 Good morning, Tom. Good morning, Houston. That voice is music to my ears. Thank you very much. Good morning, Tom. And Discovery. Good morning. And I can't wait to see that singer. Discovery Houston for Tom. Good morning, I think. For us down here it is. And the folks out here watched the SCS Checkout in Hot Fire and it did a splendid job. And we have a few words concerning weather for tomorrow and our plan of attack. We have about a couple minutes to do that. So if you're ready to copy, I'll get this before the ZOE. Okay, the plan of attack from management is to try the two opportunities in the KSC tomorrow. We will not have Edward's support. Edward's weather looks great for the duration of the mission right now. KSC tomorrow, the forecast is go with a slight chance, so maybe 2000 broken, but we're still looking at that. That's on the first opportunity. On the second opportunity, it looks solid go. With about 2000 scattered, 25,000 scattered, and 5 miles vis with maybe a slight chance of some ground fog early in the morning, as you expect, and with winds up to maybe about 10 knots. But it's looking good for tomorrow and we plan to get you on the ground on the first attempt. That's not that, the second one. And we got about a minute and a half to ZOE if you have any questions. It was good to ask, Kurt. We have no questions and we have message 82-alpha on board. Okay, we copy that. It should be 82, 83, and 85 up there somewhere. So probably on the other side of the ZOE, if you find those, we'll expect some feedback. And other than that, we'll see you tomorrow morning, right early for the old entry stuff. Okay, we do have message 83 and 85. Alpha, talk to them all. Okay, Tom, thanks very much. We'll see you. Brian Davidson, I'd like to address this question to Mission Specialist Nancy Curie. Good morning, Nancy. Nancy, the question I have, did you ever look over my shoulder when we were taking tests in top class with Ms. Chavis, say about 18 years ago? Mrs. Chavis was one of my favorite teachers and in fact she was at my last launch holding hands with my dad during the launch of Endeavour two years ago. Hey, Nancy. I'm glad to hear that right there. Anything you'd like to say to all your friends back in school right now? Well, I actually spoke to Hook Elementary School in Troy yesterday and they were the winners of the Nancy Curie Mathematics and Science Award for their SARACS experiments, the Ham Radio experiments. I got to speak to about 12 of the kids and answer some of their questions and it was wonderful. Can't wait to go home and meet them in person. Now Nancy, you've been doing a lot of that. You've been teaching kids during this mission talking to a lot of school kids like you said in Troy yesterday. What do they want to know about the mission, about what you're doing up there? I think what I'd like most people to take away is the important science that we're doing in addition to the communication satellite deployment that we did on the first day. So it just demonstrates the versatility of the space shuttle and all that we can do in an 8-day mission. Now you guys had a little scare up there. Didn't you have an impact with some kind of space debris or meteorite? She's moving the mic. Hey, we had a, this is Kevin Kriegel. We had a micro meteorite hit on my side of the window. It's very small near the top corner and it's, well, no consequence on re-entry. They must have been pretty scary, though. Imagine being matched in space or something like that. I can't imagine. Now Nancy, this is your second mission. Back to you again. I'm better than right now. I guess you could probably call yourself. What have you learned or experienced this time that maybe you didn't experience before? Actually, in my first mission I didn't have very much window time because we had a hub module on the back where we had 22 experiments and we were working on those extensively. I've had a little bit more window time this time, not very much, though, and I'm hoping to catch a little bit tonight before our last night on orbit. So window time meaning that you actually get to see out the window if that was your question. That is so nice of you. Yeah, believe it or not, down here on the middeck all we have is a side hatch window, a very small window to look at and do the attitude of the orbiter many times. It's not all that great of a view because normally we're flying with the payload bay of the shuttle down towards the earth. So the overhead windows on the flight deck give a tremendous view of the world. Okay, now Nancy, do you consider yourself a role model and what would your advice be to young people who may want to become astronauts? I'm not sure about the role model part. I always look back to my days in Troy and with teachers like Mrs. Chavis and my biology and chemistry teachers and many of those who are again at my launch and I think when teachers take an interest in a student and encourage them that means so much and all I'd say to students is give it a thousand percent, enjoy what you do no matter what you do, whether it be an artist, an architect, or an astronaut. So Nancy, you never looked over Brian's shoulder in class, did you? No, I can't say that I did. I don't think so either. All right, thank you all for joining us. Oh, what a great question I have for Nancy. 