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well i'd like to begin by thanking all

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of you both nasa employees and

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contractors for all your work your very

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hard work in making the spf 77 mission

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both safe and successful

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and you know when we're up on orbit

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uh some 180 miles above the earth we are

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continually reminded of the tremendous

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teamwork that it takes to bring one of

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these missions off

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we're inside endeavor and it's just

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humming along beautifully

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and that's due in large part to the hard

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work of the folks down at the cape as

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well as many other centers around the

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country

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to turn the vehicle around to get the

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engines ready to get everything ready to

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fly and also to the uh

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to the designers and

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and contractors who built that

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orbiter to operate as it's supposed to

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operate

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we had the experiments working with just

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a few minor exceptions working very very

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well and of course that's due to the

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hard work of the scientists and

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principal investigators all over the

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country who designed their equipment to

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work properly in that microgravity

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and then

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of course we were talking to houston

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and on the air-to-ground network and and

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reminded of the flight control teams

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that are on the ground taking care of us

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looking after us the training teams that

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had gotten us ready to fly

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and all the people the rendezvous teams

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the flight design teams that put this

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incredible flight together this mixture

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technology development and

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and microgravity science

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and it made us

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i think i speak for the whole crew it

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made us feel

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very fortunate uh very proud to be able

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reap the benefits of all your hard work

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it made us feel very very honored very

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privileged to represent you in space

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because in a sense

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we took part of you up there with us

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and we'd like to share that with you now

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and show you some of our

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movies and some of the sites that we saw

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up on orbit and looking down on earth

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before we run the movie i'd like to

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introduce the the rest of the crew

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to my right pilot kurt brown

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mission specialist

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number one andy thomas

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nation specialist number two dan bursch

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mission specialist number three mario

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and mission specialist number four mark

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garneau

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and if we had could have the movie

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well we're suiting up in our launch and

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entry suits getting ready for the

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launch we had awakened about five hours

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before launch here's kurt getting a

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pressure check

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mark

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these launch and entry suits protect us

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if we should lose cabin pressure

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they also form part of our survival gear

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walking out of the onc building at the

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getting ready to get on the astro van

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and go out to the

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to the launch pad on my right there is

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andy in the white room up at the 195

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activities there before he gets on board

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we had a beautiful morning for the 77th

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launch of the space shuttle program the

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first shuttle launch with a full set of

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the new modified block one engines at

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t-minus six and a half seconds the

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manage and start sequence began and

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shortly thereafter with all three

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engines up to speed where

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we're on our way with the srb booster

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ignition

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endeavor was on its 11th mission into

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space

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after clearing the tower we rolled to

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the ascent attitude

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heads down which was going to place us

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in the 39 degree inclination orbit with

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an altitude of about 160 nautical miles

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at this point endeavour and all its

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systems were consuming about 3 000

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pounds of fuel and propellant per second

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for a first-time flyer such as myself

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the ascent was really an amazing and

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wonderful experience i was on the flight

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deck and i could look out the overhead

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windows with a wrist mirror and i could

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see the flame in the flame trench prior

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to lift off i could see the flash of the

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srb ignition and then feel the lurch as

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we were accelerated upwards

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into the flight we saw a flash out the

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front windows as the srb separation

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motors fired as you can see here then we

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could feel the steady acceleration that

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carried us on up to orbital velocity and

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orbital altitude it was a wonderful ride

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as soon as we got on orbit we had to

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start work

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first business of the day as you know is

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to open the payload bay doors and expose

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the radiators that uh

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line the doors in order to provide

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cooling for the spacecraft during its

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subsequent on-orbit operations you see

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the starboard door being opened and will

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be followed shortly by the

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port door

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in the payload bay there you can see

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the spartan spacecraft and the gold

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covered canister which contains the

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inflatable antenna which we will be

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showing shortly and which we deployed on

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the second day of the flight

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when we first get up on orbit it is a

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very busy time after the engine shut

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down to configure the space the rocket

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ship to be an orbital spacecraft

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but the lure of the windows calls and

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everybody tries to get to the window to

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sneak a first view

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while the flight deck crew was

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configuring the ship for on orbit

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operations i was down on the middeck

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doing the same for the systems down

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there as well as helping each crew

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member unsuit and get ready for on orbit

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on our way to the space hab and of

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course a very exciting moment for us

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here where we're opening the hatch to

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the space have because this is where

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we're going to spend the majority of the

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next 10 days and obviously eager to see

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that everything looks fine and and

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certainly from our first look in there

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as if space habit traveled very well

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meanwhile pilot kurt brown is in the mid

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deck also doing some more configuration

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ergometer which is sort of an exercise

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bicycle that curt is assembling down on

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a daily basis to get a little bit of

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so that we can strain our muscles a

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little bit also on day one we had to

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check out the arm because we were going

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and retrieve and andy thomas did all the

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good fortune to

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be in charge of the deploy of the

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satellite uh here you see a view of the

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grapple of the satellite the end

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effector of the arm coming over the

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front looking toward the aft and it's

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the same view i had because the space

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have in the payload bay blocks your view

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direct view of this

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task so we had to use the camera what we

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had to do is lift the spacecraft up to a

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certain level above the payload bay and

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where you see the the two windows of the

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cockpit where the the operation station

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in the course of uh that evolution we

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wound up flying over egypt here you see

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in the background the nile river uh the

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aswan dam and lake nassar

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that all took place in daylight the

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deploy actually took place as we went

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around the dark side uh after sunset

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here you see the deploy we'd have to

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put the arm in the ungrappled position

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spacecraft and after backing the arm

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took the orbiter and backed it away from

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the deploy itself was in the night phase

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but in the next orbital sunrise sun

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sensors which were positioned on the

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deployment of the inflatable antenna and

