the crew arrived in their p38 training
aircraft from the Johnson Space Center
in Houston Texas this is a standard
operation for the crew to come in about
three days before launch their arrival
words again at about 3:30 p.m. Eastern
Time
flying in the lead 2:38 of course is the
commander Andy Allen and he flying in
the back seat is one of our astronauts
from the Italian space agency Umberto we
don't he
pilot Scott Horowitz arrived flying the
t-38 and flying in his backseat is
mission specialist jeffrey hoffman
claude nicollier is preparing to make
his third trip into space today Maurizio
Kelly mission specialists is making his
a first trip into space today we've been
kind of busy coming across the Gulf here
but it's a beautiful day to fly and we
look forward to a day like this on
Thursday afternoon so we can get back up
and go fly again this time it will be on
Columbia the Kennedy Space Center launch
team is proceeding with plans to launch
the space shuttle Columbia scheduled for
liftoff at 3:18 p.m.
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding and we
do have a live television of our flight
crew on the third floor of the
operations check-out building just
departing their suit up room and making
their way toward the elevator which will
take them to the base of the room there
is a wide range of interest on this
mission and its international crew
workers at Kennedy Space Center of
course are all anxious to see this one
go on time today
and the commander Andy Allen has emerged
from the building followed by his pilot
Scott Horowitz and payload commander
Franklin chang-diaz mission specialist
Jeffrey Hoffman mission specialist
Moiseyev Kelly and payload specialist
Umberto we don't everything continues to
go well as the launch team works to
finalize all aspects of preparations for
the launch of space shuttle Columbia at
3:18 p.m. Eastern Time at this time the
booster test conductor is verifying that
the chamber pressures and the solid
rocket motors is at the appropriate
levels also air-to-ground voice checks
have been completed between the crew and
mission managers here in the firing room
and the crew cabin close outs are about
to begin all checks of the payloads
instruments have been completed and
engineers and managers are reporting no
technical concerns the city often
approve plan sheet I tell you to do it
currently at the pad and here in the
firing room all continues to go on
schedule for the launch of space shuttle
Columbia this afternoon at 3:18 at
t-minus one hour 27 minutes and Counting
this is shuttle launch control
we are continuing with the count not
coming
Alexis coho orbiter access arm retract
the orbiter access arm is now being
retracted away from the vehicle this is
the walkway used by the crew to gain
entry into and out of the vehicle and it
can be returned to position within
seconds if need be
t-minus two minutes 30 seconds and
counting
and the gaseous oxygen vent hood is
slowly being retracted away from the top
of the external tank
we're transferring to your orbital
internal power at this time
Columbia is now laying off its three
main onboard fuel cells coming up for a
go for autosequence start
yellow cocoa products and we have a go
for autosequence start
Columbia's onboard computers have
primary control of all the vehicles
critical functions t-minus 20 seconds
t-minus 15 seconds
t-minus 12 11 10 9 8 7 we have a gopher
manager 2 1 and we have liftoff of the
space shuttle Columbia continuing Space
Research through another satellite
technology
modulo Columbia
Houston now controlling Colombia rolling
on course for a twenty eight point five
degree inclination of it it showing that
for five percent on the left rajasthan
by
Horschel bit up okay Justin we copy that
was just up eyes on the PC cage and
clever you're going throw up go alive
three inches on board now back at full
throttle the crew reporting a gauge on
board however all indications for the
Indians operating well again back at
full throttle
altitude now 69 thousand feet down range
from the launchpad 8 nautical miles
plumb be already traveling 2,000 miles
per hour my controllers are standing by
at two minutes after launch for burnout
and jettison the twin solid rockets
booster officer confirms a good
separation of the twin side rockets
Columbia now in its second stage main
engines three main engines again
operating well at full throttle Columbia
performance nominal copy performance
okay GC Roger okay can Co your
commanding is complete correct for now
but we got to manage about five or so
okay
GC what's going to save the system all
fly control is coming around the room
for a go/no-go per the LCC prop go
GNC Oh guidance go Fido go I'll come
back to you GC DPS we're go hey load so
you go we're go he con we're go if I go
go in go go max go booster he'll
sergeant yeah okay all flight
controllers if you're still go green
please on your status lights GC what's
unsafe the mark APD Houston flight broke
right yes sir the dump data we just had
a chance to look at it it is the same
signature we saw earlier this morning
and with that confirmation we are go I
thought that once electricity I copy
that automatically ready Jim Walker then
he'll clear to launch
yes
yeah let's go for main engine start
this often farm copy
here's egg pop yeah my guidance we see a
good roll laughter man Roger roll
