the first thing I'd like to do here now
is to reintroduce my crew on my right is
Scott Horowitz the mission pilot to his
right is Joe Tanner one of our space
walkers next to him is Steve Hawley this
was Steve's fourth flight next to him is
Greg Harbaugh another one of our space
walkers his right is Mark Lee our
payload commander and on the end is
Steve Smith the youngest member of the
crew this was Steve's second flight the
goal of our mission was to fly up to the
Hubble Space Telescope retrieve it
mounted in the Bay on the servicing
structure perform for Evie A's
that were planned to replace some of the
major science instruments with modern
technology that would allow the
telescope to return more data at a
faster rate and also to replace some of
the electronic components of the
telescope
we were able to do more than was planned
if you include the mo I repairs that
were a late addition during the flight
the success of the mission is directly
attributable to thousands of people here
on the ground people who plan the flight
people who prepared the hardware and the
people who trained the the folks on the
ground in Mission Control and who helped
us train as a crew and we were really
happy to be the ones that got to go up
and see the telescope up close we had a
lot of fun and we saw some beautiful
sights we brought a movie with us today
and some slides too to try and share
some of that with you so if we could get
the lights down and and start the movie
something that was great for me as the
commander of this flight was not only
did we launch on time we launched two
days earlier than the initial scheduled
date when I was assigned as the mission
commander it started here at about
midnight as we walked out of the crew
quarters and manned up the Astro van and
a few hours later the main engines lit
to take us on up into orbit you feel
that rumble of the engines when they
light outside but you're not really sure
till the SRBs light then there's a
tremendous bright
light reflecting off of the launch
platform it looks like somebody's
welding right outside your window and
then you feel the kick in your back and
you know you're off and as you can see
we go through the clouds here at about
3000 feet I guess both a little concern
with weather but pretty soon we're VFR
on top and we're off on our way to space
SRBs are kind of a bumpy ride you're
getting shook around it's interesting
around Mach 3 it smoothed out and then
shortly thereafter the SRB Sep and folks
on the ground at night got this
beautiful view of the two SRBs as they
tailed off and stepped from the orbiter
and looked kind of like a point of light
like a star going off into into orbit
once we got to orbit the real work on
the mission started opening the payload
bay doors and getting about the business
of turning our rocket ship into an
on-orbit space ship we had to convert
the mid-deck to a working area set up
the tools and the spacesuits in
preparation for the spacewalks upcoming
fracture the rendezvous as is normally
done on flights like this we check out
the robot arm the robot arm was
tremendously enjoyable piece of gear to
operate and in our case if it checked
out
fully completely as it always does it's
a very reliable piece of gear
none of our simulators can fully prepare
you for everything you're going to see
during a rendezvous number one the
beauty of the real satellite that's
compared to our visuals but also the Sun
in the real world and the confusion you
can get on the flight deck just from the
number of people who are up there
helping out with the task
it really is a team effort with
everybody providing an input but we
managed to stabilize the telescope like
this and the co ass and bring it down so
Steve could grab it Scottie and Sox were
responsible for the first 330 miles or
so and my job was the last 10 feet they
did such a good job with their part that
my job was easy we were able to grab it
and for Sox and me it was it was
enjoyable to get to see it again
and got it birth on the FSS so that the
real mission operations could begin with
the epa's all right here we are this is
a couple days into the fight we need to
check out the e/m use first as you know
these emus were updated that's a new
configuration we hope to have on station
once they're all checked out it's time
to Don the suits for the first of the
epa's I've got my Green Bay Packers hat
on here which I wore every day and I'm
sure that was one of the forces that
kept us you know this is coming out of
the hatch the very first day it seems
like I'm having a little trouble I can't
figure out why but we had a lot you have
a lot of chords and the umbilicals and
you also have tools in the airlock and a
lot of times it's it's hard to kind of
get out the door but once we get out you
can go ahead and start setting up for
the day the manipulator foot restraint
handle was detached and it was developed
here at the Johnson Space Center a real
good job on that we went up and hooked
it on to the MFR I went to work yeah
first day the first of the five days was
spent removing two large
refrigerator-sized objects from the
telescope Here I am pulling out the FOS
