preparations were completed here at
KSC's payload processing facilities
assembling the telescopes performing the
proper testing and the checkout the
three telescopes include the Hopkins
ultraviolet telescope developed at the
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
Maryland the ultraviolet imaging
telescope developed by NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center in Greenbelt
Maryland and the Wisconsin ultraviolet
photo polarimeter experiment developed
at the University of Wisconsin at
Madison
the simultaneous observations by the
three telescopes will complement one
another Shuttle Endeavor is poised at
launch pad 39a ready for the second
launch of the year all countdown events
are on schedule and the launch team here
in fire room three is not checking any
technical issues that would prevent an
on-time launch at 1:37 a.m. Eastern Time
the window extends today for two and a
half hours or until 407 in just a few
minutes we will be getting live coverage
of the flight crew sitting down to have
their pre-flight meal crew has been
divided up onto two teams the red and
the blue team so that they can operate
in two different shifts during the
flight for 24 hours of data collection
and here we have the crew of mission STS
67
here we have dr. Ron parise payload
specialist flying on the shuttle for the
second time today sitting next to him is
dr. John Grunsfeld also flying for the
second time as a payload specialist and
we have the rookie pilot bill Gregory
commander Steve Oswald flying for the
third time today
halo commander tamara jernigan she's
also flying aboard the shuttle for the
third time today and we have Sam
Durant's flying aboard the shuttle again
and we have rookie you Wendy Lawrence
also the flight engineer crew will be
going into weather briefing getting an
update on conditions here at Kennedy
Space Center and also at the
transoceanic abort sites then they'll
get into their launch and entry suits
and right out to the launch pad climb
aboard the shuttle and prepare for
launch today
countdown clock has remained at t-minus
3 hours and holding
we've got about nine minutes remaining
in this hold got about five minutes
remaining in this built-in hold at
t-minus three hours and holding this is
shuttle launch control here we have the
astronauts for STS 67 on the third floor
the operations and check-out building
and now going to go down the hallway
going to an elevator
this is shuttle launch control the STS
67 crew has arrived at launch pad 39a at
the 195-foot level just getting out the
elevators and they will be walking
across the orbiter access arm see pilot
bill Gregory just giving a wave here
crews getting ready to climb aboard the
orbiter all conversations on channel 2 1
2 doing extra contest will be heard by
the cruise channel to the remain silent
except for emergency calls
remember the crew is ready for sea with
astral contract and there were LPC don't
ask for calm 6 just appropriate volume
control at around 1 2 I come amb and
air-to-air for comfort do not change
audio channels with configuration in Del
Oro TC count check on Eric round 1
how do you copy clear LP and that's what
that's 2 1 ps2 click down sick we click
turn over to air-to-ground 2
GLS is go for away a receptor
the orbiter access crew arm is being
retracted away from the vehicle and into
the launch configuration this arm can be
extended in just a few seconds if
necessary
profile test of the orbiters
aerosurfaces has started orbiter flight
control services are being moved through
a pre-programmed pattern to verify they
are ready for launch
three main engines are being gimballed
and positioned for launch
all systems are go for launch at this
time just a few minutes away from the
8th voyage of Endeavour with a crew of
seven on the 16 day flight to study the
invisible universe
Devereaux CC closed oxidizes 802 blow
and good luck on your record-setting
60-day measures little close and start
the flow thanks mr. sloman isn't on
another spaceship and if dr. Holly does
have a gun hits again put it on
t-minus 20 seconds thousands of gallons
of water will be dumped onto the launch
platform the next few seconds to
ignition and liftoff of Endeavour on a
voyage to view the universe here's the
now controlling Roger roll endeavour
rolling-over under way aboard endeavour
vehicles now in a heads-down position on
course for a 20 28 and a half degree
orbit endeavours engines have now
throttled down as the orbiter passes
through the area of maximum dynamic
pressure on the vehicle in the lower
atmosphere Devers already 2 miles
downrange from the launch site traveling
more than 1,000 miles per hour endeavour
Houston go at throttle up the three
liquid fueled engines are back at full
throttle aboard endeavour
at the one-minute 30 second mark
endeavour is travelling 1700 miles per
hour the altitude is 82 thousand feet
downrange from the launch site 12
nautical miles
standing by for burnout and separation
of the twin solid rocket boosters
and SRB separation is confirmed aboard
endeavour at the two-minute 15-second
