this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding and we
are standing by to have live TV of the
crew and they're suiting as they make
preparations for launch this evening at
this time everything continues to go
back on schedule we were a little late
getting our cryogenics loaded into the
external tank due to some software
problems in the firing room but that's
been resolved and tanking began about an
hour late but it has also just now
completed also at the pad or the
closeout teams for the astronauts
they'll be configuring the cockpit
switches and making sure that everything
is ready for the crew to to ingress the
vehicle crew the seven members of our
flight team are in their crew quarters
making last-minute preparations being
suited for this mission
Jim Weatherby is as being attended to he
has his helmet on he of course it's
preparing for his having served as pilot
of mission STS 32 and commander of
mission STS 52 and 63 that was the first
special mission to rendezvous with the
Russian space station
and his pilot is Mike bloomfield and he
is preparing for his first shuttle
mission he is a graduate of the US Air
Force Academy degree sign to NASA as an
astronaut candidate in 1995 a mission
specialist Wendy Lawrence the only
female aboard this flight making her
second trip into space aboard the
shuttle face it she was deemed too small
and had to settle for the roundtrip
and as we move across the room and
looking at another mission specialist it
looks like Scott Parazynski he too was
at one point considered to be a member
of a mere team but he has since now been
assigned to this flight as a member of
the flight crew to make the round trip
the the member of the team who will be
going up and staying on Mir is mission
specialist Dave wolf and this will be
his second trip on the shuttle
Vladimir cheat off also is a member of
this crew he will be making his second
flight on the shuttle but this is his
fifth flight overall he became a
cosmonaut and back in 1976 and served as
commander of the soyuz tien he first
flew on the shuttle and night on mission
STS 63 in February of 1995 with his
current commander and Jim Weatherby of
this mission and it's hard to tell who
these astronauts are with their how much
Samba that looked like it was John Luke
Raytheon a member of our flight crew
actually a he is a chief of the French
astronaut office
witnessing the crew departure are a
number of KSC employees who have
finished up their day and decided to
stick around for a couple hours to take
some photographs of the seven members of
the STS 86 crew being led by Jim
Weatherby followed by a pilot Michael
Bloomfield mission specialist vladimir
tito scott Parazynski
John with Crete G on Winnie Lawrence and
David Wolfe remain in orbit over 11
years I think is a testimony to how well
the Russians understand what it takes to
operate in orbit and we need to be very
mindful of that
it looks like the pad has been cleared
of all an appropriate personnel as well
as the personnel who are on the pad have
been
Oh God
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time
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let's do a contact person I look like I
want Atlanta so tear the ground one how
do you read city I'll ask loud and clear
yeah
and let's do one cliff yeah I'll be
going here exact to last Euston for the
CEO NP LT calm check on the other ground
to my ass Houston have you loud and
clear configured for air to air this is
shuttle launch control at t-minus one
hour two minutes and Counting and this
is a unique view of our vehicle and pad
39a with delights of pad 39b behind it
pad 39b is currently undergoing a number
of renovations and modifications and
will be used in the next several months
from his standpoint several thousand
feet over the pad that everything
continues to look good from a weather
standpoint based on that this is shuttle
launch control at t-minus 20 minutes and
holding with about 20 seconds remaining
in our hold as we come out of the hold
Atlantis is onboard computers will
transition into the terminal phase of
the countdown configuration inside
Atlantis is payload Bay is the
pressurized space have double module
which was is being used to carry more
than six thousand pounds of science
equipment and experiments into orbit
also food clothing batteries and water
is being transferred from Atlantis to
the mirror and that equipment is being
carried up in the space hab and we are
t-minus 19 minutes and Counting
it's been a great flow for Atlantis that
I saw the folks who worked on the
processing of a vehicle what do you say
we take it to space Jim not to this
entity you've cleared a lot I copy
TLS is dope Oh a replay the Oh a a or
the orbiter access arm is being
retracted away this is the walkway used
by the crew to gain entry into and out
of the vehicle and it can be returned to
position within seconds if need be to
forecast broken deck here new tonight
will be Marone that site number three
now only point nominal speed break
altimeter there's two Niner Niner Niner
one zero zero five zero at four and we
are receiving the signal from Mission
Control in Houston to start the orbiters
flight recorders these recorders collect
measurements of shuttle system
performance during flight t-minus two
minutes 30 seconds and counting
and everything continues to look good
and we are cleared for lunch tonight no
problems being reported from the vehicle
or the crude t-minus two minutes and
Counting
hey think fast everybody and we have a
go for autosequence start Atlantis
onboard computers have primary control
of all the vehicles critical functions
t-minus 20 seconds t-minus 15
12 11 10 9 8 we have a go for me five
four three two one
booster ignition and liftoff of the
space shuttle Atlantis extending
America's presence in space while
opening new chapters in exploration mr.
