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SPARTAN retrieved |
November 3 (CST) Flight Day 6
Space Shuttle Discovery has been normally orbiting the earth in the second
half of its flight. Crew members were awaken by a rock'n'roll in honor
of Mission Specialist Steve Robinson. Robinson is known as a member of
the astronaut band known as "MAX Q."
SPARTAN solar physics satellite deployed from the cargo bay of Discovery
on the flight day 4 was retrieved as scheduled today. Commander Curtis
Brown operated Discovery to rendezvous with the satellite. With the assistance
of Scott Parazynski, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson used a robot arm
and grappled the satellite successfully.
A lot of experiments have been conducted smoothly in orbit.
Discovery is now orbiting the Earth every 95 minutes at an altitude of
555 km.
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Today' Astronaut Mukai |
She is continuously working hard as she conducts the experiment on toad
fishes, draws blood from both astronaut Duque and Glenn, takes pictures
of the material processing experiments, and conducts Astroculture experiment.
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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.
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