welcome to everyone to uh what we enjoy
doing most is sharing the experience of
flying in space
especially with those that did so much
work to make it all happen for us as mr
abbey said this was a really successful
flight
and
i think we prove that we're ready to go
on to international space station in
cooperation with our russian european
and japanese and canadian partners and
and do even bigger and better things
i will introduce the crew of course and
then we'll show you some slides and a
video that highlight the the mission
as i introduce the crew it the thought
comes to mind that it's becoming more
and more of a daunting task for the
commander to make introductions with
part of the crew leaving
being left on orbit leaving the crew on
the way up and a new member of the crew
joining us on the way down
as a matter of fact on the way over here
in addition to those complications of
who's on the crew when
we thought we'd lost jerry this
afternoon when his wife catherine was
about to uh
who is about to give birth was we
thought on our way to the hospital but i
guess that's going to be a little later
but
we're looking forward to a new lineager
in the in the nasa family here real
shortly
um
i guess uh what we ought to do to
introduce the crew is uh start with the
first slide which is the
the crew photo
and uh i will that way be able to
introduce also those that aren't with us
uh today
the uh the crew
as you see it here
has a lot of background with the phase
one program
eileen collins as our pilot uh
had made the first approach on discovery
sts-63
a couple of almost two and a half years
ago now i guess and uh at that point in
time she was able to wave across the
window uh across space through the
window at elena kondakova who was on the
mirror
and uh at the same time mike foale was
on board with vladimir tetof on
discovery so we have a an ever-growing
family here that is continuing to fly
these missions
the the two primary payloads that we
call them the precious payloads were
jerry lenninger and mike foale as our
phase one crew members
jerry completed a very long and rigorous
program on board the mirror and mike uh
arrived on mir
a beneficiary of a lot of the work that
jerry did
and so
mike is continuing to carry out that
program in fine fashion as we're all
watching with interest the progress
they're making
recovering the mirror and bringing it
back online
the
ms-1 is jean-francois clare of wahoo is
from the european space agency and
he had also done some training in russia
as a backup for an eventual flight on
mir
again another connection from our crew
to the cooperation that we've had with
the russians
our two new flyers uh ed lou and carlos
noriega
carlos was ms2
he was our flight engineer and uh does a
wonderful job at
keeping the pilot and the commander out
of trouble i might add and he comes from
peru
and
his family moved to the united states
when he was only five years old and
similarly ed
is of chinese descent his parents moved
to the u.s right before he was born so
as you look at this group you see a
really international mix
a representation from
basically six different cultures because
we count mike foale's british background
as a as a yet different culture from our
own but it's the kind of thing that i'm
sure we're going to see
on future international space station
flights and it was a pure pleasure for
us to be able to work together in a
group like this because
we were able to learn from each other
learn about each other's cultures and
and move forward with
new ideas for
future space flights
the uh
the two folks that you don't see here of
course uh
vasily zablev and sasha luzuki in the
mirror 23 crew
who uh both jerry and mike are have
worked with and mike is continuing to
work with
we consider them honorary members of our
crew and
we really look forward to seeing them
return to earth here in september
this is a crew patch and the the most
important thing on a crew patch are the
names of the crew you see here the eight
people involved in this flight the two
uh front seaters charlie and eileen then
uh the two phase one long duration uh
astronauts and uh the other mission
specialist it shows obviously it's a
special flight in low earth orbit
the sixth mission to mere is symbolized
by the six stars around the mir in
cyridic which means means peace and also
world in russian
and the chateau mere flights are part of
phase one of the international space
station program that's why you have the
phi the greek letter phi with one star
which symbolizes the phase one program
also with the rising sun showing the
early phase of the space station
international
program
our launch occurred on may 15th at 407
in the morning
and it was right on time at the
beginning of a seven minute launch
window
we had
little to no problems during the launch
countdown and the sn itself was
absolutely trouble free
and you know from the bottom of my heart
i want to say again for the whole crew
thanks to all you folks here at jsc and
the folks down at kennedy space center
that did such a wonderful job getting
our orbiter ready for flight
and because the orbiter was in such good
shape during the whole mission we had
time to do the extra things that we had
planned on doing before launch
this is a view of mir from a far
distant uh picture and the reason we
wanted to show this is
the first time we saw amir it was a very
small star it looked like a star
we
our main engine cutoff occurred in low
very low earth orbit approximately 100
miles
well below mirror gave us time to
catch up to mir and we did several burns
over the course of the next uh two days
and flight day two we uh
we prepared for the rendezvous and on
flight day three we did the actual final
phase of the rendezvous
you see the overhead window in the
flight deck
with mir in the background the
station-keeping
mirror is on the top of the overhead
window and
you can see the handheld lidar which is
a manual laser pointing tool which is
used to uh to have a
very basic measure measurement of the
range and range rate of the target which
is mere
to confirm
data from other sensors like the tcs or
radar
