Atlantis Houston good morning time to
wake up and do the right stuff today
with that docking module we'll have you
back at 14 09 anh the gioi usin thank
you very much for that inspirational
music we're ready to answer the call and
now you timed it perfectly we were just
coming into a beautiful sunrise
and we're going into mode copy
you
okay you said we have a west vs data and
we're about to tuck McLain maneuver
Tammy Lee's
den- attitude maintenance is required we
can go whip in process of pressing
outdoor screen
houston we have capture that's very bad
dory are just by looking at where we are
following at the DM installation it says
formal SBS check out step forward record
roll one and sent for five minutes
that's all complete and then it says to
power off Oh SBS there's actually a
stick all out later on in the flight
plan if I want to do is to make sure
that they in fact wanted powered off now
and not wait till later yes we have and
we like to get to switch box prior to
the cabin repress okay we will hold on
the repress and start working off the
switch box do you want to wait till were
an AOS you guys can see that
game before we lose you where you're
also ready for our ms on grandpa'll ok
and do we have a go on all those
activities during the El Oso do you want
to wait on the other side you can press
on ok he then let us the story do I said
would go to a grapple before we get the
switch box switch box first and then and
Grandpa ok thank you
dan LAN is for the amp station glad
handle a 7 l heaters / DC you power
three down please
unless your goal for cab and repress we
got the story and of course the unravels
complete do we have a go to proceed the
boys back yes sir
lantus or a minute tour taters NOS will
get you twenty two hours in 17 minutes
hello video reagor
Atlantis if you're not using camera
Delta we're approaching a thermal limit
we'd like to power it down you know okay
back he'll turn it off in gym we thought
we'd give you an AP story that I'm
reading right here that federal
employees are reporting to work today as
usual and what we expect that as much as
forty percent of the federal workforce
will be sent home sometime later in the
day due to our budget situation okay
appreciate that and I think you give us
an LS cough we go over to extend it LLS
call will go yeah
you can we have the docking module
camera downlink could take it whenever
you want to hello Chris we have a good
image up in the docking module it's like
a fun place to enjoy yourself in zero
gravity yeah I don't think another empty
for long days but it's a nice bit of
space right now
Chris your lighting looks good and your
focus looks good
Atlanta's astronauts to finish the first
step in a major goal of the space
program assembling a space station in
orbit the crew is joining us live we
thought they'd be on the shuttle flight
deck but in fact they're doing live
television from place has never been
done before the russian-built docking
tunnel as Atlantis speeds over the
Mediterranean Sea trailing the mere by
about nine hundred miles and closing at
a rate of 119 miles each orbit commander
Ken Cameron does it worry you that the
u.s. government is prepared to shut down
in an hour or two and NASA will probably
have only a bare-bones staff in a few
hours to support your mission we have a
very dedicated team in NASA supporting
this mission both within the government
and also with the many contractors that
support the space shuttle we realize
that there's a lot going on in the
financial world and in the hands of
government but the NASA family will look
out after each other and we know that
Mission Control the many folks and abs
are taking care of it for pilot Jim Hall
so what's been the the biggest surprise
of this flight for you so far yeah at
the pier to my first I was found in a
slightly higher ups to it I can see a
lot more of the earth every time I look
at the window and the Sun angles just
happened to be low so we can run a
perspective a lot of shadows to bring
out a lot of relief of the year they
found over the Andes over the Malay
overreacted it's just a spectacular
experiment it's something I I'm not soon
forget yeah Chris Hadfield is a Canadian
member of the crew Chris how does the
docking this morning go from your
perspective as you put the tunnel where
you're standing or floating right now
onto the shuttles airlock and when
you're done please pass the microphone
over to Commander Cambron for the same
question for him as far as how the
connection of these two pieces went
Regina went perfectly I had a chance to
use the Canada arm the robot arm the fed
by Canada that's put on the shuttle
today and it worked exactly like it had
in the best of our training simulators
in Houston and I picked it up out of the