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as you can imagine this was a

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particularly impressive site in fact was

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spectacular seeing this from the orbiter

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upon the spartan and we saw this

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sequence that you can see here

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mylar structure was pushed out into free

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space as you can see here

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and then inflation started by filling it

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legs of the antenna

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fill out with

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nitrogen gas a bit like water and a fire

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hose there you see it

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antenna structures like these have a lot

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of applications they can be used for

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antennas for deep space probes they

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could be used for radar mapping

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spacecraft of planets or earth

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observations or they could be used for

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sun sun shades for uh orbiting space

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stations my crewmates tell me here that

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the legs look a bit like the number 77

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this deployment and inflation took place

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as we're crossing the west coast of the

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united states and you can see that in

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the background as we're crossing over

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and in a moment you will see us crossing

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over the dry lakes of edwards air force

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base you can see the inflation

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continuing the last leg of the antenna

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being deployed you can see the gyrations

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that the spacecraft is going through

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under that action

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the antenna when it was deployed was uh

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nearly 100 feet long bright silver and

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nearly 50 feet in diameter and since we

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were only 400 feet away from it you can

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imagine that it was a really grand sight

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to see from or from orbit

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after a few moments the instabilities

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created by the inflation settled down

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transit settled out and we got

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this shows a view of the canopy itself

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after the inflation you can see some

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ripples following the inflation process

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we tracked it for one orbit while it did

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self measurements of its shape and then

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we jettison the spartan spacecraft from

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the antenna and the next frame will show

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you the jettison process and i draw your

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attention to the canopy disc itself

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where you'll see a shock wave that

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envelops the canopy as the pyros fire

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and dump the spartan spacecraft there

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you see it

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a bit like striking a 100 foot diameter

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the jettison took place again as we're

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tracking over the united states we

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didn't retrieve the antenna itself

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it subsequently re-entered the

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atmosphere and burned up a couple of

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the following day we went back to

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retrieve the

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spartan itself which you can see in the

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lower part of the screen there is a

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small black speck and this is our

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farewell view of the antenna as we're

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crossing over the midwest region of the

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as andy said the next day we went back

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to pick up spartan this is a view

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looking out the overhead window you see

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the spartan

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at a few hundred feet in the optical

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site this is now view looking out a

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payload bay camera looking straight up

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you see the rms the robotic arm on the

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right and the spartan on the left about

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a hundred feet uh mark garneau uh very

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carefully getting ready to retrieve the

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spartan and the grapple it

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the grapple occurred at night time so it

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was a bit of a challenge for us to

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adjust the cameras form

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fortunately dan did some adjusting on

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the camera parameters and and we got a

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good view of the end effector and here's

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a view from an aft camera you see the

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end effector of the arm moving over the

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grapple fixture john did such a great

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job of bringing a spartan in it was rock

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solid it was a very easy job for me just

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to move the end effector in

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over it and and to close the snares and

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then to do the rigidization you might

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observe when the rigidization takes

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place you're pulling in the spartan

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and also the arm sort of goes limp and

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it looks like everything's sort of

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shaking around a little bit but

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after

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capturing it the spartan

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folks wanted to have a look at it so

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andy uh

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rotated it a little bit and we pointed

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it at cameras and then we had to put it

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away obviously it had all the data that

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the spartan

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folks wanted to retrieve to analyze

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after the flight so there you see the

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spartan being put away it's a very busy

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time retrieval you can see a lot of

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people on the flight deck everybody

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doing part of the job to

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make sure that

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we get spartan back

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and just in case you'd forgotten what

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very next day we deployed our second

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satellite it's part of an experiment

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called pam stew uh this small satellite

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weighs about 115 pounds um it's

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aerodynamically stabilized and

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magnetically damped the whole idea is to

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produce a a satellite that perhaps

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doesn't need active stabilization

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what you're looking at right now is the

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heavy end of the satellite and we

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deployed it readily towards the earth

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and eventually that heavy end did orient

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itself into the velocity vector

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again it's kind of tough to concentrate

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on the on the small satellite in the

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center when you're passing over sites

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such as this north africa the coast of

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portugal and spain and the straits of

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gibraltar that you see at the top

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of the picture and coming into the

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mediterranean sea again at the top

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of the image

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the

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stew satellite had a series of laser

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reflectors that were designed to be

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tracked by a laser in the payload bay

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additionally

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i

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plots that we had on board so we could

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maintain station keeping with the

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stew satellite we station kept about

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2000 feet behind the satellite which is

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something that had never been done

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before and we did that three times

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kurt flew two of those rendezvous

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in front of the laptops you see right

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now kurt's looking at to the right hand

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side you see he's looking at a

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station keeping box that

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and they both john kirk did a great job

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of keeping us

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in the station keeping you see the pam

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stew now is only about 20 degrees off it

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did end up with about a 20 degree cone

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in addition to these rather spectacular

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satellite deployment retrieve operations

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we also were lucky enough to have a

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space hab module

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in the payload bay which provided us a

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lot of room to conduct some scientific

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experiments

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here you see mark working on one a

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crystal growth furnace that ran very

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successfully throughout the flight

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and dan and i working on various

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experiments in the space hub we had 12

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experiments in all

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looking at the effect of microgravity on

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physical processes materials science and

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some

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biological or biotechnology samples

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it's a very good working environment to

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have the space have module and

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we enjoyed working back there some of

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the experiments were mounted in the mid

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deck and here you see mario activating

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one of the biotechnology experiments

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that we carried in the mid deck for this

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and of course we had our usual uh

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unofficial experiments here we have the

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the ball of water with a ball of air

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that's been injected into it and a good

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demonstration of physics one image is

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inverted and the other is back upright

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and

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about this time dan was getting thirsty

