this is shuttle launch control t-minus
three hours and holding final inspection
team is on the mobile launcher platform
continuing their inspections of the
vehicle the team has about eight members
representing NASA and the contractors
and Greg cat nick of the case of Kennedy
Space Center is leading the team the
team carries a variety of instruments
one is a portable infrared scanner to
measure temperatures on the cryogenic
surfaces of the tank engines and orbiter
they also measure temperatures of the
solid rocket booster cases and segment
joints this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus 3 hours and holding we are
standing by to get live coverage of the
flight crew as they're sitting down to
have their pre-flight meal at their crew
quarters and the operations and
check-out building the building is
located at KSC's industrial area this is
the location for the crew and here we
have the crew sitting down at the
traditional table the decorated cake
bearing their STS 72 insignia we have
mission specialists kawiti Wakata flying
for the first time aboard the shuttle co
h e is a astronaut from nasa born in
japan and dr. daniel berry flying for
the first time aboard the shuttle this
morning very will be one of the EDA
specialists and pilot Brent jet also
flying aboard the shuttle the first time
you'll be monitoring using the RMS for
the flight crew while they're performing
a bas here we have commander Brian Duffy
flying for the third time aboard the
shuttle today Duffy the most experienced
in the shuttle for the whole crew
mission specialists leroy chiao he's
making his second flight today aboard
the shuttle he will be involved in two
of the spacewalks and serving as flight
engineer Winston Scott flying for the
first time aboard the shuttle today
again the crews been awake since about
7:00 p.m.
and they're getting right on their
schedule that they'll be following
during the nine-day mission for mission
STS 72 the solid rocket booster
retrieval ships departed the hangar AF
on the Cape Canaveral Air Station
yesterday and they are on station out of
the Atlantic Ocean about 140 miles due
east of KSC they will be retrieving the
solid rocket boosters
following their splashdown into the
ocean and they will be towed back to the
hangar for refurbishment this is the
booster casings are disassembled and
refurbished at the Thiokol manufacturing
plant in Utah and also here at KSC at
the USVI facility here at the complex 39
area
no problems in our countdown countdown
is proceeding on schedule and for the
timeline t-minus two hours 57 minutes
and Counting this is shuttle launch
control
here we have the astronauts for a
mission STS 72 coming out of their crew
quarters at the operations and check-out
building they'll be getting into an
elevator where with a ride down to the
first floor crew is six again has been
training for the better part of the year
there
spent most of their time training for
this particular flight from my employees
wishing them well astronaut Bob Cabana
is in the blue flight suit he'll be
flying weather reconnaissance in the KSC
area and making report back to the
management down on the ground
got a big crowd of press including quite
a large crowd of Japanese news media who
made the trip over to see who eats ela
cotta as he prepares for his first
flight crews getting ready for their
nine-day mission to retrieve two
satellites and conduct two spacewalks
and conduct a variety of experiments on
the midday
we have the team led by commander Brian
Duffy
external tank is now being pressurized
for flight the gaseous oxygen vent hood
at the very top of the tank will be
moved away retracted back to the launch
position
therefore OTC close and lock your visors
initiate Oh - whoa have a smooth ride
and a safe planting all right thanks OTC
and let's get any pics after a great
effect feel it over EP la Cruz a
six-member crew is about to embark on
the first day of the planned nine-day
flight crew will treat the Japanese
space flower unit deploy and retrieved
NASA's oast free flyer satellite and
conduct to six-hour spacewalks all
systems aboard endeavour Argo t-minus 90
seconds endeavour will be launched on an
easterly trajectory on an orbit inclined
twenty-eight point forty five degrees to
the equator endeavours launch marks the
74th shuttle launch in the history of
the program
t-minus one minute at the t-minus 30 one
second point endeavours onboard
computers will have control of vehicle
functions
you like in the next few seconds
thousands of gallons of water will be
dumped onto the launch platform to help
suppress the sound and shock of the
seven million pounds of thrust produced
by the shuttle t-minus 15 seconds
12 11 10 9 8 we have a go for engine
start
booster ignition and liftoff roll
maneuver is complete aboard the orbiter
endeavour
twenty eight and a half to two hundred
firing unit for rendezvous Doncaster on
Saturday morning endeavours engines now
throttling as the orbiter prepares to
pass through the area of maximum dynamic
pressure on the vehicle
three main engines now throttling back
up
endeavour Houston go at throttle up