the first good hit was about 16 000 feet
and
that was a very important tool to ensure
to the the flying person to charlie that
all the
automatic sensors we are working fine
this is a view about 400 feet away
you start to see a you can identify the
different modules at the top
you see the soyuz and working your way
uh clockwise you see a spectre then the
base block
uh below that is command one and a
progress
uh work your way uh continue clockwise
you got covant two right in the center
you see the docking module where we
would dock directly behind that
is cristal which can't be seen and then
beyond on the far side of the node is a
perota
and uh this is the view we have of
course as we're coming up the r bar from
beneath the station during the final
part of the approach
um
you have to imagine that you're waitlist
for a minute and do a 180 flip here
because our view is actually
as if you were standing on your head
because the the actual base block was uh
at the top of our image but uh in any
event uh the sense of direction is not
really all that important in orbit as
far as whether you're upside down left
right or right side up but
we have a view like this essentially
after
we've done a tail forward maneuver to
align ourselves coming up the r bar and
as carlos said about 400 feet from here
on in we're maintaining a vertical
position beneath the station to keep the
docking port of the orbiter
lined up with the docking port of the
mirror
and this shows a little of the activity
that goes on in the flight deck once we
get into the manual phase it gets very
intense and very busy
i've got the rockets
go rockets hat on there hoping that
we're going to make it to the finals but
in spite of that we had a lot of work
going on around us with carlos you can
see looking over my shoulder he was the
quarterback of the whole operation
making sure that everyone was keeping up
and synchronized with all the events in
the checklist we have essentially five
people doing various things in uh
in sync to make this all work eileen was
working the r-pop or the rendezvous prox
ops
display for us so that we could see our
trajectory relative to the mirror and
make proper corrections
and jean-francois as you saw was using
the handheld laser looking out the
window elena and mike were talking to
the mayor on the vhf radio and ed was
doing a an experiment called the osvs or
the orbiter space vision system which
simultaneously with the approach was
taking camera data to
to
research the ability to use cameras as a
sensor for proximity operations
this is the
view from in close through one of the
cameras and the system that charlie just
mentioned the osvs system is a system
which if you see the three black dots if
you look at the orange thing in the
middle thinking that 12 o'clock nine
o'clock and three o'clock there are uh
white squares with a black dot in the
middle
and we had a system which was looking at
these three dots let's see if we could
figure out our position relative to the
mirror just based upon that it's a
system we'd like to use on the new space
station
and
this was a test of how well that type of
system would work
of course right here in the middle is
the docking target that we use to
visually align
uh we visually align the orbiter in the
in the mirror in the last 30 feet
referencing this target
well when we finally docked
one of the highlights of the mission of
course is
opening the hatch it was a very
emotional period uh you see great grins
here but uh you should have seen the
grin on jerry's face uh when we actually
got through to him
uh actually his grain was pretty big
before we even opened the hatch just
looking through the little uh
window this is a symbolic of uh
the union up there and how well we work
together
well as much fun as the approach was to
fly as intense it is as it is and as
rewarding as it is to have it go so well
being able to join with our colleagues
on the other side of the interface was
really a pleasure
this is a little gift exchange during an
international meal we had prepared some
food to take from the various
representing the various cultures of the
crew members to
provide for the mayor crew and give them
a chance to relax and during that we
during that meal we presented them with
some gifts one of which was a photo
album
that documented the training that both
vasily and sasha had done with us kind
of a history of their involvement in the
joint phase one program
and uh here vasily has the his album
open to a page that is uh near and dear
to me and that's a photograph that uh
was taking taken in two places uh of
vasily and i uh first at baikonur where
i was wearing his russian air force
uniform and then here in houston when he
came to train here and he was wearing my
american air force uniform and so that
was a little bit of a nice exchange for
us and we included that in the uh photo
album
every day we had a many press conference
on the board
usually we spent at this press
conference in space station mirror but
sometimes
in space help because space had
we had double spacecraft it was a
very big module
it was a
big free volume
and
you can see 10 people in this picture
it's free for us it was very comfortable
for us in the space hub
the vast majority of our time was spent
obviously working hard and doing the
transfer operations and what we wanted
to show you in this slide was a
reflection of some of the things we did
in the morning when our
fax machine or our we call it our tips
machine sent up the daily activities
and we can thank greg smith and mike
shaub for
all the great work they did on our
flight plan
it was miles and miles long i think but
we had to manage this paper every
morning and cut it up and put it in our
in our plan and it pretty much
documented the activities
that we would do that particular day
on the second day after docking
we had international
dinner
it was jean francois idea
and
that's why
on the orbit we had
food from china france america russia
peron
different different kinds of food on
this picture you can see a
chocolate
this chocolate was
ordered eileen it was shuttle chocolate
over the months of training uh we've
