at this point in the countdown
everything is going on just the way it
should with no significant problems
being worked by the launch team the
astronauts are awake and will be sitting
down at the breakfast table within the
next several minutes at t-minus 3 hours
and holding this is shuttle launch
control
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding see the
astronauts at the breakfast table for
this morning's launch attempt
there's mission specialist Jan Davis and
her husband payload commander Mark Lee
here is a shuttle pilot Curt brown and
this morning's STS 47 commander hoot
Gibson there's a mission specialist and
flight engineer J apt mission specialist
may Jameson and the payload specialist
dr. Mamoru mori of Japan half of the
crew were awakened at about 458 this
morning and the other three were
awakened at 528 and in preparation for
this morning's launch attempt sitting in
the middle of the table is a traditional
cake made for every launch team and it
has the emblem STS 47 crew patch
this is the STS 47 crew patch which was
designed by the astronauts you can see
the oval-shaped logo is surrounded by
the names of the seven astronauts slj on
the left side stands for Space Lab Japan
with the Japanese letters on the right
meaning photo or weightlessness in
Japanese the Shuttle Orbiter is flanked
by the flags of the United States on its
starboard side and the flag of Japan on
the port side and you can see that the
orbiter is flying over the United States
state of Alaska and the country of Japan
and this is indicative of the 57 degree
or high inclination orbit that we'll be
having over the seven-day flight this is
shuttle launch control at t-minus three
hours and holding we're currently
standing by to receive some video of the
astronauts the STS 47 crew as they're
donning their flight pressure suits in
preparation for today's launch as
commander hoot Gibson Gibson is gonna be
making his fourth trip in space today a
veteran of three previous flights most
recently the launch of atlantis on
here's mission specialist and payload
commander Mark Lee they'll be making his
second trip in space today he flipped
previously on STS 34 you see pilot Curt
Brown being assisted with the donning of
his gloves Brown will be making his
first trip in space today
these orange day glow outfits are
essentially pressure suits that the
astronauts wear during entry into Earth
orbit and reentry
back here upon landing here's Japanese
payload specialist dr. Mamoru mori dr.
Mori will become the first professional
Japanese astronaut to fly in space today
and he's very pleased to be going and
gives us a thumbs-up
Mori has been training to fly on the soj
mission for about seven years
mission specialist and FC has 47 flight
engineer J aft aft is checking out his
communications on his helmet and he'll
be making his second trip in space
having flown previously on STS 37 when
the Compton gamma-ray Observatory was
deployed here you see may Jameson hey
Jameson will be making her first trip in
space today and she's also very
enthusiastic and ready to fly Jameson is
a medical doctor from Chicago you see
mission specialist Jan Davis Davis will
be making her first trip in space today
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus two hours 55 minutes and the STS
47 astronauts have just emerged from
their suit-up room and the astronaut
quarters
commander hood Gibson and pilot Curt
brown leading the way and Japanese
payload specialist Mamoru Mori and
mission specialist may Jameson pickin up
the rear
here they come from the operation and
check-out building commander hoot Gibson
leading the way followed by Curt brown J
app parsley and its wife Jan Davis May
Jameson and amore amore they trained a
long time for this mission seven years
for dr. mori two or more years to the
rest of the crew and they're ready to
fly the dog
in the foreground is the Japanese
payload specialist dr. Mamoru Mori a
native of Hokkaido Japan dr. mori well
today become the first Japanese
astronaut to fly aboard a United States
space shuttle he has spent the last two
years at Houston's Johnson Space Center
training for the Space Lab J mission and
spent five years before that in Japan
preparing himself for the flight dr.