endeavours three liquid-fueled engines
are now back at full throttle the
orbiter is now downrange from the
Kennedy Space Center of tens nautical
miles in orbit are traveling 2,600 feet
per second or about 1700 miles per hour
the altitude is passing through ninety
thousand feet the three hydraulic
systems are in excellent shape as are
the fuel cells and main engines are
still performing at full throttle
approaching two minutes into the flight
standing by for burnout and separation
of the twin solid rocket boosters
SRB separation is confirmed time two
minutes and 20 seconds into the flight
performance thus far in the launch
phases then as expected endeavour is now
at an altitude of two hundred and ten
thousand feet downrange from the launch
site 45 nautical miles now traveling
5000 feet per second or about 3400 miles
per hour
breaking okay we're there a 77 each
other be 17 I'm going to say five down
okay actually it's not dropping at all
yet I'm gonna start doing some
tangent to sixty slant slant rain rate
is point six there's just a true this
point
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three inches
two inches
which is gotta do something
and ever the Delta did launch thanks
erection guess we're just coming by LA
at Phoenix milk
never no need to reply Batum answer only
sound born
clockwise yup I never studied
clockwise your period maneuver has
stopped
counterclockwise spirit maneuver started
and counterclockwise a period maneuver
stopped
and I never run bore the mid-deck thank
you
endeavour Houston in one minute till a
tigress hand over and I have the SFU
thermal bailout attitude when you're
ready to copy
go ahead with the competitive target for
body vector 5 pitch one for yaw zero
Omicron two seven zero target for body
vector 5 pitch 0 1 for y r0 Omicron two
seven zero good copy and I've got an
adjustment to that after the handover
never Houston free V Leroy we see you
coming thirty Seconds to the CEO roomful
okay come out with them and never get
you back at 2 0 0 9 10 minutes of ratty
calm off the tail when we come back for
our reward okay am i doing good one
little endeavour one minute to the Z we
get your back at 2 0 0 9 10 minutes of
tail when we come back on the west I'll
do that first and clear and second a
little my cutter set properly
you're tasting pretty good good I'm
going to come up top now this is where
we may have to go stand like tell you
outside planets you can just move beyond
this where I can reach it
okay next look a little bit salty fish
well Leroy your next step after just a
just about shadow now is a paper that
the interaction you did that attach to
desiccate effective before they get to
hit there are locks we put don't want to
just comment Arista can you tell me will
repulsing over right now hey Leroy what
do you want me to do with the arm
okay go I did it I'm done with the arm
you can go back to you can go to the
other background for audition for
example that's correct that's where we
need to be
never Houston for Daniel Australia well
thanks Tom it's for an incredible sight
I'm envious
remember the the pain is inverted is
your point of view right
and uh then I made it up so did okay I'm
just seeing the role being like Ernie
Rizzo that looks good don't worry okay
that's supposed to be okay about three
more inches you'll be dead center 3/4
inches forward another inch you're dead
center you come straight in into vector
mode I did talk about oh hey your ball
four inches so I can put it in from here
if you want to roll it around okay
dann wird the rolls exactly where it's
supposed to be I'm going to go when you
give me a go I'm going to go for capture
but I'm showing the arm and the cameras
right where it's supposed to be I'm
showing the it's the punch of the
end-effector they go into the equal a to
the arm outside pieces the three Jesus
each at 120 degrees each other and I'm
showing that off by 180 degree
but Dad say that it okay we have a great
view Bren thanks
and never Brent PDR I was looking at
this just one moment
hey we're standing by
okay let me know when we're go for
capture your girl for capture
I saw a good capture I saw the snares
brewed nicely okay like I could capture
Dan let me know when you go for it your
girl from Ridgid becomes rigid I'm
waiting I see a rigid izing we've got
rigid brake pad that's a good job guys
okay now all right good come straight
toward me a little bit and by Dan I'm
waiting for the rigid topic okay I'm
sorry
and I'm okay we said you could tell me
again
oh we're to hook the other two arm which
into the intersection with each other -
okay then you go like this with the set
to VI yellow NW detector
okay they then move it down toward you
okay I said by just one second but after
that it was because of the reconfigure
has to move Leroy said er from where it
was to the other songs from stand much
all right we need to remember to rotate
it back for storage okay looking good
both feet are on your right foot is
almost there
right foot chillin in the loop use your
skill to move Daigo you left in right
you're right isn't quite in there there
you write to them sort of sunrise look
