as la mentioned we had several launch
attempts before we finally got off the
pad we were so desperate that last day
ago we decided to go ahead and turn her
hat around hats around backwards our
rally caps it must have worked because
we managed to launch here we are in the
launch pad the final few seconds and
feeling like we're finally going to go
we heard the main engines start at about
6 seconds prior to launch we could feel
the twang as they call it and then at
booster ignition off we went I'll tell
you it was quite a ride I guess from the
ground it looked pretty spectacular
because the shuttle was hidden by the
smoke and vapor right after liftoff as I
mentioned before we were all pretty
happy on SN having an opportunity to
look out the window feeling comfortable
and and one name I didn't mention that I
really ought to is Joy bar called she
was a team lead of all the trainers and
she really pulled us and them together I
think we were going uphill pretty
quickly at this point you'll start to
see some vapors as the shockwaves build
up on the nose of the orbiter and
external tank as we pass through the
region of maximum dynamic pressure here
the shuttle really vibrates a lot it's
you know it's the Rottier life that's
it's about all I can say this is a nice
view of us as we punch through a cloud
deck there and the shadow gets cast on
the top of the clouds SRB separation was
just like it is in the simulator I
thought a bright flash a little pop and
all of a sudden the ride changes from
being really abrupt to and vibration to
very smooth opening doors and deploy the
cube and that was my job in Mike's job
and that of course is the source of all
the TV and on this particular mission we
had digital digital data six channels of
digital TV down for the experiments
which was really just great in terms of
data management and resource management
for us onboard and the folks on the
ground but the first job that right
after opening the doors what mike and
Fred and I had to do as the blue shift
or the night shift was go to bed this is
probably the hardest thing that we had
to do the whole mission because it
just I just can't tell you how exciting
acent was it as Mike said it's the ride
of your life and it's something I just
still look back on and just grin and
going to bed well I'll just say at least
we shut the doors in addition to wearing
our caps backward I wore my lucky socks
on the day they finally got launched
that was the key to it to st.
Christopher medals didn't get us off on
the second attempt but the socks did it
after 30 days of quarantine I knew I was
ready to launch but I wasn't sure I
could remember what the mission was but
when it came time to do space lab
activation it was just like in the
simulator only nothing broke and
everything powered up just like it was
supposed to we didn't power off the lab
and we didn't do didn't do any hot
coupler swaps so he stayed in good
graces there everything came up just
like it was supposed to we were amazed
and delighted we had a fairly light day
scheduled on the first day to
accommodate anybody who might not feel
well or Spacelab systems it might not
feel well and we didn't have any of
those problems so what we ended up doing
on our first day has really set the
laboratory of well for a two-week space
station make it useful to do all the
experiments we needed to do over that
time well Cathy now we're setting up the
lab Kent and I were doing a trim burn to
get us just in the right orbit and we
rolled the payload bay door partially in
on the portside and went into the
gravity gradient attitude in the next 15
days were pretty much the same and they
usually started like this yeah much like
out here on earth you brush your teeth
the what I wasn't prepared for was after
I was done pushing my teeth
there's no sink up there to spit this
stuff out in and so yeah I had to have
an alternate plan and mine was to kind
of swallow it and didn't work out that
well for you sigh all shaven which is
very much like here on earth and Mike
now is riding the air gamma tur and that
was our main means of exercise and we
exercised every day on orbit the along
with exercise though comes a the
overhead of cleaning up and without a
shower the sponge baths take a while and
then also wash on our hair wet Arista
shampoo that worked really well and
Katie's demonstrating it for us here and
you'll see any minute she's managed to
get her hair dry if I keep my hair clean
everybody can it worked out just great
actually I was a little worried about it
before flight but keep it clean up there
was no problem
now this is I'm at the glove box doing
that protein crystal growth there and
I'm actually using a restraint system
developed here at JSC called Albert we
refer to this as Albert the thing as
opposed to Albert the payload specialist
I'm working on protein crystal growth
and as you know these are these crystals
are used to help design drugs for
diseases and is kind of a lock and key
sort of effect where if we can grow more
perfect crystals we know what the lock
looks like and the drug is then the key
here I'm at the glove box again on
Albert on Albert so to speak or else
quit and working in the glove box and
I'm really looking at mixing profiles
it's very important as Eli community
some of the see like community don't