Naville control control program
initiated place of - on its heads down
track over the atlantic region
straddling down now 367 atlantis moving
at 1,000 miles per hour now altitude 8.8
miles downrange 5.8 miles
Atlanta three engines bagged 104 percent
now Atlantis moving at 1600 miles per
hour Atlantis that is a Doozer copy and
concur
three good fuel fuel cells three good
APU three engines running at 104 percent
Atlantis now moving at over 2,000 miles
per hour eighteen point four miles in
altitude downrange 16 miles about 15
seconds away from solid rocket booster
separation Atlantis moving at 2800 miles
per hour
have solid rocket booster separation
confirmed guidance converging confirmed
main engine cutoff Atlantis now no miko'
ohms one not required required ET
separation confirmed
good morning Atlantis it's time to do
that delicate dance in the dark and aqua
smear
one they gave us right yes thank you
there's one
okay
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strain detectable
2,292 this is yours
like when you get a hey we're getting
attitude okay it looks like we're an
attitude I had four degrees at four
degrees at
and I went back to hey did you want to
be in B that matter okay okay that's
look here 0.2 it's just 5.2 the rest of
the way in and try and stay on the fast
side of point two in other words let it
go down 2.2 and then pump it up
I'd like point two four and I'll be down
2.2 and then when we get in closer like
a hundred seventy feet or so that we can
start playing the game Oh point one
seven two point two
and got
exactly we were talking
1.92 you the point - until we get down
to 110 feet Jim family with 2030 yes no
right now if you didn't do any more
folks as you would stop in turn to me
what we do it so no no no
that's when the window opened that's
that's two minutes into it right that is
right it's in one 44:29 bump it up to
now we're going to do the the DAP
closure here
just don't touch me yeah you can hold me
a little bit there we go nice oh now you
can see is the ring this is a need okay
75 feet closing 0.08 how good
what they think look lice leave the
lights the way they are the window open
the minute few seconds ago Jeannie
still have the rain coming the plan
right what's good rolling you're happy
with Billy speaking an image now so we
got a mic and when this one's done I
have another one of the centreline
camera well we're sure not going to turn
that off or dance
context sure yesterday yesterday as a
question
excellent waiting for damping to come on
one minute 15 seconds that was awesome
this huge was read enough
I saw the role of him
okay what are we looking on the base
there now about 20 at 7% should see
ready to hook Lake
Atlantis Mary Houston we're five minutes
to hand over to tigress East we expect
to be in blockage for the East pass and
air-to-ground will be unreliable up
until we come us tutors West
we have other presents for you too
houston you cannot believe the number of
times that several of us on board said
unbelievable on our way up here either
with the seen the views the procedures
we had that just the fact that we were
doing this none of us can still believe
it and I just had a shock when I look
out the window over here and saw
Atlantis it took us a while to get to
the MIR core module here and I didn't
realize how far away Atlantis was we'd
like to thank all of the people down on
the earth who it's a tremendous amount
of teamwork required to put something
like this together and we had
discussions all the way up when we were
in crew quarters in quarantine just
before coming up regarding the
procedures and what do we do if we have
failures and and just both sides of the
ocean worked on this flight for a long
time and we want to thank everybody who
worked on it we think this is a great
crew with ten of us there was a lot of
discussion about the risk we are here to
tell you all ten of us that we think the
benefit far outweighs the risk and
that's why we're here and we're really
enjoying it and this is a great ship I
can't believe it I saw it two years ago
from 30 feet which is not very far away
but it turns out it was really far away
compared to the last 30 feet and then
coming all the way in to the mirror base
block
she wouldn't Atlantis what she did not
ask for the show extends a mere grip on
all the jeepers people know delicately
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as a question to your day the ovarian a
Kotori videoed cars the shock video
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cup cat arrest SAT possum must clear the
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a list of Kotori gradually t program
managed Amelia deep a stretchy pocket or
oppressive honest answer Miriam most
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program Oh cat or a Buddhist upon your
