we'd like the crew of ATF I would also
like to echo mr. Abby's thanks to all
the folks who made our mission possible
and easy and a lot of fun for us so
again our hats are off our heads are off
to y'all for all the hard work you put
into the mission and and a little bit of
thank you for all the work y'all have
done we have a movie here that we put
together with all of our post-flight
video that we had and some slide so if
we'll go ahead and dim the lights we're
going to start the movie and we'll try
to narrate it for you give you some idea
what it was like to go on 85 was August
seventh 1997 the vehicles already go out
on the pad it's a busy morning launch
morning so we were all a little bite to
eat he got into the suit room got all
suited up it takes quite a while to do
that if you've seen a previous flight
everyone was in great spirits everyone
was excited to go got beam away from the
breakfast table and Steve's all excited
and last but not least be Arnie got his
suit all checked out and he was ready to
go also vehicles out in the pad is fully
loaded with propellant and fuel and it
was a flawless countdown it was all
ready to go we departed the operational
check-out building the crew quarters
where we stay for our trip hopefully our
only trip out to the pad for this flight
and due to the great weather and a
countdown it happened our first try once
in the white womb would get a little bit
more equipment on our harnesses for our
parachutes and oxygen bottles and now
we're going to show you inside the
cockpit climbing kind of doing a chin up
here to get into the deceits a little
bit different view than you normally see
Joe chana was our astronaut support
person to strap us in try to get
comfortable and on the mid deck while
that was happening Steve was getting
into ms3 seat
Kent's getting his helmet on jans doing
what she always does actually Jan if you
see on the left down there is in the
cocktail ready and the last but not
least was Beamer or Bob Curbeam to get
in ms two-seat our flight engineer for a
sent the mid-deck ready to go with Steve
and B Arnie all strapped in with
everyone aboard it's time to remove the
white room it rotated back as you can
see at two minutes they give us a call
that closer advisors so we put our
visors down and turn our suit on 02 on
in preparation for start six and a half
seconds there goes the main engines
which is always a really a beautiful
feeling inside the vehicle you can see
the tank kind of does a little twang and
at t0 we're on our way and now we're
going to show you what that looked like
from inside the cockpit the same exact
sequence there's an engine start a lot
of rumbling on a vibration you'll see
the big jolt here for liftoff boom there
goes liftoff and we're on our way and if
you watch the lighting condition as we
cleared the tower we did a big roll
maneuver to align ourselves for our
asset and you can see the lighting
conditions change and the Sun winds up
writing jams phase for pretty much the
whole asset as you know it doesn't take
long day to get out of Dodge here when
those engines get going and and start
pushing and all that thrust gets going
so we were feeling acceleration about
this time we're a high inclination
flight going up the eastern seaboard 57
degree inclination going up to about 160
nautical miles the launch was in the
kind of a hazy conditions but we could
see as our be step so two minutes after
launch we got rid of the SRBs and now
we're going to show you what that looks
like inside the cockpit the big flash so
you'll have an idea of what we see it
SRB Sep so it definitely gets your
attention you know the boosters are now
separated we can put our visors up at
that time and I ride the three Shuttle
main engines to the orbital speed and
orbital altitude for the rest of the
asset after we get off the tank the tank
re-enters the atmosphere that gives you
some idea of our speed
is real time this is not sped up some
idea of our speed at the yellow altitude
we're at much Ron orbit is now time to
turn the rocket into an orbital Space
Station so we opened a big payload bay
doors and get get ready for payload ops
once we have the payload bay door open
we can start our payload operations this
is a very busy flight with over 40
different payloads some of which are you
see here in the payload Bay in the
middle of the payload Bay is the
christus paws one of our primary palos
which was a scientific satellite looking
at chemicals in the ozone layer Ellen
very first day we had to deploy
christosp oz to give it as much time as
we could on orbit and here Steven are in
the app flight deck getting ready for
those robotic operations with the
shuttle remote manipulator system the
Canadian robot arm on the shuttle and
here i am maneuvering the canadian rms
to the christus paws grapple fixture so
that we can grapple the christus paws as
you see here and lift it up out of the
payload bay and take it over the payload
bay and get it ready for deploy and here
it is just before we release it we're
activating all of the experiments and
instrumentation on the christus spohn
satellite which was controlled by the
Germans from Kennedy Space Center
payload Operations Center here's a
release of the RMS from the grapple
fixture that's on the christus paws and
we send it on its way to a nine-day
scientific mission and we retrieve the
Christmas paws on the tenth day of the
mission to separate away from the
christus paws we maneuvered actually
Rama maneuvered the orbiter with some
separation burns to get us away from the
christus paws and you can see the
christus paws as it is separated from
the orbiter by moving the orbiter away
from it
they were able to get a lot of data in
those nine days as you can see here it
does now fully separated from the
orbiter although crystal was our main
payload our payload Bay was very full as
you can see here forward in the orbiter
is to your left and the first payload
you see there is the Japanese robotic
arm or the MFD the manipulator flight
demonstration then the next bridge you
see there is the technology and
applications in science experiment which
had a bunch of engineering models to be
tested in zero-g and also scientific
experiments in the aft and we'll get a
close-up of that soon you'll see another
hitchhiker bridge and that was the
international extreme UV hitchhiker and
it had a multitude of payloads looking
in the ultraviolet at stars there
Earth's atmosphere any interaction of
