is from bay village ohio
to one of our suburbs just west of
Cleveland where my hometown is and he
has two zero gravity have any direct
effect on the principles of magnetism
and wants to know if steel is more drawn
to a magnet in space and on earth and
general I got two spherical magnets here
on board and i want to show you it
really has no effect i will separate
them and let you see how they flow
together
it's very similar to what you would
expect if you put to Magnus spheres like
this on a flat plate they would probably
be drawn together but in zero gravity
without any friction it's very visible
but essentially zero gravity has no
effect on magnetism it's a totally
separate force okay that's it for this
our afternoon once again thanks to
Mission Control for IBNS were sent to us
fill to the payload operations control
center to great flight so far we're
looking for a few more days of science
before we come back home to
next question l it is is there any
reason to wait on the peacock time for
starting this next few cm one bird or
can we start a little bit earlier
I thought Huntsville or Greg looked like
we would like to wait till 1400 hours
that would get started about ten minutes
early but not yet okay copy that i'll
come back about that copy that now i'll
look into the answers on the other
questions and get back to you later