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it's uh indeed a pleasure and a

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privilege for the crew to be back here

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to share with all of you our experience

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in space for 15 days

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iml 2 was a record breaking flight we

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stayed up longer than any other shuttle

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i think we did a lot of good science

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while we were in space the importance of

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international microgravity lab too

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that

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this was setting the groundwork for

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future operations aboard international

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space station and these guys just did an

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absolutely super job i

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i'll share with you a little bit of the

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the emotion after landing

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when we got to wheels stop

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felt at wheelstop after such a

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successful mission

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and i hated to give up the orbiter when

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it came time for scotty horowitz one of

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the astronaut support personnel to come

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inside and he said it's okay bob you got

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it all safe now you can leave and

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colombia it was just a super spaceship

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briefings that people just see the

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you know when we fly in space we're a

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small part of it unfortunately we're a

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very visible part

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but it is a team effort and this was

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your space flight

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you guys just did an absolutely super

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job preparing us preparing the payloads

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training us making sure that everything

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operated correctly while we were on

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orbit providing the support we needed to

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have such a successful mission so uh all

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these medals that we got today they're

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special for us but you should also take

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pride in their being awarded to us

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because it was through your efforts that

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we were able to receive them so we'd

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like to thank all of you very much for

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your hard work and we're just really

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happy to be here with you and share some

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of these pictures

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i guess we're on nasa's select now so

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before we get going i'd like to

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just reintroduce the uh the crew here

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for everybody and talk a little bit

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about them i i can take

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a chance to do that

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on my right uh my right hand man here my

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pilot jim halsell this was jim's first

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jim had flown sr-71s in the air force

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before he came to nasa as an astronaut

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so he was used to going mach

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we got him going a little faster and he

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no stranger to y'all is rick of

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course rick worked here at jsc before he

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was selected to be an astronaut with

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myself in 1985 and

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we were pretty proud and pleased to have

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two of the 85 class as the commander and

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payload commander on this flight

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rick just i can't say enough good things

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about the job he did as payload

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commander he the payload crew was

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assigned to this flight two years

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ahead of time

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and the travel and the work that these

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guys put in preparing these better than

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the world and six different space

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agencies

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the orbiter crew got assigned uh all we

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had to do was get up to speed a little

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bit on what was going to be done on the

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job and show them that we knew how to

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fly the orbiter but these guys were

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ready to go and

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it was an awful lot of hard work and

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they did a super job

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got to do a spacewalk and took those

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destiny in space

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this time we didn't let him do anything

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so exotic we locked him up in a space

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lab for 15 days but

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blue shift for the few hours that i

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orbiter running so these guys could do

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dr leroy ciao uh on the blue team back

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leroy and don together because in my

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mind i just can't separate them

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dr don thomas uh these guys just

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unbelievable the amount of work they

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experiment to another back there the

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folks at huntsville just couldn't wear

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put forth getting the science done back

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surprised they could get so much out of

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don't need to go that fast you can slow

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impact toward the end of the flight but

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preparing for the flight in helping

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ensure that we got all the science done

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of the earth we're gonna start out down

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shuttle missions or else pictures that

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balls on board for those that don't know

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similarities between the missions in

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and it really is important there's

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nothing more frustrating when you get

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back and you've taken all these

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beautiful pictures of the earth and you

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find out that they're a little soft

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they're not quite in focus and it's not

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because you did anything wrong with the

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cameras because the windows weren't

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clean so we wanted to make sure we had

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it was a tremendous opportunity to view

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the earth on blue shift we saw a lot of

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north africa

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and we saw a lot of australia we flew

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over india but i can't tell you whether

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i saw in or

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whether there was really india beneath

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us because of these this huge monsoon

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cloud sort of hung over india for two

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weeks and they were just getting a

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if you look real close you'll notice

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galveston island and bolivar peninsula

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clear lake area is underneath that one

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but uh it really was a nice shot at

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galveston island when we went over this

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day if you

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when you look really close it's kind of

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hard to see in the lighting here but you

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can actually see the the moody center in

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the in the beaches in this one area

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coming down into

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south america this was just a gorgeous

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shot looking

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down the andes

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you can see the west coast of south

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america on the

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right of the screen there

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the andes with the dry lakes and then

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off that hazy area that you see

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on the far left of the screen there is

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over into the

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this is the rio grande river in

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bolivia and what you see there is not

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smoke that is the wind coming down and

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actually picking up

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this is one of they've seen this before

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on shuttle flights this is one of the

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better pictures of it this

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airborne dust particulate when it gets

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airborne is actually a nutrient for the

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rain forest as it gets carried off into

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the

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here we are over uh

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central south america you can see some

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of the the biomass burning getting ready

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again

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cultivation in the rain forest area in

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it doesn't show up quite as clearly on

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this screen but this is just a gorgeous

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shot of rio de janeiro as we come to the

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east coast of

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south america

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you can see the runway on the island

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there it was just exceptionally a clear

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day a lot of the time

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south america was in the clouds but

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toward the end of the mission the clouds

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cleared out and we just had some

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much in the news lately

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haiti on the island of hispaniola

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here's another phenomenon that

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they had not documented with photography

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they knew it was happening the smoke

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what looks like smoke at the top of the

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picture there you can see the light

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coral area that's actually the bahamas

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were just east of florida and the cloud

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that you see is actually dust it's

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particulate that has blown from africa

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across the atlantic ocean

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and

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this again is a particulate matter

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that's in the air that gets blown into

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south america and is actually a nutrient

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this is in

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saudi arabia and you can see

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center point irrigation where they're

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actually bringing up deep water from an

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aquifer and irrigating the land you'll

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notice some of the areas

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bright green where it's being irrigated

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others where it's not in the desert is

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actually reclaiming some of these center

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this has been well documented in a lot

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of shuttle federal actually back to 1965

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what you're seeing here in the center of

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the picture the the water area is

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approximately 15 to 20 percent

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the size of the lake that was there in

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1965 it's something that nasa's been

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uh this is uh lake turkana on the uh

