here we see our sts-80 flight crew not
story Musgrave
down on the end
you'll be in charge of the Wakefield
facility activity on this mission
there's our flight engineer Tom Jones
you'll be working the remote manipulator
system doing an EBA and there's our
commander in Cockrell
there is mission specialist tamara
jernigan we get on our Orpheus spas
we'll be doing one of the crew
spacewalks
and there is pilot Kent Rominger at the
end of the table
and the crew just getting ready for
breakfast there's the sts-80 traditional
cake on the table and when breakfast is
over they'll head down to suit up and
head out for the launch pad which is
just about an hour away at this time
here in firing room 3 of the launch
control center all of our activities
continue to go smoothly the final
inspection team is on the pad
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding well
we're in the suit-up room and we see our
commander Ken cockerel his suit up
activities today
and originally from Austin Texas
and our pilot control maker
originally from California and sts-80 is
his second space shot of life
mission specialist dr. Tammy Jernigan
Lee one of our EBA astronauts on this
mission and she will also be the primary
astronaut taking the lead in the Orpheus
spas activities during the two weeks it
will be in space
and going across the room there is
mission specialist Tom Jones he'd be our
flight engineer on this mission and he
will take the lead and operating the
remote manipulator system mechanical arm
our suit-up activities are going
smoothly and on time without any
problems leading toward their walk out
in about another 15 minutes
and there is story Musgrave making his
sixth flight into space tying the record
and along with veteran astronaut John
Young he will be the lead astronaut
associated with awake shield facility
activities on this flight and we're
providing EBA support while Tom Jones
and Tammy Jernigan around in payload Bay
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus two hours 55 minutes 25 seconds
and counting here we see the sts-80
astronauts leaving the crew quarters in
route to the elevator to ride down the
third of the first floor to ride the
astronaut van out to pad 39b out of
20-minute ride out to the pad we expect
they'll arrive out there shortly after
noon and here they come
I threw down boarding the astronaut van
very short leg there 16-day mission and
here we see the astronaut fan
now approaching the ramp the launchpad
with space shuttle Columbia
ride the elevator up to the
well got her access arm and one at a
time begin boarding Columbia we're in
parallel preparations continue to
Columbia ready for its asset which take
over all about 40 minutes or so until
it's actually in its final circular
orbit of 219 statute miles
very shortly we'll be loading the
orbiters computers with the proper asset
profile which depends on the upper-level
winds at the time of launch these are
called
eye loads and they tell the vehicle what
angle of attack to use at various times
during the ascent at various speeds
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus 2 hours 34 minutes 12 seconds
and counting where we've seen the
astronauts arriving at the crew access
arm walking across the arm now at the
enter the white room some of the crew
members will probably wait outside for
their turn to enter and as commander Ken
cockerel will sit in the left front seat
of course which is traditional and then
Kent Rominger as the pilot will sit in
the right front seat and then as the
other crewmembers board
mission specialists story Musgrave will
sit in the aft right seat
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus 7 minutes 35 seconds and
counting
fairing now to attract the orbiter
access arm put back into position very
quickly there be a problem
so the main engine helium purge sequence
which prepares the engines for main
engine start
main engines now being gimballed as a
steering check for Columbia
the beanie cap the gaseous oxygen vent
hood now being retracted sloppy open
please close it watch the visors take
the SOP flow and it's going a weightless
night feeling jealous don't you - I sure
appreciate all your work for this flow
at this morning and we'll see in a
couple weeks I do that ocean of liquid
hydrogen now terminated in the hydrogen
tank is pressure on
one minute 30 seconds
sound suppression water system now being
on
on the rocket booster joint here is now
being turned off
I'll check the booster commands
locks and LH to fill endanger owls are
closed
5:58 continue to counter that NPD you
clear Tuffy that gos into the city on
your mark Philip copy I can zoom on my
mark
three two one Martin pls you go for auto
start 25 Salah hydraulic siphon solid
rocket booster hydraulic power units
I've started sound suppression water
system armed main safety systems are 10
9 8
ignition sequence start seven six three
main engines up and burning two one and
liftoff of space shuttle Columbia on a
diversified mission of astronomy and
commercial space research
for the role program Roger roll Columbia
Houston is now controlling the roll
maneuver it completes Columbia is in a
heads-down we need level position headed
to it 190 nautical mile orbit
slice Columbia's engines are now
beginning to throttle down to 67% of
rated thrust and the orbiter passes
through the area of maximum aerodynamic
pressure on the vehicle in the lower
regions of the Earth's atmosphere
Columbia now miles downrange from the
Kennedy Space Center at an altitude of
four miles all three main engines ap use
and fuel cells continuing to perform
well
jambe Houston go at throttle up Roger go
at throttle up Columbia's three
liquid-fueled engines are now back at
full throttle 104 percent of rated
thrust Columbia now traveling 1,800
miles per hour 15 miles in altitude
downrange from the Kennedy Space Center
13 miles all three main engines
continuing to perform well
the next event will be the burnout and
separation of Columbia's twin solid
rocket boosters
Columbia Houston performance nominal
performance nominal
two minutes 18 seconds into the flight
