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and Rex
yes sir I noticed in the morning
messages that 400-feet is the plan is
that a final or Team Joest alertly
standby wax discovery Houston for wax
with some words on rendezvous okay just
like so the situation at this time is
that no final decision has been made on
the rendezvous whether we stick with the
original plan or do the 400 foot fly
around we're protecting both options at
this point there will be a final
management team meeting in about five
hours and they'll make a final decision
at that point we are going to be tipping
up deltas or for a 400 foot fly around
in the execute package so you'll be
receiving that shortly
okay well good luck and I hope it turns
out favorable for me if it doesn't we're
happy and they can make the decision on
the V bar if they want or ready to go
okay that's good to know X and we'll be
passing up during this shift the
preliminary burn pads as you know we're
across the Terminator we get a good idea
of or at least the lighting is optimum
for checking out the leak and just to
let you know what we see that's slightly
encouraging maybe is that with the
manifold unpressurized the particles
that come out or Ray slow in their
relative rates it's not like days gone
by and when it would pulse and send that
at a stream of particles okay we
appreciate that the space had module
essentially acts as a
as an extension to the mid-deck of the
space shuttle allowing experiments to be
stowed along in the mid-deck lockers
seen on the right-hand side of this
television view onboard space had before
this flight or 20 different experiments
that have been operating up for the past
two three days
good morning from the flight deck of
discovery we're in preparations final
preparations for our rendezvous with Mir
which will occur in a couple hours we'll
initiate the final portion and then to
the Technosphere in a couple of hours I
thought I'd walk around the copper float
around the cockpit and show you a little
bit about what we'll be doing in the
next four hours both on Eileen and I
will be up in the forward part of the
sleigh deck in our seats for the first
part of the rendezvous and let me step
back just a second the very first
maneuver that we accomplished for the
rendezvous occurred and watch we waited
until the launch pad was in the plane of
the mirror and then we quickly lost into
that plane
ever since launch we've been doing a
couple of burns to optimize the
trajectory in preparation for the
rendezvous when we get into the final
portion of the rendezvous timeline here
in an hour - Eileen and I will both be
in our forward flight deck seats most of
the burns that we accomplished at that
point will be targeted by the ground or
I guess all of them will be targeted by
the ground it's all done automatically
by computers we just verify the data and
enter it into the keyboards and then
next to keep the burn as we get into the
middle portion of the rendezvous
it becomes ground targeted we have
onboard steering but it's a manually
flown burn will actually control the
burn manually via that ground targeting
eventually we'd go to onboard targeting
where the sensors onboard the vehicle
are a little bit more accurate than the
ground tracking solution and so we do
that mainly up here in the front part of
the flight deck as we get into the final
portion I will float to the app station
and we'll perform the last couple of
burns before getting into proximity
operations from the aft station
I will be looking at the overhead
windows facing backwards in the vehicle
but of course in space everything is
relative so it doesn't matter we have a
set of controls back here and we can fly
translations of our vehicle with this
hand controller and rotations from this
hand controller all the other rotations
are typically all done automatically we
will acquire visual sight of the MIR at
this overhead window and I have a co-op
site or a hard mounted manual sight in
the overhead window when all else fails
mike is gonna tell you a little bit
about his magic devices in his ranging
sensors when all else fails if they
start acting funny or the radar starts
walking around on the air giving us bad
navigation we always have the old iron
sight at the South window which never
moves and there's no software and so
it's a reliable piece of gear and then
we just fly visually as we paint a lap
around over to the port side of the
vehicle
I'll take the camera and I'll off of the
Mike to Mike and he'll tell you a little
bit about his magic senses and Houston
while Jim is over there on the starboard
side looking out over the overhead
window out that way basically Adam and
myself and Eileen will be on the flight
deck supporting him and using the
rendezvous tools these are computers
that we have been out specifically that
will allow us to port the Raju yeah
we'll have to actually displays from our
different sensors that are in the tail
of day I actually have a handheld laser
also shoot out of the window and I will
be pointing it up out of the overhead
and this man's our laser is really no
different from anything that the police
would use to do a traffic - traffic
patrol monitoring and we can basically
pointed out of the window and pull the
trigger and I get a readout on the back
of it as to how far away the mirror will