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kenya ethiopian border uh where the

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river omo is uh building a delta into

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the lake

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this lake

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the delta that you see in the north

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there you can see the mud the silt being

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dumped in there but the actual delt up

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at the top is about 400 percent larger

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than it was first documented back during

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it doesn't show up real well here but in

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the water you see some

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pinkish swirls

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this is the red sea and this is a

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plankton bloom in the red sea

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and it's something that they'd not seen

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carl mentioned

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india being under water a lot or under

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cloud cover due to the monsoon season

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this is the brahmaputra river

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just coming out of the

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himalayas you can see the mountains the

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dark green area in the

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upper right corner of the picture and

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what is normally a an extremely braided

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river you can see all the the small

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little river uh roulettes or however you

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want to say it but

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uh you notice it's getting much wider as

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it fills with rain it just becomes a

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huge almost a moving lake as opposed to

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this is a melville island off the west

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coast of australia

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we saw

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australia quite a bit uh and you could

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see quite a bit of agricultural burning

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this is in the uh philippine sea uh jim

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took this picture you want to talk about

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sun glen

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yeah help me out if i can't remember i

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took so many pictures over the part of

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the flight but i sung blind is a very

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interesting phenomenon where if you

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catch the angle just right reflecting

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back up towards you you can get some

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really interesting photos of what's

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happening not only at the surface of the

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water but also to a certain depth

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beneath it and what you see here is the

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surface of the ocean the star the the

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black splotches are

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shadows from clouds so disregard that

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but what's really interesting to the

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oceanographers

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and if i can figure out how to operate

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this

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okay

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uh this area right here and bob you help

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me out with a scientific name of that

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well large internal waves uh they're

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called sulois bengakis but

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it's just the wave interaction that

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actually looks like a deep trough there

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but actually it you know if you were

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down on the surface of the ocean it

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would look level to you so from space

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we can see

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formations in the water that can't be

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seen on the surface of the ocean and the

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oceanographers are trying to understand

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better how the air masses and the water

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currents all interact together to

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develop the world's

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world's climates and this these this

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kind of photography really helps them

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uh this

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for a couple of reasons we picked this

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slide uh up at the terminator well first

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off we're crossing from uh nighttime

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into daylight and you can actually see

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the uh

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terminator right across there but right

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there that's a huge typhoon that was up

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near uh the philippines in okinawa while

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we were flying the eye of it is actually

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right about in there i got a hurricane

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coming up that was even more well

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developed but very interesting to track

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00:19:05,029 --> 00:19:03,600
the storms from up there and i thought

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just a beautiful

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the earth limb with the the terminator

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jim took this shot and if you could see

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this in better detail this is just a a

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phenomenal shot of uh hawaii

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he was looking at the

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the wake of the island as the ocean

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currents come by up here and

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it's cut off a little bit here on the

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size of the screen but if you look at

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the detail the field patterns and

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so you got to orient myself pearl harbor

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in the airfields it's just it's really a

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we're going to show you more this is

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hurricane amelia and jim's going to talk

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about it in our video

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extremely well developed hurricane

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the eye here and the size of it wins

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over 150 miles an hour

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jim took just a tremendous shot here

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if i had to pick out one highlight of

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the whole mission from looking out the

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window this would be it i was minding my

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own business exercising on the ergometer

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and i see this come within the field of

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view so automatically i uh stop

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exercising pick up the camera and start

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shooting and i got lucky in getting this

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picture and i think it actually conveys

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the depth that we're dealing with here

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i'm just guessing but i guess the top of

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the hurricane must have been somewhere

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at 40 or 50 000 feet

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and the the side walls of the eye of the

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hurricane look perfectly

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00:20:38,950 --> 00:20:37,600
vertical and you could see straight down

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and the blue that you see in the center

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there is the pacific ocean in the eye of

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the hurricane

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it was such a powerful force of nature i

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actually felt that i could see the

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swirling in close to the eye the

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the wind speeds were so high it was a

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uh with that we'd like to go to our

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crew movie and share a little bit of the

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these are color bars

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well here we are uh getting suited up

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ready to go fly

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uh

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i mean look all the way there carl

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waving at everybody thumbs up he's ready

520
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to go leroy's ready to go

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this was really a gentlemanly flight for

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me i'm used to getting up at two in the

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morning and getting suited up

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the red team got to sleep in until 7 30

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or something we had virtually no sleep

526
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we were ready to go walking out in

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daylight instead of the middle of the

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night with lights shining

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uh

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bringing up the end here the guys that

531
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certainly for any first time pilot

532
00:22:04,789 --> 00:22:03,039
ascent is the highlight of an aviation

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career here we see the the three main

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engines igniting and from the inside you

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can see the vibration that we feel as

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the main engines light but before

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liftoff

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now we'll go back to the outside you'll

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see the solid rocket boosters ignite the

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explosive bolts fire and we are on our

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way

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there's no doubt at this point in time

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that we're going uh we're headed out of

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town i think the next shot will be from

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the inside of the vehicle and you'll get

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another shot of when the srbs ignite and

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then once again

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liftoff

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immediately after this the row program

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starts we can see the horizon out the

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side windows twisting beneath us and as

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we point the nose gently down toward the

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horizon

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head out over the atlantic ocean to the

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east

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certainly first stage is a tremendous

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acceleration tremendous vibration to

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exciting right at about right now i was

559
00:22:55,190 --> 00:22:52,960
able to sneak a peek out my side window

560
00:22:57,990 --> 00:22:55,200
and already i was able to see the

561
00:23:00,549 --> 00:22:58,000
the sky darkened to a deep purple

562
00:23:02,549 --> 00:23:00,559
during a summer afternoon launch in

563
00:23:04,390 --> 00:23:02,559
florida high humidity so you can see the

564
00:23:06,950 --> 00:23:04,400
shock waves the condensation from the

565
00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:06,960
shock waves as we go supersonic coming

566
00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:08,400
off the nose of the vehicle and off the

