1 00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:27,570 Oh 2 00:00:31,330 --> 00:00:29,830 Thank You mr. Abby and thank you ladies 3 00:00:34,420 --> 00:00:31,340 and gentlemen for this opportunity to 4 00:00:35,830 --> 00:00:34,430 talk a little bit about SCS 83 as mr. 5 00:00:37,630 --> 00:00:35,840 Abby has just alluded to it turned out 6 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:37,640 to be a much different spaceflight from 7 00:00:41,830 --> 00:00:39,530 from what we'd anticipated but no less 8 00:00:43,450 --> 00:00:41,840 important in the sense that it gave a 9 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:43,460 chance for all of us in this room and in 10 00:00:46,450 --> 00:00:45,170 fact all the NASA centers the people who 11 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:46,460 are listening to me around the country 12 00:00:51,729 --> 00:00:48,769 to do what NASA does best and that is 13 00:00:53,710 --> 00:00:51,739 when a problem crops up people spent 14 00:00:55,569 --> 00:00:53,720 that whole weekend of April 5th inside 15 00:00:57,850 --> 00:00:55,579 Mission Control working that fuel cell 16 00:01:00,359 --> 00:00:57,860 problem coming up with options coming up 17 00:01:02,289 --> 00:01:00,369 with ideas trying to solve the problem 18 00:01:04,210 --> 00:01:02,299 presenting options to the mission 19 00:01:05,530 --> 00:01:04,220 management team who then decided hey the 20 00:01:07,060 --> 00:01:05,540 right thing to do is to come home and 21 00:01:08,980 --> 00:01:07,070 let's let's think about it more when we 22 00:01:10,750 --> 00:01:08,990 get the crew and the vehicle safely down 23 00:01:13,210 --> 00:01:10,760 on earth and then we'll fly them again 24 00:01:14,710 --> 00:01:13,220 so kudos to everybody on this side 25 00:01:17,230 --> 00:01:14,720 answered throughout the country who made 26 00:01:19,810 --> 00:01:17,240 that safe return of the vehicle and the 27 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:19,820 crew a possibility what I'd like to do 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:21,110 now is introduce a crew perhaps in a 29 00:01:24,670 --> 00:01:22,850 little bit more depth for you to my 30 00:01:26,770 --> 00:01:24,680 right as our pilot Lieutenant Commander 31 00:01:29,110 --> 00:01:26,780 Susan still from the United States Navy 32 00:01:31,990 --> 00:01:29,120 she she filled those very important 33 00:01:33,430 --> 00:01:32,000 front right seat duties magnificently it 34 00:01:35,650 --> 00:01:33,440 was her first flight and we were lucky 35 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:35,660 to have her on board this mission to her 36 00:01:40,780 --> 00:01:39,170 right dr. Janice Voss Janice has her 37 00:01:42,820 --> 00:01:40,790 background her academic degrees for 38 00:01:44,890 --> 00:01:42,830 advanced degrees from MIT in both Aero 39 00:01:46,810 --> 00:01:44,900 and Astro she was able to bring that 40 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:46,820 academic background together with two 41 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:48,710 prior space flights and experience made 42 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:50,810 her the right person to be a payload 43 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:53,170 commander in this crew to her right is 44 00:01:58,719 --> 00:01:56,510 mission specialist number two dr. Mike 45 00:02:00,030 --> 00:01:58,729 Bernhardt Mike's a unique individual in 46 00:02:02,830 --> 00:02:00,040 the sense that he has a background 47 00:02:04,899 --> 00:02:02,840 academically in bio bio engineering from 48 00:02:06,370 --> 00:02:04,909 the University of Pennsylvania but it 49 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:06,380 combines that with a lot of hands-on 50 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:07,970 operational experience as a professional 51 00:02:12,070 --> 00:02:09,769 deep-sea diver in the petroleum industry 52 00:02:14,710 --> 00:02:12,080 for a number of years so I made him the 53 00:02:16,660 --> 00:02:14,720 right person to apply those skills as on 54 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:16,670 the blue shift the shift where Susan and 55 00:02:19,809 --> 00:02:18,290 I were sleeping he was in charge of the 56 00:02:22,869 --> 00:02:19,819 orbiter and keeping the orbiter safe and 57 00:02:24,369 --> 00:02:22,879 running as a space lab while we were 58 00:02:26,710 --> 00:02:24,379 asleep and he ran the blue ship for us 59 00:02:28,809 --> 00:02:26,720 and did a great job there the other 60 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:28,819 experienced very experienced space flyer 61 00:02:33,970 --> 00:02:30,950 that we have on board is dr. Don Thomas 62 00:02:36,580 --> 00:02:33,980 Don has a background in materials 63 00:02:37,309 --> 00:02:36,590 science specializing the semiconductor 64 00:02:39,979 --> 00:02:37,319 industry to 65 00:02:43,309 --> 00:02:39,989 from Case Western and Cornell and then a 66 00:02:45,589 --> 00:02:43,319 standin Billy Bell AT&T Labs prior to 67 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:45,599 coming to us at NASA Donna and I had the 68 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:46,890 very unique experience of flying 69 00:02:52,009 --> 00:02:49,290 together on our first flight on STS 65 70 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:52,019 back in 1994 on a mission which was very 71 00:02:57,559 --> 00:02:53,730 similar almost identical to this one 72 00:02:59,059 --> 00:02:57,569 dual shift long-duration laboratory 73 00:03:00,410 --> 00:02:59,069 mission so we were able to bring and 74 00:03:04,309 --> 00:03:00,420 Donna in particular was able to bring 75 00:03:06,050 --> 00:03:04,319 that expertise to bear on STS 83 and it 76 00:03:08,330 --> 00:03:06,060 was it was magnificent having him and 77 00:03:09,830 --> 00:03:08,340 his experience on this mission the last 78 00:03:11,509 --> 00:03:09,840 two individuals that I want to introduce 79 00:03:13,069 --> 00:03:11,519 to you are important in the sense that 80 00:03:14,690 --> 00:03:13,079 they were brought from outside the 81 00:03:18,349 --> 00:03:14,700 astronaut crew office because of their 82 00:03:22,190 --> 00:03:18,359 particular expertise we have dr. Roger 83 00:03:24,949 --> 00:03:22,200 Crouch degrees from Tennessee Tech and 84 00:03:27,050 --> 00:03:24,959 Virginia Tech and he's his background is 85 00:03:30,020 --> 00:03:27,060 he was in charge of the NASA material 86 00:03:34,009 --> 00:03:30,030 science program for about a hundred 87 00:03:35,750 --> 00:03:34,019 years is that right yeah he was up at 88 00:03:37,429 --> 00:03:35,760 NASA headquarters really managing the 89 00:03:39,289 --> 00:03:37,439 material science of the microgravity 90 00:03:40,429 --> 00:03:39,299 science program for all of NASA for a 91 00:03:43,670 --> 00:03:40,439 number of years so this was his 92 00:03:45,619 --> 00:03:43,680 opportunity to come back and apply not 93 00:03:47,869 --> 00:03:45,629 only his top level skills but also his 94 00:03:49,369 --> 00:03:47,879 hands-on researcher skills in the 95 00:03:51,469 --> 00:03:49,379 laboratory environment we were lucky to 96 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:51,479 have him on board finally but certainly 97 00:03:56,629 --> 00:03:53,449 not least we have dr. Greg Lynn Terrace 98 00:03:58,879 --> 00:03:56,639 Greg has degrees from Stanford and from 99 00:04:01,159 --> 00:03:58,889 Princeton his specialty is fire 100 00:04:03,229 --> 00:04:01,169 combustion which was important for the 101 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:03,239 this flight because that was one of two 102 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:04,889 particular areas that we were trying to 103 00:04:09,170 --> 00:04:07,470 target all of our experiments onboard 104 00:04:11,210 --> 00:04:09,180 Columbia and onboard the microgravity 105 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:11,220 science laboratory so Greg was the right 106 00:04:14,839 --> 00:04:12,930 person to have onboard that mission and 107 00:04:17,149 --> 00:04:14,849 he too on his first flight did a great 108 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:17,159 job for us so that's the crew and what 109 00:04:19,969 --> 00:04:18,690 we'd like to do at this time is roll the 110 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:19,979 film for you we have an 11 minute 111 00:04:23,149 --> 00:04:21,870 videotape to kind of show you what what 112 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:23,159 we plan and what actually happened when 113 00:04:30,050 --> 00:04:27,510 STS 83 here's the patch is designed to 114 00:04:32,029 --> 00:04:30,060 show in an artistic fashion combustion 115 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:32,039 science and the material science that we 116 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:34,289 were on board to do around the crew one 117 00:04:39,529 --> 00:04:36,330 more time Susan still the pilot from 118 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:39,539 Augusta Georgia there's Mike ms2 the 119 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:41,930 flight engineer from Mansfield Ohio 120 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:44,220 Janice Voss pelo commander from 121 00:04:49,730 --> 00:04:47,730 Rockville Rockford Illinois that's right 122 00:04:54,070 --> 00:04:49,740 Cleveland Ohio's representative Don 123 00:04:57,010 --> 00:04:54,080 Thomas Roger Crouch from Tennessee 124 00:05:00,740 --> 00:04:57,020 Gregg Glenn Terrace from numerous 125 00:05:02,570 --> 00:05:00,750 numerous New Jersey so finally the big 126 00:05:05,330 --> 00:05:02,580 day we've been training so hard for has 127 00:05:08,420 --> 00:05:05,340 come and what a beautiful day to go into 128 00:05:10,730 --> 00:05:08,430 space aboard Columbia as we're all 129 00:05:13,790 --> 00:05:10,740 getting strapped in I find that I'm not 130 00:05:16,310 --> 00:05:13,800 nervous at all I'm mentally reviewing 131 00:05:18,380 --> 00:05:16,320 procedures and waiting with excitement 132 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:18,390 for when I get to start moving switches 133 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:22,530 in preparation for launch six seconds 134 00:05:28,070 --> 00:05:24,810 prior to t0 the three main engines 135 00:05:30,620 --> 00:05:28,080 ignite and throttle up when the 136 00:05:33,650 --> 00:05:30,630 computers see good engines the solid 137 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:33,660 rocket boosters ignite and there's no 138 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:37,530 stopping us now the vibrations I felt 139 00:05:42,410 --> 00:05:39,690 during launch were less than I had 140 00:05:45,050 --> 00:05:42,420 anticipated which was nice the 141 00:05:47,450 --> 00:05:45,060 acceleration off the launch pad was less 142 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:47,460 than I've experienced catapulting off of 143 00:05:53,420 --> 00:05:50,730 aircraft carriers but soon things got 144 00:05:56,210 --> 00:05:53,430 pretty exciting when I started feeling 145 00:05:59,210 --> 00:05:56,220 the g-forces build-up pressing down on 146 00:06:02,409 --> 00:05:59,220 my chest I knew I was accelerating 147 00:06:08,090 --> 00:06:02,419 faster than ever before 148 00:06:10,750 --> 00:06:08,100 zero to 17,000 miles 17,500 miles per 