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and asked me to prepare a tropical punch

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ball which

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he uh very

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took care of

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well as with most of our shuttle

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missions our own orbit timeline was uh

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very busy thanks to our flight activity

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officers and however we did find some

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time

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to have some meals together and share

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our experiences on orbit the mid deck is

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quite small but on orbit

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with six people you're able to take

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available all space

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also other activities taking care of the

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morning mail from earth for upcoming

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rendezvous and he's busy typing some

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family mail to be sent back down to

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earth at next available opportunity

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and on the mid deck john is busy

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exercising again we all try to stay in

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good shape for an inevitable return to

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earth and mario is putting away the

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vacuum cleaner he's been busy doing some

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scheduled maintenance that we do each

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day to keep the orbiter atmosphere in

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pristine shape

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mar excuse me andy wasn't quite that

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busy he was catching some sleep

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back in the space half this is our

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sleeping configuration in the sleeping

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bag with a head restraint and a little

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eye patch and relax with the bungees

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across to give you some pressure in the

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middle personal hygiene is always a

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challenge in space

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dan here is working with some contact

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lenses

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we do use contacts in space and they

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work quite well well in the zero-g

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environment and

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i think andy and the flight design team

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got together to plan sts-77 so it would

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pass very frequently over australia

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shown here

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uh this is a view of the northwest coast

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uh sharks base specifically uh rather

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spectacular just

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when you look at the earth the blues and

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greens are just spectacular here you see

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from our low light level camera looking

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down at the earth over florida

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specifically the flashes you see are

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lightning flashes from a line of

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thunderstorms that were passing over the

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state at that time

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and in the center on the left there that

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those lights are cities and that one

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moving off the top of the screen now is

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tallahassee

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here you see a view a rather spectacular

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one moving over mexico this is a view

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looking over the rockies westward toward

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the gulf of california baja california

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and out in the distance the deep blue of

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the pacific ocean

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unfortunately all great missions have to

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come to an end and that's signaled

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rather dramatically by the closing of

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the payload bay doors which you see here

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the starboard door coming in to close

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and you can see spartan not looking

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quite so big in the payload bay now that

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it's lost its inflatable antenna

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but we proceeded through the deorbit

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prep phase as it's known this was

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choreographed by mario rather well and

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he's taking care of people putting on

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their their suits i won't describe the

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feeling of sticking your head through

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you probably can imagine what it's like

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but obviously we have to wear these

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suits and here we have our pilot kurt

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brown and looking out the window to his

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right you can see the orange glow that's

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beginning to increase and this is an

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overhead view through

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an overhead window and you can see those

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those lights

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the light show that's going on sometimes

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rather spectacular as

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arcing takes place in the plasma above

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you

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we're now getting back into gravity as

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you can see john is holding this cue

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in this shot we've slowed down from our

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orbital speed of 17 500 miles an hour to

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about 300 miles an hour

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and i'm hand flying the orbiter around

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the heading alignment circle

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at about four to five miles above the

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shuttle landing facility

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it's always amazing to me that this

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vehicle which has been our

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on-orbit uh laboratory and

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and spaceship now is configured and

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comes down and lands like an airplane

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with of course one big exception there

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are no engines running so we're a

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high-speed glider

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but very very versatile

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uh spacecraft and of course the only one

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in the world that will that can come

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touching down here a little over 200

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miles an hour

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we'll deploy the drag chute to help us

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slow down

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our flight had covered about 4.1 million

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miles

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we're uh trying to file for frequent

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and we've been around the earth 160

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times the total

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flight duration was a little over 10

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days

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and as you can see it was beautiful

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weather at the cape on time launch

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as we roll out

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to about 60 miles an hour jettison the

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and a very happy crew after the flight

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well we've got a few uh slides that we'd

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like to show you

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of uh some of the earth views that

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we weren't we're not able to capture for

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you on the film i'd just like to make a

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special thanks to glenn peterson from

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the photo lab who put this

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video together for us a lot of

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long hours and thank you very much for

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that effort

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and a unique view of the orbiter rollout

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uh as it's rolling out to the cape about

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dramatic view of the sunrise launch

562
00:21:44,870 --> 00:21:42,080
launched at 6 30 in the morning just as

563
00:21:50,070 --> 00:21:44,880
the sun was coming up

564
00:21:57,029 --> 00:21:52,310
and a

565
00:21:58,470 --> 00:21:57,039
a rather dramatic earth shot here of the

566
00:22:00,070 --> 00:21:58,480
some of the views that we saw there with

567
00:22:08,470 --> 00:22:00,080
the spartan on the

568
00:22:12,789 --> 00:22:10,870
this is a you've seen the

569
00:22:14,310 --> 00:22:12,799
inflatable antenna but we wanted to show

570
00:22:16,630 --> 00:22:14,320
you this slide because it's over the

571
00:22:19,270 --> 00:22:16,640
grand canyon and if you don't notice

572
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:19,280
through the middle of the

573
00:22:22,630 --> 00:22:21,600
picture and just slightly to the left

574
00:22:25,029 --> 00:22:22,640
behind the

575
00:22:30,950 --> 00:22:25,039
inflatable antennas the grand canyon

576
00:22:34,789 --> 00:22:33,110
and then later on in that same sequence

577
00:22:37,350 --> 00:22:34,799
we were passing over the united states

578
00:22:39,990 --> 00:22:37,360
during this after the deploy or after

579
00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:40,000
the inflation of the antenna this is the

