one liftoff of Atlantis
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding all is
going well in our countdown we've got
the flight crew for STS 44 having
breakfast in the crew quarters at the
operations and check-out building crew
who's just beginning their first flight
day of a 10-day mission we've got
mission specialist Jim boss flying for
the first time payload specialist Tom
Henin Mario run Co flying for the first
time today he's a mission specialist and
we've got commander Fred Gregory making
his third trip into space today
there's pilot Tom Hendricks he's flying
for the first time today in space and
mission specialist story Musgrave he
becomes a four time shuttle veteran
today
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding
we've got commander Fred Gregory colonel
in the United States Air Force being
assisted he's getting his helmet on and
this is in the suit up room at the
operations and check-out building
commander Gregory was just briefed on
the weather conditions here at Kennedy
and essentially world world weather
conditions in case they had to make a
landing at a transoceanic abort site
we've got mission specialists James boss
he's being assisted with getting things
stuffed into his pockets got mission
specialist Mario Bronco he's flying for
the first time today Mario is a
lieutenant commander in the United
States Navy payload specialist Tom Henan
standing up Henan is a Chief Warrant
Officer in the United States Army
he's a payload specialist on this this
flight he'll be conducting the terror
scout experiment for this mission making
observations of various sites on the
ground from space
we've got pilot Tom Hendricks flying for
the first time today he's got on watch
pointing to it he's a colonel in the
United States Air Force crew does a
brief test of the suit they have where
air circulated through the suit and just
test for a leakage rate in the suit
while they're in the suit up room we've
got here mission specialist story
Musgrave
he's a medical doctor story is becoming
a four-time shuttle veteran today
this is shuttle launch control we've got
the STS 44 of flight crew coming down
the hall with the operations and
check-out building come in to Fred
Gregory is leading the group how at Tom
Hendrix they're all waving goodbye to
well-wishers at the ONC building
and we've got the crew coming out
and a group of well-wishers who's all
ready to go
why today
NPD launch director well go ahead okay I
think we've about converged on the
calculations for the replenish time so
you ought to have the team prepared to
come out of this hold at 35 past the
hour looking for a t0 at 45 past the
hour
I'm sorry 44 past the hour okay thank
you
t-minus two minutes 30 seconds the
orbiter test conductors requested at
pilot Henrichs clear the caution warning
memory system retraction of the gaseous
oxygen vent hood is now underway
look what oxygen tank is now at flight
pressure
t-minus two minutes and Counting
tonight's launch will mark the seventh
night launch in the history of the
shuttle program and the tenth flight of
the orbiter Atlantis Thanksgiving
t-minus 31 seconds we have a go for
autosequence start Atlantis as for
redundant computers have primary control
of critical functions
if they see my start to you 12 11 10
nine we have a go for engine start two
one liftoff of Atlantis
Roger roll Atlantis Houston now
controlling Atlantis completed rolling
over to the proper position where it's
climbed to the twenty-eight point five
degree inclination orbit
three main engines now throttling back
to 70% as lantus prepares to pass to the
area of maximum aerodynamic pressure
- speed is now 1,000 miles an hour
altitude 34,000 feet downrange from
Kennedy Space Center for nautical miles
Atlantis Houston go at throttle up three
engines now back operating at 104
percent of rated capacity good hydraulic
systems get electrical systems
Atlanta Houston comm check UHF only
you're loud and clear also altitude now
127 thousand feet Atlanta speed two
thousand seven hundred and twenty-five
miles an hour
downrange from Kennedy Space Center 25
nautical miles
Roger goes
three engines continuing top right well
at 104 percent of rated capacity good
hydraulic systems good electrical
systems altitude now 198 thousand feet
velocity 3060 802 engine ban Joule Roger
and performance nominal those calls
indicate Atlantis's performance so far
has been as planned and that Atlantis
could now perform a transatlantic
landing at fan Jewell to Gambia on only
two engines if one were to fail however
that however all three engines
continuing to operate well at 104
percent
you
Atlantis now altitude is 286 thousand
feet
velocity now 4,200 miles an hour
downrange from Kennedy Space Center 102
nautical miles
atlantis negative return that call
indicates atlantis can no longer return
to the Kennedy Space Center for landing
if that were to become necessary however
all three engines still operating at 104
percent good hydraulic systems good
electrical systems
and anyone else is listening today we're
going to play back deploy we're gonna
start with a pre deploy check or show
you that first this is the tech that we
