this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding we're in
the final hours of the STS 32 launch
countdown at this time everything is
proceeding smoothly here in the firing
room at the launch control center got a
full 10-day mission planned for this
flight primary objective of is to deploy
the simcom satellite retrieves a long
duration exposure facility and to
demonstrate the capability of
modifications for an extended mission
duration and we've got the STS 32 flight
crew again this morning for breakfast
mission specialist Marsha Ivins making
her first trip into space today mission
specialist Bonnie Dunbar making her
second trip into space and commander Dan
brandenstein this will be his third
flight his second one to command
there's pilot James Weatherby and
mission specialist David Lowe we've now
joined the STS 32 flight crew in the
operations and check-out building
getting into their flight suits once
again today commander Dan brandenstein
they all fly crew members being assisted
with the gear that they have to wear on
the launch today it's mission specialist
Bonnie Dunbar
mission specialist Marsha Ivins getting
her head gear on and mission specialist
David Lowe and we've got the flight crew
commander Dan Brendon Stein mission
specialist Bonnie Dunbar pilot James
Weatherby leading the crew out of the
side door there we've got the other two
mission specialists Marsha Ivins and
David Lowe being greeted by Kennedy
Space Center employees and we're wishing
them well for today's flight and the
crew once again making a trip to pad 39a
today I'm looking at favorable weather
conditions for a launch attempt
my crew now at the white room at launch
pad 39a commander Dan brandenstein is
being assisted now with the rest of his
gear before boarding the orbiter of
Columbia
all right
coming up on retraction of the orbiter
access arm this arm can be extended in
just a few seconds if necessary
LT LTZ before making you pre-start
as IP restarts at work main engines now
being gimballed will be put in the ready
to start position now retracting the
gaseous oxygen vent hood away from the
vehicle back to the launch position two
minutes 31 seconds we have a go for
autosequence start Columbia's for
redundant computers have primary control
of critical vehicle functions for the
remainder of the count - -20 C - 15
t-minus 10 9 we have a go for main
engine start five four three two one
zero booster ignition and liftoff of
Columbia a new decade from the tower and
over to Houston complete roll program
initiated that roll confirmed as
Columbia heads out on the proper launch
azimuth or the race to catch Elda now
throttling down through 102 percent for
the passage through maximum dynamic
pressure they'll take the engines down
to 65% three good AP use three good fuel
cells now throttling back up 3 at 104
now twelve nautical miles downrange
velocity 3200 feet per second three good
main engines three good fuel cells three
good AP use 15 nautical miles downrange
now
standing by for SRB staging
now at 4,400 feet per second 40 miles
downrange performance nominal
okay John what you're looking at right
now is the CENTCOM satellite that's an
acronym that stands for synchronous
communications it's built by the Hughes
communication services incorporated for
the United States Navy it's actually
leased to the United States Navy's for
communications and the UHF frequency
with its worldwide sleep you can see it
coming out of the payload Bay right now
rotating at about 1.7 rpm and
translating away at about about 1.5 g
per second it was held in the bay by a
cradle in a cradle we had four pins that
we released one by one and then finally
at deploy time we had a a pyrotechnic
device it push it away rpm this picture
here about 80 seconds into the deploy
and the omni antenna you can see
deploying at this time as you can see
this spacecraft is XO deployed out of
the payload Bay when the payload Bay is
facing the earth
good morning Columbia
good morning earth we thought you'd
appreciate a little Bing Crosby to wake
up to this morning it was wonderful oK
you've got the hunt steps on the left
and water coming out on the right
Roger them what you can see but you
probably can't see very well TV but
right along the leading edge you're
studying about where the light is now
the water comes up about a quarter away
just a little bit below where the floor
line now is and it goes back over here
here comes up to about the floor line
it's just a few waters you indicated it
was like on 27 on the front around the
end here we can't see anything
but on the back stuff there's a little
Ridge along the bottom and you just see
that there's just some water there
looking down it is the bilges anyone's
alive you can see little blob of water
down there and till we get this on so be
kind of hard to tell because we can't
give a bit of you don't pass this
canister enough Columbia Houston we
can't tell very well from the video what
you're seeing can you give us a little
bit of a description what what you got
in the middle okay Frank
I'll kind of start on the water tank up
here there are few globules and on the
side of the wet trash storage there's
one big blob and then down along the
side of the wet storage system or then
on the deck and along these cables are
some big globs and then also on the home
step far there's a big glob a grand told
probably of court if you probably
