this is the ascent portion of our
mission mcountdown of the Cape this went
flawlessly we're really really pleased
with the way things went down went on
down there
the engine starting you can see the
shockwaves come out of the throats of
the the nozzles the nozzles vibrate the
engines get up and stable in about six
seconds solid rocket motors fire and
we're off in for a new guy doing this
the first time it's really a thrill and
that thing feels like being on a rough
train while the solid rocket motors are
firing if y'all have been on rough
railroad track that's about what it
feels like and it's a very interesting
ride you can function normally and right
before we lifted off kripp said get
ready for the ride of your lives and he
was right it's the ride of your life
it's totally so big throw on your third
time to the one of the one of the neat
things about this mission was we're
gonna do direct insertion into orbit so
we didn't do an orbital maneuvering
system one burn right after the main
engines cut off so we're going right
into orbit off the pad and we're going
up 250 miles so the trajectory and
everything was a little bit different
and it made made a real interesting ride
out of it the solid rocket motors the
engines and everything just magnificent
we didn't have a glitch the whole essent
which is really nice you don't want any
glitches when this kind of stuff's going
on outside you window we all kept on
watching crippled make sure this is the
way it's really yeah okay solid rocket
motors separated they saw the plumes
from the separation motor so slog up our
windows pretty good up in front they
they put a haze on the on the forward
windows when they go off and you get a
nice flash in the windows but it's a
nice smooth separation this is letting
the bees out of their little house here
kind of we did this a couple times a day
it was good entertainment if nothing
else and we were watching their progress
on their on their honeycomb
yeah we were made sure that there was no
way that we're going to get out of it I
checked that okay this is uh more of the
housework I did a lot of a lot of the
cooking in bottle washing and then if
you look out the window there you can
see the snow going by we're doing a
water dump at the same time cooking a
meal was about like doing it on the
ground there this is a bank shot by
Crippin I get my eggs in my mouth okay
do you do tend to eat in space like you
do underground
almost almost at least I eat in space I
eat like I do underground that was the
real rotating grapple over gave us time
to play well in this particular sequence
we were showing how we prepare a meal
and we divided these tasks up among all
the crew members a daily usually wound
up doing breakfast because nobody was
quick enough for him making meals is a
fairly easy task on-orbit all you had to
do is essentially like very good it's
such like backpacking you essentially
add water to to the food and it was very
good I'll let Rick describe what we're
doing here well at the risk of endorsing
a product that's an interesting physical
and demonstration on orbit of the fact
that things really are weightless that's
how the crew was rewarded when we did
something enough properly
Rick would release another handful
since Anna didn't wear things right than
anybody she got most of Dave on-orbit
described dr. Owen as as large and
personality but the dominion of stature
whenever his personality got a little
bit too large we would stuff him away in
a walker for a few hours and then when
the TAS needed to be done that was my
job to go out go down and get him out
this was a somewhat unpleasant task for
me but but Joe Joe seemed to like the
free of the times and the hard part was
putting him back in there again later
once we go here's Gordon getting ready
for one of the many burns with our
smaller orbital maneuvering system
rocket engines here you see us
maneuvering attitude and the small
attitude Jets firing we did an
experiment so you could appreciate the
acceleration we get out of these rocket
engine firings we've put 8 ounces of
water on the mid-deck and here you see a
travel across dr. Bartow is catching it
we also tried to sleep through some of
these burns and we staged this next
scene to show you what it felt like in
the buck that hurt no it was a great
train wreck here we're setting up for an
on-orbit ohm's burn we're getting some
things ready in the mid-deck there's the
Oma's engines firing out at the back and
now watch what happens in the mid-deck
that's 1/16 of a GE each of the ohms
engine says one foot per second squared
for a total of two feet per second
squared and that 1/16 of a G felt like a
lot to us after being up there for three
or four days and you can see the
acceleration on the tape it keeps
wanting to go back towards the aft
bulkhead because we're accelerating
forward towards the left of the screen
here we can see the left ohms engine
burn and that's just to start up the
burn lasts for a little while and this
is what it looks like in the mid-deck
Jerry made it right into the airlock and
we've collected all those pieces here's
a picture of Gordo establishing himself
in that area and why don't you move the
coat there Gordo and get it out of the
way okay and of course one of the things
Barrow had to do is brush his hair every
morning