do on orbit again this is as you can see
I hope you're sitting now the nozzle of
the I us yeah we see that Jim okay three
to four checks the nozzle dimples are
checked twice on a different system and
you may have already seen the first one
and then it'll switch over to the other
side and it will then check the gimbals
in each direction
those it goes up head back to the center
down back to the center we looked at our
satellite there is the DSC in the
foreground with the original upper stage
boosters it's behind it starting over on
what's your left as you look at the
screen looking at the actuator mechanism
that will eventually tilt the I you SD
SD up into its deployed position now it
looks back over the top of the payload
is it 10 the bay these are solar panels
that are there that later after we
deploy it the controllers on the ground
will send the signals to deploy those
solar panels they'll fold out looking
down on the other side now you can see
these antennas and other types of
sensors that are on other parts of the
satellite it looks like a powerful point
yet but that's the IR sniper next we're
going to show you some I said we saw
coming off the aft end of the orbiter
while we're waiting for the report
this is the coverage that were on those
expenses the spacecraft they're pulled
off by strings that go into the funnel
shaped devices in the foreground there's
a motor that reels in the string and it
pulls those covers into the funnel so
that all proper oddity in the vehicle
after they've been removed because we
one of the sensors that wasn't covered
and Rogers the strength pulls the covers
into the funnel to secure them I works
real well it was well designed it did a
good job they pulled Rylance and they
sucked right into the funnels just like
they were supposed to
okay yet here's the payload Bay right
before we raise the payload up to deploy
it and you can see their motion starting
we raise it up to 29 degrees we do some
other checks there and the ground
doesn't text and then we pull an
umbilical so that we no longer have
power going from the orbiter to the
payload and once we pull that up
pellicle was pretty sure we're going to
go ahead and deploy you can see the
ground object is the top of the the
cover for the infrared sensor that looks
down at the earth that's used for
detecting missile launches and just
below that there are a cluster of three
and then one other round objects start
around objects that you can see those
are other sensors
the larger white circles to the left and
to the lower father antennas that are
used for communicating with the
satellite
we do this in stages so that we can
start before we pull the umbilical at 29
degrees before we stop and then we'll go
ahead and raise it on up to 58 degrees
which is the final elevation when we put
it up to about 45 degrees or so to
ensure that we're going to have currents
from the payload separated from shuttle
it separates and then it goes right up
over the top of the crew compartment so
we all have a pretty good angle so that
we we don't go into the structure
really is a pretty fun alight with all
the silver and the gold on it story was
really excited about it he thinks he's
got some great pictures of the whole
deploy sequence with both the air flex
and with Hasselblad
once we get elevated like this we do
another survey of the payload make sure
that we don't see anything that could be
wrong at the same time time the ground
controllers are from Ebola checking out
everything and making sure that the
there's no upper stage which is the
booster is in good state than the
defense Support Program satellite folks
are making sure that the satellite is
working correctly
the initial upper stage once we deploy
it and one hour after we kicked it out
it ignites its solid rocket motor and it
pushes it on how to Norbit
this said we got into the dark
fortunately it was a dark light but we
weren't able to get good shots of it too
long we could only use the payload a
license to be able to see it so once it
goes a little bit away from the orbiter
it no longer has any lighting and we
won't be able to see very much of it but
you'll see it deploy here in just a
minute
when it deploys there is something
called a super zip is March operate
disease and there's no upper stages on
the everyone's support equipment and
accept it very cleanly the sailors has
been pushed out away from the orbiter
and after one minute Fred
who's the orbiter away from the payload
and then a little bit later we do an
open front which will show you in just a
bit
those it deploys right now you can see
it drifts away very slowly gracefully it
cleared all the equals the support
equipment very nicely while you can see
these little upper stage and the gold
powerful down below it which is the
first stage is a solid rocket motor
little boot stood up to its final to go
synchronous orbit about 22,000 miles
above the Earth's surface once its final
orbit it'll be put where God wants it to
be
now you can barely see the satellite
once it gets all of our lights it's very
difficult to see I hope you can see it
almost in the middle of the screen is
