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good morning and welcome to the STS 31

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post flight crew press conference our

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crew of five has about 20 minutes of

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film and twenty six or seven slides with

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which to share their unique and rare

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perspective of this mission and with

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that I'll turn it right over to crew

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commander Lauren Schreiber thank you

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Jeff first of all let me welcome

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everybody here this morning in the room

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and around the country who's listening

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in if it hasn't been apparent so far in

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all of our discussions we really enjoyed

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flying this mission and we believe that

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we had a very successful mission overall

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we did exactly what the mission set out

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to do and it was just unbelievable end

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to end and what we tried to do

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throughout was document as best we could

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what was actually taking place at the

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time we were doing it and that's what we

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want to do this morning then is update

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everybody by means of a film that we put

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together and also show you some slides

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after that before we get into that

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though in case nobody anybody does not

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know the rest of the crew members on my

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right is Charlie Bolden a pilot and just

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did just a little bit of everything on

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board to shuttle while we were up there

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and we'll we'll have words from him as

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the movie goes on Bruce McCandless ms1

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he was our HST expert on on all of its

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systems and also of course ev1 and

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almost the guy to open the hatch and go

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outside and almost crank open the second

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solar array dr. Steve Hawley next to him

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he was our RMS operator ms2 going up

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hill and during entry and did an

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excellent job of course of maneuvering

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the HST on the end of the magic wand so

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to speak and in Kathy Sullivan ms3 for

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the flight again also ev2 and

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just about header hand on the airlock

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depressed dial to go that extra five psi

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to get down the vacuum for that almost

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EV a that we did with that and in order

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not to take up too much time so that we

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have time for your questions at the end

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let's go ahead and get started with the

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film will will be narrating as we go and

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one thing I would like you to try to pay

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attention to as the film unravels is the

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rather continuous pictures of the earth

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and the background and this is some of

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the beautiful sceneries that we were

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seeing always in the background whenever

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you look outside and it's daylight some

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of the very beautiful pictures of the

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earth as the rest of the events unfold

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so why don't we go ahead and roll that

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film this of course are a mission patch

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and we like it a lot we think it told a

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story all of its own very appropriate

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for the flight this is the morning of

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launch going through all of our suit up

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drill and each one of us then go through

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a pressure check a suit integrity check

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and you see that in progress here for

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shooting up has added a little time to

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the mornings events so we split the crew

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two and then three so that we can all

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arrive at a common state of readiness

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and walk out together as you see here

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the trip to the launch pads relatively

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quick it was dark as you could all see

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you get out there and I think you've

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heard it said by other crew members that

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you get out there and there's a little

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bit different on launch morning because

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the vehicle seems to be alive this is

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actually the main engine start which

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occurs roughly six to seven seconds

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before the liftoff and then the solid

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rocket boosters ignite on board this

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time I think I was a little bit more

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sensitized everything I actually felt

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the main engine ignition inside and you

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could feel the twang of the vehicle and

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everybody feels the solid rocket

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boosters ignite because you get lots

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more noise and vibration and with the

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suits which none of us had worn before

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you actually end up bouncing around

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inside this little environment of your

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own our asset was pretty much a normal

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what we call direct insertion where we

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actually did not do a owns or an orbital

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maneuvering system one burn we just

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allowed ourselves to glide on up to

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basically a 331 by 27 or forty seven

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nautical mile orbit before we did our

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insertion burn the main engine cutoff

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velocity was a little bit faster than we

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normally see roughly 26,000 feet per

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second and the most impressive thing to

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me was the way we could not see the

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earth after mikko as you all know our

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altitude was unique for the shuttle

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program we went to 330 miles circular

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orbit it was it was truly noticeable and

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impressive from onboard and we hope that

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we were able to share some of that with

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you on the downlink television first

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thing every crew does is get the orbiter

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configured for being on orbit and if I

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think particular concern to our crew was

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the number of activities that we had to

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accomplish on flight day one including

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checking out the RMS which you see us

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doing here we do that early in the

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flight of course because if there were

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failures with the arm we would have over

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night and the next morning to try to

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figure out what the impact would

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on the Hubble Space Telescope deploy

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operations in our case the arm worked

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beautifully and there were no problems

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at all with rms check out and we got

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that done on time on flight day one and

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the other major activity that was going