be and also how fast Jim is closing on
it
in fact when I pull the trigger it will
actually be displayed back here on these
computers and I can take those arrange
marks and put them into the computer and
get an idea as to how our trajectory
towards the mirror is progressing and we
also have a essential in the pair of a
that is called the trajectory control
sensor and it's also a laser driven
system and it will be scanning for the
veer from the bay and I will be
displaying that data on these computers
also and Jim will use those to control
his approach in the final stages as we
get close to me
said he went to clubs will be right
behind me and he will be probably doing
most of the philosophy on the flight
deck we have a whole array of cameras
behind Jim and also we have down here
towards the base of the floor north of
my deck we have the Lumiere VHF radio
and this is a simple VHF system that
ties both the Mission Control Center and
the flight deck here on the discovery
and also the MIR space craft together it
allows us to talk to the Amir cosmonauts
and they also to us and invited me will
be our chief interface on that radio
although I do think that Jim will
probably be speaking on it also must
we've made our closest approach to Mir
we are going to work that way to at
least 450 feet and then start a slow
climb up around near high up above it
and while we're doing that we will see
Bob he knows a point is the whole time
towards the near spacecraft and we'll be
doing this at 400 feet this will take
about 45 minutes to do one full orbit or
one full circle around there and during
one orbit and during this time we'll be
running a V IMAX camera system in the
payload Bay taking photographs of the
mayor at different orientations
we'll also use a lot of Hasselblad and
16-millimeter movie we hope to see some
very spectacular shots as we go through
sunrise and sunset
this is all done as you know in
preparation for STS 71 which will occur
later on in the year the first docking
flight that hoot Gibson will will fly
what we hope to accomplish today is an
evaluation of the ranging sensors in
evaluation of the handling qualities
evaluation of the procedures used and
interfaces between our two countries in
preparation for those backing flights
that will come as we close out this
decade and from the flight deck of
discovery thank you very much
this is Mission Control Houston we
continue to receive a television image
from Discovery as that discovery passes
to the west of Australia over the MIR
space station currently lying less than
200 nautical miles ahead Mir is the
steady bright light located in the upper
half of upper center of the television
image discovery just moving into sunset
also visible in the image are pieces of
ice and fuel that is leaked from
steering jets and also other such items
that remain with the shuttle as it
circles in orbit and are very visible
during at times of sunrise and sunset
those particles show up very brightly
scouring good config go for the burn
I should go for the bird
discovery for wanks kaeleen we have been
watching on the flight deck and we have
been looking at your smiles so some of
this information may have gotten to you
by another means but you are going to
approach 210 meters
thank you very much story and everybody
who worked the issue again thank you
very much
you're welcome and thank you for all you
have done and the go to 10 meters is
based on three conditions ready to copy
yes sir
there right RCS manifold be closed and
not leaking prior to 300 meters it we
will approach no closer than 10 meters
with any further loss of Losey
redundancy you can't open up that
manifold to regain Losey capability if
it's required and then back out to 400
feet and hold this test was originally
scheduled for a couple of hours from now
but to due to the fact that so we
acquired our VHS communication link some
much earlier than we anticipated the
test was moved up to a help ease some of
the timeline later on as we get down to
our rendezvous
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the approach to 10 meters starting that
on time to arrive at a closest approach
at 13 hours 58 minutes
I understand ago for the approach thank
you will my discovery and mirror are now
crossing what is known as the Terminator
or the point where the daylight turns to
darkness the two vehicles will be flying
within the dark with just lights running
lights on them for the next several
minutes as the distance between the two
spacecraft slowly increases by the time
we reach our close approach point
however the two spacecraft should be
back in the daylight this is views
onboard Space Station Mir of cosmonauts
aboard the vehicle dr. Valarie Valarie
Polyakov now holding the endurance
records for time in space he's on his
394th day in space but also in view is
elena kondakova who was launched 126
days ago along with a commander who's
operating the camera alexander victor
anko i saw that same house used once
again out the porthole of the MIR module
back toward space shuttle Discovery the
two vehicles and now obviously moved
into darkness and we should be acquiring
a signal from discovery of the space
station in just a few minutes as the
discovery will move back
it within range of its kayuu band
antenna tracking satellite okay
when emergency initially might have
control until three accepted open even
