this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding
approximately one hour and 11 minutes
remaining in this built-in hold the ice
team is at the pad doing their
inspections at this time and is
reporting some limited ice found in need
on the external tank but not of any
consequence we are now in the breakfast
room at the astronaut quarters where the
STS 31 crew is having breakfast mission
specialist dr. Steve Hawley who will be
deploying the telescope from the moment
if you later arm
Colonel Charlie Bolden the pilot on this
mission
the commander Lauren Shriver or the
space shuttle Discovery dr. Kathy
Sullivan
mission specialist and captain Navy
captain Bruce McCandless mission
specialist the mission emblem on the
cake on breakfast table which is
Discovery with the Hubble Space
Telescope on a field of planets stars
and galaxies after breakfast they will
receive a weather briefing and then Don
their flight suits and depart for the
pad about 5:15 this morning this is
shuttle launch control at t-minus three
hours and holding approximately nine
minutes remaining in this built-in hold
we are watching the astronauts suit up
this is commander Lawrence reiver
having his helmet attached
driver is an Air Force colonel and is
the mission commander there is Marine
Colonel Charlie Bolden the pilot also
having his helmet and communications
attachments completed on the other side
of the room is mission specialist dr.
Katherine Sullivan awaiting the helmet
attachment otherwise her suit up is
essentially complete there is Navy
captain Bruce McCandless McCandless and
Kathy Sullivan will be doing the
contingency VA on this flight should one
be necessary and dr. Steve Holly ready
to go he will be operated a operating
the remote manipulator arm to deploy the
Hubble Space Telescope on flight day two
the crew now headed for the elevator
that will take them down to the first
floor will they'll board the Astro van
for the 20-minute ride out to pad B
commander and the pilot commander
Shriver and pilot Charlie Bolden Bruce
McCandless
and members of the support team will be
going out there is the crew headed down
the elevator and momentarily will see
them boarding the Astro van
and numerous KSC employees usually wait
by the walkway to greet them as they
head out
this is a view of the orbiter access arm
and we can see our five member flight
crew crossing from the fixed service
structure into the white room where they
will be assisted by the closeout team
and other astronauts support crew
members commander Lauren Shriver has
just
entered the access hatch of discovery
assisted by closeout crew pilot charlie
bolden will be next and as they enter
their seats and begin their
communications checks will be hearing
those checks being conducted
OTC city are
empty the CDR how do you read
and houston city our city are you stand
good morning Lauren you're loud and
clear and feel like we're I'll see you
and that's why our ms wine houston
you're loud and clear good morning Bruce
looks like I'm gonna stay down here
that's good we're working on other
places t-minus seven minutes 30 seconds
and counting this arm can be reacted in
less than half a minute if that's
necessary
I'm a upon t-minus five minutes and
Counting we have a go for APU start
final purge sequence of the main engines
isn't work
we're now transferring to internal power
and switching off the orbiters ground
power supply at this point discovery is
being powered by the onboard fuel cells
standing by now here is the retraction
of the gaseous oxygen vent hood the
gambling of the main engines is complete
and the aerosurfaces have been verified
that they are positioned for launch the
external tank now is reported to be at
flight pressure standing by now for a go
for autosequence start
t-minus 33 has happened is the ground
launch sequencer would not hand off to
the orbiters computers to complete the
count because the liquid oxygen fill and
drain valve was showing off when it
should be on confirmation that we have
successfully recycling we are go for
start booster hydraulic power units have
started
sound suppression water system has
started do you - 13 seconds t-minus 10
go for main engine start we are go for
main engine start t-minus six five four
three two one and liftoff of the space
shuttle Discovery with the Hubble Space
Telescope our window on the universe
Mission Control Houston
discovery the roll maneuver puts the
vehicle in the proper launch plane
guidance officer confirms a good roll
maneuver engines now throttling back the
throttle down maneuver assists in
reducing the aerodynamic loads on
discovery as it passes through the area
of not maximum dynamic pressure
voici now 1,200 feet per second
discovery downrange 3 nautical miles
discovery go at throttle up all three
engines now throttling up engines at 104
percent the go at throttle up calls
