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| Doi and Scott check the EMUs |
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| Doi checks the EMU |
Today's wake
up call music was "Ginga Shounen Tai" (Galaxy Boys) for
mission
specalist Takao Doi. The STS-87 Crew began the fourth day on orbit
with the music at Nov. 22, 9:56 a.m. CST. Today mission managers and
experts in various flight control areas were meeting to formulate a
plan for retrieval of the Spartan
science satellite following the apparent failure of its attitude control
system to activate.
After breakfast, the plans called for the crew to maintain the orbiter's
distance to protect plans to rendezvous with the spacecraft on Monday to
retrieve it either by mechanical arm or manually as part of a spacewalk
by mission specialists Winston
Scott and Takao Doi.
Then Winston Scott and Takao Doi checked out the Extravehicular Mobility
Unit or spacesuits, and tools that will be used for Monday's spacewalk
and conducted the Middeck
Glovebox experiment.
After lunch, Dr. Doi participated in the interview of NBC of USA with other
crew and he answered in Japanese for Japanese, "Everybody, we are
working very hard in space, also having fun watching the earth and playing
in the micro-gravity condition."
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