 Good morning to everybody, and go nose. How was your Thanksgiving? Successful mission for the most part, especially the capture. And of course, we did have our traditional turkey dinner. Talking about the capture, wrestling of satellite seems to the layman on Earth to be such a simple thing in zero gravity, but it's really a complicated procedure there to grab something even in a weightless environment. There's no doubt about that, it's not a trivial event. That satellite has several thousand-power automobiles. Of course, they're very bulky, so not only do you have to fight the suit, but you've got to be very careful as to how you handle that massive satellite. It could go out of control on you, and it's certainly not a trivial event. Well, I was glad it was a success there. Commander, you're flying on the oldest American spacecraft, but still flying the 24th mission of the Columbia first launch. That's just kind of a testament to the reliability of that spacecraft, isn't it? Well, Columbia is the grand arm of the fleet, and she is really flying flawlessly. The folks at Kennedy Space Center have processed her and turned her around. Now, you on board have an experiment now, but there's been a sodium sulfur battery flight experiment. Can you tell us what it is and how it's going? The NASA, as we call it, is a sodium sulfur battery experiment. Yorai is in the payload bay, and it's an experiment that is testing how well a different type of battery using sodium himself is going to work. The potential payoff to that is that it's about three times the electrical energy that we can get from a comparable battery of that size using traditional chemicals. The NASB has been working real well. It went through its startup procedure, its heat-up procedure. We've had a couple of charging cycles, a couple of discharge cycles, and thus far it's working real well. It has great potential for use on the space station. Captain Scott, I'm sure the folks at Phillips will be glad to hear that. Dr. Takao Doi, you were the first Japanese astronaut to walk in space, and obviously this was an incredible event for you and your country. What was it like to actually float outside the spacecraft? Wonderful experience. I was very excited about just being out there, I mean, out of the shadow. This time, capture the sunlight, and it was also spectacular. I'm really happy that we could have this kind of great experience. Of course, there's a lot of kids out there who are watching, and spaceflight is such a fascinating thing for kids of all ages. What would your recommendations be to kids out there on what they should focus on if they want to study to be an astronaut? What should be the top subject that they should be studying in school? Since I was a kid, I liked watching stars. And I have been pursuing watching stars and studying the universe. And my dream has been just exploring the universe and know more about the space. I'm just pursuing my dream. The most important thing I can tell to many young people is that just have your own dream and pursue it. And this is a microgravity experiment very quickly. Could you explain what that is all about? Right now, we are conducting the material science experiment also in the mid-dake and in the paleo-the-bay. Especially today, we are going to conduct a combustion experience, so-called L-in-coast domino flame experiment. Also, outside in the paleo-the-bay, we are conducting many crystal-growth experiments, which may give us very high-quality crystals, which can be used for computers, many other electronics, the materials. I understand they're making the decision on Monday whether or not to let Spartan free again. But some of the wire stories we're hearing is that the space shuttle is going to have to back up 30 or 40 miles to give it some room to do its thing. What is that all about? Can you explain that simply to us? Right. We go into what a station key, a normal orbital mechanic, in a position where time to retrieve it, we can do that. Did a story just this week in Palmdale, where they're refurbishing another space shuttle Atlantis. And I think I know where you guys are right now. I think you're at the flight deck, if I'm not sure. Can you just tell me where you are and show me something behind you and give us a little quick tour? Sure. We are on the flight deck, where Steve Lindsey sits. Here is our two windows, where we can see out through the tail. And we happen to be belly to the earth, right through these overhead windows. And look out and see the earth, and we're passing over the Pacific Ocean at this time. Captain Scott, one of the things that I noticed was how cramped the quarters are in there. Can you tell me a little bit about how weightlessness makes it not quite as cramped as it would be for us on Earth? Well, as you can imagine, weightlessness does just that, because not only do you use the normal space that you'd use on Earth, but you use all the space in the overhead. When we translate, for example, it's very easy to just go over a crew member's head or float along the floor around a crew member's feet. We really do use all of the volume available to us, and not just a portion that we would use on Earth. How do you sleep? What position? And this particular flight, we have sleep stations. And the sleep stations are horizontally oriented. And those sleep stations