signifies that all systems are
performing well all three auxiliary
power units look good
Discovery's velocity now 2,300 feet per
second and it's downrange eight nautical
miles
standing by for SRB separation and both
solid rocket boosters have separated
Discovery's velocity now 4,300 feet per
second at a downrange distance of 35
nautical miles
this drop stir reports all three engines
stable at 104 percent performance
discovery Houston performance is nominal
discovery Houston you have a go to open
the doors Charlie can't get noisy and
it's a bit the the car in the morning
after that stand by Charlie we're
talking about it no action for you again
yes and discovery go ahead charlie yes
we'd like to know if we can go ahead and
get a jump on cube and deploy that's
permanent Carol you have a go 4k u'b and
deploy
and Houston probably seen all the IV
line stuff is complete
Roger that Lorne we've been watching
here the I amuse look good then we
concur that you're complete
and this is Mission Control Houston at
three hours two minutes into the flight
of discovery we're now seeing payload
bay views from camera a that's on the
forward bulkhead of Discovery looking
aft we're seeing the remote manipulator
system arm as it is put through its
paces being checked out for tomorrow's
activities related to the hubble space
telescope discovery Houston were getting
some real good payload Bay television
downlink and we see that Steve has been
hard at work getting the RMS deployed
okay he's getting a good start check out
right now Roger lon
this is Mission Control mission
specialist Steve Hawley continuing to
take the RMS through it checkout
procedures we are looking at the end
effector as it has run through the snare
drive test the end effector will be used
to grapple the Hubble Space Telescope
tomorrow and will be used to release the
telescope and the end effector is about
13 inches in diameter
go ahead discovery that sounds great
Steve and we concur
discovery Houston just wanted to let you
know that the ground is currently
configured or HST main bus activation so
we're ready when you are
Roger Lauren we copy
good morning outer space from other
human races time to stone
good morning discovery your wake-up
music today as compliments of your
training team we want you to make them
proud today discovery Houston
right good morning discovery good
morning from bill Reeves in orbit one
team when you got a go for HST deploy
ops I thought that a thank you cherries
this is Mission Control Houston this
digital animation being fed by live
telemetry depicting the motion of the
robot arm as mission specialist Steve
Holly begins to put it through its paces
this live view coming from the forward
port bulkhead camera bore discovery
gives us a look at the real thing yes
Steve Hawley has on birthday arm and has
begun to move it into position for
grapple of the Hubble Space Telescope
this is Mission Control Houston our PDRs
officer here in the flight control room
confirms via telemetry that the Hubble
Space Telescope has been grappled this
is Mission Control Houston were
continuing to take live television from
the shuttle Discovery this from the aft
flight deck of the vehicle as mission
specialist Kathy Sullivan continues to
prepare for deployments at this point
beginning to set up photographic
equipment on the flight deck to document
the deploy activities miss Gary used
alright you gotta go to release the
furnish and go to transfer helpful to
internal power on time release and go
for transfer the internal power on time
that's firm
and here's the discovery the planet in
terms of power complete the Oracle is
debt based and will be standing by for
your goal for a pellicle release story
discover your goal from umbilical
disconnect it sperm in this solar array
deploy at attune
that discovery is and at the time which
has the Sun constantly off the nose of
the orbiter discovery the image and the
majority of the field of view is
reflection of the forward bulkhead in
the metallic aperture door of the
telescope
you know pitch is about four degrees off
attitude lab okay
maybe that's what make let's making it
look like that
you're gonna pitch it up okay
I see you coming up
how does it look out your window as far
as clearance because that's the only
thing
let's show us about two inches starboard
good clearance still looks good
and the
it's about an inch forward but I think
that maybe pitch pitch again kind of
saved its 3:55 right now
sure looks like I want to go to start
starboard yeah I'd go ahead and do it
did you get over here I can see lots of
clearance coming starboard nicely
Charlie coming in over your shoulder a
little bit more pink okay what's my
okay Z is minus 538 and it's coming up
nicely
and this is Hubble telescope control in
Greenbelt we have been given the
go-ahead to begin commanding a release
