the launch countdown began at the
t-minus forty three hour mark at 5:00
p.m. on Monday for this launch there are
a total of 30 hours and 57 minutes of
built-in whole time
Crewe was undergoing suit up and here is
commander Creighton giving us good
afternoon and he's essentially ready to
go at this point and there is pilot Ken
right ler also essentially suited up and
ready for flight
Sam more mission specialists suspicion
specialist mark brown
and
mission specialist Jim Buckley
and we're now at three hours and
Counting next people to come to the pad
will be the astronauts leaving the
astronaut quarters here in about another
ten minutes or so and all of the
scheduled activities today for the crew
have been right on the money and from
the astronauts
right letter to his duffel James Brown
Sam come on
I am now a company by their usual
security team
Kru now getting off the elevators and
now going on to the orbiter access arm
looking ahead to our remaining mission
specialists we'll be entering the
orbiter Mark Brown and James Buckley our
remaining to be seated the seating
arrangement in the crew compartment
commander Creighton of forces sitting in
the left front seat and pilot Ken right
ler is in the right front seat right now
the pequin reported at the last balloon
was 70 knots at 40,000 feet
LP LP all activities are continuing to
go well we're not working any problems
either on the vehicle side the payload
side we now have the access arm retract
underway
discovery Houston contact air-to-ground
one and two Simon here so discovery Audi
r8 over Channel
discovery Houston read you loud and
clear Simon jail how I got to the cell
fuel cell systems now a trailer
transferring to use of their own
internal reactants gaseous oxygen vent
hood now being retracted the orbiter
down one internal power can write ler
has reported that he has now completed
the clearing of the caution and warning
memory system no unexpected errors fifty
minus two minutes the flight crew has
been instructed to close their visors
sound suppression water system has
started
t-minus 10 seconds 9 8 7 go for main
engine start burning three two one zero
and liftoff of the space shuttle
discovery and the upper atmosphere we
saw itself
Universal
Roger roll discovery
Mission Control Houston now controlling
the flight of discovery
roll program complete
discovery now in a heads-down position
on course for a 57 degree inclination
one minute 10 seconds discoveries now at
altitude of 45,000 feet discovery
Houston go at throttle up all three
engines aboard discovery now back up at
104 percent of operating pressure three
good hydraulic systems aboard the
vehicle and three good electrical fuel
cells downrange distance 10 nautical
miles
Roger read you the same solid rocket
booster separation from discovery time
now two minutes and 20 seconds discovery
now 30 miles from the launch site
discovery Houston two engine tell
discovery can now read Zaragoza Spain in
the event of a single engine failure
however all three engines are still
operating at 104 percent three good
hydraulic systems and three good
electrical systems aboard the vehicle
Discovery's now at an altitude of 219
thousand feet
downrange from the launch site 50
nautical miles traveling 4,700 feet per
second
that's right go you go booster we're go
fails go ng D Houston flight we're go
for launch
I copy thank you launch director NTD I
copy MPD ready to go Bob
I copy engineering director copy safety
and quality director safety qualities go
off copy paper they launch sector
then let's go it's open
zero that's our big nation let's go
confirmed
Roger roll discovery
like guns Glenn see a good roll thank
you
throttle down period 89
rattle down 367 T del confirms throttles
chef's discovery Houston comm checks I'm
oh I got you lost Claire yes and a deer
it up
Roger read you the same
that's our be SAP
one of three converged that mop returned
jeantel mark discovery Houston - engine
tell
for discovery Houston single-engine
Zaragoza 104 explain your point now we
do on the AP use we were looking at a
good make is ended by four separate that
discovery
et said now in amico homes are not
required and when they'll go for the et
photo dto because of lighting right
Capcom
discovery Houston nominal miko no ohms
one required and no go for the et photo
DP oh that's good copy Jail 30 seconds -
tigress not be ending up at ten minutes
that picture did show that the right
hand door of discovery was opened and
the left hand door now
being open swishing cameras now to the
right hand side of the orbiter looking
toward the tail as the left hand door
opens flight director jeff panel now
pulling the room to get a go for orbit
ops that's a phase in which the crew can
stay on orbit for the remainder of the
flight
right now do rich rigid
our rates around good graphic okay take
your stop
flight payload hey dudes the you ours
our sensors to found yours
outstanding
Oh
I actually appreciate
I'm interesting though we've been using
the number of camera to see the RO EU
and when we try to look at it today we
found that it was obscured by the
insulation on the
seemed didn't work you heard this feel
impossible
okay I'm ready again for tobacco
Oh
but the real here Lord
get any lighting Jim
the view you're seeing now is of the
Goddard payload operation Control Center
at the Goddard Space Flight Center where
controllers are proceeding nicely with
the in Bay checkout and are very very
happy with the progress of things at
this point discovery Houston for Sam
things are all relative GNC like
anything looks real good right now okay
redriff right now okay at this mall
we'll go ahead recommend that we'll go
to pick up with relation to ploy he is
go for free drift discovery Houston the
punk is ready to start commanding the
solar array release year ago for free
drift
it's here coming up bright a lot of
energy it was 16
Roger that and we have a beautiful view
of that great I'm not sure we need any