567
00:23:11,350 --> 00:23:10,240
external tank

568
00:23:13,110 --> 00:23:11,360
in a moment you're going to see an

569
00:23:14,310 --> 00:23:13,120
outstanding view

570
00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:14,320
of a

571
00:23:17,669 --> 00:23:16,000
something we've never really seen before

572
00:23:18,870 --> 00:23:17,679
and that's a condensation shock right

573
00:23:20,870 --> 00:23:18,880
there

574
00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:20,880
just shortly after that we have the

575
00:23:24,630 --> 00:23:22,880
solid rocket boosters complete their two

576
00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:24,640
minutes of thrusting

577
00:23:28,390 --> 00:23:26,640
and they separate from the vehicle you

578
00:23:29,669 --> 00:23:28,400
can see the large plume of smoke and

579
00:23:32,470 --> 00:23:29,679
this is what it looked like from the

580
00:23:34,950 --> 00:23:32,480
inside you can see the the separation

581
00:23:37,510 --> 00:23:34,960
motors fire across the windscreen and

582
00:23:38,549 --> 00:23:37,520
the orange plume come across the windows

583
00:23:39,990 --> 00:23:38,559
from that point in time for the

584
00:23:41,830 --> 00:23:40,000
remainder of the flight those windows

585
00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:41,840
were covered with a residue that kind of

586
00:23:45,430 --> 00:23:43,440
hampered our photography efforts from

587
00:23:47,750 --> 00:23:45,440
those front windows

588
00:23:50,390 --> 00:23:47,760
this is the thumbs up there's bob giving

589
00:23:52,710 --> 00:23:50,400
an enthusiastic thumbs up shortly after

590
00:23:55,990 --> 00:23:52,720
solid rocket booster ignition and we are

591
00:23:58,390 --> 00:23:56,000
continuing on up to mikko that 17 500

592
00:24:00,310 --> 00:23:58,400
miles per hour and just saw carl

593
00:24:03,270 --> 00:24:00,320
recognize the fact that we went through

594
00:24:05,510 --> 00:24:03,280
50 miles nautical miles in altitude here

595
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:05,520
is miko and you can see how we move

596
00:24:11,190 --> 00:24:07,760
forward in our seats as the three times

597
00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:11,200
our normal weight is relaxed off of us

598
00:24:15,110 --> 00:24:13,520
here's a view looking out

599
00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:15,120
toward the external tank as it is

600
00:24:18,950 --> 00:24:16,960
separated from the vehicle there's

601
00:24:21,350 --> 00:24:18,960
another picture i believe taken by don

602
00:24:23,669 --> 00:24:21,360
or leroy and that's true speed we're

603
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:23,679
down at uh we're coasting uphill from 70

604
00:24:30,149 --> 00:24:26,720
miles or altitude at this point and you

605
00:24:32,149 --> 00:24:30,159
can see how fast the world is going by

606
00:24:34,310 --> 00:24:32,159
once we got on orbit uh we opened up the

607
00:24:37,190 --> 00:24:34,320
payload bay doors activated the lab and

608
00:24:39,990 --> 00:24:37,200
uh went to work for 14 days of uh

609
00:24:41,990 --> 00:24:40,000
exciting microgravity experiments here i

610
00:24:44,710 --> 00:24:42,000
am headed back through the tunnel to see

611
00:24:46,870 --> 00:24:44,720
how the guys are doing back there on a

612
00:24:48,390 --> 00:24:46,880
turnover between shifts

613
00:24:49,669 --> 00:24:48,400
most of the time we had two people back

614
00:24:51,909 --> 00:24:49,679
in the lab but

615
00:24:54,070 --> 00:24:51,919
twice a day they traded notes to find

616
00:24:55,990 --> 00:24:54,080
out how the lab was operating and what

617
00:24:58,390 --> 00:24:56,000
was going on

618
00:25:00,470 --> 00:24:58,400
the the laboratory is just

619
00:25:02,630 --> 00:25:00,480
it's a fantastic piece of equipment and

620
00:25:04,950 --> 00:25:02,640
it sure certainly increases the amount

621
00:25:06,710 --> 00:25:04,960
of working volume that you have

622
00:25:08,470 --> 00:25:06,720
this was my first flight with a space

623
00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:08,480
lab and besides the fact that it's the

624
00:25:13,190 --> 00:25:11,120
world's finest microgravity laboratory

625
00:25:14,390 --> 00:25:13,200
it was a unique place to work because

626
00:25:15,990 --> 00:25:14,400
it's it's

627
00:25:18,310 --> 00:25:16,000
much bigger than just the inside of the

628
00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:18,320
flight deck in the mid deck you can see

629
00:25:20,789 --> 00:25:19,760
all four of us are back here that's

630
00:25:22,549 --> 00:25:20,799
because we're in the middle of a

631
00:25:24,070 --> 00:25:22,559
handover

632
00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:24,080
we're all handing over the notes from

633
00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:25,760
the previous shift to the next shift so

634
00:25:29,590 --> 00:25:27,520
we could keep up continuous ops we

635
00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:29,600
worked steady in there in there

636
00:25:34,149 --> 00:25:32,080
two shifts a day for the 14 days or so

637
00:25:35,990 --> 00:25:34,159
that we had the lab operating we had

638
00:25:37,990 --> 00:25:36,000
about 80 experiments

639
00:25:40,149 --> 00:25:38,000
several which were life sciences two of

640
00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:40,159
the life sciences were looking at us as

641
00:25:43,110 --> 00:25:41,360
the subjects

642
00:25:44,950 --> 00:25:43,120
chiaki is in the lower body negative

643
00:25:46,789 --> 00:25:44,960
pressure device which is managed by

644
00:25:48,310 --> 00:25:46,799
folks right here at jsc

645
00:25:49,990 --> 00:25:48,320
and i was the operator on this

646
00:25:51,510 --> 00:25:50,000
particular experiment then later it'd be

647
00:25:54,070 --> 00:25:51,520
my turn to get into the lower body

648
00:25:56,149 --> 00:25:54,080
negative pressure device we also flew a

649
00:25:57,590 --> 00:25:56,159
suite of experiments by a canadian team

650
00:25:59,909 --> 00:25:57,600
from vancouver

651
00:26:02,149 --> 00:25:59,919
spinal changes in microgravity which was

652
00:26:03,830 --> 00:26:02,159
looking at what happens to your body and

653
00:26:05,590 --> 00:26:03,840
particularly what happens to your spinal

654
00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:05,600
column it's well known that we get a