the shuttle with the upper atmosphere a
lot of these facilities add optical
systems and so we had a lot of
hitchhiker doors as these are called
which closed to protect them from debris
during some of the more sensitive times
of flight we also had some mid dec
experiments me taken a media sample out
of the bioreactor demonstration system
what I was doing I was growing colon
cancer cells too much larger aggregates
than we could do in 1g environment both
for colon cancer research and cell
research and there you see that
aggregates and they grew to about three
or four times larger than you would see
and 1g continuing on with some of the
mid-deck experiments this is a Kent
rominger romulus we call him getting
ready to serve a solid surface
combustion experiment and it's an
experiment that is flown on a number of
shuttle missions and builds up the
knowledge of how materials burn in the
zero-g environment of space in this case
we're burning a plexiglass type of
plexiglass and near they see the
ignition of that Plexiglas and we filmed
the burn for about 10 minutes before the
flame this little blue flame finally
extinguished this is the swiss telescope
used to have a look at the hale-bopp
comet through the side hatch window and
it diffuses the comedy
violet which gives us a better signature
some of the ions and elements coming off
the comet that give off light in the UV
Steve Penn spent a fair bit of his time
during a mission doing this experiment
and that little bright spot there just
to the left of center is the actual
comet you can't see it very well pieces
of long distance from the earth but by
summing up a lot of these images as
scientists can pull out some of the
structure in the comment itself there's
Janna myself just preparing the
microgravity vibration isolation mount
for one of the experiments are doing on
it this system isolates experiments
fluid dynamics and material science
experiments from the vibrations of the
shuttle and we'll see in the next shot
that not only can we isolate but we can
actually shake an experiment with very
well controlled acceleration profiles to
look at the sensitivity of experiments
typically the kind of we're going to
doing a space station to the vibrations
and here's a little student experiment
to do where we can visualize a motion of
rather large local molecules that would
behave the same as molecules in the air
around us here today the robot arm on
the Space Shuttle on this flight is the
Japanese manipulator flight
demonstration it's a small robotic arm
about five feet long as you see here in
the payload Bay we're taking Stephen are
with the operators of this we're taking
it from the stowed position to the
operational position where we can
maneuver it around this is the real time
speed of it it's a very precise
instrument so it's therefore very slow
but it's very functional we can use it
on the space station to take experiments
off of a pallet put them inside of a
scientific airlock or to do very fine
tasks that will need to do on the space
station one of the things that we did on
our flight to demonstrate this
capability was we took this arm which
has a grapple fixture at the end of it
attached it to the box you see there we
called it orbital replacement unit we
attach it to the box and unscrew some of
the bolts that are attaching that box to
its plate and we actually moving this
around to test the performance of the
arm and test its capability with a load
on the end of the arm so we moved this
orbital replacement unit around and
that's a similar type of activity will
be doing with this arm which is on the
end of a very long arm on the space
station so we discussed to the small
fine arm portion of what will fly on the
space station another thing we did with
this arm was we attached the arm to this
door and actually unlocked the door and
we used the arm to open up the door we
did this with a program mode we also did
a lot of operations with some control
from the ground not just with the crew
on the flight deck operating the arm so
this demonstrated a lot of capability
for the future and it performed very
well this is sped up a little bit this
function in the last scene you saw we
celebrated the success of this arm by
eating some Japanese curry rice you
notice the chopsticks and rice and curry
which was just delicious we also had a
little free time later in the flight
when we got an extra day and one of the
things our folks did was some fluid
experiments fluids tend to form a ball
because of the surface tension they form
a sphere and here we're trying to join
the red sphere in the water together and
we were successful after a few tries
another typical mid-deck activity is
exercise when you're in space your
cardiovascular system doesn't have to
work as hard so we have to exercise to
make sure it works fine we stayed busy
on the flight deck as well throughout
the flight along with a lot of the
payloads came pointing constraints
pointed at various planets stars the Sun
and back at the earth so Kurt and I both
stayed busy putting in digital auto
pilot inputs to point at the different
payloads of that also on the flight deck
you're usually busy with earth ops and
just to give you an idea we bring back
more than 3,000 photos of the earth and
here's some of the earth going by over
17,000 miles an hour
and the earth observation scientists as
well as oceanographers meteorologists
particularly interested in this view
this is super typhoon winning and we
were fortunate enough to pass right over
the eye of it it's a very distinct I you
could see the blue water through the eye
and also super typhoon is hundreds of
miles across this is probably three to
four hundred miles across that you're
looking at and the way we get these
photos that was video that you saw but
the stills that we're going to show you
later are from several different sources
we use a Hasselblad camera it's a 70
millimeter format and that does the
majority of our earth ops we just seemed
beemer with one of those cameras we also
though carried a linhof camera which
just brings back gorgeous photos and
that's because the negative on that is a
four inch by 5 inch shot and a lot of
times we're busy doing other payloads
such as this somebody floats up to the
window and says hey look at this target
going by what is this and so we kind of
scramble for the cameras in this case it
happened to be the Aurora the video here
is black and white it doesn't really do
it justice and we've got slides later on
