this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus three hours and holding
countdown is proceeding without any
technical problems and our activities
are on schedule final inspection team
continuing their activities which have
gone well with no reported problems
and here we are in the crew dining room
we see the sts 87 mission emblem cake
mission specialist Winston Scott will be
doing the EBA on this flight mission
specialist 2 cowboy also will be doing
an e ba on this mission our commander
kept and Kregel for the STS 87 flight
our payload specialist layin at Kadena
from the Ukraine mission specialist
Colton a table will be operating the RMS
for the Spartan deployment and finally
our pilot Steve Lindsey will be working
this print camera during the mission
among other things
we are in the suit off room with our fts
eighty seven astronauts looking at our
commander kevin Kregel and here is pilot
steve lindsey
you will be operating from the flight
deck this fall basketball sized camera
and this is specialist Kulpa chopper
will operate the remote manipulator
system and deploy and retrieve the
spartan payload
mission specialist 2 cowboy we will be
participating in the EBA on this mission
along with Wednesday Scott and next to
him here is Wednesday Scott who will be
also doing the EBA during the flight
what the cowboy and our payload
specialist lay it at cotton yoke from
the Ukraine we'll be investigating plant
growth biology in space
this is shuttle launch control at
t-minus two hours 56 minutes 55 seconds
and counting where we see the STS 87
Astra now are entering the elevator or
ride down two floors from the astronaut
quarters to the astronaut van which will
transport them the approximately 7 mile
distance out to launch pad 39b garage
which will take approximately 20 minutes
or so see some KSC employees behind the
chain
the after then now approaching the pad
perimeter leave the man and what the
elevator to the orbiter access arm and
the closeout crew ready to assist them
in boarding Columbia and here we see our
commander Kevin Kregel preparing to port
Columbia and there to cowboy is the
mission specialist who would be boarding
next here very shortly as soon as Kevin
Kriegel boards the orbiter this is
actually a view from the flight deck and
now he's climbing up into the commander
seat keep in mind that everything is in
the vertical here he's getting
assistance from another astronaut
astronaut Joe Tanner
right now he's just positioning himself
in the seat it's very important that
they get in the seat straight they've
got some emergency oxygen bottles
strapped to their back on the harness
and then they'll be laying on top of the
parachute and they could be in there for
upwards of three plus hours today and
it's very important that he's in a
position where nothing is in his back
and there'll be two people working on
them
there's several connections here you see
two cowboy getting in into the mid-deck
and what we try and do here is strap one
person at a time in both the flight deck
and midday so this cow is ms3 and he'll
be assisted by another strap in
personnel on the mid-deck now once Kevin
is strapped in and has his cooling and
the oxygen hooked up they'll begin to
put on his helmet and that core there
will be hooked up for his communications
following his strapped in they'll do
some communications checks just to make
sure that everything is in line before
they move on to the next there's a shot
of linen in the white room
looks like he's got his harness on and
he'll be waiting to be the second person
on the mid-deck there's the the pilot
steve lindsey climbing into the flight
deck
go ask Steve to reach up and grab two
hand holds and this particular maneuver
here is very similar to just doing a
pull-up he's pull self up into the seat
getting his feet in position
do you see is holding on to his
emergency oxygen bottles to keep them on
each side of the parachute and then
they'll begin the process all over again
if getting Steve positioned correctly on
a parachute for comfort here's a great
shot I landed he's in the seat now the
second crewmember on the mid-deck
they'll be hooking up his cooling at
this time
this is our first flight of Ukrainian on
the shuttle yeah let's go
yeah 5:30 a couple o'clock a COS copy
the we need us to MCC on channel 1 16
and we need to leave at 5:35 on the OAS
Seconal patient this is the entity for
pointer lock status cut so if I ready to
resume count and opal on they don't know
go I'll go
go help you go you look like Justin
flights go and I thought they all watch
quicker than to eat watch them is ready
to proceed
copy that out there pole halos director
safety and they say safety and mission
assurance is go right weather no context
for that MMP is go for lunch after that
and qawalli looks like we're there you
go so was all NPD you're quite a large
to have a great mission
come on developing close and lock your
visors this dude okay slow down ethical
Thanksgiving I'm gonna roll go your way
thank you very much 20
- changes now aren't
t-minus ten nine eight seven six five
three two one and liftoff of space
shuttle Columbia on a mission combining
science and the practical aspects of
space control it's down wings level
position headed to a 150 nautical mile
orbit incline 20 and 1/2 degrees to
either side of the Equator
three inches on board Columbia now
traveling back to 67% of rated thrust as
the orbiter passes through the area of
maximum aerodynamic pressure in the
lower part of Earth's atmosphere
three inches now ramping back up to 104
percent
Columbia go at throttle up Columbia
Columbia Street liquid-fuel engines are
now back at four throttle 104 percent of
rated thrust altitude now eleven miles
downrange distance eight miles
one minute 30 seconds into flight with
more than two and a quarter million
pounds of propellant having already been
consumed Colombia now weighs half of
what it did at liftoff stand by for the
next major ban which will be the burnout
and separation of the twin solid rocket
boosters that coming up in a little more
than two minutes into the flight
altitude now 20 miles downrange distance
to KSC 19 miles
booster officer confirms good separation
two solid rocket boosters
Columbia performance is nominal
commander Kevin creel now rolling a
videotape shot from a camera mounted on
the forward flight deck of Columbia
looking back aft on the right side is
commander Kregel left side Steve Lindsey
in the foreground
flight engineer Winston Scott directly
in the middle behind them and to his
right mission specialist Colton the
travel up this video of the launch
there's main engine start and liftoff
and I could probably tell my lights that
was the role the heads-up thanks Kevin
we were kind of looking for that and we
saw it
there's really pretty smooth