mission specialist Mary Ellen Webber
she will be working with the deployment
of the tracking and data relay satellite
and our flight engineer mission
specialist Nancy curry
our commander for STS 70 Tom Henrik's
and next to him his pilot Kevin Kriegel
and mission specialist dr. Don Thomas
who together with dr. Mary Ellen Weber
will be working later today about six
hours after launch to deploy the tigress
G tracking and data relay satellite and
the suit up activities are about
completed so that the crew will be
headed out for the pad here in about
another 15 minutes pilot Kevin Kregel
it's also ready to go Adam and mission
specialist dr. Don Thomas
you will be busy later this afternoon
working with the deployment of the
tracking and data relay satellite which
is main order of business for today
and our flight engineer mission
specialist Nancy Curie dr. Mary Ellen
Weber
working with dr. Thomas later this
afternoon on the deployment of the iust
dress and our activities right now are
proceeding right to the minute our pilot
or our commander Tom Hendricks pilot
Kevin Kregel wishes specialist Don
Thomas
and here we see the astronauts now
arriving at the 195-foot level the fixed
service structure at pad V walking over
to the orbiter access arm
and some of the we'll wait wait out on
the orbiter access arm while other
crewmembers are being assisted with
their helmets and other attire so that
it doesn't get too crowded the white
room is not very large and of course Tom
Hendrix will be the first one aboard
copy that ass and in the meantime if you
could perform your clothes out for
flight pull your checklist please
yes copy in all systems OTC we're gonna
proceed without the context any
conversation on how all I asked you one
too will be heard by the crew and the
hatch is being closed and sealed
exactly on time all our activities
continue to go smoothly here today we're
not working any technical problems our
weather is holding for us at this time
and we still expect a long time liftoff
at 9:41 this morning
and the orbiter access arm can be moved
back into position around the hatch in
about 30 seconds should an emergency
occur
t-minus seven minutes and Counting
next milestone is the start at the
auxiliary power units by pilot Kevin
Kregel it'll flip three switches on the
cockpit to start each of the three ap
use and then work that's complete
three main engines now being given all
of these steering checks to assure that
we have proper control during ascent
Karson one of everybody's cleared no one
expected us
and the gaseous oxygen fin hood which
been on retraction underway on schedule
mark yeah let's go for autosequence
start
and we've had the handoff to Discovery's
onboard computers
Cory
sound suppression water system activated
13 seconds
ten nine eight seven six five main
engine ignition four three two one and
liftoff of space shuttle Discovery to
complete NASA's constellation of
tracking stations in the sky Houston now
controlling the flight of discovery
Roger roll discovery discovery completes
the roll to place the shuttle and a
heads-down wings level position from
hand to heaven at mine to work
27 seconds into the flying discoveries
three liquid fuel main engines now
throttling back in a three-step fashion
to sixty-seven percent of rated
performance to lessen the stress on the
surfaces is advancing through the sound
barrier fifty seconds into the flight
the main engines now beginning to rev up
once again to 104 percent of rated
performance including the new block one
engine all three main engines performing
normally discovery Houston go at
throttle up discovery now sixty three
thousand feet and altitude eight miles
downrange all systems continue to
function normally in the early stage of
the fourth shuttle flight of the year
20 seconds left in first stage
performance of the solid rocket boosters
discovery approaching the 155 thousand
foot mark and altitude some 26 miles
downrange
booster officer confirms solid rocket
booster separation discovery Houston
performance nominal abdominal
performance
you know do you see how that all fits
configured copy that
PLC perform mps helium reconfiguration
please sin works
using the CPD step 979 increase copying
work
copy
how did you see see the boy giant SS yes
sir I can you step nine six six across
these Express line copy
play booster locks tank it's like
pressure and just a heads up if you're
gonna watch on anyone dare you see the
secondary seal pressure will stay low
like that negative because it's a block
one engine it doesn't have a transducer
now location copy feel at the city hold
it 31 downtown clock will hold it - 31
seconds did we like formation around a
multipath contingency SP entity let's go
ahead and keep your s here we go Rizal
15 seconds anyone I copy epi
that's our be either ignition liftoff