gotten to be uh great friends and we
still are that's why uh
we're all monitoring closely the
activities uh up on me right now because
they are good friends of our in addition
to mike fall
here you see the the two flight
engineers are bart engineers uh
sasha or alexander lizukin but we uh i
know sasha he's a good friend of mine as
a matter of fact on that uniform right
now he's got a little peruvian flag that
he uh he wears up there
for me it's a good friend and uh this
picture kind of shows it i think
one of the
uh the big things that we had to do was
to transfer
a couple of thousand kilograms of
equipment to the mirror or back from the
mirror and jonathan
jonathan and i were tasked with trying
to keep track of what had already been
transferred over and what needed to be
transferred over
or transferred back and what other room
we had for carrying additional things
over and this is a picture of me and
john prince while going through the
lists of
of equipment and checking off items that
had already come come back over from the
mirror
trying to get mike uh
oriented to the space station and um
let's see where we're looking at here
we're into uh spectre as a matter of
fact showing mike around and uh had
about five days of overlap and it was
very critical time uh just to get him uh
used to his new home he kept wanting to
go and have uh
tea with the crew and i kept saying get
back over here i got to show you
something
as a matter of fact if i might add just
for jerry
he raised the notch one level up for us
before we docked he had
sent us
plans of
what he would like to do for the
transfer
and i think it was a really well thought
out plan that has put mike in a very
good status and that was that as the
equipment came from the shuttle
normally we would stow it temporarily in
bags that it was transferred in in a
place that was convenient and later
after the shuttle left it would be up to
the long duration crew member in this
case mike to find a place to put that
stuff and in this case jerry had an
inventory plan already established so
that while the crew was there while the
shuttle was still there
he was able to not only transfer it over
but mike and jerry were able to handle
most of that equipment and find a place
to stow it permanently have it
inventoried and film that inventory so
that
the inventory list could come back to
earth and that had never been attempted
before it sounds easy to do but when
you're talking hundreds and hundreds and
hundreds of items that weigh up to four
thousand pounds like ed said
that's an awful uh daunting task yet
jerry was so organized that it went very
very smoothly and it left mike with a
great status for picking up on his
science mission
and base blocks the containers you see
that sasha has there are for food and
after we eat the food out of it then we
they double for trash containers and we
usually put them on
progress
to re-enter the atmosphere and burn up
in this case we're actually able to
bring some of those empty ones back on
shuttle and also some with a little bit
of our nicer trash back on shuttle also
you can see things are a bit congested
and
that's not an all unusual view
this is the node where
the internal eva will take place from
should everything be checked out and
clearances and things like that
if you see the red arrow down there that
we put in place after the fire we
decided was a good idea for the shuttle
crew members to be able to find their
way back to shuttle in the case of poor
visibility so that area or that arrow
the red arrow made out of velcro cloth
basically uh marked the quick way back
to the shuttle through chris stahl
there's bass blocks straight ahead
and you can't see too well inside that
but if you come out of base block uh
oriented properly and you dive down that
spectra over that way and so you see
some of the uh the ventilation duct is
the large duct you see there and some of
the cabling that had gone into spectre
and of course that had to be
disconnected the uh
the vent pulled through the hatch
cleared and then a cover uh was put on
one of these flat covers it's really not
a hatch it's uh it's a free-floating
plug basically
that was then put on over that module
and uh the minute it came close to uh
ceiling it was a pretty solid uh clamp
down due to the differential air
pressure
the future eva we're looking at taking
this more conical cover
and remove a section of that and add
some
hermetically sealed pass-throughs to
that section that charlie's pointing out
and then reconnect some cables that come
from inside the module
that originated the solar batteries
solar panels in english
anything else charlie go ahead i guess
did we cover all the modules we could
point out
this should be per road up here correct
and covant ii off this way and uh we
already mentioned chrystal down here and
we're
taking the picture eileen you took it
from inside the soyuz
and you might i might also add this is a
very wide angle view here so you're
you're getting a big distortion of the
reality this is uh
you know kind of a spherical uh
structure with all these hatches uh 90
degrees apart
this is a view of us it's actually
oriented sideways it's of uh me jumping
saw and elena sitting on the wall
actually next to the bio rack which is
the thing at the bottom of the picture
you can see uh things sticking out at
the bottom that's actually the glove box
where you put your hands into and work
with biological experiments which we
carried up we carried about
11 different biological experiments
which we did using this facility at the
bottom uh it included experiments on
plants
white blood cells single-celled animals
and tadpoles of all things
and
you can realize how big is a space hub
as elena said it was the two modules put
together it was a very friendly uh
module to operate and
we had the soft storage bags you can see
the gold bags at the bottom and we had
also hard lockers for
for storage and uh
what you can see here is the what we
used to call the space hub crew versus
the orbiter crew because anna ed and i
we spent more time in space hub than in
india any other places in the complex we