recognize that but it is when you bring
two reacting liquids together and
on-orbit we have some special problems
this is the bubble generation here we
talk about bubbles so sometimes we don't
want those bubbles and so now that we
have them what do we do and what we do
with them and this is the main
experiment that I use that information
to to power up and to generate because
you'll see me rotate this this cylinder
which has the solutions in them after we
mix them and we rotate it not to take
advantage of centrifugal force and throw
the heavier fluid to the outside the
bubbles to the inside so to make one big
bubble which doesn't have what we call a
lot of nucleation sites and allow us to
grow fewer but larger crystals with
fewer defects so that's one of the
things that we had learned in u.s. mo1
and confirmed again when space have this
is called cgf would do an electronic
crystal growth here and Kathy's in the
glove box of closed area very difficult
task to take in and out we called Sakas
and I helped her a little bit once in a
while and the commanders documenting it
so if we make a mistake everybody knows
we made a mistake but we didn't make any
mistakes that will admit - Here I am
taking a sack of very carefully down to
stow because as all pis including myself
they're a little bit paranoid about
shaking and vibrating so it'd be a
terrible thing for one of the PI's to
ruin a crystal so I made sure we didn't
do that
in this shop I'm interacting with the
geophysical fluid flow sail experiment
this experiment again simulates
conviction on planetary atmospheres in
this view you can think of it as a
weather satellite basically looking at
the southern hemisphere of the planet
the pole is at the bottom of the screen
and the equator is at the top and you
can see waves propagating around the
equator and somewhat reminiscent of cold
fronts propagating down from the pole
another fluid experiment was the surface
tension driven convection experiment we
all spent a lot of time on that one as
well
basically in that experiment you can
heat the top surface of the liquid and
because there's a variation in surface
temp in surface tension with temperature
a fluid flow occurs at the surface and
also drags around the interior of the
fluid this experiment has a lot of
importance not only to the film a coding
industry but also has impact on crystal
growth in this fluid experiment we were
looking at manipulating a drop using
acoustic fields this experiment also had
applications to drug delivery systems
and there's a lot of interest in
surfactants in this particular case
we're rotating a drop until it visions
to do get up in the morning you're
always changed tempted to actually
change the payload activity plan so that
you'd be the one doing drop physics
because as you can see each input that
you make to this acoustic chamber
actually changes very dramatically what
the drop does and so we have a chamber
with speakers on all sides and we're
changing literally the speaker pressure
to distort the drop and also to do to
maybe spin it around like this what
you're gonna see coming up is in just a
minute is one particularly interesting
experiment that we did where we actually
brought two fluids together this isn't
quite it yet but we use this experiment
to learn what happens when we do have
two fluids with what happens when we
have a bubble inside a bubble but when
we brought these two fluids together
they actually had an interface in
between them which we refer to as the
beach ball and what this is
to be used for it was a development
model for actually forming vesicles for
drug delivery systems now we didn't
really develop a drug delivery system
but we did look at the way to fluids
wouldn't interact in a single chamber
you can see that's what happens when you
do the wrong thing with the knob we had
Kady said six channels of video down and
this may be the first space flight space
lab flight ever where video downlink was
not the limiting resource in planning
and also most of the P is left Marshall
at the end of the mission with all of
their data whereas in u.s. ml one it
took seven and a half months to get all
their data out to them so this was the
first demonstration of that it's
something they will certainly need for
space station and that in the data
uplink and downlink we had we're kind of
the first demonstrations of tella
science that I think we've ever done
another fluids experiment we had onboard
which was an awful lot of fun was the
fibre supported droplet combustion
experiment we put a small drop of fuel
on a fiber and the only purpose of the
fiber was to keep the drop core we
wanted it to be and ignite it in one
camera view this one you could just see
the drop shrinking as it's being
consumed and another camera view you can
you can't see much of the color of the
flame front but all you but you can see
that the fibre on either side of the of
the drop is being heated and that's
where the flame front is propagating we
learned a lot from doing a drop physics
module and how to deploy these drops and
get these these guys burning there's a
little bit of trouble with this
experiment anybody worked the flight
here knows Mike was our IFM person on
this and got it working we also had
another series of theoretical I'd call
