we are going to extend the built-in hold
that we are presently in the three hour
built-in hold for an extra hour
the crew has a wide variety of breakfast
items to choose from ranging from cold
cereal to steak and eggs juice milk and
other beverages from from left to right
we have mission specialist George pinky
Nelson Nelson earned a PhD in astronomy
from the University of Washington in
1978 and he's flown twice as a mission
specialist pilot dick Covey 42 he flew
as a pilot on 51 I mission aboard
discovery at the end of August and
beginning of September in 1985 commander
Rick hawk
very experienced
Dave Hill MERS mission specialist in my
clowns
mission specialist completing the the
crew even though we have been holding we
have continued with some of the tasks
that need to be conducted the there in
the process of putting on the pressure
suits that the the crew will wear on
future missions this particular suit
room there's mission specialist pinky
Nelson who has on his launch and entry
helmet Dave Hill MERS who is in the
process of completing his suiting up
process as well in the foreground
commander Rick house in the the process
of putting on his pressure suit and then
in the background you can see mission
specialist Mike lounge waving at the
camera there and the the other crew
around the room
we fight to emerging from the elevator
and on their way out the door now led by
security
they commander this counts pilots cubby
nice lines
mouthing followed by John huddy
who is the head of the high school
office in the Johnson Space Center proud
of news media representatives also there
to the document they are leaving the
crew now in the the Astros and and
preparing to close the door the Astro
van now on the the pad surface and the
crew ready to get out they'll be met by
a couple of the closeout crew
technicians
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus two hours 27 minutes and
Counting commander Rick Hulk in the
white room where he is completing the
suiting up process obviously had either
brought along or was handed a a gag set
of glasses and which he did try on there
the team helping take off the protective
booties which have been on the boots
that he wears as part of the pressure
suit shaking hands with the the closeout
crew and obviously being wished luck
nothing
dave was a US Marine pilot prior to
joining NASA and he logged more than
1500 hours long town follows one two
three four five six this is shuttle
launch control at t-minus 20 minutes 48
seconds and counting
we're just a few seconds away now from
the t-minus 20 minute hold and we will
stop the clock at that point this is the
walkway used by the astronauts they
enter the orbiter in case of an
emergency the arm can be placed back
into position within about 15 seconds
coming up on the four-minute point in
the count the orbiter flight control
surfaces such as Elavon speed brakes and
rudders are now being moved through a
three pre-programmed pattern that's all
three engines now being moved in a
pattern to verify their readiness to
support the ascent flight control after
going through their paces they'll be
aligned to their start positions
coming up on the 2-minute point in our
countdown
t-minus two minutes and Counting
the orbiter computers have positioned
the vent doors t-minus 31 seconds we
have a goal for autosequence start
Discovery's for redundant computers have
assumed t-minus 23 seconds and counting
the s are being the nozzles profile
t-minus 15 14 13 12 11 10 or go for main
engine start
seven six Americans return to space as
discovery clears the tower crew confirms
roll program Houston now controlling
three inches 104 percent
three good ABS three good yourselves
my to begin throttle down to 65% just
funneling down this room execute three
hundred sixty five percent now
anything my to see engines begin to
throttle back up at about 59 seconds
mark one minute quantity 2300 feet per
second altitude 5.9 nautical miles
downrange distance three nautical miles
Discovery know what throttle up
discovery giving a go at throttle up
three engines 104 percent velocity 3200
feet per second altitude 10.8 nautical
miles downrange distance 8 nautical
miles
25 seconds from solid rocket booster
separation one minute 45 seconds three
engines 104 percent velocity 4800 feet
per second altitude 20 nautical miles
downrange distance 19 nautical miles
standing by for solid rocket booster
separation
solid rocket boosters have separated two
minutes 20 seconds three engines still
running hundred four percent
discovery used it here go for the breed
boy check out
discovery Houston that discovery you are
go for deploy deploy
looks great Michael
you
okay Dave thank you
good morning Discovery good morning
Discovery
good morning discovery rise and shine
boys time to stop doing that shuttle
shuffle you know what I mean hey here's
a little song coming from the billions
of us to the five of you Rick start them
off baby the hawkster to you just give
her the gas and look at this baby go
and discovery with that
they'll be happy about that
and they'll be happy about that
okay thank you appreciate that
okay guess that looks like it's an LS
will continue with your carcass we
concurred Dave proceed
this is Mission Control the procedure
worked the antenna dish is locked in and
the antenna arm is being moved in to the
payload Bay
round orbit round
so come on it discovery Houston good
morning how you doing
the intention of this experiment is to
heat up a titanium alloy when gravity
environment served what fix will happen
to the strength of the middle and grain
size what do you expect I'm hoping for
our stronger metal and more pyramidal
rather alloy
doesn't look like it has the same amount
of curl does it bud no it's not turning
as bad as this one
Oh
every Houston thank you very much for
that letter I think
he's expressing the cares and thoughts
of a lot of Americans those boys
designed by rich dilatory Richard
Cavalli
who went to Union College and connected
the medical kid so he has
these experiments that moved up to
succeed in college and our medical
school
this experiment can fit
of the tree and I'll be one more here on
the camera sake
if the
dude with a number of chamber
one side is half the state and the other
side has potassium iodide
Laurie
neighbors are separated by what's bad a
semi permeable
service that looks kind of like that
that surface test we're going to react
to qualify red iodide crystals
I need that premium to do this though
the LP heavy will
when one here yeah no I'm doing it it's
retracting about the block don't know
one size 11 solution to make the
Discovery's payload Bay facing the earth
over the Cape I thank my wife the
daughter is out there so please get the
hello for me
we'll be here too
