you
currently looking at the mobile launcher
platform and one of the solid rocket
boosters
ice team is on the zero level of the
platform
making inspections
scanning the orbiter vehicle recording
temperatures
and making note of any any uh
anything that looks unusual
one of the one of the activities the
team performs at this level
is uh pulling down of some sensors that
are located in between the uh space
shuttle orbiter and the external tank
you can see the uh the lines to those
sensors are
to the left-hand side of the booster in
between the two boosters
once the ice team finishes their
inspection they'll be coming back here
to the launch control center and they'll
make a report to
launch controllers on
on their findings at the launch pad
the sts-65 crew has been preparing for
about a year for this flight today
gotta yeah this today will be the
beginning of their 14 days on orbit
and we have a picture of bob cabana now
commander of this flight
just completed a weather briefing and uh
very optimistic today about today's
launch
cabana is a member of the red team for
mission sts 65.
sts-65 pilot jim halsell
also a member of the red team
playing for the first time today on the
space shuttle
mission specialist and payload commander
for this flight rick keeb
he's flying for the third time today on
the space shuttle
he's a member of the red team
he'll be working inside the iml space
lab as part of the science crew with
some primary responsibility for
activities going on in flight
and across the room
we've got mission specialist carl walls
ready to go today
walls is a member of the blue team
mission specialist leroy chow
he's part of the space lab science crew
he's playing for the first time today
mission specialist don thomas
thomas is born in cleveland ohio
he's a member of the blue team
flying for the first time today
and we have japanese payload specialist
chiaki mukhai
making history in japan as the first
woman to fly into space from from japan
mukai is a member of the red team and is
also part of the space lab science crew
should be involved in the science
activities going on in the international
microgravity laboratory for the flight
commander bob cabana
got pilot jim halsell
good morning thank you all
flight crew will be making uh
communications checks with
the test conductors here at ksc and also
at like at mission control they'll be
talking to the flight controllers there
ms one loud and clear ms2 loud and clear
ms3 loud and clear
copy happy loud and clear also going
back to air to ground one
t-minus eight minutes and counting
otc plt that is complete
okay
ntd houston fly i'll go fight yes at
this time i'd like to give a go for the
rtls weather both the observed and
forecast to this uh conditions and we'll
go for launch hi copy thank you launch
director
launch director ntd-212 go ahead if the
flight has cleared his weather command
there we go and that puts us fully ready
to proceed
okay stand by and uh mmp chairman
roger our weather constraint is cleared
clear to launch okay copy well with that
ncd you can take out the whole pending
at five minutes and see if we can keep
the clock going for another seven tls
copies i'll do that thank you
cls go over to access primary track
t-minus seven minutes and counting we've
gotten a clearance to launch today
rtls weather has uh is going to hold out
for us for a 12 43 p.m eastern time
launch
also the weather at our town site is
also clear for launch today
the orbiter's access arm is being
retracted away from the vehicle at this
time
copy ms2
otcl
go ahead the seaters are still on copy
cdrotc
roger five steps headline heaters coming
off
otccr that's complete copy
the gaseous oxygen vent hood is now
being retracted away from the shuttle
otc
the caution warning is clear but no
unexpected errors
copy plt
and with that columbia otc i'd like to
wish you all a very successful two weeks
on orbit and with that uh close and lock
your advisors and an ac802 flow
roger thanks
t-minus 20 seconds
we have a go for engine start six
five four
three
two
one
booster ignition and liftoff
liftoff of columbia on a multi-nation
research flight
houston now controlling columbia
underway on its 17th trip to space
zombie already traveling 250 miles an
hour
three engines unborn columbia now
throttling back to two-thirds throttle
to prepare the spacecraft to pass
through the area of maximum air pressure
and go supersonic
columbia go at throttle up
rusher go through
me columbia's three engines now back at
full throttle
food officer confirms a good separation
of the solid rockets altitude now 172
thousand feet
columbia 33 miles east of the kennedy
space center
now traveling 3 500 miles an
have a still picture hour us sitting on
the flight deck right now that's
affirmative we got a real good picture
bob
okay well here it comes i'll narrate
this is just after main engine start