even slept in space hub that was very
comfortable
and
that was a good module for both
scientific experiments and also
logistics transport
although
the the main
or most of the experiments we had were
in the biorack we had a lot of other
experiments in here you see a
representation of one
i'm actually
using a video camera almost as a
microscope videotaping the growth of
some spores on a sample on a radiation
experiment we had rmd
well this is still the space hub crew
working together on uh
called the samples of barrack that we
have stored in a passive thermal control
unit
that could keep
samples to minus four degrees for
several weeks without any
power just passively
and
we had a lot of mini transfer to do of
those containers of the various
experiments from a freezer to a
refrigerator to a passive control
terminal unit to the glovebox or
incubators
and we had about we spent about 40 hours
crew time on orbit on these barrack
experiments
well
it's this is uh thinking about getting
ready to go and leave the mirror which
was a very quiet affair for us
we scurried around as i remember we did
something that i thought was really
new and nice uh prior to leaving
we of course had a little uh get
together
for a tv downlink
with the control center and for folks
here on the ground but we also asked to
have an opportunity to speak with a lot
of the controllers directly on the loops
in the control center and it's uh it's
amazing
how
nice it is to have the opportunity to
hear folks voices when you're in space
familiar voices people that you've been
working with and that have put a lot of
effort into this mission so we had uh
helen dutton payload officer we had
greg smith and i'll probably forget all
of them that got on the loops but many
people from the control center uh the
flight directors all got on the loops
with us and said a few words and it was
really a pleasant experience for us and
and uh it's just really nice to be able
to hear the voices of the people that
are putting so much work into an effort
like this but in any event we
we had a little uh ceremony like that to
say goodbye to the mayor crew to say
thanks to all the people on the ground
that did so much great work to make this
such a successful flight and then it got
real quiet and it was time to
to make sure jerry got on the right side
of the hatch but
i don't think that was a problem
elena didn't want to leave she wanted to
stay with her friends on the mirror and
mike was of course ready to get on with
his work so uh we finally got the hatch
closed and it was very very quiet and uh
we were ready to to get along with the
the undocking process
uh a view basically another big fisheye
view but you can see spectre there very
well spectre's uh very good thanks
charlie spectre's actually just i think
the most beautiful graceful looking
module it's got these uh four solar
panels of which you can see two here
and the one that uh
that the progress collided with is the
one opposite
inboard uh so it'd be sticking out back
that way the one you see here is the
equivalent solar panel
and the radiator is either the radiator
you see here or one on the other side
that got dented in uh during the
collision
um but it's a spectacular view in
general in these uh
the solar panels for example on uh
spectra are just
made of gold metallic material and they
just glisten in the sun and it's uh it's
really a spectacular sight just looking
at the sprawling complex
before we leave this slide i wanted to
make one other comment a memory that was
particularly special to me
on the night of flight day seven we
closed the hatch and we stayed docked
while we slept and then we undocked the
morning of flight day eight well that
evening i was able to see we were all
able to see in the window the overhead
window out of the shuttle which is where
this photo was taken
into the window and the base block that
charlie's pointing to here
which was uh sasha's room uh mike was in
the window waving to us
and the cosmonauts were in the window
waving to us and i thought that was a
pretty special our
last chance to say a silent goodbye
next slide is on the undocking
we woke up the morning of flight day
eight we had very little time to brush
our teeth and we had to get on with the
undocking
checklist
and one thing that was different about
this undocking from the previous five
shuttle mirror flights was that we did
not do a fly around we didn't get as
many uh pretty pictures as we would have
liked but we were able to do
a very successful test of the european
space agency's
proxops system that they plan on using
on their
orbital transfer vehicle for
international space station and it
involved a laser
the global positioning system and some
reflectors that you can see actually
they're very difficult to see here but
they're right around that docking ring
we flew straight down uh the radius
specter towards the earth for 3 300 feet
and had a again well he had a very
successful test to that
well we'll
take a quick moment to show you some
views of the earth
each of us of course when we're on orbit
we like to look for where we came from
and this is my hometown right up here
about where that cloud is hudson
massachusetts uh cape cod stands out
like no other point on the earth as far
as ease of recognition
you have
the cape cod bay and buzzards bay
martha's vineyard island and
uh
yeah
i've lost track of it in any event
you've got rhode island boston and the
cape and
just a wonderful view of the state of
massachusetts
there was an evening when
we flew over this same area
late
oh it was probably actually three or
four in the morning houston time and we
could actually see it was so clear in
the east half of the u.s that we could
see from just
about the same position looking back to
the southwest we could see new york
philadelphia
washington dc all the way to the tip of
florida
the entire peninsula and the coastline
was lit up and you could see all the way
the cities of
memphis atlanta st louis
all the way back up towards boston and
to have a clear night in the eastern
half of the u.s like that was a real
treat
michigan if you spot it there you kind
