good morning dog crew too and Cujo
Madeline says good morning so if X
you've got a future in show business in
this live television picture you can see
the lid closing to the solar extreme
hitchhiker experiment that will keep
that particular telescope free of any
thruster jet thruster contamination
during the course of the rendezvous
maneuvers which will be ongoing over the
next several hours
endeavour Houston we see a good burn
Roger flight dynamics officer reports
that the rendezvous burn was right on
the money placing endeavour on a
increased trajectory and the proper
course to intercept the Spartan science
satellite countdown clocks now ticking
backward toward the next burn which will
occur a little over two hours from now
that will be a ncc burn a corrective
combination burn that will improve the
orbiters trajectory heading toward the
spartan satellite using a state vector
updated by star tracker passes and
onboard navigational updates that the
crew will be receiving over the next
couple of hours
endeavour Houston for Cujo we copied
your last about the low rate on spartan
when you came in during the during the
fly around and that from our initial
assessment is consistent that and the
incorrect attitude of spartan is
consistent with the spartans vehicle
going into a minimum reserve power mode
sort of a shutdown and after we've
birthed spartan we're going to get you
during the post recovery config to give
us statuses and possibly assess what
might have happened they play Senet
we're in the middle of birthing right
this very instant and we'll talk to you
about that just given it okay
so it took a little longer than had been
expected but the Spartan science
satellite was successfully retrieved by
endeavours astronauts and and now has
been placed in its birthing platform in
the cargo bay for the trip back home the
timeline for the rest of the day's
activities for the astronauts will have
some minor revisions to it the major
activity for the rest of the day will be
pre deployment checkouts and health
checks of the wake shield facility which
is scheduled to be deployed around 4 45
a.m. central time tomorrow morning
this is Mission Control Houston
as endeavour has just passed over the
easternmost edge of the South American
continent now out flying over the
Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of about
200 two nautical miles after the second
burn the ohms for burn that's being
conducted later today to circularize
endeavours orbit Mike Bernhardt will
reach out with the shuttles robot arm
and he will use that to grapple the
weight shield facility it will remain in
that configuration overnight in the
payload Bay with the arm attached to it
in anticipation of that deployment
tomorrow wake shield will then spend
about 48 hours trailing the orbiter at a
distance of thirty to forty miles during
that time it will attempt to use a
process called molecular beam epitaxy to
grow very thin films for use in the
semiconductor industry retrieval of the
weight shield facility is set for
Wednesday at ten sixteen am however
about the last five hours of its flight
will be devoted to its use basically as
a target as Ken cockerel and Dave Walker
on the flight deck will conduct a series
of complex maneuvers allowing endeavour
to fire its engines toward the wake
shields facility in an attempt to
increase our knowledge base about the
effects of thruster jet firings on
objects in space this as we enter the
era of the space station all systems on
board are continuing to perform very
well the crew members are in the waning
hours of their day and just over an hour
mission specialist Mike Bernhardt is
supposed to begin an eight hours sleep
period he'll be joined about an hour
later by his crewmates who will have an
abbreviated seven hours sleep shift
before they begin wakes she'll deploy
activities Monday the crews wake-up call
will come tonight at eleven o 9 p.m.
central time and that's when they'll
wake up to begin flight day five on
orbit for the next several days mission
specialists Mike Earnhardt and jim
newman will slightly alter their sleep
patterns so that one or both of them is
awake at all times for critical commands
for the weight shield facility they will
not be providing 24 hours support
however they will be awake during all
critical commanding periods for that
facility once again we are receiving
live television from the payload Bay
cameras onboard endeavor as endeavour is
sailing some 203 nautical miles over the
surface of the Atlantic Ocean just about
to cross over the southernmost tip of
the African continent
Newman will be maneuvering the shuttles
robot arm to grapple the weak shield
facility which is mounted on its cross
bay carrier in endeavours payload Bay
the spacecraft and the arm will remain
in that configuration overnight with the
shuttles robot arm securely grappled to
the spacecraft in anticipation of its
deployment at 442 a.m. central time
monday
the message that was just sent up to the
crew members on board just a reminder to
jim newman as he maneuvers that arm that
the solar extreme ultraviolet
hitch-hiker canister which is mounted
directly behind the weight shield
facility as part of the international
extreme ultraviolet hitch-hiker payload
is in the we'll be doing some observing
during the time that the arm is in
motion and just a reminder to him that
if he can keep from crossing the path of
that observation that will help that
experiment continue its activities
here in the flight control room the
officer imitators east and we see a good
grandpa yes story that's what we got the
officer in charge of the shuttles robot
arm here in the flight control room
reporting a good grapple that confirmed
by the crew members on board endeavor as
well