and the solids are to light off here
and we're going uphill
we just completed the
roll program there
i'll tell you it was a beautiful day for
a launch uh
the main engine's lit on time and carl
was a little worried
from his previous flights not worried
but
he doesn't get excited until the solids
lit and then when the solids lit we uh
we took off it was great
i wish we could
show you what you were seeing out the
windows unfortunately where the camera
is placed all we can get is uh
the shaking inside it as you can see
vibrate rates pretty good on the
solids
and we're being pushed back in our seats
at their amount but nothing compared to
the last two minutes of the flight when
the main engines are really accelerating
us out to our
orbital velocity
i'll tell you bob from our perspective
this is a great footage as we just never
seen anything quite like it
pay attention we're coming up to
srb pretty soon here you can see the
flash out the front windows jim and i
have cue cards over the hud to block the
sunlight coming in so we can see all the
displays but you'll still see the
flash from the step motors around the
sides of them
all events open
t-zero srb ignition
liftoff confirmed
houston columbia roll program
roger roll columbia
people seize the row
thank you
why didn't your delta state processor
look good
looks good thank you
booster how the three engines look
negative return columbia houston
negative return
booster flame
three engines look real good flying
thank you
prop you go for the photo dto go
i don't know how we doing at miko
nominal velocity flight i wonder speed
homes are required okay for this okay
capcom
etc okay nominal columbia houston
nominal miko no ohms one required go for
the at photo dto
go for the t photo dto namo mako plus x
in work
30 seconds hand over the pages
that will be that power system
this is jim trying to float for the
first time in his life let's go for it
man
this feels really weird
okay i'm going to call the ground here
jewish floating student columbia canyon
attendant deployment
i'll let them get into the father-in-law
oh we got a cpl
we do
okay
it smells like a
lab okay what's the next step open hands
well rick we're glad to see you folks
come floating out of the tunnel and now
we're assured that this just just didn't
mock up somewhere on the ground
well we had to look out the window and
make sure that there was really a space
lab out there
the electrophoresis unit is used to
separate uh proteins and what we're
doing today is we're trying to separate
a mixture of proteins by applying an
electric field
against the current a flow of
buffer solution
with the sample stream of the
protein
okay i'll just kind of go from top to
bottom here
this is the ramsey's facility here
and on the top is the power supply
followed by the control
and display keyboard here
where you control all the pumps and you
know input all the different things this
is the stowage one the storage
compartment
and here we have the different sample
trays for the different experiments
we're going to run
we have the gear drawers that slide out
these are the sample bags here
this is uh the sample of the stuff that
we're going to separate
we also have some more of these sample
things in the crimp and after we're done
collecting we freeze the samples in the
crimp
coming down this is the main cell here
this is where the electrophoresis
happens
and here's the cell buffer pump it's a
peristaltic
a bunch of different tubes and just
that's the medium that the
separate stuff is
this is the sample compartment
the sample just slides right in here
another peristaltic pump pumps the
sample up through the chamber where it
then you know kind of separates
the collection areas the collection tray
and
the different each 41
collects every 41
41 samples different ports
and this is just some uh some of the
plumbing of the equipment you know the
different fluid loops a couple valves
things like that
that in a nutshell is the ramsey's
facility
i'm standing here next to biorack i
think a biorack is sort of a mini space
station because it's got these are fruit
flies one of many experiments there's
some 200 containers with different
science going on in most of them it's
got centrifuges for 1g controls you can
see those in the background it's got
incubators that run at two different
temperatures and there's experiments
from all over the world in biorack so
it's a lot of fun to work because
there's a lot of different things it's
got its own cooler and down below it's
got a glove box so that we can work with
toxic things that we wouldn't otherwise
be able to work with in space because we
keep them contained inside the glove box
so here i'm putting some things in there
and here's a shot from right in front
just as i'm loading some things into the
centrifuge we stop the centrifuge put
some containers in that way we can do
controls on board do the exact same
