 And the way the sunlight plays upon her head Jason, may all your good vibrations be very small. Thanks, Mike. I took a little while to figure that out. That is slow up here. But hopefully, we'll be back in business with them. Good vibrations in a couple hours. Sounds good. Colonel Brown, good morning. And thank you for joining us this morning. Good morning to you. And it's definitely a pleasure. We always love to talk to the folks. Let me ask you first of all, how long have you folks been up this morning? I understand the Beach Boys, the sound of the Beach Boys at least, awakened you a little earlier this morning. How long have you been up and at work? Well, we've just been up a couple three hours now. We're just finishing up on our post-leap activities, which is basically getting up and getting reconfigured for today's work. And matter of fact, we're just starting some of our robot arm operations in just a few moments. What will you be doing with that? Well, actually today is a new sequence of testing. We're going to detach the orbital replacement unit one more time today. But the new part is the ground is going to uplink commands to the robot arm. And they're going to control it from the ground pretty much. And we're going to be on the half-flight deck of the orbiter watching the arm. And we're kind of like the safety observers. And the ground will be doing all the commanding. Colonel, let me ask you. I understand that the German satellite that you launched the other day came within one and a half miles of a 500-piece of space junk up there in orbit. How close was that and how serious a problem was that? Actually, there's obviously a lot of debris up here in space. We've been coming into space, our country, and other countries for many years. So there is a lot of debris up here. We do track that debris, and we try to maintain our distance from that. I read the news this morning, obviously, and saw that it wasn't any danger to the orbiter. Obviously, they had a little bit of concern for the satellite. But once they got the tracking down and eroded down exactly where it was going, it was OK. As far as I know, they did not have to maneuver the crystal satellite around to miss the piece of hardware. But they could have done that if they really needed to. I read down here that had they, in fact, collided, it would have been disastrous for that satellite. Is that correct? Well, satellites are built to operate in vacuum and in space. They're not very structurally sound, meaning that anything that collides with an orbiting body is probably going to do severe damage just because of the speeds that they're traveling and that they're coming from different directions. You almost double that speed. OK. The satellite that is out there, as I understand, is doing research on the ozone layers of the Earth. Tell me a little bit about that and why that is significant for those of us down here. As much as we can about the Earth's atmosphere and how we as humans affect that atmosphere. This satellite flew back in 1994 on the STS-66 shuttle mission. I had a chance to take part in that mission also. And we gathered a lot of data about the ozone and the upper level structure of the atmosphere. And this mission, we're going to do the same, but they've incorporated a new twist to their satellite. They're able to maneuver their satellite and yacht left and right to be able to cover more of the Earth's surface. So we'll be able to map more of the ozone and the upper level chemicals and structures of the atmosphere than we did in 1994. And when you put all that data together, we're trying to understand how the Earth's atmosphere evolves over time and how we as humans affect that atmosphere. Obviously we need that atmosphere to survive, and if we are doing something that we think may be hurting it, we need to figure out a better way of doing it. And the other thing you learn from space up in the shuttle, if you look out at the Earth's limb, the little layer of atmosphere around the shuttle, or excuse me, around the Earth from the shuttle, you realize how fragile the Earth really is, the atmosphere. Because it's a very thin body of material that envelops the Earth and protects us from all the harmful emissions from outer space. What's on tap for today specifically? What things do you have planned? Well, a lot of the day will be done with the MFD, the little small robot arm that we have on board. We'll be working on that. We also have the mid-deck experiments going on, the BDS, which is working with cell growth. Right to my left here, you can't see just out of the photo, Bjarne Trigmasen, our Canadian payload specialist, is working hard on his microgravity isolation mount experiment. And we're just busy as bees up here. This is my fourth flight, and I'm still odd about how busy we've been on this flight, and it seems to continue from day to day. So we're very happy to be at work, and time up here is very valuable, so we like to stay busy. And Discovery Houston, we do have video from the mid-deck. Okay Bill, welcome aboard. We'll give you a couple minutes of flight deck while we're setting up here.