 Steve, as you're going into observation 1-4, we'd like for you to disconnect the J2 connector on the power interface box, and we'll see if that helps. And do you see a decent image of the comet on your screen right now, or is it just too messy to see? No, we've got a very good image. Discovery Houston, we have the parameters for an upcoming maneuver at 15 colon 30. When you're ready to copy, Discovery Houston, just let you know that the ground is about to initiate a fuel cell purge. And with that, the planning shift is heading off, and Wayne Hale is here, and Billy Mack will be talking to you. And for us, it was rather exciting to have the opportunity to talk to you at the beginning of your wake up, and we'll do it some more. We copy that. We appreciate all y'all's work through the night to replant our days. I know we have some busy days, and y'all go through a lot of efforts with the FAO and other different payloads to try to get it all organized, and we sure do appreciate that. Too bad we don't get to talk to y'all a little bit more before you sign off, but I know you're ready to go home. Thank you. Hello? I want to talk to Bjarne. Hello, Mr. Prime Minister, how do you read us? We read you loud and clear. I see you pretty well. You know, you seem to having fun. You look pretty good from here. How we look from where you are. I think the nation, we've gone and had many, many passes over Canada so far. We'll have many more, and I've had a fabulous look at most parts of Canada now. Good shots of Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Beautiful view of Montreal this morning, and Maritime's a couple of days ago, so we've had a great time looking at Canada from up here. Good, I'm very happy for you. You have been a very patient man. You are a bit like me. You had to wait 14 years before you managed to go there. I had to wait 30 years to have the job I have right now. That's why you're leading us, and I'm just a follower. I'm only halfway behind you there. Doing some pretty important experiment there for us. Can you describe some of it for other Canadians who are watching? Sure, in fact, the main experiment that I'm involved in up here is testing what we call the microgravity vibration isolation valve, and then the system that isolates experiments, fluid physics, material science experiments, protein-crypto growth experiments, all the types that we're going to do on the space station starting sometime after next year, and isolate them from the vibrations that are in the spacecraft itself. You spend a fair bit of effort getting experiments into the nice environment here in space to add to the kind of things you can do at lots on the ground. And now this last little bit, actually, just cleans the environment up for the experiments, just that last little tweak to get it right down to the micro-G acceleration levels. We understand that you had some experiment with some students from Saskatchewan yesterday. So was it all right? Yes, there was 20 students that talked to me a day or two ago, and they had a good set of questions already to go on. They enjoyed that very much. Good, and are you using Canadarm? You know, our arm that we see being used in this trip, so do you use the one on this trip? Yeah, in fact, we use the Canadarm on the very first day of the flight, a few hours after we were in orbit here to launch the Krista Spa satellite, which is co-orbiting with us about 40 miles behind us right now. And it's actually doing a lot of measurements of the upper atmosphere to better understand the dynamics of the upper atmosphere and the ozone problem in the upper atmosphere. We will use it again towards the end of the flight to retrieve that. And in between, we've used it on a couple other experiments to assist those. It is a great privilege for me to be able to be up here representing Canada. And I've enjoyed the work with the Space Agency for a number of years getting up here, and I think it's a great privilege to, and I'm very honored to be up here representing Canada. And we do get a chance to talk to Mark Oh now and again, Mark I know now and again, he's actually the Capcom on the planning shift, and so we typically get to speak a little bit to him in the evening and sometimes early in the morning when we get up. And we get up basically around two or three in the morning, your time. So I wish you a very safe return and you say hello to your fellow astronauts who are Americans and you know, we're very pleased to see a Canadian with them and we can work with the Americans very well. Most of the time, and I can say that I know that the mic is open at this moment. For sure I find the experiments that I'm doing here on the isolation mount and the fluid physics experiments we're doing on it, are really all being done in collaboration with our NASA colleagues. And the work that I've been involved in on the mirror space station has also been with the support of NASA. So it's very good to work in relationship with NASA and I'm sure it'll continue for the years to come as we get into the space station era. So have a safe journey my friend. More fuel. Thank you. What a walk. Astronaut Steve Robinson used the special telescope to zoom in on Halebop. Steve tell us about that, first about that telescope and what are we learning about common