motor to drive their payloads
milestone payloads looks beautiful fight
absolutely
when you start moving in Lebanon with
either Eagle mouth
it will take me an hour to review all
these pictures
and discovery Houston did you copy go
for release and also in a time you
number-three deselected okay we copy
that time go for release these let time
you three
probably looking looking good play
step1 in progress step 1
Capcom look like a good release gets up
one two three - look like a great
release and step one congratulation our
missions of planet Earth
in the direction of motion
this is Mission Control Buckley and Mark
Brown are assembling the first of the
structural test articles for today's run
on the mid-deck zero-gravity dynamics
experiment this is called a an electable
trust that means that the crew builds it
or assembles it
ready
made hope
and shakin
atención looks good
they're closing
and we'll slowly pan up on you to look
down a little burgers
shot magazine
Ferragamo mazuma in
they move your hand back away
this is good
cold weather cops once you let that
thing go for a second okay come back to
thank you
and I like 12 ounces in mine please
okay there's the first date
more
okay
why are you getting our downlink of the
aurora yeah mark it's great wish it was
in color what's it look like to you Jim
so it's basically green he's a marine
the glow over the forward bulkhead of
discovery and occasional flashes are
indications of reaction control system
thrusters firing to maintain attitude as
well as propel discovery forward and
higher discovery Houston looks like a
good burn no trim required and believe
it or not we saw the justifier from the
Charlie cameras just beautiful lots of
bumping a thumpin going on up here a lot
of shakin goin on huh this is Mission
Control Houston this television review
from the payload Bay cameras aboard
discovery is not a star field but the
lights of city below as discovery
crosses over the North Sea and and
across the coast of the northern part of
the Netherlands and Germany
yeah thanks looking out the commander's
window is in the direction of our motion
I was like a preview of everything yet
to come looking straight out here right
now looking right down there yes the
boot of Italy so that cities there are
positions along the coast all the way
down the peninsula you could really make
us yeah the prepetition that's where the
land is water is jet black so the
outline of all the Roger that can man we
just took payload Bay cameras because we
wanted to take a look for ourselves and
we can see that that's amazing right now
yeah
yeah it looks like a pretty big
lightning storms
and then the other lighting storm went
up just north of the Straits of Messina
well that's beautiful here it must
really be spectacular out there
so card to play is sitting over here
that you can look off the horizon and
see the lights with the fire so very
quick that is pretty amazing
my higher the residuals look really good
that's an excellent burnt
that's a superior burner no doubt about
that one sizzle excellent good burn
okay and Capcom follow along with that
we saw a good burn
we like the residuals here stiff you can
hear this but it's completed of time
Roger we copy we saw a good burn with
excellent residuals and for the mode
stirs there we need for them to proceed
to protocol number 30 and they could
start that now and continue it even
during the maneuver back to Gigi
okay we understand protocol 30 and just
as a data point did break surface during
the burn just in the view to the right
hand bottom portion of the picture is
Chicago near the southern portion of
Lake Michigan
Houston discovery yes I would yes Doug
EFE of the images you got down off a
disk gate at Houston was one of the good
ones you received well check mark
and discovery the word is we have great
views of Houston okay thanks
thank you
this view from Discovery looking from
the north to the south stretching all
the way from the Lake Michigan area all
the way to the Gulf of Mexico
Atlanta is now in the middle right-hand
portion of the picture just coming into
view as Tampa in Florida
discoveries presently at an altitude of
309 nautical miles
looking southward now the entire state
of Florida becomes visible
the larger cities are evident by the
brightness Jacksonville Orlando Tampa
and then Miami in the southern portion
or better now initiating the first roll
reversal that's a role reversal to the
right to dissipate excess energy of the
orbiter Discovery's altitude now one
hundred and fifty two thousand feet
range two hundred and eighty nautical
miles time to touchdown ten minutes
forty seconds
discovery Houston transfer a state
vector to the BFS Roger transfers they
picked us via phezzan word
and we're back to about 1300 lo at the
90 converging back to Nam slightly low
at the 90 and converging discovery we
see you slightly low at the 90 and
converging
main gear touchdown and nose gear
touchdown
discovery rolling out on Edwards runway
two two
we're glad to have you back discovery
your mission will save the way for a
better understanding of our planet Earth
in space and gradually I'll tell down a
job well done in jail
EPS no Delta Spiegel thank you no
Delta's you come none Inc oh no Delta
spark back
no Delphis plot funny council and we've
got about five minutes of cooling gear
on the Reds first ammonia controller is
going to be ammonia B to prod GPC ok and
we'll await your call we're standing by
flight ok no we're standing by gotta go
I think oh we're on an upper antenna now
ok through transport vehicle now moving
into position
crew of discovery now looking over the
vehicle as fairly routine after each
flight greeting the crew is the dryden
flight research facilities center
director Ken's away
sts-48 crew members from left to right
mission specialist Marc Brown Sam game
our pilot Ken right ler mission
specialist Jim Buckley and commander Jo
Creighton
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