20th reunion coming up in two years. Are you going to make it? So I understand we had a high school reunion at the launch but unfortunately we were delayed at the last minute due to some damage to our external tank and so many of the folks had a reunion without a launch. Well we'll have a big one for you when you come back for the 20th. Thank you all of you. Thank you for joining us. We hope you have a safe flight home. Discovery, the next station you will hear from is WJW in Cleveland. The next voice you will hear will be WJW in Cleveland. Good morning Discovery from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame City. How are you all this morning? Oh, we're fine. Welcome aboard Discovery. We're just now approaching the west coast of Africa 160 miles above the earth. Commander, if you would, could you give us a wrap up of how the week has been for you? Well, a week in this mission started with a fantastic launch. We launched almost within a minute of being on time. The asset was extremely smooth. Our first day in orbit was our most challenging and most rewarding. We deployed the primary objective which was the tracking and data relay satellite and then we immediately went into the activation of a series of experiments which are just now completing today and tomorrow and we're looking forward to a smooth entry and landing tomorrow morning in Friday, all right, in Florida. Mary Ellen, we know this is your first time up in space. What is the strongest impression you will bring back to earth? The earth is, which it is, or at least as fragile it appears. We've had a lot of looks at different parts of the world and we're having on the environment and that definitely has left an impression on me. Don Thomas, I know that in a sense what you're doing here is living out a dream a reality of a goal. What message do you send to young people back on earth about obtaining the goals? I wanted to be an astronaut since I was about six years old. I watched Helen Shepard go up in 1961 on May 5th and next year I watched John Glenn go up also and those are my role models and they motivated me to do my best in school and just work hard towards achieving your dream and that's what I tell kids today, just never give up on your dream, keep working towards it and if you have a setback along the way that's all right just pick up the pieces and move on but keep trying. Kevin up there, you've been in such close contact. Do you think you will ever want to see another Ohioan again? I'll tell you what, if there any been like these four here I sure would. Very good. Nancy, earlier in the week we saw some video coming back of lightning from outer space. If you could could you describe to us what it is like to see from way up there? That's interesting, the outside down I was just looking at that this morning and last night and when you see a lightning storm from orbit it almost looks like there's static electric charges setting up in a field so you'll see it jump from one place to another and the start contrast between the blackness that you see and the lightning storms it's just incredible. The other interesting thing is that you can see fires burning red glow on the ground during the night passes. Tom this is your second time in space what are some of the luxuries you get the second time around? The second time around I got to ride Ascent up on the flight deck which I didn't do on my first mission so I was a member of the Ascent team and that was an incredible thrill to be able to look out the overhead windows. I saw the main engine starting and I could see part of the flames when we were getting close to orbit through the overhead windows and that was just a spectacular view. And Commander as you get ready to return to Earth what are some of the final things you prepare to close up shop with? Well this morning we completed our flight control checkout and made sure our reaction control jets were working fine. The remainder of the day we will finish up the experiments that will be stowed for entry. We'll do some housekeeping and make sure everything is ship shaped so that when we wake up tomorrow we can go right into the seats and begin ready entry preparation. And Don one last thing have you been getting the tribe scores up there? I have not heard how they've been doing since we've been up there for the last week but I assume they're pulling further and further ahead at the back. That's exactly right they're doing fine we wish you a very safe return and we can't tell you how proud we all are. Thank you very much and this is WJWTV clear. Discovery the next station you will hear from is WCMH in Columbus. The next voice you will hear will be from WCMH in Columbus. Kevin Kriegel, mission specialist Dr. Donald Thomas, Major Nancy Curry and Mary Ellen Weber. They joined us this morning. Good morning everybody. Can you hear us? Good morning welcome to Discovery. Well thanks for taking the time to chat with us. Yesterday we all heard about the meteorite that hit the shuttle. Obviously some scary moments for you guys. Can you tell us about that? Actually it occurred when we