the dogs have their
their famous
dog movie
which we're which we're going to show
you now
and we will
we will narrate it
for you as as it goes through and then
we'll show you some slides talk a little
bit about the mission and uh invite you
to share with us uh as best as best as
it can be done through the medium of of
the film and and the slides uh the
terrific experience that you made
possible because the people in this room
and and a lot of them who aren't here of
course because they're doing other
things are the people who deserve the
credit for this
and many other successful space flights
and
we
we are operating
as part of a team i'm really proud and
pleased to have some of that team here
and i know that you all are going to do
terrific work
henceforth
for the rest of the folks and and for
the rest of the missions coming up
with that i think we can we can roll the
movie
and probably bring down the house lights
the laser pointer
there's our patch it was a challenge to
come up with a good patch for this
mission but we if we think we did and
now a quick view of our suit up process
you saw me there and there's there's
cujo ken cockrell
most of you all know the dog names
that's probably
underdog and there of course is pluto
and last but not least my payload
commander dog face
we were happy to be going flying as you
know we had a few little
bumps in the road getting there
but finally walking out to a resounding
chorus of wolves at the kennedy space
center on the 7th of september
the training team might be pleased to
note that this is one event we made on
the time engine's uh starting up and the
vehicle twanging forward on the launch
pad and
five screaming
uh young men heading off to orbit
sort of young anyway
we had some interesting atmospheric
conditions that weren't really evident
to us as we were going uphill but they
did create some good flow visualization
of the mock waves on
uh
the rough parts of the the shape of the
vehicle around the booster nozzle or the
booster cones and
and just above the cabin uh creates some
shock waves as we're going through mach
1 and going past the speed of sound
this is kind of a rough part of the ride
very exciting the boosters let you know
for sure that there's a lot of thrust
back there when they separate the ride
smooths out a bunch
but it's only just part way beginning in
fact
there's six and a half more minutes of
powered flight to go
and lots more that can happen
as the training team would be glad to
share with you
from this point on to orbit
once we get on orbit we have a lot of
things we had to do and we had a
tremendous number of things to get out
and get ready for our flight dave and
cujo
were up on the flight deck reconfiguring
the
digital processing system and getting
the orbiter ready for orbit operations
and underdog was downstairs looking for
something to eat
uh jim was reconfiguring uh getting
things set up this was the ergometer we
had a lot of things to get out put in
place take out of the lockers and get
ready for our orbit operations before
the next day when we started our primary
payload ops
this is the uh our first major payload
of the of the mission the spartan it's a
solar science satellite uh aimed at
studying the solar wind and ultimately
its effects on satellite communications
and weather on earth here
uh it was a great satellite it was all
uh autonomous so all we had to do was
unbirth it and uh turn it loose and then
it went off and
flew around did its thing for a couple
of days um you'll see a little bit later
it actually shut down
a little bit early as it turns out we
got 95 percent of the science done
though
and that's
at the aft flight deck window
during the release process
uh it did a little pirouette where it
rotates uh clockwise and
counterclockwise to signal that
everything is okay
and
it's really beautiful to see the thing
as we separated from it and to look back
down at the earth and see this little
satellite scooting along
a great site
i might mention that thanks to excellent
training among other things underdog did
a perfect job of deploying the spartan
we had a lot of secondary experiments
that we did while the spartan was out
one of them was the commercial generic
bioprocessing apparatus it's a large
tube filled with a bunch of small test
tubes that have different experiments in
them you turn the crank to activate the
uh each tube
and then later we turn the crank to fix
the things that have done their thing in
zero g then they're all brought back to
evaluate the effects of zero g on all
these different experiments
this is a mass measurement device it
uses a linear acceleration that at times
to figure out how much something weighs
on orbit
it's kind of like getting the miniature
cat shot so a couple of navy guys here
reliving old times
here's one of our more interesting
one of our more interesting experiments
the training team remembers vividly me
going around seeking victims for this
while we were practicing prior to flight
but it actually
is a
a way to test
blood on on orbit or any place in a
field situation