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on at that time was doing all the

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preparatory work for the potential

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spacewalk the next day what you're

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seeing here is the power erratic tool

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which is a device produced by the

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Goddard Space Flight Center adapted

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specifically to work on the Space

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Telescope both the maintenance and

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repair missions and for deploying the

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solar arrays which if done manually

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required 120 full turns and in suited

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tests underwater it proven to be fairly

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fatiguing this unit has its own internal

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battery a high-performance electric

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motor and little microprocessor

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controller to control the speed the

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torque and the number of turns per

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trigger setting or per trigger squeeze

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here you see some additional

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configuration of tools of going into the

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airlock in preparation for the EBA that

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almost was in addition to configuring

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the airlock with about a dozen tools

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most of which were unique to the HST

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possible deployment asks we had to

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conduct a pre breathe through deuce the

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cabin pressure and check out all three

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of the spacesuits we had we had an upper

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torso assembly which includes all the

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life-support systems and computer

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monitoring systems on the suit as a

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spare unit in the event that either of

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the primary suits for brucer I had

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developed a problem all in all it took

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Bruce and I the lion's share of our time

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on flight day one and a goodly measure

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of Charlie's time Charlie was always the

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critical resource being split through

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the RMS operations and the EBA early in

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the morning on flight day 2 which was

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actually less than 24 hours after launch

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we were given a go for HST deploy

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operations and that meant that I was go

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to uncrate all the RMS and move it over

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and grapple the space telescope in the

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bay which you see here we're trying to

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convey a sense I think of how big the

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space telescope is

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and the fact that the aperture door is

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bright and shiny and it sits right in

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front of the windows and all of that as

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I had described in the pre-flight press

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conference was of some concern to me

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being able to see to do the task it was

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about as difficult as as we had expected

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and and the views as you can see here

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out the window certainly degrade rapidly

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as the telescope begins to come out of

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the bay Charlie was very helpful at

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talking me through the deploy operations

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with the arm particularly as I mentioned

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down low in the Bay where the clearances

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are fairly small and you're trying to go

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go slowly if you look carefully through

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the window I think you'll be able to see

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the rate at which we were trying to move

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the HST up out of the bay slow is is

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good when you have two very large

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vehicles very close together and as you

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know it took a little bit longer on

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orbit to do that task then we had

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simulated on the ground and I think that

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that that's probably to be expected

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given the the fact that we weren't

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really the pacing item in the deploy

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sequence anyway and we wanted to make

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sure that the job was done properly

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there are a number of coordinated

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activities that actually need to take

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place it isn't just Charlie and me

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operating the arm but Lauren has to

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position the vehicle the orbiter vehicle

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in the proper attitude so that the Sun

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shines on the proper part of the Space

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Telescope and and he had to make a

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couple of different maneuvers in

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addition to manually holding the the

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orbiters attitude near where it wanted

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to be while the the arm and the

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telescope or emotion we had a number of

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constraints governing how the orbiter

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could move when the telescope was

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unbirth and when it was in motion and he

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had to manage all of that very carefully

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we did find that this manual control of

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the orbiter using certain app settings

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or digital auto pilot work very well and

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have recommended that that be highly

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considered as a mode of orbiter control

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and large payloads like this after Steve

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lifted

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the telescope clear of the bay he went

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through a number of maneuvers the end

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result of which was getting the the

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bottom or the base end of the telescope

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pointing forward and after Lauren

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oriented the orbiter these fish was

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pointing toward the Sun the solar array

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booms were folded up 90 degrees and as

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you see here the solar array panels were

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enrolled you have to watch very closely

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because this is a rather slow process

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taking on the order of six minutes to

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fully unreal these sets of solar array

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panels there are five separate solar

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panel assemblies on each side of the

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center drum two arrays on the entire

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telescope the set that you see here the

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plus v2 solar array deployed very nicely

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as I'm sure you're aware later on there

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were some difficulties deploying the

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minus v2 array which led Kathy and

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myself to finish the sitting up process

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and ultimately to get into the airlock

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depressurized the airlock 25 pounds per

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square inch or approximately half the

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cabin pressure and to stand by just

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inches away from the hatch and from the

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depressed valve for about two hours

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until telescope separation and released

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from the orbiter was complete and until

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Steve had completed birthing the RMS

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here you see the plus v2 array fully

