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welcome to the sts 30 post flight crew

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press conference

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our time is somewhat limited today as we

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have a press conference planned with

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admiral truly in washington at 2 p.m

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eastern daylight time

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but first things first we're here to

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talk about

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shuttle mission sts-30 and the

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successful dispatch of magellan on my

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right the crew of atlantis dave walker

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ron graby

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mark lee

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norm and mary cleave

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captain

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we have a film that we put together with

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the help of the

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real good tv and movie folks

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here at jsc

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here we are getting ready to go out to

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the pad in our

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launch escape suits which are relatively

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comfortable at this point because

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they're been cooled down pretty well

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nice day it was wonderful to see so many

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folks there to see us off

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and we had a very pleasant trip out to

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the pad

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here we're picking up with the launch

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sequence as a result of our first scrub

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the attitude in the cockpit was actually

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relatively relaxed of course there's a

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limit to how relaxed you can be when

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someone lights off that big torch

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beneath you

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there's the orbiter going by the launch

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clearing the tower

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see the orbiter or the vehicle roll to

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place us in a heads down attitude and to

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lock to align the vehicle and the proper

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azimuth for its ascent phase here's some

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continuing on up in first stage

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as dave mentioned we were wearing the

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launch escape suits this time around

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they provided a little more acoustic

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insulation and it seemed a little

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quieter to me than my first flight i

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think that was shared by the other crew

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members that had compared it to previous

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launches

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once you get on orbit we got the payload

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bay doors open and we took a good look

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at magellan it was good to see that it

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was in the same pristine condition as

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when we took off we started the

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elevation procedures for the deploy and

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inside once we got on orbit we had to

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reconfigure a number of systems for

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on-orbit operations

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dave reaching back to one of the

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overhead panels and norm helping them

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out and shortly after that we start into

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the procedures that we use to deploy

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the ius principally it's the

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the panel in back of me and over to the

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right

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of norm once we elevate it up to 29

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degrees and then on up to 52 degrees for

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the deploy we went ahead and threw the

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switch and sent magellan on its way

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it comes out of the payload bay at about

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half a foot per second and during the

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first minute we just sit there and watch

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it leave the orbiter bay we're in free

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drift as far as the shuttle is concerned

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and the way it is deployed as you know

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is a super zip it's a mechanical or a

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metal band around the ios that is

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separated and several springs send it

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ius here

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it's flowing it's it's a very very

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reliable upper stage we used it several

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times and it put magellan on its

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trajectory

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the attitude was good it was when three

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meters per second of where they said it

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was going to be which is pretty

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remarkable performance so it's been a

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real workhorse of the space program

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especially return to flight after

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challenger and right about this time

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you'll see the rate pickup of the

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payload it's when we put a minus x burn

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orbiter it separates us from the payload

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and that's a last maneuver that we do

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until 15 minutes after deploy when we go

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ahead and do our separation from the ius

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this is a shot taking out the overhead

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window a close-up view of ius it's about

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four to five hundred feet away when we

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finally do our burn it's about a

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thousand to fifteen hundred feet away

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and this is the the business end of the

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ius we're looking at

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right here inside the gold insulation is

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the ios solid rocket motor

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and this is when the solar rays deployed

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and this is a nice shot we got we

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initially thought that venus was going

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to be too close to the sun for us to

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even see but that we didn't realize till

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we got up there and followed several

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times after sunset we could see uh venus

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trailing the sun at the terminator so we

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got a picture of venus uh sunset and

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down in the lower portion you see some

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of the clouds the

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thunderheads that had built up

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we had a mid deck experiment called a

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fluid experiment apparatus which you can

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see here my hands are inside of this

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it's a little furnace we were growing

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to work on we changed out samples and

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here's an example of crystal

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the rougher

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done at a lower temperature than this

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striated section which was melted at a

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higher temperature so by adjusting the

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wattage we could adjust the temperature

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this indium was being melted if you get