eating was a real pleasure of course
it's impossible to knock your milk off
the table up there kiddos it's there's
no way to get in trouble with mom you
just leave things float around and when
you want them you just grab them out of
thin air and you can eat standing on
your head or however you please girl oh
here this is demonstrating what happens
if you ever drop a cat it always ends up
on it's four feet in a matter what
attitude and that's we've had a lot of
discussions about how this works yes
that's right he's not shoveling the air
it's actually he's he's the one in the
right of course is a magnet the one on
the left is just a pencil and we had no
idea they were gonna decide to me
we're still waiting the results gordo
practicing his uh landing technique you
ready for re-entry
looks like we're lost in space there oh
we get up in the morning and um you know
brush our teeth and comb our hair and
the rest of that stuff here some of the
crew equipment we had was limited so we
had to share it
this this sequence we call hair Wars as
you might expect the commander one of
course I'm not dumb enough to get the
hairbrush away from the commander this
set next scene is not staged this is a
real teleprinter message we set a new
record on this flight for the amount of
teleprinter messages sent up every
single Rev on the night side they send
up a new detailed plan for the
scientists here to accomplish on the
next solar pass and that was an actual
message all full of fine print but
fortunately for me all I had to do is
take it up to the upper deck and pass it
out to the people who really had to read
it we recorded a new space first on this
flight we ran out of teleprinter paper
after five and a half days was the first
time that's happened and story Musgrave
changed out the paper roll in space for
the first time but the hairbrush one
wasn't staged either we had to devise a
number of exercise routines
little weightlifting and balancing act
here
now that many of you can do this right
here
he doesn't put him on one leg at a time
like everybody else as soon as I get
this down I'm gonna get a Dorothy Hamill
wig and try out for the ice cream
and of course Marines aren't happy
unless they do their push-ups every day
that wasn't too tough so you know look
one arm
and if you want to even do photos
now if you really got frustrated you can
do here we are sitting down for supper
we had trays you can see some of the
food stuck to the back there
they had trays that we could position on
our laps velcro and then set our food in
them as Steve pointed out this
zero-gravity adds new meaning to the
term past the potatoes they load them
all the way across the cabin the menu
was quite varied and really pretty good
people accused me we had color code and
people accused me of always having my
color on everything exercise was part of
our daily routine on orbit just like it
is back here on earth getting set up on
the treadmill takes a little bit longer
in orbit but it feels just as good to
quit and our sleep Arrangements looked a
lot like summer camp a little bit of
bunks here and there two of us slept
anchored to lockers two of us slept
strung across the room and two of us
slept on the wall and you notice that in
zero-g when you relax your arms tend to
float up it was very comfortable
we didn't always sleep with a nightlight
on
well it's constantly fascinating just to
watch the way objects behave in
zero-gravity here we have a set of gyro
stabilized binoculars there was a little
bit too much friction in them so they
were actually a bit gyro unstabilized
but still with 14 powered binoculars it
was just amazing what we could see on
the ground and of course I also enjoyed
what I could see up in the sky since I'm
an astronomer we also carried some
science demonstration objects commonly
known as tio YS this was done primarily
to make some educational footage which
we can use and distribute to science
teachers throughout the country here Bo
forgot to spend the gyroscopes up and
somehow it just didn't didn't stay
stable so we're going to
another chance and here he's gonna get
it spinning there we go
of course the principle of gyroscopic
stability has been around a long time we
use it for navigation our satellites use
it when they come out of the cargo bay
but of course without the without
gravity and just being able to float it
free here you can study the behavior of
the gyroscope and and watch the way it
moves around in a way that we never get
a chance to do in laboratories on the
earth I'm sure all of you have held a
gyroscope on a string or on your fingers
and after a while as it spins down the
force of gravity starts to torque it and
it starts to process around of course
that that never happens in in zero
gravity you can keep playing with it
almost up up to the moment where where
it is not spinning at all and it still
stays stable in fact it was just a
constant source of fascination all the
different things you could do with these
very ordinary devices this is a little
magnetic wheeler that I'm using normally
on the earth to start this with gravity
I found it was pretty easy to start it
up using centrifugal force this one as
long as I was holding it behave pretty
much the way it did on the earth but as
soon as you let it go then it does all
sorts of neat things and here comes mr.