discovery passing along at about 17,500
miles per hour
it's for my instrumentation
Communications Officer Harry black now
has got a good view of the peninsula
Florida as discovery passes over
in our subjective evaluation
okay brother CRC
really
not a realistic
like him
okay I still have a squeal I'm a squeal
crowd noise when you do
okay here
am I reading everything
get a good center
thank you really have to be
bitters receivers probably could use
another set down a bit
give you an idea of some of the things
that happen to be stuck in here most
important for those of us who like to
eat it is spoon it turns out the spoon
is the universal utensil in space
because just about everything will stick
to it and now you can use that to get it
up into your mouth
flashlight light we use that to find a
bathroom when we got to everything dark
inside at night all kinds of pencils
make changes that need to be erased and
changes and Parker and has to make big
big big changes that the commander can
read them and and also I can't be a
little bit of pity swiss pocket knife
and i guess that's in case I get lost
overboard can't find these other things
the really interesting stuff though is
not in the flats but in the pocket
itself and well it's just go on a trip
in here and let's see what we find
you still getting this okay Houston
that's affirmative dick okay first thing
that they come across is food and now
you know there's all kinds of nuts and
an M&E I'm just stepping and we packed
those in their case FAO schedule just
for a real late lunch like we did today
and then of course
there's a there's a little tape recorded
earphones takes even a little speaker in
their case music get now we got a little
Willie Nelson and some oldies and but
goodies the commander would like to talk
but he's all tied up he wanted to show
you his peanut butter and jelly tortilla
yes up here down for former Capcom like
the shore sample all that's very proud
of my state efficient operation subtract
it so we have our board here that mo
these patch we're real proud to have
brought up and we look forward to
bringing it back to y'all and control DP
when we come back we sure appreciate all
that standing work y'all set at where we
are today Rick that's coming in real
clear and you've got a bunch of people
applauding down here we really
appreciate that thank you
discovery is them with you through the
wire
baby
discovery on behalf of the Challenger
families and all of us down here here
doesn't feel good
see the Challenger vision continue
America
indeed indeed
I think maybe we need to start running
at the Beach Boys music here
I wish we had some Beach Boys music to
run for it
here is we're going out the door to the
beach
okay one more time I wish we had the
Beach Boys tape to play for you
okay I thought I'd tell you a little bit
about the fight station up here we've
seen an awful lot of the experiments
going on down the mid-deck and also out
the window photography course going up
and launch and coming back home the
station's the commander's station that
I'm sitting in and the pilot station to
my right as well as Dave homers seat
which is right in between us it's not up
right now but he'd be sitting right here
where he can monitor both of us are the
ones that we control the shuttle from
let me point out a few of the controls
that we have first of all between my
legs I have a stick like you would find
in an airplane I'm going to move it up
so you can see it better
yeah I've got my left hand out and
although I would normally fly with my
right and like a normal airplane stick
it can control the shuttle by rolling it
left or right dipping the wings as it
were pitching up or down moving the nose
up or down also when we're on orbit
using the reaction control system we can
yaw the shuttle left or right by
twisting the stick this way and that
slices the nose left to right what an
aerodynamic flight coming back in beyond
function is not not using now we also
have controls for the orbital
maneuvering system engines the ones that
will do our deorbit burn with dick
coming over in the pilots side has most
of the plumbing valves down here and my
lower right however are the switches
that we use to enable or as they say arm
the old engines and then back working
with the displays here and pushing some
of our keys we can actually allow the
computers to fire the Bureau of
attendance for the prescribed amount of
time this is probably not a one-man
operation as you can see and we intend
to help each other just like pinkies
helping Rick here
as you can see they see it it's a
struggle to get into these things it
doesn't take very long and they are warm
there's no doubt about that
discovery has been talking to you sir
teasers now
okay let them clear I understand you're
through teachers and you're not getting
any more dentally that's correct
Ricki have a go for a payload bay door
closing Roger go
that's a door operation for now
outstanding copy nominal
discovery Houston go for deorbit burn
this is Mission Control Houston we're
standing by for the burn and two seconds
propulsion systems officer reports were
burning and looking good discovery
Houston with you had your go ahead
Mission Control on NASA select
television we're now taking a view from
helicopter over the landing area we're
looking at some of the 380,000 people
gathered for the landing of discovery
that kept that call from Capcom we've
now acquired a signal a video signal
from Vandenberg of discovery and she
passes over the California coastline
discovery at a hundred and one thousand
feet velocity thirty seven hundred feet
per second descending at a rate of two
hundred thirty feet per second
discovery now around 40,000 feet
velocity 800 every one feet per second
discovery Houston recommend vector
transfer to the BFS discovery Houston on
centerline on glide slope winds are calm
looks real pretty at 3,000 feet
discovery will execute her pre-flare
maneuver she's now at about 6500 feet
ascending descending at a rate of 180
feet per second speed 550 feet per
second
you're down
the gear down and locked the report from
Mission Control main gear touchdown
man her out now rotating the nose down
standing by for nose gear and touch them
trap roger wheelstop discovery welcome
back a great ending to the new beginning
thanks a lot on the runway runway one
seven here at the Dryden Flight Research
Facility Vice President George Bush has
arrived down at the landing site with
the vice president
NASA Administrator James Fletcher and
the head of the shuttle program for
Admiral Richard truly the access stairs
are up against the side of the orbiter
and the crew discovery now coming down
the steps waving a large American flag
commander account being greeted by dick
truly and NASA Administrator Fletcher