 Mars is one of the hottest topics down here on Earth these days. Have you folks been faxed photos from the Pathfinder mission yet? Yes, we have. On the very beginning, mission controls sent us photos via email, electronic photos. And although up here we can't share in all the experience, we do feel like we've had about five or six photos. We have had the opportunity to share that experience and enjoy it just like the rest of the... Tim, you've been to me on a previous shuttle resupply mission to the station and you're currently on America's oldest shuttle, Columbia. The hardware is getting older for both countries. Are there more concerns for problems these days on flights? As any mechanical device gets older, you have to improve and increase the amount of maintenance. But Columbia is the queen of the oldest vehicle, but still, she's got many flights left in her. These vehicles were designed according to specification for 100 flights and I think we're only up to number 23 right now. So as long as the people at the Kennedy Space Center keep maintaining her to the standards they have in the past and they do a superb job, we'll keep flying her for a long time to come. What do you see when you look out the window? How far can you see? Can you see the Earth and what we're doing down here? Seems like Aswan Dam and Aegis on the Nile River. That's unbelievable. What is it like to be in space? What does it feel like? The sensation you can liken it to is being underwater where you're kind of floating underwater. It's, um, you're free-floating all the time. So for which end is, uh, clearly what it feels like as flying? I find the whole, I'm looking out the window at our world. A typical day like. What do you do? At like a typical day on Earth, pretty much we get up in the morning and wash up, shave, brush our teeth, have a quick breakfast and we have about a half an hour time to do our daily planning. We'll review messages, mail and kind of get ready, prepared for the day of work. We work in the lab module here about five hours or so in the morning, have an hour off for lunch where we look out the window and then it's back for about another five-hour session in the lab. At the conclusion of the day, we have about two hours before we go to bed. Again, you're using that kind of getting ready for bed, brushing your teeth and, uh, changing your clothes and looking out the window, just relaxing a little bit. What is that your favorite part about being in space to any of you and then the opposite, what is your least favorite part? Two most favorite parts. What is floating? Floating is really fascinating because your whole method of movement is different. You just push yourself gently. You try to stop yourself from rotating. You have to watch that you don't bump into things. You maneuver around people and objects differently. So it's like being a fish or something. It's like being in a completely different world because you move differently. The other great thing is just looking down at the Earth. I mean, the views are spectacular. The way things look, seeing the whole part of a continent is just breathtaking and it's just one great view after another when we have a chance to look out the window. Speaking of looking down... I'll take a stamp as the least favorite. The lack of gravity and floating is a fascinating thing. It's also sometimes, to be honest, a little bit of a pain. Gravity can be good. There are a lot of just normal functions. Eating food, for example. You can't set something down on the table and present a meal to yourself all at once. You have to eat like one entree at a time, eat it in its entirety and do something else. I think the problems with going to the bathroom might be immediately obvious to anybody who gives it a thought. So the lack of gravity is fascinating and also gravity is good for a lot of things also. Any special messages for anyone back at home here on Earth? The 2-year-old son, Kai, in Houston, Texas he's probably just getting up and getting ready to go to daycare this morning and I just want to tell him I love him. After the whole crew, we have a lot of people who are watching, hopefully, this TV downlink and to all our loved ones and all our family and all of our friends. We'd just like to say thanks for hanging in there with us. We love you and we're going to be back home soon and we certainly enjoyed this opportunity to be in space and we're going to enjoy getting back home also. And I'd like to say hi to Augusta Georgia. Yeah, and I'd like to say hi to Delores to New Jersey. Get it for me on the spot, West Monroe, Louisiana. Hello. Anything else going on with the experiments that you think we should know about here on Earth? We plan to do about 150 burns, total combustion experiments up in space. We've completed over 165 already and we're not done yet. So I think we're getting over 110% of our science output in the material science world. We're processing a lot of semiconductor materials and other new metallic materials, metallic glasses that have other technological applications. So we have a lot of breakthroughs we're working on here. It might be a few years before they find their way into everyday life down on Earth, but this is basic research and we're pioneering out here. And a lot of great science will be performed on this mission. Any message for breading young astronauts, especially women, trying to get into the field? My biggest message is bear the dream. Follow your dreams, follow your heart and strive to do your best and you never know what you might be able to exceed with if you just try. We've got a little bit of tape here. We'll roll this for you and let Greg and Susan talk about it. What I'm trying to demonstrate here is that there's no... Up and down gets very confusing. Here I'm sitting here, obviously up is up and up is down, but we can switch that around very quickly and see that actually I was sitting upside down. I was sitting on the ceiling of the space lab and it's only when Jim turns the camera around and we see things in their more normal configuration for those of us who are familiar with it that we can see that I was upside down. Is looking at the ash windows and now we're moving on down to the hatch down to the middeck, which is on the opposite side. So we see that she was actually lying on sitting against the back of the flight deck there and now we're heading on down to the middeck. Looks relatively normal here. My one crew member is sitting on the floor. Of course, now when we see Roger upside down, the ceiling in which is the floor, it all depends upon what's taken away you're facing at that moment. Assistant me with what we're doing is we've drawn water out of the galley. It's called microbial capture device. We are filter and we're going to let that filter sit around for a few days. We've added a little agent to it and every 48 hours I'm going to take a look at the filter to see if things are growing in our galley water this would be used if, for instance, one of us were to get sick or something they would be able to know whether the water had been good to drink. It's difficult in zero gravity to get all the water out of the filter so I'm having to use my imagination and try and get the water to go where it's supposed to go in 1G it just sucks all out normally because of the gravity. We got one internet question today who's from John Michaels who's from Bay Village, Ohio it's one of our suburbs just west of Cleveland where my hometown is. He asked, does zero gravity have any direct effect on the principles of magnetism? He wants to know if steel is more drawn to a magnet in space than on earth. John I got two spherical magnets here on board and I want to show you it really has no effect I'll separate them and let you see how they float together. If you put two magnets, spheres like this on a flat plate they would probably be drawn together but in zero gravity without any friction it's very visible but essentially zero gravity has no effect on magnetism it's a totally separate force. Troll 4 being there for us and 2 hunt still to the payload operations control center it's a great flight so far we're looking forward for a few more days of science before we come back home. See you later. Is there any reason to wait on the peak cap time when we're starting this next CM1 bird or can we start a little bit earlier? Space Love Huntsville for Greg looks like we would like to wait until 1,400 hours that would get started about 10 minutes early but not yet. Okay copy that I'll come back about that. Copy that and I'll look into the answers on the other questions and get back to you later.