580
00:22:43,830 --> 00:22:42,240
norfolk virginia area chesapeake bay on

581
00:22:45,110 --> 00:22:43,840
the right running up to the top of the

582
00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:45,120
photograph

583
00:22:48,549 --> 00:22:47,200
and some of that area the rappahannock

584
00:22:52,230 --> 00:22:48,559
river at the top

585
00:22:56,230 --> 00:22:52,240
york river james river behind the

586
00:23:00,549 --> 00:22:58,230
um although i don't actually sound it of

587
00:23:02,230 --> 00:23:00,559
course i am american but i was raised in

588
00:23:04,470 --> 00:23:02,240
australia and this flight was a splendid

589
00:23:07,430 --> 00:23:04,480
opportunity to see the country where i

590
00:23:09,510 --> 00:23:07,440
grew up and this is a view of the

591
00:23:11,510 --> 00:23:09,520
south coast of southern australia from

592
00:23:13,029 --> 00:23:11,520
orbit and we had some spectacular places

593
00:23:15,029 --> 00:23:13,039
over australia every morning the crew

594
00:23:16,789 --> 00:23:15,039
would alert me when we were coming by so

595
00:23:18,710 --> 00:23:16,799
i could get some pictures and this is

596
00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:18,720
the area of south australia where i grew

597
00:23:23,430 --> 00:23:22,149
flying over australia is interesting

598
00:23:25,590 --> 00:23:23,440
because if you ever visit australia and

599
00:23:26,390 --> 00:23:25,600
go to the outback it seems very desolate

600
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:26,400
and

601
00:23:30,470 --> 00:23:28,240
not much topography but when you see it

602
00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:30,480
from orbit it's really very impressive

603
00:23:35,029 --> 00:23:33,200
as the next slide will show

604
00:23:36,950 --> 00:23:35,039
this is a view of an area in the

605
00:23:38,470 --> 00:23:36,960
northern territory of australia uh

606
00:23:40,149 --> 00:23:38,480
called the mcdonnell rangers in that

607
00:23:41,909 --> 00:23:40,159
wavy form that you see across the center

608
00:23:43,270 --> 00:23:41,919
part of the slide but what is unique

609
00:23:45,350 --> 00:23:43,280
here is if you look in the upper part of

610
00:23:46,950 --> 00:23:45,360
the slide you can see a feature which is

611
00:23:49,510 --> 00:23:46,960
known as goss's bluff but it's actually

612
00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:49,520
an impact crater from an ancient uh

613
00:23:55,830 --> 00:23:52,400
meteor impact um this crate is thought

614
00:23:57,830 --> 00:23:55,840
to be about 140 million years old uh and

615
00:23:59,669 --> 00:23:57,840
it's about 22 kilometers in diameter so

616
00:24:00,789 --> 00:23:59,679
it's a very large feature

617
00:24:02,230 --> 00:24:00,799
um

618
00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:02,240
in the countryside but as you can see

619
00:24:06,710 --> 00:24:04,400
there is a lot of texture and coloring

620
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:06,720
in the outback of australia

621
00:24:10,870 --> 00:24:08,559
the next slide shows the countryside we

622
00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:10,880
saw following australia which was new

623
00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:13,120
zealand and one of the amazing things is

624
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:14,880
you go from this desolate region of

625
00:24:20,390 --> 00:24:17,039
australia to this lush region of new

626
00:24:22,950 --> 00:24:20,400
zealand and you're struck by the amazing

627
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:22,960
uh geography of new zealand with its uh

628
00:24:27,590 --> 00:24:25,200
jagged mountains and snow-covered peaks

629
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:27,600
and very rough terrain and this is a

630
00:24:32,630 --> 00:24:29,760
volcano in new zealand

631
00:24:35,269 --> 00:24:32,640
called mount rajpiu and this actually is

632
00:24:36,950 --> 00:24:35,279
an active volcano it last erupted

633
00:24:38,789 --> 00:24:36,960
sometime last year with some loss of

634
00:24:40,549 --> 00:24:38,799
life actually

635
00:24:43,430 --> 00:24:40,559
and it's still

636
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:43,440
issuing steam and mud as an active

637
00:24:46,470 --> 00:24:45,120
volcanic site

638
00:24:51,510 --> 00:24:46,480
it was very impressive to see these

639
00:24:55,750 --> 00:24:53,590
as andy mentioned the the volcanoes do

640
00:24:59,350 --> 00:24:55,760
catch your eye and here is one shown

641
00:25:01,269 --> 00:24:59,360
over uh the high altiplano of the of the

642
00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:01,279
northern part of chile and in south

643
00:25:05,830 --> 00:25:04,000
america and the center uh central part

644
00:25:07,510 --> 00:25:05,840
of the screen toward the top there what

645
00:25:10,149 --> 00:25:07,520
caught our eye was the steam plume

646
00:25:12,149 --> 00:25:10,159
emanating from the volcano you see here

647
00:25:14,549 --> 00:25:12,159
and interestingly enough this volcano

648
00:25:16,789 --> 00:25:14,559
was photographed by the crew of sts-55

649
00:25:19,110 --> 00:25:16,799
back in april of 1993

650
00:25:23,590 --> 00:25:19,120
and at that time the volcano had erupted

651
00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:23,600
and put out a large ash cloud as well as

652
00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:25,760
a lava flow and then the lava flow flows

653
00:25:29,750 --> 00:25:28,320
north here toward the top of the picture

654
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:29,760
and then it turns left and what's