instrument these instruments weighed
between six hundred eighty-five and 850
pounds after we pull out one of the old
instruments we then go get one of the
new ones out of the payload Bay and this
is this coming out of course these boxes
are designed to increase the scientific
returns that Hubble will have we are
putting stiffs into the telescope here
unfortunately it happened at night the
major three boxes that we installed all
occurred at night so it made it a little
bit more difficult tasks that just as a
matter of timing after you put a new box
into the telescope
you stole the old box mrs. stowing the
ghr sbox I might add that these scenes
are all sped up to some extent about
five times the normal speed
everything goes a lot slower in space
this is just another view of stowing gh
RS into the payload bay you might notice
over my left shoulder there's a gold
colored box that's a new camera we had
on board that actually brought the
ground into the work envelope basically
looked over our shoulder and you'll see
pictures of that in the upcoming scenes
the EBA took about seven hours that
first day often we had a chance to look
out at beautiful sights notice the
external airlock here also that was the
first flighted external airlock and
gorgeous view
well after market Steve had shown us how
to correctly perform EBA it was Greg in
my turn on on day two put your pants on
a little different in space you can put
both legs in at the same time and the
suit up was assisted by dock every time
and here's Greg reporting that he was
ready to go our job was to change one of
the fine guidance sensors and here we
are working on the doors to that Bay and
here is the insertion also done at night
it's Steve noted of the the new fine
guidance sensor this box weighs about
500 pounds but in space doesn't feel
like anything here we are
stowing the old STS to return it to home
where it will be refurbished and
launched on a future mission we also
changed out one of the science tape
recorders and that's the black box that
I'm holding right there and this is a
beautiful shot of the earth reflecting
off the telescope and you can see Greg
behind me to my left
once we got down with all the large
boxes the lower 12 feet or so has all of
them you know scientific instruments we
started going in the bays and there's
about 15 20 different Bay's that have
the electronics that run the Hubble
Space Telescope in this case I'm
changing out a data interface unit and
the Diu had lost half of it essentially
half of its capability so we put a new
one in it's a little bit tougher task
than some of the normally VA because it
wasn't designed to be a compatible
electoral connectors didn't have wing
tabs a lot of the other things that we
tend to do like the reaction wheel that
you see here the reaction wheel was one
of those 12 15 years ago and they first
built Hubble that was meant to be
changed out EBA and we weren't doing the
work the people inside we're looking
down this is thunderstorms over the top
of Houston and it's certainly it's like
a string of firecrackers it's probably
the most incredible lightning display
that most then any of us had ever seen
from orbit so it was pretty spectacular
and you were on the other end of that I
guess here we are getting to work on the
TVA for this is the solar array drive
electronics box changer
that's Joe handing it off to me and then
closing the lid and I'm on the on the
end of the arm there and I've got it in
my hands and we go up to where the
worksite I believe this is at sunrise so
you'll see the lighting changed fairly
rapidly here and this is real time Sun
goes up and goes down very quickly on
orbit real commendation to the folks who
trained us this task was just like it
was in the training process except the
screws were they although they were
equally small they weren't nearly as
corroded as they were in the water but
it was it was a challenging task to
change that that solar ray Drive
electronics box but it was very doable
the way it was designed by the engineers
and there are Joe and I up at the top of
the telescope we're not paying any
attention to the earth up there
changing that or putting some covers on
magnetometers one of the efforts that
was underway while we were out there was
Scott was working on some other repairs
some patches that were designed and
built up by Scott in the course of that
Evie a day I had Joe and I actually put
a couple patches on towards the end of
evey a day for but then Mark and Steve
put on the remainder of the patches on
an unscheduled Evie a day five that all
went absolutely superbly the design
developed by the folks on the ground
with the stuff available to us was was
just great real kudos to everybody that
was involved in that
towards the end of that activity then we
were we finished up and it was the end
of the EVs with EPA successfully
completed it was time to but let Hubble
fly free again and it's a little bit I
guess like having your kids come home
from college you know we were really
happy to see help all when it showed up
and where was time to send it off we
were really happy to see it go once