to show you but it was a gorgeous green
color they had Stan the south of
Australia the southern lights I'd like
to transition now and do the rendezvous
day here we are on rendezvous morning
getting ready on flight they tend to go
pick up Krista spas and it really is a
team effort the it takes to everybody in
the crew was involved from Curtin doing
the manual fly and me doing some flying
up front Steve running a handheld laser
here we are approaching on Krista spas
in hours before we get this close to it
we're doing a set of burns to go ahead
and phase ourselves in and close in on
Krista from the time we're within about
a thousand feet it's manual fly and
incurred at the aft station has a
position here at the arm if we were only
again a grapple Krista we would have
done it at that point but along in our
flight we had a you tailed test
objective which was to go ahead and
simulate a docking on a future Space
Station mission coming up or a fluke
rishta right into the payload bay at a
very precise rate and now once it was
just broke the mould line of the payload
Bay backed back out and to me it's
always amazing that here you've got a
7,000 pound satellite
and we have a probably a 250 thousand
pound at this point orbiter and we can
control that orbiter to a point one foot
per second plus or minus point oh three
and very precisely flight into the
grapple as you can see Kurt did a great
job flying the orbiter right up around
Kristin he offered just a berth it for
us without using the arm at all and we
politely decline that offer and so Jan
took control the arm and this is jann
flying in to grapple the christus paws
satellite and it's a very gentle
maneuver and here here it is ready to
get put back into the payload Bay your
eyeballs are essential tools up there in
orbit especially when you're doing
robotics operations like we did a lot of
in-flight your stand looking up out the
overhead window and this is kind of an
unusual view where we've got a camera up
on the arm looking back down at our crew
compartment this teeny little spot up
there in the heavens and I don't know if
you can see Jan looking out the window
there but it's a it's a really important
part of doing accurate robotics
operations in the future however we're
going to have to learn to rely on other
sensors of the knives we won't always be
able to see out of the space station to
see our arms you see targets on the arm
here and also targets on our payloads
Krista spas here these are for a
canadian developed synthetic vision
system that gives you a computer
representation of where the payload is
and relative to the payload bay we
brought the christus paws right down
over the crew cabin on the arm in order
to test this this system that use these
spots as tracking targets you can see
them here on the telescope at the
christus pause just about five feet over
our head very dramatic view we let the
Sun go down and we kept lights on it and
you can see it even in the dark were
able to track the targets speaking of
the Sun going down as a first-time flyer
I found that to be one of the really
spectacular sights in orbit and it comes
out even well on video well
unfortunately after 11 days 20 hours and
27 minutes as time to put the orbiter
back on the ground bring it back home
both the crew and the vehicle back home
to the Kennedy Space Center we started
our entry well on the other side of the
earth around south of India Australia
time frame our position we slowed
orbiter down from it's just over 17,000
miles an hour as you see here we had a
early morning landing and the glow of
the early morning sun through the the
atmosphere was quite impressive
approaching overhead we started a big
right hand turn about 280 degrees to
align the orbiter up on final for
landing at Kennedy Space Center runway
33 we actually did a new kind of
technique on the landing we use short
field speed brake which is a technique
to help control our energy in case we
have tail winds and we were the first
landing ever to use that and it was it
work exactly as planned the uber was my
first chance to fly the orbiter it flew
very nicely just like some of the
training that we get here at Kennedy or
at JSC and at white sands and Kennedy
Space Center Rhode Island final
approaching the 300-foot point can't put
the gear down we crossed the threshold
around 230 knots looking for a touchdown
around 195 knots right now kids telling
me all the right things to do trying to
make sure I got it get it right the
first time and we touch down about 3,000
foot down the runway drag shoe came out
right away and just a little bit of
different view here as we look down the
runway again to drag shoots out the
speed brakes and the vertical tilt art
opening up to slow us down as a drag
shoe comes out at dis Reese opens up
fully the cushion the nose touchdown and
now we roll safely safely down the
runaway at Kennedy Space Center after
going something over 4.7 million miles
if we bring the lights of just a moment
I actually left out something I want to
do earlier and I want to introduce the
crew and explain a little bit about what
each one did on the flight first of all
to my right was kept roaming her i Kent
will be referred to as Rommel since has
a whole lot easier to say and this was
Kent's third flight he flew on st s 73
and sts-80 that caused del norte
colorado his home
and Kent was invaluable helping me stay
out of trouble on the mission backing me
up as the pilot and the rendezvous he
was my right-hand man making sure all
the rendezvous things went correctly to
his right is a dr. Jan Davis JD or
whatever this is my chance to fly my
second mission with Jan we flew on sds
47 back in 92 and Jan also flew on st
s60 it was her third flight Jan's a
sweetheart she comes from Huntsville
Alabama and I sure hope I get to fly
with Jan again she did a great job she
was my payload commander and also she
was a the head person on the MFD the
little robot arm payload to her right is
a bob Curbeam don't get between Bob and
any food or you're in trouble but you'll
hear is called Bob beam or Beamer and
that was a name that came with him from
the Navy bob was our flight engineer
during ascent and entry and he's also
the BDS the reactor person on the
mid-deck but also he kept us Rahman I
that is coordinated on the Rhonda though
he was a the guy who ran all the
computers and kept all the data coming
in and make sure our rendezvous went
correctly and his right we have dr.