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deployed these arrays are a contribution

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from the European Space Agency along

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with the faint object camera and

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their participation in the program we at

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the solar array that had been giving us

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trouble was finally unfurled properly we

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actually didn't have very much time

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until the release opportunity as I

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recall it was around 30 minutes or so so

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through a number of activities that

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Lauren and I had to do with Charlie's

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helped and Charlie was kind of going

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back and forth between the deck and the

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mid-deck throughout the day we noticed

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that one of the surprises was the amount

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of clearance between the arm and the

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solar array at separation it was a

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little bit less

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we had been led to expect from the

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simulations that we have performed on

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the ground however the control of the

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arm was very precise and the control of

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the orbiter at separation was very

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precise and we had no concerns about

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about contacting the arm with the solar

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ray but it was something that Lord and I

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kept a very close eye on what you're

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saying in this scene is actually the

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Space Telescope after release as we are

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flying over the western coast of Peru

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actually crossing the Andes Mountains

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and that to me was pretty spectacular

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from a visual sense some of the

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information that we learned on this

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flight only hope to pass on to whichever

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crew is selected to do maintenance

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repair missions on the HST it's the fact

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that the HST is highly visible I guess

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you would expect that just because of

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the way it's it's configured with

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reflecting thermal blankets and the big

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solar arrays also providing a lot of

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reflecting surface area we can see it

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for a long time of course post-release

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in addition we found throughout the

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flight every terminator we would be able

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to see the HST reflecting sunlight even

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at a distance of greater than 40 miles

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that was a little bit of a surprise of

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course as Bruce and Kathy can describe

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this is not the end of anything but the

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beginning of the lifetime of the

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telescope and and a lot of the work that

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they did on this flight will will come

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back to have produced results years from

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now as the maintenance missions are our

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lives to service the telescope and keep

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it an operational observatory for years

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to come Stevens mentioned it is designed

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for a 15 to 20 year lifetime as an

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observatory facility with planned visits

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roughly every five years to replace

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those components which are known to

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degrade such as the batteries and the

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solar arrays to replace anything that

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fails and also to provide the

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opportunity for exchanging scientific

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instruments as the data which comes back

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from the current set of five instruments

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is analyzed and perhaps reveals new

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pathways to explore I talked with the

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folks in the Space Telescope operation

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control

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Center this morning they have rearranged

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some elements of the checkout bringing

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the scientific instrument check out

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forward and working on some minor

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problems in the pointing and control

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system but all in all they feel like

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they're about on schedule in terms of

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here you see me looking at the protein

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crystal growth experiment this is a

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secondary payload from the university of

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alabama in birmingham and in this close

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up shot chamber of c3 you can see some

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crystals of carboxyl ester hydrolysis

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which was one of the compounds the idea

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here is to create large defect free

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crystals in zero gravity that can be

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used under x-ray analysis to reveal the

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exact structure of the protein and once

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the structure has been revealed you can

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tailor anybody's or vaccines or other

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biological agents and then produce those

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to yield the desired effect unlike

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zero-g electrophoresis where we were

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attempting to manufacturers commercial

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quantities of substances this is just

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designed to discover the structure and

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do the rest work on the ground this is

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one of the other secondary experiments

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we had it was conceived of by a student

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at a high school at the time in Utah and

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sponsored by a corporation out there

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what you see are three different views

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the center one is the the actual

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electrical arc being struck and the two

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others are mirror views and the idea was

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to look at what affects driving an arc

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and affecting with outside magnetic

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fields would have in zero-g we carried

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two imax cameras one was the in cabin

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camera that you see kathy and me trying

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to get reloaded here the other was the

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imax cargo bay camera which we have not

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seen any of the film yet but hopefully

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we'll see in another week or two there's

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one of our élevage dad's fishing i was

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obligated to make sure i got a few good

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shots of some key places in baja

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california for my father but we also

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tried to put some of the spectacular

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views that we had on film

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to give you a sense of both the scale of

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v view and the rate of passage which is

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a little slower of course at this

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altitude than lower flights in some of

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the stills which we'll get to later you

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may get a better appreciation of this

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here you're over central Mexico the two

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bright dots at the upper center portion

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of the frame are the two large volcanoes

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just southeast of Mexico City and if you

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strain a little bit just up into the

