November 1(CST) Flight Day 4
SPARTAN just going to be deploied.
Glenn and Brown speaking to
the reporters at JSC.
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STS-95 crew woke up at 6:35 a.m.(CST). Each day during the flight, flight
controllers in the Mission Control Center will greet the crew with an appropriate
musical interlude. Today's wakeup calls was "This Pretty Planet"
Space experiments on orbit are going well.
Today's main event was the release of the SPARTAN satellite. Mission Specialist
Steve Robinson used Discovery's robot arm and deployed the satellite at
12:59 p.m. (CST). The satellite will be retrieved on Flight Day 6. Acquired
date will be analyzed after landing.
SPARTAN is a reusable, free-flying satellite to observe the mechanism of
the corona of the sun. During the STS-87
mission , NASDA Astronaut Takao Doi and his crewmate manually retrieved
this satellite.
After deployment of SPARTAN, Commander Brown and Astronaut Glenn participated
in the news conference. To the question "How do you see Chiaki as
a partner in Discovery?", Glenn answered as "She is one of the
most energetic and most confident crew members aboard. I called her Ms.
Nuclear Energy one day."
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Today' Astronaut Mukai |
She conducted the experiments of plants, oyster toad fishes, Microgravity
Glovebox and others. Tonight, She is going to wear the sleep experiment
devices to measure heart rate, electrocardiogram and others.
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Japanase Experiments |
Astronaut Mukai pulled out the fish packages, each of which a toad fish
is located, from the Vestibular Function Experiment Unit (VFEU), and gave
it a movement manually. This acceleration enables us to see the change
in neural activity where these fish packages are under microgravity / acceleration
condition. Electric signals are obtained from both toadfishes.
Crew exposed the roots to electric fields for the experiment of "BRIC-RT
-@Response of roots of wild type and auxin / graviti-sensitivity mutants
of higher plants to electrical field and gravity".
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| Last Updated : May 26, 2003 |
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