something all up and that's a pretty
rough good morning Columbia we like to
wake up music so much today we thought
we play it for you twice good morning
Houston mine we be up
Columbia Houston we have a Tallyho on L
deaf and it looks even better than the
SMS visuals
we were extremely happy we were ready to
continue at this point it doesn't show
up anywhere in the video or anything but
Lex we took over and manually flew to
protect attitude and maintain that
attitude throughout the photo survey and
Marcia took more photos and I'm clear to
tell you but she'll tell you in her film
report tonight and they think that
that'll all go well towards documenting
and helping with the data that they hope
to get off fell death Lumbee houston we
have a message for you from the
administrator if you're ready ready
today as you flawlessly executed the l
def retrieval literally millions pause
from their daily routines and quietly
watched America's space program and its
very best thanks for providing us
earthbound folks with such an inspiring
start for the 1990s sign Vice Admiral
Richard truly administrator
good morning Columbia Houston your music
this morning is courtesy of the L def
project who are obviously very happy
today
and we're getting good downlink we think
that's I guess that there's a dogs
question for earlier we pulled up a
notify yesterday we was a little
flirting with a special filter on but we
saw something that was kind of strange
so we got it on the camera corner and we
thought we'd show it to you so probably
the first of a long line of experiments
with the tomatoes that have been out
there yeah it's great we're just
crossing the Andes this about to come
into a bunch of clouds but now you can
see it but there's a religious ecology
down in the mountains in this part of
the world we're getting a great view dan
thanks this machine is the American
Floyd echocardiogram is an off-the-shelf
ultrasonic imaging system that it's a
standard piece of equipment that's used
to get a non-invasive picture of the
heart and other other soft tissue
attorneys got the transducer that does
the ultrasonic imaging and we're putting
a gel on it which is sort of goopy water
okay that that gives us a better picture
the way the ultrasound works is that the
ultrasound waves will basically bounce
off different structure with different
different densities in it and that's how
we see a picture of the heart what we're
doing with this experiment is measuring
the cardiovascular changes that
microgravity causes on the body
this data was taken on a spree flight
will be done post flight and then we're
gathering the data right and so they can
measure the different sizes of these
chambers of the heart and tell what
Georgy does to us
Gimli of the bread mob looks like it's
paid for
even fans and on the past two days
almost all of them have gone stamped it
looks like the growth is about
two-thirds of the way down the to one I
lost all of the white list we're gonna
take some photographs and then if you
have nothing else we'll go under the red
package Marshall we copy thank you
those are the farts they're looking for
on the deforestation
Columbia Houston we have some real-time
downlink of your water depth looks great
quite a hill isn't it you bet
totally interesting move this him
Frankie said April
this
okay Jason we what you can see here is
the lower body negative pressure device
or lb NP as we've been calling it here
which is a candidate reconditioning
protocol that we hope might be able to
use to be used for overcoming or
bettering orthostatic intolerance
orthostatic intolerance and one gravity
is the inability to stand up without
feeling dizzy or lightheaded or even in
the worst case I'm catching out her
thank you okay so what we've got here is
the lower body negative pressure device
the last time we flew one of these in
the u.s. space program was on a scarlet
message exactly we were on all three
stations it looked a little bit
different from this in fact it was a
solid can that we flew in this case
there's entire device and all the
equipment that you see right here can be
folded up and put into one of our
lockers here what we're doing here is at
the same time that bonnie has a lower
body a little pressure on a lower body
right now Marcia is using the American
flight echocardiogram and taking some
pictures of her heart so the
measurements that we take while we're
doing this we are constantly measuring
blood pressure heart rate and EKG and in
fact EKG and heart rate are being
constantly downlink to the ground blood
pressure is the only one up here we're
the only ones that have the deep blood
pressure
we're monitoring that on this automatic
blood pressure device and it's also
being taped down here on a recorder
right now we've only got when we come
out of this mission we are only going to
have two data points which really isn't
enough to draw any conclusions from but
we'll be able to measure Bonnie's and my
heart rate blood pressure and EKG when
we return to Edwards in a few days and
see if we think there was any effects
from this but more importantly when we
fly this on some more shuttle flights
and also you know we have any iteration
is that any suggestions what we might be
able to make to this
iterations between this and the
ground-based studies
hopefully
in the future we'll be able to come up
with a fairly good or maybe even a more