Steve Robinson stand by the way beam
comes from Baltimore Maryland he calls
at home or Woodlawn is that correct yeah
okay I was practicing that but Bob's
right is Steve Robinson Steve comes from
Sacramento California and we have a lot
of names for Steve Steve was our primary
person on the Swiss payload which was
the telescope to look at the hell Bob
comet so he became head cheese so to
speak they called the Swiss you know the
Swiss cheese but it was much funnier
when we made it up on an orbit buddy
Steve Steve did a great job as his first
light as was beamers first flight and
they did an outstanding job as rookies
and last but not least is the Arnie trig
vison be arnes a Canadian astronaut he's
been in this program longer than we have
trying to get to go fly and I admire him
for that his determination and effort
but be army be Arnie was obviously his
first flight as a payload specialist
with us he was a principal investigator
on the men payload which is a
microgravity isolation mount payload and
unfortunately already spent most of his
time on the mid-deck working the men
payload and hardly got to look out the
windows much but if you already did a
great job and it was my pleasure to fly
with all these folks and I sure wish we
could go do it again we had such a great
time and what we'd like to do now is we
have a some slides we show you to help
explain our mission a little bit better
than to film because the film is pretty
fast pace and it's kind of tough to get
all our words out so go ahead and go
through those slides if we could bring
the lights back down and bring the
slides up okay they give me the easy
slides because again I'm the commander
and it's tough for me to do these things
but obviously you've seen our crew patch
we designed that as a crew member or as
a crew and you see in the payload Bay a
representation of some of our payloads
also the high inclination flight and our
our mission was primarily a mission to
Planet Earth to study the Earth's
atmosphere and how we as humans have
affected that earth and that's
represented on the patch a picture of
the crew again I can't say enough good
things about those folks they did a
great job and between you and them it
kept me out of trouble and we had a very
very successful mission on 85 and again
they give me any easy photo here no
presentation would be complete without a
launch photo this was a third to 23rd
mission of discovery and she performed
flawlessly we had no malfunctions no
anomalies on flight that impacted any of
our operations so we had nothing to
worry about with the uber and it was the
86 mission and a space shuttle program
so we should be all proud with the
things we've accomplished in those
missions as I said in the film we
deployed the christus paws on flight day
one the spa's is actually the carrier
for the
instruments and spas has flown four
times before three times before this was
the fourth flight and it flew once
before with the Krista and instrument
which is the main instrument you see
there on the top as a cryostat actually
because it has infrared detectors that
looked at about 15 different gases in
our middle atmosphere and again looking
at the dynamics and the formation of
ozone in our atmosphere and that was a
German instrument as was the spa's
carrier next to it was a large
instrument called Marcy which was an
American experiment which looked at two
specific chemicals in our atmosphere OHI
on and also in a n.o which are very
instrumental in determining some of the
equations and dynamics of what's going
on in our atmosphere and they received
lots of data from pole to pole at
different altitudes in the world below
that you can see probably down in the
lower right corner of snow-capped
mountain that's Mount Adam and we're
actually near the Oregon Washington
border in the United States Steve and I
control the remote manipulator system
from the a flight deck my right hand is
on the rotational hand controller which
we use to control the pitch yaw and roll
of the arm and my left hand is actually
just resting on an orbiter controller
but above it the square-shaped
controller is what we put our left hand
on for translation x y&z to maneuver the
remote manipulator system well thanks to
some of the folks we recognized earlier
today Alan bartos and his gang and and
it has broken her gang each morning one
of the first things we got to see was a
bunch of messages that were kind of
faxed up to the to discovery to inform
us that the changes in the updates and
our big we call it a flight plan or our
big activity plan for the rest of the
day as you can see it's quite a lot of
quite a lot of pages this about 50 pages
that day I think we have to go through
all those pages and sort them out put
them in the correct books and get them
organized for the day's activities and
also if you look up my head you can see
a bunch of legs and stuff it's right
after the wake up so it's a very
very busy time on the shuttle everyone's
getting cleaned up for work and getting
things sorted out so each one we did
that operation so that we could carry on
a very efficient rest of the day well
for some of the payload operations we
did I'm working a mid dec secondary
experiment called brick which is
bioreactor or excuse me biological
research in canisters and it's actually
if you look I have some gloves on and
I'm opening a container of liquid
nitrogen and I'm putting some samples in
that to preserve them for the rest of
the mission it's pretty simple but all
payloads that we have on the on the
mission take time under crew day and
each one's important and we try to make
sure we get all those done according to
that plan that we had earlier this is a
view of our payload over Korea payload
Bay that is over Korea and this is what
it looked like when we're looking at the
app windows of the shuttle in their
