about a two-hour flight from ellington
Field in Houston
and the c-5 aircraft in the background
is the airplane that brought the first
space station flight hardware to the
Kennedy Space Center last week they node
one this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding where
we're standing by now to enter the suit
up room to see the STS 94 astronauts
there's our commander Jim Hall Cell
being assisted with his launch and entry
suit
and our pilot Susan still with her
helmet on as if she's ready to go
and our payload commander mission
specialist number one Janice Voss crew
will be heading out for the launch pad
in about another 15 minutes
on Thomas once again
down to payload specialist or mission
specialists Mike Bernhardt and then
payload specialist Roger crouch
at t-minus two hours 58 minutes 50
seconds and counting this is shuttle
launch control and here we see our STS
94 astronauts now leaving the suit-up
room headed for the elevator
also astronaut Bob Cabana and flight
crew coordinator Dave Lisa with them
Bob Cabana will be flying the weather
reconnaissance aircraft a little bit
later on
and down below the astronaut ban waiting
along with proud of Kennedy Space Center
employees and pressed members waiting
wish them off
trip down three floors in the elevator
and there are other Kennedy Space Center
employees just inside the door waiting
to wish them well and here they come
it's a DC DFS repeat yourself
he might sort of a PPC double complete
copy second and we're coming up on the
t-minus nine minute built-in hold and
about eight seconds five four three two
one
t-minus nine minutes and holding for ten
minutes
vegetarian we'd also like to inflate our
seats at this pass
don't do that manager go ahead then the
enemy has no other issues you now clear
the launch
copy that and Columbia it looks like
we've got the will align up with us I
get you guys out of here so how their
plight and entity you're clear to launch
I copy secret office negative ctls
deputy telescope a cutout clock will
resume on my mark
five four three two what Marcus a lot of
five others they telling us pls other
sequence has been initiated
the orbiter access arm can be moved back
into position in less than 30 seconds
should any kind of emergency arise
and in just about another minute we'll
start the pre-start sequence for the old
jewelry power units
main engines aren't gambling now
steering check on the main engines
okay
t-minus two minutes 15 seconds
baby-making turnaround possible we'll
take this ship 16 days and we come to
thank you sound suppression water system
activated - eight seven six main engine
start three two one zero and liftoff of
Columbia with a microgravity science
laboratory a research bridge to the
International Space Station Roger roll
Columbia Houston is now controlling roll
maneuver is complete aboard Columbia the
orbiter is now in a heads-down position
on course for a twenty eight and a half
degree 160 nautical mile orbit
now in 30 seconds the three engines
aboard the orbiter will begin throttling
down as the vehicle prepares to pass
through the area of maximum dynamic
pressure on the vehicle
standing by for a burnout and separation
of the twin solid rocket boosters which
signals the end of first stage
SRB separation is confirmed two minutes
15 seconds into the flight Columbia is
now at an altitude of 31 miles downrange
from the launch site 35 miles will be a
performance is nominal
one minute 30 seconds remaining in
powered flight as Columbia heads out now
across the Atlantic Ocean Columbia
single-engine press 104 forth impress
104 and with that call to Commander Jim
hustle from dom gorie here in Mission
Control Columbia can reach orbit on one
engine now should two of them fail but
again all three are still in excellent
shape the hydraulic hydraulic systems ap
use are performing well as are the fuel
cells which produce the electricity for
all of the orbiter systems
Columbia Houston for gym go for the
priority group be power down okay thank
you
remain fairly lean mixture is usually a
hydrogen and oxygen
we should be questioned called flame
balls which are very very
Wow we have the droplet combustion
modules drop the combustion experiment
single heptane droplets joined in
geography we're very fortunate destiny
that investigators decided to put live
laboratory air into the chamber and burn
hemp tape with air so that now we can
directly compare all the experiments
that have been done in the progress
supported droplet combustion experiment
next door there we've been results from
the droplet combustion experiment so
this is really a terrific result and
then droplets burn beautifully Janice
did the experiments last night while I
was sleeping good coordination between
the ground and Jamieson then pulled
those rooms are often apparently they're
going to try to do some more burn today
which I'm really excited about
right now in the door blocks we have
cslm which is the coarsening of solid
liquid pelts basically looking at the
increase in grain size in two different
metals as they're mixed and because you
know what's implication is very
the only blue box experiments have been
put away I have this over here that's an
experimental science
reception and metallurgy
that is the greenhouse inside the water
supply in their spinach plant has to
decide how to portion up its energy
between Lake Mendes between the support
materials the starches and sugars which
are energy and the secondary metabolites
which are chemicals for example which
may repel insects and you can say
because we use funds for different
purposes the ability to manipulate how a