655
00:26:09,830 --> 00:26:08,240
little bit taller in space and of course

656
00:26:11,269 --> 00:26:09,840
that means you're pulling on the spinal

657
00:26:13,029 --> 00:26:11,279
cord

658
00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:13,039
and this was another experiment that was

659
00:26:16,710 --> 00:26:15,520
looking at changes in our ability to

660
00:26:19,909 --> 00:26:16,720
perform

661
00:26:21,590 --> 00:26:19,919
cognitive and motor tasks it was called

662
00:26:23,990 --> 00:26:21,600
paws the performance assessment

663
00:26:30,630 --> 00:26:24,000
workstation and it's uh somewhat like a

664
00:26:35,029 --> 00:26:33,110
this is the biorack facility uh this has

665
00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:35,039
flown on previous missions and it's got

666
00:26:39,990 --> 00:26:37,039
a centrifuge there to spin some samples

667
00:26:42,630 --> 00:26:40,000
up to create a 1g condition we had other

668
00:26:44,549 --> 00:26:42,640
samples under 0g and we had many plant

669
00:26:45,750 --> 00:26:44,559
and small animal experiments in each of

670
00:26:47,990 --> 00:26:45,760
these small

671
00:26:50,070 --> 00:26:48,000
containers that you see me inserting in

672
00:26:53,669 --> 00:26:50,080
there so we could we had a good 1g and

673
00:26:55,909 --> 00:26:53,679
0g comparison between these two in space

674
00:26:57,909 --> 00:26:55,919
here i'm doing the micro uh looking at

675
00:27:00,470 --> 00:26:57,919
the microscope we have a lot of

676
00:27:03,430 --> 00:27:00,480
biotechnological experiment like cell

677
00:27:07,029 --> 00:27:03,440
culture and protein crystal growth and

678
00:27:10,789 --> 00:27:09,269
well the fruit flies that you see here i

679
00:27:12,630 --> 00:27:10,799
watched them every day over the course

680
00:27:14,710 --> 00:27:12,640
of the flight and the ones on the left

681
00:27:16,470 --> 00:27:14,720
are microgravity as don mentioned we had

682
00:27:18,549 --> 00:27:16,480
the ability to have some in zero g and

683
00:27:20,310 --> 00:27:18,559
some in one g tell you what the ones in

684
00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:20,320
zero g quickly learned not to try and

685
00:27:25,750 --> 00:27:23,520
fly here comes a german experiment uh

686
00:27:27,830 --> 00:27:25,760
using very special facility it's a slow

687
00:27:30,310 --> 00:27:27,840
rotating facility it's a jellyfish to

688
00:27:32,549 --> 00:27:30,320
find out it's gravitational sense

689
00:27:34,950 --> 00:27:32,559
so we have a lot of life science

690
00:27:36,149 --> 00:27:34,960
experiment we had more than 82

691
00:27:38,789 --> 00:27:36,159
experiments

692
00:27:41,669 --> 00:27:38,799
and this is a the gold fish and some of

693
00:27:43,669 --> 00:27:41,679
the goldfish doesn't have inner ear

694
00:27:45,750 --> 00:27:43,679
the organ so

695
00:27:48,230 --> 00:27:45,760
this experiment to find out

696
00:27:50,149 --> 00:27:48,240
how fish react to the microgravity and

697
00:27:53,110 --> 00:27:50,159
also how fish

698
00:27:55,510 --> 00:27:53,120
orient themselves and here there's other

699
00:27:58,310 --> 00:27:55,520
different kind of fish called medaka

700
00:28:00,549 --> 00:27:58,320
killfish and the researchers are pretty

701
00:28:03,350 --> 00:28:00,559
much excited to find out

702
00:28:06,070 --> 00:28:03,360
their mating behavior and also the egg

703
00:28:09,190 --> 00:28:06,080
development and you can see small belly

704
00:28:12,070 --> 00:28:09,200
fishes these eggs are laid on earth and

705
00:28:14,549 --> 00:28:12,080
hatched on space and this is

706
00:28:17,110 --> 00:28:14,559
and they are developed very well and

707
00:28:19,430 --> 00:28:17,120
also this is a nude experiment and we

708
00:28:22,149 --> 00:28:19,440
have such a very special uh facility

709
00:28:24,789 --> 00:28:22,159
called aquatic animal holding facility

710
00:28:26,950 --> 00:28:24,799
and made by japanese space agency and

711
00:28:29,430 --> 00:28:26,960
this is a nude and uh

712
00:28:31,430 --> 00:28:29,440
and these are the baby news and

713
00:28:34,070 --> 00:28:31,440
researchers are pretty much interested

714
00:28:36,950 --> 00:28:34,080
in the inner ear organ which

715
00:28:38,470 --> 00:28:36,960
uh usually necessary for

716
00:28:41,510 --> 00:28:38,480
the earth condition

717
00:28:43,590 --> 00:28:41,520
so we have such a very a lot of life

718
00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:43,600
science experiment on board

719
00:28:46,950 --> 00:28:45,360
the other half of our experiments focus

720
00:28:48,870 --> 00:28:46,960
on material science where we were

721
00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:48,880
looking at crystal growth and some fluid