Columbia booster flight no flying me a
message at East entirely on now 45% on
the left we got good data flight if I
just stand by or copy showing left
engine and will for far so good I'll
prick
plumpie we're showing good engines good
commands at all three darling down
flight good good commands all talk about
copy he taught me to confirm copy
staying about Fido life I own nominal
Miko no almost one required I'm go for
the photo tto copy in praat Rob screw
ROG Capcom Columbia Louisville Oh Miko
Holmes one not requiring them you have a
go for the photo DT oh good job guys
okay I'm glad thanks much for everything
we're happy to be here
yes I was saying it never works that
fans in the sim riders I don't know I'm
hoping that you could see some of the
particulate material that was coming out
of the payload Bay there was quite a bit
of it mostly just little white particles
as far as we could tell
yes sir we saw that Jeff that's an
excellent image you've downlinked that's
just spectacular
what a great earth
this one's going to go in all the movies
and the Houston the DVCS activation
steps to it for our TSS activation our
complete note copy payloads concurs
that's a great view of the glovebox
okay Dave yeah I'm setting up everything
lights you can see the lights right here
and we got the little internal box
already connected everything looks good
and at the next to the power just are
ready to power everything up let me I
read you also some filter numbers which
I figure is supposed to write down okay
Houston for TSS real mother set out is
complete and I'm sure you see the final
output temperature is forty five point
one rather that's greater than fifty
aside from that everything looks good
and we're waiting for the vernier motor
to come on board the crew members are
behind in their timeline just about by
two and a half hours or so after they've
spent some time attempting to resolve
some issues with a computer referred to
as smartflex that's a computer that
processes data from the tethered
satellite system apparently the one of
two cores on that satellite failed it
failed automatically over to the second
core and currently the right core of
that smartflex computer is being used it
appears to be operating as expected that
will allow satellite activation to begin
for the tethered satellite system the
crew members also have been working with
a second unit called the D dcs that's a
dedicated display unit that graphically
displays information about the major
components of the tethered satellite
system that unit is functioning however
it is processing data at a very low
level due to a low performance level
Clementi is this then you are in the
process of reconfiguring for KCA ops
we're going to be up linking the DDS DCs
timeline files for your one day late
deploy and I got a procedure to read to
someone
yeah captain stand by one okay
Columbia Huntsville for free as a 1 no
response necessary you have a go for
step 10
Columbia Houston like you to perform a
maneuver for SLA Cal at zero five hours
come through Columbia the sets is
activated in we're standing by for your
action on taste 1234
we copy and we'll be doing that DEP
reset from the ground shortly
go for deploy right now we're no
constraint to fly we're at Nazca DPS or
go Inc oh we're going to okay Capcom
you're up go surgeon go KGC
sounds like a good work let's make sure
we stay that well understand
stand by Myrtle Columbia you are go for
satellite attitude verification 3 - 14
go ahead Marie -
from BIA Houston you're go to unlatch
the satellite
okay David bye welcome aboard and go to
unlatch
will there be an attitude at 23 in two
minutes will be an attitude GNC concurs
okay
you'll be an attitude in two minutes
there's an echo up here now Columbia we
verify good flyaway attitude and or
Bravo should look right now tail
operators I skin don't get too
mesmerized by the TV we are twenty
minutes away from flyaway let's keep an
eye on what's going on but it does look
nice
prop no Jin see we're gonna max tell
people go you come go
FAO oh hey loads no GPS no link Oh goo
Capcom occurs go for deploy Columbia
Houston you're go for release per
performance gate 1 0 1 copy go and
things look fine up here
things look fine down here Jeff
we will be uniform through the handover
to Milan
ok and we show both sets of thrusters on
and we're looking good kicker thrusters
and the APF cedars are both on looking
good we concur thrusters and ApS heaters
on
we're only about 1 degree out in y'all
fight everything else is less than 1
okay if you see the crew starting to
chase the librarian like that LEM give
me a blow-by-blow on foods we put the
avoid words off we're putting the
satellited y'all hold there's a slight
drift towards the orbiter starboard and
Andy is controlling it and we copy copy
we see a tinker in line one off my
confirmed good tensions
a PS heater awfully happy
hopefully we see the attention go way
down but the Ted is still going outside
very slight lateral oscillations but
it's looking real good copy fine copy
Jeff thank you
hi Chauncey go ahead
Debbie ten is configured for the
checklist copy b10
so the terror has broken at the apical
the better has broken it is going away
from us get it open
get on the TV cord please get on the TV
the tether is broken copy
quite a photograph exploding away from
us and Jeff we're tracking it with the
radar and we do read zero tension okay
