there's nothing like being a member of a
crew to make you realize just how
important teamwork is to pull off a
mission like this it's really our
pleasure to be able to come back at the
completion of the mission and be able to
share some of the things that went on
the things that we were able to
experience the things that we were able
to do with all of you because we
wouldn't have been able to experience
them we wouldn't been able to do them
without all of your help and each and
every person here and everyone that's
listening contributes to the mission and
in some way just as each of us
contributed in some small way to the
success of the mission this mission was
absolutely awesome I can't tell you how
proud I am of all of you for the hard
work that you did echoing mr. Abby's
comments about how you were working
under adverse conditions with the the
threat and the specter of the furlough
hanging over your heads you were able to
pull off just an incredible incredible
mission the things things you're able to
do I don't think you appreciate just how
great they really are I'm also extremely
proud of the crew that I was able to be
a part of to go up and do this each of
these guys was a is a pro from top to
bottom they dedicated the last year of
their lives to making sure that this all
work just as many of you have and I'm
extremely proud of all of them we do
have a couple of things we'd like to
share with you today we we have about a
15 minute video that we put together
that will highlight some of the parts of
the mission will actually tell the story
of the mission from start to finish
catching some of the highlights
unfortunately we can't capture
everything it would take too long we'd
like to follow that up with a few still
shots that we have from different things
that went on inside the cabin and also
for some things that went on outside of
the cabin and would like to share those
with you as well so if we can go ahead
and and get the video rolling we'll go
ahead
get started one of the first things we
did when we come together as a crew to
learn to work together I guess is to
design a patch and we tried to capture
all of the major events that are on the
mission in our patch this was our design
about three days before liftoff we
started out on a crystal clear cold
morning on our trip from Houston to
Florida it was a beautiful day about
six-thirty just wanted to show you what
it was like to roll down a dark runway
feel the excitement as we started a
700-mile leg of what was ultimately a
3.7 million mile trip and I can just
remember the excitement in my heart
there's a thrill to to liftoff of the
dark runway and pop up into the sunlight
sky miss Dan mentioned it was the start
of what was to turn out to be an
incredible journey and three days later
after we'd gotten to the Cape I was time
for us to go to work January 11th
shortly after midnight the crew started
getting ready in the suit-up room now
here you see the pilot on the mission
Brent yet a navy flyer was here getting
ready for his first flight quechee
Wakata whom you've met joins us from
Japan as a mission specialist here he is
preparing for his first mission as well
the other experienced space flier on the
mission dr. Leroy Chiao you can see
Leroy was ready to go he had a lot ahead
of him and he was very anxious Winston
Scott Navy captain who was going to be
the flight engineer on the mission also
a future space Walker along with Leroy
now here he is in his preparation
setting up his microphones on his comp
carrier last and certainly not least dr.
dan Barry and other future space Walker
and you can tell by the look in his eyes
he is ready to go well we were getting
ready that the vehicle was undergoing
its final preparations and then when we
got to the launch minus 3 our point was
time for us to depart the crew quarters
where we'd been
and walked out we were greeted by many
of our friends some of you are here
today and we appreciate you coming down
to wish us well on our journey we
boarded the crew estroven there for the
20 minute or so ride out to the launch
pad to get ready for the SN and I
believe this pretty much speaks for
itself have it go for it
excuse the mess controlling program
using Roger roll endeavour
in contrast to the vibration and noise
during first stage on the solid rocket
boosters the ride during second stage on
the main engines is smooth all the way
to Meco once on orbit we had to
concentrate on our first major objective
of the mission that was the retrieval of
the japanese space flyer unit or sfu
satellite here you see a good shot of
the sfu and it's with its solar arrays
deployed it was critical for the solar
arrays to be retracted and latched prior
to the SF use retrieval as we closed
inside of a half a mile of sfu you can
see brian firing the Jets primary RCS
Jets to slow down endeavours closure
rate on the satellite meanwhile quechee
and Winston are in the front cockpit
part of the cockpit monitoring the solar
array retraction which didn't go very
well due to the fact that we didn't have
Latin indication of the solar array
panels of sfu the sagamihara operation
center located in japan send commands to
jettison the two solar arrays to safely
return the sfu to earth brian maneuver
the orbiter to a distance within the
grapple range of the shuttle's robotic
arm and then I started to maneuver the
robotic arm to grapple the sfu
this is the moment of the capture of
sfun this was the end of the 10-month
voyage of the space floor unit since it
had been launched by a japanese HD
rocket last March
ce qui Chi concentrating here as he gets
ready to do a birth the satellite after
grandpa the sfu was maneuvered to to be
birthed in the payload Bay like he's
ready to slam dunk that one and then
orbiters electrical power was supplied
to the SF use the heater system through
this electrical umbilical and it was a
great moment excuse me it was great
