falling behind
happy valentine's day discovery
good morning chris
and we're following you into the
external airlock
fantastic
and joe we're waving back to you
you look like a proud hog
and we're waving to you too greg
you guys look ready
and we're with mark in the mid deck
go ahead beautiful picture by the way
i understand we have a go to rotate
that is correct go for rotate
all right thank you
joe did you know uh
yes i did okay
so everything i can see here looks okay
steve
discovery houston for joe
yes good
um we just got tv back in time to see
you come out on the beginning of your
very first eva welcome to space and uh
it was nice seeing a big smile on your
face have a good one
thank you uh jeff i think you're going
to see a smile on a lot today
you don't look as wet as the last time i
saw you in that position
around you
is cracked
uh
it looks like it's cracked i don't see
any place where it's crumbling
um
but i would recommend i guess that would
be uh
extra careful at not touching any of
this mli
in any of these days up here because
it's just uh i think there's good
potential for pieces to come off
okay so it's kind of spider spider web
cracks right right that's a good
description okay i'm gonna pull the pin
okay watch it might pop out
hey joey
dr stevie let's go up
go ahead
a little sticky
the slightest jaw yesterday got me too
that's probably what you're saying
that's the uh d interface
there's a little sticky
i'm free now though
to go
so the mirror is at the opening joe
very nice
looking real good good rate dr stevie
housing
very nice
okay
discover houston
fgs aliveness test completed
successfully
all
thank you right
okay dr stevie uh took me on a foot
going into jump
that door closes all right although it
does want to spring open just a little
bit
all the seals look good on that door
here that looks good all the way
we got this here handle
seven
okay i'm on the bottom one
okay seven and a half one
discovery houston with a question on the
mli
go ahead joe's listening
yeah um
it's hard to tell from the pictures
we're seeing here but it could well
it looks like it might just be the
outermost layer of the multi-layer
insulation that's torn and pulling away
can you give us some insight into that
yeah i can definitely verify that it's
just a very thin layer
of uh looks almost like aluminum foil
and underneath that is the quilted
blanket and it is fully intact
i don't believe you know we don't have a
problem of uh the protection from the
door we just have a pile of
contamination from this stuff that could
break off
bring me uh forward uh you would mark
without a flip from here
coming forward
you a reflection of joe tanner and
greg harbaugh and the telescope's aft
shroud
as
the uh earth
clearly in view behind them
the uh orbiter has uh reached the
midpoint of the
60th orbit of the mission
uh halfway uh through the 60th orbit of
the mission just about to cross the
equator
traveling southeasterly across central
africa
up just a little bit more
all right let's stop right there for a
second when i put it in place
you're cool
looking over the shoulder of astronaut
greg harbaugh as he is looking into the
bay c as it is called
near the very top of the support systems
module portion of the telescope where
the optical control electronics is
located that's a bay right in between
the data interface unit and the fine
guidance electronics on the telescope
about three minutes until sunrise
would you like to take this trash bag
for me
yeah
i'm gonna need it
it's uh
again a debris report here nothing
noticeable in the bay nice and clean
the very seals are good all the way
around okay that's stevie take me down
and uh going down
with a cable
uh report i did steve but just to
reiterate no cable stress it's exactly
the way we trained it
through fnh
very good
discovery houston for steve
go ahead yeah some more good news the
oce aliveness test is uh successfully
completed
wow how about that for real time
feedback
and uh good news okay uh
that's good dr stevie stop
and discovery for steve
when
when an opportunity presents itself
during the solar race slew we'd
appreciate
some feedback on the appearance of the
mlis in bays one two three and four
you