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for launch complex 39 at the Kennedy

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Space Center in Florida this is shuttle

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launch control at t-minus 3 hours and

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holding we are now in the final five

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hours of the countdown for the launch of

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space shuttle Endeavour on a NASA

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sponsored microgravity research flight

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the countdown is being controlled from

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firing room 1 at the launch control

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center and we are on schedule for a

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liftoff at 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time this

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morning this is the eleventh flight for

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endeavour and the 77th mission of the

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space shuttle program since launches

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began in April 1981 14 years ago and the

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fifty-second since return to flight in

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1988 this STS 77 mission has a planned

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duration of 10 days zero hours 37

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minutes if all goes as planned with the

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landing expected to occur at Kennedy

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Space Center on the morning of May 29th

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at approximately 707 a.m. Eastern Time

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assuming an on-time launch today the

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five member flight crew of Endeavour are

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being awakened at this time at the

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astronaut quarters and approximately a

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half hour they will be entering the

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dining room for breakfast after which

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they will have a weather briefing and

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receive a status on the countdown

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activity will then go to the suit up

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room and on their launch and entry suits

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and a 3:10 a.m. they will depart the

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crew quarters for the 20-minute ride out

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to launch pad 39b

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at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean

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weather wise we continue to have very

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favorable conditions for a launch today

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just a 10 percent chance of not meeting

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our launch weather criteria due

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primarily to the slight chance of an

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offshore shower out in the

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and moving onshore around the Cape

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vicinity but with the two and a half our

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launch window there's ample time to wait

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and here are all six of our STS 77 crew

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members ready for breakfast and our

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traditional cake on the table at the end

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mission specialist dan birch our flight

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engineer on this mission Curt brown our

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pilot on this flight will be busy with

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numerous rendezvous activities with our

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commander John Casper making his fourth

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flight into space today

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mission specialist Mario Ronco making

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his third trip into space mission

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and Andy Thomas from Australia our

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payload commander during the flight in

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Australia and the Canadian mission

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this is shuttle launch control at

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t-minus three hours and holding we're

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we're in the suit-up room now with the

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astronauts we just saw Commander John

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and your as mission specialist Andy

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Thomas our commander once again John

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Casper and here is Dan birch making his

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third flight he flew previously on STS

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51 in 1993 and STS 68 in 1994 here is

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Canadian mission specialist Marc Garneau

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I'll be doing a number of microgravity

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research position of experiments

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particularly with the aquatic research

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facility and here is Mario run co making

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his third trip into space he was on STS

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again and here are our astronauts now

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just leaving a suit-up room headed for

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the elevator third floor of the

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operations and check-out building

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and director of flight crew operations

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Dave leasman is with him

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Bob Cabana will be flying the weather

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and here the cop

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this is shuttle launch control at

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t-minus two hours 41 minutes 52 seconds

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and counting

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where we've just seen the STS 77

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astronauts come off the elevator on the

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fixed service structure and they will be

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walking across the orbiter access arm to

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vision specialist and Canadian astronaut

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Marc Garneau in the picture now making

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here in the firing room we're getting

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ready now for the final pre-flight

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alignment of the inertial measurement

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PD ROTC standby to perform final

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definitely NFP is looking no issue here

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cleared to launch confidence and

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endeavor loose you and your band have a

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great mission and we'll see you back

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here in nine days - Emily thank you for

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all the great work you folks have done

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and we're ready to go fly an entity

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and we're now activating the firing

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chain on the solid rocket booster an

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firing chain is armed

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sound suppression water system is

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activated rain safety command systems

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t-minus 10 9 8 7 ignition sequence start

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five four three two one zero and liftoff

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of the space shuttle Endeavour to

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develop the practical and the beneficial

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Roger roll endeavour Houston now

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controlling endeavours underway on an

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11th trip to space currently rolling on

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course when eath east-northeast

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trajectory away from the Kennedy Space

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Center toward a 39 degree inclination

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153 nautical mile altitude to orbit

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endeavour already traveling 430 miles

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altitude 2 miles 3 engines on board

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endeavor have now followed back to

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two-thirds throttle to prepare the

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spacecraft to pass through the area of

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maximum air pressure and go supersonic

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endeavour speed now 700 miles per hour

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altitude four and a half miles two and a

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endeavour go at throttle up three

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engines on endeavour now back at full

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throttle now it's 210 miles never

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traveling 1,400 miles per hour eight

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miles east-northeast of the Canady Space

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Center one and a half minutes since

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launch endeavours already used more than

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two to quarter million pounds of

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propellant the spacecraft weighs less

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one minute 50 seconds since liftoff

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endeavour now traveling 2,700 miles per

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hour

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altitude 24 miles 24 miles downrange

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from the Kennedy Space Center flak on

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floor standing by for burnout and

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Chris said it never has you loud and

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clear what a right boy oh it's great and

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sounds good endeavour in we're right

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are you getting our downlink yes we have

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and I'm gonna hold the needle up to you

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and as I was pushing it in I felt a

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little resistance I thought it was

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deceptive that I was going through but

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it you can see what happened I don't

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know if I'm too close right now and he

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in view in this view the Kennedy Space

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Center is the Shuttle Landing Facility

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runway visible as the long mark there on