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An ABC affiliate out of San Francisco, KGO's reporter asked: "I was reading SPACE.com* last night about some of the personal items astronauts take into space, that's quite an array. Is there any way any of you could reach what you put in your personal items box. There's a compass,** there's a meteorite... anything else odd that we need to know or that you can show us and explain why?" [b]Steve Frick[/b] responded: "Well, that's a good question. I haven't actually seen what is on that list. We are allowed to fly a few small small things for ourselves but that stuff all gets packed away and tucked away in a part of the orbiter that we don't have access to when we fly. Because the parts that we can get at, all the lockers and bags and things, those are full of things we actually need for the mission. The orbiter has a good deal of room but we pack in as much as we can to do the mission and make sure we get everything done. So those things that aren't generally mission specific are generally tucked away into a locker. We can't really get at them on flight." [b]KGO-TV[/b]: So you won't really be using that compass, then? [b]Frick[/b]: A compass wouldn't do us all that much good up here but we have a great navigation system and the folks on the ground are always watching us real close to make sure we are pointed in the right direction.
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