722
00:28:52,789 --> 00:28:50,720
science i'm in front of one of the

723
00:28:54,710 --> 00:28:52,799
german facilities here called tempus

724
00:28:56,870 --> 00:28:54,720
which was an electromagnetic levitating

725
00:28:58,310 --> 00:28:56,880
furnace we had small samples about the

726
00:29:00,470 --> 00:28:58,320
size of a marble that you see here

727
00:29:02,149 --> 00:29:00,480
heating up and beginning to glow as it's

728
00:29:04,389 --> 00:29:02,159
melting you can see it's oscillating a

729
00:29:05,909 --> 00:29:04,399
little bit and its surface is

730
00:29:07,669 --> 00:29:05,919
you can see the oscillation pattern

731
00:29:09,669 --> 00:29:07,679
there and it's a containerless facility

732
00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:09,679
where we can heat samples up and melt

733
00:29:13,669 --> 00:29:11,760
them and re-solidify them without ever

734
00:29:15,669 --> 00:29:13,679
touching the walls

735
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:15,679
this is another fluids experiment called

736
00:29:19,350 --> 00:29:17,200
the critical point facility and with

737
00:29:21,669 --> 00:29:19,360
this we're studying a phase transition

738
00:29:24,070 --> 00:29:21,679
between liquid and gas and this facility

739
00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:24,080
operated almost 24 hours a day non-stop

740
00:29:27,269 --> 00:29:25,360
for the entire

741
00:29:28,470 --> 00:29:27,279
14-day mission of the science back in

742
00:29:29,990 --> 00:29:28,480
the lab

743
00:29:35,029 --> 00:29:30,000
they even let the commander back in the

744
00:29:38,470 --> 00:29:36,789
this is uh one of our fluids experiments

745
00:29:40,070 --> 00:29:38,480
called the bubble drop particle unit and

746
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:40,080
here we have a heater near the center of

747
00:29:43,269 --> 00:29:41,760
this test cell where we're forming

748
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:43,279
bubbles just heating up the element

749
00:29:46,630 --> 00:29:44,960
there and forming bubbles like you would

750
00:29:47,990 --> 00:29:46,640
on your oven at home but we can do that

751
00:29:49,350 --> 00:29:48,000
in a controlled manner and look how they

752
00:29:51,830 --> 00:29:49,360
move under different temperature

753
00:29:53,430 --> 00:29:51,840
gradients and how they coalesce how the

754
00:29:55,029 --> 00:29:53,440
bubbles form together here so you'll see

755
00:29:56,710 --> 00:29:55,039
a bunch of bubbles just forming and

756
00:29:58,789 --> 00:29:56,720
grouping together under microgravity

757
00:30:00,950 --> 00:29:58,799
conditions

758
00:30:03,110 --> 00:30:00,960
this is a french electrophoresis unit

759
00:30:05,430 --> 00:30:03,120
it's one of two electrophoresis units we

760
00:30:07,269 --> 00:30:05,440
flew and we were trying to separate

761
00:30:08,389 --> 00:30:07,279
different proteins

762
00:30:09,990 --> 00:30:08,399
and you can see up there where i'm

763
00:30:11,830 --> 00:30:10,000
pointing up to the control and display

764
00:30:13,990 --> 00:30:11,840
screen and if you look real close you

765
00:30:15,990 --> 00:30:14,000
can see uh two peaks this is the

766
00:30:17,909 --> 00:30:16,000
electrophoresis cell where the sample

767
00:30:20,630 --> 00:30:17,919
was actually injected and the

768
00:30:22,149 --> 00:30:20,640
electrophoretic separation performed

769
00:30:24,389 --> 00:30:22,159
well as you know we did a lot of repair

770
00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:24,399
in flight i'm spinning this bag around