149 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:10,760 hour in only eight and a half minutes 150 00:06:16,370 --> 00:06:14,490 now that's pretty exciting now we're 151 00:06:20,270 --> 00:06:16,380 over a hundred and sixty nautical miles 152 00:06:21,650 --> 00:06:20,280 from the Earth's surface one of the 153 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:21,660 first things we need to do when you get 154 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:22,830 up into orbit to get into orbit 155 00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:24,330 configuration is open the payload bay 156 00:06:26,659 --> 00:06:24,720 doors 157 00:06:28,490 --> 00:06:26,669 the shiny surface on the inside is a 158 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:28,500 radiator and we use that to get rid of 159 00:06:33,110 --> 00:06:30,450 the waste heat I'm sure most of you know 160 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:33,120 how all that works but we have to get 161 00:06:36,260 --> 00:06:35,070 them up in just a few hours or we have 162 00:06:38,570 --> 00:06:36,270 to come back because of all the waste 163 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:38,580 heat that we generate on board the next 164 00:06:42,110 --> 00:06:40,650 major activity for me and the payload 165 00:06:44,210 --> 00:06:42,120 team was getting the space live 166 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:44,220 activated you see Roger coming in on the 167 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:45,250 left there I'm right 168 00:06:48,990 --> 00:06:47,170 this is our first trip into the Space 169 00:06:50,670 --> 00:06:49,000 Lab module after getting up into orbit 170 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:50,680 you can tell it's early in the flight 171 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:51,970 because the module is still nice and 172 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:53,290 clean everything is still packed away 173 00:06:57,660 --> 00:06:55,450 that'll change pretty quick as we get 174 00:06:59,490 --> 00:06:57,670 things set up for flight we have to get 175 00:07:01,530 --> 00:06:59,500 all the systems activated the subsystem 176 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:01,540 computer and the experiment computer get 177 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:02,710 that up and running so we can get 178 00:07:06,570 --> 00:07:04,930 heavily into science see Don Tom is here 179 00:07:08,130 --> 00:07:06,580 working on the worldmap computer and the 180 00:07:11,940 --> 00:07:08,140 you can also see the space to have 181 00:07:13,890 --> 00:07:11,950 computer next to him what was happening 182 00:07:15,780 --> 00:07:13,900 on the ground it first unknown to us but 183 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:15,790 briefly made shortly made known to us 184 00:07:19,980 --> 00:07:17,650 was that we had a fuel cell to problem 185 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:19,990 fuel co2 had high substantive volts 186 00:07:23,910 --> 00:07:22,090 which is a technical term for saying 187 00:07:26,610 --> 00:07:23,920 that there's the possibility that fuel 188 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:26,620 cell 2 could have a fire so at the upper 189 00:07:31,290 --> 00:07:28,810 right-hand part of this screen you see 190 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:31,300 the the flight control team meeting 191 00:07:34,770 --> 00:07:32,850 together trying to go over our options 192 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:34,780 figure out what the right thing to do 193 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:36,370 the mission management team met and the 194 00:07:40,170 --> 00:07:37,870 right thing to do was to come on home 195 00:07:43,050 --> 00:07:40,180 here you see Chris Hadfield our Capcom 196 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:43,060 telling us come on home on day 4 one of 197 00:07:46,350 --> 00:07:44,470 the big results of the power-down that 198 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:46,360 we did was to shut off all non-critical 199 00:07:49,830 --> 00:07:48,130 equipment on board and when the first 200 00:07:51,570 --> 00:07:49,840 things to go back into space that module 201 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:51,580 was the lights you can see here I'm 202 00:07:54,750 --> 00:07:53,260 working with a flashlight in my mouth 203 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:54,760 that was standard operating procedure 204 00:07:57,810 --> 00:07:56,290 for us back there to look at procedures 205 00:07:59,790 --> 00:07:57,820 and see what we were doing and it made 206 00:08:05,130 --> 00:07:59,800 for a most interesting work experience 207 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:05,140 back then before things got quite this 208 00:08:10,530 --> 00:08:07,990 interesting the 32 science teams working 209 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:10,540 in the payload Operations Control Center 210 00:08:13,620 --> 00:08:11,950 at Marshall Space Flight Center had 211 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:13,630 started replanting the scientific 212 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:16,090 experiments and the red team went to 213 00:08:19,830 --> 00:08:18,430 work doing the new pcap or the new plan 214 00:08:21,930 --> 00:08:19,840 for how the science was going to be 215 00:08:23,700 --> 00:08:21,940 carried out the orbiter crew chipped in 216 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:23,710 here you see Susan helping on a Japanese 217 00:08:28,409 --> 