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good afternoon welcome to the sts 35

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post flight crew press conference i'd

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like to introduce to you the commander

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vance brand and turn the program over to

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him

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thank you barbara

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well it's a pleasure to be back here

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after a mission that

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we certainly enjoyed i'd like to

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introduce my crew

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guy gardner pilot

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we have jeff hoffman ms-1

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mike lounge ms2

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bob parker ms3

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ron paris at the end there ps2 we had a

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big crew

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this flight more than many

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demonstrated

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value of man

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in space as a as a flexible element

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do troubleshooting

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to continue on

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with manual control after

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automatic systems

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have failed to perform like we thought

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i i was just very pleased that

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we had those capabilities on board

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to use man as a flexible

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finally and most important i think our

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mission really demonstrated teamwork

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people on the ground here really got

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with it after we had some space lab

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failures and

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they came up with ways for us to

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continue and in the end

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through manual pointing i think our

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approaching if not equaling

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capabilities of

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the automatic systems that would have

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controlled the pointing of the

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telescopes

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much of the teamwork

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between the marshall space center the

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and us and

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the crew in orbit

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came about

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in a short 12-hour period everything was

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pulled together here on the ground in

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that short of time to

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allow us to continue

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bring in quite a lot of scientific

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information

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so with that we'd like to show you our

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film

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i'll start out with the narration

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our pants in colombia and orion is the

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star field you see there a very uh

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prominent constellation in the northern

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hemisphere seven crew members

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astro mission this is what our ship

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looked like as it sat on the pad

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and we were having breakfast actually

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there we

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after having received weather

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information we're in the suit room

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we have guy

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we have mike

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and somebody in there there he is bob

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bob was helping a manager adjust his

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seven crewmen

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going out to the van

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you know we had a

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late night or early morning launch

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whichever you'd like to call it

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so it was a little before midnight as we

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here come the main engine and ignition

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which of course light up about seven

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seconds before we lift off so we can

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check them out they stabilize we pull

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the umbilical light the srbs and we're

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off here you can see vance waving to us

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and just a spectacular night launch i've

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never seen one they say they're

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spectacular to watch but it certainly is

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spectacular to watch from inside as well

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we managed to launch with almost a full

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moon and here's a beautiful shot of us

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going right by the moon

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there was a cloud deck at about 7000

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which you'll see us light up here as we

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go through it it was really spectacular

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look out the windows and watch that

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after two minutes the srbs have consumed

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their fuel and we jettison them little

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and we continue to burn the main engines

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for a total of about eight and a half

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minutes which gets us up to over 17 000

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miles an hour and we're up in orbit

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around the earth

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here we are

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finally in orbit about an hour after

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launch with a second burn having put us

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into a circular orbit

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going into the orbit to do astronomy has

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two benefits one of course is you get

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you above your clouds but that's not the

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primary one the primary one is to get

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above the atmosphere itself you see a

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series of layers of atmosphere sitting

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one of the first things we do on orbit

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is to begin the opening the payload bay

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doors this not only exposes the payload

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so the telescopes can see the stars we

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but also the inner surface of the doors

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are radiators and allows us to start

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once that's accomplished we began

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activating first the space lab itself

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with its computers that help us control

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of the elements of our payload first of

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all the x-ray telescope in the far back

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from the goddard space center and then

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here parts of the space lab which was in

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fact produced

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in concert with us by the europeans

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they activated the space lab we

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proceeded on then to

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with its three large telescopes in fact

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x-ray telescope which is hidden

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telescopes erected pointing out the bay

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we're now in a position to begin

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observing uh first with the orbiter crew

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positioning the orbiter you can actually

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see a little jet firing here on on that

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frame right there

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once the orbiter crew gets the orbiter

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pointed in the proper direction then the

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mission specialist

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could in our case begin pointing the ips

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the pointing system that had the

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telescopes begin pointing it more

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precisely sort of fine-tuning towards

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the exact star galaxy we're working on

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automatic star trackers doing that and

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old-fashioned method of hand guiding

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this was done with a lot of help from

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the ground which ron will talk about

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one of the really great things that

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happened this mission was to watch

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within one 12-hour shift of bringing up

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a whole new way of operating where we

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had the johnson space center mission

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control center operating the instrument

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pointing system commanding it

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and the experimenters at the payload

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operations control center in huntsville

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commanding the the telescopes

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and us on board doing the target

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towards the end of the mission our

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efficiency was getting up to the point

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where we were observing just as many

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targets if as if we had

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so we were we and the scientists also

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we were divided into two teams a red

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team and a blue team this is the blue

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team getting out of bed in the morning

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ready to go to work

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we tried to maintain a lot of discipline

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and do everything by the numbers so

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we're going to work by the numbers here

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it was a little crowded down there

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these wide-angle views make it seem

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bigger than it was

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it's always fun to experiment in

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weightlessness with

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things like bubbles of water here and

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and observe the dynamics of that

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jeff was a little thirsty i guess

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meal time is very important a chance to

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relax and recap the events of the day

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and play with your food a little bit the

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school kids we show these two always

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like those scenes

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hygiene is very important we

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just living in the spaceship creates a

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lot of wastewater of course

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and normally that's held in a storage

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tank and every day or so

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we dump that out into space which is

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really a gorgeous site if you get the