front you can see the minus the
manipulator flight demonstration test
the japanese robot arm and it is stowed
in this configuration Steve and I
operated the MFD which is a lot easier
to say than manipulator flight
demonstration we have rated the MFD from
this workstation that was in the a
flight deck we also had to hand
controllers for this arm the again the
translation went on the left for XYZ and
the rotational one on the right for pity
our role and then the laptop computer in
the center showed us what the arm was
doing and some other parameters that we
needed to know and we looked at the TV
monitors just behind my head to actually
get a view of what was going on on my
headband in honor of the Japanese it
says ms ichiban which means ms one here
is the view of myself working with the
again with a microgravity vibrational
isolation mode this work is really
designed to better understand some of
the challenges we face with doing
sensitive a fluid physics material
science and crystal growth experiments
on the space station many of these will
be affected by the vibrations of station
and min which is the little purple thing
lower half of that double a cloak
enclosure just in front of me
actually is a magnetic levitation system
that will isolate many of these
impairments from the vibrations of
station on this flight we were looking
at two different these one how well mem
works as an isolator how clean and
environment it can provide to the
experiment and then using the men with
the experiments model on top of it
looking at the effect of the vibrations
on the experimental results both were
isolated situation sometimes running in
on isolation mode and sometimes using
mint actually vibrate the experiment
with controlled acceleration levels and
this is me with one of the fluid cells
that were using as particular cells is
designed to study the interaction or the
dynamics of a interface between the
fluid and the vapor above the interface
I will spin the cell on the mem to
establish a void right in the center of
a cell and then look at the dynamics of
the interface between the fluid and the
void here this sort of a fundamental
problem a typical of many experiments
will do a space station later on here's
a another secondary experiment on the
mid-deck protein crystal growth and
along with posting crystal growth we had
630 chambers of proteins at on flight
day two I activated and the reason we
fly proteins in space is that in the
microgravity environment the proteins
will grow more perfectly sometimes
larger but not necessarily always larger
but more perfectly and by flying
proteins if we can form a more perfectly
than they kind of serve as keys to solve
the puzzle to all kinds of different
diseases that are out there and also can
help us come up with medications but
typically what's flown or or a different
HIV virus or antibodies some cancer
studies different livers proteins for
little liver prevention for liver
disease and it's a very important part
of flying in the micro gravity gravity
environment one of the great things that
the opportunities that having a space
shuttle gives you is to go up and study
things that are temporary
and such as a visitor from outer space
called a comment in the comment
hale-bopp we we were fortunate enough to
be able to go up and study hale-bopp
from our perch above the earth's
atmosphere in discovery the black
looking canister in there in my hands my
carefully gloved hands was a small
telescope looking out the side hatch
window that's the hatch that we crawl in
and out of the orbiter on launch and
landing and it's got about an 80-inch
window in it this telescope was bolted
to the hatch and looked out that window
and we were able to use the whole
orbiter thanks to some really fantastic
mathematics and and effort by folks here
on the ground point the whole orbiter at
the comet zero in with some controls you
can probably see there with the
telescope and get some pictures in the
ultraviolet range of the spectrum that
you really can't get from the ground and
this was all recorded on a digital
camera you can see at the very end there
to the sort of the back of the telescope
with the wires coming out of it so it's
like another combustion experiment
waiting to happen but it's not it's uh I
didn't know this photograph was gonna
look like this when it was taken no nor
did I choose it to be in the in the
group but but I'm going to talk about it
another good reason to go into space is
to study what happens to to human body's
physiology does change and the
adaptation process is fascinating and
one of the things you have to adapt to
is changing your sleep cycles when you
go to bed and when you wake up and we
did quite a bit of that in both in
preparation for the flight and during
the flight and there's a study to to try
to ascertain what happens to the human
body and in situations like that both on
the ground and in space you can see on
my arm they're wrapped around and white
there there's a little module that's
records we were Kurt and I wore one of
these the whole flight and it records
our arm movements as an accelerometer
inside and also a light sensor and what
I'm really doing is it's a little cotton
walled wat for
saliva sample really as I mentioned
earlier bioreactor was a very important
secondary payload we had on the mid-deck
Here I am stowing a sample of the media
that the cancer cells were growing in a
few times a day i would take samples of
the media to see to check the metabolic
rate of the cells and also take a few of
the cells out and fix them or preserve
them so they could be studied later it's
hoped that by using the zero-g
environment to grow the cells in three
dimensional in three dimensions sort of
like they would in a tumor we can learn
a lot more about how cells grow in the
human body and more specifically how
colon cancer grows in the human body and