of have to turn
sideways and you see the hand of
michigan
and charlie can you oh laser great i
won't keep up with it
get in trouble in your home states here
there's michigan here you can see the
the hand print if you turn sideways
everybody got that
just like that you lay your hand this
way and you got michigan and that's the
way all michiganders talk they all say
okay you know you go on your hand and
you say all right you take the freeway
up here and you go over to the mackinaw
bridge and then you're in the upper
peninsula here
and geography 101 of course there's lake
michigan chicago down in this area
traverse city beautiful spot mackinac
island as pretty as it gets
and detroit's down in this area lake
sinclair connecting uh lake huron here
lake superior one of the biggest lakes
in the world up this way this freshwater
uh mass that you're looking at here all
the great lakes is about uh i guess the
second largest source of fresh water
in the world and it just stands out and
then you get down here to lake erie
and lake ontario niagara falls right
there
so it's pretty spectacular you got all
the canadian cities here i guess about 8
million canadians along the shores and
30 some million
americans along the shores of the great
lakes here and this again is pretty
unusual to have such clarity and having
been up 132 days i would say that when
shuttle was docked and during the return
on shuttle we had some of the best
weather over the united states that i
had seen
the entire stay up there
corsica the most famous french island
as you can see it's
we could call it the thumbs up island
because there is a finger pointing up
it's called the the island of beauty
this is where napoleon bonaparte was
born this is where i met my wife
there is about
250 000 people living there and most
this is kind of our our hawaii islands
just one hour flight from paris
and many french are going there every
summer for the vacation it uh
the population is multiplied by 10 about
in the summer time because it's always
clear like you see no clouds and there
are a lot a lot of little creeks that
you can consider your private creek for
bathing in the sea
well this picture is kind of special to
me um
even though i grew up in california i
was born in lima peru and
that's the town of lima right right in
this area here
typically it's always clouded over so
they told me uh
i probably wouldn't be able to get this
shot nobody's been able to get it before
additionally all we had were night
passes over lima during our waking hour
so
i actually have to stay up one night and
take this picture just a little bit
because it seemed like one hour after
bedtime every day was when we passed
over the west coast of peru
but you can see
from the coastline you had pretty
quickly you get right into the andes and
the ground rises pretty steeply to the
east
this is the island of oahu in hawaii it
looks nothing like a hand or fingers or
anything like
that a
beautiful place i was lucky enough to
get to live there for three years along
with carlos not with him but
at different times but he lived there
too this is the city of honolulu right
here it's really one of the prettiest
places on earth i think
you can see the runway at the airport
there which is a big runway constructed
out of coral which they
dug up off the beaches out here
i lived right about there you can see my
apartment if you look very carefully
there's a small airfield up here where i
used to fly small airplanes off this
coast watch whales which would
congregate along this coast here
this is a volga
vulgar river enters the
caspian dispoga delta
it's caspian
kaspin is
world's largest inland sea
at the volga
i think it's maybe
largest river in the
whole world
and
principle its
waterway
of russia
on the north part of caspian it's oral
other events
the dimension
the casper
are 70 150 miles
from north to south
and uh maybe
200 miles
from
west to east
onikatan island
is one of the several volcanoes
this is russian kurillus island
chain
unakatan has two
volcanoes
and
one of them
last erupt in
1952 years and other
last erupt 1938
some of the
most historically interesting places on
earth in my opinion
for us were the passes over the
mediterranean sea
and in this picture
we're looking
west and we see the islands of greece
and if you look closely to the north
actually it would be to the south in
this picture you see africa
we also have turkey at the bottom
and the same amorou
which extends into the black sea
and off close to the horizon is italy
but we can't see that very well because
it's under clouds as well as
yugoslavia
a couple things that are interesting
about greece if you remember from your
history classes in grammar school
were the wars between
spartan and sparta and athens
so
i looked for where these cities are in
athens is right here
and they were a seafaring civilization
and sparta
was just a little bit farther down right
in here and closed by land and they were
the land warriors
we had one passover greece at night and
you could see a lot of small cities
scattered all around the peninsula but
again just looking down and the many
passes we that we had over this area as
well as the middle east are just
mind-boggling when you think about all
the history that has gone on on the
earth below
oh this uh comet hail bop which all all
of you i'm sure are familiar with was
getting farther and farther away from
the sun and i'm not even sure if it's
still visible now but we were able to
take a picture of it from orbit during
the time that we were docked the orbiter
was in
attitude control called inertial
attitude hole which meant that we were
relatively stable to the background
stars and we took advantage of that
opportunity to mount a camera just after
sunset
the comet was in the northwest uh
portion of the sky relative to the earth
and this was an eight second exposure we
took everything from
a one second exposure up to
a 30 second exposure and this one came
out the best and you can just barely see
the tail the second tail of the comet in
this picture
a little bit of a structure of mirror is
in the way and of course the earth which
