STS-110 Flight Day 8 Highlights

Abstract

On Flight Day 8 of the STS-110 mission, the combined members of the Atlantis STS-110 crew and the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 4 crew, Commanders Michael J. Bloomfield and Yury I. Onufrienko, respectively, answer questions posed to them by press members on the ground. Topics covered include: challenges of long term space habitation, adequacy of training for the on-orbit construction of the space station, details on the Mobile Transporter (MT) railcar system. Footage of the MT directly precedes and follows the extended question and answer portion of the video. The MT is seen from a variety of angles, as it slowly moves from Workstation 4 to Workstation 5 in order to test its ability to grapple to a fixed point along the track. The MT will eventually be used as a base for the robot arm in order to perform maintenance and assembly tasks on the ISS.