of the forward latches which hold the
solar arrays in place during launch
along the side of the telescope the
forward latches are on both sides both
the port and starboard side of the
telescope are released simultaneously
discovery no need to acknowledge and
board lunches are in motion we copy
discovery will take this attitude right
here like you to go free drift or PDM
deploy
the Hubble telescope control Greenbelt
one day one hour 54 minutes mission
elapsed I'm continuing to receive
television through the Vandenburg
tracking station and it is clearly
showing the deployment of the solar
array masts with the solar array package
in the stowed position the arrays are
wound much like a pair of window shades
around a roller and kept in that
configuration for launch and once the
primary deployment activity has been
completed the crew tweaks the attitude
and replaces the vehicle and free drift
the operations team here will begin
commanding the solar array blankets to
unfurl
discovery in order to preserve an orbit
20 release if I can't get into EPA Prem
okay we're proceeding with that thank
you so we see both again moving Thank
You Lauren and as commander Lawrence
reiver just confirmed what our data
screens are showing here in the control
center that the motors are in operation
and the two high gain antenna masts are
in the process of swinging 90 degrees to
the perpendicular position
discovery go free drift or plus SDM
deploy a free dress toy every person
that's good
and as the crew just confirmed we're
seeing both blankets beginning to unfurl
on the portside solar array we got TV
down here Lauren after that
the solar arrays are driven out of their
cassettes by by stems which are at each
side of the array the by stem is visible
in the television being downlink from
the spacecraft at this time it's
attached at the end of the array to a
spreader bar and the spreader bar is in
turn attached to the array which
literally pulls the array out of the
cassette which held it packaged during
launch
when fully deployed both of the arrays
together produce about 6,000 volts about
half of which is required to operate
telescope systems and during the
daylight side of the past the other half
is used to recharge the six nickel
hydrogen batteries shift supervisor Pete
potere oh just checking with his control
team receiving a report that from the
ground as confirmed by the crew from
orbit the deploy activity so far is
going very smoothly we see no
indications of any problems at this time
discovery you can go out over we're
setting up for the other array okay
that's affirm let's go reused
go ahead we're looking more and more
like an ax or mid-20 release we'd like
you to press on with the UVA press okay
we copy we'll press on with that
discover your amperage your door latch
is open thank you
and that is for you used entirely
downstairs in the process again Bruce
and Kathy buttoned up in the suit
evn copies and we're watching the fans
come on discovery we like free drift
from - SDM deploy okay we copy free
drift experiment thank you we see about
him so do we Lauren
as the blankets begin deploying the
orbital verification team is watching
very closely the attention being placed
on those wings so far looking good
Houston discovery it looks like most
it's topped with just about one panel
showing and we see that to Lorne that DC
is off this is Mission Control Houston
flight controllers here in Mission
Control Center discussing an impending
deadline within about thirteen minutes
we will reach a point of having
concluded the pre-breathe and in order
to provide enough rapid response time to
support an e VA we would need to begin
be pressurizing the airlock in about 12
to 13 minutes from now the other thing I
need an answer to is if I can go ahead
and commit the e VA with a thought of
going out and cranking it out yesterday
if whatever they're about to do fails
but they want us to just press on to
back them up we need to get on with it
the answer I need answers now plan to
fail do it
yeah I don't feel comfortable waiting
until I don't want the answers now yeah
6:20 is the might drop dead time from
adding up all the times okay I'm gonna
have them press oh all right Capcom tell
the crew we want them to press on in to
e VA and like will stop them whenever we
have to as quickly we got four minutes
on this pass
discovery Houston okay with the panels
that you've got out there right now
that's not satisfactory to stay
overnight so we're gonna have to move
out on the EBA okay so I discovery
Houston go ahead we think there may be
some problem with the tension monitoring
software they've got the DCE back on
we're going to disable the tension
monitoring and resend the products that
employ the - SDM okay
okay yes we see motion we've gotten the
image down here Lauren
that is food that could stop it's fully
