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good afternoon and welcome to the sts 57

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post flight press conference this

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afternoon the crew is with us to talk

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about the eureka retrieve

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and the first flight of the space hab

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experiments module

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plus other experiments on board the

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flight

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and to my right is the crew commander

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colonel

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like to introduce him and turn the

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program over to him ron

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thanks very much barbara we're delighted

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that you all be here with us

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so we can share the highlights of the

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flight it was a great flight and we're

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certainly interested in telling you all

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about it

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let me introduce the rest of the crew to

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my right is brian duffy brian was making

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his

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second flight on sts-57 he was our pilot

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he was the member of the three-man

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three-person

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orbiter crew along with myself and the

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flight engineer

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brian also orchestrated the eva for us

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he

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rendezvous flight plan as well

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and he participated in a number of the

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space hub experiments

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to brian's right is david lowe david was

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the payload commander that means that on

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this flight he had prime responsibility

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for integrating the spacehab module

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as being the first flight of spacehab

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that took quite a bit of his time

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he was also one of our two eva

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crewmembers

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in addition to that he was the prime

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operator for the rms during the eureka

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retrieve so as you can see he had a full

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plate on this mission as well

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to david's right is nancy sherlock nancy

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was our

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ms2 our flight engineer she was the

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third member of the orbiter

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team for ascent and entry along with

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brian and myself

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nancy was the prime rms operator during

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the eva so it was a very busy day for

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her

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and nancy had a great deal of

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participation in the spacehead

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experiments as well on nancy's right

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is jeff weisoff jeff was also making his

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first flight along with nancy

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uh jeff was the rendezvous mission

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specialist for this flight along with

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brian and myself he was responsible for

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ensuring that the rendezvous profile was

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was properly executed

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and he had some particular

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responsibilities regarding that as we

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closed in

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to eureka in the final stages jeff was

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the second member of the eva team along

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with david

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jeff had a great deal of interaction

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with the space have experiments and he

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had a

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couple of other experiments that

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required his attention as well including

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shoot and fair which we'll talk about

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a little bit later to jeff's right is

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janice always gets to get introduced

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last but that's by no means least she's

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the person who had more than anyone else

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implementation of the space app

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experiment procedures on this flight she

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really did the lion's share of the work

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back in spacehab

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in addition to that we integrated her

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into the rendezvous profile and janus

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was the backup

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rms operator during the eva so as you

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can see it was a full flight

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and and everyone on the crew had a great

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deal going on during the the course of

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the ten day mission

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what we'd like to do with you today is

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first show you a film that'll cover the

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highlights or some of the highlights

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of the sts-57 flight and then after that

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switch medium to uh slides and at the

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end of that we'll have about a 20-minute

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question answer period

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this is our crew patch i'm sure it's

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familiar to most of you

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here we are the night before launch we

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actually had one dry run or dress

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rehearsal the day prior to launch the

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weather wasn't quite good enough

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this is a beautiful sight here we are in

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the suit-up room on the morning of

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launch here i am adjusting my

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next g david everyone you can see is is

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really anxious to go

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here's nancy you see a little hello here

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to uh to her daughter

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as is janice very eager to get on with

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once our suits were all checked out and

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confirmed that they were all operational

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we headed out

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to the pad this is always a fun time you

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go out you know you're

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always going to be greeted by a lot of

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folks at the end

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at the end of the ramp there people that

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you're friends with

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a few hours later we get when it's time

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to go to work the uh of course the main

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and the the boosters light and the

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the roll program for us this time was

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nice and smooth we had a cloud that was

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nearby you'll see us going uh

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went right by the edge of it ron and i

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had been sitting there looking

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i had it for quite a while it was it had

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moved left and right over the pad that

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shortly after takeoff you can see the

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shock wave here on the vehicle

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janice and i uh rode on the mid deck and

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the two events you really feel other

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than other than the initial takeoff is

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uh we can feel and hear the sound of

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and then we go for another six and a

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half minutes on the main engines

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and one of my real great pleasures was

