this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding with one
hour 16 minutes remaining in this
built-in hold during this hold final
inspection team is on the pad for most
the entire duration of that two hour
period they entered the pad as we went
to the t-minus three hour and holding
point at about 6 o'clock this evening
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus 3 hours and holding the closeout
crew is in the white room awaiting the
arrival of the astronauts and about
another 90 minutes time temperature at
launch time expected to be about 49
degrees with easterly winds 8 to 12
knots and humidity about 70 percent
visibility 7 to 10 miles this is shuttle
launch control at t-minus 3 hours and
holding we're now live in the crew
quarters where we are undergoing our
suit up activities for tonight
there's dr. Bernard Harris mission
specialist number one Michael Pfohl
mission specialist dr. roles in the MS
number two he's our flight engineer on
this mission and there we have blad
emeriti Tov
making his first flight on the shuttle
he spent one year onboard the MIR space
station this is his third flight in
space
and he'll be doing a lot of the
communications between the shuttle and
the mirror there's our first one pilot
Eileen Collins making her first flight
and
Janice Voss making her second flight
she's prime on the RMS with a Spartan
retrieval on other things and that
appears to be our commander Jim whether
it be he's making his third flight on
STS 63 at t-minus three hours in holding
this is shuttle launch control and here
they come
strange weather be commander change
whether he hunted Eileen Collins mission
specialist michael foale specialist
Dennis Ross dr. bernard harris and a
Lattimore keytar
standing by now to pick up the countdown
we have about 15 seconds remaining in
the hold and again we're not working any
problems in the countdown tonight at all
so far 4 3 2 1
and we're at t-minus 3 hours and
Counting this is shuttle launch control
at t-minus two hours 41 minutes 30
seconds and counting in the white room
now we see commander Jim Weatherby being
assisted with his launch and entry suit
as he prepares to enter space shuttle
discovery and Janus rather I think
Collins will be sitting in the right
front seat of discovery and on she goes
t-minus four minutes
preparing now to gimbal the main engines
of the orbiter and the flight controls
see now the orbiters elevon being moved
standing by to retract the been
armed the Cox beanie cap yeah they're
calling Emily and her fine no one
expected their gaseous oxygen vent hood
now being moved off the top of the tank
and retracted to the launch position
I've got oxygen tank now it's like
pressure discovery crew OTC close and
lock your visors and initiate o2 flow
have a good flight that's it work them
thanks a lot
anybody turn off the heaters on the
solid rocket booster joints then we'll
have a final check of the booster
commands solid rocket booster nozzles
being gimballed t-minus 18 seconds solid
rocket boosters armed sound suppression
water system activated t-minus 10
seconds go for main engine start main
engines now started engines up and
running three two one and liftoff of
space shuttle Discovery on a mission to
prepare for the next era of world
cooperation in space
Roger old is good you soon is now
controlling discovery on its 20th trip
to space discovery rolling on course for
an orbit with the MIR space station Mir
currently half a world away above the
Indian Ocean
three ended on discovery now dawdling
down to two thirds titled Discovery's
altitude now 17 nautical miles 15
nautical miles northeast of the Kennedy
Space Center discovery traveling 2,800
miles per hour flight controllers
standing by for burnout and jettison of
the twin solid rockets
booster officer confirms a good
separation in jettison the twin solid
rockets discovery now in its second
stage three main engines
Wow did I see that we're predicting a
two-stage bucket
fifteen PM let's go for me it's a start
Alvin choking copy binge liftoff liftoff
confirmed copy liftoff
that's a visa copy SRB step and buy for
two inch Intel mark discovery to engine
tau and tau 103 convert copy 103
performance nominal discovery
performance nominal no action r 1u l 2d
failed of discovery Houston domino Miko
homes 1 is not required we also see our
1u and l 2d felt off no action at this
time
it was good please yes
but the
right here there's a pad that was where
the pad
the guidance navigation and control
officer here in Mission Control reports
that the crew is completed their flight
control systems checkout and data
processing systems officer reports that
the onboard flight control computers for
discovery are now being transitioned
from the checkout software they've been
in for the past hour and 15 minutes back
to the software that is the standard for
orbital operations that checkout appear
to go very well with no problems
seen by flight controllers on the ground
all of Discovery systems in good shape
for the return home planned for Saturday
ok 1 3 D 2 & 3 D 3 recurring only is 3 D
3 1 good and make right 81 82 and hd3
after power all was green where green
after 4 minutes right now red as an
extension to the mid-deck of the space
shuttle allowing a experiments bestowed
along in the mid-deck lockers seen on
the right hand side of this television
view on board space had before this
flight or 20 different experiments that
have been operating for the past 3 days
go in Ming I just wish that the VIU cm
and once again I have the same signature
I must say I think it's the signal and
not semester configuration ok thanks
your efforts wakes we suggest you go to
the other controller and as you know you
are just pin it to the other actuator
and select the other controller and l1
okay that's one will do thanks a lot
Kate and clay I've cycled the circuit
breaker on the SVU number one copy that
Thanks
and discovery Houston on camera Bravo
we've had some last-minute requests from
odor acts to do some adjusting for
