00:00:25.534,00:00:27.033 -Approximately 1 hour and 11 minutes 00:00:27.033,00:00:29.634 remaining in this built-in hold. 00:00:31.667,00:00:37.767 The ice team is at the pad doing their inspections at this time 00:00:37.767,00:00:45.100 and is reporting some limited ice found on the external tank 00:00:45.100,00:00:47.100 but not of any consequence. 00:00:49.801,00:00:53.868 We are now in the breakfast room at the astronaut quarters, 00:00:53.868,00:00:59.300 where the STS-31 crew is having breakfast. 00:00:59.300,00:01:02.033 Mission specialist Dr. Steve Hawley, 00:01:02.033,00:01:04.000 who will be deploying the telescope 00:01:04.000,00:01:06.801 from the remote manipulator arm, 00:01:06.801,00:01:09.901 Colonel Charlie Bolden, the pilot on this mission, 00:01:09.901,00:01:16.968 the commander, Loren Shriver for the space shuttle Discovery, 00:01:16.968,00:01:23.567 Dr. Kathy Sullivan, mission specialist, 00:01:23.567,00:01:27.133 and Navy Captain Bruce McCandless, 00:01:27.133,00:01:29.801 mission specialist. 00:01:29.801,00:01:35.701 The mission emblem on the cake on the breakfast table, 00:01:35.701,00:01:39.534 which is Discovery with the Hubble Space Telescope 00:01:39.534,00:01:44.033 on a field of planets, stars and galaxies. 00:01:44.033,00:01:46.167 After breakfast, they will receive a weather briefing 00:01:46.167,00:01:49.334 and then don their flight suits and depart 00:01:49.334,00:01:52.367 for the pad about 5:15 this morning. 00:01:56.067,00:01:59.701 This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-minus 3 hours and holding. 00:01:59.701,00:02:03.868 Approximately 9 minutes remaining in this built-in hold. 00:02:03.868,00:02:07.300 We are watching the astronauts suit up. 00:02:07.300,00:02:13.033 This is commander Loren Shriver having his helmet attached. 00:02:16.200,00:02:20.934 Shriver is an Air Force Colonel and is the mission commander. 00:02:20.934,00:02:23.901 There is Marine Colonel Charlie Bolden, the pilot, 00:02:23.901,00:02:26.267 also having his helmet 00:02:26.267,00:02:29.767 and communications attachments completed. 00:02:29.767,00:02:31.234 On the other side of the room 00:02:31.234,00:02:33.901 is mission specialist Dr. Kathryn Sullivan 00:02:33.901,00:02:35.634 awaiting the helmet attachment. 00:02:35.634,00:02:39.000 Otherwise, her suit up is essentially complete. 00:02:41.734,00:02:46.801 There is Navy Captain Bruce McCandless. 00:02:46.801,00:02:48.400 McCandless and Kathy Sullivan 00:02:48.400,00:02:51.033 will be doing the contingency EVA 00:02:51.033,00:02:55.567 on this flight, should one be necessary. 00:02:55.567,00:02:58.067 And Dr. Steve Hawley ready to go. 00:02:58.067,00:03:01.100 He will be operating the remote manipulator arm 00:03:01.100,00:03:05.033 to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope on flight day 2. 00:03:17.234,00:03:20.901 The crew now headed for the elevator 00:03:20.901,00:03:24.968 that will take them down to the first floor, 00:03:24.968,00:03:27.901 where they'll board the Astrovan 00:03:27.901,00:03:31.567 for the 20-minute ride out to Pad B. 00:03:31.567,00:03:33.868 Commander and the pilot, 00:03:33.868,00:03:37.267 Commander Shriver and Pilot Charlie Bolden. 00:03:40.100,00:03:44.133 Bruce McCandless. 00:03:44.133,00:03:45.567 And members of the support team 00:03:45.567,00:03:48.133 that will be going out. 00:03:48.133,00:03:53.033 There is a crew headed down the elevator, 00:03:57.067,00:03:59.934 and momentarily we'll see them boarding the Astrovan. 