was rotating below has came come out a
little bit smeared in this picture but i
think it's really special because you
can see the earth's horizon
or should i say the earth the higher
levels of the atmosphere
well it's a time to
put everything back away for deorbit
prep and we got back in our lessons
and
prepared for deorbit we were fortunate
to be launched on time and landed almost
on time we had one
rev delay to watch for the weather but
we came in on the expected day to the
kennedy space center
we had a little bit of weather to deal
with as i mentioned but nothing
extraordinary and a great team that put
atlantis together for us
we hope we had brought it back in just
as good of shape it was amazing that
this entire flight
there were zero anomalies within
atlantis and it really speaks well of
the whole nasa team
uh it is a pure pleasure to be able to
fly a vehicle like this when it goes
perfectly well as it did for us i think
we had maybe one transducer on entry
that was kind of flipping a bit
but other than that we can't really
speak to anything in an anomaly fashion
that
that went on throughout the whole flight
and that's really a miracle piece of
work by the whole team
well to deorbit we fire the engines in
the back to slow us down
and drop us back down into the
atmosphere and this picture was actually
taken not during the deorbit burn for
anyone who's thinking about it because
when we do fire the engines for the
deorbit burns the payload bay doors are
closed and you can't see this so this
picture was actually taken earlier but
we put it in this place to talk about
the deorbit burn
and you can see uh it was actually taken
during one of our rendezvous burns we
were
adjusting our orbit to catch up with the
mirror
taken at night and you can see that the
glow from the engines actually makes the
tail glow which is a pretty amazing
sight out the back
and after nine days and a few hours on
orbit we brought atlantis back to the
kennedy space center and
we had a nice day to bring it in for the
landing
we learned a lot i think from the whole
mission and from the landing as well
since the landing eileen and i have both
had a chance to go out to ames
to work the vertical motion simulator
and
we had a couple of little things that
were of interest for the landing
one of which was a significant crosswind
gust down below about
15 16 feet before touchdown
and uh
interestingly enough the engineers out
at ames were able to duplicate that in
the simulator so that we can show that
kind of wind gusts to future crews and
it just
was rewarding for us to be able to go
out and see that in the simulator that
something like that could duplicate a
nearly identical condition that we saw
in flight
the orbiter behaved very well in that
gust
elected not to go chasing it we drifted
about 30 feet left of the center line
put the wheels down and then after we
brought the nose down we corrected back
to the center line
and
we brought atlantis to a stop down there
about 8 000 feet from the approach end
and
gave it back over to uh the sts-89 crew
is getting ready to go our 86 crew sorry
who's getting ready to go do this all
over again for us and continue them
charlie can i interrupt jerry go ahead
yeah this is off the wall but i need the
vote of the audience here um i was in
space 132 days uh
four hours one minute
and my wife catherine was waiting the
whole time and worrying if i was going
to get back for the birth of our next
child
and she's heading into the hospital
right about now so i'd like to excuse
myself if possible
i think we can let him go for that
thanks jerry
well with that let's go ahead and roll
the video
there's another view of our patch and
we're getting ready to uh go to the
vehicle
in the uh opf we're putting on our
lesses and getting ready to
to check out
good pressure integrity in everybody's
suits
carlos is buttoned down with the visor
down
there's mike and
he was relaxed and ready to go to space
john francois was too
elena joining us from russia of course
and a
very pleasant day for us to go out
although it was 4 30 in the morning i
know many of you probably went down to
the cape and had to stay up all night to
see it
it was a real nice night for us and the
weather was gorgeous and they tell us
that we were
visible almost to mikko
our liftoff are actually the countdown
and the liftoff were totally flawless
from the crew's point of view
we just
lit up the sky all the way up and down
the florida coast so we're told that
view in the corner is the view i had
through the overhead window i had a
mirror in my hand that i could look out
you can actually see the vab going by as
we do the roll program
i like to talk about the feelings that
you have during a launch it's actually
very much like the shuttle simulator
there's a lot of shaking and rocking
going on inside you can see out the
window flashes of light
that sometimes can interrupt your vision
if you look outside too much
also the sound is like to me it's like
standing in a room that's on fire it's
just a very uh low level
uh sound that's very similar to what you
hear outside during a launch
a solid rocket booster separation and
uh from this point on we're back to 1g
as we slowly accelerate up to three g's
and then main engine cut off next thing
you know we're in orbit we've separated
from the tank and we are taking
photographs of the tank here crossing
over northern part of africa
post insertion main activity is to
activate the
experiments and here the space hub the
main
cargo in the payload bay and we had to
open three doors to access into space
hub through a very long tunnel as you
can see
space hub was very clean and we spent
few hours to set up
the whole module for the experiments and
also get ready for transfer ops
this is a neat picture of a rendezvous
burn i lost
i lost my hat there momentarily but
we get a pretty good acceleration out of
the ohm's engine when we
make our approach to the mirror we
burned several times here down at the
bottom you can barely see the station
we had a very low bait angle they call
it which is the angle between the sun
and our orbit plane and that meant that
