Complying with reporting in every half-hour, the practices proceed normally until 2133.

The urea cycle can not proceed normally, and nitrogen accumulates in the bloodstream in the form of ammonia.

The gravity gradient attitude of the orbiter proved quite stable, allowing the delicate experiments in materials processing and fluid mechanics to proceed normally.

Pollen germination, pollen tube entry, and double fertilization processes have all been observed to proceed normally.

For more than five hours, apart from minor difficulties with the communications and environmental control systems, the countdown proceeded normally.