 Atlantis Mayor Houston you have a go for the next maneuver. One special request please notify the mirror when you are in attitude so they can verify their quaternion. Working off of? We've got it Dave. Catchment 18 of the mirror procedures. Yes Mayor Houston we're gonna hand over to east here in a little over a minute. We'll lose K-Band on the east side. We do appreciate the letting us visit with you on the flight deck. It's fun watching the cameras float around. You guys too. I did it very delicately. There was a large look like a crystal made of cells or maybe the size of a gumball a large three-dimensional tissue and as soon as I moved it it dispersed and I believed we're a intermediate three-dimensional tissue formation which we use for our tumor modeling and our planning to use for our tissue engineering. That delicate intermediate structure I did have the chance to observe. And Dave we copied that. It sounds very interesting. Commander Levy as this change is occurring and Atlantis' jets are controlling the attitude is there any specific extra risk or precaution that needs to be taken during this computer changeover what exactly is going to be happening at that time and is there any other moment to moment kind of monitoring that's going on given some of the past problems that many wouldn't have occurred otherwise. There's no risk at all when they change the computer out by design when we're when Atlantis is docked with MIR we control the attitude and we do that for a very good reason. We carry fuel up to space but by the time we get back down to the runway we want to dump all the fuel so instead of dumping it we actually use it for control. MIR of course stays up on orbit and so they would like to save as much propellant as they can. So Atlantis always controls the stack once we're attached and therefore there's absolutely no risk when they change out the control computer for MIR because they are not controlling. Mike for there's been a lot of talk about the Spectre module when you come back what are you and you debriefed what are you going to tell people about whether you think there's a possibility that the hole or holes will ever actually be found and the invisibility of continuing to search for those holes? Well the answer to that of course depends on how easy it is to find the hole and repair it but the EDA I did with Anatoli the commander here on station MIR Anatoli worked very hard to look for that hole in an obvious place and he did not find it he found the hole well was in good condition it leaves us to suspect a very very potent area which is at the base of the solar array and it's very likely that that is where the leak is and there are materials on board now that Jim and his crew brought up on Atlantis that will be used by Anatoli during a future EVA to try and repair that area and seal it up basically. I think that attempt will certainly take place very soon and if it's successful then the chances of restoring Spectre I think are very high beyond that if that doesn't work I can't hazard a guess I don't know what the specialists in Russia are thinking if it's not in that area it does seem that that is the most kind of it's the smoking gun of the whole issue because that is where the progress hit was on the solar array anyway and that's where the greatest force is transmitted to the station. Very very ambitious science schedule how confident are you that you're going to be able to do that and carry out all of that science and is there any one thing in particular that you think is particular significant that you really want to get to? I'm glad you asked though we just made an observation a few hours ago that I'm very excited about I called most of the crew around to take a look at a structure forming in our tissue engineering experiment which we're using for cancer research which was a very delicate three-dimensional formation which would not occur on earth and which is the basis for our planned tissue engineering work for the future so we're already making critical observations and we'll plenty of time to do that throughout the mission. Let me ask Mike. So you lost a lot of your science is there still so one thing that you think occurred that perhaps you were bringing back the information that couldn't have been achieved any other way one thing that you're going to put up in front of people and say look what I did besides some of the different crises that I faced here are some of the things that I'm really bringing back to you? Unfortunately I can't think of any kind of big gleaming golden banner I can put out in front of everybody and say I learned from a personal point of view I gathered a lot of experience about how to deal with these problems it's an approach to problem solving rather than the actual solutions of the problems in themselves I would have learned from Anatolia and my Russian colleagues that just perseverance and working at it and not being flustered and working around your problems is a great way to approach life in space and I think I'm going to take that back with me but that's something people know already it's just you have to sort of learn it for yourself sometimes. Let me ask you manager Solovia when the shuttle feels good-bye and they disappear what's the first order of business what's the first thing that you're going to ask David Wolff to order in the Galdu to engage in physical culture exercise every day for us cosmonauts as soon as we are in space and no matter how well he has been trained he's got to always train to land he's got to always got to be prepared to anticipate his eventual return to earth. Do you need a translation? No we got the translation. David what is the one thing that you would like to say to all of those people who are concerned about your going who raised some very legitimate issues last words that you would like to say to them now that you're actually sitting there? I think this is the time to show the Russians what good partners we are and it's a wonderful experience to be up here and I'm going to do my best job and I have a great crew on a toly and pavo this should be a great experience for NASA and for our country as a whole so enjoy the mission and we'll keep you informed. Nevertheless how much did all the problems affect your ability to carry out your tasks on the mission? Oh there's no doubt the collision drastically affected the science program that I was meant to carry out but there are pluses and minuses in everything and in this particular case the NASA five flight which is what my flight represented we we lost some of that science the life science that's inspector but we gained an enormous amount of experience I'm looking about not just myself but the whole NASA team working with the Russians in approaching re-establishing power to inspector and then thinking about how they could actually repair it and get the air back inside that volume and make it a useful module again. And just finally from me what is is the future of the mere space station do you think? Well I think the station is in very good hands of Anatoly and Pablo Vinogradoff the board engineer and David and they will work very hard to re-establish the condition that the space station was in before the collision they're a long way towards doing that already we have one mod all the modules powered now that are accessible and David has an ambitious science program to carry out in the parotta module and Anatoly has an enviable number of EVAs to do outside and also inside in inspector again to repair that module so I think there's a good chance that in the next few months maybe six months you'll see a pretty much re-established space station mere beyond that it's hard to say I've heard the Russian news reports that mere will carry on for at least two more years. Fad do you feel that a boy from Kent had to go to America to become an astronaut? It was a choice I had to take and I'm very glad I took it because I wanted to go into space and I do feel sorry for those children that might think they have no chance of doing that however I'm more optimistic about that now and I believe the fact that this crew which represents a lot of nationalities and many more nationalities have been on board this space station shows that very much more internationally people from different countries are going to participate in work in space both on the space station and I hope going towards the moon and then landing on Mars and I know that NASA wants to lead that effort along with Russia and I think Britain will eventually be involved in that effort it's only a matter of time the example of what we're doing is just being seen all over the world and I think it's impossible to deny the importance of that to the young children that are growing up in Great Britain.