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I don't really know what to say today

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except I really want to thank the

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discovery team for for doing just an

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amazing job with this flight in this

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vehicle when I think of the discovery

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team I think not only of the folks that

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did all the processing that made this

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last flight just as perfect as it could

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be but but all the folks that throughout

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the history of the vehicle have

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participated and made this vehicle what

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it is when I think back to the Downey

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and palmdale guys and the folks we've

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worked out worked with throughout the

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years they're all part of the big

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discovery team that pulled all this off

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and again gave us just a phenomenal

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flight a phenomenal way to to see the

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the end of the discovery vehicle but

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again I think its legacy will be the

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future if you take a look at what this

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crew did the extra two days on orbit

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they really got space station in a great

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configuration they did a ton of extra

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work on board space station and that was

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really only possible because the vehicle

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did such a great job on orbit there was

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really no anomalies on the vehicle it

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came down to the ground exactly the same

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way looked extremely clean underneath

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but but that extra work in to get

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station really prepared is really going

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to cite us well up for this next

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research period because there would have

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been a lot of work being left for the

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station crew to go work through with the

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HTV arriving and the ATV arriving and

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then also discovery leaving the pmm so

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they just did a phenomenal job you know

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we were going to see here in a couple

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days to roll back out to the pad and

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we've got two more flights we need to

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keep the focus on those flights and stay

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diligent and keep working those flights

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it just as hard as we did this flight

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spaceflight doesn't come easy as we all

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know I think last week we we got a

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chance to see that with the taurus XL

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and the glory mission the things that

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are even fairly simple to us and we

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think we fully understood we obviously

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didn't understand and we lost a glory

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spacecraft last week so that reemphasize

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'as to me we follow the same processes

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the systems are different but the same

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process as the same thought process is

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used in all our shuttle flights as well

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so we just need to stay focused keep our

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head down recognize that this is not

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easy keep the teams moving forward and i

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can tell you i'm sure that the folks

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here at Kennedy that work on the

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vehicles know that and they will do a

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great job of getting these vehicles

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ready to go fly and we'll close out the

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shuttle program

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the way it deserves to be closed out on

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an extremely high note but again I can't

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thank the discovery team enough for what

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they've done they just did a phenomenal

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job today the vehicle was just awesome

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so Mike thanks Bill yeah I'll echo that

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and say that it was really a triumph

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today for the whole entire discovery

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team the vehicle was in fantastic shape

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that flew the whole mission in in really

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great condition the thermal protection

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system looks fantastic and and you know

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it was beautiful we talked a little bit

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about the weather you know the winds

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were blowing crosswind for a little bit

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and they turned around as expected and

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pretty much headed straight down the

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runway I think we ended up with like a

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one not crosswind actual touchdown a

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nice little stiff headwind but nothing

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outside of limits at all and it made for

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a little nice cooling breeze out there

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on the runway after the crew got out but

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again no no issues at all we got to see

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that on the thermal protection system

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one of the things that was interesting

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to see is the little perturbed style

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that we fly a little bump that we put

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out on the edge of the wing to

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intentionally trip the boundary layer

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and learn about this hypersonic high

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speed reentry zone that really the

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shuttle is one of the few vehicles that

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flies in a way that we can truly gather

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data on it so in addition to all the

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great science and research going on in

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station the vehicle itself is a science

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platform and even here at the end of the

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program we're still progressing this was

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the first flight of the half-inch /

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truants the team's got really good data

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we think the thermocouple day it'll be

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great and then we also have a team of

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folks both on the ground and in the air

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doing what we call our high thermal

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imagery the cast glance p3 aircraft was

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down near Guatemala Honduras and

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captured Maquis teen photos and they

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believe they can see the cone where the

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this boundary layer was a symmetric and

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trip early at Mach 18 and then we had

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ground-based units over near st.

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Petersburg in Florida and they captured

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lower speed data around Mach 6 and again

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really good imagery and that's going to

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really advance our knowledge of

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high-speed entry aerodynamics we're

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going to continue that with endeavour

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it's also flying a half-inch

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protuberance although we were joking

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that this data looked good maybe we'll

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go and run out there and make it even

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bigger what's up

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but no I don't think we're gonna do that

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but we'll talk about it but anyway it

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shows some of the great stuff that we

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can do with the with the shuttle the the

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thing that leaves me the legacy

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discoveries leaving behind is the

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pictures from fly around and you look at

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the size of the space station and you

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look at the pictures when the crew was

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inside and you look at the volume and

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the amount of hardware that was carried

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into space by the by the shuttle and and

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the international partners and our

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Russian colleagues but but if you think

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about that all that hardware most of it

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on the US segment came through Florida

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was processed and carried up on a

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shuttle and put together and assembled

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and it without very many exceptions

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worked perfectly and it got assembled

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there were no big instances where we ran

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an umbilical cable and came up three

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feet short all that worked perfect and

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and it was it's a true testament not

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only to the the shuttle teams here in

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Florida but the station teams building

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their hardware the agency as a whole and

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the country that's behind us in in

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manned spaceflight so I'll end with just

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a fantastic mission a really fantastic

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vehicle and a great way for discovery to

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to end its career okay let's say I don't

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have a lot to add vehicle looks really

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good as we as we typically have been

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saying the last several missions very

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few dings on the tile the thing I'm

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going to take away from today was the

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attitude of the of the ground processing

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team with the vehicle out there soon as

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will stop and the convoy made its way up

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to the vehicle and then the ground crews

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made the way up to do the initial safing

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the purge and the cooling unit

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attachment and the assessment of the

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vehicle they did that today like they

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did it the last mission of discovery 10

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missions of discovery ago 20 missions of

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discovery ago they did not skip a beat

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today it's a true testament to the

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people who work on the ship and that

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love what they do again they treated

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this one as if we're going to fly on

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another dozen times with discovery so it

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was just really really heartwarming to

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me to see that in that amount of care

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and professionalism with the ground team

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today listening to the loops during

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during entry was was always fun but I'm

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going to my takeaway is going to be the

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ground crew and how they hit that

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machine today with all the the vigor and

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dedication that they've had for many

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many years so we'll get her back in the

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in the hope he F and

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a couple hours or so and begin the the

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real safe thing of the vehicle in the

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OPF and then we'll get into the

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transition of retirement to phase of her

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life meanwhile endeavor we were going to

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try to take endeavour out tonight we

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talked long and hard this morning about

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the weather forecast for tonight and had

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we had we made an attempt likely we

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would have violated our late I lightning

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criteria it's no but no more than ten

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percent within 20 nautical miles during

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the entire roll out and Kathy winters

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launch weather officer gave us a

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forecast would have violated that so

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rather than rather than messing around

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with that during the day to day and have

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crews come in and wonder if we were

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going to roll out we decided early this

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morning to go ahead and knock that off

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and we'll come in tomorrow morning take

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another look at the weather for tomorrow

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night's roll it would be the same time a

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four o'clock called stations in an 18

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and at 20 hundred eight o'clock p.m.

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local time first motion we'll take a

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look at that tomorrow morning and assess

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whether we think we have a shot at that

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or whether we may have to spot another

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day we'll cross that bridge tomorrow

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morning but we'll get endeavour out to

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the pad and get on with her pad

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processing for her final flight to sew a

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good day discoveries home safe the

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astronauts are down I was looking in

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their eyes as they were looking back at

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the ship and they had some special

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feelings I'm sure as well so you'll get