00:08:26,830 furnished large isothermal furnace for 218 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:28,419 some of the material science experiments 219 00:08:35,579 --> 00:08:30,130 Gregg's are doing some combustion here 220 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:35,589 oh that Don doing material science still 221 00:08:40,170 --> 00:08:37,750 on the Lord isothermal furnace apologize 222 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:40,180 for that he's changing the samples here 223 00:08:43,230 --> 00:08:41,770 going with some of the samples that had 224 00:08:46,650 --> 00:08:43,240 shorter run times than what we'd 225 00:08:50,460 --> 00:08:46,660 previously anticipated doing and you can 226 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:50,470 see that he's working from a new pcap 227 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:51,850 that had just been 228 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:54,730 that day this is great sorry combustion 229 00:08:58,230 --> 00:08:56,410 was one of the important areas of 230 00:09:00,749 --> 00:08:58,240 research on our our mission and what I'm 231 00:09:02,129 --> 00:09:00,759 doing here is a suit formation 232 00:09:04,050 --> 00:09:02,139 experiment said of course is an 233 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:04,060 important airborne pollutant this is the 234 00:09:07,860 --> 00:09:05,649 igniter in the combustion chamber you'll 235 00:09:09,629 --> 00:09:07,870 see the flame and ethylene air diffusion 236 00:09:11,939 --> 00:09:09,639 flame lighting it's actually upside down 237 00:09:13,889 --> 00:09:11,949 here it's forming soot our job at this 238 00:09:16,139 --> 00:09:13,899 point was to adjust the flow rate of the 239 00:09:17,759 --> 00:09:16,149 fuel in order to eliminate the soot 240 00:09:19,740 --> 00:09:17,769 formation and bring it just below the 241 00:09:22,829 --> 00:09:19,750 set point so the flow rate is being 242 00:09:26,069 --> 00:09:22,839 adjusted down the next image is a laser 243 00:09:27,509 --> 00:09:26,079 extinction image of the same flame and 244 00:09:29,460 --> 00:09:27,519 this is what the scientists on the 245 00:09:31,259 --> 00:09:29,470 ground used to quantify the soot 246 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:31,269 formation rate in this particular flame 247 00:09:35,370 --> 00:09:33,910 another area of research was droplet 248 00:09:37,110 --> 00:09:35,380 combustion droplets of course in 249 00:09:39,269 --> 00:09:37,120 ubiquitous in many combustion using 250 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:39,279 devices I'm setting up the experiment 251 00:09:44,309 --> 00:09:41,110 here in the next image you'll see an 252 00:09:46,290 --> 00:09:44,319 actual droplet burn the droplet is 253 00:09:48,930 --> 00:09:46,300 formed in between the center needles and 254 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:48,940 it's stretched released and then ignited 255 00:09:52,889 --> 00:09:51,550 and then it burns from the burning rate 256 00:09:54,389 --> 00:09:52,899 of the droplet the scientists can 257 00:09:56,939 --> 00:09:54,399 understand the chemical kinetics and the 258 00:09:59,069 --> 00:09:56,949 physics of the burning process the next 259 00:10:00,870 --> 00:09:59,079 image is an ultraviolet image 260 00:10:02,460 --> 00:10:00,880 intensified and you can see that the 261 00:10:04,650 --> 00:10:02,470 droplet burns all the way to extinction 262 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:04,660 which is exactly what the investigators 263 00:10:08,579 --> 00:10:06,970 wanted to try and see I spent a lot of 264 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:08,589 time during our four days working on the 265 00:10:12,329 --> 00:10:10,720 glovebox experiments here and this is 266 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:12,339 one of the material science one from 267 00:10:16,019 --> 00:10:14,649 Northwestern University we wouldn't have 268 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:16,029 been able to do the great job we did up 269 00:10:18,990 --> 00:10:17,649 there without outstanding support here 270 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:19,000 in the ground both at the Johnson Space 271 00:10:24,030 --> 00:10:21,490 Center in Huntsville Alabama at the 272 00:10:25,470 --> 00:10:24,040 payload operations Control Center and a 273 00:10:27,059 --> 00:10:25,480 number one man they're working with us 274 00:10:28,579 --> 00:10:27,069 was Paul Ronnie or alternate payload 275 00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:28,589 specialist who did an outstanding job 276 00:10:33,210 --> 00:10:30,790 helping us get all the experiments done 277 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:33,220 in time we had a couple of experiments 278 00:10:36,710 --> 00:10:35,410 onboard that we're looking at hardware 279 00:10:39,059 --> 00:10:36,720 we might be using for the space station 280 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:39,069 this is an example of how we could 281 00:10:42,540 --> 00:10:41,290 upgrade an experiment as the station of 282 00:10:44,910 --> 00:10:42,550 vowels as you learn more about the 283 00:10:46,410 --> 00:10:44,920 science or improve the hardware to allow 284 00:10:48,329 --> 00:10:46,420 you to change experiments over the 285 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:48,339 course of Space Station's life this is 286 00:10:51,389 --> 00:10:49,689 the combustion module where at the 287 00:10:53,309 --> 00:10:51,399 beginning of flight inserting the 288 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:53,319 experiment mounting structure for the 289 00:10:56,670 --> 00:10:54,850 