with this portable clinical blood
analyzer nifty little gadget
in the training for it was actually kind
of tricky because
there's a lot more to taking blood than
one realizes and we were able to do it
pretty well on orbit although some pain
was inflicted
yeah this is the spartan rendezvous
we're returning to pick up
the spacecraft and
it was as we mentioned earlier a perfect
deploy the laundry itself wasn't nominal
let me let the underdog talk about the
grapple here
basically uh things went uh real well um
it was spin a little bit and uh between
the training that we'd had and then the
incredibly uh proficient teamwork
amongst the whole crew we did the fly
around and did a a rate uh track and
capture uh very successfully and and uh
i was real proud to be part of the team
on that one
this is the birthing of the spartan
which
went pretty much like we expected and uh
after that exciting uh rendezvous
grapple we're real happy to get that
that sucker
clamped down in the payload bay
this is a view back florida in the
background and the
bahama islands andros island
particularly in the center center of the
screen and just to the lower right of
that is the deep dark blue is the tongue
of the ocean
a very spectacular views passing over
the bahamas in florida with the spartan
uh back in the bay
it perfectly blocked our direct viewing
of the weight shield so we had to pull
the wake shield up
from behind the spartan
and then
it's going to grow some semi it was
planned to grow some semiconductors so
we took it off to one side into the ram
in order to clean the very clean side of
it the uh the wake side and use the
atomic oxygen in low earth orbit to
clean it then we moved it over to the
other side in order to test out the
attitude control system
after getting through that
mike running the systems and me running
the arm at that point we brought it up
to the overhead deploy position in order
to do a gravity gradient deploy for
which one of the awards was given
earlier the we didn't touch the the
attitude control system on the orbiter
for about five hours prior to deploy and
then for a few hours after that as well
the arm is now clear of the wake shield
it turns on a two ounce nitrogen gas
thruster and it thrusts away from the
shuttle in order to maintain that very
clean
environment which we had set up
we were able to track it using the laser
out to about fifteen thousand feet and
dog face holds the record for that
this is the wake shield science center
and we had two computers which we used
to command and process the data
here's a little work on the mid-deck uh
jim rowling and mike working with a
secondary experiment yeah this was the
c-mix experiment and it was always a
great challenge to uh
hunt down these uh test tubes that kept
coming loose because the velcro didn't
work well but
the science was really was really great
one of the things that we worked on was
a crystal that could result in a drug
that could prevent the spread of breast
cancer and
so we're real real happy to be working
on that
we did get to exercise a fair amount on
this flight and when you don't have
gravity to constrain you can ride your
bike almost any way you want to
dave is uh studying a little bit on the
middeck there and as we're going to pan
around and take a quick look at part of
the orbiter wide web this is the mid
deck implementation that's the the
global positioning satellite pgsc on the
right the computer that allowed us to
tell where we were quite accurately
using the onboard gps receivers to the
left is the goddard pgsc which allowed
us to command the goddard payloads
now it's time to bring back wake shield
uh more more realistically to go and get
it this is the view out of the
commander's window
the overhead window window nine
you can see the gun side appearance of
the coast there and the
wake shield itself out in the
out in the ether we could always see it
even though we were 30 miles away at
times it's shown like a bright star it
was very very visible
and we because the spartan rendezvous
had been a bit challenging in some parts
particularly the prox ops were very
confident and comfortable again due to a
lot of good training and simulation and
the fact that the flight control team
had worked very closely with us setting
this up
so the rendezvous and the prox ops went
very nominally
unlike some of the wake shield science
operations and we got
into close proximity
it's really a beautiful satellite we
have some we have a gorgeous view coming
up here shortly i think the sun was
eclipsed there by the wake shield that
has just come out right before sunset
the the free flight of the wake shield
was challenging and we gave awards out
for that today we're very
proud to to have that help it really
made a difference in the entire
operation of the wake shield from
beginning to end there were challenges
at every
step of the way but we're confident with
their help that they'll be able to take
that information back to the wake shield
program and help them get a really good
flight on their next flight way shield
three
we did grapple the weight shield we did
