 Who thought that came from? Thank you very much. We'll cup this morning because we have good news for you. You are go for an EVA. And today is going to be a bit busy in preparation for clearing the plate for tomorrow. And in the morning, you'll have VGS ops. And in the afternoon, Winston and Tikal will have a chance to finish the EDFT and also a chance for air cam. So it's going to be a good couple of days. It's a great way to wake up there, Chris. We're all for it. Would you like to make some opening remarks before we begin questions? Lord Columbia, I'm Kevin Craigle, a commander. And this is my crew of SCS-87 that I'm proud to bring before you. We're on the United States microgravity payload four. It's been highly successful for the United States microgravity four payload. Experiments are really working well. Of course, we did have a glitch at the beginning of the mission where we had a problem with the Spartan satellite. We're not really sure of the whole facts of that. But luckily, due to the hard work of the folks on the ground and the crew here, we put together a plan and I think put together a pretty spectacular grab and retrieval of the Spartan. And then tomorrow, we're going to go out and do another spacewalk where we're going to evaluate some more of the tools that they did at the end of the first spacewalk that were going to be used on the International Space Station. We also have on board the Ukrainian Collaborative Ukrainian experiment that Colonel Leonid Kdeniak has been working on. And it's been going quite well. So we've had a very long and somewhat eventful 13 days and we're looking forward to your questions. This is Sue Butler for the Associated Press for Captain Scott. How important do you consider the second EVA and the testing of this crane? How crucial do you think it is, this test for the future of the space station? Are you just a little bit worried that the crane won't work as advertised? Do you think it's snakes bit since it couldn't be tested a year ago because of the stuck hatch? As a matter of fact, we had a very successful test of the crane during the first EVA. What we did not do was to get a chance to exercise all of the options. What we're going to do this time is just expand the knowledge base that we gained the first time. The crane actually operates very, very smoothly. It's meeting most of our expectations. I say most because there's a little bit of flexibility in the boom that we didn't quite anticipate. But certain things ought to be expected. Nothing's going to be 100%. What we're going to do tomorrow very briefly is to operate the crane using our small carrier and just expand on the information we got the other day. But actually, we think the crane is working quite well. Do you have confidence that the Americans can successfully complete more than 1,150 EVAs in the first year based on what you've seen so far? I'm not sure I caught before making up your question. I think if you're talking about the assembly of the space station and the number of EVAs that we're going to have to do, oh, yes, there's no doubt in my mind that we're going to be able to handle that workload. We are gearing up in terms of the number of EVA experienced people. We have the equipment, the ISS tools, and procedures are coming along very rapidly. And I think we're ready to go build the space station. Start with 88 next year. And one follow up for Carpana Chavla, please. Would you please explain, since we haven't heard any of your own words what happened, what this glitch was that Kevin regularly referred to, when you deployed the Spartan and it failed to pure it, then you tried to grab it, was it a signal you sent, Spartan, that did not receive for some reason, or was the signal not sent? We don't really know. When we deploy Spartan and we release Spartan from the arm, we look at it for a while. And it's supposed to do your maneuver. And we did not see it do that. Bill Harwood with CBS News. Well, let me just follow that up just very briefly for Dr. Chavla. To the best of your memory, and I realize that there's still troubleshooting, and you guys will be talking about this on the ground to figure out exactly what happened. But to the best of your memory, did you send all of the required commands pre-deploy to the satellite, yes or no? The commands that need to be sent to the satellite. OK, a question for Steve Lindsay, I guess. Looking ahead to Air Camp Sprint, I'm not sure how much time that will be remaining in the EVA for the Air Camp Sprint test. I know that originally, y'all were hoping for 30 minutes. Is that pretty much what you're expecting now? And I'm just wondering if everything goes well, trying to get a feel for how high above the bay the camera might ultimately get. I mean, do you have any ideas along those lines? Right now in the timeline, the Sprint is timeline for about the same amount of time as it was on the first EVA originally. As far as how high above the bay we're going to go with it, you know, kind of depend on how much time we have. The flight envelope goes to 160 feet, whether we take it that high or not, we'll depend. That's just kind of a secondary objective. Our primary objective is to test the flying quality for this at a somewhat lower altitude. So we'll be flying just above the payload bay most of the time, doing a lot of engineering