them experiments on crystal growth and
what we were looking at is hard sphere
models and how they would represent the
formation of a crystal structure and the
interface between that crystal structure
and the fluid from it
which it formed and we also use lasers
to look at diffraction patterns to find
out exactly where that interface was and
what kind of crystal formed and the
crystal structures that were form were
not those that were predicted they're
still analyzing why that is
so that was kind of a surprise yeah why
the pelo crew the for them were in the
lab the orbiter crew we had some
experiments up in the mid-deck t that we
were working on we activated and
deactivated some protein crystal growth
experiments we also an from potato
company in Colorado was pretty proud of
the fact we managed to grow five
potatoes in space and well it might talk
about that this is just an example of me
giving some co2 to the plants inside and
the real goal behind the experiment was
to determine how to make a nutrient
delivery system both water and other
nutrients to the plants in case we you
know for long-duration missions we need
to know how to grow those foods so that
we don't have to take them with us the
we also did our part for medical science
and here I'm doing a new vestibular DSO
and it has to do with the Irate your
eyeball contract well this is how we got
all those earth-observing of the
presentation take one was a big
Hasselblad cameras pointing out the
window and this is the scene that the
operator would see up in the top is the
west coast of california and you can see
the the greens or the trees and the
mountains and then the yellow stripe
there in the middle is the northern San
Joaquin Valley the next green stripe is
the Sierra Nevada and then you'll see
the Browns of the high desert Lake Tahoe
and Pyramid Lake will just start to come
into view you see it does it go by very
fast most of you've seen this sort of
view before but you really realize
you're you're going fast when you think
of it the distance involved and just
this 30 or 40 second picture first week
we had really clear views of almost the
whole United States so we got to take a
lot of shots of a lot of different
cities especially a potato country in
Colorado
this next sequence here is over the
we're currently over India now looking
north and those are the Himalayas
they're in the middle of the screen with
the Brahmaputra River both on the south
side of the Himalayas and also on the
north side of the Himalayas and you can
see the vast difference in both color
which basically is vegetation and also
elevation this was super typhoon Angela
which was taken over the Philippine Sea
which hit that set of islands with winds
over 200 miles an hour and you can just
make out the circular formation in the
clouds although on this particular shot
you don't really get any sense of an eye
in the middle of that hurricane but it
was certainly strong nonetheless
this was an attempt at a night scene
we're over a sort of central United
States here looking west and with that
line on the left isn't to the horizon
believe it or not it's the edge of the
atmosphere and that'll become more clear
in a second but if you watch this star
up here it'll actually go below it and
you'll see it what what will look like
through the earth so that's clearly not
the edge of the earth so this is a
thickness of the atmosphere and these
are the lights of big cities there were
Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and
here comes the Big Apple and as the Sun
rises which is about to do it washes out
the camera the sensitivity changes and
sort of made our own fade to white I
guess
the Bailey maintance was done in filter
cleaning and being the palette I got to
do that and the filter clean and I
enjoyed a lot more than that keeping the
WCS clean the like here on earth dust
there's no floor there's no dance what
dust accumulates in the different places
in the filters because it's always
floating in the air so anywhere it's
drawing you've got to make sure you get
to it space did lend itself to some
innovative cleaning styles that were a
lot more fun up there than on earth we
carried out another computer on board to
do the pilot simulation that was a
really useful piece of gear I thought to
help me prepare for my first space
shuttle landing and this would have
looked like on the scene just like at
the window of the real order this is the
blue crew enjoying a lunch as you can
see I'm finishing up my lunch back there
fred is cleaning his silverware with a
handy white and katie has probably read
the news some humorous story but we did
that we got an hour off in the middle of
our 12-hour day and the mail would get
up electronically on a keyboard sort of
like email
we got our mail up on the KCA link I'll
talk about anything yeah you may have
seen us we got the chance to throw out
the first pitch in Game five of the
World Series which is really a lot of
fun and more importantly we got a chance
to watch it you see us in the lower
right hand corner watching the monitor
and we're seeing the image that you see
in the upper left hand corner and that
at the end of the mission are close to
the end of the mission we had put
everything where we're getting a little
bored so we decided that would do a
