return
he brought my legs
good morning colombia it's a time to
return that spa's satellite to the
customer and uh we're all set for the
rendezvous
we look forward to doing that
mark this is one of the most exciting
ways to return something to its center
and it's going to be a good day for us
thanks
columbia houston we should be ready to
tips up in about 10 minutes but we also
have some things to say about weather
and landing options when you're ready to
copy
we're ready to copy that
yes taco the the weather folks have been
continuing to uh assess the weather for
the next few days at the cape
and it looks as though there's the
possibility that uh on flight day 17
which is currently
your landing day and for a couple of
days after that that the weather
may have deteriorated at the cape the
possibility of a low pressure trough
developing north of florida and moving
into the area for friday bringing some
low cloud and rain
and staying around for a couple of days
meanwhile also on flight day 17 there's
a possibility that the winds at edwards
and northrop may be out of limit
so the
situation is that they're continuing to
monitor the weather and the mmt will be
meeting later on today
to decide on whether or not to go back
to the original plan which is to
land on flight day 16
when the weather forecast conditions are
good
the mmt will make that decision a couple
of hours before your bedtime tonight
meanwhile what we've done is we've done
some replanning just in case and there
are some replanting summary sheets
included in your execute package
so that we can
proceed with the rendezvous today as
planned with no change
but then begin to
take the necessary steps to be ready in
case we do do
a flight
so that we will be ready in case we have
to do a flight day 16 landing so we
welcome your feedback on those
replanting pages
i'll copy
to be hand over wait we copy all mark
and uh
let us think about it for a little bit
and see what kind of impacts that would
have to us
and in oca notes i've already passed on
to the entry flight director as well as
the chief of our office
our thoughts
about further extension days for weather
after uh the nominal planned end of
mission i.e day 17
which we are certainly up for
houston columbia
all right taco
mark you asked earlier this morning
about
true desires concerning the
weather decision
being made by the mmt uh tomorrow
morning your time
and uh we've got
a synopsis of our
input if you'd like to hear it now
go ahead taco we're ready
and while i'm reading you this ramos
gonna do block 3b if you're ready to
watch that
and we're watching
roger
here's our input to the mmt
we would prefer to proceed with the
orderly conduct of
the remaining events of this flight
including the
the documentation of hatch conditions
that have been set up to us
and
shoot for a landing on flight day 17.
we have the prio as you know
we've got the food
we've got fresh clothing
and we have an excellent crew attitude
for
tackling any weather extension day or
days that would occur
after flight day 17.
so
if that's clear to you that's our input
to the mmt
yes copy taco a couple of things one is
that it's possible the weather may
stay out of limits for several days and
that's something that has to be taken
into consideration
and secondly should we go for the flight
day 16 landing
we would like to have your feedback on
what whether you consider the re-planned
sheets feasible the re-planned timeline
timeline that we sent you up in the
execute package feasible
okay we've just had a quick look at that
so far uh since we're getting into
rendezvous checklist but we'll put some
more brain cells on that uh in the next
few minutes and let you know
appreciate that taco
we have a good grapple on orpheus spas
and columbia houston tammy a good uh
capture of spas once again columbia
great job rendezvousing and the prox ops
to to get spas i guess we're back to a
two body problem
and columbia houston you do have a go
for block 26 bravo disable rendezvous
now
thanks houston we'll put that in work
and houston we're ready to go to rgps
low with the arm
copy
and uh now with it back with a live
picture of uh shuttle's robot arm
attached firmly to the grapple fixture
on the orpheus spa spacecraft
the latching pins clearly visible on the
right and left of the spacecraft and the
keel latch
go ahead
just a suggestion but one thing that's
possible is i could take out that yaw
and get in a position intermediate
between this one and the 3a position
and stop part way and probably get a
good look with the camera at the
indicators
tammy we like that plan
okay we'll put it in work
the discussion uh ongoing between tammy
jernigan operating the shuttle's robot
arm and bill mcarthur here in mission
control as regarding the
latch indications on the telescope's
door
during the final preps for the retrieval
of the spacecraft the latch indications
were not seen on the ground although the
team thinks that the door is firmly
latched there is a
a flag that basically
will dictate that that hatch is
definitely locked in place
while the arm operations will continue
for the next several hours with the
orpheus spa spacecraft in support of the
orbiter space vision system experiment
which is designed to help the crew
members provide
for deactivation and stove for the
rendezvous tools
cabbie bell understand
our gps is all done with tcs
i'm checking on that story
okay well i got you the final apd
33.79
cpu 61.09
we copy
and story you do have a go for tcsd act
copy
and again the crew will for the next
several hours will be conducting the
orbiter space vision system uh
experiment with the orpheus spas on the
end of the robot arm to
help provide data and collect data on
precise
movements
of the spacecraft
in terms of determining relative
position attitude and rate in using uh
small dots that are located on the
spacecraft
and the orbiter's uh
closed circuit television system with
the payload bay cameras the views such
as this one
you