that moves away from the father that got
away from us the more difficult it was
to see and off to the right is which is
much easier to see now we're going to
show you a little bit of what we could
see with
okay now you'll see a flash is the only
the oval students whistling in gypsy
cake that was the ignition and now you
can see little glow just on the top of
the off part that's the burning hole
pigeon we'll see a little RCS Jets fire
on the right side of your screen
what's up burn is over it'll bit far
away to get real good pictures of it but
it certainly showed up wrong with the
front coming up on it like that we're
looking damage to your surface we are
above it so we were looking down at the
I USB SD as a fool underneath us getting
ready for its front to put it into it
tonight a little bit
we've got it
space the final frontier
this is the voyage of the space shuttle
Atlantis its 10-day mission to explore
new methods of remote sensing and
observation of the planet earth to seek
out new data on radiation in space and a
new understanding of the effects of
microgravity on the human body to boldly
go where 255 men and women have gone
before hello Fred
Thom story Jim Tom and especially Mario
this is Patrick Stewart choosing not to
outrank you as Captain jean-luc Picard
saying that we are confident of a
productive good morning Atlantis
what tom is doing his characterizing his
system he's looking at how the device
functions up here in space like company
can adjust viewing angle taking out all
of his lenses and just generally a good
checkout calibration see how it works
switch works said Tom Hendricks are both
working with Tom our messes kind of
backups and so it's working with Tom
right now it's setting it up and taking
it out I'll be there that's permanent
we've got a good shot
your Australia and Thomas tracking that
on the screen right now is a guy over
we've got it
but you see my hand is our antenna that
mounts in the window for nads-1 this is
our UHF comm antenna essentially is the
computer brain for our charge-coupled
device or CCD camera the camera which
you see over here I'll bring it into few
has basically an honest 232 type port on
it
the take speed signal from the CCD bat
and this is just a Nikon f3 camera the
s3 camera has been modified a little bit
the film that has been taken off and the
devices that put on the electronics part
of the CCD is down below here and the
CCD camera then puts a signal through
the rs-232 cable to the tethered
electronics modules the tethered
electronics module had the disc drive
and it essentially it records the
digital image from the CCD on a disc the
discs then can be accessed and displayed
on the black and white high-density
monitor that I have mounted next to the
temp okay jan as you can see I've got
the camera off stuff together the lenses
on the camera and the lens essentially
bounce up to pk about a thousand
millimeter uh telephoto lens there
aren't basic lenses a 300 millimeter and
the there are two couplers on it
essentially it's a 1.4 and a 2 so in any
combination I can go up from 300
millimetres to about 450 or to about 600
and then up to a thousand if you if you
do the multiplication that detailed for
that hopefully we'll be able to see
things on the ground with the camera and
displayed on on the monitor to the
greatest detail we've been able to get
to today
we also have associated with a maybe it
was some radio sitcom I showed you the
antenna earlier I'll go back to that and
talk a little bit about the radios that
we have the radio itself and then below
that the crypto gear for the radio the
radio essentially about is the standard
military issue where I to HF radios such
an LST v be in a KY 57 set unit and used
in the field basically by the army in
the Marines but we have it on board to
to toss the rest down to a person on the
ground that will be located on site for
an individual target and he'll be
passing to us weather and conditions at
the targets for example if we're going
by port facility you might tell us what
ships are in port or what ships are
moving in and out of sort information
like that and then they're armed with
that information I can then try and look
for those on the ground now is put
exploit into the lb/ft there's this
thing up to wait feel right now we have
to have a real good tight seal so that
when we lower the pressure in the bag we
don't pull anymore and also the heart
triggers when the blood pressure sensor
here on my arm wet that looks for
different sounds put a blood pressure
cuff on the arm like this you pump up
that blood pressure cuff higher than the
blood pressure dish in their artery and
then stops the blood flowing down here
as soon as you decrease the pleasure in
the cup enough where the blood flow
through that little Explorer around that
you're here might be faster stethoscope
listening
I'll picks up those pulses coming
through and that goes into a blood
pressure measuring device damper which
then record first and then what to watch
ameristar's updating our stocks are pbr3
we didn't think that it was synced up
very well with our state vector so he's
putting a new state vector asses make
