sts 76 will chalk up another first in
space when rich clifford and linda
godwin become the first americans to
conduct a spacewalk in close proximity
to the russian station
on
we do have live pictures of the flight
crew
got mission specialist linda godwin
she'll be one of the
space walkers on this flight
pilot uh rich richard cyrfoss
and commander kevin chilton
chilton will be guiding the shuttle
atlantis to a smooth docking
mission specialist shannon lucid
getting ready to uh
begin her stay on mir
mission specialist ron saga
and mission specialist
rich clifford who's also serving as the
flight engineer for the mission and
we'll be performing
the space walk
and the crew uh waving uh for the camera
we've got about 30 minutes remaining in
this built-in hold at the t-minus three
hour mark
two minus three hours and holding this
is a planned built-in hold
all continuing to go well
as we count down to the launch of sts-76
with the space shuttle atlantis
this is shuttle launch control
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours holding
we're standing by to get live coverage
of the sts-76 astronauts as they get
into their
launch and entry suits
and we do have coverage we've got
commander kevin chilton
making his third flight today
just completed the weather briefing with
flight directors in houston
and the weather coordinators there
going through the traditional
suit up
being assisted with the bulky suit
chilton will be the third uh
little dock with the russian space
station the third to do that
got pilot uh
richard cyrifos
making his second flight
he's known as the rendezvous expert
and
will be responsible for the undocking of
the mirror station and the subsequent
fly around
sierra frost will be assisting uh
chilton at the flight controls
in the crew cabin of atlantis
mission specialist ron sega
he's the payload commander
for this mission making his second
flight he's very familiar with the
united states russian cooperative space
effort having spent several months in
russia serving as nasa's operations
director
at the gagarin cosmonaut training center
in star city just outside of moscow
across the room the rest of the crew
members are getting
assisted
with
equipment they'll be taking aboard
mission specialist shannon lucid
she's got uh
applying for the five the fifth time
today
the first american woman
to be launched aboard the the mir
station
she'll be staying aboard the the mirror
for four and a half months
as soon as she arrives on the mirror
station she will become part of that
team
she'll be staying on mirror for about
143 days until august
conducting long duration space research
mission specialist rich clifford
he's also serving as flight engineer and
will be one of the crew members to make
a space walk
space walk will occur on flight day six
he's also uh going to be responsible for
the space vision system and will be
helping transfer supplies and equipment
over to the mir station
also he'll be assisting the commander
and pilot with ascent and reentry
checklists
and in monitoring vehicle systems as the
flight engineer
mission specialist linda godwin
she's making her third flight today
she's uh
going to join rich clifford in the space
walk on flight day six where they'll be
attaching four experiments to the
mirrored docking module
she'll also be involved in the unique
kid sat payload
and the tsar x experiment flying again
with him
involving the amateur radio
operation from the shuttle and also
she'll be involved with the biorack
experiments in the space hub
commander kevin chilton ready to go this
morning
and here we have the crew coming out
thank you
a profile test of the orbiter air
services has started
and flight control surfaces are being
moved through a pre-programmed pattern
to verify they are ready for launch
next the main engines will be gambled
and positioned for launch
verify no unexpected errors
the gaseous oxygen vent hood is being
retracted away from the top of the
external tank
coming up on
all right
uh it's called the morning number clears
unexpected areas
after that man flight crew otc close and
lock your visors and initiate 02 flow
and it's just about time for the spirit
of 76 to wake up the space shuttle
six member crew is about to embark on
the first day of the nine-day flight
beginning of shannon lucid's four and a
half month stay
aboard the mir space station
got a six-hour spacewalk
this marks the third flight
of the shuttle to the mir link up
from now through 1998 there will be an
american astronaut aboard the mere space
station
one minute
less than one minute away now from the
launch of atlantis
atlantis will be launched on a northerly
trajectory and climb 51.6 degrees to the
equator
t-minus 40 seconds
this marks the 13th night launch in the
history of the shuttle program
atlantis onboard computers have control
of vehicle functions
t-minus 20 seconds
thousands of gallons of water will be
dumped on the launch platform to help
