November 5 (CST) Flight Day 8
Crew Conference
Reporters attending Crew
Conference at JSC.
STS-95 crew communicating
with Vice President Al Gore. |
The Moody Blues awakened Discovery's seven astronauts at 4:15 a.m. Central
time this morning for their eighth day of on-orbit science activities.
The song, "I Know You are Out There Somewhere" was chosen by
Commander Curt Brown's family. On orbit experiments are in the final stage.
Crew members are spending busy hours and everything is approaching towards
the end of the mission without any probrem.
Today from 12:10p.m.(CST) crew conference was held with STS-95 crew and
the reporters on the ground. To the question by a Japanese reporter asking
about Astronaut Mukai's will to visit space for the 3rd or 4th time, she
answered "More people should go to space more often. At present, as
a Japanese astronaut only I am measuring in the field of life science or
medicine. In case nobody follows me I might have other chances to go to
space for the 3rd or 4th time."
From about 2:50p.m.(CST) STS-95 crew had another chance to communicate
with Vice President Al Gore, former Astronaut Scott carpenter and school
children. To Mr. Carpenter's question, "How many times did you somersault
?" astronaut Glenn answered " Many times !".
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Today' Astronaut Mukai |
She conducted the experiment using two toadfishes, plant experiment, operated
high vision camera and performed routine exercises. Tonight she will once
again don a sleep net and a sleep suit which monitors respiration, eye
movements or muscle tension and so on.
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JapanaseExperiments |
Astronaut Mukai pulled out the fish packages, each of which a toad fish
is located in, from the Vestibular Function Experiment Unit (VFEU), and
gave them a movement manually. Astornaut Parazynski sampled fish package
water to be analyzed after landing in order to make sure whether the quality
of water had been kept appropriately.
Plant experiment is being continued such as applying Auxin, one of plant
hormons, to the samples and so on.
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