they slap huntsville for fred class yeah
Fred just wanted to check and see where
you are and also I have an update to
your pcap after the deorbit brief
this is Mission Control Houston this
live television from Columbia shows the
problem with thee so that you know at
that time there wasn't any correlation
or the jet firing any other disturbance
and a copy this is just going on and on
now Edison what it was like when we
first started up it lasted probably
forget let's say three four minutes well
you know the discussion we're having
obviously we're going to hand it off to
the next team but we have a potential
ifm here don't think understand how to
get us out
that kinda feels good to be step back in
to see you know believe the video up
we're going to stop the Shah maneuver in
about a minute and a half with this gold
clip floating in you you'll see what the
acceleration will do too Oh that'll be
great thanks when we're done with the
yaw maneuvers here will send up your
entry messages we want to have good on
an interrupted come all right there
currently at Columbia is in the midst of
a yah yah maneuver one of us several
maneuvers that it's been performing over
the past few minutes the morning mama
after that spotted you more than me
right now too windy these maneuvers have
for the space acceleration measurement
system experiment onboard measuring at
the various rates of acceleration on
board the spacecraft at during such
maneuvers again earlier Columbia
performed a roll maneuver a 360 degree
roll now it's I've been performing a 360
degree yah maneuver maneuvering it about
a degree per second its nearing the end
of that maneuver at which point to pilot
control my anger will stop at the
mayoral cards to work with their
this is Mission Control Houston now
we're continuing to receive live
television from Columbia we're handing
over in the control center or but one is
our last shift for Brian and I but the
orbit one team is your entry team fact
Blaine and rich are here now and we're
handing over now to story I'm John
Shannon and out orbit for all right dave
was great working with all you today I
just having that sense to block console
got us a little bit of trouble see Ricky
to maybe you should leave the moment
next time so we really enjoyed working
with y'all I better whisper smooth the
little props we had gone through the
check out the heart yeah it got pretty
busy and you guys did a great job
keeping up with it with the malfunctions
so we've really enjoyed it and it did
start to feel like a sim ending over the
story ok you know you know this
television live from Columbia's Columbia
passes just off the Cape of Africa the
southern tip of that continent currently
in an altitude of 100 in 170 statute
miles on board the red team continuing
through the early hours of their 12-hour
shift flight day 16 for members of the
red team hey plowed Huntsville we have
live module video from eb see you in the
one position I'll
so the crystal growth furnace gets to be
the last major experiment system to shut
down and it has been running for the
longest continuous period of operation
during during this us microgravity
laboratory and furnace used that time
for doing high-temperature materials
processing research they were able to
successfully process eight samples of
the specialized types of electronic
materials known as semiconductors and
for the last two samples that were run
in the crystal growth furnace material
known as germanium gallium those last
two runs were intended not so much for
producing crystal and material itself
because of of any special interest in it
but rather as part of it a particular
engineering test that one group wanted
to perform with the crystal growth
furnace
and get all their equipment prepared for
sending it back to their home base
institutions in case of the surface
tension team their equipment coming from
the NASA Lewis Research Center and so
those members of the science teams who
have been on duty here for more than two
weeks now will be preparing to return to
their home institutions at different
places around the United States and
shortly fairly soon after Columbia's
landing they will be getting the data
that in some cases has to be physically
brought back by the orbiter for instance
all the tapes that have been videotaped
on board will be eagerly a in the lower
portion of the screen Columbia's
direction of travel now being south and
east early a little more to the east as
it starts to approach the southernmost
point of current orbit currently at
about 30 degrees south latitude and
starting to swing more in a direct
easterly direction since this orbit for
the sto 73 flight is a 39 degree
inclination orbit
and in Columbia is now getting fairly
close to the eastern coast of South
America just about at the southernmost
point of the vast country of Brazil
should be somewhere over the large city
of Sao Paulo and looking down on the
coast now as it heads out over the
Atlantic Ocean we see the coastline of
South America there with cloudiness
picking up just as the landmass turns to
ocean
and the view towards the horizon here
would be back in the direction that
Columbia has just flown over aiming the
camera out of the payload Bay we get a
good view towards the west over a large
portion of Central and somewhat southern
South America payload Bay camera lens
zoomed to a wide angle we start to see
the not only the broad areas of the
South Atlantic spread out below Columbia
but the Spacelab module where crew
members over the past 14 days and in a
little over close to 15 days have been
using that module as a work place in
space doing a variety of different types
of science operations in a laboratory
that has been very carefully assembled
over about a three year process they
planning and preparation for this
mission extended over roughly three
years in getting these experiments
systems already and that preparation and
planning and training that went into a
flight like this as we've seen now paid
off with that stowaway yes the
experiment is his and he's also a backup
favorite specialist and talking to us
today yeah I've been talking to him
earlier
and is that an inverse crystal growth
maneuver their Kazakh Asako instead of a
sack up I was trying hard to avoid the
easy ones kigali shot
putting into place procedure to just
make sure that that flexible glovebox
won't be loose during the orbit and
landing and that being done that is the
last major operation or the crew has to
actually do much in a hands-on sense for
the experiment systems and this is all
part of the process of getting the
laboratory workshops that the crew
members have been using now for the last
more than two weeks getting it all set
for the conclusion of the mission
applause for the amazing Socko
and yes al this is the fulfillment of a
dream huh
that's pretty fun I've never had so much
room to play
this is page live operations control
Huntsville and their Lumia meaning they
have put dangers hand over and we
continue to live down like video we will
be having an interruption of that
shortly however as Columbia comes up to
the handover point or transition from
the Western tracking and data relay
satellite to the eastern but while we do
have it we're using that downlink signal
capability to take these earth views
over the extreme eastern portion of the
Pacific Ocean and the that being the
eastern Pacific Ocean and the point in
the orbit which is about their further
south that Columbia flies a spacecraft
is just about to come up on the 39
degrees south latitude portion of this
orbit