mark the vehicle is at an altitude of
100 78,000 feet downrange from the
launch site 38 nautical miles endeavour
is now traveling 4,500 feet per second
or 3,000 miles per hour
Oh
GLS is go for each ELO to position
in the LSS go for main engine start
copy Roger roll endeavour Lions we see
good roll copy
rot a lot 300 104 endeavour Houston go
at throttle up
performance nominal 103 converging
Deborah Houston performance nominal -
engine Ben career endeavour Houston -
engine vinegar air
I get it return endeavour Houston
negative return standby for press day to
mark and every Houston press to ATO
select ban jewel
welcome to the big deck of the Space
Shuttle Endeavor
this is where we spend a lot of our
off-duty hours you'll notice on the far
wall we have some sleep stations
installed this is very important for our
flight we are the crew of seven and
we're up 24 hours a day as we split
ourselves into two shifts the red team
is asleep right now the sleep stations
provide them with the privacy they need
to get a good night's rest they'll be
waking up in a few hours coming on duty
the white containers that you see a
Velcro to the wall contain our personal
hygiene kitten annoy list environment
it's really important to have velcro
around otherwise everything will float
the mid-deck also provides us with an
opportunity to carry some smaller
experiments you're looking at two of
them right now one of them was sponsored
by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
experiment and control Systems Theory
we're actually doing some work for a
future space station that we are going
to develop for our experiment there's a
protein crystal growth experiment as are
the two that I'm panning to right now
through an ongoing research project
that's flown on many settles we have
found that we can grow more pure
crystals we were up in this weightless
environment well let's go and see you
the rest of the shuttle oh yes Tammy
she's taking a break before work to get
herself something to drink she's
actually over in our area that you could
call the kitchen or the galley Scott
needs to dispense water so we can fill
our drink bags and also rehydrate our
food plus the flute on board is
freeze-dried and some of its what we
call thermal stabilized we'll all we
have to do is throw it into the slalom
and we also have our board you can see
how the controls on the right hand side
then we have a beads of selecting the
amount of water and whether or not we
want hot or cold we also have a small
oven now below this rehydration station
which Tammy is getting into right now
yeah I think she's gonna pass up some
food to Sam he has to get an opportunity
to come down much experiments and it's
telescopes keep them so busy that's the
only way to do it
weightlessness is great well pakistanis
got to go back up to work yeah let me
give you a better view like I said we
had a beautiful setup the freeze-dried
packages we have on board going to be
defeating them as well you can see some
of the food that don't go to the wall
you
this is bass lab operation sensible
we're again seeing real-time video from
endeavour from the Hopkins ultraviolet
telescope seeing the finder camera image
as the telescope is now trained on
Jupiter and its moons we're using two of
the moons as so-called guide stars those
are the moons Europa and Ganymede which
the crosshairs are focused on the actual
moon Io which is the subject of
observation here would be showing should
be showing up within the crosshairs
right in the center of the screen on
NASA TV and of course the large dis
white disc about the size of a nickel is
Jupiter itself their large red planet of
our solar system down at the bottom of
the screen we can say to see that we're
taking data with the Hopkins telescope
spectrometer to try and measure elements
that are showing up in the ejection of
material by volcano volcanoes on the
moon Io
arrest like
he said I think we're going to simply
taking out all those things all those
crew photo DVD copies Sam other debates
that we did last night
okay this real-time video down light
from the guidance system of the Hopkins
ultraviolet telescope shows the globular
cluster of 47 ciccone which is a primary
target for this orbit the stars are
extremely numerous and and quite right
mount operations teams are working with
the on-orbit
astronauts to determine the precise
pointing of the instruments
Astro Huntsville were gopher line 41
detector on
that's the rostro go ahead
you should be getting Whoopi video down
and we're seeing it thank you
okay John if you see good act marks item
six to recenter
and then followed by an item number one
and three CJ and Big Sandy middle school
this is wa4 si R hi Nick well it's good
to hear you on the air here and we're
ready to ready to talk to you guys go
ahead okay I copy that now yeah well you
know when I was in the fourth grade
the mercury program was in full swing
and I used to watch the mercury launches
my teacher would bring a TV into school
and I would watch them all and I got