another day's worth of experimentation
with it
looking at the charging
of the wake shield in order to help
assess the impact of charging of
spacecraft
in that
environment
well of course while you're in orbit you
have to eat and we're provided with this
uh galley arrangement here that lets you
rehydrate dehydrated food and also warm
it up if it needs warming up and here i
am i must be fixing some food for
underdog and
eating in bed again
mike spends a lot of time contemplating
what he's going to do and this is some
cream of mushroom soup and i think it's
really very good but it took a while to
decide that he was actually going to eat
it
this is getting ready for the eva
preparing our helmets with some anti-fog
a lot of equipment that we had to get
ready for it we spent six to eight hours
getting all of our equipment and tools
ready to go outside
here we are preparing some of the tools
the rigid tether in my hands
and jim newman had
a hope that mike shoulder wouldn't get
better and he'd get the opportunity to
go outside
it didn't work out that way
if there's any chance of him doing it he
just lasted when we shoved him under
there because we banged him right into
the airlock
this is a shot in the airlock with mike
and i almost ready to go outside
we spent about 40 minutes pre-breathing
in there and here cujo is closing the
door on us shutting up the hatch and
sealing it up before we go out
here's mike headed out the door
now we didn't know if it even had an
automatic closing thermal cover
one of the first things we did was
remove a debris shield from a task board
and you see that right here
really all of the tasks we did work
excellent and
as a sort of a midterm exam of where
we're headed for space station i think
we're in really good shape we were
pleasantly surprised by essentially
everything that that we did
there's a
shot of me maneuvering the debris shield
and we tied that off on that forward
bulkhead there were two major objectives
to the eva one was testing tools and
procedures for space station all of
those worked extremely well
and the other was the
thermal environment for the suit testing
modifications to the suit and seeing if
they were here i have the rigid tether
on with a
pfr attached to the inner portable foot
restraint a large mass it was a pretty
awkward uh arrangement that we had to
then put behind us to translate down the
silt and here mike is he's very
stationary if you look just to his the
left of his elbow you see the body
restraint tether which is a device used
to hold you in place in orbit and it
worked very well holding held you very
rigid
this is uh during the thermal eval and
we had the opportunity to spend 45
minutes hanging upside down on the arm
and i can tell you the view is just
exceptional and
that's probably the last chance we'll
have to actually spend 45 minutes doing
nothing but observing moving the guys
around on the end of the arm was a was
was kind of fun actually if i found if i
moved him quick enough i could shake him
loose
which he did a couple of times
it was a great view and the eva went
very well when we were done we had to
clean up all the mess we made out in the
payload bay we had to pack up mike was
taking off one of the thermal cubes to
measure the thermal environment and the
sack i have in my hand has all of our
tools it was a great tool bag and we
carried that back to the airlock for
putting everything away
we were out for about six and a half
hours and accomplished all the major
objectives for the eva
it went besides being a great experience
it went very well
and this is the final stages of ingress
uh it was uh
a great experience and um
uh
i think we're in good shape to to do the
station this is back in the airlock and
buttoning things up to come home
had to put everything away after we got
back inside clean up the suits and
for the possibility of having to reuse
them again we weren't so lucky
one of the good things you can do when
you have people in space is to look out
the window
and use your mind to figure out what's a
good thing you could take a picture of
and what might help geologists
meteorologists and
all kinds of scientists on the ground in
their study of the earth this is the tip
of somalia and one of the single
tombolos that sticks out into the red
sea
from a meteorologist meteorologist point
of view the
our flight had great opportunities to
see two large hurricanes one was luis
and this one here is maryland
luis was so big you could hardly see it
all
through one window it covered more
almost more than the horizon
we also had a small problem you may have
heard about with our potty we had to
dump our water into a bag and this is
just getting ready that's a filter
that's attached to a tube that then
gets attached to a bag
at this point in the flight i felt like
i had done just about anything you could
hope for on your first flight but no and
we got a chance to excel at being space
plumbers
underdog found out why plumbers make so
much money
the cabin stow was uh getting ready to
come home we're pulling all the bags out