mori is married to the former
and has three children
if we could have our children hello I
was in Detroit several months ago and
that was the principal of a Damon
Academy here we're all gonna be watching
the fight thank you
thank you very much good luck to all of
you here balanced and he'd like to say
we're too
bandit
go ahead for the video Samantha she's on
a different bike opponent they say that
that one's not working right now so
we'll again good luck at t-minus 7
minutes and 30 seconds we're now seeing
the orbiter crew access arm retracting
away from the orbiter Endeavour and
being put in the launch ready
configuration if an emergency were to
occur the arm could be re-expanded back
up to the orbiter in just 15 seconds
all systems are go at this point at at
t-minus six minutes 52 seconds weather
is ideal the vehicle is in good shape
and we expect to see endeavour off the
ground in just under seven minutes
orbiter test conductor Roger Gillett has
just instructed endeavours pilot Curt
Brown to perform the auxiliary power
unit pre start procedure t-minus 3
minutes 55 seconds have tested the
orbiters flight control systems is
starting the Aero surfaces such as the
rudder gsella bonds and speed brakes are
now being moved through a programmed
test pattern to verify they're up and
ready for launch
eros surface checks are complete and
reported to be in launch configuration
also at this time the three main engines
are being gimble meaning that they are
going through a steering check and being
positioned for launch
all systems remain go for launching
endeavour on America's 50th space
shuttle flight and just under three
minutes verify no unexpected errors
retraction of the gaseous oxygen vent
hood from atop the external tank is no:1
work
rtcp LT modular e-learning memory is
cleared knowing expand expected messages
i copy in flight crew close and lock
your visors and initiate Oh to blow good
luck on your mission and see you in one
wait will be a test conductor Roger
Gillett and strict include two closer
flight visors and preparation for this
morning's liftoff of Endeavour you - 17
seconds we're coming up on a go for main
engine start two one
solid rocket ignition and liftoff
liftoff of Endeavour on America's 50th
space shuttle flight controlling
and just now throttling down now at 67%
is endeavour prepares to pass through
the area of maximum dynamic pressure
endeavour Houston go at throttle up one
minute 20 seconds into the flight
endeavour is now seven miles from the
launch site altitude 11 nautical miles
now traveling 2,400 feet per second are
about 1,700 miles per hour
the next event is a burnout of the solid
rocket boosters that occurs at about two
minutes endeavour Houston UHF comm check
how do you read
two minutes into the flight now
endeavour is 21 miles around away from
the Kennedy Space Center
solid rocket booster separation
confirmed
standing by for the first stage
performance call
endeavour Houston performance nominal
performance thus far and the mission has
been as expected endeavours now 50 miles
away from the launch site at an altitude
of 38 nautical miles
traveling 4800 feet per second or about
3400 miles per hour all three main
engines are still performing well as are
the hydraulic and electrical systems
aboard the orbiter endeavour Houston to
engine Zaragoza endeavour can now reach
the primary transatlantic abort side of
Zaragoza Spain in the event of a single
engine failure but all three engines are
still performing well at 104 percent
endeavours altitude is now 293 thousand
feet 85 nautical miles downrange from
the Kennedy Space Center
this is Mission Control these are our
live views of the crew starting to come
into the space lab module and endeavour
Houston were with you now in space
Lovejoy
and finally it's great to get back in
here after that this for a long time we
got Memorial probably blind and you a
little bit with the camera but taken a
few pictures with the 16-millimeter yeah
you know the crew of sts-48 would just
you like to thank you that was quite a
show you put on for our one-year
anniversary today
this is Mission Control the first person
to enter the Space Lab module is our
payload commander Mark Lee followed by
our payload specialist dr. Mori and dr.
Mori is using the 16 millimeter film
camera to get some footage inside the
space lab
endeavour Houston you have a go for
Space Lab activation Jan Davis is
working with the continuous heating
furnace and working on the aluminum
composite experiment she's involved in
the first sample installation of this
experiment now may Jemison works with
the gas bulb experiment the activation
and preparation
and especially Huntsville for me we do
have downlink and we do have an image
and we can see the filament and we copy
me
thank you space lab operations in
Huntsville
we're receiving the live video downlink
from the Space Lab module looking at the
gas evaporation facility okay may we
copy and I was just talking to the P I
about the last one there was a little
bit of concern that the cross wasn't
exactly in front of the filament I'm not
sure if you can do anything about that
except just to kind of eyeball that bulb
to make sure it's straight up and down
that's affirmative may we understand
Space Lab operations in Huntsville
getting an excellent view of inbound
link video of the gas bulb with the
filament inside the bulb
you back for rating
and we've got another 250 that has
infrared so minute this little number
here is a 35 millimeter with a 300
millimeter lamps on it so we can get
nice close-ups we just put all this gear
together on this shift and burden film
we had some bounce passes today over
northern Japan over Hokkaido we had a
couple of good passes over the central
part of Russia and is only the Sahara
that we've got back here yeah mark we
want to increase fish package number two
EEG number two zero point five two two
point five
and in this view we can see mission
specialist Mark Lee at the control
systems making those requested
adjustments to the amplification device
for the brainwave signals that are being
monitored brainwave signals coming from
each of the two carb serving as test
subject in this experiment
here in the science operations area the
science principal investigator team
members for this experiment are
monitoring the data coming down as Mark
Lee has been adjusting it in the Space
Lab module and this is the recording
system on hook by which the brainwave
information from the test subject fish
will be monitored and recorded here in
the on the ground
dr. Mamoru Mori the test subject in this
experiment in the head restraint device
designed to keep his head stationary
during the experiment so that the only
movement will be of his eyes and that
movement can be recorded on videotape by
means of this camera we can also see a
couple of the electrodes there are
electrodes attached to various parts of
his body to record the electrical
signals
mr. space I have operations in
Huntsville we are now again receiving
video from the liquid drop facility
where dr. Mamoru Mori is in the process
of working with the droplet of mineral
oil and it's still attached to the
injector needle of this facility dr.
