 I guess you folks don't have to worry about it. It's an opposite of the duties you have over the next few days. Beth, and I'd actually like to start out with our Flight Day 1. And you're right, this is an extremely packed mission, probably more so than most, just with all the scientific experiments we have on board. So we had a very aggressive Flight Day 1 in which we have a satellite called Krista Spas. But essentially it's a telescope that we deploy it on Flight Day 1 which takes a certain amount of maneuvering and preparations to go ahead and deploy it. We use a robotic arm to hook up to it, pull it up out of payload bay, release it, and then we fire some jets to maneuver the orbiter away from it. Yeah, that just started everything off. We've got plenty of other experiments. This morning we recently fired up a combustion experiment. We do combustion experiments in space because up here, unlike on Earth, we don't have convection. Lighter gases don't rise. So on Earth, when the lighter gas rises, it pulls oxygen into the flame, feeds the fire and helps it travel and burn. You don't have that up here, so flames burn differently. They tend to burn themselves out more rapidly, but they also tend to burn harder because that oxygen is not there to cool the flame or take the heat away from the surface. There are also many experiments you're doing and exercises studying the Earth's atmosphere and the ozone layer. How will that data be used or what kind of data are you looking for first? Yeah, the telescope, Chris, the spot that we deployed on Flight Day 1 is primarily doing that, and it's looking back at the Earth's medium atmosphere where those gases are, such as ozone, and it's looking at the dynamics. You know, at any time on Earth, we can look up at those gases and see what the ozone layer is or where the holes tend to be in the ozone layer, but we don't really know with how much certainty why that moves around or the dynamics of such. The SPA satellite is covering most of the Earth. It's looking from 70 degrees north to 70 degrees south, approximately, to try to look at these dynamics on the 9 days it's up there flying so we can better predict how the gas dynamics affect the Earth and where these holes are going to move and when they're going to form. So how are you doing up there? This is your third flight. You're the pilot of this flight. Is there any time to do anything else but all these experiments? I'm doing great, Richard. I've got to admit this is only five days three and I've been busy enough. I've had very little time to look out the window and take photos and that's kind of a secondary mission of ours. We photograph as much as the Earth as we can, which goes to meteorologists and earth scientists and just NASA in general. And I haven't really had enough time to get into that yet because I've been busy, but from the time the main engines cut off up here, I've felt at home since it hasn't been all that long since I've been back here and I'm having a great time. Tell me about the work day. If it is indeed a day, I assume it's more than an eight-hour day up there. How does it go? What's the schedule look like? Yeah, we have 16-hour days and we're scheduled for nine hours of sleep. As soon as we get up, we have a couple hours to what we call post-sleep, but we get ready, we get up, we bathe, we wash our hair, we eat breakfast, and we start getting organized. They send up message traffic that changes the timeline, the original one. It's kind of flexible. It changes somewhat. So we start looking at the message traffic and getting organized for the day. Then after a couple of hours, we start into events that were scheduled, the ones you've been talking about, which actually includes PO events. Probably one of these every other day as the average is my guess on this mission. And then towards the end of the day, a couple of hours before we go to sleep for 14 hours in a day. Now we have pre-sleep activities and now we start configuring the space shuttle for us all to go to bed. And it's the left with just the ground watching after it. And again, during that time, we'll eat our dinner meal, get our little sleeping bunks out, and then get ready to go to sleep. How about your personal division of labor as the pilot on duty? Is there much to do when it comes to monitoring the craft itself as opposed to all these experiments during the nine days? On this flight along with the experiments, such as the crystal satellite we deployed, there is some fair amount of piloting duties to do. A couple times a day we are burning the big jets, the reaction control system jets on board to make sure we are phasing anywhere from 25 to 45 miles. We want to maintain that distance from the spouse. We also, there's a fair amount of pointing maneuvers. The instruments that I mentioned earlier, they may look at Jupiter or the Sun or when we point to the Earth for different laser ops. On board, that's the pilot or commander's job to go ahead and put in those attitudes to maneuver the shuttle to point it in the right direction. And they also wanted you to make aware of a sunward jet or spike on the comet, and that will cause the shape to be a little bit asymmetric. Okay, that matches my plan to call down each ops number. I'll be looking for that on the comet. I was able to see the comet a couple of hours ago visually. It's a very, very faint target by eye, and I was not able to get the binoculars on it in time, but at least we did sight the comet. The setup has gone very smoothly, and we'll be putting the telescope on the window in just a couple of minutes here. There's a lot of earth shine that, even though the shadowing seems to be effective and does, Jan has done a really good putting the shadow right over the window. There's a tremendous amount of earth shine. We'll just have to see how that works. Discovery Houston for the VTR playback.