were asleep and we didn't notice the impact point until we looked out that window during a morning siding of a target on the ground and it wasn't that scary at all to us it's it looks like a dirty window with a chip out of it so we don't think there's any threat to the vehicle or us and it really was no impact to the operation here. That's good you know your flight as you know has been dubbed the Buckeye mission four of you are from Ohio and I covered Neil Armstrong's homecoming in Wapa Caneta near my hometown also Nancy Curry's hometown of Troy. Why so many Ohioans have been in space I think last count 21 or so? What accounts for that? Well part of it is what you see in a while behind us if we'll spread a little bit. I think we give credit to the schools of Ohio. They produced more astronauts than any other state in the Union and it was just coincidence that all four of us were assigned to this particular flight but what you consider that Ohio does have the most it was going to happen sooner or later. You know 26 years ago today man first walked on the moon that man was Neil Armstrong from Wapa Caneta. This question goes out to any of the crew members what are your thoughts about being up in space right now on this historic occasion as Ohioans? I had the great fortune of being on STS-65 last summer and spending the 25th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon on the space shuttle Columbia. So to be up here again on the 26th anniversary is another great event for me and I hope we can continue this every year. This is Mission Control Houston and as we continue to receive live downlink pictures of the space tissue loss experiment on board the Shuttle Discovery spacecraft communicator Mark Garneau informing the crew on board that coming up on the next orbit we're expecting to have contact with the crew of the STS-69 mission which is in Florida preparing for an August 5th launch that will be the Wake Shield deployment and retrieval mission. We have you all on the flight deck Discovery. And as the flights are available. Okay we just wanted to express our personal thanks and also on behalf of the astronaut office to thank Dr. Larry Pepper for his years of service to the astronaut office. He has conducted the what we call the PMC the private medical conference. This is the first public medical conference and Larry we're just wondering how you're going to do. We know that you're off to a higher calling. You're off to be a missionary doctor in Uganda and we're going to miss you and we from the STS-70 crew appreciate the care that you've given us and our families. You've kept us in good shape to this flight and we're looking very forward to seeing you in Florida tomorrow. On behalf of myself and my family I just want to thank you for the great job you've done on this mission and all the other ones and I want you to know that every time we fly over Africa in the future on other missions we'll be looking down for you and thinking about you. I echo those sentiments there Larry and also hope that while you're in Africa you take the time to work on your softball because one of these days we hope you come on back and get back on the team. And Larry it's almost as long as I've been at NASA you've been here too and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the help that you've been not only to myself but to my little girl stuff and we're really going to miss you and we really admire you for what you're about to do. I've heard that from many many people just supreme admiration for what you're about to go do so best wishes to you but we're going to miss you a lot. Larry thanks for all your concern and your professionalism it's really been great having you as a flight doc and I have to uh I have to agree with Nancy that's just an outstanding incredible adventure your whole family's going on and I know I know you'll get a lot of awards from it but thank you. That concludes our presentation. Roger discovery and surgeon copy at all. And Debra this is discovery in the barn I understand you can hear us it's good to be talking to the current prime crew and we understand that you watched our launch with our spouses and we hope we have the pleasure of doing that with your spouses and girlfriends in a couple of weeks and I think the folks here at the Cape have set an example with this discovery flight for endeavor to follow. Discovery has been performing flawlessly and we especially like to thank the folks that work so hard. We plan the ET force the folks from Martin Pike call getting the SRBs ready Lockheed Martin for the launch processing in the ET and Pratt, Whitney and Rocketdyne for putting together the block one team. It performed extremely well can you hear me now? Yeah we'd love to have you escort our wives and girlfriends next week. Okay Dave we can hear you loud and clear it out. And Debra discover you're coming in broken but we're looking forward to seeing you Dave and Ken and Jim and Jim and Mike when we get back and we'll be doing what we can to support your flight and I hope your TCDT is going well again. Please pass on our sincere thanks to the folks at the Cape and we'll be down there to thank them ourselves here in a couple of weeks.