mori manipulating the needle slightly
and the drop of mineral oil still
attached to the tip one of the
loudspeakers the circular array of holes
in the background behind the drop being
the openings for sound energy from the
one of the loudspeakers in this facility
dr. mori now manipulating the injector
needle to try to detach the drop of
mineral oil and now has detached it to
being suspended by acoustic energy
principal investigator team members here
at that deployment of a straight through
the filter without really going through
the material going through the material
it goes into the filter material and if
you notice the exit down here going
through the material to get a big slug
of water and everyone surround wall
coming out a chiller you get a big slug
learner and that way it will kind of
flow straight through because it doesn't
have a time to be a sword by the filter
material
okay I stand by mark
they probably thought there is a
tremendous amount of debris inside there
the containers of each or inside each
module and a lot have been sticking to
the module plate to place a class that
you cannot see inside and what it must
left is floating around it there's also
a lot of debris that have that has
exited the chambers to the small holes
the inside beyond the overall I there
container and there's also excuse over
the views as you can see with the
camcorder it looks a little bit better
person but not much the other thing is
the the bottom containers have a lot of
condensate on the faceplate the external
plate that covers the that actually part
of the locker itself that has a lot of
condensate so the bottom is even tougher
to see it to the top but you'll look at
at the top obviously John Davis at this
time preparing to enter the El BNP suit
or device
even in a microgravity Atmos environment
it's not an easy fit to to squeeze into
divine device especially with all of the
equipment attached to Jan Davis
okay Marco we have a great video now
okay you can see this was number 121
very healthy again 118 was just the same
there's no obvious size of the stress
they're looking they look sicker than
just funny ones we we've had the only
comment I have is that they're kind of a
little bit dry and I was curious whether
or not I should put a whole syringe I'm
gonna go ahead and show you the other
the other two also again we can't be
and mark you can go ahead and put a
Paris Range in each chamber if you want
to
okay this is number 23 also
mr. specialist Barclays working in the
general-purpose workstation the glovebox
facility so that the keep the frogs
contained so that they don't get out in
the general space lab module area and
he's removing the frogs one by one from
the adult frog box there are there are
four of these frogs and they're an
African yeah Ken and his guys really
appreciated they're glad they're doing
so great this is Space Lab operation son
spill doctor Mamoru Mori the payload
specialist in the Space Lab module
continuing with some configuration of
television systems so that he can
provide a view of the experiment
operations inside the image furnace
which he has activated with a sample we
now have that video
in addition to the attention being given
to actual operations going on at the
moment there'll also be some work
looking down the road aways now that we
have the official word of an eighth day
a one day extension to the mission they
there will be planning going on to take
advantage of that additional 24 hours
and work in valuable science get a good
balance of additional science activities
and you see no glittering particles or
anything in the solution
and just for your information on the in
the ground control experiment they are
seeing a lot of crystals about 1
millimeter in size mission specialist
Marc Lee also removed a glass sample
from the image furnace today this video
recorded earlier of the sample that was
removed from that furnace the glass
sample is laced with gold particles and
the experimenters will be looking at the
movement of the gold particles and
determined the flow that occurred within
the sample during the heating process in
the image furnace this is space lab
operations Huntsville we're now
receiving live video downlink of
tadpoles part of the frog embryology
experiment that's affirmative mark we're
watching these particular tadpoles were
hatched on earth and flown in the
tadpole stage at the beginning of the