moment to have accomplished the first of
the many objectives of this mission even
though the space lawyer was our primary
said like to deploy and retrieve a
second set like that oast was equally
exciting all since the office of
aeronautics and space technology
satellite it consisted of four
experiments which were really pretty
much autonomous once we released it and
you can see co Ichi work in the arm here
actually to see the arm of couch is
flagging inside he releases it and it's
going to go into a pirouette maneuver to
check its automatic control system as
active control system now when we were
inside the shuttle of course we were
thinking about how the satellite was
going to perform which is a very
technical thing it was only after I
looked at the film after where the guy
could reflect on really the majesty of
the satellite and watch when the earth
comes into view at the lower left hand
side and as the satellite does its turn
then you going to see the sunlight
hitting again reflecting off of its gold
coating I think it's really something
Brett's flying the orbiter co e cheese
working arm Dan's taking pictures
everybody is pretty busy inside but I
tell you it was really exciting time
we're backing away from this thing and
again you're going to see a nice view of
the earth below incidentally this
picture of this deployment took place
over the Namibian desert and the
southern part of the African continent
and take a look at the clouds take a
look at the synthetic object flying over
the natural objects below I think it was
out of sight
here we are getting ready for the first
of two EV A's Dan very is helping me
getting into my lower torso assembly and
you can see that in zero g even getting
in your EBA pants can be done two legs
at a time here we are about to come out
on the first EV a I'm opening up the
thermal cover and taking my first peek
outside I was prepared for an awesome
view but I didn't expect to really get
what I what I got which was a big 3d
perspective because of all the the
peripheral vision effects coming in
you're dancing hey let me help to his
feet so you here we are putting together
the portable work platform one of the
major objectives of the first EV a that
will be used in future station build
flights and here Dan is past I'm passing
up to Dan the portable foot workstation
stanchion and he'll put that on the arm
here we've deployed the rigid umbilical
which was another big piece of hardware
that we were using and you can see I'm
handling this 250-pound mass pretty much
with with no problems at all i think
that the essence of a successfully VA's
is really the same as as what Brian
mentioned for the rest of spaceflight
and that word is really teamwork both
inside the the bay with Leroy and I and
also with Brent and Koichi as they flew
the arm and also with Houston as we
coordinated all the different difficult
tasks we had to do brenton Quechee were
able to drive the arm to the place that
Leroy and I needed to be at precisely
the time that we needed to be there
this was really the high point of the
mission for me both figuratively and
literally as Quechee drove me on the arm
up high above the payload Bay for me to
test some of the work platform
techniques that we had had practiced the
second rendezvous the mission to
retrieve the old satellite went
extremely well as we closed inside a 600
feet in Deborah was on a nearly perfect
trajectory to achieved in rendezvous
Brian the commander must been feeling
really comfortable about the whole thing
he figures it's safe enough to even let
his PLT fly for a little bit you notice
the expression on my face as I moved to
the a flight deck it was a pretty
exciting time for me to get a chance to
fly the shuttle in close proximity you
know to another spacecraft endeavour
flies extremely well as it sits very
stable it flies even better than the
simulators we have here at JSC and very
soon we were able to maneuver host
within the grapple range of the robotic
arm the next view you're about to see is
from the camera that's on the end of the
robotic arm it's the same view that
coochie is usable used to affect the
capture of the satellite and you'll
watch and once the satellite stabilizes
you'll see quechee aligned the target on
the satellite and then smoothly and
quickly move in for the capture
and just like that the man was 242 and
you very quickly had two satellites
tucked safely in the payload Bay now EBA
to like EBA one was six hours and fifty
something minutes worth of hardware
intensive EBA we're evaluating all kinds
of tools and techniques that might be
used in the construction of a space
station now this looks like some kind of
weird space exercise but actually what
I'm doing is imparting loads to the task
plate in which my feet are connected the
sensors in the volume of that plate that
will sense the loads and make recordings
of that loans data as I said it was
hardware intensive we had electronic
checklist power tools rejig umbilicals
electrical fluid line connectors
electrical connectors fluid line
connectors improved helmet lights you
name it we had it we had stuff hanging
off of us everywhere we could set off
metal detectors from orbit now one of
the highlights of this EBA was built to
be a thermal evaluation to test
improvements to the suit but it's time
for the truth to come out the truth is
that I was a bad boy and I was told to
go stand in the corner so I'm stood in
the corner and got cold all morning I
stood in the corner and got cold all
afternoon I guys stood in the corner I
got cold all night and nobody would come
out and play with me no I all
seriousness the thermal evaluation work
extremely well I think we've got a good
suit and we're going to go build the
space station here we are at the end of
the second dva and while i wait for
winston to a button up his slide wire
I've kind of climbed up the bulkhead and
taking a peek inside to see what the
