QUESTION:
What do you do in training?

ANSWER from Jay Buckey:
The goal of the training is for us to become very good at 
doing the experiments, both when they are going well and when they break. We 
spend a fair amount of time doing simulations. For this, we go into a 
mockup--something that is built to look just like the shuttle or the spacelab. 
(The spacelab fits in the payload bay of the shuttle and is where we do the 
experiments.) Tomorrow, we will do a simulation of our first day in space 
on Neurolab. We will get out of our launch and entry suits, put them away, 
activate the spacelab and start some of the experiments. Everything has to 
move along smoothly and on time or we wont be able to complete all the 
experiments we have planned on this mission.