little magic show and I've tried for
years to do that never been able to do
it
how the trick was to get it down without
doing something bad
I was a pretty good magician it's
important to take those breaks on-orbit
they help you stay recharged and and do
good work while you're up there all good
things have to come to an end and this
is how we started getting ready to come
home
checking out the systems on the orbiter
and it was time to close up the payload
bay doors
say goodbye to the view out the window
and get ready to come home the entry was
spectacular being a first-timer sitting
up in the front the orange pink glow was
just fantastic looking through the
windows this was a shot on entry taken
from a game Danvers on top of his house
with his just his handy cam and sent it
to us anyway we came around the hack
shortly after sunrise coming down the 18
of a glide slope of 300 knots socks just
had the guidance Neill doing a beautiful
job it's very dynamic it's like trying
to land a bomb because this little
bombing profile that you'd fly in the
Navy I got the gear out of 300 feet they
came across the threshold right where we
should have been touched in 2500 feet
down the runway and the landing was so
smooth I'd like to take this chance to
brag about socks it's uncharacteristic
of a Navy pilot but this line it was so
smooth I was like on an airline landing
when the landing is so smooth everybody
in the cabin just claps and cheers and
in fact that's what happened on landing
when we touched down they could barely
tell it touched them Kant had to do the
most important thing on the mission
they'll get the gear down you can see he
did that successful Columbia was a
beautiful vehicle it's a little slow
getting off the pad but it was worth the
wait because when we got out there there
were very few problems and it really
proved itself to be a wonderful platform
for science this is our KU patch and a
couple things jump out at you right away
and those are the colors the I was in
charge of the patch and we wouldn't
baptists very democratically I basically
asked the crew what colors they liked
the commander like purple and hence
purple
that's not exactly - there also there
was a common thread in the orbiter crew
which is represented by the background
and although that may look black it is
actually a navy blue the different
polyhedrons you see only of the patch
they represent Chris Eyre the basic
elements fire earth air and water and
what we're trying to show here is the
Space Shuttle encompassed by the shape
of its patch itself which is thought to
have represent the cosmos dodecahedron
is the Space Shuttle doing science on
the basic elements the one symbol looks
like an infinity sign we refer to that
as the Fred Leslie sign although the
crystal like looking figures are
actually polyhedrons which in turn
represent fluids we put this other
symbol on to emphasise fluids for Fred
Leslie on the troca the next slide
please
well this was a great moment here after
seven attempts and three strappings we
finally got to launch on October the
20th I get a lot of questions about
whether I was scared or not and and I
really in honesty was not scared and I
think there's two reasons for that one
was because it was our seventh attempt
and the second was because of our
training team we had a great group of
folks that helped us out and in fact I'd
like to recognize Tory Palmer who was
our data processing system and nav
instructor Francisco Hernandez our
control prop @eq Tran was our common
instrumentation and heckle and Jeckle
tom evans I mean Tom Hanson and Craig
will thing whereas orbiter systems and
Tommy Tom Evans and Rodney Brown taught
us or Space Lab systems and I think
largely due to their efforts we were
really comfortable going uphill I mean
as a first-time flyer this is quite an
experience and it was nice to be able to
really just enjoy the ride and feel that
I was confident along with the rest of
the crew to be able to handle any
contingency that came up I also like to
thank Don carico who is our photography
instructor who without whose help we
could have taken some great shots like
these
and this is a shot of the eastern
Mediterranean here and it's it's
interesting for a couple of reasons one
check out on top here this how black the
space is that was something that really
hit you during the daytime when you
can't see the stars the blackness of
space is just that it's the blackest
black I've ever seen and then you can
see quite a myriad of colors here this
down here is the eastern Mediterranean
this is the eastern end of the island of
Cyprus this is Western Turkey and you
can see some coastal mountains here and
a higher plateau this would be Syria and
Lebanon down here yeah as we're flying
along there were different regions and
different colors that stood at and this
was one area when you cross the the east
coast of the US Florida the Bahamas and
this is actually in the Gulf of Grand
Cayman the coral reefs and the coral
shells were just incredibly brilliant
blue aqua that you can see in this
region and so it's amazing but I bet all
the islands even the secure islands the
Solomon Islands in the Pacific we wind
up getting a lot of shot at shots up
because the contrast is just so great it
captures you and they make lovely photos