hopefully this will aid in colon cancer
research and help us defeat that disease
at some point well one of the big parts
of spaceflight is learning about
personal hygiene showering without
without a shower it's a kind of an
interesting thing and they have rinse
lists shampoo and rinsed with soap and
this is me I think a first or second
time i shampooed in in space and it was
kind of interesting you put it in it
lathers up and you just wipe it out with
a towel and actually it works pretty
well the earlier in the video we saw
Beeman riding the bike and he didn't
have his shirt on and if I were built
like him I wouldn't have mine on either
but
the but the exercise is important in
space obviously because when the
microgravity environment our muscles
don't have to support our weight the
weekend very rapidly so i tried daily i
think i missed two days in the flight
daily to ride the stationary bike for 30
minutes and it just helps your recovery
landing day as well as their after from
the process and if i look like beamer i
wouldn't have my shirt on at the
computer either so but one of the neat
things that one of the neat things that
we're able to do on orbit during post
sleep and priestly time when we're not
actually working payloads is we can
receive mail from our family and friends
and stuff here and on the ground so
that's one of the things I'm doing also
we had a record flight we had 11 of the
laptop computers onboard little computer
you see I'm working with there we had 11
on board due to all the activities with
all the payloads we had so we as we
mentioned had a busy flight and all the
payloads they had their own computers
following those days of hard work and
most of exercise there and Washington
hair you do have to spend a little bit
of time sleeping sleeping in space is a
little bit different and sleeping on the
ground for one you don't have a mattress
to lie on so if you tried that you just
float off the mattress and your blanket
of a float away so we use our sleeping
bags and just tie these down to any
convenient spot i happen to be tied to
the floor here rama was tied above me at
the ceiling and John and Steve are tied
to the wall above my head in this
picture and knee just let your body
relax and they wear my hands are in this
position it's just a natural place at
your hands go if you're completely
relaxed and without the the effect of
gravity trying to pull them down they
just float in front of your face you'll
notice I don't have a pillow here first
couple of nights there is a pillow is
kind of attached to the sleeping bag and
you can kind of tie that to your head to
give you the comfortable feeling of
being at home sleeping on your bed but
after a couple of days you don't bother
with a pillow and just let your head
around one of the pleasures of coming
back to space from space is you get to
lie on a bed and and feel that thing
against your back but it's great doing
this stuff in space another thing that's
a lot more difficult to do in space is
to get control of my hair every morning
I would attempt to do that and I'd have
some great tape nearby brush out all the
stray hairs and I would always tie it
back in a ponytail during the day so
that it wouldn't get in the way of the
equipment and everything and whenever I
would go up to the flight deck before
I'd tied it back I got a lot of flack
from my crew because my my hair would
take up the whole window and they
couldn't see out the window I'll has
made sure that I I tied it back every
day every crew takes a crew portrait in
space and we thought we would take
advantage of the fact that we no longer
have the airlock inside of the mid-deck
and we have this is the second flight of
the external airlock on discovery so
it's out in the payload Bay and it
leaves a really nice volume in the mid
deck so we thought would take advantage
of that and as you can tell our crew has
a lot of fun together and we had a lot
of fun making this picture too here's a
picture of the forward flight deck on
the Iran to every day and it it's a nice
way to show what kind of team works
involved in doing a rendezvous here we
are going through a little briefing at
the start of the round of your day with
Curtin commander seat and myself in the
pilot being we're down in the ms2
position and it's too bad you can't even
pan out more with the camera because
you'd see the other three crew mates in
the a flight deck it's a very busy place
on the rendezvous day and as I can't
alluded to earlier it really is a full
team effort and this was the effort that
we're going after on flight day 10 and
again it was mentioned in the video but
Krista spas the just like the ad was a
an ideal satellite the Germans that that
ran Krista as well as the American
instruments are on board all performed
flawlessly and we were very excited to
get that news back up to us in a daily
summaries on how well Krista was doing
and she performed awesome and she was
very very stable during the rendezvous
forced to Grandpa learn of course during
the rendezvous process there's a lot of
information coming into the cockpit and
being processed by everybody on board
especially Kurt when he's flying the
vehicle by hand and we have some fairly
complex sensors and some fairly simple
ones to this is a handheld laser just a
battery-powered little box with a
trigger on it and I'm citing up through
the overhead window at the spa's when
it's not too far away and it sounds out
a laser pulse a timed laser pulse counts
how much time it takes to get there
bounce off the target and come back and
can tell us how far the spa's is a way
to within inches what's the once the
payload is on the arm or for other
reasons of removing the arm this is how
we do it facing aft in the baseball cap
and all looking looking out the back
window actually that was really useful
