 Let me Houston. We're just a little bit more than 15 minutes from your PAO event we wanted to Give you a summary of the activities that are going on today to try to come up with a plan to get the hatch open yet Tom The first thing is is we've got a as you can imagine a large Tiger team taking a look at at all the engineering we're trying to assess the Processing for the hatch at the Cape and just trying to see if there anything Turns up when we talk to the technicians who did the work and looking at the paperwork So we got quite a few people over in building nine Today over in the CCT actually putting their hands on hardware and trying as much as anything else to Come up with to duplicate the problem and look at some workarounds They're going to get together tomorrow morning at an MET of 10 16 To basically summarizer Summarizer plans. I'll be six o'clock local here To be ready to meet with the MMT two hours later. That'll be at 10 18 MET Based on the MET correction the MMT's decision tomorrow We'll have a go no go for you for a flight day 12 EVA and that's of course tomorrow Some of the options we're looking at including some activities for today we'd like to do an additional RMS survey and The difference between this and I'll give you more details when we get there is that we want to pause looking at each at each of the Dogs and the mechanism and have you guys cycle a handle a couple of times And so we'll get a better feel for what motion the linkage Displays like that view taco you have a go for the next set of cycles And that's a good camera position whenever you're ready to cycle Joining us now live from space the crew of the Space Shuttle, Columbia. Good to see you all First question for story must grave Dr. Musgrave You have warned that NASA needs to start hustling saying the astronauts lacked the necessary space walking experience and equipment Dr. Musgrave you must find this very frustrating this jammed hatch and does this throw the whole program behind schedule even more My question is for commander Romminger You are the pilot of this shuttle mission that of course all of Colorado is proud of you and we have no doubt There's probably a big hometown crowd watching you tonight from Dell North when you were growing up in Dell Norton later studying civil engineering at CSU was it your ambition to be an astronaut actually was not the Ambition to be an astronaut came after I left Colorado State. It was a Navy pilot But from the time I was about four years to five years old a gun flying with my father and developed my love for flying So at that time I didn't know I wanted to fly Now back to the back to the space walk We just got word that NASA has cleared you for another attempt tomorrow night if you can get that that hatch open What are you going to try to do? Have you been working on this all day? I'll let anyone answer Ground is working very hard. There are many talented dedicated people working this problem And they've come up with several ideas that have to deal with problems like Perhaps a structural misalignment or some an issue with the coefficient of thermal expansion They'd be warming up the hatch would be a good idea and a number of these lines of fire being developed in parallel And so we have been read up some of their ideas about perhaps moving the hatch Latterly as we rotate the handle perhaps warming up the hatch prior to the EVA So there are many things that work in parallel and we are we are optimistic that we will get this hatch open Dr. Jernigan my question is for you You are a veteran of three space flights and this mission was supposed to have placed you in the pool of those with space walk Experience currently a group of only about 33 if the hatch problem can't be solved What does this do to your chances? Do you go to the rear of the line in rotation so to speak? well, I would certainly be interested in doing a space walk on another flight, but again I think that I think we'll work through this and I think Tom and I will We'll join those pool of folks have had the privilege of walking in space And I know that everyone is doing everything that they can to make that possible We have been discussing this hatch problem with our crack engineering staff here at news four and they suggested that you do what? They always do just give it a good whack. What do you think? Certainly has crossed our minds a few times Maybe when we get down to it we apply all the other techniques that we think might help it Including the thermal Conditioning of the hatch and maybe some lateral motion of it We will certainly be pushing on that lever with all our strength if the ground gives us a go to that Good evening and happy Thanksgiving there have been Some difficulties on this flight that you gradually seem to be overcoming What is the status of Orpheus and Wake shield as well as the spacewalk? Orpheus and wake shield are two great success stories wake shield completed all of its science And we now have it safely locked down into the payload bay at the end of the mission ready to bring it home And the reports we get from Orpheus bars is that the science is coming through right on schedule and they're doing what they want to do What is what's happening with the spacewalk now it sounds like there are different scenarios to get the hatch open Houston and it's a various contractors who help build the shuttle looking at how the hatch mechanisms work and possible ways that they might fail And they're trying to work on a way that we can Attack the problem from several different ways one might be to heat up the hatch to make the metal expand slightly and maybe that Will free a jam they're also looking at us applying Simultaneous rotary force on the handle plus pushing on the hatch in a certain direction to try to Break it free when we attempt an EVA tomorrow So we still have in our plan this in five or six days left and we have plenty of time to Handle that problem. We hope successfully and then complete our two EVAs. So we're pretty optimistic that we can find a solution Columbia Mia, how do you read? Mia Columbia, John, we hear you loud and clear Oh great can where you guys how you all doing we understand we keep getting messages from all sorts of amateur radio Operators about how your mission is going so we've been following it Talk to you In particular we were thinking about you yesterday on Thanksgiving Since story is fun with you at Thanksgiving before he mentioned it. Let me I'll let him say a few words to you Okay Hey John My friend I do find John thinking about that It's about seven years ago. We were up on Thanksgiving flying together and at that time we were saying boy Yeah, we hope you and I get flying together again. Sometimes especially at Thanksgiving and here we are both of us flying on Thanksgiving We're just different spaceships Yeah, it's kind of me That's kind of me. You've been up about two months. Now you sound the same John. Oh Yeah It just gets better the more the time goes on You very well John as it always did Yeah, I hope everything's going real good for you guys. I understand you're thinking of landing next Thursday and maybe you'll extend some Hey John, that's right. We're scheduled thirsty and then extension is in the works Just saying hi to you and wishing you happy Thanksgiving and a happy trip sounds like the comms getting ready. I'll pass some icons Hey, John, this is Tom John's wishing you well, and I hope you're enjoying a Little relaxing holiday here over the long weekend. We're pretty busy up here though But I know we're sharing one thing and that's our enjoyment of the view of the earth He's talked to me a lot about that and it's sure as great to see as always I look forward to your reflections on how do you look to you over the change of seasons that you experienced? Hi, John, it's Tammy turn again happy Thanksgiving and just wanted to wish you well on your incredible journey and hope you have a myriad of fascinating experiences Yeah, well, you can talk some more Tammy if you'd like Finally in German. What about the crew members? Our greetings for you over I don't know whether you hear me or not, but right now we don't hear you As soon as I think we are hearing you I'll stop talking just in case you're hearing me But Valar and Sasha are here listening and they wish You and the whole Mirror 22 crew here together with you guys a great flight Like I said, hello, we've been following you on the ham radio net Sorry, you guys didn't have a ham radio so we could have talked a little bit But anyway, we're getting to talk now over Well John to the mirror 22 crew I fellow space travelers We wish you all the best on this flight from the STS 80 crew over Well, we don't get to hear any more time because our common period is ending in about 10 seconds Good luck to you. Good landing from the Mirror 22 crew. Goodbye John. Thanks. Good to talk to you today