that was a good suggestion tammy to get
it from down low
and columbia houston
telling me houston we would suggest
while you have the handle off go ahead
and cycle the locking mechanism to
verify that it appears to be functioning
properly
did gabby you want the equalization
valve there
okay i'm at the outer hatch
okay
we're going to blow down the thermal
cover and then use the cctvs in the bay
to look at the mechanisms
okay
got one of them
i like these contingency ebays you know
i didn't think we'd be doing one in the
airlock though
okay sorry both the equalization valves
are off i just want to give you the
whole config the hatch is uh in the
unlocked position
and you're saying you want me to take
both these valves to emergency
air coming out of those valves will blow
down the thermal cover such that we can
look at the hatch mechanism with our rms
camera exactly
so both silo to emergency correct
yes bib okay you ready
we're ready
and this oval cover did pop down okay
just relax now
just take it easy for a while
i
i tell you what that's just what mom
ordered uh what we'd like now is to have
tammy
try to activate the lock and unlock
mechanism and then try the handle again
although you've got such a good view we
can even read the unlocked on the tab
so right now we're fully seated in the
locked position
as i
try to get it properly seated in the
unlocked position
tammy what we see is that the outside
handle is in the what is in the unlocked
position
what we would recommend is
removing the inside handle
putting it in the unlocked position and
then attempting to reinstall it
and columbia houston uh we're ready to
complete the survey and we just saw a
pretty
good bit of motion there in the linkage
yeah we see the motion and the linkage
what we've discovered so far bill with
the inner hatch handle on the outer
hatch
is that um
it doesn't matter whether the inner
hatch
handle is locked or unlocked we still
got about that same 30 degrees of play
on the rotation of the handle
and we see the mechanism that the
linkage is moving in response to that
but at some point at that 30 degree
point something jams and right now our
thinking is that that jam is occurring
in the hub of the
of the latch handle mechanism
we copy taco
we copy and uh and for tammy and tom uh
rest assured we're working hard to see
if we can't figure out a way to get you
guys
out the hatch as soon as possible
they appreciate that bill
using columbia on timeline
go ahead for timeline
bill we're gonna
put a little bright spot in our day and
and schedule a thanksgiving dinner
uh sometime in about half hour or an
hour from now
if that works out with your plans and
maybe we can schedule our
troubleshooting around that dinner time
and we copy we think that'll work just
fine to let you know just a big picture
and we'll have some more details later
for you what we're planning on doing is
trying to make tomorrow
to preserve the option for tomorrow to
look like just like today hopefully with
a little more positive results
but basically to gain an extra hour
or gain back the extra hour that you had
today
uh you know you were gonna shift one
hour to the right today so our plan is
to have you to move all your activities
one hour earlier
to get you to bed an hour earlier so
that you wake up tomorrow
at the same time you woke up today
so that'll give you the one hour of
extra time tomorrow
in case we can
get all that you know get all these uh
problems sorted out
and so then tomorrow night you would get
that
sleep shift uh one hour to the right
we were just talking a few minutes ago
today didn't go exactly as we had hoped
we've got high hopes for tomorrow and
the rest of this fight but we still have
a lot to be thankful for and we're
really happy about
being up here
working with such fine team that we have
on the ground
and uh just real thankful about this
american space program and how far it
has got
and the things that is doing and we hope
we can keep going with it
tomorrow and thanks taco we copied and
uh just want to assure everyone that uh
we're
putting the first team on this and uh
we're gonna uh we're gonna work hard and
we're gonna put this we're gonna figure
out this uh airlock hatch problem and
get you guys out the next opportunity
thanks bill we have every confidence
you