655
00:25:34,789 --> 00:25:31,520
interesting in in just the three years

656
00:25:37,669 --> 00:25:34,799
time since the eruption unlike the

657
00:25:39,830 --> 00:25:37,679
ancient uh crater that andy just showed

658
00:25:41,510 --> 00:25:39,840
you in in australia that that has not

659
00:25:43,430 --> 00:25:41,520
changed its character very much because

660
00:25:46,070 --> 00:25:43,440
of the very dry climate there

661
00:25:48,390 --> 00:25:46,080
this climate being very wet the the gray

662
00:25:50,789 --> 00:25:48,400
feature of the lava flow is uh all but

663
00:25:53,350 --> 00:25:50,799
disappeared and now it's uh covered over

664
00:25:55,350 --> 00:25:53,360
and appears to take on the hue of the

665
00:26:00,950 --> 00:25:55,360
surrounding countryside as

666
00:26:05,590 --> 00:26:03,350
and uh we had a quick shot of this view

667
00:26:07,029 --> 00:26:05,600
in the film this is a view looking

668
00:26:09,669 --> 00:26:07,039
westward across the western

669
00:26:11,350 --> 00:26:09,679
mediterranean sea uh the alboran sea

670
00:26:14,310 --> 00:26:11,360
being the western extent of the

671
00:26:16,710 --> 00:26:14,320
mediterranean the strait of gibraltar uh

672
00:26:18,950 --> 00:26:16,720
the rock of gibraltar is actually off

673
00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:18,960
the peninsula that emanates from the

674
00:26:23,029 --> 00:26:20,960
right side from the coast of spain there

675
00:26:24,470 --> 00:26:23,039
uh sticking out into the water to the

676
00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:24,480
left

677
00:26:28,950 --> 00:26:26,640
the rock of gibraltar and that part of

678
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:28,960
gibraltar is a

679
00:26:32,870 --> 00:26:30,799
territory of great britain

680
00:26:35,029 --> 00:26:32,880
morocco is to the left and the atlantic

681
00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:35,039
ocean is out in the background of the

682
00:26:39,269 --> 00:26:36,880
picture toward the top rather

683
00:26:41,269 --> 00:26:39,279
spectacular view and and sometimes we

684
00:26:42,950 --> 00:26:41,279
like to look in great detail as you've

685
00:26:45,110 --> 00:26:42,960
seen in the last couple of photographs

686
00:26:48,870 --> 00:26:45,120
and and sometimes just the panoramas

687
00:26:52,549 --> 00:26:50,789
and hear another panorama although

688
00:26:55,350 --> 00:26:52,559
there's a great bit of detail in here

689
00:26:58,310 --> 00:26:55,360
this is of the sinai and israel uh you

690
00:27:00,549 --> 00:26:58,320
can see uh the the dead sea rift valley

691
00:27:02,630 --> 00:27:00,559
here the dead sea being uh in the

692
00:27:04,710 --> 00:27:02,640
northern part of

693
00:27:08,070 --> 00:27:04,720
the photograph the dead sea had opened

694
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:08,080
had a is about 1300 feet below sea level

695
00:27:11,909 --> 00:27:10,159
and it had there was a passage that had

696
00:27:13,909 --> 00:27:11,919
opened to the sea many millions of years

697
00:27:16,470 --> 00:27:13,919
ago that passage is closed up and the

698
00:27:18,710 --> 00:27:16,480
water is now uh remaining there and that

699
00:27:20,630 --> 00:27:18,720
is the cause for the high uh saline

700
00:27:23,110 --> 00:27:20,640
content as much of it has eroded and is

701
00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:23,120
now fed very uh uh

702
00:27:27,510 --> 00:27:25,520
meagerly by uh streams and underground

703
00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:27,520
springs the rift valley extends

704
00:27:31,510 --> 00:27:29,840
southward to the gulf of akaba here and

705
00:27:33,029 --> 00:27:31,520
interestingly enough if you can make it

706
00:27:34,549 --> 00:27:33,039
out

707
00:27:36,310 --> 00:27:34,559
to the left center of the picture

708
00:27:38,310 --> 00:27:36,320
there's a diagonal line very faintly

709
00:27:40,870 --> 00:27:38,320
showing across here which is actually

710
00:27:42,870 --> 00:27:40,880
the southern border of israel and even

711
00:27:45,269 --> 00:27:42,880
though this is a political boundary we

712
00:27:47,029 --> 00:27:45,279
can see it and and the differentiation

713
00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:47,039
there is between the land use patterns

714
00:27:51,269 --> 00:27:49,120
the irrigation that goes on to the north

715
00:27:53,110 --> 00:27:51,279
of that border and and the lack of

716
00:28:00,470 --> 00:27:53,120
irrigation or the natural desert state

717
00:28:04,149 --> 00:28:01,590
and

718
00:28:06,470 --> 00:28:04,159
very close to the last slide that mario

719
00:28:08,870 --> 00:28:06,480
just described is another one that uh

720
00:28:10,950 --> 00:28:08,880
shows a lot of egypt uh it doesn't

721
00:28:12,630 --> 00:28:10,960
matter what inclination you're on you're

722
00:28:14,070 --> 00:28:12,640
generally always going to go over this

723
00:28:16,789 --> 00:28:14,080
part of the world and it's always going

724
00:28:19,350 --> 00:28:16,799
to have clear weather so you get a good

725
00:28:22,630 --> 00:28:19,360
view of it and it's particularly

726
00:28:24,470 --> 00:28:22,640
attractive because of the the history of

727
00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:24,480
the location and also because the

728
00:28:30,070 --> 00:28:28,480
contrast between the very green triangle

729
00:28:31,990 --> 00:28:30,080
which is at the top center which

730
00:28:34,549 --> 00:28:32,000
represents the nile delta and you can

731
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:34,559
see it threading down towards the bottom

732
00:28:40,149 --> 00:28:37,440
left more like a ribbon as it works its

733
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:40,159
way into the very dry part of northern

734
00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:41,360
africa

735
00:28:46,789 --> 00:28:44,080
at the apex of the green triangle just a

736
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:46,799
little bit to the right is cairo and a