really excited about it then and I think
ever since then it was sort of in the
back of my mind of flying in space is
something that I really wanted to do
oh I think the human race could live on
other planets in fact I would very much
like to see us colonize Mars I think
Mars is a great great expansion area for
us because it's it's a little bit like
the earth in the way it's built and
could be built into a planet that humans
could survive on pretty well I think
Space Station Mir Space Station there
this is the Space Shuttle Endeavor how
do you
dr. thyroid I present English voice if
you correctly
I was wondering how your English was
trying out an army but it sounds like
you haven't forgotten it Thanks
let's go slow flow a key for me
how you liking you knew your new home
dr. Beckett we all settled in it's not
bad at all it's nice and living and
places in a pool it places a river one
so you can migrate to Evers no separable
to the sea it sure is and that actually
the scenery around where I am I've got
six other faces but it looks an awful
lot like discovery get back in 92 north
well you know I figured if we were ever
in orbit again we probably be on the
same spacecraft I guess I was wrong
it's kind of amazing we've got 13 human
beings in orbit right now and I think
that you just start them off on your big
adventure and what about the endures
tomorrow but I think the fact that we've
got 13 humans on obits does is is
signaling that we've got a whole new
horizon that just unfolding for us
through with our joint space efforts and
now we're real happy for you well I'm
happy for you I believe you have a
successful life everyone on board and
happy to pass along the ventilations to
you and in the Russian tradition we
we sure appreciate the words and we've
had just a great flight here we the
orbiters been working just great we've
gathered a lot of ultraviolet data for
the guys on the ground and we're hoping
to come home tomorrow to weather lets us
win if not we'll just be forced to spend
an extra day on orbit
you
endeavour Houston about a minute to L OS
will pick you up on the other side at 21
25 and it looks like we have a view of
some sort of tropical cyclone sort of
system out there in the Indian Ocean
there's a lot of serious blow off there
yep we certainly have some clouds out
here Ralph and I guess we'll see you out
here this side of the RS get you in
huh traffic go ahead John
he had to pass the acquisitions the IPS
is pointing a little bit off that this
one as soon as we commanded the Astro
star tracker it was almost right out
with the star view display we have up
here
we're seeing some amazing lightning from
our downlink cameras endeavour is better
with your eyeballs despite a picture
with the lightning and the sunset
and we got the city lights to these
gonna fear you're looking in as well
that's an incredible view we can see the
Cape very clearly after Huntsville to
Ron
well it was a great job we've got an
awful lot of observations and data IPS
perform fantastic astral payload did too
as did the crew
I guess what it's time to get close to
stow are orbiting astrophysics
laboratory right it is so uh that's
wrong with that dude
a little bit sad seeing this beautiful
instrument go to the storage position
what's going to find job for us and
world will police have been part of the
mission Dave we have I tried to tell me
camera a I don't know if you have TV
available
we've permitir thank you we're getting a
great image
good morning Tammy
endeavor now being commanded into its
first role reversal this is a maneuver
to bank the orbiter from left to right
or vice versa to increase the drag
during the entry thus slowing the
airspeed of the orbiter and dissipating
the proper energy on the command of the
onboard computers every Houston we
showed you approaching the hack no
change the weather
the winds are to 3-0 at 15 peak 22 that
three peak for from the right 15 and
peak 22 on the head we would like a late
the drag chute deploy just in case we
can get across one BTO endeavour is
traveling right now at a descent rate
seven times steeper than that of a
commercial jetliner Azaz wall prepares
to flare up the nose prior to landing
pilot bill Gregory has deployed the
landing gear
main gear touchdown
nose gear touchdown the drag chute has
been deployed
endeavor rolling out on runway two two
at Edwards Air Force Base to complete a
shuttle record six point nine million
mile astronomy research flight
copy we'll stop endeavor and welcome
home and ever after a fantastic
record-setting mission it'll be a tough
one to beat and it sure is nice to have
y'all home
okay that should close the lights okay
guys we copy
okay post-landing deltas fine copy will
stop never and welcome home and ever
after a fantastic record-setting mission
it'll be a tough one to beat
and it sure is nice to have y'all home
max no media Delta's he's got to pick up
in the post laning Gary he's used to no
post-landing deltas and your go to pick
up and a post landing procedure okay
there Houston you have I go for the
hydraulic load test ET doing