 I hope you hear this Commander Terry Wilkett Terry you've had a couple days to get to me or a few days docked You had a lot of stuff you needed to move back and forth Tell me about the progress of that and tell me specifically about this huge air conditioning unit that was added to your cargo at the last minute Have you moved it yet? And was it a big hassle to get through that narrow tunnel? We have been very very busy and I think we were ahead of schedule We did take a couple days to get here. You don't get things organized and the docking went extremely well from our point of view and Frankly, Jim Riley is in charge of our transfer and he's got us ahead of schedule. I'll let him tell you about the air-conditioning unit Okay That's good. As you can see a happy-looking crew. Go ahead John everything's been going really smooth with the joint efforts between our two crews We've managed to transfer just about everything. We've got over a thousand items We've already transferred and we're just cleaning up the last ones right now Air-conditioning units fortunately fit through the hatch with just a little bit of elbow grease, but it's worked fine I have a question for you and for Michael and And for pilot Joe Edwards, you'll remember when we talked in Houston a couple weeks ago I asked you to try to put your your brain on Real intense record for the experience of going up into space for the first time So when we talked today, you could tell me about it. How was it the three of you? Right John, I remember your question, and I did my best to try to remember my thoughts on acid But I tell you what during the first few moments my thoughts were kind of overtaken by my senses as I was kind of Inundated by the vibration and the light show and the sound and those are things that I remember most But right after that the training took over and I was able to catch back up with the shuttle and pretty much Monitor the systems just like we were trained. So overall it was a pretty fantastic adventure. It looked great from the ground Joe and Jim, you want to talk to me too about this? Yeah John, it was pretty impressive from the inside. It was amazing how calm I felt all the way up to the final one or two seconds And then as soon as things started rumbling, I was kind of like Mike. It was kind of like, wow, this is it And then it was pretty impressive all the way to orbit You know just watching the light over the overhead was something that really really impressed me My first thoughts when everything was going on was thinking about my family and The light show they were getting which I thought was pretty pretty impressive inside. I imagine they thought it was pretty impressive outside too I'll tell you why you passed the micro vote our viewers were able to see the launch from a camera on top of the vehicle assembly building Which is up above where you guys were and so we watched the entire Atlantic Ocean light up As as you guys zoom past and it was loud and I mentioned it was more rambly and rattly for you How about it Joe? So that I could add a whole lot to the sensations that Mike and Jim talked about but you know the Navy fighter pilot I'm flying at an altitude of two hundred and seven miles or so and I've gone 25 times the speed of sound now So I'm a pretty happy camper How about that passed the mic down to Andy Thomas Andy for the past couple of days There has been some concern about the the space suit You'd have to wear to come home from here in an emergency didn't fit but you fixed it Have there been any other surprises like that since you got to mirror things that you just did not anticipate at all Regarding the space suit we did fix it The suit has a lot of adjustment in it and we were able to adjust it out and I was able to Put it on and take it off so to speak for me and it was a very nice fit fit like a glove the only other surprise I've had is that There's an awful lot of stuff in here. I mean it's like We've got stuff stowed in every nook and cranny on this vehicle and there's very little storage space And that's the biggest surprise that I've come across is just how restricted we are on free storage space Yeah, Andy before you pass the microphone off a senior Russian space officials said yesterday or the day before That the suit problem you pointed out was not really a problem at all and I am a I don't speak Russian as well as you do as You know, but he expressed concern about your willingness to actually complete four months on mirror At least he said that talking about the suit was sort of capricious on your part And he was concerned that this capriciousness might might last through the mission How do you feel about the mission at this point? Any chance you might not stay on me here for any reason? I'm here to stay No, the suit problem was real I mean I couldn't get it on I tried with an atoy the commander here several times to get it on it It was just impossible until we made the adjustments and then I went on fine No, I'm prepared to undertake this mission now and I'm looking forward to setting up a home in the parota module and Getting some personal things out and making it little bit and starting the adventure Well, it's gonna be