yo-yo we had a lot of discussions with
physicists friends of mine about whether
the yo-yo was going to work and it
worked fabulous you could do it fast you
could do it slow you could do it to the
ceiling that's the famous toy Dave did
flying saucers around the moon he's a
real champ and if they don't let him
into the yo-yo Association of America
there's just no justice in the world
putting the jacks here
there was constant constant danger of
massive explosions if the ball came back
in the wrong place
we managed to go through without ever
losing the Jackson although it's not on
film ray did manage to do hurt well
teased by the end of the flight if you
if you let up a paper airplane just
float it's pretty much carried away by
the air currents in the shuttle as you
see here and so it really doesn't take
very much force just to start it on the
most beautiful flight that you ever seen
of any paper glider hope you like a home
movie so far the Powerball behaved a lot
like it does on earth in that you can
paddle it in nearly any direction if
you're clever enough I'm not sure I am
clever enough to keep it going in in
each direction as you can see here so
the ins and outs ups and downs we're
about the same it's a little harder to
do let's say to do this trick on earth
the straightforward sort of paddle ball
operation is much slower and it's much
easier this one is a little tougher jeff
has here some magnetic marbles I'm not
sure how you shoot marbles in space
because it's a little hard to keep them
in that ring but your shooter seems to
work fine it joins right up with them
all and it forms it forms into a into a
tour right as you might expect with the
magnetic lines and the magnetism that's
inherent in the marbles if you watch
carefully now I'm not this not this one
but the one after this as Jeff sails the
marble past after he repositions the his
ring here with its little tail and
rotated to the horizontal lines on the
on the ball cap behind him watch what
this marble does see a curved upward is
that as the main ache lines of force
passed by the others and here's our
unofficial mascot you might say he
flipped out over the side
rat stuff really had it the slinky
without the sag that you have to contend
with in 1g behave pretty much the same
as a dozen 1g you can start to see that
of course they've set up a sine wave
oscillation here which continues to be
reflected back and forth and now a
double one or perhaps a triple and
perhaps within there you can also see
the standing waves reflected back and
forth the centrifugal force of course
keeps this little car going around its
track on earth when it gets to the top
it would of course fall out in space
what do you expect it's going to do well
with a little help from the doctor sure
enough it falls out see when you've been
in space a little while down is up and
up is down it doesn't make any
difference
it really doesn't mission this complex
requires strict discipline and
fortunately we had a well disciplined
crew of course you know you take four
guys off the farm some of them are able
to respawn a little quicker and learn a
little faster than others we did have a
drill team crack drill trained here that
we practiced every morning so gravity's
got to be fun if you hadn't noticed you
picked up on it but now it's just after
300 hours of spaceflight
you can really learn how to adapt
yourself to zero-g and and and do the
tasks a lot more rapidly than that you
ever could on the ground and and most of
the things like stowing the cabin we're
really no problem at all with some
except almost over
cables develop a mind of their own this
helps you understand why we didn't break
the camera bad guys the real difficulty
of this scene was holding the camera
still while he was trying not to giggle
it's Bell in the words of an old
philosopher it ain't over till it's over
and I guarantee it's not over yet as we
still have to land and here we are at
runway one-five at the Kennedy Space
Center good calls from the folks in the
air and on the ground John Young weather
pilot the weather was good to the north
so we landed with a slight tailwind and
coming down here at 300 feet they've
deployed the landing gear and the
orbiter flew beautifully just as we
trained for it to fly in the shuttle
training areas being shed off the
wingtips there and when we touched down
you can see how the smoke from the tires
gets caught up in those vortices real
pretty picture touchdown was at about
190 knots understand about 2700 feet
down the runway and we used a total of
93 to 95 hundred feet of runway during
the rollout