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sun angle just right

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it looks like a snow storm or a blizzard

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or a heavy heavy rainstorm

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really spectacular out the window

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as you see this

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we had a little clog in the line that

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dumped that water overboard so

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problems with the orbiter plumbing we

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kept right on trucking as far as the

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observations and kept getting good

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throughout and i'd say really all of

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these problems were no more than a minor

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we had four people on board who have

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taught in universities so we

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took this idea of teachers in space and

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and the interest that nasa has in

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education and we actually taught some

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direct to classrooms on the ground with

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students here's sam talking about the

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electromagnetic spectrum

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showing why we go into space to see some

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of the radiation which we can't observe

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from the ground and the students

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after sam finish i i took over to talk a

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space operations we're going to give the

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students a chance to ask some questions

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space which i wanted to demonstrate

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i think it uh turned out to be a big hit

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with the students and and hopefully it

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will inspire some of them to go on and

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and study hard and and perhaps go on to

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do some work in astrophysics or

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astronautics themselves because that of

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the other shift kept on observing while

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am showing something about how we

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observe up on the flight deck

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and then after we uh shifted and took

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took a lot of work on the part of a lot

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continuing on in the educational vein

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we talked to 28 groups of students

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many other people just private citizens

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in a lot of ways this flight was uh

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a preview of what's to come in in the

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space station world when we finally get

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a space station built

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i took the time to put together a short

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demonstration of of some of the space

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station issues handling trash is one of

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the major issues

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you saw how we got rid of waste water by

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dumping it overboard however any solid

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trash we accumulate and over the course

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of

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nine days with seven people you

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accumulate a lot of trash

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and

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finding places to stow this trash is

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always a major problem it gets more

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important to solve the longer you fly in

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space

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we had a trash compactor experiment here

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that allowed us to compress the trash by

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a factor of three or four

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and you see bob extracting this

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bag of compressed trash

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in a

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odor-tight water-tight bag that worked

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very well and

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allowed us to store that stuff much more

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densely

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well after uh several days of really

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pathfinding ultraviolet observations it

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was time to put the instrument pointing

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system to bed

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lower it

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and lock it into the payload bay and

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come home

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now we were up there to do astronomy and

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we could tell from what we had seen that

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that we had reaped an immense harvest of

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data in ultraviolet astronomy

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it was clear from what we saw in the

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ground that we had a successful

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it was time to come home first of all we

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checked out the orbiter

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systems started up an apu and cycled the

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flight controls and checked out all the

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sensors that we use in re-entering the

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and here's a picture you see of the

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elevons that we're cycling to make sure

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that they all work properly this is not

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to be confused with this is the way we

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but we checked all this stuff out the

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day or so before we came back and it all

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worked fine and we knew we were had a

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good ship for re-entering the earth's

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atmosphere after uh nine days up in

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well ron and i were the rookies on this

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flight and

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it's it's really hard to describe and

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certainly to put in words or in video

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the feelings that you have when you're

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watching this it's really an awesome

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experience

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the first thing you notice is uh how

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fast you're going you're traveling about

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five miles a second which takes you oh

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eight or ten minutes to go all the way

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and the earth as seen from there is

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one of the things we got to do was a lot

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of nighttime observing we were an

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observatory

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this uh

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moon set here is we saw many of those

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and at night we had the cabin darkened

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so that we got a fairly unique view of

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the dark earth because we were dark

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adapted in the cabin

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and we could see the airglow layer at 95

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kilometers and we could see the cities

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float by

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with lights we could see the us about a

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third of the united states at once as we

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well this is our

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final sunset on the payload bay before

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we close the doors

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and came home with a very

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deep rich harvest of ultraviolet

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we landed at night and so in order to

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see the shuttle we use these infrared

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cameras because the shuttle has no

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lights on it and you wouldn't be able to

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see us at this point otherwise so this

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is infrared photography on the outer

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glide slope

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with a heavy orbiter we came down on

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glide slope at 17 degrees rather than

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the 19 degree glide slope of the lighter

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vehicles

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i consider this the most important part

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of the mission right here as the pilot

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gets to lower the landing gear

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and then vance brought it in for

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just a super smooth landing on the hard

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surface runway at edwards runway 2-2

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right on air speed right distance down

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the runway just just the way it ought to

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be done

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you can see the

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gear heat up immediately as they touch

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this is what it looks like visually our

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family's got to watch this from the end

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of the runway and so just spectacular to

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not be able to see anything and all of a

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sudden this huge shuttle just comes

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roaring into the field of view

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back to infrared you can see the hot

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spots or the white things you see there

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the nose of the orbiter is still pretty

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hot from its reentry

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and the flames you see on the back just

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in front of the vertical tail are the

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exhaust from our auxiliary power units

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the apu's and they are they work by

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pulsing the hydrazine

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and turning the

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motors that keep the hydraulic system

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powered and so it looks you see that

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kind of engine puffy look coming out of

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the

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vance did a great job we were

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folks came up and said i'd never seen an

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orbiter that was parked so precisely on

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the center line of runway when it came

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the end of just a wonderful mission

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here we are coming down the

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stairway

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you can see we're pleased to

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be home we really enjoyed the trip but

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it's always nice to get home

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all of us were probably

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an inch or two taller than uh normal

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that point having stretched out a bit in

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once again our patch