confirmed Roger that roll program
Roger roll discovery like I didn't see
the rule copy slide he come go ahead we
have a good sense copy
negative return discovery Houston
negative return
check that out
yeah it's great
you get spec 200 messages coming
beginnings that they raised in 258
degrees
Houston discovery that's a deploy
good morning welcome aboard discovery
for a hundred sixteen miles above the
earth just approaching the southern tip
of Baja and we like to share a moment
with you to dedicate the new
consolidated control center after thirty
years of hard work which included over
100 manned space flights from old
control room we're now entering the next
century by opening the new control
center which will lead our manned
spaceflight program into future benefits
aboard International Space Station and
into the next century continuing our
exploration of the solar system for the
benefit of humankind aboard discovery on
this white we have a plaque that
commemorates the opening of the new
control center and it says in
recognition of the first flight flown
from this Mission Control Room this park
was flown on the flight STS 70
on board the space shuttle Discovery
built by the pilot teamwork and powered
by pirate spirit and we dedicated to all
the folks who have worked in the flight
control rooms and who will work in the
new control room and it's all an honor
to carry this plaque for those folks and
we do dedicated to their teamwork and
effort and it's not the rooms that make
the difference it's the people that man
those rooms and we trust our lives and
our nation's manned space program to
those folks and we are proud to be a
part of your team
that's a farm and this is a picture of
Tom and I doing a Chili's activation and
this is just one part of Hercules to
happen the IBM ThinkPad computer and
you'll see the actual camera coming to
view and just a little bit this camera
on the ground
weighed approximately 70 pounds and it
was quite difficult to train with
particular star alignments to hold this
device over your head and be able to get
an alignment within point zero five
degrees we had some difficulty with the
alignment today and mostly due to the
stabilization of the camera because it
is so large and there's the camera that
I'm holding right now so I be on camera
which is a qualified spectral imaging
intensifier camera and it's got its own
alignment system that's the character on
top and then if you can attach for that
discovery Don no response it's great to
watch you work the experiment here
hey the Windex camera is all installed
in the out window we're ready to forget
our operations here on the flight deck
what we'll be doing here doing this
series of tests is that Tom Hendricks a
commander will be manually inputting
some frustra firings and during night
passes and we'll be looking at the glow
and the emissions from the front
thruster plumes out around the vicinity
of the tail area and the impacts on the
orbiter structure
discovery Houston we see you on energy
approaching to hack no update to wins or
weather and you're go for a nominal
chute deploys nicely deploy
commander Tom Henrichs has now assumed
manual control flying the orbiter taking
over from automatic computers as he
begins to negotiate his way around the
so called heading alignment cylinder the
mythical point of reference that
commanders and pilots use to align
themselves with their landing strip
Henrik's leveling off the wings as he
begins to negotiate a 237 degree turn
aligning himself with runway 33 the
southeast and northwest approach and an
end to Discovery's 21st mission time to
touch down just three minutes discovery
at an altitude of 31,000 feet the
vortices of the moist air in the early
morning hours at the Kennedy Space
Center's streaming off of Discovery's
wings it's curvy Houston on energy at
the 180
discovery Houston on energy at the 90
Henrik's now completing his turn to
align himself with runway 33 at the
Kennedy Space Center time to touch down
scurvy Houston and copy runway insight
about 90 seconds away from touchdown
discovery now at an altitude of about
13,000 feet as it completes its final
alignment to runway three three
discovery speed break comes open as the
orbiter now aligned with runway 3-3 its
final descent seven times steeper than
that of a commercial jetliner on final
approach less than a minute from
touchdown
a final pre-flare maneuver of
Discovery's nose by Commander Tom
Hendricks pilot Kevin Kregel will drop
the landing gear
Rigell now deploys the drag chute that
was gear touchdown
discovery rolling out on runway 33 at
the Kennedy Space Center to complete a
3.7 million mile mission leaving behind
in orbit NASA's newest tracking and data
relay satellite
we'll stop usin scary houston copy we'll
stop welcome home Tom and crew standby
for your post-landing deltas
you