again I got to grapple it and raise it
up off of the FSS bring it forward in
the bay release it from the arm and then
I told Scott to go ahead and execute the
maneuver which he did the maneuver was
kicked off by a firing forward Jets and
as soon as we did that we fired the Jets
the orbiter went back and the telescope
flew right over the top window this is a
view right over our heads looking out
the starboard window and it was pretty
amazing to see this large telescope fly
right over our heads the maneuver after
the telescope went out of the window
took us so we like flew like a loop over
and atop the telescope so the next thing
we saw about 15 minutes later was the
telescope flying over sharks Bay
Australia we saw a lot of sharks Bay
every turn never retired was beautiful
sight and then we got to see the
telescope almost like a telescope riser
said as it goes across the horizon with
a beautiful blue planet in the
background it was quite an amazing sight
of course our are calling theme the
whole time was more power to the
telescope and here we are celebrating
the fact that telescope has more power
Sox was in real trouble because
Valentine's Day had come and gone and he
hadn't written home yet
so he's catching up and this is a
demonstration of one of the real
problems with using power tools on orbit
and this is a study in hydro fluid
mechanics but it's interesting to note
that the little M&Ms will float right in
the middle of the water ball it makes
kind of a pretty picture to show your
kids exercise is an important part of
daily life on orbit just as it is on
earth but we have a little bit better
view and if you find a scene that you
want to take a picture of you ask for a
camera that on earth weighs quite a bit
and someone just passes it over to you
Sox's motto was a clean ship as a happy
ship and you got us all busy cleaning up
and we were real fortunate to get some
excellent views of the hale-bopp comet
that is still visible in the morning sky
right now or the first landing
opportunity was waved off due to bad
weather at the Cape and so but we didn't
mind we got this extra view of Florida
flying over you can see Orlando and the
Cape and Miami this is what it looks
like inside during a night entry you get
flashes from the plasma and the overhead
windows that that light up the inside of
the ship and you can see the orange glow
from the fireball that's what the orange
glow looks like from the outside and
that's pretty much the view the folks
here in Houston saw as we streaked
overhead and a couple hundred thousand
feet it was great for me I looked out my
left window and there was Houston I
could see the street outlines and right
at the lower window frame was where the
Johnson Space Center should be this is
the first flight that the Kennedy Space
Center where we had centreline lights on
the runway it was a really nice addition
to the runway gave me a good feel during
the landing in the rollout for where I
was on the runway it Scott did a super
job getting a drag chute out and we
tapped the brakes just to check them and
make sure they worked we really didn't
need the brakes with the wind that we
had that day but as a pilot I wanted to
see what they felt like they were
beautiful
jettison the the chute and and roll to a
stop there on the runway one of the
three had been a great place to live in
a and a great place to work the whole 10
days we were up in space and I was kind
of sad to see it come to an end it's
always tough when you when you're in the
mission you know you're not gonna be
spending as much time with with your
crew as you got to during the previous
ten days movies great for for seeing how
things move in space but nothing can
quite beat the still imagery the the
slides that would get so we've got a lot
of them to show you today this is our
crew patch it was actually pretty easy
to do this patch and we took the image
of that telescopes directly from a
picture from the first servicing mission
and that's why the arrays look a little
bit twisted but it looked just like that
when we got back up and ron abboud with
it the night launches is just
spectacular my first flight was on a day
launch and you know the forces are all
the same but but the light show out your
window is pretty incredible in fact it's
pretty hard to see the stars and the
beach as you take off because the light
is so bright from the flames that
surround you I talked about the Sun in
the rendezvous
I use my thumb a lot an old fighter
pilot trick attack pilot trick to you
just take your thumb and put it up in
the window to block out the disc of the
Sun and that worked great to keep the
Sun out of my eyes during the approach
this is what the telescope looked like
added about 1,500 feet the aperture end
was pointed towards us and as we
continued the rendezvous the telescope
actually rotated 180 degrees until we
were in close the bottom end of the
telescope was pointed down at the
payload Bay and then we went an ER shil
so that we matched the exact rate of the
telescope and then drifted in another
hundred feet or so till Steve was able
to grab it
I know socks and I talked one