Amana nation the depression prisoners my
geekiness the hope Shiva complex
they're already hot these please and
this this is really good stuff this is
the best stuff you get
who's the power supply quickest on your
shoulder
these are you rushing
usually specific shoulder that I was too
what about you she was trying to get to
the back just like that good thing yeah
this is faith have the wrong way
so we'll go this way
now let's head up to near
this is the docking module here
we have
it's the Cristal module
credible view down
planet Earth
lantus mere Houston good morning and
it's time for Scott and and melodia to
go outside and have a good look at that
wonderful world themselves what a
wonderful world indeed Chris yes thank
you very much
right
go see drew it keeps coming back with
fire right now okay Wendy we'll take a
look at that
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like go like this okay
and it started basically
okay rook going out
yes really okay okay okay you guys at
one hour 30 minutes
this site I did in other sites no idea
okay I think it's probably okay below
yeah
okay I hear I'm right here okay good
yep a little bit higher in the back to
module foot we can flip you like crab
this is Mission Control Houston again
this sequential still video being
provided through the s-band
communication system on Atlantis showing
astronauts Scott Parazynski and Vladimir
teach off hauling up to and now fixing
the 121 pound a solar array cap to the
side of the docking module after the
Google what basica yeah look real nice
you know from this perspective to it
very pretty crisply and failed to grab
it right away
the Federer came out without any problem
either I'm standing
and Houston Atlantis do you have a
downlink capabilities this time behind
its mere Houston yes we do I'd like to
show you the PM pyramid occupy that was
pointed out earlier not a mere toy
now it's good
great thanks yeah yes that'd be great
okay
add the tomatoes eggplants are one I
can't wait
you got it I got it there so you
all wrapped up in it throw okay okay it
look like I would take your weight touch
it between your legs
what might work the best is it true to
go into the airlock okay
yes I would like to open it and thank
Commander anatoly's all of us and born
engineer Pavel Vinogradov for inviting
this I sent to their own for the last
several days they have been very
gracious they're a tremendous team they
work well together they have taught us a
lot and we thank them for being so
gracious it requires an awful lot of
teamwork to pull one of these missions
together this board with the course no
rendezvous is not just the pilots or the
crews but all the folks on the ground
and in the tracking stations all around
the world to get the precise navigation
required by the way I feel very
confident that has the mayor lost
attitude control we still would have
been able to dock with the teamwork that
we have and that we've developed over
the last several years
I need to get briefed somehow
my lines take care of flop around
picking her down there and he token I
need token no chap to be a Vulcan
thanks for all the help
No
let's just say over this kid
a good undocking morning to you Atlantis
mirror thanks for the that BLT
Atlantis Mary Houston from the time you
give a go to the MIR crew to put the
pressure pulse inside the spectrum
module it takes about a minute and a
half for that pressure to ramp up so it
may be that period of time before you
would be able to see anything 6:32
it's a 223 window open
Chrissa 14 : 5 4 and closures at 1503 he
didn't say yeah but that's what you have
but he didn't say we're supposed to
we're supposed to crank it yeah
but I'm not
just pray anyway
tapes a little bit earlier that blue
mark
okay hooks twice great
I was looking symmetrically Nia storage
that is delay maybe isn't in yet wh
chased me at the 1920 feet anything one
degree tail down
correct somebody happy it is 29 feet 0.3
30 feet
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they're like it was they're granted 507
sure you probably if he pulls away from
stuff
it's all down once I lay will fold into
okay don't enough
let's look
I'm getting it Jim don't worry
to the city for no fee George suggest
and Houston will collapse but that band
in 23 seconds dummy
it's Televi somebody why you'd be your
water okay
it's this board
error data probes on the legends have
now been deployed long-range cameras now
picking up view of Atlantis as it
continues to make its approach towards
the Kennedy Space Center is that going
okay if it's good
I'm decluttering there you go Atlantis
Houston for bloomer did you see any
anomalies during your belt test all
looked perfect good job
he'll g4 say do you vote a 185 so you're
going down at one and a half one and a
half one and a half - you're a little
bit right a ceremony here comes a shoot
you