MISSION CONTROL CENTER
STS-70 Status Report #4

Saturday, July 15, 1995, 9 a.m. CDT

Halfway through its third day in space, Discovery's crew has settled
into a routine of conducting and monitoring nearly 20 different
science experiments on the orbiter's middeck and flight deck.

Pilot Kevin Kregel and Mission Specialist Don Thomas began the day
working with the HERCULES camera which will record pinpoint data on
the surface location of Earth observations images.  A first attempt to
align the camera's Inertial Measurement Unit was unsuccessful, but the
crew attributed this to a need for some practice with the procedure,
which involves locating two stars with the camera in different
orientations.

Mission Specialist Mary Ellen Weber checked the Bioreactor
Demonstration System and found the cells there to be developing
well. She also participated in visual function data gathering. Weber's
test followed a report that Kregel had successfully extricated a mote
from her eye.

The workday began shortly after two o'clock this morning with a wakeup
call from Kate Smith singing "Beautiful Ohio" in honor of four of the
five crewmembers being from that state. Kregel claims New York as his
home state.

Commander Tom Henricks is scheduled to talk with a disabled veteran at
8:42 a.m. CDT, while Thomas, Weber and fellow Mission Specialist Nancy
Currie will be interviewed by ABC's Mike and Maty Show at 1:12
p.m. Henricks will talk with the Toledo Blade at 1:52 p.m.

Discovery continues to function flawlessly as it orbits the Earth
every 90 minutes at an altitude of 200 miles.

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