771
00:30:27,430 --> 00:30:25,919
trying to get the air bubbles out the

772
00:30:29,029 --> 00:30:27,440
big problem with a couple of the units

773
00:30:30,789 --> 00:30:29,039
we worked on was that bubbles weren't

774
00:30:32,950 --> 00:30:30,799
places they shouldn't be

775
00:30:35,990 --> 00:30:32,960
so jim and i worked together to try and

776
00:30:37,110 --> 00:30:36,000
purge the japanese electrophoresis unit

777
00:30:39,029 --> 00:30:37,120
of the air

778
00:30:40,950 --> 00:30:39,039
so our first job was to get purge while

779
00:30:43,029 --> 00:30:40,960
it didn't have air bubbles in it so

780
00:30:46,070 --> 00:30:43,039
we're very carefully squeezing some out

781
00:30:47,750 --> 00:30:46,080
of one bag sucking it into a syringe

782
00:30:49,350 --> 00:30:47,760
this is the electrophoresis unit which

783
00:30:51,909 --> 00:30:49,360
wasn't really designed to be worked on

784
00:30:54,630 --> 00:30:51,919
in space but in fact we took it out a

785
00:30:56,710 --> 00:30:54,640
total of six times as we tried to purge

786
00:30:59,110 --> 00:30:56,720
all the air bubbles out of it

787
00:31:00,710 --> 00:30:59,120
this is one of the medical dsos or

788
00:31:03,190 --> 00:31:00,720
experiments that we performed on the

789
00:31:05,430 --> 00:31:03,200
flight this particular one i'm doing has

790
00:31:07,990 --> 00:31:05,440
to do with uh seeing how the eye and the

791
00:31:09,669 --> 00:31:08,000
head track targets in the absence of

792
00:31:11,750 --> 00:31:09,679
using your inner ear

793
00:31:13,190 --> 00:31:11,760
i'm wearing a laser on my head and

794
00:31:15,590 --> 00:31:13,200
you'll see a red dot on the middeck

795
00:31:17,909 --> 00:31:15,600
lockers there as i kind of move it

796
00:31:19,750 --> 00:31:17,919
between targets and try to acquire them

797
00:31:21,430 --> 00:31:19,760
and sensitive electrodes will measure

798
00:31:23,830 --> 00:31:21,440
the electrical impulses to see how my

799
00:31:25,669 --> 00:31:23,840
eyes moved and an accelerometer also on

800
00:31:26,870 --> 00:31:25,679
the helmet unit there will measure the

801
00:31:29,510 --> 00:31:26,880
accelerations

802
00:31:31,430 --> 00:31:29,520
uh during our flight we exercised quite

803
00:31:33,909 --> 00:31:31,440
a bit and we were very interested in how

804
00:31:35,909 --> 00:31:33,919
the exercise perturbed the microgravity

805
00:31:37,909 --> 00:31:35,919
environment and so we carried the

806
00:31:39,830 --> 00:31:37,919
microgravity measuring device which was

807
00:31:41,990 --> 00:31:39,840
built right right here at johnson space

808
00:31:44,830 --> 00:31:42,000
center and we were able to look at the

809
00:31:47,350 --> 00:31:44,840
vibration modes of the cycle

810
00:31:49,509 --> 00:31:47,360
ergometer jim's heading on down from the

811
00:31:51,350 --> 00:31:49,519
flight deck down to the mid deck we

812
00:31:52,230 --> 00:31:51,360
showed you the science on board now

813
00:31:54,230 --> 00:31:52,240
we're going to show you a little bit

814
00:31:55,590 --> 00:31:54,240
about living in space for a long period

815
00:31:57,430 --> 00:31:55,600
of time

816
00:31:59,750 --> 00:31:57,440
of course the mid decks are

817
00:32:01,590 --> 00:31:59,760
our living quarters it's where we sleep

818
00:32:02,470 --> 00:32:01,600
and eat you can see our sleep station

819
00:32:04,389 --> 00:32:02,480
here

820
00:32:06,950 --> 00:32:04,399
yeah they really woke me up for this

821
00:32:08,710 --> 00:32:06,960
picture yeah this wasn't staged we got

822
00:32:14,549 --> 00:32:08,720
one a gym that's a little staged but we

823
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:19,750
i quickly caught on however

824
00:32:23,750 --> 00:32:21,669
every morning like i do at home i wanted

825
00:32:25,350 --> 00:32:23,760
to read the morning news so this is how

826
00:32:28,070 --> 00:32:25,360
we get our morning news in space it

827
00:32:29,509 --> 00:32:28,080
comes out of the tips machine fantastic

828
00:32:31,509 --> 00:32:29,519
machine it really worked great but you

829
00:32:33,110 --> 00:32:31,519
can see the kind of updates we got a

830
00:32:35,110 --> 00:32:33,120
little bit of that is news and the rest

831
00:32:38,789 --> 00:32:35,120
is changes to what we were going to do

832
00:32:41,590 --> 00:32:39,750
well

833
00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:41,600
you enjoy your food up there

834
00:32:52,310 --> 00:32:50,630
this was carl's one task on board and

835
00:32:54,149 --> 00:32:52,320
i've never seen anybody do it better was

836
00:32:54,950 --> 00:32:54,159
keep track of all our consumables and

837
00:32:57,750 --> 00:32:54,960
he's

838
00:32:59,269 --> 00:32:57,760
making sure everything's right

839
00:33:01,669 --> 00:32:59,279
we carried the

840
00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:01,679
rinseless body baths and the shampoo to