00:04:04.667,00:04:08.067 And numerous KSC employees usually wait by the walkway 00:04:08.067,00:04:10.901 to greet them as they head out. 00:04:16.334,00:04:18.667 [ Cheers and applause ] 00:04:37.100,00:04:39.100 -This is a view of the Orbiter Access Arm, 00:04:39.100,00:04:42.801 and we can see our five-member flight crew 00:04:42.801,00:04:46.801 crossing from the fixed service structure into the white room, 00:04:46.801,00:04:50.968 where they will be assisted by the closeout team 00:04:53.000,00:04:58.634 And other astronaut support crew members. 00:05:02.734,00:05:07.033 Commander Loren Shriver has just entered 00:05:07.033,00:05:09.067 the access hatch of Discovery, 00:05:09.067,00:05:11.400 assisted by closeout crew. 00:05:11.400,00:05:14.300 Pilot Charlie Bolden will be next, 00:05:14.300,00:05:19.133 and as they enter their seats 00:05:19.133,00:05:20.801 and begin their communications checks, 00:05:20.801,00:05:24.100 we'll be hearing those checks being conducted. 00:05:32.868,00:05:35.167 -OTC, CDR, how do you read? 00:05:35.167,00:05:39.601 -CDR, I read you loud and clear. 00:05:39.601,00:05:41.167 -I hear you loud and clear. Good morning. 00:05:41.167,00:05:43.067 -Good morning, Loren. 00:05:44.901,00:05:46.634 -Good morning, Stan. 00:05:49.634,00:05:52.934 -NTZ, CDR, how do you read this morning? 00:05:52.934,00:05:57.167 -I read you loud and clear, Loren. How about me? 00:05:57.167,00:05:58.934 -Loud and clear. 00:06:03.067,00:06:06.834 And Houston CDR, how do you read? 00:06:06.834,00:06:09.267 -CDR Houston. Good morning, Loren. You're loud and clear. 00:06:09.267,00:06:14.868 -You're loud and clear, also, Steve. 00:06:19.868,00:06:22.033 -OTC, OVTC. -Go ahead. 00:06:22.033,00:06:24.033 -Yeah, our last crew member is boarding at this time. 00:06:24.033,00:06:25.467 -Copy that. 00:06:29.000,00:06:33.200 -Houston, MS1 radio check, over. 00:06:33.200,00:06:35.067 -MS1 Houston, you're loud and clear. 00:06:35.067,00:06:38.501 Good morning, Bruce. 00:06:38.501,00:06:41.167 -Good morning, and looks like a nice day down here. 00:06:44.000,00:06:46.667 -That's good. We're working on other places. 00:06:50.801,00:06:52.901 -OTC, OVTC. -Go ahead. 00:06:52.901,00:06:57.033 -Yes, sir, our report set up 20, side hatch closed out, 00:06:57.033,00:06:59.501 and white-room configuration is complete. 00:06:59.501,00:07:03.067 We're ready to clear the pad. -Okay. 00:07:03.067,00:07:05.234 -T-minus 7 minutes, 30 seconds and counting. 00:07:05.234,00:07:10.567 -Go for Orbiter Access Arm retract. 00:07:10.567,00:07:14.534 -This arm can be re-extended in less than half a minute 00:07:14.534,00:07:16.300 if that's necessary. 00:07:28.968,00:07:33.634 Coming up on T-minus 5 minutes and counting. 00:07:33.634,00:07:35.701 -Go for Orbiter APU start. 00:07:35.701,00:07:37.200 -And we have a go for APU start. 00:07:37.200,00:07:39.400 -APU, please. 00:07:45.667,00:07:49.534 -Final purge sequence of the main engines is in work. 00:07:59.534,00:08:02.033 -We're now transferring to internal power 00:08:02.033,00:08:05.634 and switching off the Orbiter's ground power supply. 00:08:05.634,00:08:08.734 At this point, Discovery is being powered 00:08:08.734,00:08:12.334 by the on-board fuel cells. 