preparations for the flight that we each
felt very fortunate to have a chance to
be able to see the Hubble telescope
twice and we had exchanged memories
about what it looked like and and of
course we had told the other crew
members kind of what to expect and how
pretty the satellite was I know Sox used
to say that he remembered being able to
see the reflections of the earth in the
telescope such that the telescope
actually looked blueish rather than
silver and one of my recollections was
at the Terminator it was the Sun setting
or a rising would would shine on the
solar rays such that it almost appeared
that the solar rays had their own source
of illumination and this is a picture of
kind of what that looked like the it was
it was it was a treat special privilege
to see the telescope again the side that
you see here which is the side that that
was facing us as we did the grapple and
the birth actually looked quite a lot
like like I remembered it from before it
wasn't until we had shed see the other
side that we realized there's a
difference between the side that
preferentially faces the sign and and
the side that doesn't and of course that
led to the moai repair activities later
on but it's a big spacecraft and it's
it's truly a beautiful spacecraft we all
had different duties on the VA days and
leading up to the VA so my job was
getting the guys are up and ready to go
when Joe and I were not going out the
door ourselves one of the things we all
took care of ourselves was wiping down
our own helmets and putting the anti-fog
in there next slide so here is Mark and
the next slide of Steve getting ready
for their first CVA and they're all
pumped up and ready to go
so we got these guys all suited up and
pre breathed and all that and then it
was time to hand off to Joe who directed
the operation from there Steve and
on our off EDA days activists the ivy or
the person the choreographer I guess of
the of the Eevee a task and we pretty
much stayed glued to w-9 the window
looking at everything that was going on
and keeping track of the activities and
making sure that the EPA was going as as
we had trained in it as we had planned
of course we were always assisted Abele
by dr. Steve E and we referred to Steve
and dr. Stevie in that way so it's not
to get them confused
but Steve dr. Stevie and Steve and I all
work together closely to make sure the
arm movements or or what we had trained
and planned on and it was it was really
a team effort with socks you can't see
him in the picture but he's right behind
us acting worried and here Steve is is
handling one of the large boxes and that
is probably G hrs being stowed on the on
the a fixture and while we stole them
temporarily there while we got the new
instrument out of one of the protective
enclosures and install the new
instrument in the telescope and then
retrieve the old instrument for stowage
and what is now an empty closure this is
it during the first EP a market myself
you can see this large enclosure in the
front is where the new instruments
launched and the old instruments were
stowed for entry that's myself on the
arm there you can see the camera is
right in front of my face or that silver
box mark is in the back inspecting the
enclosure there
this is the other large box that we move
during the flight to find guidance
sensor that's Joe and the arm holding it
as he mentioned before it weighs about
500 pounds we often refer to it as the
piano because it was about the size and
shape of a grand piano you see Greg in
the back inspecting the bay after Joe
has removed the old instrument also you
notice greg has a tether
going down by his right leg there he was
always tethered to the shuttle in that
respect he also knows near his left foot
is a foot restraint that we actually
installed on the telescope to give Greg
a platform somewhat like what Joe was
using on the end of the arm I might add
that Joe and I compared notes after the
flight just to describe how things went
in spaces they didn't on earth and it
really was very very similar we each had
installed these large boxes I'd say
about 30 to 35 times on earth before we
did it in space each of us got about 135
to 150 hours of water time before the
flight also well at the end of a lot of
the replacement work on the telescope
but one of our goals was to actually
raise the telescope to a higher orbit
the telescope doesn't have any engines
it just has the reaction wheels to
maintain attitude and so over time even
though there's very little atmosphere up
there what little atmosphere there is
will drag the telescope down so we did
what's called a vernier reboost and
you've heard some people were rewarded
for their efforts because this is a
pretty unusual way to use the Space
Shuttle to boost a payload because the
little vernier jets really weren't
designed for that so they came up with a
very clever procedure that basically
faked the Jets out into boosting us into
a higher orbit and we spent 82 minutes
using the little vernier Jets over the
entire mission and boosted the telescope
about eight miles higher which will
ensure that it has a very safe orbit for
