October 30(CST) Flight Day 2
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| Lindsey, Brown, Glenn |
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| PANSATr |
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| View from Discovery payload bay |
STS-95 crews were awaked at 7:45 a.m. CDT by the song "What a Wonderful
World" by R. Armstrong to begin Flight Day 2 activities.
Petite Amateur Naval Satellite (PANSAT) was perfectly deployed from Discovery.
PANSAT, a nonrecoverable satellite developed by the Naval Postgraduate
School (NPS) in Monterey, California, is basically a small telecommunications
satellite.
The problem with the drag chute door which was lost at the time of the
launch yesterday is now under minute investigation. 90% of the door was
already retrieved. And crew onboard Discovery will try to look at the side
view of the incident using the long robot arm.
It is scheduled crew members will go to sleep around 11:15 p.m., October
30 (CST) and will get up around 7:10 a.m. tomorrow morning.
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Today' Astronaut Mukai |
She activated several experimental units and started to conduct the experiments
of gravimorphogenesis of plants and others. In order to evaluate the normal
patterns of a living body, she took a pill to measures her inside body
temperature.
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Japanese experiments |
The fish package was pulled out, and given a movement manually. And she
exchanged the data recording magnetic tape of the Vestibular Function Experiment
Unit (VFEU) twice a day.
Astronauts exposed the roots to electric fields for the experiment of "
BRIC-RT -@Response of roots of wild type and auxin/gravi-sensitivity mutants
of higher plants to electrical field and gravity" and cut the plant
for the experiment of "Polar transport mechanism of Phytohormones
in higher plants under microgravity."
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