good afternoon from the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida this is space shuttle
Endeavour launch control the countdown
for launch of space shuttle Endeavour
tonight on mission STS 89 is continuing
on schedule launch is scheduled to occur
at about 948 p.m. Eastern time and we
are currently at a scheduled hold at
t-minus 3 hours work at launch pad 39a
as well as operations here in the firing
room are continuing as planned
this is endeavours first mission to dock
with Russia's space station Mir the
previous seven docking missions were all
successfully done with the orbiter
Atlantis with an on-time launch docking
of endeavour with Mir is set to occur at
about 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday
January 24th
and we're with live pictures now from
the crew quarters
and the operations check-out building as
our seven astronauts are seated for
their traditional meal prior to launch
sharapov is mission specialists as well
as we just saw mission specialist James
Riley here is Vani Dunbar who is
preparing for her fifth flight into
space today she is the most experienced
astronaut of all the crew members today
which are commanded by Terry Wolcott who
will be leading this crew of seven Andy
Thomas will be remaining on Mir for four
months Michael Anderson and pilot Joe
Edwards are preparing for their first
flights into space today everybody looks
like they're wide awake they have done
in fact awake since about nine o'clock
this morning they've had two meals since
that time and this is a simply a snack
that they will have before they make
final preparations to board the orbiter
Endeavour and then launch tonight at our
preferred launch time of 948 p.m. at the
shuttle pad the final inspection team is
continue are continuing their operations
to make final inspections of the orbiter
as well as to look for any potential
debris items that may be on the pad
surface or on any of the number of
walkways that go run up and down the
full length of the vehicle they'll also
be looking for any buildup some ice or
frost on the external tank following the
loading of the cryogenic reactants and
we have now moved to live TV of our
astronauts that are being suited up
they've just completed their weather
briefing and are making an effort to get
a little bit ahead of schedule so they
have moved on into the suit-up room
commander Terry woke of course being the
commander of this mission is did again
receive his weather briefing just
moments ago and I was told that we will
proceed with our activities tonight that
there are no technical issues that we're
dealing with Boni Dunbar who is
preparing to make her fifth flight into
space tonight is also making final
preparations to ensure that her suit is
tighten and snug
Joe Edwards of course seen he is the
pilot of this crew and he is preparing
for his first flight into space and we
have seated here Michael Anderson again
also making his first flight into space
Jim Riley also making his first flight
into space he is designated mission
specialist number one and he is saying
hello to his friends and family who may
be watching or who have actually come to
the Space Center to watch his launch
tonight Salazar sharapov is a graduate
from the Moscow State University he was
also a pilot instructor in the Russian
Air Force and he was been training at
the Gagarin cosmonaut training center to
be an astronaut or a cosmonaut candidate
since 1990 Andy Thomas will be making
his second trip aboard the shuttle but
this will be his first time to visit the
space station Mir which will be his home
for the next four months he will replace
astronaut Dave Wolfe who has been on
Mears at September Thomas is scheduled
to be the seventh and final astronaut to
live aboard mir
and at this time we do have live shots
from the third floor of the operations
and check-out building as the crew exit
their crew quarters and make their way
down the hallway toward the elevator
which will take them out to the
astronaut van which will then take them
out to the pad and they're being greeted
by well-wishers and supporters employees
at the Kennedy Space Center who like to
get a last glimpse of the crew before
they head off into space spending the
next nine days in orbit five of those
days a docked with the MIR Space Station
and the astronauts coming out of the
quarters right now as they are being led
by their commander Terry Wolcott
followed by pilot Joe Edwards mission
specialist Bonnie Dunbar Michael
Anderson Salle's on sharp off James
Riley and an autonomous
and this is a view from the white room
as our commander Terry will cut is
making final preparations to enter the
or before he is he will be the first to
entered the vehicle so that he can begin
the enormous task of making sure that
everything is set up and ready to go for
a launch tonight
mission specialist Andy Tom Thomas
making his second trip aboard the
shuttle again he will remain on Mir for
the next four months replacing astronaut
Dave wolf who has been on board Mir
since September
Thomas will become the seventh and final
astronaut to live aboard mir pilot joe
edwards says just now crawled into the
orbiter and he will be followed by
mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar the
most experienced astronaut in this