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left of those volcanoes you may see a

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slightly lighter gray or patch of ground

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and that is in fact the urban area of

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mexico city itself it was easy to have

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all of Mexico literally from the

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California Mexico border to the Gulf

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Coast and on up to houston in your field

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of view at one time from our altitude

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which was very spectacular in fact as I

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mentioned perhaps during the flight one

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pass roughly in this location going to

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the east we were puzzled to see a lake

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worried we didn't recognize any lake

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should be on thinking about it Lauren

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realized that it was like Michigan that

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we were seeing and in fact we later saw

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a lake area and Lake Ontario being able

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to see entirely across the north-south

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width of the United States from over the

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Gulf of Mexico and here you're seeing

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across almost all of South America from

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just slightly east of the crest of the

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this was one of the least popular

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experiments aboard I wondered whether

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anyone would still speak to me after

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this if I hadn't already been hit this

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is something like 8 TB tests at once

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there's a certain toxin on each one of

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those sets of times and the idea is to

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determine whether the body's response to

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immune system response varies at all in

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zero-g some of the body's immune

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response of course is governed by the

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blood system and another level of it is

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controlled by the cellular structure of

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the body and the objective of this

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experiment specifically was to look at

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cell-mediated immune response and see if

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one mission specialist could survive

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administering it to two other people on

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the day before entry we go through a

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series of tests that we call flight

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control system or FCS check out what

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Lauren Steve and I were doing here was

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actually going through

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various tests of the hydraulic system

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with the auxiliary power unit running

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actually firing the RCS Jets to make

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sure they all operated properly and make

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sure that all the systems on board were

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going to be good or go for the entry day

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rfcs check out when very very smoothly

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with only very insignificant anomalies

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which we had seen before in previous

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flight this is a we were trying to get

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you some lightning and you can see it

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over in the left to the left of the

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earth slim there that's one of the more

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spectacular scenes of Natan is the

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lightning all over the earth just

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unbelievable when you when you get a

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chance to see it this is later in entry

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then some about Mach 6 taken from a

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tracking camera out at Vandenberg we

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have been doing several air opt is on

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the way in all the way through entry to

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gather aerodynamic data to try to expand

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the flight envelope of the shuttle

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slightly this is a scene here of we're

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rolling on the hack and coming around

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heading alignment circle you can see the

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Sun on the very bottom of the wing there

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that that Sun angle presented somewhat

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of a problem to Charlie and I as we flew

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right into it trying to turn on to the

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alignment circle and it wasn't until we

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got more than half way around the circle

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that we finally had the Sun out of our

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eyes hard to read inside and in

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transition to outside I was fortunate

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that Lauren is a real gracious soul in

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the pilot is kind of a misnomer you're a

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co-pilot but Lauren gave me an

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opportunity to fly the vehicle a little

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bit as we went subsonic and I thought it

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performed amazingly will we've just come

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through the inner glide slope there and

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once you start to pull the nose up of

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course you're losing all the precious

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airspeed that you had preserved at that

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point charlie lower to gear about 300

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feet above the ground and we just came

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on in establishing attitude and kind of

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hold it to the landing we had been sort

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of on-again off-again for

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that day for the wind situation out at

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Edwards as you probably recall and we

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seem to run out of a hair speed a little

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bit quicker than normal that I'm used to

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in the Sta but the shuttle does have a

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lot of reserve capability there so

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overall the landing went very smoothly

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in the nose wheel d rotation rate

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continued to be very slow for the

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entirety rotation we also flew the new

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carbon brakes for the shuttle program

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for the first time those brakes turned

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out to work very well they're very

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smooth and very positive I think

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there'll be a great asset to the program

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as we continue to fly those on other

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vehicles now and then look toward

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returning to KSC for landing and of

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course I planned that stop exactly in

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front of the tower with this camera in

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mind so we could get a new slant on

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things and we did Oh 30 or 40 minutes

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worth of post landing cleanup switches

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and reconfiguring and then we're ready

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to get out of the inside fairly cool

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outside that day it was about 44 45

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degrees windchill factor so we stayed

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inside the suits we had sent along the

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regular blue flight suits that we

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thought we were going to get into but as

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Lauren mentioned the wind chill factor

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made it desirous to just a combination

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of your heat inside the suit and the

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coolness of the desert air out there