737
00:28:50,149 --> 00:28:47,760
little bit

738
00:28:52,310 --> 00:28:50,159
to its left

739
00:28:53,510 --> 00:28:52,320
is the location where the pyramids of

740
00:28:55,909 --> 00:28:53,520
egypt are

741
00:28:59,909 --> 00:28:55,919
located as well you can see over on the

742
00:29:02,310 --> 00:28:59,919
right side the famous gulf of suez which

743
00:29:05,590 --> 00:29:02,320
up in the right hand corner empties into

744
00:29:08,149 --> 00:29:05,600
the mediterranean at port saeed and the

745
00:29:10,789 --> 00:29:08,159
lake that's halfway down the

746
00:29:13,350 --> 00:29:10,799
suez canal great bitter lake and finally

747
00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:13,360
going further down emptying into the

748
00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:16,640
gulf of suez always a very striking part

749
00:29:21,029 --> 00:29:18,880
of the world to fly over next slide

750
00:29:21,909 --> 00:29:21,039
please

751
00:29:23,830 --> 00:29:21,919
of course

752
00:29:27,029 --> 00:29:23,840
one of the most

753
00:29:29,190 --> 00:29:27,039
startling set of islands that we have on

754
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:29,200
our planet are the galapagos islands

755
00:29:32,549 --> 00:29:31,440
which are off the west coast of south

756
00:29:33,430 --> 00:29:32,559
america

757
00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:33,440
and

758
00:29:37,669 --> 00:29:35,760
we were fortunate in being able to see

759
00:29:38,870 --> 00:29:37,679
them several times in a cloud-free

760
00:29:40,789 --> 00:29:38,880
situation

761
00:29:44,389 --> 00:29:40,799
the biggest island is quite striking

762
00:29:45,269 --> 00:29:44,399
because it does look like a horse's head

763
00:29:47,190 --> 00:29:45,279
and

764
00:29:49,430 --> 00:29:47,200
it if you went from the bottom of its

765
00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:49,440
body towards the top you'd be pointing

766
00:29:52,310 --> 00:29:51,200
in the northerly direction and of course

767
00:29:54,230 --> 00:29:52,320
this is a

768
00:29:56,789 --> 00:29:54,240
a set of islands that became famous

769
00:29:59,750 --> 00:29:56,799
because charles darwin spent quite a bit

770
00:30:01,750 --> 00:29:59,760
of time there in the the 19th century uh

771
00:30:03,990 --> 00:30:01,760
looking at the unique animal and bird

772
00:30:07,190 --> 00:30:04,000
life on these islands in it and it was

773
00:30:08,310 --> 00:30:07,200
this animal life that helped him to uh

774
00:30:11,669 --> 00:30:08,320
to uh

775
00:30:14,789 --> 00:30:11,679
develop his uh theories on the evolution

776
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:14,799
of the species and and natural selection

777
00:30:19,750 --> 00:30:16,960
and and even today uh

778
00:30:21,590 --> 00:30:19,760
there are still unique life

779
00:30:24,630 --> 00:30:21,600
life forms on this island on these

780
00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:24,640
islands next slide please

781
00:30:28,230 --> 00:30:26,399
well this one is a little bit difficult

782
00:30:30,710 --> 00:30:28,240
to see but it's very important to me

783
00:30:32,389 --> 00:30:30,720
because as a canadian i was not going to

784
00:30:34,710 --> 00:30:32,399
be allowed to go back up to canada

785
00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:34,720
unless i showed everybody that i'd seen

786
00:30:40,470 --> 00:30:37,760
some of canada during my mission

787
00:30:42,070 --> 00:30:40,480
if you look up in the top left corner

788
00:30:44,389 --> 00:30:42,080
you can actually see

789
00:30:46,470 --> 00:30:44,399
some of lake ontario and i have to admit

790
00:30:47,830 --> 00:30:46,480
i did not see this view and i'm very

791
00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:47,840
grateful to

792
00:30:52,230 --> 00:30:49,840
my colleague dan who took this picture

793
00:30:55,110 --> 00:30:52,240
because he's also from new york and i'll

794
00:30:56,789 --> 00:30:55,120
let him describe the other part of it

795
00:30:59,029 --> 00:30:56,799
it wasn't until we were in space that i

796
00:31:01,110 --> 00:30:59,039
realized how close uh the areas that

797
00:31:02,389 --> 00:31:01,120
were our home towns were where we grew

798
00:31:04,630 --> 00:31:02,399
up because

799
00:31:06,389 --> 00:31:04,640
where mark grew up on the northern part

800
00:31:08,470 --> 00:31:06,399
of this slide or the top part of this

801
00:31:10,149 --> 00:31:08,480
slide i grew up in the south part you

802
00:31:11,909 --> 00:31:10,159
see these are some of the river valleys

803
00:31:14,230 --> 00:31:11,919
down to the bottom this is actually the

804
00:31:16,230 --> 00:31:14,240
susquehanna river right here river

805
00:31:18,389 --> 00:31:16,240
valley towards the

806
00:31:21,669 --> 00:31:18,399
bottom center and left of the of the

807
00:31:24,149 --> 00:31:21,679
photo um my hometown is just in in the

808
00:31:25,909 --> 00:31:24,159
lower uh left center of the picture near

809
00:31:28,149 --> 00:31:25,919
binghamton new york actually vestal new

810
00:31:30,470 --> 00:31:28,159
york and and uh fortunately this was an

811
00:31:32,789 --> 00:31:30,480
early morning uh pass it's why it's a

812
00:31:34,230 --> 00:31:32,799
little bit a bit hazy and how the fog

813
00:31:36,149 --> 00:31:34,240
still

814
00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:36,159
lingers in the river valleys the