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my first sight of the earth when i got

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to go up to the flight deck to

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participate in the external tank dto

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photography

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i handed david a camcorder and he took

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these great pictures of the tank

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floating away and i was using an f4 to

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shortly after we arrive on orbit we

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begin configuring the orbit

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orbiter for orbit operations this is me

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opening up the payload bay doors and

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brian is taking film footage of the door

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opening which we then later downlinked

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open and i got my first glimpse of the

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earth from 250 miles was just absolutely

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this is a view of the eureka satellite

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it gives you an idea of what eureka

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immediately overhead janice's vantage

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point as she was back in the space hub

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here we are on the flight deck and you

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as ron mentioned while the other five

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members of the crew were up on the

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flight deck i was using the space have

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to look through a night vision system

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and the laser ranger you see me taking

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this is the view that i had of eureka as

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ron was doing the fly around to get the

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grapple fixture

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poised for david's activity you can see

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looking at the monitors to make sure

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everything's ready for him to grab a

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hold of the reek and put it back in the

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as ron is doing the fly around

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and this is the view again out of the

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the d camera you can see the

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of your picture there

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the payload was very very stable that's

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a tribute to both ron's flying

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capabilities and and also just how

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stable the payload was it was rock solid

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which is from from an rms point of view

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that's a great sight to see

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coming in here this is just prior to

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grapple in fact i think uh grapple's

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and now it's being uh the end effector

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the snares are actually pulling

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the payload into the end effector there

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an a camera view right now um this i

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post-capture position um and so

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what you can see uh in the background

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with the with the clouds right there

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the high desert area of california and

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one of the small problems that we had

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during the retrieval was that

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so we took the opportunity to post

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grapple to send down some film footage

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so the payload operations center over in

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germany could take a look at that

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and then once everyone was satisfied we

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had some good views we began birthing

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and this is david operating the robotic

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arm manipulating

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eureka down into the birth position and

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to latch it into the payload bay and we

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which was to begin with an eba to latch

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the birthing sequence itself went very

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the next morning as nancy mentioned we

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had the plan dva that was flight day

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where they could practice some

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translation techniques and also

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determine the way in which they wanted

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to carry their tools

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out for the work that they knew they had

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here we see david and jeff you can see

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just what tight quarters it is in the

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him making his initial egress from the

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and then there's a shot from inside the

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airlock where you can see us positioning

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this is uh myself positioning to go out

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first task that we had to do was to

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basically set up the work site so that

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we could go

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work on the eureka antennas and jeff

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installed a pfr attached device on the

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arm and a safety tether and then i came

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on over and attached the portable foot

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restraint

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right there that i was going to step in

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and then nancy was going to drive me

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all of that is now attached to the end

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of the arm to the end effector there and

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i'm just about ready to ingress the

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portable foot restraint

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you can see the arm you're going to see

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putting putting some some inputs into

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the arm you can see it

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it probably moved up to a foot or so and

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i think nancy got some some brake slip

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messages when both jeff and i ingressed

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the portable foot restraint

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and then from there nancy uh drove me on

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over and positioned me in front of the

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eureka the latching into the antennas

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uh while eureka was birthed in the

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payload bay was one contingency that we

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really hadn't trained to

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so overnight the rms and eva folks

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worked

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very hard to send us some good

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procedures that they uplinked in the

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morning

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and that involved manipulating david

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over in the middle of the payload bay

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and putting him right down between the

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shoot payload and the eureka payload to

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push on the antenna

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we first went to the first antenna which

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is the four one here i am

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manipulating him back to the aft antenna

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and he's going to push

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on that antenna while the payload

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operations center commanded the latch

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jeff was absolutely invaluable to us you

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see him over on the side

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he was our eyes out in the payload bay

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the eureka portion of the eva took just

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a little bit less than two hours and

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from that point on we pretty much went

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into the

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what we had planned as far as our dto

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was and

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that involved three major objectives the

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first of which was

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what we called mass handling and in this

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case i was on the end of the arm and i