841
00:33:06,389 --> 00:33:03,760
keep ourselves clean and they worked

842
00:33:07,830 --> 00:33:06,399
surprisingly well we were able to uh to

843
00:33:10,549 --> 00:33:07,840
clean ourselves up real well it's the

844
00:33:12,070 --> 00:33:10,559
same same baths and shampoos that

845
00:33:13,269 --> 00:33:12,080
hospitals use in their intensive care

846
00:33:14,789 --> 00:33:13,279
units

847
00:33:18,149 --> 00:33:14,799
nobody wants to live with somebody that

848
00:33:21,269 --> 00:33:18,159
hasn't cleaned up in 15 days

849
00:33:22,870 --> 00:33:21,279
i mentioned exercise here's a shot of me

850
00:33:26,389 --> 00:33:22,880
exercising

851
00:33:29,269 --> 00:33:26,399
we had some very strong

852
00:33:32,070 --> 00:33:29,279
cords that isolated the ergometer from

853
00:33:34,389 --> 00:33:32,080
the floor to help damp oscillations i

854
00:33:37,509 --> 00:33:34,399
had a great opportunity to talk with the

855
00:33:39,029 --> 00:33:37,519
japanese student uh using amateur

856
00:33:41,110 --> 00:33:39,039
the ham radio

857
00:33:43,190 --> 00:33:41,120
and it was fantastic

858
00:33:45,110 --> 00:33:43,200
and they are the people uh in my

859
00:33:47,029 --> 00:33:45,120
hometown were so excited

860
00:33:48,389 --> 00:33:47,039
this shows uh padam operations where we

861
00:33:49,990 --> 00:33:48,399
have an opportunity to send messages

862
00:33:51,269 --> 00:33:50,000
home as you can imagine being away from

863
00:33:52,789 --> 00:33:51,279
home for 15 days you get a little

864
00:33:54,389 --> 00:33:52,799
homesick just like going to summer camp

865
00:33:56,789 --> 00:33:54,399
and that was always a great thing to get

866
00:33:58,950 --> 00:33:56,799
messages from home

867
00:34:01,830 --> 00:33:58,960
we were fortunate enough to be airborne

868
00:34:03,509 --> 00:34:01,840
for the anniversary of apollo 11's

869
00:34:05,110 --> 00:34:03,519
launch and

870
00:34:06,789 --> 00:34:05,120
and the first steps of humans on the

871
00:34:08,790 --> 00:34:06,799
moon and so we

872
00:34:13,349 --> 00:34:08,800
had a presentation at

873
00:34:17,510 --> 00:34:15,430
jim mentioned in that still photo the

874
00:34:21,030 --> 00:34:17,520
importance of keeping the

875
00:34:29,829 --> 00:34:22,629
jim got so carried away he was keeping

876
00:34:35,109 --> 00:34:31,909
but it really was important the cape

877
00:34:37,270 --> 00:34:35,119
gave us a fantastic vehicle and we

878
00:34:39,190 --> 00:34:37,280
wanted to deliver it back to them as

879
00:34:41,669 --> 00:34:39,200
clean as they gave it to us

880
00:34:43,430 --> 00:34:41,679
and as i said before we couldn't have

881
00:34:45,109 --> 00:34:43,440
got all those great pictures without

882
00:34:46,389 --> 00:34:45,119
having clean windows to shoot them out

883
00:34:48,550 --> 00:34:46,399
of

884
00:34:50,470 --> 00:34:48,560
here's uh jim getting ready to take some

885
00:34:54,950 --> 00:34:50,480
of those pictures while i was talking on

886
00:34:58,790 --> 00:34:56,790
i'd like to give a tribute to all of our

887
00:34:59,990 --> 00:34:58,800
trainers in this case the photography

888
00:35:01,990 --> 00:35:00,000
training people were able to take

889
00:35:03,670 --> 00:35:02,000
somebody who had never really taken

890
00:35:05,109 --> 00:35:03,680
pictures before and we were able to

891
00:35:06,710 --> 00:35:05,119
return something useful back to the

892
00:35:08,390 --> 00:35:06,720
experimenters here

893
00:35:09,589 --> 00:35:08,400
this is australia

894
00:35:10,710 --> 00:35:09,599
shark bay

895
00:35:12,390 --> 00:35:10,720
and then

896
00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:12,400
looking

897
00:35:15,190 --> 00:35:13,599
toward the upper

898
00:35:16,550 --> 00:35:15,200
upper left portion of the screen the

899
00:35:19,030 --> 00:35:16,560
whole uh

900
00:35:20,950 --> 00:35:19,040
south the west coast of australia

901
00:35:23,829 --> 00:35:20,960
they're down to perth

902
00:35:25,430 --> 00:35:23,839
just a beautiful view and this is the

903
00:35:27,589 --> 00:35:25,440
coburg peninsula in the northern

904
00:35:30,710 --> 00:35:27,599
territories of australia there's a

905
00:35:32,950 --> 00:35:30,720
wildlife preserve attached to it and

906
00:35:35,030 --> 00:35:32,960
just a tremendous view

907
00:35:41,829 --> 00:35:35,040
australia sort of looks like mars it has

908
00:35:45,510 --> 00:35:43,430
here's another shot this time from the

909
00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:45,520
video camera that bob set up of

910
00:35:48,870 --> 00:35:47,440
hurricane amelia

911
00:35:50,630 --> 00:35:48,880
i told you how i was exercising on the

912
00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:50,640
ergometer and this came into my the

913
00:35:54,630 --> 00:35:52,640
field of view at that point in time bob

914
00:35:56,630 --> 00:35:54,640
was talking to a school in sarax and i

915
00:35:57,910 --> 00:35:56,640
think by the expression of my face he

916
00:35:59,829 --> 00:35:57,920
knew something very special was

917
00:36:01,670 --> 00:35:59,839
happening outside so while he was

918
00:36:03,670 --> 00:36:01,680
simultaneously talking on the ham radio

919
00:36:07,430 --> 00:36:03,680
he fired up the the video camera and we

920
00:36:12,390 --> 00:36:10,230
it really was an awesome hurricane

921
00:36:14,230 --> 00:36:12,400
this is a very special shot i really

922
00:36:15,829 --> 00:36:14,240
enjoy this one this we're going over

923
00:36:17,670 --> 00:36:15,839
central south america and you're going

924
00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:17,680
to see some very special things happen

925
00:36:21,670 --> 00:36:19,520
up here you're going to see

926
00:36:23,030 --> 00:36:21,680
thunderstorms lightning at night these

927
00:36:24,069 --> 00:36:23,040
are city lights now i want you to look

928
00:36:27,829 --> 00:36:24,079
right here and you're going to see

929
00:36:31,349 --> 00:36:29,349
right there was a

930
00:36:32,390 --> 00:36:31,359
a meteorite entering the earth's

931
00:36:34,550 --> 00:36:32,400
atmosphere you're going to see another

932
00:36:36,069 --> 00:36:34,560
one right up here right there

933
00:36:37,510 --> 00:36:36,079
and we got the opportunity all of us

934
00:36:38,950 --> 00:36:37,520
during the course of the flight to just

935
00:36:41,430 --> 00:36:38,960
happen to be looking out the window at

936
00:36:42,950 --> 00:36:41,440
the right time to see a meteor rearing

937
00:36:44,790 --> 00:36:42,960
entering the earth's atmosphere from

938
00:36:45,990 --> 00:36:44,800
above and i think that's a very special

939
00:36:47,430 --> 00:36:46,000
memory

940
00:36:49,829 --> 00:36:47,440
here's our tribute to the people of the

941
00:36:51,510 --> 00:36:49,839
cape uh months before we launched they

942
00:36:53,589 --> 00:36:51,520
told us to the second one we were going

943
00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:53,599
to launch they gave us a perfect vehicle