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this is Mission Control Houston this
picture of the Russian space station Mir
is being provided to us by the low light
level cameras onboard discovery
physician Valery Polyakov one of the MIR
crew members is occasionally shining a
flashlight at the crew members to help
with the and we're thinking maybe you
need to pick up a little bit someone
sending them a message from one of the
windows of the pet of the MIR station
the mir crew members also have asked
veteran cosmonaut and STS 63 mission
specialist vladimir t-top for any
information about how to mir live in
this particular camera view we came to
see actually see three of the mirror
modules as and a Soyuz spacecraft
attached to the MIR station at the top
of the picture the smallest module is
the Kevon one module in the center where
the where one of the cosmonauts is using
a flashlight to a signal the mayor crew
is the MIR core module and looking
directly at the orbiter is the cristal
module at the bottom of this picture is
one of the Soyuz capsules which the
crewmembers used to go to and from the
space station this is a view from one of
the cameras inside the crew cabin of
discovery this provides a much better
view of the crystal module
this presentation delivered discovery is
now 65 feet away from the space station
Mir that means we only have about 2:30
or so feet to go before we reach our
point of closest approach this
particular picture is from mirror and
all rendezvous activities continue to go
very smoothly all orbiter systems are
functioning as expected discovery and
mirror now just south of the Kamchatka
Peninsula and just to the east of Japan
the two vehicles are about to start a
south easterly sweep above the Pacific
Ocean on mears 57th orbit of the mission
and disc and well on Discovery's 57th
orbit of the mission and on Mayer's 15th
orbit of the day this is Mission Control
Kaliningrad these views now from
Discovery looking back toward the MIR
Space Station one of the items to note
of interest is there's a pair of solar
rays of the triple set here that will be
moved later on from the core module area
to the cristal module those solar arrays
fold up similar to the solar arrays on
the Hubble Space Telescope those arrays
will be folded up and moved by two
cosmonauts that will conduct a spacewalk
during the mere 18 mission which is
scheduled for launch on March 14th that
mission will carry USS or not dr. Norman
thagard the other members
of that mission again which is scheduled
for March 14th are glad Amir Desiro who
will be the commander of that mission
along with Ganados trickle off who will
be the flight engineer those two
cosmonauts will conduct a spacewalk
again while Norman Taggart watches over
the systems aboard the space station Mir
that's scheduled again for launch in
March March 14th elinks Rondon from
officer Joe Williams reports that we are
right on a rendezvous profile in just
about a minute and a half or so away
from our point of closest approach once
we reached that point commander Jim
Weatherby will put the brakes on
discovery so to speak and the orbiter
will hold its position for about 10
minutes before backing away as far the
far as the discussions between the two
vehicles go flight engineer elena
kondakova is watching the mir approach
from the small porthole that is at the
top of the the view from Discovery
that's that's a small circular dark
spots she has asked the crew members
from Discovery several times whether or
not they can see her way earlier the
rear cameras were able to pick up a
picture of vladimir tito from the
windows of the united menephta sukeroku
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excuse me Maya 44 feet discovery is now
about 44 feet away from here would I
maintain this at distance copy and last
report from Discovery the orbiter was
about 44 feet away from near the crew
was in the process of putting on the
brakes and slowing the motion between
the two spacecraft this particular view
is from a camera in the space hab module
this is a camera that is very near the
position where the docking camera will
be when Atlantis talks with mayor later
this year the round structure in the
center of this view is the docking port
on the cristal module that is the
docking port which atlantis will use
when the docking actually takes place
what might fare discovery mr. rieper
melodeon ship closer together we are
bringing our nations closer together the
next time we approach we will shake your
hand and together we will lead our world
into the next millennium can we squeeze
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specifically for so various people this
is Mission Control Houston now that was
Jim Weatherby expressing his feelings at
this historic moment to live in response
Alexander Victor anko the commander of
the MIR crew has expressed his affection
for the STS 63 crew and his pride at
this moment in time he said that that's
we were one and we were human and they
were all the crew members on orbit right
now we're involved in the greatest
profession God could give anyone victory
Co also has added that this moment in
time is almost like a fairy tale it's
almost too good to be true this
particular view from discovery will
provides us with the best view we may
get of the Amir core module the
