foreign
t minus 30 seconds and counting
the srb hydraulic power units have been
started
t minus 20 seconds the sequencer and the
orbiter now controlling the final
seconds of the launch 15 seconds
t minus 10 we're go for main engine
start eight seven
six we have main engine start
four three
two
one and liftoff liftoff
of the space shuttle discovery on the
61m mission
and the vehicle has cleared the tower
discovery rolling around into the
correct azimuth
which is new east
to get a um
equatorial inclination of 28.5 degrees
for this flight
all three apu's spooling up at around 73
000 rpm
all main engines down to 65 thrust
100 feet per second velocity
seven and a half miles altitude
discovery houston throttle
up all three main engines are back up to
104 thrust
altitude 23 miles
13 miles downrange
coming up on 4 000 feet per second
velocity downrange now 22 miles
main engines still holding in at 104
thrust each
discovery houston performance nominal to
engine to car capability
roger performance
solid rocket booster separation
perfectly normal
auxiliary power units still
running at slightly over 100 percent
performance levels each
fuel cells
generating
in excess of seven
kilowatts each
velocity 5400 feet per second downrange
73 miles
yeah roger
regarding loop water loop two we're
thinking now it might be a degraded pump
and before we give you a go for orbit
ops we're going to come up to you with a
little checkout procedure to
determine its flow capability
okay
25 minutes until
acquisition through the tracking
satellite
and
aos hawaii in 17 minutes
at hawaii the
crew of discovery will run a check of
the
water coolant loop number two which uh
some of the systems controllers here
believe has a fault in it
bay door opening has been delayed until
after
that water loop can be uh checked out
and verified
at
one hour and 59 seconds
one hour and one minute
this is mission control houston
discovery houston with you at hawaii for
seven minutes
roger mike and we'd like you to get onto
the water pump loop two procedure there
as quick as you can
you're watching it i'm gonna go manual
decrease on loop 2 for 20 seconds you're
ready
roger and confirm we've got
loop 2 on and
loop 1 off
got that now and uh
we're in manual ready to go decrease
roger mike we are watching you've got to
go
discovery houston
go ahead
roger mike you have a go for payload bay
door ops and
we'll like we'd like to leave loop two
running as is
okay we're gonna open the payload doors
and discovery uh in case that wasn't
clear you have a go for orbit ops
okay
discovery we're on page 3-3 step 2
of the ios checklist we're standing by
for your go to transfer to internal
power and proceed with the pre-deployed
checks
okay we copy that uh jim we can't
proceed without data and you're in fixed
format
uh be advised also that
in the process of elevating
we got up to about it looks like about
20 degrees elevation
and we've had a stop in motion
and
when the process of working the
malfunction at this time
and we'll go ahead and cycle uh
cycle the uh drive enable and try to
re-elevate it
but at this time we're stuck at about 20
degrees
okay jim we uh copy that you're stuck at
20 degrees
the sand has just run out on an answer
to your primary power to the pcp
fill tables jam the only thing we can do
is disengage the secondary actuator and
engage the primary if you think we've
got power
our alternative is doing an eva
what we're planning on doing you have a
goal to restore stow the ius for tonight
we would like for you to perform the
resto ius umbilical attach procedures we
would like for you to delete steps two
three
five
and six i'll repeat those delete steps
two
three
five and six
perform step four using the ius pi link
and on step eight do not latch perla
number two
over
and houston discovery uh we'd be curious
what you all are thinking here for
tomorrow
we are planning uh contingency eva for
18a tomorrow
and we're going to leave you here at
tdrs we're going to go los we'll pick
you up
guam at 5 51.