944
00:36:57,270 --> 00:36:55,440
and right here you can see the cape that

945
00:36:59,109 --> 00:36:57,280
should be the shuttle landing runway

946
00:37:01,670 --> 00:36:59,119
right there the vertical assembly

947
00:37:03,670 --> 00:37:01,680
building right there the crawl way going

948
00:37:05,430 --> 00:37:03,680
out to the two pads our pad being that

949
00:37:07,190 --> 00:37:05,440
one right there

950
00:37:09,910 --> 00:37:07,200
i was amazed at the level of detail you

951
00:37:11,750 --> 00:37:09,920
could see just with the human eye

952
00:37:13,349 --> 00:37:11,760
unfortunately all good space flights

953
00:37:14,870 --> 00:37:13,359
have to come to an end and here jim and

954
00:37:16,310 --> 00:37:14,880
i are finally getting to do some pilot

955
00:37:18,390 --> 00:37:16,320
stuff we're doing the flight control

956
00:37:20,230 --> 00:37:18,400
system checkout the day before our first

957
00:37:22,790 --> 00:37:20,240
uh entry attempt

958
00:37:24,710 --> 00:37:22,800
jim is using uh pilot here it's a little

959
00:37:27,910 --> 00:37:24,720
portable computer we had on board

960
00:37:30,470 --> 00:37:27,920
actually a workstation that actually has

961
00:37:32,630 --> 00:37:30,480
actual orbiter software in it uh that he

962
00:37:34,470 --> 00:37:32,640
can practice landings on

963
00:37:41,349 --> 00:37:34,480
unfortunately this is as close as jim

964
00:37:44,230 --> 00:37:42,790
but when you're up there for a long

965
00:37:46,950 --> 00:37:44,240
period of time it gives you a chance to

966
00:37:48,710 --> 00:37:46,960
look at the displays and get your

967
00:37:50,230 --> 00:37:48,720
mindset on landing again what you need

968
00:37:53,190 --> 00:37:50,240
to look at and what you need to prepare

969
00:37:54,470 --> 00:37:53,200
for for a landing so this was jim's one

970
00:37:56,870 --> 00:37:54,480
view of landing and we're going to give

971
00:37:58,950 --> 00:37:56,880
you another one here pretty soon

972
00:38:00,390 --> 00:37:58,960
and this is uh the end of the space lab

973
00:38:02,550 --> 00:38:00,400
portion of the flight i'm shutting down

974
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:02,560
the uh although we've done and i spent

975
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:04,000
the day shutting the facilities down and

976
00:38:07,589 --> 00:38:05,760
now we're just turning out the last bits

977
00:38:09,670 --> 00:38:07,599
of light and

978
00:38:10,950 --> 00:38:09,680
putting up closing up the hatch that

979
00:38:14,630 --> 00:38:10,960
closing out the tunnel part that goes

980
00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:16,870
this is just after entry interface you

981
00:38:21,030 --> 00:38:19,040
can see the pink glow out the windows

982
00:38:23,270 --> 00:38:21,040
rick said wave adam he's got a handheld

983
00:38:24,950 --> 00:38:23,280
camera the flashing that you see is from

984
00:38:26,630 --> 00:38:24,960
the energized plasma and the overhead

985
00:38:29,109 --> 00:38:26,640
windows the light reflecting off our

986
00:38:30,390 --> 00:38:29,119
suits and helmets and rick's got the

987
00:38:32,069 --> 00:38:30,400
camera and that's what it looked like

988
00:38:33,349 --> 00:38:32,079
out the overhead window it's just

989
00:38:38,310 --> 00:38:33,359
awesome that's not the tail of the

990
00:38:43,750 --> 00:38:40,870
just the whole reentry was at night and

991
00:38:45,030 --> 00:38:43,760
it was just a bright pink glow you can't

992
00:38:47,030 --> 00:38:45,040
quite see it here but there's little

993
00:38:48,950 --> 00:38:47,040
sparks flying by as pieces of the

994
00:38:51,510 --> 00:38:48,960
orbiter are heating up and coming off

995
00:38:53,349 --> 00:38:51,520
little small pieces

996
00:38:55,349 --> 00:38:53,359
here very small

997
00:38:57,430 --> 00:38:55,359
really small

998
00:38:59,670 --> 00:38:57,440
here we are coming on

999
00:39:02,150 --> 00:38:59,680
turning onto the heading alignment cone

1000
00:39:03,990 --> 00:39:02,160
getting ready to land at kennedy and the

1001
00:39:07,030 --> 00:39:04,000
space shuttle is just an absolutely

1002
00:39:08,950 --> 00:39:07,040
fantastic machine it it launches like a

1003
00:39:10,950 --> 00:39:08,960
rocket flies like a spaceship you can

1004
00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:10,960
turn it into a space station and it

1005
00:39:15,030 --> 00:39:12,960
flies like a super airplane here's a

1006
00:39:18,230 --> 00:39:15,040
little subsonic arrow maneuver we did a

1007
00:39:20,790 --> 00:39:18,240
little flight test to document the

1008
00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:20,800
flying qualities of the vehicle get some

1009
00:39:27,190 --> 00:39:23,520
aerodynamic data you can see the vab out

1010
00:39:32,150 --> 00:39:29,589
transitioning from the 18 degree outer

1011
00:39:34,310 --> 00:39:32,160
glide slope at 300 knots to our

1012
00:39:36,390 --> 00:39:34,320
one and a half degree inner glide slope

1013
00:39:41,270 --> 00:39:36,400
we were trying to touch down at 200

1014
00:39:47,030 --> 00:39:44,230
here we are pulling out about uh 1800

1015
00:39:53,670 --> 00:39:47,040
feet above the ground in uh don't miss

1016
00:40:01,510 --> 00:39:55,750
300 feet above the ground jim that was

1017
00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:03,190
jim did a great job on that that's

1018
00:40:07,270 --> 00:40:05,680
career limiting if uh if he doesn't get

1019
00:40:13,589 --> 00:40:07,280
those down i'm gonna recommend he gets

1020
00:40:19,190 --> 00:40:15,829
and here we are coming in uh touching

1021
00:40:20,710 --> 00:40:19,200
down at runway 33 at ksc

1022
00:40:22,630 --> 00:40:20,720
and you're going to see the shoot come

1023
00:40:24,069 --> 00:40:22,640
out here in a minute

1024
00:40:27,829 --> 00:40:24,079
bob said he was supposed touched out at

1025
00:40:31,910 --> 00:40:27,839
200 it was what 199.2 yeah yeah i missed

1026
00:40:37,190 --> 00:40:34,550
the drag shoot is just an extremely

1027
00:40:39,190 --> 00:40:37,200
effective deceleration device it really

1028
00:40:43,109 --> 00:40:39,200
slows the vehicle down i i did hardly

1029
00:40:49,829 --> 00:40:46,950
jim deployed it at 178 knots we

1030
00:40:53,829 --> 00:40:49,839
de-rotated at 175 and then at 60 knots

1031
00:40:57,270 --> 00:40:53,839
he jettisoned it and here's a nice wheel

1032
00:40:59,670 --> 00:40:57,280
stop shop shot columbia's home and it