unfortunately the photos don't do it
justice to what it really looks like
this is a shot of another shot of the
eastern Mediterranean but this time on
the southern end this is the
Mediterranean Sea here this is the
coastline obviously and this right here
is a border between Egypt on this side
and Israel on this side and what's
interesting about this is you can really
see the difference in the way the two
countries use a land it's not often you
can see a political boundary visually
from space and this is a nice
opportunity to be able to do that this
part up here is the Gaza Strip and this
is the Negev desert
the here we're coming across San
Francisco Bay area and it was amazing
the detail you could see and we were
fortunate that we had a lot of super
clear days and we could look down and
just see incredible detail in this slide
it's a little tougher but right here is
the Golden Gate Bridge you can see with
your naked eye buildings and depending
on the lighting you could see shadows
but you come on down and in this region
of San Francisco International and down
on toward down towards San Jose which is
actually under the tail Alameda Naval
Air Station is over here off of this
base yeah
they a one-one comment we got back from
all the folks that looked at our photos
where they said boy you know we can we
should know where their airports are
because in the center of every one of
our photos are having to be an airport I
don't know if that anything to do with
the three of us being pilots on the
flight deck or not but the runways
because they're so long and straight
they stand out and there's something
that catches your naked eye or if you're
looking through a telephoto camera lens
they really stick out next time the this
is just it kind of represent the
different colors that you see when we
get on a little but open the payload bay
doors this looks like to me like the
shot over Australia representing the red
land of Australia the other thing it
shows you is the attitude that we flew
in the because of orbital debris we had
the one door rolled in part way in
unfortunately it did cut down quite a
bit on our opportunities for earth
obstacles as far as lead time we would
see him who would seem once they get to
the tail and go on the left side of us
basically Dan wind from us the up and
coming targets were difficult to see
what the door in this position the good
news is our family didn't take a hit and
they lasted the whole flight that's also
is a good reminder the awards that you
saw before what the thermal teams this
door being partially close like that
really caused a lot of headaches on the
ground and and thanks to them for us it
was by and large transparent but they
did a lot of work to work these problems
the picture before last was a big area
and in just about a minute and a half
after the bay area this is what we're
looking at and it was really interesting
taking photos we'd be
in trading on say the barrier taking
shots or whatever coastal city we were
over at California and you'd look up and
the next thing under the tail there
would be a view of this which is a large
contrast to what you just seen and this
is an Arizona in Utah Lake pal it's
about 180 miles along the Colorado River
which is dammed up and then eventually
goes on into the Grand Canyon but the
contrasting colors are just gorgeous on
this shot this is clearly Cape Cod we
have a couple crewmembers who have roots
there Katie and al al obviously is from
Worcester which if I'm not mistaken is
right around there and this is a real
nice shot on 39 degree inclination
flight we don't quite get up to be able
to take this shot Nader but as you can
see on a clear day you can really get a
really nice synopsis here's the city of
Boston here and in the bottom Nantucket
and Martha's Vineyard the in addition to
shoot in color feeling like you just saw
we shoot some color IR photos this is a
shot of Maui and you can see the clouds
the IR does a real nice job of cutting
through haze although there wasn't that
much haze at Maui on this shot but
certain times you go over cities like
Mexico City a population of over 20
million very hazy and smoggy to the
naked eye and the Colorado film can help
cut through that significantly and you
can just see it helps represent the
different contrasts or fluid levels in
plants and help you draw lines of
vegetation
this is a San Diego Bay here you'll
notice the detail in this shot you'll
notice the colors are a little bit
different what's kind of remarkable is
this is an electronic still camera shot
which means the image could be down on
the ground within 50 minutes of when we
took the picture and out on the internet
maybe an hour two hours later if all
adjust except for it so it's nice to be
able to send this kind of information
from space down to the ground and with
almost the the detail that we can get
with one of our 70 millimeter cameras
and now we wanted to throw you in
another shot here if you look real close
you can see the Johnson Space Center in
the center of that picture and clear
like we leave it up there second so you
can kind of soak it in
Ellington fields on the left if you need
to get your bearings hope we can
continue to fly these Spacelab missions
and bring back good things for for us
and for our kids