Columbia remains in a 154 x 137 n.m. elliptical orbit, circling the Earth once every 90 minutes.
The crew will go to sleep at 10:19 p.m. CDT this evening and receive a wake up call from Mission Control on Thursday morning at 6:19 a.m.
Hire worked again with the saltwater aquarium serving as home to four oyster toadfish whose gravity receptors are being studied, and reported good quality tissue cultures in the Bioreactor Demonstration System.
Searfoss and Altman conducted a good firing of Columbia's maneuvering thrusters to make available additional landing opportunities at the end of the mission.
Columbia remains in a 154 x 137 n.m. elliptical orbit, circling the Earth once every 90 minutes.