00:08:12.334,00:08:14.200 Standing by now, here is the retraction 00:08:14.200,00:08:17.501 of the gaseous-oxygen vent hood. 00:08:21.200,00:08:23.701 Gimbaling of the main engines is complete, 00:08:23.701,00:08:27.767 and the aerosurfaces have been verified 00:08:27.767,00:08:29.667 that they are positioned for launched. 00:08:32.167,00:08:34.501 External tank now is reported to be at flight pressure. 00:08:34.501,00:08:38.634 -OTC, 212, close and lock your visors 00:08:38.634,00:08:40.334 and initiate your O2 flow, 00:08:40.334,00:08:43.534 and y'all have a good trip. 00:08:43.534,00:08:47.067 -Roger that. 00:08:47.067,00:08:52.033 -Standing by now for a go for auto sequence start, T-minus 33. 00:08:52.033,00:08:56.701 -Will hold at T-minus 31 seconds due to a failure. 00:08:56.701,00:08:59.400 -What has happened is the ground-launch sequencer 00:08:59.400,00:09:02.367 would not hand off to the Orbiter's computers 00:09:02.367,00:09:04.033 to complete the count 00:09:04.033,00:09:07.968 because the liquid- oxygen-fill-and-drain valve 00:09:07.968,00:09:12.200 was showing "off" when it should be "on." 00:09:12.200,00:09:16.968 -The valve is closed. We're go. 00:09:16.968,00:09:25.133 -There's the confirmation that we have successfully recycled. 00:09:25.133,00:09:27.767 -That's affirmative. We're go. We're in good shape. 00:09:27.767,00:09:30.534 -Okay, you have a go to proceed. 00:09:30.534,00:09:32.000 -This is go for auto sequence start. 00:09:32.000,00:09:34.133 -We are go for start. 00:09:34.133,00:09:36.901 -25. 00:09:36.901,00:09:39.868 -Booster-hydraulic-power units have started. 00:09:39.868,00:09:42.534 -20. 00:09:42.534,00:09:44.934 -Sound-suppression water system has started. 00:09:44.934,00:09:49.367 -15. -T-minus 13 seconds. 00:09:49.367,00:09:52.467 -10. -T-minus 10. Go for main start. 00:09:52.467,00:09:55.934 -We are go for main engine start, T-minus 6... 00:09:55.934,00:09:57.601 5...4... 00:09:57.601,00:10:00.000 3...2...1... 00:10:00.000,00:10:02.834 and liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery 00:10:02.834,00:10:04.801 with the Hubble Space Telescope, 00:10:04.801,00:10:07.067 our window on the universe. 00:10:09.167,00:10:12.434 -Mission control Houston. 00:10:12.434,00:10:14.534 -Roll program. 00:10:14.534,00:10:17.534 -Roger, roll, Discovery 00:10:17.534,00:10:19.100 -The roll maneuver puts the vehicle 00:10:19.100,00:10:20.868 in the proper launch plane. 00:10:26.400,00:10:29.501 Guidance officer confirms a good roll maneuver, 00:10:29.501,00:10:31.501 engines now throttling back. 00:10:35.734,00:10:38.334 The throttle-down maneuver assists 00:10:38.334,00:10:40.767 in reducing the aerodynamic loads on Discovery 00:10:40.767,00:10:44.200 as it passes through the area of maximum dynamic pressure. 00:10:55.400,00:10:57.434 Velocity now at 1,200 feet per second, 00:10:57.434,00:11:00.267 Discovery downrange 3 nautical miles. 00:11:07.300,00:11:10.167 -Discovery, go with throttle up. 00:11:10.167,00:11:11.701 -All three engines now throttled back. 00:11:11.701,00:11:14.400 -Roger, doing throttle up. 00:11:14.400,00:11:17.834 -Engines at 104%, the go at throttle up call signifies 00:11:17.834,00:11:19.868 that all systems are performing well. 00:11:19.868,00:11:22.767 All three auxiliary-power units look good. 00:11:22.767,00:11:26.300 Discovery's velocity now 2,300 feet per second, 00:11:26.300,00:11:28.968 and it's downrange 8 nautical miles. 00:11:42.367,00:11:45.300 Standing by for SRB separation, 00:11:50.968,00:11:53.701 and both solid rocket boosters have separated. 