guys inside are doing and here we are
coming in and closing up the thermal
cover and getting ready for the repress
for the last time
you
you need to give that thing good slam
after two rendevouz a deploy to
successful EVs on flight 28 we had some
time to appreciate the beautiful views
of the earth to take some film to bring
back to show you all the depth of the
colors and the beauty from from our
perspective we also did some carefully
controlled fluid dynamics experiments
the commander said you better get that
not make a mess of my orbiter the
flattering coffee on the wall was an
automatic airlock depressed Luigi and I
also had an opportunity to play the
ancient oriental game of go and we
brought this this along with us really
to symbolize connections between past
and present and between Japan and the
United States we could also experience
how our body reacts to different kinds
of motions in microgravity as you can
see my smile decreases as spin goes on
here's the master of karate Winston
Scott look how stable his motions are
even though his feet are not attached to
the floor it's customary in Japan to
mark the beginning and end of a large
project by filling in the eyes of a
Daruma doll we had already filled in the
eye of the Sturm to start the project
and here Tweety and I are getting ready
after the retrieval of the sfu to mark
the completion of the project one of the
hardest things to do is to say goodbye
to a view like this when it's time to
come home we all took our last gazes
close the payload bay doors got in our
suits got ready for the deorbit burn we
burned north of Australia an hour later
we were right here approaching a KSC
runway one-five we touch down about 240
in the morning I imagine we broke a few
folks up there in Florida with the sonic
booms as we came in as soon as the mains
we're down Brent put the drag chute out
and that's our major deceleration device
during
roll out at about 60 knots he jettisoned
it here and if you'll notice it falls
pretty much straight behind the orbiter
so there wasn't much cross when that day
and as we roll down the runway we have
those bright lights behind us you watch
me searching for the center line here as
i watch the nose move left and right
because we were about two miles away
from those lights it was starting to get
dark down there and it's real important
that you stop on the center line most of
you most important part of the mission
but at the end of the end of that
incredible voyage we were able to we're
now able to look back on it with the
feelings of great accomplishment we
obviously owe our thanks to everybody
that helped put the mission together and
help support the mission I was it was an
incredible incredible trip we can't
capture all certainly can't capture our
thanks in words we can't capture all of
the scenes that we saw on film but we do
have a few supplemental film our shots
now we'd like to to use just to show you
some of the other things that went on
during the mission
even though we had we did have some
pretty good rendezvous footage one of
the things we unfortunately did not
capture on video too well is shown in
the lower left-hand corner of this slide
and you can just see the the corner of
the IBM thinkpad computer but running on
that computer is a software program
called the rendezvous and proxy ops
program and a lot of folks here at JSC
worked very hard to develop and perfect
that program it was a tool that we used
as a crew during the Rana boos
essentially to help Brian get a little
bit better graphical picture of what was
going on during the rendezvous and maybe
what the orbiter was going to be doing
in the next couple minutes we use this
tool fairly extensively and it helped
helped on both rendevouz contribute to
our fuel savings we had a number of
medical experiments on board to test
human adaptation to spaceflight and here
you can see I'm wired for sound actually
I'm wired for light that's a laser on
top of my head and we're testing how are
our eyes and our balance systems adapt
and and track as we go through the
course of a mission
I don't know how as the doc on board I
ended up being the one that got stuck by
needles from the pilot and had to pinch
my nose but somehow that was the case
and here we're testing how oxygenation
occurs in the lungs that's different
than on the ground basically there's a
different distribution of blood and air
in the lungs because of the lack of
gravity up there and you can see how
relaxed with him as we go through this
dsl we don't have a shower on board the
orbiters have you know but it really
wasn't that bad he didn't really need to
go all the way to those clips another
one of those secondaries that we had on
board was called a year in monitoring
system and it was a hardware evaluation
of the box that was designed here at the
Johnson Space Center and it's intended
to be used on on future long-duration
Space Shuttle missions and also on the
space station for medical research and
it worked very well here you can see I
had to set up shop to run it there I've
got things surrounding me large syringes
and unfortunately no the rest of the
guys could use the bathroom when I was
when I was doing this so we had to plan
everything ahead of time this is another
medical hardware evaluation I don't know
how I got put in charge of this one as
the pilot but floating next to my just
above my hand is a piece of hardware
called the portable clinical blood
analyzer or PCB a for short a
long-duration spaceflights especially on
station it's a it's a tool that it will
allow a doctor or the crew medical
officer to take a blood sample from
someone who's not feeling well and get a
quick analysis of their blood the two
subjects on the experiment I was the
operator the two subjects were Dan in
quechee and they weren't real happy when
I went to stick their fingers and put
their blood in that machine but it