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it too high it'll break if you get it

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too low it doesn't melt through so it's

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we controlled it with our little

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experiment computer which worked great

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different floppy disks for each

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we perform a number of medical

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experiments each flight

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this shows mark getting censored up for

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one such experiment which looked at some

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physiologic parameters i believe like

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heart rate and that sort of thing

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getting ready for a pre-breathe when we

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do space walks to avoid bends we have to

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breathe pure oxygen for a while mark and

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had to do something like that

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we like to lower the cabin pressure to

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10.2 psi and we plan to do that on

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future flights so to test all of that

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we donned the helmets in the cabin and

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as the cabin pressure was being lowered

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and i'm over there checking out and

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making sure that our oxygen is actually

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on we also have laptop computers you can

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pgsc and you can see what that screen

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looks like they're very useful for

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experiments and for keeping track of

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where we are around the world for earth

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this sequence tip picks up with some of

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the typical on-orbit operations this is

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here's mary at the overhead windows this

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is our primary vantage point for earth

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here's some pictures of some

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thunderstorms approaching sunset one of

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the experiments we had on board

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dealt with the photography of lightning

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and here we are getting ready to set

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ourselves up for that here are some

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lightning flashes as seen by some of the

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nice one coming up here shortly

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there it is there's a rather large

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lightning discharge

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back to pick to flight deck operations

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this time we're entering a maneuver

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to put the shuttle in a new viewing

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attitude here's a norm in back of me

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entering some data into the onboard

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mary again at the app station with one

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and then a little example of some of the

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there are hundreds of these

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and some of these are very very large

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the diameter getting up to two to three

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kilometers across they're very prominent

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sun glint in the sea of cortez

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and panning down to the southern tip

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we all got a chance to take a lot of

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photography on this mission and that's a

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lot of fun to do and in addition it's

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useful to a lot of folks

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you can see alligator point in

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tallahassee there for a while some of my

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and panning down the peninsula

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things are just very prominent lake

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a huge area these days with nearly 12

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million people that the state has

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in addition to the motion pictures

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and while this is a camera view the fact

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is that with the naked eye you can see

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almost everything that you can see in

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this view this is a picture of the cape

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and you can see the shuttle landing

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facility the two launch pads including

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the one from which we launched just a

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few days before the florida keys just a

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beautiful view

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and you can certainly see the metroplex

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area there the metropolitan area of

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miami and of course lake okeechobee

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i really as a floridian love these kind

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of pictures and we had it seemed like

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all the passes we had over florida

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during the mission were like this very

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few clouds and it's almost like looking

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at a map except you don't see any of the

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boundary lines as we go to the east of

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course we come to

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a nice place for a post flight trip

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we uh sort of shared doing the the food

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cooking duties that whoever got

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hungry first seemed to be the person

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would end up cooking uh with a galley on

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board i didn't have one the last one the

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galley on board it made it

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an awful lot easier and faster to get

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in zero g and we usually ate our meals

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with his vhs or viroqua high school

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t-shirt on her

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with a piece of beef jerky just enjoying

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zero g mark it was mark's first flight

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he's a rookie and he really had a good

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time you could tell he was really

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enjoying being weightless

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he kept playing with his food i'm sure

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his mother would want him to do that but

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he kept playing with his food

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and now you can see here all the bags

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that's re-entry morning that's all of

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our suits

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re-entry escape gear that was packaged

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up in these bags before we unpacked them

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you can see it took up a lot of space

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down here

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a lot of times at work i feel like i'm

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running around in circles and so i tried

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actually running around in circles and

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it worked up there and it was a lot of

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fun

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there's something about zero g that

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makes even adults regress we were always

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told not to play with our food but the

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fact is you can get such interesting

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effects now the fish crackers that we

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have there in the plastic bag are

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primarily for eating

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but interestingly

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in that plastic bag they really almost

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did look like a pack of

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live or a school of live fish