the the mirror was actually going to
eclipse the sun force you see it's
getting dark in the orbiter and there
goes the sun and there's the mirror and
to see that on orbit was amazing because
the mirror actually glows white because
the sun that you can't see is still
bouncing off of our payload bay doors
and illuminating
the mirror
there's a view that jerry was able to
see of us approaching
and uh and then again our center line
camera view during the approach
this
step by step we get a little bit closer
and of course our task is to inch in uh
gradually according to a given timeline
and
everything worked so well for us that we
had a very
uh
docile
contact and you can see the sun was just
about to come up and rise over the ohms
pod as we contacted so this is all
silhouetted here but we make a very soft
contact there
and almost no oscillations after after
capture
everything went smoothly on the pressure
checks so we had the opportunity to open
the hatch right away and get a good good
view of
our colleagues on the other side
well here in this shot you'll see what
you weren't able to see in the still
picture earlier which is the uh the true
feeling of joy and uh celebration we had
elena brought in traditional black bread
salt and tea
there's a
vasily first time here you'll see jerry
for the first time
and i just looked that smile on his face
uh and i and the obvious need for a
haircut uh
they hadn't had a vacuum cleaner for a
while so we helped fix them up there so
they can get their hair cut
and we proceeded on in
to do our first press conference in the
in the base block
and uh here's eileen's a attempt to
confuse all children throughout the
world as to how we really move around in
space as she swims through the mirror
okay
well we continue to had our uh our first
press conference uh which was uh shortly
thereafter followed by eating of the
bread and uh actually jerry had his uh
pretzels that he'd been wanting
and as uh and i already mentioned the
second evening uh on the dock phase we
had an international meal with food from
all the countries represented by the
crew we had food from
russia america peru china with of course
food from france with foie gras and
coffee here goat cheese
and we had barbecue from yeah
we had barbecue from petey's dehydrated
and
for three hours the ground never called
us and we had a very good time
here you see a chocolate gift from isa
with a logo of the different partners in
the
international space station programs
all kinds of food down here on the table
as you can see the chocolate shuttles
flying around
eileen thinks that some of them may be
stuck somewhere behind planets
it was really neat that this was all
spontaneous too to have that kind of a a
good time with our colleagues up there
this is uh some of the handover
operations between mike and jerry
as jerry and mike discuss
the equipment that's being brought over
and here we are
with uh the commander of the station
vasili trying to figure out uh which
items uh we need to bring over next back
over to the space hub
looks like vasily's stealing something
there but that's actually his checklist
he's taken with him back to the mirror
carlos brushing his hair in the mirror
hair management is very important on
orbit
this is the mere base block
you can see the table where we had
dinner the other night there's mike uh
having his lunch
and uh sasha and vasily you can see uh
how much equipment is around inside
there and it's actually one of the more
spacious modules
in some of the other modules there's
quite a bit more stuff
this is sasha's bedroom you can see that
he has a very nice view out his window
there's a shuttle parked out there today
this is one of these uh beautiful
historic views that i was telling you
about earlier um you see the red sea
the uh
gulf of suez the gulf of aqaba the sinai
peninsula of course uh we're dr mir at
this point
here's the nile river
down at the bottom you can see the nile
delta
as we uh move on further to the east
this is the boulder river delta that
were
flying over asia
at this point
again you can see the docking module on
the left side that was added on sts-74
about a year and a half ago
in this view up from the docking module
you see cristal and then spectre to the
left covant 2 to the right base module
at the top
well all good things
had to come to an end yeah we worked
very well together on board uh we worked
so efficiently we had time to have meals
together and then we had to say goodbye
uh this was a much more somber occasion
than uh we'd had on docking day
uh it was actually fairly quiet until we
decided well it was time to start uh
saying goodbye and working our way out
the door uh there was no great rush to
do this and luckily uh the ground was
able to give us all the time we wanted
to get this done
here we see the uh the hatch closing as
i mentioned earlier
this was quite a sad time for us and it
was very quiet as a poised as opposed to
the very noisy time when we had docked
uh here's the undocking uh you can see
the shuttle jets firing
separation the springs and the
in the docking mechanism give us the
initial push-off from mir
and
at approximately uh just a few feet
two feet after we separated from here i
fired several jets to
get us separating down the r bar we had
extra fuel because charlie had done such
a great job on the rendezvous we had
extra fuel to spend during the
separation
so we had reached a quite high quite a
high separation rate
to increase the efficiency of the
undocking
and the test that we were doing view
from mirror that was downlinked of the
shuttle the mirror had great views of us
because they were looking down at the
earth but all we had was a view of
mirror against the dark sky as we looked
up
after undock it was time to resume more
intense activity on the scientific
experiments here you saw barrack
helena ed and i were all scheduled for
those about 10 different experiments
using the baroque facility incubators
and glovebox
and you see here elena working on the
osteo osteomast these experiments on
bone cells
we had also
the glovebox was used for
experiments where some