worked real well in the folks here at
JSC did a great job
here's a picture of living in space once
you get up into space the ceiling and
the floor quickly lose their meaning and
you learn to use whatever space is
available Dan and Brian here are getting
ready to prepare a meal and you can see
the things stuck out on the on the
velcro patches along the walls and the
other surfaces here's another picture of
living in space one of the questions we
most frequently gigas how do people
sleep in space well this is one option
you can see Dan and the foreground there
in the sleeping bag the purpose of the
sleeping bag of course is only to keep
your body from floating all over the
cabin because it really doesn't provide
support as there's a traditional bed and
you can see how his arms photo it's
really weird but if you totally relax
your body in space your arms will float
up in front of you in the manner that
you see here on the screen in every
morning one of the first things that we
did after we woke up is to look through
the fax note sent from the Mission
Control Center in Houston and MCC always
kept us informed of the updated schedule
and status of the orbiter and payload
systems
mentioned earlier that we really enjoyed
stealing glimpses of beautiful parts of
the earth when we had a chance because
of our launch time and our launch
inclination we seem to get Australia
about every Rev in the daylight and we
actually we clobbered it with the film
we took a lot of shots of the entire
continent it's extremely beautiful this
particular shot here is in the
northeastern coast and it's the city of
Brisbane and in the towards the left
center you can see the brisbane river
running down through the city into the
bay the bay was just an incredible
assortment of beautiful blues different
colors you can see some of the barrier
islands there and looking at australia
from the this barren simpson desert to
the beautiful coastline was one great
experience for us this was something
that I wanted to show you because it was
a real surprise to meet it to see this
it if you look up in a Texas summer sky
at sunset you'll often see the the Sun
as it sets hitting the tops of the
clouds the top of the cloud is is bright
white but from orbit you get a different
perspective when that happens as is
shown here with the Sun setting and the
Sun hits the top of the clouds they
leave a shadow that stretches across the
earth for hundreds of miles and this was
a perspective I've never seen before and
I wanted to share with you
we had the pleasure of participating in
a question-and-answer session from orbit
with students from South Africa and one
of the things that captured my attention
was the beauty of the African continent
we young a picture of the orange river
that is actually the boundary between
the media to the north and south africa
to the south and again the thing that
really caught my attention at first was
the contrast in colors you've got the
darker colors at the top that represents
a higher cultivated ground and then you
can see the results of erosion at the
bottom where the brighter more orange
looking clay has been on earth again I
just thought it was a very very pretty
picture I guess this technically isn't
an Earth observation picture but it's
probably the favorite picture my
favorite picture of all the ones we took
on orbit this was taken during EV a1 and
you can see Leroy down in the forward
part of the bay on the starboard still
working in the background you can see
sharks Bay Australia which is on the
west coast of Australia it's really it's
pretty interesting I guess if I was I
happen to take this picture and I guess
if I was talking to my photo instructor
Don about this I would try to tell him
that I use the spot need ur 2 meter the
light in the payload Bay and meet or the
earth and get the exposure just right so
that both the payload Bay and the earth
were proper exposure and I think Don
knows me too well he'd probably say
something about applying squirrel in a
nut but it turned out to be a real nice
picture and it happens to be my favorite
this is a real neat picture this was
shot in Brazil about 120 miles northeast
of Rio de Janeiro and it's interesting
for several reasons you can see the the
mud from the rain runoff that has gone
into the river that is pouring into the
ocean there and you can also see the the
scallop so the ancient shorelines as the
shoreline evolve from centuries ago to
its current
we could not see Mount Fuji because we
launched the night from northern
hemisphere and this is a spectacular
view of Mount Kilimanjaro and you can
see the vegetation area around Mount
Kilimanjaro for a coffee plantation I
have to agree with Winston that about
the African continent being so beautiful
and I really love it every time I see it
in particular I love looking at the
deserts because you can see the dunes
which actually you can see they're
actually moving on the surface of the
earth in this particular picture here
you can see a couple things one is the
sum of the hard rock the lava left over
from days gone by and if you look in the
towards the lower right center there you
can see there's an old crater there but
the deserts are reclaiming that land as
the wind erosion has punched a hole in
the rim of the crater and you can see
the dunes and thus and filling in there
and it's probably just a matter of time
to let's that's all reclaimed desert
that pretty much sums up our mission has
the the major events we've been able to
share with you some of the other things
that we did on board again we'd like to
thank thank you for all that you did and
have to tell you that that you make you
make incredible things happen and we
certainly certainly appreciate speaking
on behalf of the crew I haven't had the
opportunity to work with all of you we
thank you for all you did in support of
the mission and look forward to doing it
again someday
you