we're just hours away from NASA's 82nd
space shuttle launch and the 22nd flight
of the orbiter discovery with a crew of
seven astronauts liftoff is planned at
3:55 a.m. Eastern Time which is the
opening of a 65 minute launch window
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding we're
standing by we do have live coverage now
of the crew getting suited up
you know commander Ken Bowersox this is
his fourth flight he has been an
astronaut for about 10 years and
Bowersox will have overall
responsibility for commanding the flight
he was the pilot for the first Hubble
servicing mission back in 1993 and we
have pilot horowitz as pilot he will
assist Bowersox at the flight controls
this is his second flight he will assist
Bowersox during the rendezvous and
retrieval of the Hubble Space Telescope
on flight day three and also with the
reboosted of Hubble if available fuel
permits and of course with the shuttle
landing the night landing that's planned
here at KSC and we have mission
specialist Mark Lee taking a brief rest
mark Lee's making his fourth flight and
we see heart-shaped balloons in the crew
quarters obviously for the upcoming
Valentine's Day across the room we've
got the rest of the crew mission
specialist Joe Tanner
Tanner's making his second flight he
will be this will be his first spacewalk
you'll be teaming up with Greg Harbaugh
and replacing one of the three fine
guidance system sensors on Hubble during
the second evie a he will also help
replace the optical electronics
enhancement kit in a failed engineering
and science tape recorder on flight day
for the team we'll replace the solar
draw array Drive electronics
and we've got mission specialist Eve
Holly
Holly's making his fourth flight today
he's serving as the flight engineer will
assist the commander and pilot with
asset in every entry checklist and in
monitoring the vehicle systems Holly
used the robot arm to deploy Hubble on
sts-31 back in 1990 and we have the
mission specialist Greg Harbaugh he's
making his fourth flight he will be
teamed up with Joe Tanner to perform two
of the spacewalks
Harbaugh performed a spacewalk on STS 54
and was the backup evie a crew member
for the first Hubble servicing mission
and we have mission specialist five
Steve Smith making his second flight
he'll be a first-time space Walker on
this flight you'll be teamed up with
Mark Lee in replacing the two
instruments that have a combined weight
of about 1500 pounds the crew is just
riding the elevator down the down three
flights ground floor where they've got a
crowd of news media members and also
employees who will be wishing them well
we do have some dramatic views of the
final inspection team on the very top
part of the mobile launcher platform
that is known as the zero level we can
see the aft booster skirt also in the
foreground here we've got the large tail
service mast and of course some dramatic
views of the vapor as it's boiling off
through the main engine nozzles
thanks weather please well monitor this
range weather we have no constraints
always copy you go is that correct I'm
surrounded avert and mission management
team Jim the MMP is working noises
you're clear to launch copy this and
discovery can hear and their team have a
great nation and do some good Hubble
upgrades we'll see you back here in ten
days
Jim thanks for the good wishes to get
discovered hello Betty pull-on couple
eats the best telescope in the universe
old even better that is no and NPD your
clear loss copy thank you just a few
seconds the orbiter access arm will be
attracted away from the orbiters crew
module and that event is happening there
arm can be re-expanded in just a few
seconds if necessary
two months seven minutes and Counting
now pressurizing the external tank for
flight and the gaseous oxygen vent hood
the gaseous oxygen vent hood at the top
of the tank is being retracted away at
this time
t-minus 35 seconds 3 - 15 seconds and
counting
also there's go eight seven we have a go
for engine start two one ignition and
liftoff discovery now on its way to
service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
Houston now controlling vehicles down
position on course for a twenty eight
and a half degree three hundred nine
nautical mile orbit three main engines
uh beginning to throttle down now as the
orbiter prepares to pass through the
area of maximum dynamic pressure on the
vehicle in the lower atmosphere the
three engines now at sixty seven percent
of rated thrust the solid rocket
boosters beginning to tail off with
their chamber pressure standing by for
burnout and separation of the twin solid
rocket boosters
SRB separation is confirmed two minutes
20 seconds into the flight discovery is
now downrange from the launch site of 40
miles at an altitude of 35 miles
GLS is go for you cloc pressurization
all vents open cop events
p0 has RV ignition liftoff confirmed
copy liftoff
we're all programs like endless enroll
copy good row
stand by for pressed ato market sorry
pressed ato
now you to return negative return
mr. discovery
go ahead discovery Roger mark we think
we've done the survey as required using
the arm you probably saw some of it
hopefully a lot of it if there's
anything that you'd like to see you
didn't see we can get that for you
otherwise we'll go ahead and do our best
Merida
copy dr. Steve will check very quickly
with payloads and get back to you okay
go ahead cry 0:02 manifold valve tank to
to open talkback open that's complete
good morning discovery today - go grab
yourself telescope it works I guess it
is about that time discovery Houston we
have target takes out pick seven targets
for the NPC to burn on their way up and
we have the maneuver pad numbers for you
when you're ready
switching views now to the color
end-effector camera this is looking
directly at the bottom of the telescope
as it comes into view
that is free drift and dr. Stevie's
going to get SELCO and we see that doc
discovery and we watched it from down
here socks it was certainly an absolute
thrill for us to see it on television
and congratulations to all of you for an
outstanding rendezvous and a great
capture we're looking forward to getting
out there and starting to work on that
telescope
as discovery and the hubble space
telescope move off the east coast of
Florida the spacecraft are now moving
into an orbital sunrise
and the Hubble Space Telescope is now
firmly in the birthing latches the
sequence will be to close the latches
one at a time
