Today's activity of astronaut Doi

Flight Day 11 (November 29 CST)

Columbia's astronauts were awakened at about 17:45 for their 11th flight day by the sounds of "California Dreamin'". The song, by the Mammas and Pappas, was requested by the wife of Pilot Steve Lindsey, who was born in Arcadia, Calif., and considers Temple City, Calif., to be his hometown.
The astronauts used the Middeck Globebox Facility to process samples for the Particle Engulfment and Pushing by a Solid/Liquid Interface experiment. PEP is studying the formation of composite materials, attempting to accurately map the roles of gravity-induced convection and sedimentation in the process by removing the gravity from the equation.
The United States Microgravity Payload-4 experiments continued to operate in the payload bay. Advanced Automated Directional Solidification Furnace, completed its 72-hour mercury-cadmium-telluride crystal growth period Saturday afternoon.
Payload specialist Leonid Kadenyuk continued to work with the Collaborative Ukrainian Experiment studying plant growth in weightlessness. Students in the U.S. and Ukraine plan to compare their ground-based experiment results with those recorded by Kadenyuk on orbit.
Mission managers decided today not to redeploy the solar-observing Spartan satellite, which has been in Columbia's payload bay since being captured by astronauts Winston Scott and Takao Doi during a space walk earlier in the mission. The Spartan's attitude control system failed to activate following its release from Columbia's robot arm on Flight Day 2.
He made a fourth status report and reported on living on the space shuttle.

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