flight having gone into space four times
already
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Dave King is being introduced today as
the new launch director at Kennedy Space
Center he is only the third launch
director to keep his head since we had
returned to flight of the space shuttle
King began his career with NASA in 1983
as a main propulsion engineer he later
served as flow director for the orbiter
discovery and as the acting deputy
director of the installation Operations
Directorate and CDR launch director take
it looks like weather is good looks like
we got a good vehicle and we're gonna
try to get you out of town tonight and
now be looking forward to seeing you
back here and 9 or 10 days million we'd
also like to extend our thanks to your
workforce here at KSC and other honorees
that are down here for the space by the
way this launch and we have orbiter
access arm now being retracted away from
the vehicle this arm can be returned to
position within seconds if need be
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and final error surface checks of the
orbiter is a lavon's as well as the
rudder are being completed at this time
this verifies the orbiters hydraulic
systems and the three main engines are
being gimbal for a final test before
launch
and we're standing by for the retraction
of the gaseous oxygen vent hood away
from the external tank and it is being
attracted at this time inside the bronze
color tank is about 500,000 gallons of
tea - 13 seconds
nine eight seven six we have a dope star
four three two one we have booster
ignition and liftoff of the space
shuttle Endeavour continuing the union
of US and Russian space endeavours
Roger roll endeavour Houston is now
controlling the roll maneuver is
complete and ever sound it's down when
his level position headed to a
rendezvous with the MIR Space Station 30
seconds into flight endeavour now
traveling at about 520 miles per hour
endeavours engines now throttling down
to 67% of rated thrust endeavours now
passing through the area of maximum
aerodynamic pressure on the vehicle in
the lower atmosphere downrange from the
Kennedy Space Center 2.3 miles traveling
at a speed of just about 870 miles per
hour
endeavour Houston go at throttle up I
should go with throttle up one minute 19
seconds into the flight and diverse
three liquid-fueled engines are now back
at full throttle 104 percent of rated
thrust endeavour downrange from the
Kennedy Space Center a distance of about
10 and a half miles traveling at the
speed of about 2,000 miles per hour just
about seven minutes of powered flight
remaining
two minutes nine seconds into the flight
the booster officer confirms good
separation of the solid rocket boosters
and never now downrange from the Kennedy
Space Center at a distance of about 38
miles
Houston performance nominal endeavour
Houston two engine town copy Susan - I
picked out two minutes 35 seconds into
the flight
endeavours performance has been as
expected and in the event of a single
engine failure endeavour could now reach
the transatlantic landing site at
Zaragoza Spain telemetry still
continuing to indicate that all three
main engines and auxiliary power units
and fuel cells are performing well
commander tario kept continuing to fly a
very precise course up toward the MIR
Space Station and this view from the MIR
space station looking at Endeavour as it
continues its approach toward the MIR
now at a distance of just about 45 feet
that's okay in this view of the crew
cabin of Endeavour from its overhead
windows we're with UT drusy and by amir
we're looking in through your two
overhead windows these are the overhead
windows in the crew cabin of endeavour
as it is now just about 43 feet away
from mere this view coming from the MIR
space station
as endeavor approaches the 30-foot
distance from the MIR Space Station
this view of the overhead windows in the
crew cabin of Endeavour very shortly the
crew will begin its at station keeping
at the 30 foot level before receiving
their final go decision to proceed for
at the docking with mir that docking
expected just about 11 minutes from now
docking will take place in darkness as
this view also is in orbital night as
the two spacecraft now are some two
hundred nine nautical miles or 240
statute miles high over the African
continent
we copy Europe the cream is reporting
that they have sighted the docking
target onboard Mir and that no course
correction is required at this time
and the crew is now beginning its final
approach to the mere passing inside of
the 30 foot mark as it continues a very
slow approach for docking with the near
space station
and ever now within 25 feet closing at a
rate of about 1/10 of a foot per second
yes the funny enough shot
and contact between endeavour and the
MIR Space Station confirmed on time at
2:14 p.m. Central Time
endeavour Houston for Andy we have a
good view of the flight deck what's it
look like
it's an impressive sight actually it's
just amazing it's been described as a
big mosquito or dragonfly that's right
it's got all kinds of wings out of this
incredible side once commander anatoly
solovyev is done with his activities
opening up the mir hatch as well as some
housekeeping activities at the
conclusion of that the shuttle will