back of the bay and brought it forward
and then positioned it exactly all
wanted it to be using the onboard
systems in the space vision system and
the digital to commodity arm and and
then when we assemble at the mechanism
which was death in Russia just worked
exactly like
everybody said so it was not a perfect
yeah commander I'm from your perspective
you had to sort of drive the shuttle
into this docking tunnel vinya yes that
was what we used to make the actual
energy of contact was the thrusters
firing from the orbiter and this was
something that we had given considerable
thought to about what would be the
required amount of energy how would the
mechanism work how what kind of
tolerance has had to be present within
the contact surfaces and it has been
worked out very thoroughly so in Houston
and in Moscow since it's the first time
they would ever joined Russian and
American hardware in quite this way
about another question for you commander
do you have any concerns as you get
ready to take a six hour nap I won't
call it a full night sleep and then get
ready for tomorrow's docking with the
mirror itself everything working pretty
well so we've had a series of busy days
if we can finish up all of our
objectives today we'll probably try and
wind down a little early and then
everyone will be looking for a good
night's sleep because as you said we
have a very busy day tomorrow one more
question for a for Chris Hadfield if I
can Chris you got to experience the
shuttle launch for the first time two
days ago describe it to it it is
spectacular from about five minutes in
when we knew for sure that we were going
to have the weather to go the smile on
my face just got bigger and bigger and I
was just beaming through the whole
launch I mean it is just an amazing ride
I've had a chance to fly a lot of
different airplanes but there's nothing
like the shuttle ride right and if we
got time one dog last quick question for
Jim hotel is what you're doing really
worth it does the world really need a
second space station in orbit right now
a better job I was doing of setting the
groundwork for a series of experimental
laboratories but it's gonna last a long
time the defense that we're going to be
able to bring home that were able to to
continue a scientific research on orbit
it's going to it's going to bring back a
lot of payback to the people on earth
that's what we're trying to achieve
their lives of people on earth all right
commander Cameron and members of the
atlantis cruise
thanks for allowing us to visit your
flight back today good luck with the
docking we'll talk again later when you
wait something after you land next week
no no thanks very much bill andreia
interesting thank you very much okay Jim
first of all you can do antenna cable
repositioning beginning in the z OE
which is in about 12 minutes it'll be
you'll have an extended period to do the
cable repositioning till three plus 35
that's about 20 minutes past say OS on
the west we'll get back to the cryo
config however you want to do it do the
error log resets the GN to sm and GNC
after you do your CRT power down please
we've talked about the drivers there and
config and a heads up on the Left ohms
helium press a closed if you haven't
gotten it yet and the PMC will be on the
other side of the z OE here coming up
for the timeline but we're going to have
bad calm like yesterday for about 10 or
15 minutes so we'll have to do it as we
lock up cleanly will coordinate ok if
you want to do the cryo config now I'm
ready ok Jim first please on panel 8 15
then ok on a 15 cry oh oh 2 h 2 tank 5
heaters and be four switches auto please
ok we take another tank last out of
primitive and then next on our one
right there on r1 cryo o2 and h2 tank 1
eaters a and B all four switches off
please
we should appreciate all support start
today it's been a very exciting day and
I think we've really made some big
strides towards the ultimate goal we
were real happy we're a little bit tired
right now it so I really appreciate the
chance to settle back we'll probably try
and turn it a little early tonight very
good and we'll give you a little word on
the flight plan by the way we did get a
notice here and let's just say that
there are a lot of good parking spots
available
David took me a couple of minutes for
that last comment to think if I didn't
realize what what had happened I'm sorry
to hear that that in fact that people
are coming to work because that hurts a
lot of folks I mean is we are sure
pleased and grateful that so many people
take care of us as we make it fit CNN
and will rest assured that everybody
necessary to safely conduct your mission
is here and conducting the rest of our
missions and hopefully this will be
short-lived