sure we're all synced up with it okay we
see that
whatever house there's color sizes and
color IRS as kind of a testers look at
the difference in the tooth and will be
take a look shot so I think over the
ocean
we were doing a visual function test
that's the pilot topics of the letter at
the right table specialist paint it look
what's called the VFD the visual
function testing which we will give you
a look at some time to particular dish
space is a very important thing and our
wreath to take a baby fish changes you
won't see heads that we have a forty
also is expect the size to be a little
larger we do pages they change size just
like a cap of the focal length of a
camera this would change here your
cinematographer your boss is doing a
great job for this shell is giving you
one example of what you see in the
visual lumps testers I plan to hear what
the crewmen's activities are that is to
take a cassette tape I load it to set a
bitter each one of the test sequences I
push the power button started to running
enhancer sequences all that takes out
the takes your ports a bioreactor is it
has three different sized ears but once
we get it tested out and do the kinds of
development and tweak we need for in
terms of rpms and densities and like we
will be able to grow this you cultures
space not just single layer tissue
cultures right now as you grow tissues
it's a twenty you only get a single
layer itself it is not very effective or
efficient way
once we protect this system we will be
able to grow clumps out of tissue
cultures your band applied tissue
cultures and report so they important to
be able to understand cancer cells you
get the Grove in such survive but if you
could study their ball so many magazines
are grown in tissue cultures tipoff here
is focused in the camcorder
if you could see three different size
fears if there's red white and blue as
they traverse this is one particular
sequence so they will take a very very
different post and once we've perfected
being able to hold and set of eyes the
hair stretches across these fears we
will then be able to put living cultures
there and hopefully we'll be able to use
the very environment aphasia private to
enhance our ability of biological
tissues growing outside of the body
that's the completion of our file
reactor the last thing we have for
bioreactor is we'd like you to push and
hold the reset button that should stop
the drum and allow us to see the
deceleration of the beads just push it
you need to hold it in in order to keep
the drum stopped
over to the right of the galley or our
walkers and Henan is helping out here is
going to show you what's inside one of
our food lockers they're stowed by each
meal its meal 8 b & 3 that's like
breakfast lunch and dinner and all the
meals for the six of us are stowed
inside there this is a couple of meals
worth different kinds of containers will
show you those later with plastic bags
for their garbage in when we're done and
then even different types of containers
not a need to look at all that stuff
inside that tray
it's a lot of food stowed into a very
small space and once we get it out to
take a look at it it's also very
difficult for us to get it all bumpkin
to the locker so we have to eat a lot to
get all that closed back up and lost
alot go back up again
moving on we're gonna show you what's
that one more the lockers just so you
get a feel for some of the things that
are stowed in there and this will to
show our photographic equipment we have
a fair effects camera at the front and
then at the back is for 30 35
millimeters camera equipment all we have
for now some of the film it's also to
that nice and neatly so you can keep
track of it find ourselves when we need
to replace those that we use books are a
problem also up on the top you see an
exercise protocol many of our procedure
books that we have stowed away they each
have their place and we return the devil
relative so that we can find them over
on the wall are our sleeping bags they
stay stowed on the walls too at night
some other sleep tied to the wall like
the bags are others just get in their
bags and float around
we found a convenient place to store our
running shoes that we use the bat-rope
Hill they fit very nicely in the airlock
door and they stay there very well so
once you get into stage you find all the
convenient places to store things and we
use this but don't cause it's available
clubs are their own we find a spot that
we really need something stops now
opening up one of our personal hygiene
kits it has our razors and shampoo and
soap all the things normally keep in
your bathroom
we keep spinoffs pillow box like this or
other means I'll show you later
this is a different way of keeping your
personal hygiene items together front a
long belt that has don't go on the back
of it so you can throw it to the wall
where you're working when you're
cleaning up and all the add ups go into
elastic on them so it's fairly well it
doesn't contain them quite as readily as
the other type but it puts it all out
easily available for you to use and you
can feed a little bit better it's just
