 Joining us now from somewhere above the earth are astronauts Janice Voss, Mike Gernhardt and Roger Crouch. Welcome to the program. Nice to see you guys out there. I know that this is the second go-around. The first mission was cut short back in April because of a generator problem. How does it feel to be back in space? Janice, I'll begin with you. Now this is the first chance to refly a payload and a crew all together of the same group so quickly. And I think all of us are marveling at how much it feels like we just left here yesterday. It's been much easier to get back in the swing of things. All the experiments are going great and we all feel extremely comfortable and well prepared because we've done this so recently. It's really been a great opportunity and we really have great kudos to the folks down at the Cape and all the people in Mission Control in Houston and Sutter that worked so hard to get everything turned around for us. Now Janice, I understand that all of you set up your orbiting laboratory up today and that you actually lit a controlled fire inside the module. This is an experiment that's looking at producing soot, which as you know is a heavy pollutant and also a very dangerous component of forest fires. One of the great things about getting a chance to refly like this is this is one of the experiments we ran two runs last time and after looking at the data post-flight and having a chance to think about what all the different downlink data they got meant, they redesigned the experiment a little bit, changed some of the parameters and this first run on 94 was much better than either of the runs on 83. Now Roger, I understand that today you had a chance to quickly see the MIR space station that you had caught a glimpse of it, you're in different orbits, but did you have a chance to talk to the crew at all? Well unfortunately that was on the other shift and I talked to those guys this morning and they said it was absolutely brilliant out in the sky. I believe they said they were within about 50 miles of the orbit of the MIR. They could see it, it looked like a big Venus or about the size of the star or the planet Venus when you see that, but there was no radio communication today. Later on we're hoping the possibility of having a chance to talk to them, but they're pretty busy over there right now. Now they certainly are busy. Mike, let me ask you for a moment, there are a lot of people who are concerned about the activities that are going on MIR right at this time. There are concerns that maybe we should all together scrap the partnership with the Russians until they get the MIR space station fixed. What are your thoughts about that? Do you think it's safe and what are your thoughts about that aspect of the program? I think that we are justified in being concerned however the situation is stable there and the thing that we have to remember is that they do have the Soyuz lifeboat so they can leave that station at any time and I think that the joint partnership with Russia has been a good thing for us. I'm not saying that it's good that these contingencies have happened but we are learning from that. It is making us a stronger team and better preparedness for the International Space Station and I think that we need to hang in there with them. I think we've learned a lot, we're going to learn a lot more and we're working together well as a team and I can assure you that the management of NASA in Russia has got safety foremost in their mind and we'll do everything the right way. The plane is very, very steady. Extremely steady. It looks like a signal image it says steady. Down three clicks already but that might be too far. Up one. That looks like it might still be open to me guys. I want to go down one more unless you stop me. Oh it's definitely open. Down another. Going down another. This is on flight day two for the red team. You can see I'm visually working on a laptop computer. This will allow us to accommodate many of the mid-deck experiments that we currently fly back in the space. A number of experiments, two of them. There's a physics of hard spheres and astro PGBA which is a plant growth experiment like a little mini greenhouse that we're carrying on board. Here is taking down some readings off of an experiment that measures the very low level of accelerations on board. Now I'm moving over to the droplet combustion experiment. We use this experiment to study combustion, how things burn in this case, heptane fuel droplets because the combustion of liquid fuels is very important for our economy and for pollution in this country. Precising. Each of us gets a ride for about maybe half an hour a day on the bike and 17,000 miles an hour that lets us go maybe 8,000 miles a time. Working on astro PGBA. One of my duties every day is to take video of these plants actually growing and from day to day we can actually tell how they are growing in space and how that growth differs perhaps than what we see on Earth. Mentioned about astro PGBA, well here we are in the mid-deck which is part of the orbiter and we're going to take it back through the tunnel into the space lab and mount it on the express rack. Here you see it's coming through the tunnel. We're now in the space lab and we're going to mount it into the express rack which Donna and I explained to you was the rack that we're going to fly on space station. This is one of the most important things we're doing on orbit because it's getting us ready for space station. We're getting to try out this hardware for the first time and if there's any problems with the hardware, we'll know it before space station. Okay we got that Chris and we're just gathered up here on the flight deck as a crew in celebration of our nation's birthday tomorrow will be July 4th and we know that everybody around the country will largely be taken the day off at least in some way or another recognizing the importance of this day in our country's history and we recognize just how lucky we are to be Americans. Maybe even more so because we're not in the country right now. We're orbiting 185 miles above the surface of the earth but you know we're not the only Americans who are out of the country on this 4th of July. There are military members, foreign service members, number of Americans throughout the world serving their country in a number of different ways. We also want to mention that that's right Mike's in space. Mike's full orbiting in there and our hearts are with him. Our hearts and minds are with him and we know he's in a great adventure and he's certainly serving his country also. So to sum it up from the crew of STS-94 and for all Americans around the world. Okay Houston, what you should be looking at now is on the mid-deck. This is the procedure that we use to remove the locker tool. What we did was tighten the tool first and then apply the force with the pry bar and it actually broke and you can see this piece here. Susan's going to go in and show you the back of the locker. We think that the mechanism still works fine and that the locker screw will work and it's only the housing that's broken off. We're not sure when the housing broke off. Greg actually got in there with a bite script and we think maybe that was the final thread. Okay we're getting a real clear view as we understand that the screw is properly in place. The housing that was on to retain it has come loose but otherwise everything's working alright. Yeah that's how we read it. And the image is out of focus. Like it has a lot of burrs on it like it's definitely worn and we would not want to use it again. We have other tools on board.