for two reasons so that I crew wouldn't
make fun of my hair so much and so that
it would keep the bright Sun out of your
eyes sometimes the the lighting
conditions are very dramatic up there I
was kind of surprising to me just don't
see Sun that bright there on earth so it
was great to have sunglasses and hats
and stuff to protect yourself sometimes
you can see the word Canada written on
the robot arm or the remote manipulator
system are long 60-foot arm provided by
the Canadian Space Agency which did a
great job for us we had it out and busy
almost every day 2n deployed the
satellite with it and retrieved it and I
was able to move the satellite around to
do some space station construction tests
also and as we said many times earth
observation is a very important part of
every mission we have probably one of
the best views of the earth that
anybody's ever had I think this was the
thing that surprised me most it's hard
to describe although we're going to try
in a little while describe how beautiful
the earth is from 160 miles or 138 miles
up i'm using a Hasselblad 70 millimeter
camera here which is pretty much the
mainstay of the earth
vation camera systems we use and I'm
shooting out of the aft windows of the
flight deck actually out of the overhead
windows here and of course if you're
going to shoot a lot of film you have to
load a lot of film and unfortunately
there's no dark room in the orbiter so
we have a dark bag instead and you put
all the the fresh film and the magazine
that's been exposed inside of it and you
pretty much change it by feel and I was
lucky enough to get to do that about 40
times but there's a pretty incredible
experience be able to fly on a vehicle
like the shuttle and look at this
beautiful earth of ours and I in this
view what an added bonus and this flight
was were in the high end condition orbit
so we get to see a majority of the earth
in his fight and this picture here and
see if you know the shape of a little
country called ice language where I was
born it's just off below the horizon
there just to the right of the orbiters
tail and to be able to see a country so
far north of the Equator is really quite
a quite an amazing thing in very pretty
colors in the ocean here and it's very
beautiful view and it's even better when
you're up there able to see it with your
own eyes here's a view of my hometown
which is Montreal in Quebec up in Canada
the big island in the middle of the st.
lawrence river that runs a horizontally
across the lower half of the picture is
a montreal itself a little bit above
that right in the middle of the picture
you can see the Mirabelle International
Airport you see quite a bit of detail in
the land from space and a lot of these
not only are they pretty to look at they
give java version geologists and
meteorologist a lot of information that
they can use to better understand this
riff that we live on and they shot the
orbiter is actually brought over the
middle of British Columbia which is the
most westerly province in canada and
we're looking down south from there and
the lower part of the picture you can
see this the city of vancouver and some
of the silk coming out the Fraser River
into the
virgin bay vancouver island just to the
right in the lower half and then the
Puget Sound the Olympic Peninsula and
I've just above the center of the
picture of the Seattle area and right
near the top the Portland area in the
portland oregon washington oregon border
and the moans green reindeer there's
just in the upper left corner of the of
the pitcher there there's a lot of very
incredibly good pretty views of the
earth that we live on this is actually
the dancing actually gdansk a city on
the polish Baltic border and I we passed
over there's quite a bit it was very
distinct to islip of land there
protecting the harbor for Gdansk and I'm
sorry I took called a dancing but being
an amateur historian I took this picture
a lot because of the historical nature
of the city and the parts it played
during 22 in the 20th century you can
also see up in the Baltic towards the
top of the photo is a large plankton
bloom in the Baltic Sea which is kind of
rare for the colder waters up there but
you can see it as a swirled Brown
pattern in the water this is a picture
actually of the Alps you see them
running in the left-hand corner all the
white capped mountains and in Austria
and also southern Germany Bavaria to be
exact going through the mountains
through the Alps you can see the in
river cutting a valley there and you can
see innsbrook about one-third the way
down from the left side in there and if
you see the two lakes that dominate the
upper center of the picture to the right
of them is actually a great brown area
and that's the city of Munich with its
large international airport to the right
of it the here's a photo photo the east
Mediterranean that's the water you're
looking at and the land portion you see
is Lebanon and about if you go start at
the top and come down about a third of
the way the point that jets out into the
Mediterranean that's Beirut Lebanon and
it's interesting just inland from Beirut
you can see the mountains and the ridges
and some green some vegetation but if
you go further a little bit further
inland from Beirut that's the Bekaa
Valley
you can see the shape of the different
vegetations in that Valley and if you go
further inland from there then that is
all a desert area that's in Syria if you
move to the bottom of the slide the
about the bottom third of the slide is
Israel and you can just barely see that
the tip of the Sea of Galilee in Israel
as well on this slide on this slide the
it's interesting that the robotic arm is
right through the field of view and guys
like me that we shoot a lot of Earth ops
photos I was always talking to Janice TV
and hey can't you move that arm out of