deployed the microswitch is confirming
okay in for Bruce and Kathy we'd like
you to stop the airline depress and five
please okay they copy for you where I
live right now okay Charlie you can
maneuver right to the release attitude
right now that's in the camp page three
dash 2021 over to the released attitude
it's firm Ryan booth we're go Pato go
hey go oh he can't go pink oh we're go
FAO go max go P your ass go fight
EBA we're go sergeant here still go go
GC go Network go payloads waiting on you
flight pelos we are yeah
Capcom we have a go for release
discovery go for Hubble release we're
gonna be a minute late okay Charlie
discovery go ahead charlie
okay story uh we've been taking part
little the ratios look good and we'd
like to go ahead go to the filter state
we concur Charlie I'm sorry how is
taking pictures your I made this your
car you want where I go ahead and do our
best are down so we get the guys out
there like that approval but that's at
your convenience team
but once we do have the RMS tone in wolf
Bank on EPA okay okay we'll just a few
more minutes then getting some pictures
here
yes sir do just that
you've been talkin to me
you've been so good to me - no you make
me
good morning discovery I guess you're
awake after that song there are a lot of
happy people down here we saw a great
deploy yesterday and Hubble had a good
night while you were asleep well we
better find that guy and sign him up for
XQ that did the wakeup music and we're
here this morning to perform student
experiment 82 - 16 for Greg Petersen
this is an experiment designed to
investigate what affects gravity-driven
buoyancy may have on the behavior of an
electrical arc as you observe it on the
ground in 1g say during a Jacob's Ladder
experiment in high school and that is
exactly in fact the kind of experiment
that first gave this idea to Greg what
you see on your right here taped to the
forward lockers is the Ark chamber
itself and the Aaron flex camera is set
up to look into the ark there are
mirrors behind the ark so that you get
in fact three different views of it the
first thing we're going to do here is
photograph the Ark behavior in the
ambient magnetic fields of the orbiter
and we in fact will look at three
different orientations the path of the
Ark as the experiment is currently
placed goes parallel to the orbiters Y
axis through the wings will then rotate
the box and camera 90 degrees to look at
the orbiter z-axis vertical like this
and then again we will rotate it 90
degrees and tape it on the overhead
panel so that we can look at the ambient
magnetic field parallel to the vehicle
z-axis will show you this a little bit
weird actually as you can tell turn the
power on and we have actually applied a
magnetic field so we're stepping through
the fields the reasons we think you see
a very finely designed to art on your
right is because that's the different
nail the other part of the art system is
actually the round the head of a nail
and we think that the that the arc is
just or
charges just kind of jumping around from
place to place on the head of the nail
and that's what allows it to go that way
but if you guys can get Greg to come in
he probably tell you whether we're right
or wrong so we did notice that the
behavior of the arch became horribly
erratic and its amplitude increase as as
the field went up and just as they have
told us this place once you put a charge
into the system it never comes out of
there fully even when we go back to
though feel at all we still have the
erratic behavior on the art ok thank you
Charlie and so what we're looking at huh
City stabilized binoculars I convinced
myself that I could still make out the
orientation of the solar arrays testing
there's a place called Kokomo
that's where you
good morning discovery for max Q's
keyboard that's the way that song should
really be done your next practice is
Sunday evening in the gym don't be late
we're getting tv down here is that
lightning as you see down there that is
extremely typical a boy you've been
CCTVs I've never seen him pick it up
like that this is the Hubble telescope
control in Greenbelt
commands have been sent up to open the
aperture door and we have confirmation
that the motor is running on the door
and the door is beginning to open
and we have confirmation from the stuff
that the aperture door is open
okay thank you Steve you know what that
is a bet not only what it is but whose
it is
how much do you think it's worth to have
it back
let's go run it too
well they that wuntch gets two rides for
the price of one
absolutely
what we wanted to do was say a little
bit of well-deserved thanks to our
training people who work really so hard
with us for actually quite a long time a
couple of years ago I've been with the
crew anyway so we really appreciate all
the long hours and late hours and all