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was

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carrying jeff and we were simulating uh

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jeff was just being basically a

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500-pound blivet

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and i was using jeff to simulate

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maneuvering around a large

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scientific instrument that we might have

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to do on future missions

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yeah he was he acted as blithed very

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well

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um while we were doing this nancy would

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um

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maneuver me forward and after the

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payload bay as well as um up and down

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out of the payload bay

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and we did this both in vernier and

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course rates on the rms and uh

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results that i'd like to report are that

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uh the the arm is a a very stable

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platform

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driving around in either vernier or

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course rates um was a

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fairly simple thing to do as long as you

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move slowly as long as the inputs i made

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into

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the mass were slow inputs it was

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very very controllable you can see here

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me

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switched places on the arm and

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i was going to do the third task which

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was the high torque task

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the idea behind this was uh being held

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in the foot restraint on the arm to go

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down and

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use a torque recorder to torque on some

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bolts which is what i'm doing here that

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were held

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a bulk bolt that was held on the sill

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and the idea there was to look at the

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reaction forces and how the arm moved as

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we

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that

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turned out to work very easily very much

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like our wet f training and uh

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seemed to be a very easy operation to do

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the other major payload we had on board

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was space hab this was the first flight

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of space hub it's a commercial module

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connected to the crew compartment by a

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tunnel

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there's a hatch at either end of the

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tunnel for asset and entry and you see

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david here opening up the hatch on

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flight day one

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so we can get space have ready for

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experiment operations

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it flew uphill powered because some of

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the experiments required temperature

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control and monitoring

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but there were a number of systems that

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had to be started up on that first day

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to get ready for use

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you see david here on the forward wall

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of space hab where the space hub

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subsystems

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equipment mostly was getting things

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ready to start operations

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this is the tunnel going down the tunnel

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that was connecting the two

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parts of the space hub and the orbiter

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this is early on the flight it gives you

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a nice view of the aft

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wall of space have before we've put out

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all our experiment procedures and gotten

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a little more clutter than

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as you'll see in later views this is

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brian checking out some orbiter

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equipment that we had stowed back there

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that actually is the laser ranger that

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we used on the eureka retrieve day

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and you can see how the aft wall is

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covered with lockers very similar to the

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mid deck lockers

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space head was envisioned as kind of an

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extension of the mid deck to give you

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access for lots of experiments doing

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early design work

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this is the port wall which we found

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that to be a very convenient place to

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store procedures in the computer disk

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you can see me taking some computers out

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there

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as well as nancy working on an

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experiment on the forward wall

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with two people back there on the corner

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you can see there's plenty of space in

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georgia to get around and space hab

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was a very nice area to work it was nice

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and bright and had a lot of easy access

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the starboard wall spacep has the

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capability of putting

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racks in you see jeff here working at

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the rack which had a workbench on it and

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some foot restraints it was very handy

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for performing experiments and you saw

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me working on a

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computer we also had some experiments in

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the mid deck this is ron working on one

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of our protein crystal growth

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experiments adjusting the focus for some

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photo tv we were taking of it

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we flew a lot of computers on this

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flight and this is an experiment

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tools and diagnostic system which is

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basically checking to make sure you can

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do some ifm on

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on baseline equipment this is a liquid

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encapsulated melt zone

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and by encapsulating it in a liquid they

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were hoping to grow

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and this is jeff also operating an

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experiment called cgba

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which involved mixing the fluids

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together and then you'll see him shake

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the fluids here in a second and these

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were mostly all biological samples that

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he was activating

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one of the experiments i ran from the

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middick was called scg for solution

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crystal growth

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and we're stirring some solutions here

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to as a precursor to another experiment

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that

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grew some ceramic crystals uh here's

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just a quick shot of

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one of the things i did one day was to

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solder a circuit board

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the idea being to look into

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how feasible it is to do on orbit repair

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of electronic

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components another thing we were doing

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back in the space hab

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was we were actually looking at an

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experiment that was

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looking at how feasible it is to grow

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plants in space which is something that