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ultimately however you have to remember

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that they're there primarily to eat

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and there go a school of them and just

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like predator fish

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and then you've got the problem of

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course of getting those things out of

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the air before they drift off

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and we'll introduce the crew ron gravy

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and then having some difficulty getting

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through there as he's tangled up in all

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the wires and cords that inevitably seem

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to be in the way

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and i think i'm next here

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and i get a little tangled up in the

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cords as well

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but there's always someone there to grab

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you if you do get lost in space

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and in our persona as finn and olay we

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try to outdo uh hans and franz with

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their little girly legs and do our pump

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nice aerobatics thanks and dave

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okay we thought that our last day on

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orbit would be a pretty easy day we're

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going to do some more crew movie and

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earth obs type of

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video work but we ended up changing out

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the computer and this is a real good

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shot in the avionics bay where we had to

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work it was pretty type of being in zero

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g

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there were no real pressure points so it

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was pretty easy to stay in there for a

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couple hours and do the work one of the

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biggest problems is housekeeping as we

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brought out each one of the wire bundles

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we made sure that it was marked

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correctly

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mary and i both checked them to make

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sure that

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we when we put it back together

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we put it back right it would have been

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pretty embarrassing if we would have got

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the right cables hooked up

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and so we marked everything we put it in

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bags all the screws and bolts float

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around so we had to we had to make sure

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that we kept track of all of those and

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once we got it back in mary's showing

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here torquing down uh the bolts each one

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of the bolts has specifications this was

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100 inch pounds that we had to do

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these two and there are a couple other

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eye bolts that we had to go to 30 inch

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pounds

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once they were in place then we hooked

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up all the electrical connectors we

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powered it up and the computer worked

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great

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after getting the computer replaced we

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got a good night's sleep got up the next

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day suited up to come home

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this is just a little demo of how that

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can be done

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and it's fairly easy to get in and out

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of the suit in zero gravity although it

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isn't all that comfortable to wear

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and then we started downhill on schedule

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this is a picture of plasma interaction

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around the orbiter which mark was able

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to get with the camcorder some

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spectacular photography there of the

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this is pretty rare photos then

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you can see out the window again with

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the same camcorder

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the earth horizon as we do the roll

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maneuvers that allow us to

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guide ourselves down the reentry track

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all of this went very smoothly there's a

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little bit of

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high mock buffet and you can see that

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reflected in the slight

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shaking

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of the camera

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i said i said mark actually i think mary

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was taking all of these

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mark took the photos uphill

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and then finally back at edwards

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ron flew a little bit after we went

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subsonic and then i took it for the

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landing

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it was very smooth all the way down

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until we got close

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uh relatively close the last few

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thousand feet when the turbulence and

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the crosswinds which we had expected

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since we were trying to get a crosswind

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developmental test objective done

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became

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obvious the orbiter flies very well

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through that sort of conditions here's

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another picture out the side window

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as we come down

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we

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had no difficulty

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approaching the runway

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some mild compensation for the crosswind

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and then as you'll see lands pretty

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ron is going to do the most important

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job

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that he has to do in the flight here in

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just a second which is to lower the

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landing gear

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because we switched runways late in the

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game we don't have as good a

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photographic coverage of the landing as

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we usually do but it's still adequate to

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see that the orbiter's flying well

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on touchdown the crosswind becomes more

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evident and requires more compensation

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we had a

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smooth soft touchdown a little bit of

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drift left and then back to the center

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line

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rolled out about 10 000 feet

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and stopped

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without difficulty

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and after having gotten out of our

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launch escape suits and cleaned up a

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little bit we're ready to come back to

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earth

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where uh

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dale myers and dick truly were waiting

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to greet us and where we could take a

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look at the orbiter and make sure that

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it was indeed in as good a shape as we

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had hoped looked fine

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and we were happy to be back

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after what was very exciting although to

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our mind too short of flight we would

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have been happy to to stay longer