begin a pressurization equalization
prior to the opening of the door from
the or the hatch from the shuttle side
allowing the MIR 24 and STS 89 accrues
to greet each other personally and ever
Terry we have an excellent view of you
hat the ODS hatch and you have a gopher
hatch opening
this is Mission Control Houston
hatch opening and a first greeting
between mere 24 commander Anatole
solovyev and mere STS 89 Commander Terry
will cut as endeavour mirar passing just
to the southeast of Australia
and greetings all around
einar to push and hold the bits for
coming to get me although I could have
lived a lot longer psychologically
physically but there's a lot of fun and
good business to be done on earth it's
time to go back that they can stand the
ball for dandy he's a very capable
should enjoy this
so looks like we're getting down to the
end of things here for you but we've got
to take out the MGB X tonight yet and
change over this tissue culture
equipment but I think we're pretty much
closing out of most of our items we've
got a few hard ones yet that we're
waiting on but they're little items that
I think we can come home without that's
how I see it right now
glad to hear it Dave I know you've had a
very busy four months and I know that
the guys who brought endeavour up to you
I've had an extremely busy four days so
we'd be happy to have the pace slacking
off just a little very good keep
clicking real nice up here and it's just
a pleasure thing with my American
friends again and this whole thing's
just a wonderful experience I can't wait
to see you on the ground and and maybe
you'll get dragged me to the ski course
a time or two
this is Mission Control Houston and this
view once again of the double space hab
module in endeavours payload Bay and the
aft section of the space hab module is
mission specialist Bonnie Dunbar and in
the foreground
mission specialist Jim Riley and with
his back to the camera Dave wolf who has
just completed his 119 day stay as a
member of a mere crew the astronauts
have just completed stowing away one of
the experiments that was conducted
during Wolf's tenure on the MIR Space
Station for its return trip back to
earth and have been conversing over the
past several minutes with the scientific
community here in Houston to ensure that
the stowage was accomplished properly
and to provide the status of that
stowage down to the payload community
here in Houston
Bonni we've completed step three who are
closing the hatch
you said never
Ellen the standoff cross is installed at
the hatch is closed
so connected over 303 okay I suppose I
want to so no one
Houston endeavour the physical
separation executing an endeavour screw
confirming physical separation of
endeavour from the MIR Space Station
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endeavour Houston were on the flight
deck okay welcome I'm gonna go ahead and
start our case what this is is a little
tour that we took some states out down
the tunnel to the mid-deck and the
flight deck and I'll introduce it by
saying that you know we're on the day
before landing so there's a lot of
activity as we prepare to still our
hardware and finish up our experiment
off and I'd hope that what you'll see is
the environment that we've been working
in and get a feel for what it's like
this is not Cecil B DeMille this is our
eyeball view of living in zero-gravity
so stand by we're going into the hab
right now from the tunnel which runs
from the mid-deck to the space hab it's
floating right in front of my eyes so
you're seeing what we see as we come in
we're looking at towards the tail of the
shuttle that's a large flight package
you see in the center is actually an
empty soft cushion that contains some of
our transfer cargo we're now standing to
the starboard side and now to the
forward side you can see the tunnel we
just came through and the space haps
that system computer that we've set up
every day we have our cue cards that's a
handheld mic there velcroed and then
over to the starboard side you see many
of the soft containers that were used
for our cargo that worked out very well
now going back towards the aft end you
see the opium rack the LCM is safely
secured within it
and the cushion that gently tethered to
the front so now let's go back to the
app dent that we just missed Jim we'll
see him again told it later he was
working on MGM which is in the center
there you'll see in a moment right in
front of you are the two Sam's Center
heads
those are acceleration measuring systems
and up there the blue box is the EF
freezer and now the to see GPAs that
they've tended to during his flight that
we transferred during the flight those
are part of our data check every day and
surrounding them I love the Cancer
containers the cargo containers we can
closer look at the Sam's here I would
solve any flight comes out of the Lewis
Research Center it's an excellent
acceleration measurement system these
remote heads can be put anywhere to
measure at different frequency ranges
the RHD accelerations that experiments
are exposed to their two chambers to the
staff I'm not showing you the active one
right now this is one of these stem
cells and up on the ceiling there as
part of the Japanese experiment for
radiation monitoring it's called the
detector unit strapped to the ceiling