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we figure we'll have to do in the long

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term and that's what nancy was doing

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here

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looks like she got going in one

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direction and figured out it was easier

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another experiment that we carried

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called uh shoot which was super fluid

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helium on orbit transfer was operated

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from a pgsc

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on the flight deck janice and i worked

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with that pgsc and brian and

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ron coordinated the burns here you can

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see the cryogenic doers for the

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superfluid helium on the mpass structure

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the idea behind this experiment is to

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study the transfer of cryogenic fluid

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for future servicing of satellites

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the other secondary that we carried on

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the mid deck called fair

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is a fluid transfer experiment between

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two tanks to study a future design of

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propellant tanks this particular one is

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very similar to the design that's

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planned to be flown on the cassini probe

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that will go to saturn

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we had a lot of training pre-flight and

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earth observations because of course

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looking out the window

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is a very interesting view of the earth

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you can see me taking some pictures

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there with our 70 millimeter

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camera which gives you very high detail

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for looking at the earth

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this is a view of the sinai peninsula

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you can see the

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gulf of aqaba there leading down into

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the red sea

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this is further down under the horn of

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africa the somalia area

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and this is not africa this is the uh

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the west coast of australia there you

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can see uh

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ecsmith bay which the the big bay that

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you see along to the right there

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and uh sharks bay is just underneath the

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and uh one of the other experiments that

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we did was called dso 618

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writing a cycle ergometer it was one of

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the other experiments that we were

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trying to

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use to increase your orthostatic

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tolerance when you come back and land on

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earth

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we were extremely busy on this flight

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and as you can see jeff didn't take time

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to eat so

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janice felt compelled to feed him

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and just like every crew we felt

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obligated to play with our food however

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in this case we decided to take this

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opportunity to bombard jeff

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one of the other things that we flew was

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a bear for the drug abuse resistance

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program a dare bear

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and his little t-shirt says dare to keep

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kids off drugs and he got pretty good at

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as you're getting ready to come home for

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entry you check out some of the systems

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on board that you haven't been using in

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a while

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or in the entry configuration making

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sure everything's ready this is a

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checking

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rcs system you can see brian and and ron

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moving around of course actually it's

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the orbiter moving around as the jets

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fire

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and you can see how they are enough of

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an input that there's a significant

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movement on the part of the orbiter with

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the wave off days we had we got a little

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more chance to look out the windows you

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see the terminator here

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as everybody had told us first time

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flyers sunrises and sunsets are gorgeous

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as you heard we had a lot of practice at

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deorbit prep and this is one of the

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scenes on the flight deck as we prepare

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to come in

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in the lessons david did a lot of this

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camcorder footage and brian did from the

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flight deck so you can kind of see

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the aft part of the fight deck there and

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once we were decided to get serious

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about this entry stuff

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well we finally did the view of a burn

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and we're in the dark for some of the

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high mock

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times and up in mach 24 range and here

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you see the plasma

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which surrounds the vehicle during the

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entry up there we flew into the daylight

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around mach 23 so we didn't get to see

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that all the way down

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we also we got to florida short of nine

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in the morning so we probably didn't

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wake everybody up but we think we uh

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we announced our arrival with the sonic

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booms

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here we are with a view of the orbiter

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on the final approach we landed at ksc

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runway 3-3 it was a great treat for us

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to be able to come back to ksc you

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always like to bring the orbiter back to

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here's a view taken from the sta the

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shuttle training aircraft

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as we approach the runway the wheels are

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now down

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just crossing the underrun crossing the

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threshold to the runway

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now we transition to a view looking down

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there's touchdown if you look for them a

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there it is that's the drag chute

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beginning its deployment sequence

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you can see the drag shoot coming out on

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the side view there's the shuttle

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training aircraft

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flying with us in the vertical assembly

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building going by in the background

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there's nosegear touchdown and now a

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picture looking head-on at the orbiter

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from the other end of the runway

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there's drag shoot jettison you can see

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it comes almost straight down

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we didn't have much of a crosswind that