personal choice which one you want to
use
this is a very large fact that we have
inside the airlock it's a soft bag and
inside it are about ten smaller banks
ten or twelve smaller bags and each of
the bags are color code is you know
which is yours there's mine it's got
blue on it that's my color and inside
this bag I have all of my extra
underwear and key shirts and a couple of
other kinds of church now let's see what
one of them is oh that's right this is
an army production I forgot I'm going to
show you some of the storage in our
waste control compartment our bathroom
back over here you see some of the
containers the places on the friday the
little black things those are where we
store our clothes and towels they're
rubber and they have a slot in them you
push through wash off the minute they
stay and very well to dry out before you
put them in the dirty clothes we also
have several top mention the fact that
we stole a lot of our equipment that we
use for personal hygiene
here you see our containers for your
health
we have why those for each of us what
calls are stowed in here I'll show you
how we put one of those up on the wall
it goes right in very nice way in its
face foot we keep it all color-coded so
that we can keep our own washcloths
separate from the others here's a towel
compartment and over on the other side
we're all wet trash after we've used the
bathroom sometimes we have the boys side
up special storage we put them in a bag
there here's our dry white toilet paper
and once there's used to go in that a
can which we then close up at the top
and we put into our wet waste container
it has a continual airflow through it so
that the odors are contained there I'm
going to show you some of the things we
have to contend with when we use up some
of our particles and space and get rid
of them we find it easier to put a
little plastic bag on the front with
some velcro and fill it up with our
trash as we go by so they don't have to
open it all the time so we just put
things in there keep it filled up like
this we'll have a piece of ply piece of
paper that he wants to put away we'll
put it inside the plastic bag because
it's very convenient just to go by and
stick it in here
once it's full we open up the trash
compactor it has an easy access door it
normally is very easy to open the
compunctious gets a little bit full and
was jamming it a little bit there and
then there's a access front it's kind of
a diaphragm that has slots in it and you
can just push your food in there there
so you don't have to pull it off and put
it back on for you just push the waste
into it and we can continue to push it
up in there quite some time until the
drag factor is filled up
then he closes up the door and he locks
it set we know all of the waste bit we
heard from our feels for a full day for
six of us plus I think a little bit for
this morning that we had so we have
quite a bit of trash inside there now
and we could have put a lot more in
there but just so we could demonstrate
it for you we divide the grapes compact
for your thoughts on how usually the
handles come off go back on and then
he's gonna compact it for us you adjust
the handle so that they will now be in a
pageant mode and he's gonna start
cranking away on it it takes the box
sixty portions of the handles in order
to fully of course the garbage inside
there
turn the back off it give you a little
bit better view of how tom has to place
themselves to secure itself in place
while he's compacting it has to back off
just a little bit he had so much
pressure on it he could get the door
open please that's awful it will relieve
the pressure and I can pull the bag out
it's all squished down has that full
day's worth of six people's garbage in
there pull these straws out that then
will hold the plastic bag and it not let
it expand back out to its former shape
so you pull the whole thing up there's
all of our trash for entire day closest
of all let me show you the flight deck
we also have to store a lot of things up
here you can see all the books and
papers that's are pointing molal up
there on the front front of said seat
all about procedural books maps the PGS
see our good computer at their stove
between the windows Tom's got the good
photograph of his three children up
there right above his feet some old
messages that we got from the ground
we have a tape for our VTR over on the
wall
now we stole things just about any place
that we can on the walls on the floor on
the ceiling this is where the teres gap
equipment goes all the extra binoculars
and other equipment that Tom uses for
his observations or messages from the
ground war flight data fall this is
where we store story we put him up in a
window with a couple of Hasselblad's in
his hand and he's very happy up there
papito was prepared by give us and table
tennis while the rest of us were busy
they were slaving over the oven and in
the kitchen for hours and prepares the
scrumptious feel of searching for gravy
some noodles we had fresh cranberry
sauce and some pumpkin to light all the
fixings of Thanksgiving the traditional
Thanksgiving
the only thing absent was family and
