 as planning shift is here with you. How are you doing today? Good morning, Houston. Nice to hear your voice. We're all with you. Okay, Ken, and we have some work for you today. I hate to get you started so early, but if you could go on up to spec 20, the forward jets are getting a little cold and we'd like to get some firings on them. We need to select A3 on the DAP, so that'd be an item one plus three. That'll tighten the dead bands and get us a couple of firings. Okay, we're ready for the internet questions. Go right ahead. The bulky H10 from Grand Rapids, Michigan asks a pretty tough one. In what ways is the Mir space station better than the space shuttle? And we started to try to come up with a list of ways and then realize what you would really be comparing our apples and oranges, really two completely different vehicles. Mir, of course, was designed to stay on orbit for a long time and it's approaching nearly 10 years on orbit. And the space shuttle was designed for frequent, and the shuttle in some ways is only true because it does a different job. So for staying on orbit for a very long time, Mir does have advantages. And that is expandable. They can change the configuration. Much more living volume in Mir than we do in the shuttle. Also, the shuttle is, collection of Mir is powered with solar rays, so they do not have to carry liquid oxygen and hydrogen to generate electricity. On the other hand, the shuttle has advantages in being able to carry large payloads and a large number of people to and from a low Earth orbit. It's also a reusable space vehicle. So they're just designed for two very different purposes. So comparing them is perhaps not something that's very easy to do. OK, Billy, copy that and we'll pass that along. Thanks very much. Next one is from Bill Derbyshire, H-40 Aberdeen, New Jersey. Bill asks, why are we throw away the external tank? He writes, it seems a waste of throw away the ET just as you attain orbit. Would it make sense to at least park the used tanks and save this valuable resource for future missions? And while certainly we hate not to conserve all the resources that we can, in order to park an external tank on orbit, we would have to be able to circularize its orbit, which would mean either carrying it all the way to low Earth orbit with the shuttle, in which case it would remain in orbit with the shuttle and would ultimately be a hazard to other vehicles. Also, without self-contained propulsion devices, its orbit would soon decay and it would re-enter anyway. And then also even to another alternative would be to have a self-contained propulsion device on the external tank, in which case it could circularize its own orbit. But in any case, the cost to do that would probably be significantly higher than the conservation of resources we would realize. By keeping the external tanks on orbit. Okay, Bill, we copied that also. Well put, thank you. The third one here from Joe Nieves-Caro, H-12 Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. He asks, how many hours of sleep do astronauts get while in space? It's a sleep wrestle. How long did your body's take to adjust to the weightlessness before being able to sleep? Well, the number of hours we sleep varies just as it does on the ground. Now, during this flight, we've been scheduled for between six and eight hours of sleep. And we tend to be so busy up here that we do get fatigued, so the sleep is wrestle. And we've been able to sleep since the first night we're up here. It's Houston. We're two minutes to LOS and we'll pick you up 10 minutes later on the other side should be an MET of about 3335. And that's an MET of 3335. Atlanta, she'll have a go to swap to the B water controller on an APU-3. Put the arm in the position for the Proven Benjamin Contamination Experiment. It kind of gives some interesting video if you want to look at that link. We're looking in the windows. The big smiles up here, story. Sunglasses too, Ken. Story, we thought you only had KU video through the East T-Dress. We've got it the entire West Pass here. Hi, Jim Holtz. The Louisiana smile. Yes, it is. Hi, Jerry Ross. Yeah, I don't have the resolution you all do. But I see there's a coming up on a clear area over Canada right now. I don't have your exact location. The Great Lakes, it is clear. I've been wanting to miss it. Great looking country. We're about a minute to hand over to T-Dress East. Okay, story. In what time are you going to want to start the downlink of the glow or the armist camera and the recording? I'll catch you on T-Dress.