suit flame that Greg was talking about 290 00:10:58,429 --> 00:10:56,680 earlier halfway through the flight will 291 00:11:00,900 --> 00:10:58,439 change these out and put in a flame ball 292 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:00,910 experiment that would be the second half 293 00:11:06,490 --> 00:11:03,650 of that combustion experiment 294 00:11:08,590 --> 00:11:06,500 very first full day on orbit one of our 295 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:08,600 first jobs was to activate some protein 296 00:11:12,550 --> 00:11:10,730 crystal growth experiments and that's 297 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:12,560 what Don and I are doing here protein 298 00:11:16,269 --> 00:11:14,930 crystals of course helped the scientists 299 00:11:18,070 --> 00:11:16,279 on the ground understand the structure 300 00:11:21,540 --> 00:11:18,080 of the proteins for which they can then 301 00:11:23,470 --> 00:11:21,550 then design drugs our job was to 302 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:23,480 photograph with 35 millimeter 303 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:28,910 photography the activation process one 304 00:11:32,950 --> 00:11:30,890 of the major challenges facing a 305 00:11:35,650 --> 00:11:32,960 separate person clearly we'd like we had 306 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:35,660 is to convert the ascent rocket into an 307 00:11:40,750 --> 00:11:38,390 orbiting laboratory and basically you're 308 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:40,760 trying to stow away about 10 pounds of 309 00:11:45,430 --> 00:11:42,470 potatoes and 5 pound sack and then 310 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:45,440 deploy all the various experiments this 311 00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:47,510 is Janice taking an air sample in the 312 00:11:52,750 --> 00:11:50,230 lab one of the tasks we do when we first 313 00:11:54,340 --> 00:11:52,760 activate the lab and then here you see 314 00:11:55,900 --> 00:11:54,350 me working on the computer and I'm 315 00:11:57,490 --> 00:11:55,910 completely upside down on the ceiling 316 00:11:59,650 --> 00:11:57,500 and that's one of the things that we did 317 00:12:01,600 --> 00:11:59,660 a lot of is to try to spread the people 318 00:12:03,820 --> 00:12:01,610 out seven people in the mid that don't 319 00:12:05,410 --> 00:12:03,830 fit very well on the floor of course we 320 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:05,420 have to get exercise and there's Jim 321 00:12:10,090 --> 00:12:08,330 doing the ergometer our exercise prayers 322 00:12:12,130 --> 00:12:10,100 were compressed because of the short 323 00:12:17,019 --> 00:12:12,140 flight but normally this is a very 324 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:17,029 important part of our day the window was 325 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:19,130 pretty impressive this is the Baja 326 00:12:23,019 --> 00:12:21,110 Peninsula which is oriented kind of 327 00:12:25,210 --> 00:12:23,029 upside down the United States is towards 328 00:12:28,690 --> 00:12:25,220 the bottom of the screen we have Mexico 329 00:12:30,190 --> 00:12:28,700 up in the upper left hand corner this is 330 00:12:32,650 --> 00:12:30,200 part of the Middle East with the Nile 331 00:12:35,050 --> 00:12:32,660 River in the top portion of the screen 332 00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:35,060 the Red Sea in the middle and Saudi 333 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:38,300 Arabia towards the bottom it's one of 334 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:40,130 the prettiest parts of the world 335 00:12:47,910 --> 00:12:44,810 I think the Sinai Peninsula in the same 336 00:12:52,199 --> 00:12:47,920 area with the Gulf's of Suez and acaba 337 00:12:55,030 --> 00:12:52,209 consider Suez Canal up in the upper left 338 00:12:56,829 --> 00:12:55,040 these pivot point irrigation circles are 339 00:12:58,690 --> 00:12:56,839 all over the deserts especially in the 340 00:13:03,420 --> 00:12:58,700 Middle East they go down thousands of 341 00:13:07,660 --> 00:13:05,650 well the most spectacular sights we've 342 00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:07,670 got to see from a short mission was 343 00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:09,830 comet hale-bopp and what you're looking 344 00:13:13,150 --> 00:13:11,300 at is a sequence of pictures here 345 00:13:14,890 --> 00:13:13,160 watching the combat actually set through 346 00:13:16,370 --> 00:13:14,900 the atmosphere and we were actually able 347 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:16,380 to see it set beyond the limit 348 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:18,510 here you could see also the orange 349 00:13:22,010 --> 00:13:19,890 lights there that are down on the earth 350 00:13:24,620 --> 00:13:22,020 those are fires burning over Central 351 00:13:26,390 --> 00:13:24,630 Africa as we passed over there the 352 00:13:28,130 --> 00:13:26,400 sunsets are spectacular although they're 353 00:13:29,990 --> 00:13:28,140 very short and they occur over like ten 354 00:13:31,580 --> 00:13:30,000 seconds or so we get to see about 60 355 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:31,590 November every day which makes up for 356 00:13:36,830 --> 00:13:34,710 the shortness well after a lot of 357 00:13:38,150 --> 00:13:36,840 unexpected quick work we had the vehicle 358 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:38,160 and ship ready to come home here we are 359 00:13:40,670 --> 00:13:39,810 on Dior birthday everybody suited up 360 00:13:42,140 --> 00:13:40,680 Susan left 361 