americorps module which is the center
module is the central portion of the
station but it really is amazing how
beautiful their vehicle is just simply
beautiful it is just simply stunning I
mean if we weren't here if I just saw a
picture of it up to credible then we
sure enjoyed all the video this is some
videotape from the MIR space station
that the cosmonauts took during our
close approach and a rendezvous
activities they are currently feeding
this to the ground the
the Mission Control Center in
Kaliningrad discovery has started a slow
ascent from the velocity vector the
computer there
our initial bill was really serious
because what sort of oxide you in
politics especially Jewish you should
have it
meanwhile we're getting live pictures
from inside the MIR Space Station
this is physician dr. Valerio Polyakov
he currently has the record for the most
time spent on orbit by any human
superstar was the magician illusionist
no head discovery yes as the Sun came up
they were in the maneuver of course and
they're flying jets we're frying gets
their arrays are moving which it is a
little puffy goose the beautiful say
that the great world it is a great world
wakes up there in down here
discovery is now slightly above the well
is about 245 degrees above the velocity
vector as it moves to the point that is
directly above the space station Mir for
our separation burn that separation burn
should take place in about 3 minutes and
15 seconds and will bring to a
conclusion our rendezvous activities for
today the flight control team here in
Houston is very pleased with today's
activities and throughout the or
occasionally throughout the day we have
gotten pictures of the Mission Control
Center in Russia and there are very
happy faces located there as well
Ginger's yes Liesl - my dear here is the
31st anniversary prize so we were sticky
little concern is giving either physical
or no but you're a certain you wish this
was the way from a biggest anomalous
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as the working with you would churning
here the community and the dr. DiPaolo
three discovery stereo eggs okay we are
now receiving a live picture from
Discovery's flight deck as the STS 63
crew wraps up its rendezvous activities
for the day in the white shirt is STS 63
pilot Eileen Collins in the forward part
of this view in the red shirt is Bernard
Harris who is our payload commander and
in the the back part of this particular
view is mission specialist Mike Foale
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were very happy to meet you in the sky
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can beat
dr. Dodger to see that yes yes yes know
what hello good afternoon
oh good afternoon I didn't know you were
on the line congratulations oh well
thank you very much sir it's an honor to
be talking to you thanks for calling I'm
glad to do it we're all following you
with great anticipation and we're all so
impressed you know this really proves I
think that Russians and Americans can
work together and that we can make this
International Space Station project
successful and I can't tell you how much
I appreciate all the work that all of
you have done to that end well we agree
sir it's what I kept thinking as we were
running on Meera's it's a great world
they have a beautiful spaceship and we
have a beautiful spaceship built by
Americans we met the people that built
their spaceship they loved their space
program we loved our space program and I
think together will be a lot better well
we're confident that it will as you know
this whole mission is the number of
first you're the first person to ever
command our efforts to rendezvous with a
Russian space vehicle and I know that
Eileen Collins is the first woman ever
to pilot a space shuttle so Eileen I
suppose you have literally shown young
women all across the world they can fly
as high as their dreams will take them
yes I like to say I think this is one of
the greatest jobs
world and you know for any young people
out there if you work hard enough you
can always always reach your dreams
would you certainly prove that look at
that we enjoy watching the microphone
there I want to ask dr. Harris to pick
it up as it flies toward him I want to
he's going to set another milestone by
becoming the first African American to
walk in space so you'll be floating on
here but be sure you heard I'm really
looking forward to that a couple of days
from now but I know I won't be I may be
the first but I won't be the last
no you won't be the last we'll have a
lot more if we have you as an example
I'd also like to say something to our
Russian partner in space Vladimir Tito
it's one of the world's most experienced
space travelers and that he's the first
cosmonaut to see the near from an
American spacecraft so I'd like to give
you a chance to say anything you'd like
to the American people mr. Tito and good
day mr. president thank you very much
and I were happy I am I use them every
possibility to have a great flight and
right now our press conference our
conversation listen of the four station
Mir and crew on board is mirror sent for
you
great hello
well thank you very much I want to say
to all of you again that this is very
exciting for us you know the vice
president's here with me along with Dan
Goldin and and our science advisor dr.