thing they're in the exact same
environment
except that some are being spun at one g
and some are being kept at zero g
and today just for example besides the
fruit flies i've irrigated some little
seeds which are going to
be growing in space and then we'll fix
them later and sort of capture their
development
here i'm getting getting into stowage
for uh nazimi which lives right next to
biorack it has a lot of similarity or a
lot of
relationship with my iraq it's different
in that it's got a variable speed center
fusion meanwhile chiaki is over on the
uh at the workbench rack uh working on
some experiments that will go into ffeu
here where she's borrowing the biorack
glovebox
to do to inject some fluids from one
syringe into another
she's going to use these to run in the
ffu electrophoresis unit which we were
able to rescue by
sort of repeated ifm's earlier in the
week so we've been very happy to get to
do some ffpu work because it's one of
the facilities on board and in fact it
was the last facility to repair
we've now had all the facilities worked
in fact we kind of added up over the
course of the flight we've been able to
rescue
significant parts of five of the
of the 20 or so facilities on board with
ifms between the new removing the newt
which was required to keep the fish
package alive and repairing the eris
echo machine which was required for both
edomp
and the canadian spinal changes in
microgravity and then of course the ffbu
that i already talked about and the sort
of lucky touch with the fingers to get
the hrm data
from the rrmd jackie's using a
microscope here just as you would on the
ground to look at this condition of the
cells that are in these little cassettes
here's a look at the medaka the fish
that are in one of those little packages
two two males two family females in the
lower right corner you might be able to
pick out uh some eggs it's a little bit
hard to tell that
go ahead george
yeah
the nasda team traced back the last
usage of that cck
mic and it was during
the new injection so it may have been
left in the space lab
just looking at the eggs quickly before
i put them in uh looks like we have
stages i'm just guessing right now
looking by eye 35 to 38
with most of the uh eggs here
some of them have clearly defined tail
buds and i can see the tails and some of
the gills starting to form
uh with some of the eggs there so they
look uh they all look pretty healthy
here
i can see maybe uh
one or two possibly eggs that aren't
doing so well but the other ones are all
looking good
okay dance it's very good news
now we got uh transfor here under the
camera
okay so ifm w-48 uh for step three wait
till the uh nozzle temps are greater
than 200 and i'll check back when
complete uh we'll put it in work right
away
that's correct carl and be advised you
have 11 hours of bullets
already accomplished in the dump
okay
and i just want to let you know that
we've got live downlink now from the
ball right glove box
yeah welcome inside
he was back there busily working on
experiments the scientist factor had a
real uh difficult timeline
here's a reenactment i just want to show
you how rick filled the syringe to over
pressure the pump
we uh we squeezed out a ball of water on
the end of the straw and that straw
is not touching the syringe the ball of
water is just floating freely and rick
is pulling back on the end of the
syringe sucking the water into it with
no air it really works slip
and what i'd like to do this morning is
give you a brief explanation about one
of the major facilities we have here on
iml2 and this is the aaeu which is short
for aquatic animal experiment units
and essentially this is a aquarium in
space
divided up into two halves
over here we have the aquatic package
and on the other side we have the fish
package
and in the aquatic package we have four
water tanks i'll pull one out here
and three of these tanks have uh
red belly japanese newts in them and
i'll hold this up so you can see it
we have one nude and two of the
containers and then one of the tanks we
have two newts in there
and in all the tanks we have an egg
chamber also with many different uh nude
eggs in them up to 70 or 80 eggs per uh
water tank here
and what we're doing with this
experiment is having the nudes lay eggs
in space and we're interested in how
these eggs develop multiply and develop
under zero gravity
conditions
and we'll compare these eggs to those
grown on the ground ones that have
developed under 1g conditions
so this is one of our red bellied nuts
one of them that i looked at just a few
days ago if you were watching has laid
36 eggs already so we know we have a
number of great eggs for the scientists
to look at
besides the afternoons here we have uh
another tank with fish in it called
medaka and these are small kill fish
they're about the size of guppies and we
have four in there two males and two