years to come now these next four slides
typifies some of the the work that we do
pre-flight an in-flight and it's the
interaction between the astronauts and
the engineers and the ground team and
all of all designers that allow you to
pull off some of this work for the data
interface unit it's something even
before the crew was named that we had
three or four runs over at the NBS at
Marshall and we knew that would be
difficult to do because
reaching access in the base they design
umbilicals gender changers for some of
the connectors that were powered saw and
so forth and the end result is you've
come up with something through iteration
that really works works well next and
that's particularly true about the solar
array Drive electronics task which we
did have difficulty on sts-61 because
some of the screws came out but through
the good work the engineers up at
Goddard and inputs from the crew were
able to come up with a design that made
change out of the box much much easier
to do and basically eliminated the
possibility of losing connectors all
that interaction takes place before the
flight and then even in flight the same
people are able to work on the
multi-layer insulation repair kits where
they look at all the things on board and
I've heard a lot some of the reporters
that have talked to me and after the
flight talked about Apollo 13 it's the
same sort of effort where the people on
the ground throw everything they've got
in a room and they all come up with the
best solution to the problems that we
have and once doc used all the kit that
we had on board to fabricate them we
were able to go outside and put them on
and it worked just the way the people
designed them if you take the pictures
of what they had at the NBL and compare
them to what we had up in space they're
virtually identical which shows you know
a great work they do on the ground to
get these things ready this is a wide
shot perfect the yeah flight deck one of
the things you should notice the
external airlock in the foreground again
it was the first flight where we didn't
have the airlock inside the cockpit
instead it was outside and again a
beautiful view of the earth with Hubble
in front there it's marking myself doing
some of the MRI repair I might add that
on my first flight I was at 120 nautical
miles which is the lowest the shuttle
goes and a heaven there an interesting
view at that altitude and this was the
highest the shuttle go so it was a real
contrast for me and you notice the
curvature of the earth was very
pronounced in that last picture here we
see you see the enhanced spacesuit that
we wore we had four people that did
spacewalks on this flight but we only
took three spacesuits in order to save
weight in order to do that the spacesuit
had to be resizable very easily in orbit
and folks here at the Johnson Space
Center as well as a couple of the
contractors up in the Northeast came up
with this new way to resize suits during
the flight Joe and I shared one
spacesuit the one you see here
over the five EPA's it works very well
thanks line on the second DVA
the customer asked us to go take a look
at some of the solar arrays you'll see
Joe here at the top of the picture and
Greg on the back of the arm here with
the removable evie a camera that's
what's in Joe's right hand there and
they actually did a real-time survey of
the solar arrays to help the customer
determine why one of the panels on the
SOL race wasn't operating as efficiently
as some of these other solar arrays
you'll see this camera in use likely
during the space station here because it
turned out to be very very useful on our
flight we also had a 35-millimeter
camera out there a Nikon f3 this is what
we often saw when we were up on the arm
about 35 or 40 feet above the payload
Bay and we would look back at the
cockpit so we're looking forward you see
the four windows of the cockpit to
facing a half-two facing up the external
airlock at the lower part of the screen
and to the right as the kayuu band
antenna that we use for communication
going back to that slide that you saw a
moment ago with joe and i looking up at
that solar ray what you don't see in
that slide is the incredible view of the
earth that we had in the background it
was very difficult for me and the back
of the arm there to not be staring at
the earth and keep my mind on the solar
array that we were trying to inspect but
it was just an absolutely spectacular
view this is marek holding that camera
again and i must say i think we've sort
of set a precedent here that is most
likely to be followed in satellite
servicing from here on out in terms of
use of a camera out with the EBA crew
members it was absolutely invaluable
both for us onboard but more importantly
for the folks on the ground to assess
the condition of the satellite and the
state of the task once we completed it
it really proved it's worth over and
over again you can see on the top of it
is a little light it's actually a
modified helmet light through it's
attached to the top and we use that to
illuminate the worksite every now and
then if you take enough pictures you're