evaluations, some flying quality evaluations, and as well as doing some simulated space station type tasks where we'll be observing and evaluating an EVA crew member at work and trying to use the camera views to help assist them in their work. This is a field channel of Earth news for KC, a rather esoteric question. When you were growing up in India, did you get to, did your village have one of the chicken wire antennas to view the ATSS-6 satellite, which NASA had launched way back then? And did that help influence you in your career as becoming an aerospace engineer and eventually an astronaut? The small town, yes, we did have the chicken wire antennas. And I was already quite told when those antennas came to our town. So I didn't really get to watch much of the space program related events till much, much later. And I understand from your family that they're fourth generation vegetarians. So I'm wondering how your Thanksgiving dinner was. What did you do with your turkey dinner and how good was the beans and rice dinner that you had? You know, you get used to the food you eat, so you don't really know what you are missing out, I guess. Okay, and when you were pulling back with the RMS after the Spartan attempt to grab it after the pirouette didn't work, when did you first realize that it went into a tumble? What was your reaction then? Did you think that you might have had something to do with that tip-off rate or did you suspect that it was the RMS that was malfunctioning? And can you lead us through that process? Since the go real fast, after I moved the arm back, I thought maybe Spartan was doing his maneuver that he was supposed to do earlier, and that was really my immediate reaction. We have from the Time Magazine, the question is for the mission commander, and it comes from my editors in New York who want to send along their congratulations on a spectacular mission, but in that crew of yours, all high achievers, all of them highly qualified, most of them pilots and even a windsurfer among you, their question is, is there a poet among you and is anyone, one of you, going to write a bit of poetry about this mission or how it feels to float around up there, please? I wish we could, I know we're all poets at heart and enjoy poetry. In fact, KC has tried to get us all together and write our own poetry, but not to a whole lot of success. Takao is doing some drawing for his home country in Japan. So we have certain talents, unfortunately, poetry is not one of them. This is Zubat Lagain for the Associated Press. I don't want to appear to be picking on Dr. Chavra but are you fairly or unfairly blaming yourself for the misstep when you try to catch a spot again and does this put just a little damper on your first space flight? You know, we are here on a very long mission. It's a 16-day mission and they're tasked for every day, scheduling first thing in the morning to the end of the day and you simply do not have time to delve on yesterday's because you have to finish the whole mission properly. So I think once we get back to work we will have a lot of time to talk about this and that's when I really plan to do that. Bill Harwood again for Winston Scott. Again for Eric Ham. Would you walk us through briefly how that process works? You're obviously gonna be standing there on the foot restraint I guess and simply release it into space, but would you just describe the test procedure that happens and then recapturing it and taking it back inside? Well yes, at least I'll describe my part of it. Quite a bit of the test procedure will be done by Steve from inside the cabin. But what I'm going to do is retrieve the spread from the airlock and I'll make my way up to the foot restraint and mount myself into foot restraint. Once I've done that, I'll simply power it on and I'll look for a light sequence, a sequence of five flashing lights that tell me the power-up went real well and everything's working properly. Then when Steve gives me the go, I'll rotate it. It has to be rotating at about one or more axes to perform another self-test. When we get the indication that that self-test is complete, three flashing lights, I'll just stand by. Steve will go through a series of tests and checks from his console inside. When he gives me the word, I'll simply release it, sit back and watch and catch it once the flag is over. Again, I'll release it, when Steve's done he will pilot it back to my location, I'll reach out and grab it, put a tether on it, power it down, and that will be the end of what we anticipate being a very successful flight. This is Phil Chan again for KC. Let me try twisting everybody's favorite question around a little bit. Do you feel a little bit like a silly sibling of, with everybody pointing their fingers at you and second guessing and accusing you of causing all the mistakes and everything even before your mission's over? What that first name means, or what you said there and I didn't know that everybody was pointing fingers at me too now. So, there. Tatsuya Tsujimura, Kyou-dono News. I'd like to ask the commander, Mr. Kurigawa. Since this is an international mission, do you find any difficulties in communicating each other among crews? For over a year. So, we know how to communicate whether it's in English or sign language or just a small glance. So, communication is really not a problem.