camera Bravo we're going to do that at
this time no action project first one
ways first here and there goes a dipole
it has a second fear have a dipole
here's the third fear have a dipole and
we cut up a velocity and we copy wax we
watched it from the ground it was very
interesting and we have camera D at this
time Ilene
to discovery here comes the door closure
and we copy and we're watching
moving
discovery disregard the fourth rs-422 I
got it down to a limiting that's good
news Mike
just got reduced and when somebody has a
chance we'd like you to turn on tips we
have a couple of messages to send up to
you they'll be messages number 8 and 17
one plus 325 stop manure rotation and
riccati
good morning from the flight deck of
discovery we're in preparations final
preparations for our rendezvous with Mir
which will occur in a couple hours we'll
initiate the final portion and enter the
checklist here in a couple of hours I
thought I'd walk around the copper
flutter around the cockpit and show you
a little bit about what we'll be doing
in the next four hours
both Arlene and I will be up in the
forward part of the flight deck in our
seats
for the first part of the rendezvous and
let me step back just a second the very
first maneuver that we accomplished for
the rendezvous occurred and launch we
waited until the launch pad was in the
plane of the mirror and then we cooked
we walked into that plane ever since
launch we've been doing a couple of
burns to optimize the trajectory in
preparation for the rendezvous when we
get into the final portion of the
rendezvous timeline here in an hour -
I'll even I will both be in our forward
flight deck seats
most of the burns that we accomplished
at that point will be targeted by the
ground or I guess all of them will be
targeted by the ground it's all done
automatically by computers we just
verify the data and enter it into the
key boards and then execute the burn as
we get into the middle portion of the
rendezvous
it becomes ground targeted we have
onboard steering but it's a manually
flown burn will actually control the
burn manually via that ground targeting
eventually we'd go to onboard targeting
where the sensors on board the vehicle
are a little bit more accurate than the
ground tracking solutions and so we do
that mainly up here on the front part of
the flight deck as we get into the final
portion I will float to the app station
and we'll perform the last couple of
burns before getting into proximity
operations from the aft station I will
be looking at the overhead windows
facing backwards in the vehicle but of
course in space everything is relative
so it doesn't matter we have a set of
controls back here and we can fly
translations of our vehicle with this
hand controller and rotations from this
hand controller although the rotations
are typically all done automatically we
will acquire visual sight of the MIR at
this overhead window and I have a coax
sight or a hard mounted manual sight in
the overhead window when all else fails
mike is gonna tell you a little bit
about his magic devices in his ranging
sensors when all else fails if they
start acting funny or the radar starts
walking around on the rear giving us bad
navigation we always have the old iron
sight at the top window which never
moves and there's no software and so
it's a reliable piece of gear and we
just fly visually as we panel up around
over to the port side of the vehicle
I'll take the camera and a lot for the
mic to Mike and he'll tell you a little
bit about his magic senses and Houston
while jim is over there on the starboard
side looking out over the overhead
window table that way basically Adam and
myself and Eileen will be on the flight
deck supporting him and we'll be in the
rendezvous tools these are computers
that we have sent out specifically that
will allow us to plot Roger yeah what
have to actually displays from our
different sensors that are in the
payload Bay I actually have a handheld
laser also
and I will be pointing it up out of the
overhead
and this handheld laser is really no
different from anything that the police
would use to do traffic to traffic
patrol monitoring and we can basically
point it out of the window and pull the
trigger and I get a readout on the back
of it as to how far away the mirror will
be and also how fast Jim is closing on
it and in fact when I pull the trigger
it will actually be displayed back here
on these computers and I can take those
arrange marks and put them into the
computer and get an idea as to how our
trajectory towards the mirror is
progressing this is Mission Control
Houston we continue to receive a
television image from Discovery as a
discovery passes to the west of
Australia over the MIR space station
currently lying
less than 200 nautical miles ahead Mir
is the steady bright light located in
the upper half of upper center of the
television image discovery just moving
into sunset also visible in the image
are pieces of ice and fuel that is
leaked from steering jets and also other
such items that remain with the shuttle
as it circles in orbit and are very
visible during at times of sunrise and
sunset those particles show up very
brightly discovering good config go for
the burn
I check over the birth
configuration
integration right now it's like station
and three levels of solar wedding
and he's interstellar you have my best
market 3037
can discovery when it kind of those feet
at the health and see lo these selected
five thousand and twenty three Houston
and Houston discovery the LTI up the
docking port is four to four and TCS is
showing four to eight says about what we
always predicted
probably
build a lineage official Shaukat mininum
houston when can you get cameras again
just about now good it's unbelievable
elevating depends on what reflective
your life - okay story
carry on our camera we temporarily
zoomed in
what the great at o'clock you see ya
happy wings oh - Krishna
iam
you're gonna have to get in let me know