absorb the shock of the seven million
pounds of thrust
nine
we have a go for engine start
five
four
three
two
one
booster ignition and liftoff of atlantis
on the third shuttle mirrored docking
flight
pretty good
engine engines are throttling back now
helping to ease the buildup of
aerodynamic loads on the vehicle as
atlantis continues to accelerate rapidly
through the dense lower altitudes
traveling now over 650 miles per hour
time 48 seconds all systems are
performing well
atlantis is now easing through the
period of maximum dynamic pressure
and the engines are throttling back up
atlantis go at throttling
all engines are now running at full
throttle all systems are performing well
altitude is now 62 thousand feet
atlantis is traveling over 1000 miles
per hour
atlantis continues to climb at a
relatively steep angle at this point
relying heavily on the solid rocket
boosters to triple its rate of speed
over the next 60 seconds
delivering a combined six and a half
million pounds of thrust the boosters
will burn out and separate at two
minutes six seconds time now one minute
52 seconds
solid rocket booster chamber pressure is
beginning to tail off signaling the burn
out of the twin end
boosters mission control sees a good
separation atlantis is now flying free
powered by its own main engines second
stage guidance is now in effect
altitude now 178 thousand feet downrange
distance 38 miles atlantis performance
nominal
atlanta's two engine tail
with three engines burning at 104
percent rated thrusts uh the boosters
have done their job has designed the
main engines as well and atlantis can
now cross the atlantic with only two
engines should one fail
again all engines are performing well
altitude is now 230 000 feet downrange
distance 58 nautical miles
atlantis is traveling over 3200 miles
per hour
at three minutes five seconds
atlantis flight path is already
beginning to level out a bit
lightening its load as propellant burns
off and continuing its rapid
acceleration
all systems are continuing to perform
very well time now three minutes 19
seconds
okay let's go for auto sequence start
25
20
open
p0 srb ignition
lift off confirmed
hello
program roger roll atlantis like i
didn't see a good role
final flight we got cold srbs
that's firm flight but one and a half
sigma
one and a half yes sir
if i left three at 104. angle let's
follow
atlantis go at throttle up
light guidance
go ahead single engine press 104 atlanta
single engine press
about a minute and a half to mikko at
833
navas go
thank you
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eight feet closing 0.08
okay i show 0.08 also
did i show eight feet also
good good comparison
go for contact conditions for point one
shelly we're a little on the slow side
we're at point oh eight seven feet
eight seconds early
was that a beat up in chile no okay
i show you 0.08
closure 0.08 closure
three seconds early
five feet away
concur
i show .07 now chilly
okay beat up here
raw date has picked it up showing point
one one
three feet point one
two seconds early
point one 0 on the right two feet one
okay hold what you got it's sweet point
10.10 i agree
one foot out the window one second early
got six inches
disarm flight controller power off
okay you're in free drift and we have
confirmed contact and capture
beautiful
unbelievable
pedal position bass
it
yes sir at their current rdot it looks
like they'll get into station keeping in
about six minutes so that'll give them
about eight minutes station okay
thank you
all right you see
go ahead okay we went to manual key here
so they should be able to talk we'll
just keep manual key
real flight
yes why we're manually keying we'd like
uh moscow to try uh okay come here okay
stand by
hey rio let's go uh mr lovely off is
ready for the for the docking conference
okay and he's right there and he just
gave you a go so you might respond
on loop one
my chain cpct is disarmed and flight
controller powers
copy copy content capture and we confirm
mirror free drift
copy that
fight rio free drift
atlantis houston your go for shuttle ods
hatch opening
for delta p under 0.2
okay we're opening the hatch
and we have a good image of you chilly
the two of you look great
looks like they're welcoming you aboard
this is the view coming down
out of the
airlock and taking a turn at the ods and
now we're entering the docking adapter
and heading over to the beer space
station
as you can see throughout this entire
tour
it gets pretty crowded in the
passageways there most of these bags are
filled with transfer items going one way
or the other
here rod and yuri usage have are working
some of those uh transfers
and i couldn't resist the urge and a few
spots in here to do a few aileron rolls
on the way
you always do them in the airplane you
might as well do them here
that's right
a few less g's than we uh fly in that
eagle
our transit route today on this tour
starts with the docking adapter and then