go ahead discovery okay we've got lats
and made ops complete wrap all in as
soon as we do that we're gonna go to
attitude
okay copy mark we're watching
got a good picture
few days it probably rather look at HSP
you know we'll give you that sure is
pretty
good monitor discovery time for the
first two princess code little work
outside
market oil doors just open go get that
door what just leave it out there about
that discovery you have a go for the
stiffs alive insist
you can see the placement now if Nick
Moss and net angle iron that right angle
guide rail at the bottom right Steve
Smith is looking down the upper
left-hand corner and a line in that rail
Steve Smith and now making the final
installation of the Nick Moss into the
into the after out of the Hubble Space
Telescope with assistance from Mark Lee
operating the shuttles robot arm is Greg
Harbaugh who will be one of the
spacewalkers on the second and fourth
epa's okay discovery why don't you try
one more time with the nominal setting
and if that doesn't work then use the
manual 38 like you did on the bottom
bolt to start it
discovery Houston if cameras Alfa and
Charlie are not in use at this time we'd
like to take them off and cool them down
and it will tell them that will promise
to sing to him later
and we're following you into the
external airlock fantastic
Joe we just got TV back in time to see
you come out on the beginning of your
very first TV a welcome to space and
he's not seeing a big smile in your face
have a good one
sidereel their little sticky the
slightest yaw yesterday got me
okay dr. Stevie take me in for going in
a reflection of Joe Tanner and Greg
Harbaugh in the telescope's F shroud as
the earth clearly in view behind them
the orbiter has reached the midpoint of
the 60th orbit of the mission halfway
through the 60th orbit of the mission
just about to cross the equator
traveling southeasterly across Central
Africa
a little bit more try to stop up there
for a second
discovery Houston for Steve yes the more
good news the OCE aliveness test is
successfully completed and discovery for
Steve when when opportunity presents
itself during the solar race Slough we'd
appreciate some feedback on the
appearance of the MLIS in Bay's 1 2 3 &
4
that's because guys like Oscar and key
to Train duster will
Marcus hit coming up seven and a half
two nothing turns and of course you
should watch for the washer
roll it a little bit to the left
actually need to wait till unless you
get simpler bring you down
you think the left sides okay still okay
and it's inside the battery it
Houston discovery for a BA okay okay
yeah do you guys have K you know
it's TV 30 puzzle just bring those up to
the hatch right now I'm just on there
then we'll get the Bison thermal shield
to prepare kids I'm gonna store the PGG
they're left also
okay you with the trash bags
I think his assessment is it's pretty
stuck it looks like one of dogs patented
extenders so we have absolutely no
concern that we think we can we think we
got toilet toilet with it we agree Greg
since we can't really see the connectors
on Sadie - can you come up and pan down
there you go hold it right there oh so
well Greg since we can't really see the
connectors on say t2 can you come up and
pan down there you go hold it right
there also
a little more to your right
about 6-feet inferno telescope so you
can pick me up some awesome
Greg well we're getting some pictures
just reminder the first thing we're
going to do is cut off a curl from
the torn area about a 4x4 or bigger and
put it the trash bag and your choice
where to do that
and discovery houston we've been
watching from the ground that everybody
is marveling at Greg's superb skills and
putting that blanket it looks really
great we haven't seen the top one but
that one looks fabulous
yeah
take me down there you can adjust your
tensions okay you will lock tight on
that door stop all right I like that
idea to use them nothing much come up
with a really good plan here in Houston
discovery one reason that particular
patch looks a little bit funny and looks
like that up but that might be too tight
is because there's nothing pulling over
the lower left corner discovery Houston
was some word on our W go ahead we just
completed a test on reaction wheel
number two it's good sex out just fine
okay
so we're going to go ahead and press
with our plan here for reboost to kick
off at one hour 33 minutes
that's its - so the first step is gonna
be the item 16 and flight controller
power Scotty that's correct
kind of the only way to get rid of it
shoots straight through the window maybe
plants again searching back through
scouting right is it searching the radar
you look nice is it over yet again we're
not that again step two done I'm sure
glad to see that first pulse in the
right
there's the cargo bay of the space
shuttle we're just having a sunrise it's
really beautiful up here in space how's
Neil Bob looking for you guys hey Bob
looks great and their fact we downlink
some video this morning of it from our
perspective the TV cameras don't really
do it justice in the binoculars that we
carry onboard it's it's a very
spectacular
imagine with all this motion
anything else I throw this chick plenty
to power off did she use as required
fifteen seconds coming up I see the
execute that's ten the second guarantee
ten-second get rid with the timers five
seconds
view looking east from the Mission
Control Center as discovery streaks
through the atmosphere ten thousand four
hundred miles per hour
twin sonic booms announced the arrival
of discovery into the landing area time
to touch down three minutes
main gear touchdown
nose gear touchdown discovery rolling
out on runway one-five at the Kennedy
Space Center completing 150 orbits
traveling 4.1 million miles ending the
second sub servicing mission to the
Hubble Space Telescope
we'll stop usin toffee we'll stop scurry
welcome back after a successful second
Hubble servicing mission made those five
spacewalks look real easy and we have no
post-landing deltas pick up on page five
- three all right Kevin we'll get over
to five - three
scurry usin on l2 we like knows well
staring off please Kevin thanks
commander Ken Bowersox are continuing
along with other crew members to press
through the post landing activities
preparing a discovery for the ground
operations team Discovery's 22nd voyage
in space is the sixth straight landing
at the Kennedy Space Center at the 13th
out of the last fourteen that have
returned to the launch site