are sleeping bags. We sort of strap ourselves into sleeping bags to keep from floating away. And we literally drift about inside of those sleeping bags. On missions with no sleep stations, each crew member will strap his or her sleeping bag wherever they want it. And they sleep that way. You can sleep upside down, sideways, backwards, forward. There is no up or down in space. Still strange at first, but when you get used to it, it's kind of fun. That's great. Mission Specialist Doi, I know that you train a lot before you actually go up, and you know what to expect. But what was the most surprising thing once you actually went on the mission, and the thing that went as planned, I guess? We are trained to do some evaluation and diversification tests for the space station. But this time, we found the sunlight. And it was just an amazing experience. I have just a little time left. I'd like to go back to Commander Kregel just for a second, if I could. Commander, I know you guys can't be possibly working 24 hours a day. Is there any free time at all? And if so, what do you guys do with your free time up there? All right, but we do get free time from time to time. And the number one past time for everyone is to look out the window. You can exercise, and you can read a book, but you can do that on Earth. You can't look out the window and get such a spectacular view, any place but here. So I think that's the past time of choice. Is it hard not to think of philosophy and religion and all those kinds of things, I guess, when you're in a position to where you folks are? I would say it's a very humbling position. And I think all folks get very introspective when they're up here and just looking at this magnificent blue planet go beneath us. As folks down here on Earth were watching with great interest, when two of you grabbed that air and satellite, not quite with your bare hands, but close enough, I guess. Captain Scott, you told reporters last night, you believe this could be done even though I understand it's been like five years since the last time somebody tried this sort of thing. What was behind your confidence? Were there skeptics down in this mission control? Well, I'll tell you, the thing that was behind my confidence is the fantastic teamwork that the NASA folks on the ground provide for us. We had astronauts in our neutral buoyancy lab looking at this procedure and testing it. We had folks over in the virtual reality laboratory looking at it. We were conferring back and forth a lot of hits went together on these plans. And that really was the thing that boosted my confidence. Well, Captain Scott, you've made a number of spacewalks before I know, how did they prepare you for this particular maneuver, grabbing a satellite? Well, of course, you can't predict every single maneuver that's going to happen. We trained the best we can. We had practiced for grabbing a satellite, but never grabbing one that was rotating in this fashion. And again, we looked at the events that occurred, made the best decision that we could, and fortunately everything worked out real well for us. And like a giant spiraling football, is that right? Trying to catch that. Dr. Doi, now you work for Japan's NASDA. Is Japan working toward its own independent space program? We are working very closely with the United States, especially we are having this special program so that I am right now here. Also, Japan is working on the space station program and we also have a Japanese experiment module in about a couple of years. Let me move on to Commander Kruegel. Working with an international crew is certainly nothing new for you, is it? Certainly isn't. We've got a lot of international folks in the office and my last mission is fortunate to work with a freshman, Jean-Jacques Bavier, a Canadian, Bob Serres, and the two backups, Pedro Duques from Spain and Luca Urbani from Italy. Commander Kruegel, in what ways is your experience in space enriched by an international crew and in what ways is it complicated? Just some challenges, learning the different cultures and getting a common language. But I think it's enriched as we bring the different cultures together because when you bring different cultures and you know each other, a lot of this distress goes away and a lot of harmony comes out of it. So I think working in an international crew really shows the way of how the world should be in the future. Gentlemen, I guess this is a question for all or any of you. When did you first know you wanted to be in outer space? The day when I, the Gemini and the Apollo years, it's that guys were walking on the moon and I said, that's something I'd like to do. I'd like to go to the moon or the Mars and beyond. Oh, when I was a child going up, watching the Mercury program, it was something that was very fascinating to me and I thought I would like to do it but I never had any inkling like it would come true for me. Fortunately, things did work out well and I am here and in addition to that, I'd like to say that if I can be an image or a role model to all the minorities who might be interested in the program that I certainly take that responsibility very seriously but yeah, I'm very happy to be a part of the program. 14 years old, I started watching the stars and at that time, Apollo 11 just landed on the moon. Since then, I wanted to...