the booster officer has confirmed good
separation of the solid rocket boosters
and performance onboard Columbia has
been as expected all three main engines
are continuing to perform at 104 percent
of rated thrust the three auxiliary
power units and fuel cells are also
continuing to perform as expected
Columbia now downrange from the Kennedy
Space Center at a distance of 55 miles
an altitude of 42 miles traveling 3,200
90 miles per hour
okay
yes in Colombia is the on-orbit
multi-axis ICS learn procedure orbit up
we're thinking will probably burn with
that open and up the homes helium if you
could sir we copy and concur okay we're
just going to leave it configured as is
you won't see us going through those if
the interconnect steps we're on the step
two we copy
wanna be Houston we see good config for
the burn
Columbia Houston good burn
that's
the reaction will speed is still out of
limits we'll need to get a goal from
YouTube it over to the sampling position
with the armed copy story
much more time and to me I would have a
movie over yes
see so at this point the crew has got
this laser which it you they used to
shine on the on the white shield and
they get range and velocity marks every
so often to just keep track of the of
the white shield you can see that it's
going right over the overhead windows
and off to the left of the ship you'll
be heading off towards the nose a little
bit and increasing its distance from the
from the orbiter
Houston come here sorry we've been so
quiet it's very difficult to get say
Mars with the attitude that the lakes
filled in with respect to us it has
quite a different trajectory because of
the length of time we spent with it
before turning on the thruster a lot
different from SPS 69 so the position
that we fear over the weapons and the
edge of the problem very difficult to
get apart we didn't really have a part
to give you yet understand taco
and if story had a thruster on time we'd
take that
looking Rama
and Pearson if you can pass on to the
folks who built the troll bag we're
making good use of it during our you do
tool config awesome thanks Tammy we'll
pass that on
copy that's a good suggestion care to go
to AA yeah
and Columbia Houston Columbia Houston we
would suggest while you have the handle
off go ahead and cycle the locking
mechanism to verify that it appears to
be functioning properly
if ever you want the equalization bounce
there okay I'm at the outer hat store
okay good cap them and then take there
but you can't simultaneously both to a
personal thing
okay we're going to blow down to thermal
cover and then use the CCTV the debate
to look at the mechanisms okay that
would cap off like you considered videos
enough I didn't think would be doing
wrong as an arrow
okay so I built a station down turn off
the unlock position and you see it has
both these belts to emergency air for
the natural valves will blow down the
purple cover such that we can look at
the hedge mechanism with our business
here exactly so folks the memo to
emergency correct yes
okay you ready ready and at over cover
did pop down okay great like that sound
office Connie you guys with a soldering
my fifty just relax now
I tell you what that's just what mom
ordered what we'd like now is to have
Tammy try to activate the lock and
unlock mechanism and then try the handle
again although you've got a such a good
view we can even read the unlocked on
the tab okay again the unlock position
is about three-quarters of the way to
the handle as I try to get it properly
seated in the unlock position
Tammy what we see is that the outside
handle is in the what is in the unlocked
position what we would recommend is
removing the inside handle putting it in
the unlocked position and then
attempting to reinstall it
and Columbia Houston we're ready to
complete the survey and we just saw a
pretty good bit of motion there in the
linkage yeah we see the motion is a
linkage what we discovered so far bill
was a inner hatch handle on the outer
hatch is that it doesn't matter whether
we enter hatch handle is locked or
unlocked we've still got about that same
30 degrees of play on the rotation of
the handle and we see the mechanism for
the linkage is moving in response to
that but at some point at that thirty
three point something jams and right now
we're thinking is that Jam is occurring
at the hub of the the latch handle
Beckenham Eastern Columbia as you
finally walked around slowly throughout
the entire hatch perimeter we can't
detect any displacement laterally and we
certainly see no grouse motion as
measured against the markers and we put
around the door yesterday at Ted too so
we don't have any deltas to show you any
other things that you'd like to see
okay we are full closed that is in the
direction of closed and now I'm going as
far open as the handle will go easily
and now I'm going to push those extra
couple of degrees it would really come
to a hard stop
okay we really appreciate that okay me
yeah
yeah that gave us a very good idea of
what you had told us in words a couple
of days ago so we really appreciated
that and that concludes our our
requirements for for downlink of of the
hatch thank you very much I was
excellent
that's either way war
exactly and that's one of the problems
of where that window is that when you're
working the data you're supposed to be
looking at it's not in view most of your
time
before
yes in my opinion yes
ten
and we want to
verified
this is Mission Control Houston this
television is showing a birthing of the
white shield facility that take took
place about an hour and a half ago to
say a videotape being played back to the
ground from the shuttle Columbia can the
white shield facility was retrieved that
captured using the mechanical arm by
astronauts Tom Jones aboard Columbia and
801 p.m. Central Time all activities
with the rendezvous and retrieval of the
white shield I went just as planned as a
commander Ken cockerel flawlessly flew
Columbia to within the reach of the
satellite all of that going on just as
scheduled
come up
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