 of us, time to roll up our sleeves, and gosh, maybe it would help if we had the galaxy boys with us. My favorite song from my childhood, and actually I find this song to the launch pad with my crew members. Thank you. And to Cal, it's our pleasure. Good morning. This is Mission Control. Houston, as we heard there just a moment ago, this morning's wake-up call in honor of Mission Specialist Takao Doi, who is from Japan. The song Ginga Shunin Tai, which stands for Galaxy Boys, actually a popular puppet show that aired on Japanese television some years ago. The show, as Takao Doi mentioned, one of his favorites, and his childhood, and that is the music from that popular television show, which stands for the Galaxy Boys, a science fiction puppet show. And Kevin, that's what we're seeing. Great to be with you down in the airlock or up in the airlock. This is Mission Control. Houston, this view shows Mission Specialists Takao Doi and Winston Scott as they finish up checkouts of their spacesuits that they'll wear on a spacewalk currently planned for Monday. All of that checkouts are going very well so far. I know problems reported by the crew members. Doi and Scott will spend another couple of hours doing EVA preparation, spacewalk preparation, going through the procedures here to restow the gear in the airlock and prepare the airlock for that spacewalk. And also then going through the tools that they'll use in making other preparations to have those in order ready for the spacewalk on Monday. Go ahead, Casey. Casey, if you can give us no later than no earlier than time for sample four, we'd appreciate. Casey, if you can make it by putting it into heat no later than one hour, 53 minutes, we can do it on this path. Otherwise, we need to wait for the next pass. And that is no earlier than two hours, 21 minutes. And no later than two hours. We can do that little heating at 150 or thereabouts, definitely earlier than 163 minutes. Okay, that'll be great. We can get two of them in on this path. Columbia, Houston, we really appreciate the airlock video. We'll let you get on with your work at this point. Houston on air to ground two. This television from Columbia showing a pilot specialist, Leonid Kodnik, as he works with the collaborative Ukrainian experiment. Kodnik is a Ukrainian pilot specialist flying onboard the shuttle, the first Ukrainian to fly onboard the space shuttle. The collaborative Ukrainian experiment is a plant growth experiment that studies 10 different plant growth experiments that will operate during Columbia's 16 days in space. In conjunction with the plants and the pollination of plants that is being done on board Columbia in the experiment, students are also participating by performing similar experiments on Earth, both in the U.S. and in the Ukraine. The experiment studies the effects of weightlessness on plant growth in general and specifically on pollination of various plants and weightlessness. And we see the happy birthday. That marked the birthday greeting was from my little wife, Lauren Carolyn. Copy, we'll make sure that she hears about that. Happy birthday, Lenny. We mentioned just a few moments ago that there are two ways to retrieve the Spartan satellite, the most dangerous being the spacewalk, and retrieving it by hand. Who can speak to how dangerous it is and why? These are retrieving the satellite. Of course, we've got the robotic arm and we've done that several times. We also have retrieved several, not several, a few satellites by hand. We planned these out very well in advance. We did the intercept rescue a couple of years ago. And I think we'll be quite successful in capturing the Spartan in a couple of days from now. Which of you actually will be positioned on board the arm, the robot arm, and then ferried out if you will to the Spartan satellite to try to grab it? Will that be Winston Scott? What we're leaning towards is the Cal-Doy and myself being positioned on the left and right sides of the Spartan impasse. The impasse is the mounting structure that the Spartan will fit into. We're thinking that that's going to be the best position ourselves on each side of the impasse and we'll fly the space shuttle up to the Spartan. We'll analyze its rates and if it looks like it's slow enough and safe enough to do, the Cal and I will grab it. I'd like to add that we have a lot of people taking a look at this. We've got astronauts on the ground who are practicing or are testing this scenario in our neutral buoyancy lab. We have folks looking at it in the virtual reality laboratory. So we're taking a good, long, hard look at this event before we put it into action. I feel pretty confident that we can pull it off and pull it off safely. Mr. Scott, we've been told that the satellite is spinning. Is it spinning at an incredibly fast rate or is it just a slow spin, slow enough that you could reach out and grab it? No, the satellite is actually spinning at a relatively slow rate. We have downlinked some video of the satellite and we had the folks on the ground look at it and it's less than two degrees per second and it's mostly about one axis. And those things are really, really good news to us because if indeed that is the case, then the Cal and I will be able to grab the satellite and we shouldn't have any trouble with it. Scott Lindsey, let me ask you this question. How far away are you now from the Spartan satellite and how close will you have to get to retrieve it? And is the danger of a collision like we saw with a Russian space station mirror a possibility here? By the way, the name is Steve, not Scott. But in fact, right now we're about 40 miles away from the Spartan satellite. As far as the rendezvous that we're going to do with it, it's a standard rendezvous that we practice many, many times and we've done it in a shuttle many, many times. So there certainly is no danger within the rendezvous. The last portion of the rendezvous when we get close to the satellite is a very controlled and well-known and well-rehearsed and well-practiced maneuver. One we've done in this event many, many times. In fact, the rendezvous we'll be doing on a satellite in a few days here is not much different than what we were originally planning to do with it anyway. So there's not danger involved and you really can't compare the two. They're different systems. Steven, my apologies. There are too many Scots on board, the Spatial Columbia. Tell me about some of the other experiments though that are planned during this mission. We have a lot of experiments in the payload bay and most of them deal with material sciences, some exciting crystal-growth experiments. And somewhere we are trying to do measurements to an incredible accuracy. For example, an experiment from Stanford called CHECTS yesterday measured the temperature of helium to a billionth of a degree Kelvin and all of that has, of course, a lot of applications. For example, in nanotechnology and GPS and so on. Inside the middeck, we have a glove box and we have three experiments and we've been doing one so far. We've done five sample runs of this material science experiment where we are measuring or studying the vetting characteristics of two different liquids which are immiscible and the principal investigators tell us that they are very excited to see the results so far. Commander Kriegel, a question from Lee Barker in Lower Hut, New Zealand. When going in and out of orbit, do you have to be aware of other traffic such as telecommunication satellites and space junk that may be dropping out of orbit? Believe it or not, we do have folks looking and making sure that we stay away from other satellites or space debris and that's tracked by the Air Force at NORAD in Kalawal Springs and they keep us well away from any kind of debris or any other kind of traffic. Okay, real quickly. Japanese and then in English. We are working very hard in space and also having fun watching the Earth and playing in microgravity on this. Well, wish we had more time. Columbia, thank you all very much for taking time for your busy schedule. Have a successful mission and a happy Thanksgiving. Thank you very much. It was a pleasure talking to you.