at that but you know what Leroy your
right is above the you know how that
angle is okay which I can have that now
you're in properly in your right and
your left have been beautiful state
Kaitlyn good fit here Leroy terrifying
him at you a temporarily attached
Leroy slide well state gelatin run run
negative which that I'm gonna do that
after i hook him up so i don't have to
go back and forth twice okay
and I can see you out of the window now
I'll work super okay accessing operate
the TFR they dress
pitch controls richard own heading over
to the are you okay then okay pitch
control by those windows from where
we're watching okay with some good
control response
okay leo you want to access somewhere
the PFR they're just two hits pit though
so it's been lower spine looks good
- school action ok access cooperated
your control to position the PFL of just
around the atf for station station there
the handles are little low they're fine
for me but someone tall taller would
might be a bit of a stretch I've had
that problem in where up so we'll see
what happens believe I guess that's must
be officer pretty user-friendly great
hi Dan look at the look at the earth
there Jim watch the thermal cube
underneath it Louisa take a look over
the fields you can oh my goodness okay
pick me back in play hey I came up
really easy I got it I got it
okay I got it endeavour Houston on
air-to-ground two for the flight deck
hey Leroy moving up and out of the bed
endeavour Houston on the west and I've
got some fast actions for the flight
deck and what y'all can see that from
the window but a flight deck we'd like
the supply water dump using fast on five
dash Niner using fess be okay damn thank
you going keep going you're almost at it
you're at the latch okay flash hey you
can see how badly the cables are bound
cables are bound up you take a picture
that for the ground
party copy okay if you're happy do a
couple other axes for you there okay
there they copy that
endeavour Houston no action on the PDR
I've slipped that's due to the ingress
from Dan
Kelly right so you've got the PDF there
you can install the P tap on the
starboard base or last couple minutes
and then they'll be done and listen it
install and remove an avionics power
line from that ta line plan okay if that
will be able to have to be out the birth
then distribution to be a pupa and you
know distri clockwise on the people
endeavour Houston with two minutes from
the zo e will get you back in
approximately seven minutes for the
flight deck you're go for the SM
checkpoint at the end of fourteen seven
cabin repress and for ivy and Evie the
plan right now is for leroy to proceed
as planned on the timeline for ev3 we're
gonna give you some easy tasks following
your utility box so you both meet up at
p WP setup that's the plan for now copy
okay we copy that time and we'll just
stand by to hear which test you want
them to do okay perform the following
for the test plate first steps are going
to be a quick grab which is three times
both answers face three throws okay in
some space here we go one
two and three
hey lay back two or three times the
whole way back no hands max go through
this one
and three there were a minute and a half
to attenders hand over the first seven
minutes on East will be in blockage you
have the cameras okay totally copy that
endeavor we can take the cameras again
okay so you're all yours thank you well
Bo BRT for the clip back here anyway
okay I've got it
okay I'm going to let go okay and you
got it
Agrippa the orientation or what let it
go there like this to fire this way it
goes in 180 from once you get that
statement spacing your chest goes into
that Pope sticking into the wall
okay that's complete coming in family a
lot
okay what's your eager to you on you can
open it the waters too often run it off
food agree with you Lee water well okay
you can close some color
the corporate closed ok you are go for
clothes locking the outer houses saving
the cash
that's complete thanks that's an
intermittent leak and it's understood we
might have to do that again during the
flight also we're coming up on a
handover with tigress in two minutes
it's an extended hand over and we'll get
you back at 1938 okay Tom thanks
endeavour Houston the flight director
wants to know who Buzz Lightyear is down
there
I'll get it you want me to swap out
Brian whenever you're ready to my heart
stolen Hey
well anyways inside Houston Roger Brian
again you have a six nine til and dot
here down and locked
commander Brian Duffy now pulling those
of the orbiter up in a pre-flare
maneuver altitude 700 feet pilot Brent
Jett preparing to put the landing gear
down
and landing gear is down and locked
main gear touchdown
my nose gear touchdown endeavour rolling
out on runway one-five at the Kennedy
Space Center completing endeavours tenth
mission in space the 74th mission in the
shuttle program completing 142 orbits of
the earth traveling 3.7 million miles
what opposite Roger endeavours copy will
stop welcome back guys stopped you did a
great job of getting us started in 1996
standby for any post-landing deltas