 go ahead for rendezvous. Bill we've been talking over the situation here with possible contingency rendezvous today and also been noting how well the science is going with Wake Shield and we'd like to offer that during the previous five days of this flight we've been getting excellent rest and all of us been feeling real good towards the end of the day. If it comes down to it and we do need to rendezvous with Wake Shield today the crew is ready and willing to stay up almost as late as you'd like to make that happen as late as possible so that Wake Shield gets more of its mission completed. That's super taco and we'll throw that into the equation. Right now we're developing some criteria that we will apply at around the time of the NC-11 burn and basically if it just gives us confidence that by tomorrow that you'll have you know good distance between Wake Shield and SPAS that's going to be be our desire to do exactly what what you've said and let's try to get all the Wake Shield data. Just wanted to let you know if it has to be today we can do it as late today as possible to make it better and pass our regards on to Mr. Brits. Hope he's having a good time doing this analysis. Okay we'll do that. Columbia Houston with some words on the big picture. As taco as you know Fido has been taking in some C-band radar tracking data on SPAS for the last few revs and the the news is encouraging the separation appears to be growing for the range at TI at the nominal TI. It's now 12.1 if we assume a worst case take-on of 1.1. So right now it looks as though we're going to be doing a nominal retrieve for Wake Shield. The only question in our mind is whether or not we'll continue to keep SPAS in min drag attitude for a little while longer. That is under discussion at this point. With respect to Wake Shield retrieve we will be retrieving it two orbits early and we will be going with the eight mile TI nominal TI distance. Copy all the words on the big picture. I hope it works out that way and that we can keep both satellites pumping out their science. With the two revs early will be a change to our wake-up time. In Columbia for taco that's affirmative the plan is for you to go to bed an hour earlier and to get up an hour earlier tomorrow. We'll start with you Dr. Musgrave how serious are those particle dings in the windshield? I understand you almost had a super ding with that 4600 pound superconductor growing satellite. What happened? Was that a case of a thruster malfunctioning or what? No what really happened was when we released the wake shield we waited at least a minute to verify that its attitude control system was functioning normally and that took a little bit longer than expected to verify that the wake shield was controlling its attitude properly and while we were waiting it was drifting ever so slightly towards us probably due to a small impulse imparted when we moved the robot arm away from the satellite and so that small closure rate if we allowed it to drift for minutes would have carried it closer to the Columbia than we were comfortable with but in the event we started the wake shield zone thruster and that carried it clear of our cockpit and of course at any time we could have moved Columbia out of the way had we thought there was a real collision hazard but we didn't want to disturb the contamination free wake side of the satellite which was going to conduct our science over the next few days so we tried to hold off any thruster firings and that's what we were able to do was what it drift off without any movement by the Columbia at all if my congressman had his way we would have no more manned space flight what are some of the latest and greatest benefits that I can educate him about to try to change his mindset I like to talk about the wake shield facility that's trailing us now by about 20 nautical miles it's our prototype chip manufacturing facility maybe it's the wave of things to come in space where we'll actually use the resources in space like the pure vacuum generated by the wake shield to manufacture either high quality electronic components like this example or some other manufactured product like biomedical supplies medicines or pharmaceuticals that would actually directly be sold on earth and we'd actually produce them in space make money up there make a profit and of course that would expand our activity in space so this is the way to go in space exploration is to find a way to use the spaces spaces on resources to benefit us back on earth and that's the first step that we're taking here with the wake shield experiment but does ham radio still play a part in emissions and if so is it a vital part or is it just kind of a recreation thing for ham radio hobbyists I had to have radio 151 F which was close to 11 or 12 years ago I think it plays two roles that communicates what space is all about it lets people like carelessly live what is space it lets people come on board with us it's also a very valid way of communications there are times when I've been a capsule communicator in mission control and we had long LOS from the satellite we communicate with and we have actually gone up to the shuttle to a ham radio operator I think it's an integral part of the electronic net that we are building you can see the computers and you can see the camcorders which are bringing you information maybe in the background you can see all the wires I think ham radio is part of the integral information that which we are bringing into the shuttle which is and it's a way of bringing a 25-year-old technology into this century senator and former astronaut John Glenn has volunteered to do geriatric experiments in space although you're at 61 not quite up to mr. Glenn's age would you be ever interested in that Dr. Musgrave well of course they're doing one on me right now what I wanted to ask do you do any type of simulations or experiments on the ground or what possibly could go wrong or do you just keep your focus on your objectives for the flight good question that we spent about nine months training for this flight all five of us on the crew and we trained intensively over the last few months especially to handle any kind of emergency especially during the critical phases of launch and entry and we often joke once we arrive in space when things are going so well as they are on STF-80 here that a lot of our emergency procedures training seems to have been wasted because we arrived in space here never have to use all that training that we've spent so many weeks acquiring but really that's a necessary part of training for space flight you've got to be ready just in case something does go wrong and we view it as an investment in our own safety and our own success on this mission I was calling for a Ken Cockrell my brother oh my goodness this is Ken Cockrell's brother I believe they selected Dr. Jones and Dr. Musgrave to be a part of this but I suspect they could relay a message okay oh my what do we have here I see on the screen here another person has entered the picture I just heard about it on the radio the other day and I thought well I'd give it a shot and I didn't have a question I just wanted to relay what Miriam thought of the launch after you'd after about two minutes it passed we asked her what she thought and in her four-year-old mind she just said do it again uncle Ken I do too I did have one question for you though okay I wanted to know if just before launch if you roll down the window and shout clear thanks Phillip and no okay that's what I thought here's the way we've set up a cockpit here for doing now support now make field ops cut the checklist here of course the command PGSE of the time we run the event log on here so we can follow the sequences command quick reference cards up here the concept for science over here got a couple blocks in here the computer down here is up to the monitor PGSE back in here I've got all the updates that came up on the tips and I got my payload system data mouth book back here that's the way on Columbia's been setting up to support wake shield ops and Mr. Alowitz asks how will the Orpheus Spies UV observatory complement other ultraviolet observatories like PUSE and EUVE these are other satellites that look at stars and other sources of radiation in the universe that only radiates mainly in the ultraviolet and we can't we can't see this radiation down on Earth's surface at most observatories that we have already built there because of the Earth's atmosphere and the ozone layer absorbing that ultraviolet light so we have to build satellites like the two that Mr. Elowitz mentioned and Orpheus and for example the Hubble Space Telescope to go above the atmosphere to look at ultraviolet light and the advantage that Orpheus Spies has in looking at ultraviolet light is that it has a wavelength range or a sensitivity to radiation coming from these interesting objects like black holes and white dwarf stars that's farther into the infrared I'm sorry into the ultraviolet region than observatories like the Hubble have for example so we can see more energetic radiation from higher temperature objects that way and also the instruments on Orpheus Spies have a finer resolution in other words the fingerprint of the object they're looking at in ultraviolet light the spectrum is much more well-defined and these sensitive instruments on Orpheus we can see more details in that spectrum or fingerprint and thus understand the physics and the composition of the object that we're looking at. Thanks for your question. Dave also had another question and that was what about on-plan assembly of the International Space Station and at what stage will they be operational? Well Dave, the RMS is going to play a critical role in assembling the space station in fact we hope to fly the first space station flight the end of next year in which we will attach the FTB to the node on assembly flight 2A. Thank you for your question and how I owe to all of the school children in Woodinville.