quite an adventure pass the mic over to Dave Wolf if you will Dave You have given lots of advice to Andy since he came to relieve you I am sure I heard you were giving him some more Last-minute training this morning. You've said it is hard You have said that Murphy's law plays a major role in in mere operation. What other kinds of advice are you giving to Andy? Well, Andy and I are very busy working together. There's a lot of equipment here to learn how to work We've had training on the ground, but of course it's a little different in actual use But there's a lot of hints on how to live and how to be efficient and how to keep track of your items and In fact how to keep out of each other's way and then to help each other And I've learned a lot about how these cosmonauts like to live and I'm trying to pass that knowledge on to Andy Yeah, Dave, you said the other day you can feel really good in space and Another interviewer didn't really follow up on that I am fascinated by what you mean by really good in space. Tell me more about that feeling Is it can you feel better in space than you feel on earth? Or is it better on mere that it is on the shuttle? What is this good feeling describe it to me more? Well, John, it's really good. And in fact, I feel better today than when we lost talk It has to do with your mental perception of three dimensions and your ability to move around and your efficiency in motion It's if you're a scuba diver your first few dives you may not be as comfortable And you know how you can get your job done much when you get more experienced And it just keeps getting better and better and and still haven't peaked out and it's it's really good Great Dave hand the mic to your mere commander Anatoly Siloviyov if you will Commander we watched Dave Wolf on his spacewalk with you a couple of weeks ago During that walk it seemed that you were critiquing his every action telling him not to touch anything and not to move his feet What was your main concern during the spacewalk with Wolf and how did he do? I would like to say that the experiment that we performed during the EVA Basically done by performed by Dave. I helped him sometimes when he asked me to so our functions Of course were Outstanding the experiment was performed Very well, and when we were moving along the station I was giving Dave some hints because this is very naturally his first time in open space and we have a lot of Equipment particularly in the area that we are for example, there are Star trackers and other equipment So I was explaining to him the best way of avoiding The equipment and I recall the first time I went out into space first EVA. I did I was given the same advice Thanks commander. We like the new haircut by the way for Bonnie Dunbar. You've been conducting environmental experiments Back in the space have all week. What should we know about these projects so far and One final question for you. You've been to mere before and said before launch You didn't expect to see much different. Is it much different than your trip a couple of years ago? Answer your last question It's nice to be back. It's a lot more familiar than it was in 1995 and of course that and it totally Was my commander at Star City. We trained together for a year. So it was nice to come back and see him again The experiments that I'm working back on in a safe have are basically technology experiments for Life support for future space stations and vehicles one of them the VRA Was designed to help purify water the other one of the OAs for detecting different compounds in the air and like all technologies that you have to test them sometime in their real environment These devices were designed on the ground to operate in a microgravity environment. And as you know, we don't have any waitlist rooms on the earth So you have to bring them to space to test them and right now we're testing them I think DRA Unfortunately experience a shutdown of one of its regulators, but we're working on VLA and we hope to bring it back up today And we'll gain a lot of valuable information on it that'll feed into the future All right, we're all out of time for those of you. We didn't get to talk to I'm sorry about that But we'll look forward to seeing many of you back on earth soon and Andy Thomas will talk to you in space again Hopefully in the next few weeks to see how you're settling in. It's good to see all of you. You look great This is mission control Houston and this view once again of the double space have module in endeavors payload Bay in the aft section of the space have module is mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar and in the foreground mission specialist Jim Riley and with his back to the Camera Dave Wolf who has just completed his 119 day stay as a member of a mere crew The astronauts have just completed stowing away one of the experiments that was conducted during wolf's tenure on the mere space station for its Return trip back to earth and have been conversing over the past several minutes with the scientific community here in Houston to ensure that the stowage was accomplished properly and Provide the status of that stowage down to the payload community here in Houston