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:42,150 flight engineer Mike they're in the in 362 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:44,130 the middle and me on the right we did 363 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:46,650 the deorbit burn made a safe and 364 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:49,110 successful to fuel sale entry back into 365 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:50,970 the Earth's atmosphere and at about this 366 00:13:54,650 --> 00:13:53,250 point about about Mach point nine is 367 00:13:56,870 --> 00:13:54,660 where I had the opportunity to fly the 368 00:13:59,120 --> 00:13:56,880 Space Shuttle for the first time I had 369 00:14:02,180 --> 00:13:59,130 about 1,000 practice shuttle training 370 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:02,190 aircraft approaches but I had never as 371 00:14:06,050 --> 00:14:03,570 pilot had the opportunity to actually 372 00:14:07,730 --> 00:14:06,060 fly the shuttle and when I first took 373 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:07,740 control of the vehicle manually I did a 374 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:09,690 little pitch pulse to see how it flew no 375 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:11,730 roll pulse and I told Susan hey it's 376 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:13,290 just like the STA and I think that's a 377 00:14:18,470 --> 00:14:16,050 tribute to our training people and 378 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:18,480 system that a first-time flyer can feel 379 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:20,490 that comfortable here we are rolling out 380 00:14:23,990 --> 00:14:22,170 on final approach down got a good view 381 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:24,000 of the runway out there over over 382 00:14:29,930 --> 00:14:26,490 Susan's shoulder at 2,000 feet I did the 383 00:14:31,550 --> 00:14:29,940 pre-flare and at 300 feet Susan dropped 384 00:14:33,650 --> 00:14:31,560 the gear down right here we had a little 385 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:33,660 bit of crosswind from my right to left 386 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:35,130 as I was looking out the commander's 387 00:14:38,660 --> 00:14:37,530 window that was causing some concern by 388 00:14:39,650 --> 00:14:38,670 the people on the ground and you see 389 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:39,660 that I did have to make a little 390 00:14:43,580 --> 00:14:41,130 correction back to the centreline to the 391 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:43,590 left here and then stop the rate by 392 00:14:48,410 --> 00:14:45,810 dipping the right wing down to have a 393 00:14:51,470 --> 00:14:48,420 zero across the runway rate as we touch 394 00:14:54,290 --> 00:14:51,480 down the vehicle touched down the whole 395 00:14:55,910 --> 00:14:54,300 landing task was was well well practice 396 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:55,920 in the shuttle training aircraft I felt 397 00:15:02,090 --> 00:14:57,810 comfortable with it as I lowered the 398 00:15:04,430 --> 00:15:02,100 nose Susan put the but the chute out and 399 00:15:05,870 --> 00:15:04,440 the chute causes a lot of drag or at 400 00:15:07,730 --> 00:15:05,880 least it seems that way after several 401 00:15:09,140 --> 00:15:07,740 days of zero gravity the jerk that you 402 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:09,150 get seems like a lot and you just have 403 00:15:12,230 --> 00:15:10,710 no desire to really put on the brakes 404 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:12,240 you let the vehicle roll out with almost 405 00:15:17,150 --> 00:15:15,330 no braking Susan drops issued at sixty 406 00:15:18,470 --> 00:15:17,160 knots and I do use the brakes here for 407 00:15:19,490 --> 00:15:18,480 about the first time to bring it to a 408 00:15:21,590 --> 00:15:19,500 full and complete stop 409 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:21,600 I found the brakes they weren't draggy I 410 00:15:25,460 --> 00:15:23,090 did find the nosewheel steering to be a 411 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:25,470 fairly stiff in the sense that if iraq 412 00:15:31,290 --> 00:15:27,520 reacted very quickly to any inputs that 413 00:15:32,790 --> 00:15:31,300 me after that after about an hour of 414 00:15:34,470 --> 00:15:32,800 medical testing we were able to get out 415 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:34,480 and wave to the photographers who were 416 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:40,590 thanks to the hard work that's going on 417 00:15:44,370 --> 00:15:41,950 right now at the Kennedy Space Center 418 00:15:45,990 --> 00:15:44,380 that to be continued that slogan is 419 00:15:47,790 --> 00:15:46,000 going to be truth on July 1st they're 420 00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:47,800 gonna have the vehicle and the payload 421 00:15:52,020 --> 00:15:50,260 and us back out there and ready to go 422 00:15:53,370 --> 00:15:52,030 again and it's it's happening only 423 00:15:54,810 --> 00:15:53,380 because of the hard work that the 424 00:15:56,010 --> 00:15:54,820 engineers and the technicians down to 425 00:15:59,310 --> 00:15:56,020 the Cape are putting in on this 426 00:16:01,260 --> 00:15:59,320 unprecedented and record-setting a turn 427 00:16:03,030 --> 00:16:01,270 of the vehicle in the payload what we 428 00:16:04,260 --> 00:16:03,040 have next are a series of slides of some 429 00:16:06,270 --> 00:16:04,270 of the more interesting earth 430 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:06,280 