 Good morning, Endeavour. We give up on that one. The flight director says it has a good beat. It's easy to dance to. He gives it about a 40. Right, we just couldn't identify it. Endeavour, Houston. We see everyone on the flight deck there. You're looking great. Time to get those combs and razors out for homecoming. Yeah, we clean up real good. Endeavour, we're watching. I'm going to put that A1 on over. Ready to talk to Mario. Roger, Endeavour, here's my colleague. Good morning, Brian. I feel like you're having a great time up there and you're doing a wonderful job. I'm home, too. It's probably hard to leave, but you know how it is. You look forward to coming back. Yes, all good things must come to an end. And I'm here to brief you a little bit about that. What we've got is we've got some great weather for you, both Saturday and Sunday at both landing sites. We will be bringing up KSE only on Saturday with two opportunities there. Be setting up for a right-hand turn to runway 33. I'll go ahead and give you the weather at KSE for Saturday, looking at 3,000 scattered, 7-plus miles visibility, winds 340, 10-peak 18, and we've got prevailing northerly winds for the entire south of the United States. And it won't be a little bit chilly when you climb out of the vehicle. Roger. Roger, Brian, we're trying to deplete O2 tank 4. We'd like you to configure a single heater in O2 tank 3. So on R1, cryo O2 tank 3, heater alpha auto. Endeavour, Houston, are you ready for the event? Ready for the event. KSE PAO, this is Houston. Please call Endeavour for a voice check. Endeavour, this is KSE PAO. How do you hear me? All right, thank you. And do you have an opening statement you'd like to make for us? First of all, I'd like to say that the mission's been extremely successful to this point and the six crew members you're looking at right now couldn't be more happy to have been part of the team that pulled off this mission, STS-72. We believe that the mission itself is a testament to the teamwork all across NASA and also the international cooperation between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Japanese Space Agency. We're very happy to be part of that team. Things have gone very well. It's all, has gone this well because of the great planning and the flexibility that's been demonstrated by everyone throughout. So we're happy to accomplish the mission to this point and we're looking forward to coming home. All right, thank you, Endeavour. And we'll proceed now with questions. This is Phil Chen, Earth News for anybody who wants to take it. What has the Earth looked like on this mission? How much detail can you see? What's the smallest thing you can see out the windows either from inside or outside the cabin? As in particular, Dan Berry I think has been pretty awestruck by the view of the Earth. I'll let him answer that one. I really have been thunderstruck by the beauty of the Earth both from inside the cabin and outside during an EVA. I was trying to find words to describe it. The only thing I can compare it to is the color of gemstone. I mentioned in a earlier conference that while I was outside the blues range from midnight blue to turquoise. The forests were emerald green. The clouds were so bright they were hard to look at. It has just been an amazing experience to be able to see the Earth. The stars that you can see when the flight deck is darkened and the sunrises and sunsets are particularly spectacular. Bill Horwood with CBS News for Winston Scott I think or Leroy Chow. Based on your assessment of the performance of the suits, the thermal characteristics, the tools, and all of the stuff you guys tested during your two EVAs, how ready is NASA to go, Bill, station? How much is left to do? Can you give us kind of a midterm report based on how everything went? I can tell you I'm very, very pleased with the performance of the suit. As I was standing on that old impitz for 60 minutes, 30 or so were in the darkness. I, again, felt very, obviously you can tell some thermo-gradients. My fingertips were a little warmer than the palms, but that's to be expected, you know, just as an example. But overall, I felt very good in the suit. I could have continued to work in the suit regardless of the temperatures. So I would say we certainly have a good baseline of which we can go on and do our work. Obviously, you'll always want to look for improvements. But I think we're to the point where we can take that suit airborne and begin to construct a station with it. Both EVAs were, EVA development flight tests were extremely successful. Not only did we get three more people in our astronaut office experience in spacewalking, we also proved on EVA 1 that the macro-sized hardware is going to work very well. And on EVA 2 that more of the detailed tools are also going to work very well. We were surprised by a few small things that didn't work quite like we had expected. And we were also pleasantly surprised by some things that worked much better than we expected. So it was a very successful flight test. We learned a lot. It's going to feed right back into the space station and the space station program, and we're ready to go build it. Peter Galterri with the West Kentucky News. For any of the spacewalkers, how valuable would it be if you guys could control the movement of the arm right when you're hanging at the end of it there instead of having someone directing you? I'm not sure one part of that. Then I'll hand off to Brent Jett, who was the prime arm operator during our EVA to answer the rest. But from my perspective, everything I asked Brent to do, he did perfectly. In fact, I think the three of us agree that pretty much he and Koichi, who was also operating the arm at times, could read our minds and know exactly where we need to be. And they had a good perspective out the window and with cameras as well, to position us exactly where we needed to be. So I don't think it was that important. I don't think it's important that we be able to control the arm ourselves. But the coordination worked great. From the arm operator's perspective, I would say it would be very difficult to have an EVA person controlling the arm with their limited field of view. They're not able to see all the joints of the arm. So the arm operator is responsible for maintaining clearance from any other orbiter structure. We were working in some fairly tight areas up in the forward payload bay. So I think the way we have it right now works really well. The training we get is excellent. And I think we're able to accomplish the mission very efficiently. This is Phil Chen again for Leroy. You've been usually a fairly laid-back person, but I heard you go, oh, wow, during one of the space walks and then about 15 seconds later say, okay, back to work. And this is over Africa during daytime, not towards the Terminator. And