okay i understand that we'll get the
resto in work and then get the
pre-breathing
that's affirmative
the crew has been instructed to restore
the tracking data relay satellite
inertial upper stage combination after
an unsuccessful attempt to deploy that
today
during the
pre-deployment checkout a number of
problems were encountered including the
hardline command link between the
orbiter and the inertial upper stage
the backup radio frequency command link
would be used
additionally the crew encountered a
problem with being unable to elevate the
tilt table
beyond 20 degrees to its 45 degree
deployment attitude
and being unable to solve those problems
today the crew has been instructed to
restore
that ius tdrs combination for the day
and to begin contingency eva
procedures which
must be done at this time if the option
is to be retained for a possible space
walk tomorrow to
repair the tilt table or
any other procedures that must be done
in the payload bay to
make possible the deployment of the
tracking data relay satellite
discovery houston good morning
discovery uh we're all listening now
when you're ready to talk
the game plan goes like this we think
we have considered through the evening
options
both in the ifm world
looking at jumpering power to the
primary side of the pcp tilt table
switches directly with the breakout box
and we've also assessed eva options
all aimed towards getting the tilt table
up to a minimum safe deploy angle
all that deliberation on the pcp ifm and
many discussions with sunnyvale
concerning pin assignments and so forth
have led us at this time to drop that
from our consideration
we don't have a final go from sunnyvale
on that being viable and on that option
not
introducing more hazards than it solves
problems
so we feel at this point
that our only
reasonable path towards getting an
adequate tilt table angle is through the
eva
if you've taken a look at the manual
after procedure
you you'll notice that basically that
amounts to
providing a manual
override to the broken handle
and we think there are two possibilities
there
which we would like your input on
one possibility involves
proceeding through about step four of
that procedure
where you remove the the now broken
handle and its mounting elements to the
spring-loaded pin
and the option at that point in the game
is to consider just clamping a vice grip
to that spring-loaded
pin shaft
and doing a two-hand job of holding the
pin out of its detent with one hand
while you manually raise the tilt table
using the hand wheel with your other
hand we looked at that here in the
control center overnight
it's only about a seven pound spring
force on that pin
and my impression was that you might
very well be able to jam your hand on
your right hand into a
an angle there on the manual after
assembly
and basically restrain the pin out of
detent while you raise the table
should you decide at that point that
doesn't look
acceptable to you or doesn't look like a
possible thing to do in the eva work
environment
then you can continue with the manual
after ifm procedure as written and what
you'll essentially do
is completely remove the pin and its
bushing and spring
then reinstall the bushing providing a
sleeve for the pip pin that's tethered
on the manual after and you'll use that
pip pin rather than
the currently installed pin to restrain
the table once you've gotten it elevated
to the desired angle and of course
you'll have to
tether that pin in place with some
velcro straps and we'd also recommend
you tether the hand wheel to a fixed
position
so
which of those options to pursue will be
your call based on
how you feel as you go through the
manual after ifm procedure
go ahead and pull the uh
pin out
okay
you're lined up slip the pin back in
go all right
if you can't see it let me know and i'll
get it hey i'm working blindfold over
here gemma
all
that looks like it's got it about there
all the way through not there it is okay
and let me
in this case we would uh
okay line that uh get that sleeve all
lined up
let me see if i can hold it there for
you
bring the cutters out and everything bob
yeah i've got the cutter twisting
okay run it down a little bit well if
you get your if you get your left hand
out of the way i can see a little bit
better to help you line up
bob as you're doing what you're doing uh
how close are you to maybe thinking uh
you're going to be winching trying to
get it up but uh oh maybe
five minutes five minutes of starting
uh well
we've got two ribs per minute on a
on a required
rate
okay well we're in position to start
elevation at this time
okay and uh anna just let you know we've
uh got the aft locked in place and uh if
you can't see it jim's starting to
rotate it up now
uh i'm just getting locked in here
and we're starting her up
okay and uh jim just a refresher we're
gonna go to 29 degrees and then i'll cut
the cables
it's looking real good
got two marines out there not going to
be looking real good
okay robert as soon as
you put the uh anna if you guys have put
the c camera on the protractor
so you can see our elevation angle
robert you're clear to go down there
when you've got uh clearance and
do your cuts okay
we see the protractor jim
okay
what's our elevation angle
27 or so we're approaching 29 jump all
right i'm going to hold here until
robert's done with his teddy
all right just stand by a minute
elevated to about 28 29 degrees
uh we've had a forward rcs uh jet
fail on looks like a false fail on us uh
so we're on normal jets it's f5r
we had that yesterday and we'd like to
reselect it and try it again
for that
roger mike we company you're up to 28-29
degrees with the ius we'll get back with
you on the frcs
roger mike just to let you know in the
event that winch ops are needed to
elevate the ius uh or anything else we
have a teleprompter message coming up to
that effect
okay we've got the uh shots unneeded you
got a teleporter message coming up
i switched back here so i can keep an
eye on the protractor okay um
well okay
but your call will be close
i should think
um
your transmission is broken
discovery uh we got a
computer
transmitter
we assume you're doing the direct checks
okay that looks like 45 i'm pretty much
on a horizontal angle there joe
john or anna
how's that look john
hey you're right on 45 now so stop it's
there beautiful
and houston
we have the
ius at 45 degrees
in discovery houston did we copy
correctly that the pedros is at 45
degrees at this time
that's a formative bill that the
ios is up at 45 degrees
good work copy
this is mission control houston
acquisition through the tracking
satellite expected momentarily
and we're some 12 minutes away from
deploying the second tdrs satellite from
discovery
and shortly after acquisition we should
have a go
or deploy
and houston discovery we show the stage
one
stage one
batteries online and everything looks
good how do you
what do you think
roger discovery we concur you are go for
deploy okay
and houston discovery uh eva truman are
back in the airlock and the hatch is
closed right now
roger we've got the discovery
discovery houston i'm pleased to
introduce the third assistant secretary
i don't hear anything um that's okay
go ahead
captain coats mike uh we're very proud
of you all and all the actions you've
taken to make your vision successful so
far now that you've got all the problems
so do you think the flight will be
normal
blaha john uh i know this has been a
very busy time have you had any time to
enjoy the view
or you've been working all the time
plenty of time to enjoy this year it's
really been great here in zero g and
feels pretty close to 1g
dr fisher anna
when you
set the computer to deploy the satellite
did you think it would really go after
all the trouble you've had
colonel springer and currently buckley
uh bob and jim
you were so obviously a team in your
space walk this morning that i address
you as a team
they tell me you would have had to bring
that rocket back to earth if you'd not
been able to fix it
he hasn't seen anything
we didn't think there was any real
problems
discovery houston discovery houston
through tdrs how do you read
we read you fine
roger discovery sorry to wake you up we
see a fuel cell two
sub stack volts problem we expect it to
go out of limit shortly
we have some mods to the procedure we
need you to execute that we're ready to
read for you when you're all woken up
roger
and discovery we hope this will be
mercifully short and should only require
one crew member and we can
we help preserve some remaining hours of
sleep
where do you start when you are
roger discovery
we see sub stack 2 volts going high on
fuel cell 2. we expect it will break the
limits within a few moments
the procedure is page 5-13 in the orbit
pocket checklist for fuel cell delta
volts
the changes to that procedure are
we need you to break the main c to main
a bus tie
and that will be done on r1 main bus tie
charlie switch to off
then perform the fuel cell delta pulse
procedure
as shown in the checklist
for fuel cell 2.
