Columbia Houston we're just a little bit
more than 15 minutes from your PA o
event we wanted to give you a summary of
the activities that are going on today
to try to come up with a plan to get the
hatch open ready to copy
yet tom the first thing is is we've got
a as you can imagine a large tiger team
taking a look at all the engineering
we're trying to assess the processing
for the hatch at the cape and just
trying to see if there anything turns up
when we talk to the technicians who did
the work looking at the paperwork so
we've got quite a few people over in
building nine today over in the cct
actually putting their hands on hardware
and trying as much as anything else to
come up with to duplicate the problem
and look at some workarounds they're
going to get together tomorrow morning
at an m ET of 10 16 to basically
summarize their summarize their plans OB
six o'clock local here to be ready to
meet with the mmt two hours later that
would be at 10 18 m ET based on the m ET
correction the mmt decision tomorrow
we'll have a go no-go for you for a
flight day 12 EV a and that's course
tomorrow some of the options were
looking at including some activities for
today we'd like to do an additional RMS
survey and the difference between this
and I'll give you more details when we
get there is that we want to pause
looking at each at each of the dogs and
the mechanism and have you guys cycle
the handle a couple of times and so
we'll get a better feel for what motion
the linkage displays and we like that
view taco you have a go for the next set
of cycles okay
and that's a good camera position
whenever you're ready to cycle it work
joining us now live from space the crew
of the space shuttle Columbia good to
see you all first question for story
Musgrave dr. Musgrave but you have
warned that NASA needs to start hustling
saying the astronauts lack the necessary
space walking experience and equipment
dr. Musgrave you must find this very
frustrating this jammed hatch and does
this throw the whole program behind
schedule even more so it does that the
hatch program is unrelated to the ways
that we develop spacewalks and prepare
for them and attack the details early my
question is for commander rominger you
are the pilot of this shuttle mission
that of course all of Colorado is proud
of you and we have no doubt that there's
probably a big hometown crowd watching
you tonight from Dell north when you
were growing up in del nord and later
studying civil engineering at CSU was it
your ambition to be an astronaut it
actually was not fear my ambition
tionesta came after i left Colorado
State and was a Navy fighter pilot but
from the time I was about four years 25
years old gunfire with my father and
develop my love for flying so at that
time I didn't know I wanted to fly now
back to the back to the spacewalk we
just got word that nASA has cleared you
for another attempt tomorrow night if
you can get that that hatch open what
are you going to try to do have you been
working on this all day I'll let anyone
answer yeah the ground is working very
hard there are many talented dedicated
people working this problem and they've
come up with several ideas that have to
deal with problems like perhaps a
structural misalignment or some an issue
with the coefficient of thermal
expansion they'd be warming up the hatch
would be a good idea in a number of
these lines of my father being developed
in parallel and so we've been read up
some of their ideas about perhaps moving
hatch while early as we rotate the
handle perhaps warming up the hatch
prior to the EDA so there are many
things and work in parallel
and we are we are optimistic that we
will get this hatch open dr. Jernigan my
questions for you you are a veteran of
three spaceflight then this mission was
supposed to have placed you in the pool
of those with spacewalk experience
currently a group of only about 33 if
the hatch problem can't be solved what
does this do to your chances you go to
the rear of the line and rotation so to
speak why would I certainly be
interested in doing a spacewalk on
another flight but again I think that I
think they work through this and I think
Tom and I will will join those full of
folks that have the privilege of walking
in space and I know that everyone is
doing everything that they can to make
that possible we have been discussing
this hatch problem with our cranky
engineering staff here at News 4 and
they suggested you do what they always
do just give it a good whack what do you
think oh that certainly has caught that
last a few times maybe when we get down
to if we apply all the other techniques
that we think might help it including
the thermal conditioning of the hatch
and maybe some lateral motion of it we
will certainly be pushing on that flavor
with all our strength if the graph gets
to go through this good evening and
Happy Thanksgiving there have been some
difficulties on this flight that you
gradually seem to be overcoming what is
the status of orpheus and weight shield
as well as the spacewalk obvious that
wakes yield or two great success stories
wakes you completed all of its science
and we now have it safely locked down
into the payload Bay I have two minutes
into the mission ready to bring it home
and the reports we get from Orpheus paws
is that the science is coming through
right on schedule if they're doing what
they want to do what is what's happening
with the spacewalk now it sounds like
there are different scenarios to get the
hatch open that's right we have a huge
team of people on the ground all the
talented folks Houston head it's a
various contractors who helped over
shuttle looking at how the hatch
mechanisms work and possible ways that
they might fail
and they're trying to work on the way
that we can attack the problem several
different ways one might be to heat up
the hatch to make the battle expand
slightly and maybe that will flee a jam
they're also looking at us applying a
simultaneous rotary force on the handle
plus pushing on the hatch in a certain
direction to try to break it free when
we attempt at EBA tomorrow so we still
have in our plan Bishop five or six days
left and we have plenty of time to have
that problem we hope successfully and
then complete our te das so we're pretty
optimistic that we can verify the
solution cambia mere how do you read
their Columbia Jack we hear you loud
clear Oh again well you guys are you
doing we understand we can get messages
from all sorts of amateur radio
operators about how your mission is
going to have been following it talk to
you and it's great to talk to you too at
bay in particular we were thinking about
you yesterday on Thanksgiving the story
is fun with you at Thanksgiving before
he mentioned it let him I'll let him say
a few words to you okay hey John how you
doing I do fine job make the pat-down
was about seven years ago we were up on
Thanksgiving flying together and at that
time we were saying FOIA we hope you and
I get blind together again sometime
especially at Thanksgiving and here we
are both must flying on Thanksgiving
we're just different spaceship yeah it's
kind of me that's kind of neat keep it
up about too much value Sam saved up
yeah it does get better than all the
time goes on
Stacy to treat you very well John as it
always good yeah I hope everything's
going real good for you guys I
understand you're thinking landing next
phase in maybe you'll extend some
hey Joe that's right we're scheduled
thirsty and then extension is in the
works this is controlling her just
saying hi to you wishing you happy
thanksgiving in a happy trip sounds like
the comms getting ready i'll pass some
icons thank you hey john this is tom
jones wishing you are i hope you're
enjoying a little relaxing holiday here
over the long weekend we're pretty busy
up here though but I know we're sharing
one thing and that's our enjoyment of
the view of you as you thought to be a
lot about that and it sure is great to
see as always sorry I look forward to
your receptions on patios what do the
changes that you experienced damn hard
on its Tammy Jernigan happy thanksgiving
and just wanted to wish you well on your
incredible journey and hope you have a
myriad of fascinating experiences yeah
well you can talk tomorrow family is
your bike my lady in German I was about
that gold members algorithm for you / up
greetings to you are you enjoying your
dirty thank you for the greedy it
appears to Melinda Tammy I don't know
whether you hear me and math but right
now we don't hear you as soon as I think
we are hearing you a stop talking just
in case you're hearing me at the land
Sasha here listening and they wish you
and the home near 22 through here
together we'll sue you guys a great
fight like i said photo we've been
following you on the
radio net so you guys didn't have a ham
radio so we could have passed a little
bit but anyway we're getting the PAL
canal over well done to the mirror 22
crew I fellow space travelers we wish
you all the best on this flight from the
sts-80 cruise over to cool well if we
don't get to handing my family because
our concert is ending in about 10
seconds good luck to you good landing
from the mid 20 to quote goodbye John
thanks good to talk to you today