on our way to the node we are transiting
through the crystal module
he does the ducting always air ducting
for
the uh
requirements
the big cable that we're going to see
all the way into the base block
is uh for the bits new that sends audio
through the orbiter system
we have a camera hooked up in there
very shortly here we're going to get to
the node and take a turn
and i believe i went into spectre next
we'll see when we get going here
finally space uh vehicles are big enough
to get a little lost in all right
yeah that's for sure
we'll see that graphically illustrated
here in a little bit when we come back
to the node
inside the spectre module which will be
basically shannon's home for the next
several months she'll be conducting her
experiments in here and
this is actually quite a roomy module
and it's uh perhaps because it's
not as full of the transfer items and
other equipment as some of the other
modules are
but it's starting to get that way
how to do you turned out to be in here
because there's no connection back it's
everything as you know is plugged in
to the central node you have the spectre
module the
crystal module leading into it and then
of course the base block on the other
this side uh transit back out of the
spectre into the uh node and from here
it should be going into the mod 2 module
after that quick aileron roll
it's about a t-38 rolling right there i
believe looked about right
yeah this is the command 2 module right
at the in the center of the field of
view is one of the gyrodynes we
transferred one of those yesterday as
one of our first transfer items a new
refurbished gyrodine to the beer and
then we're taking back
an old one for uh refurbishment and then
subsequent resupply it points out a
great
capability that our shuttle has in
taking uh mass from earth orbit back
down to the earth
in applications such as a space station
or
working with our partners on board beer
copy
i'm getting just about to the end of
the command 2 module
and the metal containers are russian
water containers and the white bags are
our cwc bags that
we've been transferring over filling
them up
out of the shuttle's
fuel cell water that's produced and
taking it over to here
i think uh
correct we're about half through with
that water transfer fill operations
right now
uh into basically the
cosmonauts living quarters next as we go
into the base block the headquarters if
you will of the beer space station
and this little uh spinning is uh
just to graphically illustrate the point
that uh you can get lost in this uh
space station and you have to keep
yourself oriented when you get to the
node stop and take a second figure out
which way you're really going
now you get used to it though after one
or two transits and it really isn't too
bad to do
here at
jury artifreco and chile and shannon are
discussing some of the transfer
operations uh so it has tilly and yuri
are holding the
one of the joint documents that we use
to work together
your usage
in the background by the table is
doing some prep for some transfer
items back from the mirror to the
shuttle
from here we're going to proceed into
the command one
and at the end of that is the soyuz and
we'll get all the way down to the end
picture here and uh i poked the camera
in boyd board
on the soyuz capsule and we'll see that
shortly
rick it looks like you have a little
pulley system to move along with
yeah that's that's true dude they've got
the russians use lots of bungees both
for hold downs and for uh for pulling
yourself along and they're quite handy
for translating
as you can see uh
i remarked to one of the other crew
members earlier today that moving around
beer is kind of like being a spelunker
exploring caves a lot of
long narrow passageways for transit
here are the
russian suits uh inside the soyuz and uh
not only
all three of course are russian
equipment but uh shannon's suit is in
there it was checked out yesterday and
she's
fully and officially a member of the
beer 21 crew now
quick turnaround out of uh sawyers and
rushing back at this point i was
beginning to worry about the battery on
my compact portable light so i kind of
speeded the rate up a little bit here
we certainly hope not to use those
soyuz modules but it's nice to know
they're there should it become necessary
this uh we just went by uh one of the
little living spaces um both yuri all
theories have their own individual
compartments for sleep and it's a very
nice
opportunity for them to have some
privacy uh during the course of their
long stays on board beer
so we're approaching the node here
shortly
and
then we'll be taking
the pathway back to the space shuttle
there we go we found the right one and
we're on the way
here we're just about ready to enter the
docking module
and if you notice uh the lower center
part of the field of view you see a
target similar to the well it is the
exact docking target that chile used
to dock yesterday
and we'll play uh ods center line camera