with our silver dosimeter strapped
around it another advantage of our
weightless environment is that you can
use all surfaces in off to your right
there on the starboard side of the state
tab is the DTO 1125 or tipping
experiment out of the Johnson Space
Center whether it's a dosimeter balls
and sabbatarian slices now we scan to
the port side with the large rack that
is a combination of two experiments the
VR AFP and the Japanese radiation
monitoring experiment we did the entire
work a lot of work with the RMD it has a
an electrical panel there up at the top
and then a data recording unit next to
the computer and that's the R&D laptop
that we have setup for keeping track of
data
we're going back down the tunnel and
we're going to pass through the ODS or
the orbiter docking system which is also
now our external airlock those yellow
handrails on your left and right or what
I'm using to kind of float myself down
the tunnel I'm going to come in under
the EMU in the external airlock and
we're gonna just look up and take a look
at what we were calling ms7 and ms8 on
our VIP deck for quite a few days now
we're going into a tunnel adapter which
is where we keep a several bag stowage
during the mission shall we keep our
laundry bags and flight data file that
we're not using how the mid-deck is not
only laboratory it's also our living
area Mike's been working on a lot of our
mid-deck experiments here he's setting
up the camera operation for MTN E as you
know we've been working up some
anomalies with that we're trying to
understand what's happening in that
experiment just about that is the sea
bass experiment and certainly while you
can't see the fish the big ones are the
little ones are the snails we've been
peering through the screens because it's
that backlit back there and find it very
interesting the commander is working out
on the bicycle and we'll all get our
turn today and you can see that we have
side of it of stowage that we've been
moving around on the mid-deck
these two laptops that represents what's
happening on the GPS experiment GTO 700
- 14 and dto 700 - 15 which took on
Ziggy now we scan a two-hour port side
to the small area the galley area and
the WCS area and our prime payload just
needed to have something to do so we put
it to work and he's turned out to be
very good at this this is a check of the
refrigerator the qhm and one of the
things we noticed is that so we have to
keep the soldier clean and so
just clean the filter for those folks we
had a small pallet they've been sucked
in we also have activity up on the
flight deck so we'll just float up there
where Gemma has quite a few cameras the
road and every time we all get a chance
we come up and take some photos that for
the sirdar's folks these are 20
millimeter Hasselblad and this is the
earth cam camera set up in the starboard
window the view of the front cockpit
that's the flight plan is tethered and
floating in front of you and the OCA
PTFE which now has the earth cam
software is sitting up on our portal
let's go back down the interactive deck
area will go down headfirst this time
and we'll say a goodbye to the commander
Terry well Carter's just done a superb
job with his flight and I'll say goodbye
as well and thank you gents Robin
supports that we got from the ground
endeavor now on final approach to runway
one-five endeavour Houston on glide
slope on centerline Roger Renly and
saying endeavours descending at an angle
six times stupid than that of a
commercial airliner on its final
approach out altitude now three thousand
three thousand four hundred feet time to
touchdown forty seconds
landing gear coming down landing gear
down and locked
thank your touchdown tracks you're now
being deployed
no smell touchdown endeavour now rolling
out along with one five at Kennedy Space
Center at the end of a nine-day 3.6
million mile journey bringing home
astronaut Dave wolf from his four-month
stay in space
20 degree dub we're looking for a 195
there's radar check them out for me
write out one or two are good 3,400 now
for 2000 2600 for 2,000 looking good
keep that thing in the center pre-flare
gears are okay I'm in the pre player
nice pitch rate looking good a thousand
four 300 feet 943 a little bit to the
right looking good
six four three five four three four four
three straddle the center line here
Karis coming bridle the center line nail
that ball bar there's 100 feet looking
for 50 nail the ball bar a little bit to
the right fence straddle the center line
final Flair looking good
35 it to 40 21 at 231 hold it off 15 a
223 hold it off hold it off hold it off
run at 209 1 at 199 touchdown let's
shoot shoot Andy rotate got 9,500 feet
to go I'm looking for 60 knots there's a
good shoot yep
touched a little steering centerline
looking good 144 6125 460 Mike don't let
me forget the shoot 100% 110 for 60 100
for 60 knots the boat feet to go
there's 80 knots for 60 75 for 60 70 for
60 Edison hey let's get him a nice
touchdown real good okay yo beautiful
focus good pictures good TC bacon brakes
coming in get out you're in church a
klutz guys got some work to do
outstanding that's outstanding thank you
Roger will stop endeavour welcome home
congratulations on a perfect mission to
mir and dave welcome back from 128 days
on orbit