815
00:31:42,630 --> 00:31:37,360
chenango

816
00:31:47,190 --> 00:31:45,269
seemed like every time a few hours after

817
00:31:49,269 --> 00:31:47,200
we woke up we always had a west coast

818
00:31:51,909 --> 00:31:49,279
pass very close to

819
00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:51,919
san francisco uh you see the orbiter

820
00:31:54,710 --> 00:31:53,600
tail and just to the left of the tail

821
00:31:56,950 --> 00:31:54,720
you can see

822
00:31:58,789 --> 00:31:56,960
uh san francisco bay

823
00:32:01,029 --> 00:31:58,799
uh golden gate bridge it can't quite

824
00:32:03,029 --> 00:32:01,039
make it out in the photo here just to

825
00:32:04,950 --> 00:32:03,039
the right of the tail is monterey bay if

826
00:32:06,310 --> 00:32:04,960
anybody's ever been in that part of

827
00:32:08,310 --> 00:32:06,320
california

828
00:32:10,230 --> 00:32:08,320
and uh

829
00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:10,240
actually you can see some of the the

830
00:32:13,430 --> 00:32:12,320
surface waves uh

831
00:32:14,470 --> 00:32:13,440
approaching

832
00:32:16,870 --> 00:32:14,480
the uh

833
00:32:19,830 --> 00:32:16,880
the mouth of the san francisco bay

834
00:32:24,630 --> 00:32:23,029
this is uh town of el paso el paso

835
00:32:26,230 --> 00:32:24,640
happens to be one of the oldest set

836
00:32:29,669 --> 00:32:26,240
settlements in north america it was

837
00:32:32,710 --> 00:32:29,679
first settled in 1598

838
00:32:35,669 --> 00:32:32,720
got its name from el paso del norte from

839
00:32:37,830 --> 00:32:35,679
the spanish uh it was a pass through the

840
00:32:39,430 --> 00:32:37,840
the rocky mountains this part of the

841
00:32:42,149 --> 00:32:39,440
mountains extension the rocky mountains

842
00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:42,159
is called the franklin mountains

843
00:32:47,909 --> 00:32:45,039
the river itself if you've

844
00:32:50,070 --> 00:32:47,919
if you follow kind of like the dark area

845
00:32:52,230 --> 00:32:50,080
and avoiding the mountains itself but

846
00:32:54,149 --> 00:32:52,240
the dark area comes down here and that's

847
00:32:56,310 --> 00:32:54,159
the rio grande

848
00:32:58,230 --> 00:32:56,320
we fly out to el paso a lot it's we

849
00:33:00,070 --> 00:32:58,240
routinely stop there when we fly out to

850
00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:00,080
the west coast the pilots fly there all

851
00:33:03,909 --> 00:33:02,320
the time because they use it kind of as

852
00:33:06,470 --> 00:33:03,919
a fueling stop where they pick up the

853
00:33:08,389 --> 00:33:06,480
sta and then they fly to the north north

854
00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:08,399
is is to the upper right part of the

855
00:33:11,909 --> 00:33:10,640
photo and where they fly towards new

856
00:33:13,990 --> 00:33:11,919
mexico

857
00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:14,000
in white sands and and do a lot of their

858
00:33:19,669 --> 00:33:15,760
training runs in the sta

859
00:33:22,789 --> 00:33:21,269
this is a picture a little bit closer to

860
00:33:24,549 --> 00:33:22,799
home

861
00:33:27,669 --> 00:33:24,559
towards the bottom you see the coast

862
00:33:28,549 --> 00:33:27,679
this is uh galveston island right in the

863
00:33:31,669 --> 00:33:28,559
middle

864
00:33:34,230 --> 00:33:31,679
of the flight you see some of the puffy

865
00:33:37,110 --> 00:33:34,240
clouds which and i i remember this day i

866
00:33:38,789 --> 00:33:37,120
called down to mcc and i said looks like

867
00:33:40,549 --> 00:33:38,799
a clear day but the only word that came

868
00:33:43,029 --> 00:33:40,559
back would says

869
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:43,039
bill mcarthur said yeah but it's hot

870
00:33:46,789 --> 00:33:44,399
so i think that's when you all were

871
00:33:49,430 --> 00:33:46,799
having some 90-plus degree weather at

872
00:33:53,750 --> 00:33:49,440
that time while we're in orbit you can

873
00:33:55,669 --> 00:33:53,760
see this is a dyke that extends out

874
00:33:57,750 --> 00:33:55,679
and also here's the

875
00:34:00,149 --> 00:33:57,760
the causeway that goes over to galveston

876
00:34:06,470 --> 00:34:00,159
island itself just in the lower

877
00:34:09,829 --> 00:34:07,990
this slide is a

878
00:34:13,109 --> 00:34:09,839
an example one of the techniques that we

879
00:34:14,710 --> 00:34:13,119
use in earth ops observations

880
00:34:16,790 --> 00:34:14,720
we call it sun glint we use the

881
00:34:19,430 --> 00:34:16,800
reflection of the sun off the surface of

882
00:34:21,829 --> 00:34:19,440
water bodies on the earth to gather more

883
00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:21,839
detail with that glint we're able to see

884
00:34:25,750 --> 00:34:23,280
the activities

885
00:34:26,629 --> 00:34:25,760
and the condition of the surface of the

886
00:34:27,990 --> 00:34:26,639
water

887
00:34:29,909 --> 00:34:28,000
this particular

888
00:34:31,270 --> 00:34:29,919
shot is taken of the west coast of

889
00:34:35,030 --> 00:34:31,280
florida

890
00:34:36,869 --> 00:34:35,040
the little island you see dead center of

891
00:34:39,669 --> 00:34:36,879
the photo is

892
00:34:41,589 --> 00:34:39,679
sanibel island and fort myers is just to

893
00:34:43,349 --> 00:34:41,599
the north or just above that on the

894
00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:43,359
coast and in naples florida is on the