Dave take all the tether is outside of
the boom and well away from the orbiter
we've got some feather inside the bill
maybe it looks like about eight or ten
meters so it broke inside the boom it
seems we've got the brake on and we
don't see any tether move this is laying
inside the boom
copy all Andy and stand by okay and Ian
we want to completely verify you have a
visual on the satellite and the tether
is moving away from the shuttle and like
those some words on that okay well we
had a visual on the satellite up until
up until we got into darkness here we'll
go ahead try to pick it back up but at
the time that we had it all the chatter
was heading up towards the satellite and
was well away from us stop Dave looks
like we saw a laid out a lot so we could
keep that for a little bit unless you
guys are tracking it better than we are
we have an image okay what you see now
we were using the 350 and from you you
are seeing a picture permit of Jeff's
good image okay this is taken through
the EOS 350 millimeter land we were
photographing the shades of the tether
and you can see it is starting to go
slack now unfortunately in all the
excitement somebody bumped the camera
and we lost it okay that's the view that
we had of it as it was drifting away and
we got it for a minute or so before
sunset
yes sir well those are some tethered
dynamics we did not want to see well we
have demonstrated that you can generate
a lot of electricity with tether and
fortunately we've also demonstrated that
you can use feathers to launch a
satellite and put my child orbit and
Fido concurs that was one of our
objectives two of our objectives at
least in fact we can see it picked up
about an 80 foot per second boost
without using any propellant
okay bear the Sun was setting and I
guess we lucked out as far as being able
to capture some of it before the Sun
sets
two minutes to the co e back with you on
the West at 20 206 copy
that's a beautiful shot of an amazing
piece of equipment
because we can't send you in a birthday
cake but here it is
that looks very tasty
okay thanks for all the well wishes
sorry - what Mak
I think we thought - good morning
and ritzy oh this one has a higher flow
rate and I guess that's why we've got
more eyes on this one okay and I feel
for that one door he'll and we're still
seeing the displaced Columbia don't let
that thing get loose the story was
thinking exactly the same
it gets any bigger we're going to leave
you all up there
Columbia Houston like you to perform a
maneuver for SLA cow at zero five hours
that's just in a few minutes proper
doable for any cow there were five hours
switch to that
and thanks Mauricio we do have live TV
into the cabin copy
Oh Mia were 1 plus 30 from the co e back
with you at 0 641 no response required
we're with you on the mid-deck Franklin
you look real busy
on my mark now 3 2 1 my dignity is up
she can either release it
- shooting up with
pretty fast bad defense
okay the filter stops on the top cameras
too sometimes
at Columbia Houston we're two minutes to
a teacher silhouettes will pick you back
up at nine hours nine minutes
hello folks
Oh Jeff hi Claude we're looking in the
window at you
the Atlantis Columbia Columbia Atlantis
have you loud and clear any Tommy Wright
jelly yeah how you doing we're just uh
we're passively though right now will be
over top of the Cape and I'm Adam and
it's a half Oh Andy you all been up
there too long we're missing you down
here when are you coming home
the Amazon River of Brazil clearly
visible with the Sun glint off of the
water
environmental systems officer here in
Mission Control reporting very good
cooling for the orbiter as it passes now
down to the final phase of its entry
less than 11 minutes away from touchdown
this view of Columbia from long-range
tracking cameras at the Kennedy Space
Center showing a very stable vehicle now
five and a half minutes from touchdown
plumpy uh we show you on energy
approaching the hack wins our a330
fifteen gusts tonight teen that's pretty
much all on the head and no change dr.
Alan about to flare up the orbiters nose
landing gear now beginning to be
deployed by pilot Scott Horowitz
main gear touchdown Horowitz now
preparing to deploy the drag chute
nose gear touchdown
Colombia now rolling out on runway three
three at the Kennedy Space Center to
wrap up a six and a half million mile
microgravity booster option
Oh
Suzanne someday will stop at the Kennedy
Space Center Roger we copy your elation
welcome back any great landing and we'll
get your post-landing deltas shortly
Justin Columbia standing by words
hydraulic load test
Roger dock hydraulic load test if not
required
I'm glide slope on Noi
copy Columbia show you on glide slope on
centerline daddy's usin their field in
sight
Roger copy field in sight now state
label autoloader Lee copy
who said Sunday will stop at the Kennedy
Space Center Roger we copy your elation
welcome back any great landing and we'll
get your post-landing deltas shortly
okay max any immediate post-landing
deltas not in flight eagle and he comm
none will be going on ammonia real soon
here though we'll get back with you copy
that
okay no immediate Delta's Capcom you
fail to pick up with the postman
procedures lamia
Houston no media Delta's you have a go
to pick up with your post landing
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