mission the science team here in
Huntsville watching the swimming
behavior of the tadpoles in the two-part
flask
members of the science team for the Frog
embryology experiment monitoring the
video of the tadpoles and their swimming
behavior as we receive this downlink
video the tadpole seemed to be looping
in the opposite direction that they had
been in the kc-135 and dr. Maury working
with the injectors the bubble injectors
or air injectors which are used to
introduce air into the liquid chamber of
this facility liquid chamber contains
oil silicone oil and a pair of syringes
are used plungers used to introduce air
form bubbles within the chamber and the
operation calls for then shaking once a
large bubble has been introduced into
the chamber shaking it to break the
large bubble up into a number of small
bubbles which will be studied in terms
of their migration or movement
and Space Lab Huntsville we're live in
the module we've got the BBC two on now
we've got the TV c1 and we see May at
the workbench
yeah May we're looking right over your
shoulder and we have a good view of the
IV pump
and may gary requested if you've got
time to get a 35-millimeter shot of that
bang he was impressed
can you rotate that filter force please
okay and that looks good Jim
okay next to be bad one which was just
with the adapter
and FTS says that's beautiful
we're receiving some live shots from the
science operations area with the fluid
therapy system team which is up and
running with their experiment being
front and center space have activities
right now you know closing the heating
chamber portion of the image furnace
this is the furnace that has a pair of
halogen lamps to provide heat focusing
the energy of those lamps by means of a
pair of mirrors especially shaped
mirrors that have the figure or form of
portion of an ellipse and those mirrors
concentrate the light and heat from the
two halogen lamps into a very intense
area very intensely into a local very
small area somewhat the same manner that
a magnifying glass will concentrate the
sun's energy if it's focused on a piece
of paper or a leaf with a look inside
the image furnace we're heating up
process is underway for the experiment
that mission specialist Mark Lee has
been bringing online and will be running
yes
that's a great shot
dedicated a check out took a little
video to the NPS check out tears goes
through orbiter crew get to work
go okay
job
are you gonna rep the half of G
about twenty three point two forty miles
endeavor now banking back to the left it
wings angled 20 degrees continuing to
slow down speed now 1,400 miles an hour
or about two times the speed of sound
range touchdown 51 nautical miles
altitude 74,000 feet current speed 1,300
miles now Deborah swings now leveling
with nose angled up at about 15 degrees
speed now one thousand miles an hour
about 1.3 times the speed of sound
standing by for endeavor to go subsonic
altitude 55,000 feet 30 nautical miles
to touchdown on runway 33
four minutes to touchdown endeavours
approaching the heading alignment circle
an imaginary circle created by landing
aids around which endeavour will perform
a 258 degree right turn as it aligns
with runway 33 Deborah now subsonic
speed 256 knots altitude 40,000 feet 21
miles to touchdown
endeavor now beginning its right turn to
align with runway 33 in evolution on
energy at the 270 calling it a knit
endeavor speed is just as planned with
270 degrees left to go to turn in the
line with runway 33
airspeed 267 knots altitude 29,000 feet
17 miles to touchdown
and never Houston on energy at the 180
call indicating endeavor is at the
proper speed with 180 degrees left to go
to turn in the line with runway 33
altitude 24,000 feet 14 miles to
touchdown continuing to bank to the
right with wings angled 38 degrees to
horizontal Turner speed turn 78 knots
ever speed continuing right on target
ten miles to touchdown now stood 16,000
feet speed 290 knots continuing to bank
to the right
endeavour Houston looking good on final
you're still go for the drag chute dto
surface winds are calm Devers wings
leveling up to 9,000 feet six miles to
touchdown
speed 297 knots 6000 feet
3000 feet
landing gear down and locked main gear
touchdown
drag chute deploy
nose gear touchdown
listen endeavor we have wheelstop roger
wheelstop endeavour congratulations on a
highly successful and historic mission
stand by for post-landing deltas
you