plant uses its energy for those three
different purposes in space plants made
for a proportion their energy
differently and produce different
amounts of those different types of
compounds that's one important thing
we're studying and Astro
over here is the tempest experiment
another terminal science metallurgy
experiment a lot of what they're doing
is studying the physical properties of
metals in their so-called snake so you
take a metal and you cool it beyond its
normal
something that metal sample is located
between electrical coils and is both
heated and it's position controlled from
those coils nothing they can do is
perturb melted and then study its
oscillations which tells us about
cosmas about the viscosity of surface
surface tension of the metal
physical properties of metals and havoc
out in there Milton's name
wordfence rack is about like it would be
on earth place to do work we have these
nice scraps to build out my books as we
take new pages in it drawers with spare
things that we need
lock bags and cook for a missile face
appears are one of our two doors we have
this nice name tag on the side then it
tells us where everything is so we don't
and here for some of the tools Allen
wrenches screwdrivers
can be very handy they have a very well
equipped facility which set which can be
used to sell most of the jobs that come
up in space
knocking about the state vector how
useful this is to us and look over here
Wow
this furnace is from the Japanese Space
Agency and it's a cooperative program
between NASA and Asda the cartridges
look something like this they have a
protective cover over them this is a
sample that was run yesterday and taken
out of the sample this morning this is a
protected coating and then this is a
cover to protect the inside of the
furnace from the corrosive chemical
reaction of the materials that are used
in this particular sample examples of
the kinds of experiments we're doing
here are diffusion coefficients or
measurement of movement of different
materials within a material or
impurities or things that are expected
to give better properties to the
material such as in semiconductors or
electronic crystals
got it
going to pee-pee
just beautiful
this is exciting space teller
okay
bah bah blah blah blah a sec immediately
what do you think Advanta data take here
and knowing that it will this maybe
isn't the peak frequency but it'll find
the right frequency oscillator
because I'm getting pretty good
oscillations amplitudes on the display
okay and my am to Nuiqsut 3 2003 right
now
sighs okay sorry it's just
this guy's looking good nothing
dujun quick
take you longer to talk about it
Bart you know
for live downlink video is coming from
aboard the Space Lab module as the crew
of the shuttle Columbia currently
perform a an experiment in the
combustion module one titled laminar
suit processes experiment and now we're
receiving live downlink video from
inside that combustion module in the
actual experiment itself
that's bad news for fuel onboard
ship full of happy campers
is basically going after I placed a
Content message
posterior through the hatch
that message is not sacrilegious
okay Tennessee scientists astronaut
Jordan extraordinary
I'm gonna smack his head
is Charles Atlas washing his hair just
don't fake it then fake it a little bit
okay
all right okay and that's
yeah well I got a little bit around the
side a little bit around the side robee
robee dry knee here you're trying to
hear you're trying to hear I need 5 or
10 more seconds keep trying keep
Shamir Space Station new this is kc5 are
in a space shuttle
space shuttle Mir space shuttle Mir this
is kc5 RN I space shuttle Columbia think
I'm here it might call
belt
what this is a note to my parents Jim
and Louise we do have back to
Susie's
now that you're watching we all get to
carry why yell unless you want to stow
it in your entry flight data file bag or
something
do another banknote
coming up oh my pleasure fill the powers
coming on I have a hot stick we're still
in Auto
clubbing iron at the 90 that the
Honorable any not see the red my yet I
see the light though okay you have MLS
hair is the red way yeah we're going
through 15,000
halite insight that's quite good the way
inside Houston how deep in the roadways
in sight
good nav fellow 10 ok approaching land
body flap to trail hey right on
I see one white we're going for the
nominal fee on and on okay 300 dots
right down centerline 5,000 said radar
that'd be good Raider 3,000 for its
commanding 21 a b7 pre player and a
brief flare on the gear series 5 good
light nothing
1,500 400 here Deming Bob are zooming
owe me a little bit slightly high jump
eye off the ball bar you're down stop
right there okay 50 40 30 to 30 20 to 25
10 to 15 5 207 195 shoot 185 do you
rotate to to nice landing thank you
thank you literally oh good job Jim
they're 120 breaking 610 breaking 5 so
many easy on the break high right now
breaking 790 breaking 880 breakin 779
shoots jettisoning
forty nine feet off and on signing up
centerline Oakley
that's good to me
congratulations Thank You Don it's great
to be out there and it's good to be back
thank you Libya's speed is down to five
thousand two hundred miles per hour
cumbia energy ground track and never go
down at Columbia's altitude is eighty
six thousand feet range 77 miles
Columbia Houston we can take TPC number
five to stand by
okay standby just do we have 450 repo is
complete and you ever go for APU hide
shutdown copy shutdown AP by 14 at the
bottom now we're 514 at the top that you
had a go yeah I'll be Houston you ever
go for LRU deactivation