effective countermeasure to orthostatic
intolerance Dave would copy all that
them
we appreciate the brief on lb NT y'all
look great up there
hi Dan this is Larry Bird
congratulations to you and the crew on
the slam dunk with Elvia happy birthday
and have a safe landing
good morning Columbia and a happy
birthday to Danny Boy thank you very
much I was hoping that side of my 25 you
didn't age and this wasn't gonna happen
this year no that's not the way it works
he already heard birthday greetings from
the astronaut office and from Larry Bird
during the wakeup music but the L deaf
team and all the rest of us here in mcc
wanted to wish you a happy birthday to
Dan so how old are you anyway Cynthia
Doris is a classified business it's a
pleasure to bring you back aboard
columbia again what we'd like to do
today is give you a demonstration of
some of the equipment we have on board
the shuttle I know you're all are very
aware of the many pictures that people
see coming down from the shuttle real
time and also the photographs that are
brought back the full of documentation
on board the shuttle missions is done
with of a variety of photographic
equipment and the purpose of the
documentation is for earth observations
for technical documentation of various
experiments and payloads and so it is
just pure aesthetics to demonstrate show
people of America that support our space
program how beautiful this universe is
that we live on so with that in mind I'd
like to introduce them
simon's who's going to show you and
demonstrate some of the things we do
with the 70 millimeter camera and here's
Marsha
we are 70 millimeter camera that we used
for mostly earth observations is a
Hasselblad it's the standard Hasselblad
that's pretty much not modified for our
use has a motor drive on it it has a
data magazine
the data makes about 95 or 100 frames of
film and it has a stator on the back
that basically tells us the MEP that's
what we're shooting for some test that
we're flying I have some regular roles
in 120 film which is what happen that
normally uses and I have the little back
for that two cameras are one bracket and
they're connected to a button when I get
one button I fire both cameras at the
same time we slide three different
lenses on this camera in the camera it
requires that you so our spot gives us
an exposure but we also use a spot meter
looking out the window to average the
scene and decide what exposure to use
that's about it for the 1735 we'll be
ready
this is a standard 35 millimeter camera
that most folks have at home we use it
here onboard the shuttle for documenting
through actions and taking still
photography of some of the Patek
experiments that were accomplishing and
also some action out in the payload Bay
or for example L def in our case and
Earth Observation photography we used on
this camera various different lenses
ranging all the way from fisheye lens
for documenting action in the mid-deck
when you need to have a wide field of
view and it's the standard for
photograph that you see that slightly
distorted out on the side one of our
favorites 35 70 zoom for taking earth
observations you can frame the picture
pretty nicely with that and all the way
up to my favorite the 300 millimeter
lens we're using this lens to compare it
with 70 millimeter photography that
Marsha is taking
some of the features are on this camera
of course a standard flash that we use
it has an automatic features they don't
have to worry but any times they're
setting the lights or taking meter
readings down in the mid-deck it's
automatic and you just view it and shoot
we have a data back under on the back of
the camera that automatically prints the
MIT on the photograph useful for Earth
Observation so we can locate the little
picture that we've taken and of course
my favorite the murder drive he just
points shoot and it rewinds and you're
ready for the next shot Davis next and
he'll be talking about the airy camera
we've got here is a 16 millimeter flex
motion picture camera this is actually
an identical camera to camera that's
used widely in the motion picture
industry on board we use it to document
almost all the activities that we do
here in fact most of the films that we
take when we go talking throughout the
country about our space flights are
taken with this camera here what we've
got two different kinds of lenses here
what we've got on here right now is the
ten to 100 millimeter lens
the nice thing about this is that it's
also got an auto feature to it that will
take care of your f-stops for you it's
all you have to do is point focus and
then shoot the camera is battery-powered
and this is the battery pack right here
that's 16 millimeter magazines right
here we carry about 12 of these onboard
with us and it can be these magazines
can be daylight loaded so the camera
itself is just this portion here that
you see and with that I think Bonnie
Dunbar is going to talk about the CCTV
system that we have onboard
that we want to use and when we want it
to go
we can also recently on several shuttle
flights we have been evaluating
camcorders and we
one here several different models we
found these are very useful for in cabin
photography and for successful that we
have at least two experiments on this
flight that utilize off-the-shelf
camcorders and macro lenses for
documenting experimental results well
this gives you a quick view of the video
