Flight Day 5 Transcript

CAPCOM Shannon Lucid: Good morning, Discovery! And a special morning to you, Soichi. If you'd been listening really close to the wakeup music, you might have been able to hear your own childrens' voices in the choir that was singing.

Mission Specialist Soichi Noguchi: Good morning, Shannon, and thanks for the great chorus by the Japanese School of Houston and also my wonderful family, Miki, Yuka, Ami and Miwa. Thanks for the great support over the many years. It's been a long wait, but it's certainly worth it. And today, let's go spacewalk.

Lucid: And we're all watching, Soichi. It's going to be a great day. This is going to be an absolutely fantastic day for you, and your kids are really going to enjoy watching you. And by the way, it's a special day, not only because you're making a spacewalk -- you and Steve -- for the first time, but if you happen to run into the ISS CDR sometime today, you might want to congratulate him, because this is the start of his third year in space. He has now had two years in space, and this is the start of his third year, so you might want to congratulate him about that sometime today.

Noguchi: We sure will. Thanks!

Lucid: You're welcome!

Curator: Kim Dismukes | Responsible NASA Official: John Ira Petty | Updated: 07/30/2005
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