going to get lucky and I have to admit I
would love to say that I plan this
picture but I think it was just pure
luck that's Joe and it just turned out
absolutely spectacularly I think you can
if you look at it maybe not here but in
if you study the photograph you can see
Joe's face and it really just turned out
nice so I'm really proud of that
photograph the work that EBN guys who
described being able to to perform
servicing activities like this is
obviously going to be very important as
we move into Space Station it's probably
worth noting as well that the ability of
the robotic arm to move around heavy
payloads into position the VA crew
members with precision is also going to
be an important component of our suite
of skills that we're going to need as we
enter space station construction again
after the successful completion of the
five EPA's we were ready to let Hubble
go back and perform its mission our
contribution to Hubble was pretty much
at an end at this point in the flight of
course there's a lot of activity still
ongoing by the rest of the Hubble team
to check out the instruments the new
electronics that that were installed and
and all that checkouts going very well
so we're very hopeful that we really
will leave Hubble with more power and
and better than it was when we found it
all it's been able to do over the last
seven years with the 1970s technology
has fundamentally changed the way we we
think of our universe and our place in
it and our understanding of it and it's
amazing to me to even speculate on what
1990s technology will allow Hubble to do
so there's great promise and everybody
that had
chance to work on the telescope either
previously or part of 82 or or on a
future mission is contributing to
something that that I think will be a
tremendous legacy for the human race for
for years and years to come
well we saw this view in the in the
movie it happened preflighting Lee
because it went by so fast so it's real
nice to have us still and we'll look at
the sequence here of the Hubble during
the deploy and you look at the sequence
- just want to note as we go through it
it was really amazing to work on the
Hubble we're very focused the crew was
you know working very hard the grounds
worked very hard and even all the way up
to deploy and at this point I guess it
hit me what we had just done I mean we
had planned and everyone worked really
hard for all these years to get ready
for this mission and now we were
releasing Hubble to go out and do its
job and and it was really a beautiful
sight and as we released the Hubble and
it goes off to explore the universe you
know I looked at it with the hope
someday of maybe coming back to visit it
again because it's it's amazing thing
that we do and hopefully the returns
will produce scientific results that
will improve our life for all of the
people of the world and you have to have
the obligatory crew in orbit photo and
of course you can tell it's in orbit
with the Hubble you see the solar arrays
and a piece of the telescope there in
the background and just want you to note
the the wonderful use of color their
navy blue is a wonderful color navy blue
good of course here's our more power
sign that really summed up as we said
earlier what we had intended to do to
the telescope and we felt after we had
completed the 5 e bas that we truly left
the telescope in a in a more power
situation we were pretty happy you can
see relief on the faces of everybody at
about the mission being a successfully
accomplished you you read that correctly
they wanted to put that up on the
telescope
of course socks spent a fair amount of
time in the windows
he made a challenge to doc that he
couldn't shoot up all of the film that
we had left on board after the telescope
was gone and telescopes still here right
now but we were shooting some earth
earth obscene so far of the telescope
but we did take a few beautiful shots of
Australia no this next one
there's certainly one of the best this
is a Spencer Bay in August northeast
Australia and we covered every inch of
Australia and enjoyed it every time it
came by we like to take pictures of all
the dirt we see for the geologists we
like to take pictures of the clouds in
water too so here's one of our prettier
pictures in that category
the Sun glint in the Terminator
it had been about over a year since
discovery had flown before this flight
and we couldn't find the key so we had
to make our own on-orbit to make sure we
could come home we're gonna give that to
the next crew and hopefully they'll be
able to pass it on to crews beyond them
103 was a fantastic vehicle to fly in
discovery gave us no problems during the
flight that's because of all the work
that had been done so well by the people
on the ground and it really enabled us
to focus on the mission of fixing the
telescope well every mission has to come
to an end here's our empty payload Bay
the Sun setting not long after this we
closed the payload bay doors and and
came home touched down at the Kennedy
Space Center we felt good after the
mission because we were pretty sure we
hadn't busted anything and I can't tell
you what a relief