of the airlock and trying to find places
for them so we're stuffing them into the
sleep bunks and arranging them to try to
get ahead of the timeline the orbit prep
timeline is fairly tight so the day
before we pulled all the bags out and
actually buttoned up the airlock
and here's a
gorgeous shot fortunately we had some
great photographers on board both the
and dogface are exceptionally good
photographers they captured some some
great scenes and this one sort of
was a nostalgic one for us because we're
getting ready to come home a great
experience at an end we had tried hard
to milk the program for another day but
we just couldn't do it
and here's the entry this obviously is
late in the entry
ken had a great view of houston as we
came over it
by now we're in the range of the long
range optics from the cape
and this is approaching
the hack turn in fact it's probably on
the hack now
we made a right-hand turn
entry
to
runway 3-3 at kennedy space center
kind of a personal triumph i've been
trying to land in my home state ever
since my first mission
and the last two have gone to california
so we were glad to get back to to
florida with this one
the weather was really good we got great
support from the entry team making sure
the weather was good and that all the
facilities were good
and finally
returning to
light at the kennedy space center
really really enjoyed
the whole flight and the culmination of
it here to land on florida soil was
really nice
there not being any place to land here
in texas
shoot came out we hardly had to use the
brakes because the shoot worked really
well
we had a little tailwind so we rolled
quite a ways but we knew we were going
to stop so we took it easy on the brakes
and rolled down pretty close to where
the convoy was and
stopped at 69 knots we
jettison the drag chute and you do it at
a little bit of airspeed so that it
pulls cleanly away from the engine bells
because this after all is a reusable
spacecraft it was a ninth space flight
of endeavour the 71st space flight of
the shuttle program
and the
second dog flight
everything about this patch was a
challenge including getting it produced
and it's still a challenge for some
people to figure out which way is up on
it it's supposed to be oriented so that
the shuttle is going straight up but it
almost never gets projected that way
the two
constellations that you see there are
canis major and canis minor
we considered it
a small triumph over bureaucracy to get
that through headquarters without
anybody complaining about that
they um
we wove the 69 motif in there we think
very subtly we were later accused of
having attracted hurricanes by putting
the
and we did attract quite a few
but uh
the the colors of the flag and the
colors of nasa the the wake shield
is and the spartan are both represented
by the the vaguely satellite shaped
center
depiction of the astronaut symbol
and of course we have our favorite
spacecraft going up and coming down
safely depicted there
i might mention that underdog wrote a
beautiful
piece of
of verbiage to go along with this to
send it up to headquarters to get it
approved and for those of you who have
the stickers and the patches and the
crew pictures that stuff is on the back
there he did that and i was impressed
with the way that worked out
here we are lifting off
a gorgeous shot every time i'm amazed at
how how good the photography is and i'll
mention here those boosters that you see
working so well there
if you'll remember we had worries about
pre-flight
an absolutely terrific effort on the
part of everybody from the thigh call
folks to the cape folks to the people
here who made sure it all was checked
out properly
to get that booster situation resolved
and get us some fine boosters and as
most of you may have heard
we found the boosters uh to be in
perfect shape after the flight
phase
this is our payload bay and you can see
all of our payloads it's not a very good
picture for earth obs but for the bay it
is
down at the bottom is the spartan
closest to us behind it the wake shield
you can see how difficult it would be to
observe it if you were down in front of
the spartan
and then behind it another panel we
haven't talked about yet the
ieh international extreme
ultraviolet hitchhiker which had a lot
of different science payloads on it that
cujo was responsible for and primarily
involved maneuvering the orbiter
pointing the instruments at celestial
objects for taking all of its science
and it proved to be very successful also
the bay was quite full
and in front which you can just barely
see in front of spartan is our
eva
development flight test task board which
occupied the forward bays of the orbiter
well
this is the
fun part for me i guess because i get to
talk about my crew and they are a
terrific lot
one of the
one of the thrills for me on this fight
cujo and i both being naval officers
got a chance to promote our favorite
army officer
and make him a real bird colonel
this was set up
with cooperation from the flight control
team and the army space command
and we wanted to make sure everybody
