STS-94
Report # 13 
Monday, July 7, 1997  5:00 p.m. CDT 
 
  Columbias seven astronauts continued their steady support of
science investigations in the Spacelab module, focusing on how various
materials and liquids change and behave in the weightless environment
of space.

  Throughout the day, the Red team astronauts, Commander Jim Halsell,
Pilot Susan Still, Mission Specialist Don Thomas and Payload
Specialist Greg Linteris, continued work with a variety of
investigations in the Large Isothermal Furnace, Glovebox and
Combustion Module. In addition, Halsell, Still and Linteris each
talked with students at schools located in Texas, Georgia and New
Mexico using the Shuttle Amateur Radio (SAREX) unit.

  As their day was ending, the Red team also sent down some television
sharing images of the four astronauts as they explained the challenges
of working, living and exercising in a microgravity environment.

  The Blue team, Payload Commander Janice Voss, Mission Specialist
Mike Gernhardt and Payload Specialist Roger Crouch, assumed
responsibility for science and orbiter operations shortly after 1
p.m. today.  Voss and Crouch will continue work with the Droplet
Combustion Experiment and Laminar Soot Processes investigation, while
Gernhardt performs status checks in the Spacelab module and monitors
all of Columbias systems.

  The Red team will awaken about 11 p.m., following an eight-hour
sleep period, and two hours later will once again be back on duty,
supporting 24-hour science operations on Columbia.  The Blue team will
begin its next sleep period shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday.

The next STS-94 status report will be issued about 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

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