observation sites that we that we were 431 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:08,050 privileged to have the opportunity to 432 00:16:15,210 --> 00:16:10,570 look down on from about 160 nautical 433 00:16:17,190 --> 00:16:15,220 miles this is Long Island the northern 434 00:16:18,990 --> 00:16:17,200 half of Long Island in the Bahamas and 435 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:19,000 we didn't have a whole lot of time to 436 00:16:22,590 --> 00:16:20,890 look out the window but when I met when 437 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:22,600 I could I would look down particularly 438 00:16:26,430 --> 00:16:24,370 the Bahamas which to me is the prettiest 439 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:26,440 place in the world here you see the 440 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:27,910 tongue of the ocean on the right hand 441 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:30,730 side with a where the the Shelf drops 442 00:16:35,550 --> 00:16:33,370 off from about 60 feet down to 6,000 443 00:16:37,290 --> 00:16:35,560 feet and the picture doesn't really do 444 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:37,300 it justice I remember when I was in 445 00:16:41,550 --> 00:16:39,010 space looking at the window and just 446 00:16:45,420 --> 00:16:41,560 really awestruck at the beauty there in 447 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:45,430 thinking that the only the second place 448 00:16:48,630 --> 00:16:46,810 in the world I'd want to be is there the 449 00:16:50,790 --> 00:16:48,640 Bahamas the first place was was on the 450 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:50,800 spaceship at the time and fortunately 451 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:53,230 for us we we landed we debriefed for a 452 00:16:57,540 --> 00:16:55,570 few days and got two weeks off so I went 453 00:16:59,760 --> 00:16:57,550 straight down there and actually did 454 00:17:01,950 --> 00:16:59,770 some dive in it at this location and it 455 00:17:04,170 --> 00:17:01,960 was really special to to go underwater 456 00:17:06,180 --> 00:17:04,180 and see that environment and have in 457 00:17:12,750 --> 00:17:06,190 your mind the same image of that place 458 00:17:15,420 --> 00:17:12,760 from space is very very awesome this is 459 00:17:17,670 --> 00:17:15,430 the Nile River in Egypt and as you pass 460 00:17:19,340 --> 00:17:17,680 over Egypt and you see the brown deserts 461 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:19,350 below you the two things that stand out 462 00:17:23,730 --> 00:17:21,730 one of them is the bend in the Nile 463 00:17:25,350 --> 00:17:23,740 River here at Luxor and what you're 464 00:17:27,780 --> 00:17:25,360 looking at is the Nile River and either 465 00:17:29,370 --> 00:17:27,790 side of the river itself you can see the 466 00:17:31,110 --> 00:17:29,380 green agricultural areas where the 467 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:31,120 growing crops all along the Nile and 468 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:33,190 this is where the Valley of the Kings is 469 00:17:36,990 --> 00:17:35,440 where they found the King Tutankhamun 470 00:17:40,389 --> 00:17:37,000 and there's still you know discovering 471 00:17:43,009 --> 00:17:40,399 new tombs there today next 472 00:17:44,570 --> 00:17:43,019 another spectacular area on the Nile 473 00:17:47,659 --> 00:17:44,580 River is little further down is the 474 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:47,669 Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser here the dam 475 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:49,710 is just near the top center of the 476 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:51,570 picture you can see it barely there a 477 00:17:56,210 --> 00:17:54,210 little great structure crossing the Nile 478 00:17:59,180 --> 00:17:56,220 the water levels were at near record 479 00:18:01,159 --> 00:17:59,190 level here when we flew over the denial 480 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:01,169 in Lake Nasser that was due to heavy 481 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:03,450 rains that they've been having in Kenya 482 00:18:11,389 --> 00:18:04,970 over near the headwaters of the Nile 483 00:18:16,129 --> 00:18:11,399 since December of last year this is the 484 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:16,139 Indus River and Pakistan and well what 485 00:18:22,220 --> 00:18:17,970 the scientists on the ground like to see 486 00:18:25,879 --> 00:18:22,230 from photos like this is the level of 487 00:18:28,159 --> 00:18:25,889 water in the rivers and the agricultural 488 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:28,169 the amount of area the agriculture 489 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:30,119 extends from the river boundaries and 490 00:18:40,789 --> 00:18:32,850 the build-up of the cities surrounding 491 00:18:42,590 --> 00:18:40,799 the river this is the Mayan volcano in 492 00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:42,600 the Philippines it's the most active 493 00:18:48,310 --> 00:18:44,700 volcano in the Philippines you can see 494 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:48,320 the smoke still coming out the top it's 495 00:18:54,980 --> 00:18:51,809 erupted 47 times since the early 1600s 496 00:18:57,109 --> 00:18:54,990 the most impressive part about this 497 00:18:59,720 --> 00:18:57,119 picture is that we were able to take it 498 00:19:07,440 --> 00:18:59,730 because typically there's cloud coverage 499 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:11,049 they're reminding me that