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  • STS-107
    Report #09 
    Thursday, January 23, 2003 - 5:00 p.m. CST 
    Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas 
     
    The STS-107 scientific research mission aboard Columbia passed the halfway mark 
    today as the 80 microgravity investigations continue on schedule.
    
    Highlighting the investigations today for both the Blue and Red Teams were the 
    SOFBALL (Structures of Flame Balls) and ARMS (Advanced Respiratory Monitoring 
    System) experiments, although both teams continued to support other experiments 
    with a variety of activities.
    
    Mission Specialists Michael Anderson of the Blue Team and Kalpana Chawla of the 
    Red Team initiated runs with the SOFBALL experiment, which is creating tiny ball-
    shaped flames using hydrogen as the fuel. The tiny flames, which are approaching 
    some of the leanest and longest-lasting ever, are invisible to the human eye but 
    visible to the crew and investigators on the ground through special video equipment. 
    Dr. Paul Ronney of the University of Southern California and his team hope to 
    discover new properties  about combustion to improve engine efficiency and fire 
    safety, as well as reduce emissions. 
    
    Mission Specialist Dave Brown of the Blue Team and Israeli Payload Specialist 
    Ilan Ramon of the Red Team concentrated on the Advanced Respiratory Monitoring 
    System. The European Space Agency experiment alternated experiments targeting the 
    human lung and circulatory system and the human muscular system as it looked at 
    changes brought on by weightlessness.
    
    Commander Rick Husband, leader of the Red Team, and Pilot Willie McCool, leader 
    of the Blue Team, adjusted Columbia's attitude relative to the Earth to support 
    the different requirements of the experiments. They continued to manage the 
    temperature inside the Spacehab Research Double Module in the wake of problems 
    incurred with cooling systems. No experiments have or are expected to be affected 
    by the cooling issue.
    
    Red Team Mission Specialist Laurel Clark, a medical doctor, worked with the 
    Bioreactor Demonstration System, which is growing tissue samples as part of a 
    prostate cancer study. She also beamed down data from the Astroculture experiment 
    growing roses and rice flowers for commercial fragrance development. Clark also 
    worked with bacteria and yeast cultures being grown as part of a Microbial 
    Physiology Flight Experiment that looks at the effect of microgravity on antibiotics.
    
    In honor of the combustion experiments on this flight, the Blue Team's wake-up 
    call this afternoon was "Burning Down the House," by the Talking Heads.
    

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