895
00:34:46,389 --> 00:34:44,480
far right

896
00:34:48,790 --> 00:34:46,399
of the coast but with this sun glint on

897
00:34:51,270 --> 00:34:48,800
the surface of water we're able to see

898
00:34:53,829 --> 00:34:51,280
quite a bit activity in this shot this

899
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:53,839
occurred on sunday afternoon

900
00:34:57,750 --> 00:34:55,520
and you can see all the pleasure boaters

901
00:34:58,470 --> 00:34:57,760
out the little v wakes which is actually

902
00:35:07,750 --> 00:34:58,480
the

903
00:35:11,190 --> 00:35:09,670
one of our most favorite

904
00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:11,200
shots here is i'm sure everyone

905
00:35:13,589 --> 00:35:12,480
recognizes

906
00:35:15,670 --> 00:35:13,599
is the

907
00:35:16,790 --> 00:35:15,680
our launch or departure site from from

908
00:35:18,390 --> 00:35:16,800
earth

909
00:35:19,829 --> 00:35:18,400
almost dead center of the photo you can

910
00:35:22,150 --> 00:35:19,839
see the shuttle landing facility the

911
00:35:23,589 --> 00:35:22,160
little straight line about a 15 000 foot

912
00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:23,599
long runway

913
00:35:28,230 --> 00:35:24,800
if you look a little bit to the right of

914
00:35:34,470 --> 00:35:30,950
the land there the atlantic you can see

915
00:35:36,710 --> 00:35:34,480
the pad bravo and alpha pad 39 that we

916
00:35:38,310 --> 00:35:36,720
departed from the northernmost pad

917
00:35:39,750 --> 00:35:38,320
and you can see the qualler tracks that

918
00:35:41,829 --> 00:35:39,760
lead out to the pad from the vertical

919
00:35:43,349 --> 00:35:41,839
assembly building

920
00:35:44,710 --> 00:35:43,359
if you look a little bit south of that

921
00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:44,720
the little

922
00:35:48,630 --> 00:35:46,480
cape that sticks out cape canaveral you

923
00:35:50,470 --> 00:35:48,640
can see all the launch pads that have

924
00:35:52,470 --> 00:35:50,480
played such an important part of our

925
00:35:55,109 --> 00:35:52,480
history in the space program

926
00:35:57,589 --> 00:35:55,119
during the early days of

927
00:35:59,670 --> 00:35:57,599
mercury gemini and apollo

928
00:36:01,910 --> 00:35:59,680
you can see the town of titusville and

929
00:36:03,109 --> 00:36:01,920
also within the bodies of water about

930
00:36:05,670 --> 00:36:03,119
center of the photo you can actually see

931
00:36:10,829 --> 00:36:05,680
the intercoastal waterway that the ships

932
00:36:16,150 --> 00:36:13,750
coast this is a good shot of landing uh

933
00:36:18,069 --> 00:36:16,160
after 10 days of a very successful and a

934
00:36:19,589 --> 00:36:18,079
very exciting mission we obviously have

935
00:36:21,670 --> 00:36:19,599
to come back to earth

936
00:36:24,390 --> 00:36:21,680
and we landed on runway 33 at the

937
00:36:26,069 --> 00:36:24,400
kennedy space center the weather was

938
00:36:28,390 --> 00:36:26,079
very nice early morning right after

939
00:36:29,750 --> 00:36:28,400
sunrise type landing and and john did an

940
00:36:32,950 --> 00:36:29,760
excellent job bringing us all home

941
00:36:34,470 --> 00:36:32,960
safely and we're very happy and sad

942
00:36:36,870 --> 00:36:34,480
happy to be back home to our loved ones

943
00:36:38,790 --> 00:36:36,880
but very sad to have completed

944
00:36:44,310 --> 00:36:38,800
our short stay in space looking forward

945
00:36:48,150 --> 00:36:46,069
here's another shot of the crew out in

946
00:36:49,190 --> 00:36:48,160
front of the orbiter about an hour after

947
00:36:51,910 --> 00:36:49,200
landing

948
00:36:53,510 --> 00:36:51,920
and getting the traditional thumbs up

949
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:53,520
again happy to

950
00:36:59,750 --> 00:36:56,000
be back safely after an amazing

951
00:37:03,750 --> 00:36:59,760
and very successful 10 days on orbit

952
00:37:07,750 --> 00:37:03,760
our closing slide is the

953
00:37:09,829 --> 00:37:07,760
sunset shot of looking across

954
00:37:11,910 --> 00:37:09,839
and in uh in closing i would like to

955
00:37:14,790 --> 00:37:11,920
again thank all of you for

956
00:37:16,630 --> 00:37:14,800
uh coming here today and uh

957
00:37:18,630 --> 00:37:16,640
for the part that you played your in

958
00:37:19,990 --> 00:37:18,640
this mission your your dedication your

959
00:37:21,990 --> 00:37:20,000
hard work

960
00:37:24,950 --> 00:37:22,000
and i'd ask you to keep it up because uh

961
00:37:27,349 --> 00:37:24,960
sts 77 is is now history we've got

962
00:37:28,870 --> 00:37:27,359
sts-78 on the launch pad

963
00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:28,880
ready to go

964
00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:31,200
and uh next year we look forward to

965
00:37:34,630 --> 00:37:32,880
launching the first

966
00:37:36,710 --> 00:37:34,640
component of the international space

967
00:37:38,790 --> 00:37:36,720
station so we've got a lot going on in

968
00:37:40,950 --> 00:37:38,800
the future and i would ask you all to

969
00:37:44,150 --> 00:37:40,960
keep up the good work all the great work