systems that we have onboard and that we
definitely like to thank all the people
who are doing this and now I'll get you
back to Dan
well the last camera system we have on
board is probably the the granddaddy of
all cameras and it should be coming into
the view right here that's a very large
format camera it's called IMAX it's
actually a payload it flies on specific
Shuttle missions and has documented the
dream is alive is one of the movies it's
shown in several theaters I think about
100 theaters worldwide very special
theaters that's the only sort of format
the the format of each frame is 17
millimeters high by 120 long and it
gives a very high fidelity picture as
you can see it's a very large camera and
it's not something you you use in a spur
of the moment you pretty won't have to
plan your shots ahead of time you can
see I'm holding inside some handles
which allow you to maneuver it like that
and we also like to get the best shots
that are most stabilized we have a rig
where we can mount it at the window
right over here and it takes a shot
looking right at the earth
so using it this way it's very
stabilized and we get some very good
pictures all as you can see we have a
wide variety of cameras on board a
couple things I think worth noting that
the marsh alluded to in the 70
millimeter that we were running some
tests we've normally used only one or
two types of film and on this flight we
have a great number of films that we're
doing the side-by-side comparison
hopefully to enhance the photo
photography and I get better pictures in
the future once again these photographs
are used for a wide variety of things
for instance on the l def retreat to
document the various experiments before
it even readers the in the shuttle and
gets baby bounce around a little bit
when we land it Marsha took over seven
hundred seven hundred photographs with
the 70 millimeter to document each
individual tray on the ldap so a quite a
bit of technical data are collected on
the photographs and the tapes and the
movies we take in addition to the other
around the life on the shuttle as we're
doing right now and with that hopefully
is lend a little insight into some of
the equipment we have onboard the
shuttle and we'd like to turn the
cameras back to the ground you also can
control the TV cameras and they can look
at the most views thanks
I'm filming this right now
it really isn't quite and sometimes we
do get down to microchip but normally
we're about 1/100 to 1/100 thousands of
the teeth and it turns out that can be a
very important variable not only in
system processes NASA got involved in
that research during the Gemini and
Apollo days and trying to determine how
they would I think everybody is
demonstrated with the orange juice and
I'll be no exception Lewis responds
differently in a diligent
connected to what would be on the ground
a vertical wall with the shuttle landing
position the modulation respond directly
to the we
Space Station and two other man's
laboratory that we can learn how to
isolate our exercise equipment we like I
think many people would like to think
that we could one day automate all of
this but I think what a very embryonic
research stage and we've got a good view
of which be running on the treadmill now
thanks a lot
Columbia Houston he's looking real
strong but he's smiling so he needs to
run faster
by 2 and I 3
like anybody
we're gonna looking at graphics
generated by systems at the Gold Room
had Dryden Columbia's energy and
navigation are all in good shape
descending at a rate of three hundred
and fifty feet per second they're at
about fifty three thousand feet they're
approaching the intersection with a
heading alignment circle and we'll be
making a left overhead turn to line up
for the approach to concrete runway 22
xenon lights illuminating the approach
end of the runway at edwards Columbia
we'll come into our field of view when
we have this camera up to the right of
the frame and we'll roll out the left
like a state vector transfers the BFS
surface winds are two six zero at five
altimeter three zero one one this view
again from an infrared camera at Edwards
and we see the Columbia making the left
overhead turn turn now about ten and a
half nautical miles out altitude 15,000
feet touchdown
one minute 56 seconds flight dynamics
officer ed Gonzales reports they look
real good you're rolling on the final
Columbia is now processing the microwave
landing system now a minute 42 touchdown
lusty our altitude 11,000 feet range 7.2
nautical mile
mommy here we see our flights up
converging the center line
range now five nautical miles altitude
5600 feet
gear down
and Claudia rolls out after a successful
flight
this view from an infrared camera again
and of course those images in lighter
cover colors are brighter and hotter
Roger Columbia welcome home
outstanding job he showed us the shuttle
at its best deploying and retrieving
satellites a great way to start the
decade stand by for your post-landing
deltas
all right you all go to close that back
to keeping me this is Mission Control
Houston the crew of STS the space
shuttle Columbia
see Bonnie Dunbar
am
commander Dan brandenstein
crew members now boarding the astro van
and here in the Mission Control Center
the MCC has officially handed over to
the convoy team and the blacking
ceremony about to begin here in Mission
Control as the crew members board the
astro van at Dryden
you