this is this 500 00:19:15,909 --> 00:19:13,490 is the great gray whale breeding ground 501 00:19:16,779 --> 00:19:15,919 located on the west coast of Baja now 502 00:19:18,250 --> 00:19:16,789 I'm not going to tell you that we can 503 00:19:20,649 --> 00:19:18,260 count whales from space at least these 504 00:19:23,830 --> 00:19:20,659 40 year old guys can't but what we can 505 00:19:25,539 --> 00:19:23,840 do is is get the big picture that is 506 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:25,549 what are the plankton blooms like what 507 00:19:31,029 --> 00:19:29,630 are the the other large-scale current 508 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:31,039 changes that might be affecting the gray 509 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:32,510 whales as they migrate down from the 510 00:19:36,549 --> 00:19:34,250 Bering Sea down the coast of North 511 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:36,559 America to this area where they feed and 512 00:19:42,850 --> 00:19:40,690 breed to begin the cycle for a new year 513 00:19:45,279 --> 00:19:42,860 one thing that I always find fascinating 514 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:45,289 is how you look at something from space 515 00:19:48,460 --> 00:19:47,450 and remind you of some small thing but 516 00:19:50,710 --> 00:19:48,470 you're seeing it on a much more 517 00:19:52,779 --> 00:19:50,720 tremendous scale I see a picture like 518 00:19:53,980 --> 00:19:52,789 this and I think of a pebble in a stream 519 00:19:55,810 --> 00:19:53,990 this is what it looks like to me but 520 00:19:58,330 --> 00:19:55,820 what you're seeing is the peak of 521 00:20:00,370 --> 00:19:58,340 Guadalupe Island interacting with the 522 00:20:02,860 --> 00:20:00,380 atmosphere to create this wake on the 523 00:20:04,810 --> 00:20:02,870 leeward side of the island I think it's 524 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:04,820 fascinating just to watch the how these 525 00:20:07,659 --> 00:20:06,110 things develop and how summer they 526 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:07,669 looked as something as small as a pebble 527 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:09,770 in water but the scientists can actually 528 00:20:13,690 --> 00:20:11,630 tell a lot about the environment around 529 00:20:15,669 --> 00:20:13,700 this island from an analysing picture 530 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:15,679 like this for example because the wake 531 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:17,809 downstream of the island is a solid 532 00:20:22,510 --> 00:20:19,730 cloud bank they can tell that the winds 533 00:20:23,889 --> 00:20:22,520 at this time were less than 5 m/s had 534 00:20:25,690 --> 00:20:23,899 the winds been higher you would see 535 00:20:28,930 --> 00:20:25,700 turbulent wakes like you see behind an 536 00:20:30,370 --> 00:20:28,940 airplane when the air is kind of humid 537 00:20:32,380 --> 00:20:30,380 and you'll see you can actually see the 538 00:20:34,630 --> 00:20:32,390 wakes forming off the wings and you'll 539 00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:34,640 see that air the cloud patterns disturb 540 00:20:38,289 --> 00:20:36,230 behind there with von Karman vortices 541 00:20:39,610 --> 00:20:38,299 forming since there are no vortices here 542 00:20:41,169 --> 00:20:39,620 they can tell it this time of year and 543 00:20:45,789 --> 00:20:41,179 these are other conditions the wind 544 00:20:47,590 --> 00:20:45,799 speeds are fairly low we were fortunate 545 00:20:49,690 --> 00:20:47,600 enough especially myself who was the 546 00:20:51,730 --> 00:20:49,700 first time flier to have Jim Hall sail 547 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:51,740 constantly telling us when things were 548 00:20:56,289 --> 00:20:53,090 happening that we had to be sure not to 549 00:20:57,399 --> 00:20:56,299 mesh yes and Roger and I and the other 550 00:20:59,080 --> 00:20:57,409 crew members were spending a lot of time 551 00:21:00,850 --> 00:20:59,090 back in the laboratory but Jim finally 552 00:21:03,460 --> 00:21:00,860 said to me Greg come on up to the flight 553 00:21:04,990 --> 00:21:03,470 lab to the flight deck because you have 554 00:21:08,169 --> 00:21:05,000 to see at least one of these before we 555 00:21:10,060 --> 00:21:08,179 can go home and so I came up and and 556 00:21:13,060 --> 00:21:10,070 this is what I saw it was a sunset and 557 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:13,070 the difference to me was that you see 558 00:21:19,090 --> 00:21:15,710 this very very deep and gorgeous red at 559 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:19,100 the same time as a very very bright 560 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:23,090 a neon blue during the sunset and for me 561 00:21:26,230 --> 00:21:24,320 it was very very spectacular and 562 00:21:30,390 --> 00:21:26,240 beautiful the slide is good but it was 563 00:21:36,549 --> 00:21:35,380 sometimes you go in and add a sunset 564 00:21:38,260 --> 00:21:36,559 you're able to see a little bit of 565 00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:38,270 three-dimensional structure and here you 566 00:21:42,190 --> 00:21:40,640 see the class Janice says the cloud 567 00:21:44,830 --> 00:21:42,200 formations and the changing cloud 568 00:21:46,570 --> 00:21:44,840 formations are always very dynamic and 569 00:21:49,210 --> 00:21:46,580 interesting here you see a cloud cover 570 00:21:52,570 --> 00:21:49,220 coming out of that cloud cover is a huge 571 00:21:54,399 --> 00:21:52,580 thunder sail that's just bulging up and 572 00:21:56,169 --> 00:21:54,409 in the sunset the glinting off of that