friends but you're with us in our hearts
thank you as we go hey chip what we've
got coming up for you is a corn quarter
founded in the soldiers have you'll see
shrimp on doing I'll allow the home
screen okay we'll be looking
we bought in with towels we cleaned up
our two cups of water
there was about one cup off the filter
on upset Bravo what we're going to
prevent again this is what just what
this is Atlantis due to proximity of
super typhoon Nuri Saipan Tinian Sun
visible over regret DBC not possible
from your enjoy your meal Happy
Thanksgiving
here's the marathon with you in the
narvik-a 35 of 8.1 Bravo when you're
ready on the I of you Fred that is not
required we're still pulling the data to
determine exactly what the problem is
with IMU we don't need you to run the
malfunction procedures okay I think
everything on here is check with MCC
anyway Roger that Atlantis Houston for
Fred Fred we want to have ideas on IMU -
we see problems both with the attitude
and a velocity we have declared IMU -
failed we want you to leave it powered
on for now and we're still discussing
the implications of that failure and
we'll get back with you and we we have a
plan we're at a mission elapsed time of
5 days 16 hours and 41 minutes
Capcom Jan Davis has just informed the
crew that inertial measurement unit 2 is
failed the flight control team is still
in the process of discussing and
analyzing any impacts they make that may
have by James II given this FPC 2 & 3
traces that you gave me up here to an
eagle
be sure you want to leave this guy
powered on well flight that's um that's
a good question to ask we've been
talking to Eagle folks the comforting
data from that is that the IMU is not
pulling any more current than it did
prior to the failure and no more than we
would expect from nominal operation so
we don't believe it's an internal short
in the box or anything that would cause
sparking or anything else if that were
the case and I agree we would absolutely
go go and turn it off Eagle flight lady
at this point or you go with it yeah at
this point I'm not real concerned we're
still looking into it I didn't see
anything in those traces that really
gave me any heartache looked like a
power shift something eternal to the
unit I didn't see anything that
indicated short thing that would make me
uncomfortable at this time ímu one and
three are working and their performance
throughout the mission has been
outstanding Atlanta Houston for Fred
Fred Fred we've been consulting with the
management team we're all at a consensus
that we are declaring an MDS due to the
failure of the IMU
we also require a lake bed landing the
first entry opportunity will have is for
tomorrow we're looking at the weather it
Edwards now to see if we can in fact do
that tomorrow look okay stand by -
Houston the data looks good
this is Mission Control Houston this
view of what's left of the eye of the
storm of typhoon yuri typhoon yuri has
officially been classified down
classified now to an extra tropical
storm it still got winds from 80 miles
per hour gusting up to 105 at one point
earlier in the flight had a very
well-defined I stretching 15 to 20 miles
across and winds up to from 150 to 180
miles per hour
hey Atlantis Houston you've got a go for
the deorbit burn we'll have a final
runway selection between 4:00 or 5:00
for you shortly and your go-to maneuver
to deorbit burn attitude on time
this camera's heavy
fight fight oh go ahead non-voice in
position and ready to support okay slide
Chauncey go ahead I'll have a OS by then
but the e i- twenty-second very actuator
chick will not be required all right
essentially at zero nine zero eleven
eleven okay that's right and his
Energy's nominal now fly Roger good okay
Atlantis Houston we see on energy
approaching the hack surface winds are
now zero-niner-zero at eleven Gustav
thirteen that call indicates that
Atlantis speed is perfectly normal as it
begins a right overhead turn around the
heading alignment cylinder to the line
with runway zero five this view shows
Atlantis with wings angled in a bank to
the right at 42 degrees altitude 48,000
feet Atlantis airspeed now 207 knots
range to touchdown 23 nautical miles
that guidance navigation and control
officer reports commander Fred Gregory
has now taken the manual control of
Atlantis Atlantis Houston on energy at
the 270 that call indicates Atlantis
speed remains looking very good as it
has 270 degrees left to go and it's
right to turn to align with runway zero
five altitude now 31,000 feet airspeed
263 knots range to touchdown 16 nautical
miles
Atlanta Houston slightly low as the 180
Atlanta Houston disregard the brake
pressure message who told the disregard
a message about break pressure as a
false message altitude now 7,000 100
feet for miles to touchdown airspeed 200
9 knots Atlantis aligning with the
center of runway zero 5
altitude 3,000 feet
landing gear down main gear touchdown
Atlantis will roll out without breaking
due to a test objective
before we get to the roadway
Roger that Atlantis we concur
roger wheelstop
good job Fred welcome home Atlantis and
congratulations on a great flight
you