one exception to the procedure prior to
shutting down the fuel cell
please bust tie alpha to bravo
and not bravo to charlie
to repeat that's bus tie alpha to bravo
prior to fuel cell shutdown over
roger we copy
okay discovery and two other
points of information for you
we have declared we're heading towards a
pls landing opportunity down here
that's a rev 33 we'll have plenty of
words for you in the morning mail
and we are configuring the mcc command
to go s band uplink and downlink
when we next get you on tdrs
you may you recall we're currently s
bandup and k band down no action
required on your part we should be full
s band at next tdrs
discovery houston we confirmed the main
sea tie has been broken your go to
proceed with the recommended procedures
houston discovery
go ahead discovery yes we've completed
the fuel cell shutdown the step number
one
on page 5-13 and our
currently working fuel cell safety
roger discovery we copy
this is mission control two days zero
hours 31 minutes mission elapsed time
flight director ron dittimore for the
entry team pulling the flight
controllers here in mission control as
to their readiness for the deorbit burn
so far no problems uh reported
mission control will be
will be giving the
crew the go no go for uh deorbit burn
at approximately uh
25 minutes
rather
just
perhaps 22 minutes before the
before the scheduled start of the burn
which is coming up
in 26 minutes so we may be hearing the
go no go announcement here very shortly
discovery houston we've seen you reload
your targets and they look good your go
for the burn we've got one word for you
on your hydraulic repair press post burn
go ahead okay you're going to need to go
to override on all the fcs channels
because of these valve problems we've
just had once you've com accomplished
your ssme repress you can go back to
auto on fcs channels one and four
okay we'll go over right now and after
the hydraulic re-press we'll go back to
auto on one on one
you agree with that gnc
okay that sounds good mike
houston is covering why'd you go ahead
okay we had pc drop on the right engine
and we threw you on to the left the ball
valve are still open we assume we have
the right engine props they always stop
the bar
here we copy
can't be fine
roger we copy that discovery thank you
copy
houston we're with you through guam for
about two minutes six foot a second more
expensive than this one is because the
argument apparently difference there may
be some cheaper ones
okay you're loud and clear also we
looked at
yet i'm just trying to get a feel if you
want to
seriously consider
this next orbit
to try and get very close to steep or if
you want to extend the 13 foot a second
and go on to tomorrow gotta press
forward to see if we can do this orbit
you may have done this already but you
might
take a look at the pull out the
mixed cross feed cards and take a look
at those while we're talking about it
down here
we've been looking at that procedure
okay sounds good
do you like the target okay
looks good fine just a couple of
reminders uh
no switch back to uh
straight feed during this it'll be mixed
cross feed all the way through the ohms
until you uh
and discovery houston your go for the
burn and we're gonna start
roger that
discovery on the hitting alignment
circle nominal in energy
discover you need to manually open
landing gear iso valve number one
altitude approximately 21 000 feet
velocity about 700 feet per second
altitude about 17 000 feet
wide dynamics officer reports discovery
looking good we're only rolling on the
final approach
less than 10 miles out
touchdown in a minute and a half
velocity about 500 feet per second
altitude about 10 000 feet
discovery surface winds still 2 4 0 10
gusting to 15.
okay thank you
discovery is on center line and on glide
slope flight dynamics officer reports
altitude about a thousand feet
our video that you see is from a
previous shuttle mission
and it's uh slightly out of sync with
what we've got to gear down now on the
simulation
can we show weight on wheels
and weight on nose gear
two days three hours
38 minutes
flight controllers uh looking through
the post landing switch changes now
and configuring
shuttle systems
for post landing
in accordance with the traditions of sms
teammate
like to show our respect and our
appreciation y'all did a heck of a job
yeah
good job guys thanks for making this
look good that's right
you