the hard work that they did and it's
really stayed on we believe and we'd
like to thank them for the little cards
they gave us to read while we're on our
but they're very appropriate and we just
like to let them know that all is going
well we feel it great and - okay I'm
sure they're watching if they don't
happen to be right now I will call have
been working like many others on a
telescope project for a long time to
bring this vision off and we again as
many others have numerous times about
the historical significance that the
advent of an observatory such as the HST
would have and how it stands like a
Saracen to the advances of Galileo and
even to the advances of and in searching
for some way to possibly commemorate
that or betoken that during our flight I
happened upon the idea that there must
be some astronomical artifact from one
of the observatories Hubble worked on
that we possibly could take along as
memento and we managed to obtain this
device which is guiding eyepiece we are
assured from the
on which Edwin Hubble did many of his
observations out at Mount Wilson in
California so his fundamental work in
fact we have it with us here as I said
courtesy of the Smithsonian and the
American Astronomical Society it was
presented to the crew at the hundredth
anniversary meeting of the SS back in
January great pleasure to have something
of such historical significance and
something that so directly symbolizes
Edwin Hubble's fundamental contributions
to astronomy as you can see as a rioter
that the stars are gradually dimmed as
they pass through the Earth's atmosphere
which is of course the problem in earth
bound astronomers have faced for a long
time not only does it diminish and
spread out the amount of light that you
can see but additionally the atmosphere
is not transparent to all wavelengths
that are of interest scientifically and
Hubble Space Telescope will be able to
observe wavelengths both short and
longer the wavelengths that are visible
to telescopes on the ground and there is
nothing in the void where the bank was
the hole in the middle of it all there's
nothing in the void where the bang goes
the hole in the middle of it all there's
a hole there's a hole and now I'm
looking for the nothing in the void
where the bank was the hole in the
middle of it all I'm looking for the
nothing in the void where the bang goes
the hole in the middle of it all there's
a hole there's old
there's a hole there's a hole assuming
the theory holds there's a hole in the
middle of it all this is something like
8 TB tests at once there's a certain
toxin on each one of those sets of times
and the idea is to determine whether the
body's response to immune system
response varies doll and 0g some of the
body's immune response of course is
governed by the blood system and another
level of it is controlled by the
cellular structure of the body and the
objective of this experiment
specifically was to look at cell
mediated immune response ready to close
doors aren't you that we were just
talking about that and the fest looks
good and you have a go for payload bay
door closing this is Mission Control
crews been given the go for payload bay
door closing based on the possibility
that weather forecasters will be able to
revise the forecast downward on wind
conditions for Edwards later this
morning for our landing opportunity
discovery Houston we've taken a look at
the weather weatherman says it's going
to hang in there you have a go to Pro to
ops 3o to go to maneuver to burn
attitude and a go for the burn Roger
that
we have exciting discovery on the
long-range optics from Vandenberg Air
Force Base Discovery's velocity now Mach
6 altitude 133 thousand feet 181 miles
away from Edwards discovery Houston
state vector transfer to the BFS please
discovery now at 14,000 feet making the
final approach lining up over runway 22
and discovery is on the glide slope
converging on the centerline coming up
now for the pre-flare maneuver at 2500
feet current altitude about 6800 feet
landing gear is down and locked
thank your touchdown nose gear touchdown
discovery rolls out on runway 22 at
Edwards at the end of mission STS 31
after traveling two million sixty-eight
thousand two hundred thirteen statute
miles on this mission mechanical systems
officer reports steady braking the
normal amount of braking is about eight
to ten feet per second and this detailed
test objective today is designed to be a
light braking or low energy braking to
try out the new carbon brakes
we'll stop here some discovery will stop
right after that discovery welcome back
congratulations on a super mission and
the world is looking forward to reaping
the benefits of your good work over the
next 15 years welcome back guys and we
have no post-landing deltas okay thank
you see them we sure enjoyed it also it
was great fun
it's your look like it