just wondering what you saw and what was so, oh, wow about it. I believe the moment you were talking about, I was looking at an excellent view of Australia. It was an oblique shot of Australia is very clear and Sharks Bay was very, very clearly in view. I think that's the moment when I said that. Bill Horowitz for Commander Duffy, I think. Obviously 10 years of progress here after 51L and looking ahead to the future, we stand ready to transition over to a single-prime contract. I know there's some concern that as that transition takes place, a lot of the safety issues that were put in after 51L may be eroded to some extent because of budget cuts or whatever. What are your thoughts about that? Are you concerned? Is that transition approaches on how safety gets maintained and how you manage the program? We know that the process of change, which is ongoing, it will occur. We have every confidence, however, that we're not gonna forget the lessons that we have learned. We will bring forward with us all of the procedures and the process changes that we made after 51L to ensure they'll continue to fly safely. So we don't think we're gonna lose anything in the process. You know, we do have to live within the budget constraints that we're faced with. We think we can do it safely. We think we can get the job done and we're looking forward to the challenge of doing it. Pete Galterry with the West Kentucky News. This is for anyone who saw that Delta launch. When you guys passed over, were you able to actually see the rocket itself or was it just the contrail in the cloud that you saw? And can you explain a little bit more about that cloud? How high was it that it appeared to you? I know I saw some of the video, but if you can explain it, I'd appreciate it. Thanks. I can tell you what we saw. We were looking out the commander's window sort of to the left of the flight deck and saw an oblong ball of light sitting up above the atmosphere. It was too large to be a star. It almost looked like the moon rising. And as we watched it, it became brighter and then started to stretch out into a line. And since Houston had alerted us that Delta rocket was going to be launched and we knew the location we were looking was right toward Florida, we surmised that it was, in fact, the Delta launch continued to watch it. It stretched out into a long linear white line which then faded into red and then finally speckled red. And then as the sun rose, faded away. This is Mike Drago of the Associated Press for Commander Duffy. What are your thoughts on the night landing and could you tell us some of the piloting, the different piloting challenges that you face on a night or day landing? I'm looking forward to the night landing. It's something that we've trained for. Brent and I have been training now for the better part of a year to do that. We've flown hundreds of approaches at night. I don't think that'll be all that different from a day landing to tell you the truth that some people that have made night landings before tell me that it's actually a little bit easier just because you don't have all the other things in your visual current range to distract you at all and all you have is the lit runway and the centerline and the light sliding up the touchdowns and so on. Very excited about doing that. I've been training for it for a long time and I don't think it's going to be particularly difficult. And this is a question to Commander Duffy from ICO Dodon of NHK. STS-72 was an international mission with Koichi onboard as mission specialist. How would you evaluate his asset as mission specialist and the difference in nationality, culture and ideology matter at all, if any? Actually, Koichi is one of the crew and he's been in very well here and we haven't noticed any cultural differences. When there are some things that we can talk about where Americans do things different than the Japanese people we enjoy actually having the opportunity to compare the two outlooks and the two ways that people would view the same thing. Throughout the training, however, and certainly not in the flight, has that caused any problem whatsoever? And I don't think, I think as long as we have people that like to get along with each other and have a common goal and work together, that cultural differences won't be a significant problem. Okay, Brian, on R2U, could you characterize any hydrazine you see coming out of the thruster? We'd like to get an idea if it's visible at all. We can't see anything on the downlink. Okay, family. Okay, Tom, a little word on R2U. Before we started the crew conference, Dan took a look at it and he said that the leak was substantially less than that, which we had seen earlier. And right now, under the lighting conditions that we have right now, which is, you know, bright sunlight, we can't see anything coming out of it. Roger, Brian, our temperature trends indicate that it's been decreasing. It's probably minute in quantity now. So very little oxidizer should be escaping. We had a concern that some smart ice particles might be in the way of the SLA experiment and be a concern for the cockpit, but we don't think that's the problem now. So as soon as the water problem is cleared up downstairs, we're going to maneuver and continue with SLA lasing if you concur. Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly, Tom. That's a great idea. And right now we've got a couple of extensions and some dry wipes down in there where we're trying to stop it up. We'll let you know very quickly. Thank you. Denver, Houston. Orbit 1 shift is turning it over to the Falcon team with Robin's story. We think you'll have smooth sailing into Florida on Saturday morning, so this will be our last shift with you. It has been an immense pleasure for Orbit 1. And Brian says that we've used up about all the plans we had taken along on this flight. If you have any leftover, you can stow those. We're on the nominal timeline for entry. Great job. Congratulations. And we'll see you back at Ellington from all the team here. Terrific. First mission he's had is the lead flight director. All those plans that he had in his book, we put most of them to use. It's a good thing that he thought ahead as much as he had. And he got a lot of help from you and from everybody else in the room and all the folks in the back rooms. And we sure appreciate everything that you all did for us. It's been an unbelievable mission. And I can't wait to see you guys back home and we can talk a little more about it. We'll do that over a beer. Thanks. You got a deal. I wrote that down. I think I'd never go ahead for SLA. We'd like an SLA disabled, page 6-4, please, Winston. Okay, and evening story, a good morning story. Believe it or not, I was waiting on your call. I've got that procedure in my hand and I'll put it in work. Thanks very much, Winston.