this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding with
about 32 minutes remaining in our hold
this morning we're standing by for a
live video of the crew donning their
flight suits and the crew quarters which
is located in the operations and
check-out building and we have that
video commander
dick Covey looked like he's all ready to
fly making some last-minute adjustments
he's preparing to make his fourth flight
into space today his pilot Ken Bowersox
preparing to make his second flight into
space today
ken considers Bedford Indiana to be his
hometown relaxed story Musgrave mission
specialist the veterans veteran of
spaceflight he is preparing to make his
historic fifth flight aboard the space
shuttle today other crew members who are
have already been suited up and they're
standing by for their commander and
pilot to finish up Kathy Thornton
mission specialists preparing for her
third flight she is going to be one of
our space walking specialists
Tom makers
mission specialist Jeff Hoffman relaxing
before the walk out to the Astro van
that will carry them out to the pad and
finally a representative from European
Space Agency Claude Nikolay
putting on his gloves
commander Covey waving to members of the
media through a president maybe there's
a great waving well giving signs of
here and showing it they're ready
to fly
OTC CDR how do you read this morning
come on Victor louder forever grow on
that's your Saint George let's do it
yeah if I'm ready
members of the closeout crew are shown
in the video monitors wearing the white
coveralls and the astronauts of course
are dressed in their orange flight suits
the closeout crew consists of both NASA
and contractor personnel
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
hey off the air puppy see Sakura
verified it the recorder running copy
t-minus four minutes and Counting
t-minus three minutes 30 seconds and
counting
also we are the three main engines are
being given as a final test before
launch
everything continues ready to fly today
on NASA's four and a half million pound
space shuttle vehicle t-minus two
minutes and Counting t-minus one minute
45 seconds everything continues to look
good for launch this morning in about 90
seconds the space shuttle Endeavour will
begin at C 11th its 11 day flight to
visit the orbiting Hubble Space
Telescope but not before lighting up the
nighttime florida sky the launch should
be visible for hundreds of miles the
mission and the record five spacewalks
will be watched worldwide t-minus 31
seconds and we have a go for
autosequence start
endeavours onboard computers have
primary control of all the vehicles
critical functions
t-minus 15 seconds 11 10 9 and we have a
go for main engine start 5 4 3 2 1 and
we have liftoff liftoff of the space
shuttle Endeavour on an ambitious
mission to service the Hubble Space
Telescope
ether napkin tolling endeavors and away
rolled on course born hold it with the
Hubble Space Telescope
then all these battles involving
me and it got endeavour call the pack
53rd brought up to prepare the shuttle
to pass through the area of maximum
pressure and go supersonic
endeavour go at throttle up Roger go at
throttle up Deborah's three main engines
now back at full throttle all flight
control positions are go altitude now 10
miles 7 miles east of launch pad 39b
Deborah speed 1,700 miles an hour one
and a half minutes and slipped off
endeavours already used more than two
and a quarter million pounds of
propellant in the shuttle weighs less
than half of what it did at launch
flight controllers are now standing by
for burnout and separation of the twin
solid rockets
please prompter confirms a good
endeavoured to engine banjo jettison of
a solid rocket
exhale also indicates an endeavor can
now perform an emergency transatlantic
landing if needed
and ever performance nominal performance
also endeavours performance as far has
been just as planned altitude now 35
miles 48 miles east to the Kennedy Space
Center deborah traveling 3,400 miles an
hour
boost arsenal confirms a good jettison
of the external fuel tank endeavour
Houston we see a nominal Miko ohms one
not required it looked awfully good from
here too
hello Clark
hey sex
hey cabbie
hey Thomas
hey Katie
hello story
this television from endeavor is from a
camera mounted on the mechanical arm as
it moves over the forward portion of the
cargo bay area where the replacement
solar arrays in this view is an end of a
replacement solar array for the Hubble
Space Telescope in their carrier where
they're stored for launch
also the carrier where the old arrays
will be stored once they're removed from
the telescope this television from
endeavour shows the umbilical that would
be connected to the Space Telescope once
it's perfect we have a really good
picture of that umbilical down here
debora were on the west and we got the
video
not as colorful but as you see we have
good visibility of it
it's live television views from a camera
that's mounted in the front right-hand
corner of endeavours cargo bay looking
back over the support equipment two
mounted throughout the bay in the
foreground is the right-hand side of the
solar array carrier and one of the
replacement solar arrays for the Hubble
Space Telescope in the background
emitting about midway down the bay are
the two scientific instrument protective
enclosures in the radial site the site
that scientific and protective
instrument enclosure it runs crossways
across the bay holds the wide field
planetary camera to instrument or with
pic to the axial scientific instrument
protective enclosure the enclosure that
runs said lengthwise about the middle of
the cargo bay holds the corrective
optics space telescope axial replacement
or co-star instrument the smaller
enclosures on the right-hand side of the
cargo bay hold the new CRO processor
that will be added to the telescope to
increase its computer memory in the
larger enclosure and in the small
enclosure are the new rate sensor units
the new gyroscopes that will be added to
the telescope the electronics control
units that will be added and the goddard
high resolution spectrograph redundancy
kit again the survey the cargo bay found
no problems reported with any of the
equipment it all appears to be in
excellent shape