the way and but the they were pretty
busy using the arm we were a very busy
flight and so that is an indicator of
how much work was going on
simultaneously on this flight but what
we're looking at here the right part of
the slide is Kazakhstan and the the lake
you see and they put the particular deep
blue lake about in the middle of the
slide is a lake baikal sh and win
kazakhstan if you follow the water down
it cuts through a ridge and that Ridge
Mountains is from 10,000 15,000 feet
high it goes through what's called the
Sun garion gate and to the left side of
that gate is a tremendous dust storm and
that's really what caught our eye on
this photo was that huge dust storm
blowing through there into China well
not only is the geography need to look
at but meteorology the weather that we
get to see from orbit we showed you a
picture of winnie a super typhoon
earlier in the movie but just to explain
some of the capability capabilities we
have onboard nowadays the ground called
us up and told us about Winnie and asked
us to try to take a look at it when we
went by and just so happens we pass
pretty much right over Winnie just a few
minutes later and we had a digital
electronic still camera on board and we
were able to take a few photos of that
super typhoon and then it wasn't very
many minutes later that we had a
downlink capability to Houston and so we
sent those images down through one of
the computers that I showed you earlier
and it wasn't within an hour so that we
had that kind of information out to the
internet into the public so it so we've
come a long way with our capability on
the orbiter and we hopefully will
more that in the future this may be a
place that some of you folks have been
before on some vacations but the lake
directly in the center is Lake Tahoe and
to the left you can see the Sierra
Nevada mountains and the lake in the top
right corner is a pyramid lake it
actually is on an Indian Reservation but
if you draw a line between that Lake and
Lake Tahoe in the center there's kind of
a gray area sh about halfway between
them and that's Reno Nevada just to give
you some idea what green tree type
mountains look like in space and then
the desert on the eastern side of the
mountains also in the United States this
is the great salt lake in Utah the
northern part is actually at the bottom
we're looking south is at the top
there's a railroad causeway that goes
right through the middle of this lake
and actually bisects the two portions of
the lake the southern part which is a
dark blue here is very deep and in the
northern part which is a red is the
shallow part and the reason it's red
this time of the year which and it
really surprised me because on my other
flights it was a pale blue usually but
during this time of year brine shrimp
flourish in the salt water of the salt
lake and that's what causes the water to
be red and this time of year there's a
lot of commercial fishermen out there
harvesting the brine shrimp to use for
fish food he had a very busy flight and
once in a while in fact pretty often
you'd be working away at something and
you glanced out the window and see
something that would just tempt you to
stop and thank goodness we had lots of
cameras this is a view looking west as
we zipped out over the Atlantic back at
Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard and
Nantucket Island you can see the Sun
reflecting off the water and the various
current patterns and near the surface
and the water and you can also clearly
see all the landlocked water and
ponds and lakes and also a canal there
on Cape Cod itself we did have a high
inclination flight I know this is a dark
photograph but it's amazing we have it
at all I think this is the Aurora
Australis the Southern Lights and down
over southern Australia or even a little
south of that it's where most of our
night passes kind of bottom doubt in our
orbital trajectory and this was a just a
wonderful sight to see it was
fascinating and it was a kind of a
combination of physics and art sort of
being held right out there in the sky
see many of you know when energetic
electrons come down and clobber
atmosphere occur not an atmospheric but
atomic oxygen it's well above the
atmosphere they will release the energy
in the form of photons or fluoresce and
they fluoresce this ghostly green you
can see the tail of discovery there
garni managed to get this photograph
through some diligent effort with long
exposures and some very high-speed film
and I'm really glad he got it and will
transition now from the earth
observation slides back into the final
slides that we've got for you today I
know this is entry day you notice be
Arnie and Jan or in blue it looks like
underwear and that's because it is
underwear it's been modified with liquid
cooling tubes and we wear that under the
orange suits that I've got on to keep a
school and we've come a long ways the
last few years and keeping crews
comfortable on the landing and entry day
I mean my suit did typically the pilots
are very excited on this day because up
until now the Space Shuttle has not been
an airplane or a glider on launch we
were a rocket and then we transitioned
into an orbiting spacecraft but now
we're actually going to become an
airplane or I guess you'd say the
fastest heaviest glider in the world on
this day so we're very excited as I
mentioned that gave me the easy slides
and no presentation like this would be
complete without landing photo we were
very very happy to be back on the ground
to see our friends and family
unfortunately we're already missing our
home in space and the work we've been
doing
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things that we we get to do and again
she came through in great shape and
we're all very excited already looking
forward to our next mission
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