dangerous chemicals were used
here are some tadpoles that we are
developing their neural vestibular
systems in 0g and we are not swimming as
the same
tadpoles
grown on earth
this is an experiment to look at the
motion of liquids inside rotating tanks
which you may ask why is that important
and the reason is because
fuel tanks on rotating satellites have
often have a problem where the the fuel
inside them starts to rotate in a
different direction than the rest of the
satellite which makes the whole
satellite wobble
which is not something that satellite
designers like to have on their very
expensive satellites so we had a
set of rotating tanks here and you can
see the fluid inside they're rotating
back and forth around inside that tank
and as you can see it's rotating in a
different direction this is a view taken
from the inside
we also had several experiments where we
drew protein crystals
that's a new field that we've actually
flown many times now on the orbiter
and
it's
stands to give us some great benefits in
the future as we develop
custom medicines uh and for diseases
that are a challenge to the community
right now
this is the output from our fax machine
that i was talking about earlier
we wanted to illustrate how long this
really is extended all the way down the
tunnel into the space hub
view from the space hab this is our meal
time you can see the space hub is
extremely spacious and it's a very
comfortable place for astronauts to work
to live and work
jerry's showing us
some of the fresh tortillas that we had
packed
that
lasted the whole mission
this is not a bubble this is actually a
blob of water that jean francois had
made from a straw in one of his drinks
and we did our own
liquid motion experiment informally as a
crew as we watch the behavior of these
things in space
one of the things we have to watch out
for is the degradation to our bodies
when we're on orbit because we're not
really fully utilizing all our muscles
so we had lots of opportunity to
exercise either on our ergometer or
cycle or on treadmill
jerry probably logged more miles on
orbit than
at least anybody that i know
but he provided a lot of feedback to the
community here on this treadmill that
we're developing for
station
another form of exercise here the mass
tunnel motion
actually right here oh yes that's right
uh almost missed it going off the top of
the screen right now is uh is lima once
again we uh the uh the ground was able
to get this shot for us one uh night
while we were sleeping
in the view right now is the nazca
desert where you have those great lines
in the sand out there we couldn't see
them from on orbit
this again is hawaii that's the big
island up at the top you can see the
string of islands stretching down below
maui molokai we had a very nice
very nice night pass over italy you
recognize the boot of italy and sicilia
and the moon glint in on the
mediterranean sea in between sicily and
italy
at our orbital altitude we see about 16
sunrises and sunsets a day the earth is
on top in this view
and it looks like a sunset and i guess
in reverse it could be a sunrise
and it's time to come home this is a a
clip of our deorbit crap everyone suited
up just though about two hours or so
before the deorbit burn it's a very
hectic time there's many things to do
the payload bay doors are coming close
it's a major part of the events and
coming home because once the doors are
closed you lose the radiator cooling
this is a view from the mid deck we're
intentionally showing this upside down
because
many times you need to work upside down
in space and do it effectively
on the flight deck you see jean francois
in the middle there's a charlie
reviewing procedures for the entry
and myself we had ed lew in the mission
specialist number one seat
carlos is in the
ms2 seat is our prime flight engineer
the entry you can see out my windows the
heating we reach
almost 2000 degrees fahrenheit on the
outside as we re-enter mach 25 and slow
down
you can see the jets fire our plasma
develops as you know around the orbiter
and we can see the reflection of that
out the overhead windows
well we're back uh close to ksc here
getting ready to approach subsonic and
you can see the jets uh pulsing there as
we approach uh the kennedy space center
this is a view from the ground of us
coming around the hack and
you'll see here again in a minute my
view out the front window of the head-up
display
and
you've got uh
airspeed information and altitude
information on the scales on the left
and right as well as the position of the
runway
outlined for me so that when we come
down through the clouds here at about
eight thousand feet we'll break through
the clouds and you'll see that the
runway is in fact exactly in that
position
showing just how precise the orbiter's
navigation system is
and
you'll continue to see our view down
through the lower right corner here as
the orbiter starts its pre-flare
and uh
coming into 300 feet eileen puts the
gear down you saw the gear ward flash
there
coming into the overrun here uh with the
gear down at
about uh
50 feet or so
you can see uh with this view the wind
gust that catches us right here at about
20 feet and starts moving us to the left
and we just put the right wheel down
first to arrest the drift and once we
got it on the runway it uh handled quite
nicely
so little surprises come
from time to time but the orbiter is a
wonderful machine and it handles that
kind of thing just fine
we rolled it down the center line stripe
and
jerry was hooting and hollering all the
way home of course
and
we were happy to bring him home and
that's the story of sts-84 thank you
very much
a shadow a shadow
it was the shadow of someone who'd gone
by many years before
and you keep watching this every day
yes
she had nothing so
that's not precious of a story
sorry
it's the best i can do today
is
she wasn't taking more than 10 ounces of
food
okay
i'll go anywhere
let's see
uh
forever
how can you be so insensitive
amy
mr clennam was very disappointed that
you didn't come down to see him this
morning
i'm not sure that you appreciate my dear
that mr
and discontinue his visits yeah