here for just a minute and do our own
little docking maneuver
copy that rick and uh we have to use
that thing quite a few more times so
let's be careful with
you it notice didn't even touch it we
just took the video camera down to it
back uh
into the shuttle ods
where chile is doing some work
and from here we're going to take a turn
after the space app
as ron is taking some transfer items out
of the space half tunnel
into the beer
and i guess i'd like to begin by saying
this is kind of a bittersweet moment for
us and uh one also filled with a lot of
satisfaction
um
we've had a wonderful time on the the uh
near atlantis complex here and it
started off just fantastic with the
warmest welcome anyone can imagine from
yuria dean and yuri davao
and
and it just has gone uphill from there
with a great working relationship
between the two crews and certainly the
sense of satisfaction uh that we feel
for having got the job done is is
tremendous and uh ron sega who is my
payload commander has been sweating the
transfer both to and from here from the
shuttle perspective and uh yuri and yuri
have been working her real hard on the
mere side and it's been a great team
effort and i think we're there
that's that's the satisfaction part
truly uh the sad part will be to bid
farewell to shannon and yuri and yuri uh
this is a tremendous team uh we're gonna
miss them
um you know
we know we'll see shannon again when she
comes back on staff 79 but uh but
there's a big ocean between russia and
america and uh it and we're not all so
confident they're sure or certain i
should say that we'll ever see our two
friends uh yuri and yuri came
one person
and with that houston uh we
did the formal farewell
and i'd like to extend my thanks to soup
in moscow for their great support
and all the teams that uh the mcc here
is
uh
foreign
atlantis houston no action on the spec
88 evaporator feed line message
ev1 houston
yeah linda and uh
we see that cable cutter uh at the end
of the tether doing some motion also we
suggest that you take the tether that's
on your wrist the wrist stand and move
that to your mini workstation
particularly before you start
translating down the sills
and rich it just looks spectacular out
there doing a space walk on the atlantis
mir space complex absolutely beautiful
stuff
down here below
are you
okay
okay that looks great
on your left wrist
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oh
now we're inside the space hat that's
the gyro dime that uh we're returning to
earth that was on board beer it's all
stowed and buttoned down ready for uh
re-entry
and as we come aboard the space head i'm
going to cut to some live tv of ron
who's working there and he's going to
take over the narrative describing some
of his biorack operations
so uh we can take down link to payload
one now
hello lyndon and i are in the space have
which you probably saw from the
view that's past the docking module in
the aft part of the payload bay of the
shuttle connected by a tunnel
and we have two main activities in the
space hab one is the transfer
and we also return items from russia in
this case from the russian space station
in this case it's empty food containers
so the the number of items that we have
include food clothing water and science
equipment for shannon to enable her to
do the long-duration studies that will
take place over the next roughly 140
days this is going to be important for
us
in the in working toward the
international space station to get more
experience of long-duration flight and
work as well as technology development
of our equipment that we will eventually
fly on space station as well as
beginning to increase our database in
the long duration studies of science
now we have one example of that here in
the space have it's called biorack it's
behind linden i
and it has flown three times before
it's assad's a mini biology laboratory
built uh
by the european space agency it's
followed three times on the shuttle
uh fts mission 61a the international
microgravity laboratory one and two and
now of course on our flight
yes sir that's affirmative also there
there is uh one little delta to your
message
the actual nbc show is called the
nightside
versus news channel
we copy chili
yes and last we've completed docking
ring extension uh the ring initial
position i came on with pedal position
base at 69 72 and 69.
and thanks rich those numbers all look
good to us and
we think that 72 really reflects a bias
and it also is actually at 69 percent
okay that's what we heard thanks a lot
houston atlanta's comp check from the
mid-deck on intergroup too
atlantis houston loud and clear on air
to ground too
physical separation
copy physical separation
executing separation
okay
we have a spectacular view of the mir
space station over the south pacific
soon to reach uh two and a half times
the speed of sound at which point pilot
rick surface will fire up auxiliary
power unit number three
you