 ready for another day of hard work in the Milky Way. Things are going well and we will have the uplink mail for you here real soon. I'd like to pass along to John that that wake-up music is a special greeting from a vice principal of a school very close to home. I do appreciate that. Houston, Andy and Mark were with you in Space Health. Good day from the Space Shuttle endeavor and Shuttle Mission STS-77. I'm shuttle pilot Kirk Brown from Elizabeth Town, North Carolina and at this moment my crewmates are now orbiting Earth at an altitude of approximately 180 miles. We'd like to take a moment to wish a happy Memorial Day to all the NASCAR racing fans attending the Charlotte 600. NASA and the entire crew would wish you all a very safe race and with that it's now race time so gentlemen, start your engines! Endeavour, this is Houston. Are you ready for the event? CNN, this is Houston. Please call Endeavour for voice check. Endeavour, CNN, good morning. Are you ready to go? Yeah. I want to talk about the the inflatable antenna experiment with you because you were in a position to watch it pretty carefully as it came out. It was of course spectacular here on Earth, probably even more so up there, but some of the ground-based scientists said to us it you saw the rippling across the surface of the antenna at one point and said it might have meant it wasn't fully inflated. Give us your take on on how well it worked and what those ripples might have been. I think we'll have to wait till we get the data back on the ground and take a look at it. Inside the satellite that was attached to the antenna was a video device to measure the accuracy of that surface and so we'll have to take a look at that data. Andy was watching this from the space here, but let me let him comment on this a little bit. Thank you. Andy Thomas? I was watching it. There were a few ripples in its surface. It's not surprising that as it deploys and inflates that it might pick up a few vibrations and those appear to be maintained in the surface. I suspect given long enough they would probably all settle out and damp out. But like John says, we need to wait until we get the data back to see just how well it didn't plate and how well the contour was maintained. But from my vantage point it looked fantastic. It was a great site. There was quite a show here on Earth. I'll tell you that. Tell me what the launch felt like for you. What went through your mind? What went through you emotionally? And what went through your body during the first eight or nine minutes of this flight? Obviously, John, it was a pretty amazing experience, only one of the most amazing experiences that I've ever undergone. I really enjoyed it though, I must say. I was on the flight deck and I had a mirror so that I could look out the overhead window during the climb out. I heard the engine start. I felt the vibration. I saw in the mirror the exhaust coming out the base of the vehicle. I saw a bright flash of light as the solid rockets ignited. Then I felt a jolt and I saw the launch tower pass away and I knew we were on our way. As we went up, I was still looking out the window. I saw the Earth roll away under us. The cards recede. As we got higher and higher and faster and faster, I could see shock waves forming around the vehicle and a red glow out the after end of the vehicle. It was truly a great experience, one that I'll never forget. Andy, what's been the biggest surprise of the mission for you to this moment? The thing to function in weightlessness is you'd be amazed at how easily you can lose things when you're weightless. On the ground, if you lose something, it just falls to the floor. But up here, it can go anywhere. And you can lose things so easily. And I've spent some time looking around for things that I've lost. And it's just incredible how quickly you can lose things. CBC, this is Houston. Please call Endeavour for a voice check. Good morning. Mark Garneau, are you able to hear me? Sam, Norma. This is a pleasure. Thanks for joining us. Who's with you today? My fellow crew member, Dan Bersh. Thank you both. No, Mark, you were lucky enough to earn a second ride aboard the shuttle. How did you win that honor? I guess I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. In 1992, Canada was invited to send two mission specialists down to Houston to train in preparation for the Space Station program. Incidentally, there were also two Europeans and one Japanese astronaut that came to work at NASA because of the International Space Station. And my boss asked me if I was available, and I said yes. So here I am. I know in 1984 you brought up some classical music to listen to during the mission. What went with you this time? Well, I still have a lot of classical music, but I also have some more modern stuff. Yesterday, I was listening to some Van Morrison, some crash test dummies, troops, and I've got some other stuff too. Fantastic. I hope you enjoy the rest of your mission, and I know we'll be talking to you next week in a news conference from Space and we'll be asking you about some of the Canadian experiments that you will be working on. Thank you very much. Sure do, Mario. Good downlink. This is Mission Control Houston. This television from Endeavour is a playback showing operations earlier with the Vened Tank resupply experiment. This experiment studying methods of venting tanks in weightlessness. Venting tanks is not easily done in weightlessness as air doesn't accumulate in a single position as is the case on earth and under the influence of gravity. This experiment explores new methods of having air accumulate in a position where it can be vented from a tank such as a propulsion tank for a spacecraft. View now is the northern California looking up the coast toward the California-Oregon border. We do, Mario. Thanks. Space outpocket Endeavour for CFDF. Go ahead, Mark. Yes, Clay. Before you go over the hill, I just want to let you know that Ampial changeout is complete. The CAN-2 sample is in and ready to be processed. Copy that.