could tell that it was done in space so
we got him upside down and took his
picture
and
that
was a highlight for me the dog face
and i flew together on my previous
flight and he did a terrific job it was
pretty meaningful for me being a career
army officer to be promoted in space
you can see his university uh he managed
to sneak auburn
park posters into every single picture
that he's in
if you look carefully in the back you
can see the uh the auburn poster could
just taken over control of it
underdog our rookie um he reluctantly
acknowledged that he was a rookie
towards the end of the flight just after
we gave him the contingency wastewater
uh
ifn said okay fine i'm a rookie now
get out of this
but mike came to us with a lot of
undersea experience which was helpful in
the eva he came to us with a credible
science
phd and a ton of native intelligence
which we used extensively for
for a guy on his first flight he was
really challenged primary responsibility
for spartan wake shield systems
responsibility arm operator eva
it's a it was a
wonderful opportunity for him he rose to
every challenge he's going to now go do
terrific things i think in the space
station era and it was a
he's a close personal friend of mine
before the flight and the friendship was
cemented during it and just really
proud to have had underdog along and
he learned a lot and in the process i
think he did finish to hit all the
all the corners of every square that
could be filled as a rookie and he did
them all just perfect
cujo who used to call himself taco and
his mother calling ken but i don't think
anybody's called him since
was a joy to fly with the perfect plt he
covered all my mistakes up as well as
anybody could
and
flew
really well when i tried to give him
opportunities to fly because i knew he
would fly beautifully and he did he did
his share and more of the science he
helped pull the team together at every
at every turn
he managed the most complex photo tv
setup that i've ever seen in a space
flight and he did that all with
incredible skill and aplomb and told
some of the worst jokes that i've ever
heard in my entire life
he's not going to let me talk about it
anymore at that point
pluto our science officer
manager uh owner operator of the orbiter
wide web
we had
probably
probably the world's largest collection
in orbit anyway of small computers he
made them all sing
he was also the ms2
consummate flight engineer did a
terrific job on the wake shield deploy
and manage the wake shield science and
did the best
that anybody could do to
make sure that that went smoothly he
wasn't able to make it go smoothly but
he was with the help of a great team on
the ground able to salvage a lot of it
and i think carry on uh a good a good
concept into the into the future
i can't think of enough things to say
about pluto we we named in that uh it
was really a compliment because his
orbit was so far out that none of us
could even begin to keep up with him and
everything he did he did as so well that
we were started logging his little
mistakes when he would make one in order
to see if we could catch him at
something finally did because he didn't
know what a probiscus is but
it took that long and that was eight
days into the mission
uh we didn't
we don't have and i'm sorry we don't uh
a picture just of dave but we have
sitting to my left here
the finest shuttle commander you could
hope to fly with he's he's a lot of fun
he takes care of his crew he takes care
of the people that are working with us
and working for us
and he's just a joy to be around and
and fun to try to keep up with i anybody
out there that's a fellow crewman you do
well to fly with this man
that's a great compliment
well let's move on to some great
pictures of the earth and i'm going to
turn it over to cujo for that because he
was the photographer and earth observer
par excellence
well i mentioned during the movie that
it's a great opportunity to uh
to have humans in space and to be able
to look down and with intelligence uh
such that well i guess we had dogs in
space this time but anyway with some
level of intelligence look at
something interesting that's happening
on the ground and take a picture of it
it's a picture of an am of the amazon
river and another another river that
runs parallel to it uh and
south america was remarkably cloud free
so we got some great views for the
earth's
office here at jsc
these are called von carmen vortices
just simply the shape that clouds take
as the wind blows over an island near
the bottom of the picture is guadalupe
island off the coast of mexico and when
the wind is the right speed about
between five knots and 13 knots and when
you have a high pressure system holding
a cloud layer down close to the
the island itself
it creates this uh very interesting
vortex pattern in the wake of the island
as we mentioned we saw
some great shots of
two
large hurricanes the biggest was luis
and this is luis and we didn't have a
camera lens that could see it all at
once
very impressive
system
sure glad that it didn't go in over any
more populated area than it did