Halebop that was so exciting to all of us when we saw it from Earth that we couldn't learn from down here? Well, John, we think it's pretty exciting too. We have a small telescope that is mounted not outside our crew cabin here back in the payload bay but right in here, right in this area about 10 feet to my right there's a window looking out the side hatch. This is the hatch that we climbed in the shuttle with and this is a telescope with about a seven inch diameter mirror or lens that is and it attaches to the side hatch and looks out the window. Telescope's about two and a half feet long and just about the diameter of the window. We point the whole shuttle. We don't point just the telescope. We point the whole shuttle at the comet and then it has a very highly intensified CCD camera that's a digital camera on the back of it and it's enabled to look at the comet in the ultraviolet spectrum and that is something we cannot do from Earth because the atmosphere protects us earthlings and everything on the earth from the ultraviolet rays of the sun but it also keeps us from learning about the ultraviolet spectrum of astronomical bodies like the comet Hale-Bopp. We've asked our viewers to join in with questions and we've got a great one from a 12 year old, Aaron Hendry, sent us an email asking if Hale-Bopp looks the same from up there as it did from here on Earth. Eric, that's an excellent question. And it's a question I had until about a few days ago when I was able to see Hale-Bopp through the telescope here. Now one thing is back in March or so Hale-Bopp was nearer to the earth and to the sun and so we were able to see it more brightly and it had a longer tail. Now it's about twice as far away from the sun as it was then. So it's not as bright, the tail's not as big but still it's relatively close to us and we can see it much more clearly from space because the atmosphere doesn't diffuse the light and also you don't have to get up real early in the morning like you do. You're going around the earth so many so fast that you can stay in bed to a reasonable time a day. I know you'll appreciate this Eric and then you can get up and still see the comet. Thanks Steve. One of the main purposes of this flight is to test the new Japanese robot arm. I call it the mini arm. It goes out at the end of, I guess the other robot arm that would be attached to the International Space Station someday to repair and replace pieces of the new International Space Station without making astronauts like you go outside to do it. What do you think of the robot arm and its operation so far? Any surprises? Well John, we've had a really educational experience in flying this arm for the first time. You're right, this is the prototype for the small flying arm as it's called. It will go on the end of a long arm that will go on the Japanese experiment module when the International Space Station is put together up to that point. So this is in a few years from now. And this is the flight test of the small flying arm. So it's quite dexterous, in other words could do a lot of things with its joints. It's fairly small. It's only about a meter and a half to two meters long depending on how you stretch it out. But it has six degrees of freedom in the joints. In other words, you can move it around just about like your arm. It's almost hard to talk about the arm without taking your arm out and moving it around because that's just about what you do with the hand controllers. And Dan and I have had a great time. First of all, training for the flight. We've gone to the Tokyo area twice to train on the Japanese hardware. We have lots of Japanese software and hardware here in Houston or down in Houston that we've trained on for many months. And finally it's been a really great experience to come up and test the space hardware that's gonna be built in final form for the International Space Station in a couple of years. And let me just say that we've learned a lot about the arm. Yes, a couple of surprises, but in general it's really worked right. A fine piece of engineering. This viewer wants to know what kind of philosophical thoughts come to mind when you're in space. Maybe thoughts that wouldn't come to mind when you're down here on Earth. That's an easy one, John. Lots of them do. When you look out the window, the first time you look out there, to me, the first thing that really occurred to me was how small each of us humans really are. The heavens are very large. They're huge. And the Earth is huge. And when we're on the ground, we tend to think, you know, we're busy and we're responsible and we have lots to do. And we tend to think that we're the center of importance and you sort of have to. But let me tell you, when you get ready for a space flight and you realize that, first of all, thousands of people are helping you get ready for the flight and assuring your safety and doing the engineering and all the checks. And you're the beneficiary of that. Then you get up above the Earth. You look down on the beautiful Earth and you see evidence of mankind down on the Earth, both good and bad. And you look out in the heavens, you see the comet, you see the moon, you see the stars rising and setting over the Earth's limb. You realize that you really are very small and very, very lucky.