females and in this experiment we're
interested in the mating behavior of the
guppies of the medaka fish here
and then on the uh
fish package we have goldfish you might
have seen some of the downlink from this
and i'll shine the light on there
and hopefully you can
get a view of some of the fish swimming
by
we have six different goldfish in here
and as you can see they're looping
around
they don't quite know which way is up
since we don't have a gravity vector
here for them and we've been watching
and monitoring their swimming behavior
for the last couple of days
we have a door up here that we open and
close to give them the day night cycles
just like they would have on the ground
okay don we have some very good video of
the goldfish now
okay copy that uh let me know if you
like the focus changes at all i tried to
get it in the center right on their eyes
okay pi says focus is very good
okay copy that's great
okay copy
cooler
transfer four containers but to ptc one
rack one charlie
that's a good copy
and this uh containers are
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we are getting down link right now and
we're about to go los
huntsville space lab for kimberly
go ahead leroy
uh kimberly before i begin t i'd like to
uh
reposition the uh
slime mold here
if the pi's agree i'm going to re-center
the target
that's affirmatively roy the piano on
the ground was just saying the same
thing we're going to have you do it
after tei but you can go ahead
uh jim and his tape chain shots i heard
you kept him really busy this morning
back there
thanks for waiting
and i'm ready to copy
huntsville space lab on campus
we we want to do 804 right we're going
to power cycle it
that's affirmative they were resetting
some of their internal software and they
need you to do a restart
okay it's coming right now
nice to be able to communicate through
the modem back and forth with the folks
back home and even you mario
and i uh i left the same time a little
longer and i said i just
uh recording met and stuff here before i
get started on the readings between the
commanders and pilot seat on the flight
deck i just thought it was really neat
to be able to work with equipment like
this you really adapt to uh microgravity
very quickly and it seems totally
natural uh just using a piece of
equipment setting it off to the side
letting it float and writing something
down or going off to something else
it just seems like you've been doing it
all your life once you've been up here
for a while
and uh my final scene uh for this
morning jackie was able to talk to the
children at tarabashi school in her
hometown via cyrex
uh
has been a lot of fun she wasn't talking
directly via srx but through a bridge in
hawaii
and
she really enjoyed that the children
enjoyed it immensely and it it really
has been nice to be able to talk to
school children around the world we've
covered the southern us
tokyo and germany now
on this flight and it always
is an encouragement to them and to us to
hear how excited they are about space
exploration and answer their questions
uh i've been looking at a new lens well
not a new lens a different lens on the
hasselblad camera same lens we always
fly but instead of the infinity stop
set on the ground we're focusing it in
flight and looking at a different a
couple of different focusing screens to
see how we might get more accurate
pictures
we do an excellent job as you know
documenting the changes in the earth on
our shuttle missions and the earth is
constantly changing and we want to
ensure that we have the best pictures
possible
when we get home
okay
where's the cape north or south it's
going to be north you will see it come
there it is there it is beautiful
three four nine ten
11.
zero pad six
about 10 minutes
not yet
okay good
attention
okay we're starting to decelerate now
yeah we got about 1.3 g's right now
fellas
mach 15 property
okay
179.
one and a half
it's very quiet uh here in mission
control all of columbia systems
continuing to perform uh uh in excellent
fashion there are no issues at all in
the room
sonic booms announcing columbia's
arrival in the landing area
the landing gear is now down
main gear touchdown
and nose gear touchdown
columbia completing its 17th voyage in
space
completing 236 orbits of the earth
rolling out on runway 3-3 at the kennedy
space center completing 6 million 143
000 miles
flight repositioning is completed and
the probes are in transit thank you
i'm glide slope on center line
hey on and on
columbia houston on glide slope on
centerline surface winds one five zero
at four
roger
maneuver complete
english in columbia will stop
roger will stop
welcome home columbia excellent
excellent job your ex your record of 15
days on orbit for the shuttle has
brought us closer to the next giant leap
for humankind when we live permanently
in space aboard the international space
station