Jack Givens and we have supported this
space program so strongly and it's been
as you know somewhat controversial in
the United States in the past but I
think that people all over our country
and all over the world will be seeing
you today and will say you know this is
something worth doing and you you all of
you have made us very proud I can't
thank you enough well we thank you very
much for your support mr. president we
know you have done a lot of work over
the last several years
in getting us this far there's a lot of
people around our country and a lot of
people in Russia that we owe a great
deal of thanks and of course it starts
right at the very top so thank you very
much for your support you're welcome and
of course we want to say hello to
Michael and Janice to whom we haven't
talked we're proud of all of you have a
wonderful time and come home safe and
sound
did you spank you if you saw today she
Weatherby does a great job of flying
this vehicle and looking forward to
seeing and landing I'll bet you are
yeah it'll be a very good one I'm quite
sure will come home to us we're proud of
you good bye
yes sir thank you very much
this is Mission Control Houston
discovery is currently 211 nautical
miles above South America just crossing
at the borders of Peru Brazil and
Bolivia as it continues on orbit number
61 of this flight as the crew of six
astronauts on board discovery sleeps the
flight controllers here in the flight
control room in Houston are continuing
to monitor all systems on board the
orbiter and also to take a look at the
timeline for flight day five activities
that will greet the crew when they awake
at 1252 a.m. Central time to begin that
flight day five on-orbit the crew had a
very busy very successful and very
historic day today a day that saw
American and Russian spacecraft draw
within 37 feet of one another with
commander Jim Weatherby at the controls
the crew of astronauts on board
discovery intersected Mira's velocity
vector at a distance of about 400 feet
from that space station that occurred at
1216 p.m. Central time today
all told discovery spent almost two
hours on that velocity vector that is an
imaginary line that's drawn in the
direction of travel of the MIR Space
Station during that time discovery
slowly edged forward toward the space
station finally holding at a distance of
37 feet before edging away to begin a
fly around and photographic survey of
that space station
all of the procedures and systems worked
perfectly in supporting rendezvous
activities today those procedures were
developed over the past year by by teams
of American and Russian flight
controllers in support of plan to joint
operations between the US and Russia STS
63 was the first of seven planned
missions in June of this year STS 71
will mark the first time in American
shuttle actually docks with the MIR
Space Station and STS 63 is providing
valuable data on what to expect and how
to accomplish that planned rendezvous
discovery continues to send video of the
earth below as it circles above at 210
nautical miles currently tracking to the
northeast over the South American
continent on an orbit that will take it
across over the Pacific Atlantic Ocean
as the crew on board sleeps the flight
controllers are continuing to support
the timeline activities in preparation
for tomorrow's flight day five on orbit
and our next television event will be a
replay of the NASA budget briefing from
earlier today with NASA Administrator
Daniel Goldin that briefing will begin
at 7:00 p.m. Central Time and will last
approximately 20 minutes at a mission
elapsed time of 3 days 19 hours 32
minutes this is Mission Control Houston
you