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Mission Control Center
STS-65 Status Report #4
6 a.m. July 10, 1994

The Red Team of astronauts aboard Columbia begins its third duty shift of the
14-day mission this morning as near continuous operations in the pressurized
Spacelab module gather more and more data for scientists participating in the
International Microgravity Laboratory-2 mission.

Commander Bob Cabana and Pilot Jim Halsell will take care of activities in the
crew compartment while Mission Specialist Rick Hieb and Payload Specialist
Chiaki Mukai spend their second day working in the laboratory.

The Blue Team of Mission Specialists Carl Walz, Leroy Chiao and Don Thomas will
begin its sleep shift about 9:30 a.m.  CDT after a smooth shift.  Neither the
crew nor flight controllers in Houston reported any significant problems
overnight.

One highlight was a television interview with Cleveland natives Walz and Thomas
by a hometown television station.  Displaying Cleveland penants, stickers and
shirts, the pair discussed how important the STS-65 experiments are to
long-duration space flight, how their academic studies helped them to become
astronauts and how the Apollo 11 lunar landing motivated them 25 years ago.

The current altitude of the orbiter is 163 nautical miles as it circles the
Earth every 90 minutes.

The Johnson Space Center Newsroom hours are 8 a.m. to 2 p.m Sunday. On weekdays
during the mission, the newsroom will be open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

NASA issues four status reports daily during the mission: Orbiter status
reports from Mission Control at about 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and science operations
reports from Spacelab Mission Operations Control in Huntsville at approximately
6 a.m. and 6 p.m.