yet yo it's not
basil and
pretty good now oops stop that
one of those posters you're doing there
okay doing that taking ranges again 581
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whatever you thought discovery has
started a slow ascent from the velocity
vector
what better get my masters what about my
discovery discovery for melodeon closer
together we are bringing our nation's
closer together the next time we
approach we will shake your hand but
together we will lead our world into the
next millennium
can we please leave
Nazi cosmic Ischia Corellia sack please
please Julie masse Nazi before the u s--
t r-- us cut down waves that seems yes
wave by smell through Blue Goose looky
here yes yeah flaky on this photo you
see a CC tiolet yeah for the computer
they're gonna show you initially was
really serious release because what sort
of a deal in Florida possibly stability
civil service that we should achieve it
meanwhile we're getting live pictures
from inside the MIR Space Station
this is physician dr. valaria Polyakov
he currently has the record for the most
time spent on orbit by any human
go ahead discovering yes the sun came up
they were in the maneuver of course and
they're firing jets we're firing yet
their arrays are moving it was acquitted
it as a little puffy group the beautiful
side it's a great world it is a great
world wings up there in down here
so cut cutter with precious become trash
supremacy centric remark is made to
corrosion
spasiba I want to say that beer is very
beautiful and it was very exciting
and we are very happy to meet you in the
sky was terrible was discovery total
illegality in Episode three approval
ratings of the desire start fever who is
the rate of caribou in Komodo
she was Armando Virginia fever you are
very nice and maybe someday we can beat
that's the god yes pursue that yes yes
yes
discovery a magnificent picture mere
crossing the horizon now we should have
it on IMAX also as we certainly have it
to all of our eyes yes sir
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a tree shaker
Kokua Elia karoku of Equestria nachos
Rebecca through the equal as wellit's
ever asked my virginity and we think
will have good angles with TCS okay as
minus two point one L is one point zero
six
pthen we are saying absolutely no much
to be raised from where we float round
of Agape understand top knee Wang's new
points item alleged confirms that from
their position I don't think that dot to
the right of the orbiter is Venus okay
discovery from wanks Kay Eileen we have
been watching on the flight deck and we
have been looking at your smiles so some
of this information may have gotten to
you by another means but you are go to
approach to ten meters thank you very
much story and everybody who worked the
issue again thank you very much you're
welcome and thank you for all you have
done
and discovery Houston is hand over down
here and hand over time down here in the
control center rod and mark will take it
from here all and I have had a pleasure
putting their things together I have a
great time enjoy the view outside and
heads up watch out for that first step
it's a long one
Harrison fuller currently going through
checkouts of their space suits to ensure
that they're in a good working order
before and before they begin a pre
breathe in of pure oxygen that will last
at four hours and we have the volodya
that this view showing a microphone
suited up in the airlock and a Nord
Harris
once again mike foale is evreyone and is
wearing red stripes on the legs of his
spacesuit and bernard harris is Evie -
mission specialist Mike Foale is has
completed installing the large handling
tool on the Spartan spacecraft he will
now go to a point where he will be able
to ingress the portable foot restraint
on the end of the robot arm Bernard
Harris is currently installing a small
handling tool on the other side of
Spartan mission specialist Vladimir teed
off will now maneuver the robot arm to a
position where the two spacewalking
astronauts are well above the payload
Bay this will put them in an environment
that is as cold as possible babies put
on with your feet against hardware's yes
some thermal transfer I think that's a
which i think is very relevant for the
unit I've got the three-person
I copy that I am featur like to release
off my mark 3 - well with Italy's
Michael good movie
lieutenant hole a spark Pines clear
beautiful after that I felt the springs
push up on it
yep I have tripped up over Missy and
Mike okay I'm gonna lift it out of the
guides very pretty I am I in the guides
on that I saw your two inches of ever
guides on my side and seemed to be
flipped toward me
that's correct Mike here a little bit
lower on your side and I remembered
outside okay discovery coming up
unfortunately we're a minute and a half
to Teeter cell OS get you back at nine
hours and five minutes I can you have
your hands full all together that's the
best way to do it and like one action
for you it to help you warm up if you
want is to set your water to awesome
Michael I am ready hit superhuman
I am ready buddy okay so forward that's
good continue okay I'll leave my left
header is closed on a lock on the long
run okay I copy that next is to
disconnect your slide water safety
tether from the intersector okay got it
okay oh I have it still tied to me
either
both in the semester pink comes on a lot
later than missing
tonight
we know him
landing gears down and locked
main gear touchdown
discovery yeah
standing by for drag chute deploy
nose gear touchdown discovery rolling
out after three million miles in 130
orbits
roger wheelstop discovery welcome home
and congratulations on an outstanding
mission y'all did a terrific job up
there
so Chauncey CSS all axes reach about
3,000 feet low there's going 80 more
with the winning discovery I will put
you all low at the 180 Discovery on
glide slope and centerline surface winds
remain one eight zero at six speaking
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