it was a beautiful thing for us to look
at we had to stop and remind ourselves
that there are some people down there
that aren't thinking this thing is quite
as beautiful as we were
this is an interesting photo in that it
shows what you can see and pick up on
very quickly and that you may never
realize this from from a ground point of
view but this green area which stands
out in the deserts of oman
is
is a result of some recent and very
unusual heavy rains that occurred
probably because the area that's green
is higher terrain and as the
moist onshore wind at a certain time of
the year
blow blows it it creates
rainfall or graphic lifting that creates
rainfall and it gives you a good insight
as to what could be going on with the
land in
countries that are really not accessible
enough for us to really monitor any
other way except from earth orbit
same thing for the sinai peninsula and a
particular note in the in the nile river
valley
is this flood plain here that's sort of
shaped a little bit like a heart and
each shuttle flight that goes over this
i
can get a photo of it and the earth obs
group can monitor the relative size of
this floodplain and and get a good idea
of what's going on as far as rainfall
upstream in the nile and and what you
can expect from
egypt and other countries along the nile
for crop production that season
this is uh a picture of literally
hundreds of center pivot irrigation
fields
wells are drilled
straight down into the earth you see
these out in west texas and new mexico
as well but in saudi arabia they're
they're done extensively
and there's a mixture of fields
currently in productions and and fields
that aren't in production perhaps the
water has dried up in the area of those
wells some of those wells go down 3000
feet to tap into the ancient
aquifer water supply below the desert
and finally a couple more pictures this
is in a city of surabaya in indonesia we
took it
once with
color film and you can see the city
right here
you can get a good idea of
the kind of fluid that's in the water
using the color film and then we had
another shot
using the color infrared film and using
the two from two different kinds of
films you can bring out different
contrasts
and the contrast that color infrared
brings out the best is that between what
shows up as red lush vegetation and rich
farm fields
and the the blues and greens of
of areas that are either have less
vegetation or have been stripped of
their vegetation
wow
well
we've about come to the end of our
presentation we this sort of symbolizes
our feelings about humans in space and
the eventful mission that we had
we can see
here one of our men in space and in the
actually this is taken when we're in our
thermal
testing
and
underneath is maryland
we can tell that because we can see most
of it if it was luis we'd not be able to
see anything but
the hurricane
and another gorgeous shot
which we view with with nostalgia for
for having had a wonderful time on orbit
and
we wish that we could take every one of
you with us up there
you are there in our hearts
and we thank you for having made it
possible for us to have done this
there's
home plate uh in terms of landing
gorgeous view of florida
which we took just before the end of the
mission we were checking our own weather
the day before actually
and finally
during the entry out the overhead window
using my kneeboard mirror mike and i
could see the plasma trail behind us in
addition to the orange glow that
envelops the
orbiter the plasma trail stretches
hundreds and thousands actually
thousands of miles behind us as anyone
would know who got up that morning and
watched a streak across the northern uh
houston sky
we found
it particularly
wonderful to be passing over houston in
the pre-dawn darkness i haven't done
that since my first flight
that time we went south this time we
went north and cujo had the good view
out his window of
of looking down at houston and could see
that we were
crossing home and
people that we've talked to subsequently
talked to us and it was kind of neat
that they had gone out and looked at
this and they'd gotten back inside just
in time to see us
land on tv at the cape it gives you some
appreciation for how quickly the orbiter
crosses the earth and how much energy is
being harnessed
by man's technological capability
for our abuse pleasure and and mankind's
benefit
again
humans can do some pretty terrific
things when they set their mind to it as
teams
and finally here we are
at the end of
what was for us a very pleasurable and
and we think uh for nasa a very
successful mission
thanks to you
this uh this represents
for us
the fact that every shuttle mission is
only a part of the big picture
here's the moon
the moon mars the outer planets and the
stars are where we believe we ought to
be going
we took another small step in that
direction with this flight and each
subsequent flight will be playing its
role and making its contribution as you
will
to that eventual goal
and thanks again for being here for all
you did for listening to us and for all
you will do from the dogs