this is Mission Control Houston on board
the crews in their lunch break the
midpoint of their day controllers from
the Space Telescope operations Control
Center at the Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt Maryland they've
reported a whole lot of astronomers who
worked really hard we copy that Jeff
thanks for the great words and I think
you're correct I think HSP has done its
job and we're ready to have you guys and
prove it even more than it is right now
story will be happy to work ium you
check out with you as soon as your
hunger is stated well look and hand up
and let's bag is gonna feel better bad
habit
sounds good to us
we can't wait to see the video sex Jeff
we are all ears go ahead we started
looking again came out of the sun's
glare and the right hand full of a as we
can see it is one side of it is way over
clearly we have a dynamic situation we
copy endeavor to keep a live monitor is
disabled and you got to go for capture
again the actual capture of the
telescope requires some precision flying
by the commander in this case dick Covey
to maneuver the shuttle into position to
within about 35 feet or so of the
telescope at that point claude nicollier
operating the robot arm can maneuver the
arm into place to capture the spacecraft
by attaching the end of the arm to one
of the two grandpa'll fixtures on the
telescope
is that endeavor has a firm handshake
with telescope that's quite a sight
Deborah Houston we've got a great elbow
of you
yeah I get the Frollo angry that is
affirmative
a second kick a couple feet below the
obvious one that is on the the backside
there of that section of the by stem not
quite as bad but it it does have a
little crease in it the good news is the
minus b2 array looks real good
this is Mission Control Houston we're
now receiving live television from
endeavours lower deck as mission
specialist Jeff Hoffman and story
Musgrave go through the first steps of
getting ready for their spacewalk
and we're looking at stories handsome
mug right now hello Jeff
okay it's daylight outside so you might
want to put your visors down through the
zoo and it's only 10 minutes to sunset
so check you're gonna have your hands
full you might want to go ahead and set
your helmet lights on them
endeavour Houston for tongue go ahead
the rsu's have been powered off they
will complete their spin down at 19
26:33 okay copy 1926 33 through about
five minutes
complete step-down that looks good
thanks
mr. reminder you've got a yaw maneuver
coming up at 19:30
to keep an eye on the doors stay copy we
will thanks
and look at that hey hey hold it you
wouldn't let me watch you get out of the
way when you're looking upon yeah
seven foot okay just for my paperwork
you read me the serial numbers off oh
well I'm pretty ready to put a little
earth there's been three that's that's
good stop
okay I'm sorry
I'm going to try to get on the battle
bolt now
okay
and we got your downlink video Jeff
now I have live television from
endeavours lower-deck it's for you
showing um mission specialist Tom Akers
at putting on the bottom half of his
spacesuit during this spacewalk Akers
and Thornton can be told apart from a
distance in the television scenes they
can be told apart too by the markings on
the legs of their space suits Thornton
will have a broken red stripe around the
legs of her suit while Akers will have a
diagonally broken red stripe around the
legs of his suit this fee now shows
Thornton in the airlock
she continues that donning the suit and
I putting on the communications cap
sometimes referred to as a Snoopy cap
which holds the receivers and
microphones used for communications
during the spacewalk
then you just cloud a command when to go
your inches out 6 inches 8 inches okay
I'd be happy for you to build with the
arm and you're not clear right okay I'm
ready go thanks keep going forward pot
steady rate all clear
hey you're passing me right now it looks
like flying in a t-38 and looking down
at lights on the ground at the stars
done this Katie
okay they say you gotta go for release
okay that's a stables you left
and ever check free drift
Oh
30:13 holder then you got that just come
right up easy just like your door spring
to fall with up a little horn and coming
straight on it looking real good I'm
gonna let go okay story leave my ethics
and here's where I need it next
okay stories all-seated the Seder
alignment she is obviously in place it
looks like it's ready to tighten the
state of clamp double check my to go on
one from the policy go forth on to high
and low speed correct okay I'm going to
have to touch it a little bit tricky you
can see that side over there right of
the fader alright looks good to me
there we go out of the feel my band
that's closed get my mini workstation
lower
yeah
in the picture you're back in here
it's seated all the way down at the hold
on amazing
time just want to let you know that
Jerry Ross and the rest of us send our
congratulations to you for now being the
record holder for the most Eevee a time
and the shuttle program well you get it
overnight anyways never Houston some
good news for you we had a good
aliveness test
so there there there
and we're with you in the fight thing
you look no worse for the wear from your
I don't think a yeah we just saw the
CERN marching up the side of the
telescope there between the lipstick and
you have to yes right well we have a
little balancing act going on and we're
not protected until after sunset okay
thanks a lot
Hoffman now I carrying the hand hold up
to the with oftens now about to release
a ground strap a grounding strap that's
located on the outside of the drawer in
the handle is now attached onto the
guide studs that's the handle that will
be used to hold it when Hoffman slides
the instrument out of the telescope
instruments about the size of a copy
I want you to send me up again
copy Stewart let's let it stop stop a
one-foot will be ready to come down
check your mechanisms story I give
them those men at the breaks are dead
thanks hunter okay you're holding steady
with the camera now installed claude
nicollier will reposition jeff hoffman
so that he can now completely latch the
new instrument into the telescope
let go back to port
there we go one foot the port right -