00:11:57.601,00:12:01.667 Discovery's velocity now 4,300 feet per second 00:12:01.667,00:12:04.734 at a downrange distance of 35 nautical miles. 00:12:08.033,00:12:09.934 Booster officer reports all three engines 00:12:09.934,00:12:13.033 stable at 104% performance. 00:12:13.033,00:12:15.734 -Discovery, Houston, performance is nominal. 00:12:19.701,00:12:24.300 -Discovery, Houston, you have a go to open the doors. 00:12:24.300,00:12:27.300 -Roger, Houston. 00:12:27.300,00:12:29.767 -Houston, Discovery. 00:12:29.767,00:12:32.300 -Go ahead, Charlie. 00:12:32.300,00:12:33.634 -Yeah, I think y'all can probably see. 00:12:33.634,00:12:36.767 It's looks like that oxygen around the left dome 00:12:36.767,00:12:38.901 is kind of getting noisy, 00:12:38.901,00:12:42.067 and it's tripping the caution and warning. 00:12:46.467,00:12:47.801 -Roger that. Stand by, Charlie. 00:12:47.801,00:12:50.200 We're talking about it, no action for you right yet. 00:12:54.467,00:12:57.234 -Houston, Discovery. 00:12:57.234,00:12:59.434 -Go ahead, Charlie. 00:12:59.434,00:13:01.501 -Yeah, Steve, we'd like to know if we can go ahead 00:13:01.501,00:13:03.934 and get a jump on Ku band deploy. 00:13:08.634,00:13:09.868 -That's affirmative, Charlie. 00:13:09.868,00:13:12.100 You have a go for a Ku band deploy. 00:13:21.868,00:13:27.033 -And, Houston, you've probably seen all the IMUs and stuff, 00:13:27.033,00:13:29.534 looks complete. 00:13:32.334,00:13:34.367 -Roger that, Loren. We've been watching you. 00:13:34.367,00:13:38.133 The IMUs look good, and we concur that you're complete. 00:13:53.701,00:13:56.767 -And this is mission control Houston at 3 hours, 2 minutes 00:13:56.767,00:13:59.133 into the flight of Discovery. 00:13:59.133,00:14:01.901 We're now seeing payload -bay views from camera "A." 00:14:01.901,00:14:06.067 That's on the forward bulkhead of Discovery looking aft. 00:14:06.067,00:14:09.400 We're seeing the remote manipulator system arm 00:14:09.400,00:14:10.934 as it is being put through 00:14:10.934,00:14:15.100 it's paces, being checked out for tomorrow's activities 00:14:15.100,00:14:17.467 related to the Hubble Space Telescope. 00:14:23.234,00:14:24.734 -Discovery, Houston. 00:14:24.734,00:14:27.501 We're getting some real good payload-bay-television downlink, 00:14:27.501,00:14:29.501 and we see that Steve has been hard at work 00:14:29.501,00:14:32.000 getting the RMS deployed. 00:14:36.934,00:14:38.968 -Okay, he is getting a good start into 00:14:38.968,00:14:42.367 RMS checkout right now. 00:14:42.367,00:14:44.200 -Roger, Loren. 00:15:11.734,00:15:15.200 -This is mission control, mission specialist Steve Hawley 00:15:15.200,00:15:17.634 continuing to take the RMS 00:15:17.634,00:15:20.300 through it's checkout procedures. 00:15:20.300,00:15:22.434 We are looking at the end effector as it is 00:15:22.434,00:15:26.901 run through the snare-drive test. 00:15:26.901,00:15:30.434 The end effector will be used to grapple 00:15:30.434,00:15:33.000 the Hubble Space Telescope tomorrow 00:15:33.000,00:15:36.634 and will be used to release the telescope, 00:15:36.634,00:15:40.968 and the end effector is about 13 inches in diameter. 00:15:45.400,00:15:47.801 -Houston, Discovery. 00:15:47.801,00:15:51.300 -Go ahead, Discovery. 00:15:51.300,00:15:53.901 -Back again, we think RMS checkout is complete. 00:15:53.901,00:15:55.567 We think the arm is -- 00:15:55.567,00:15:57.367 We didn't see any anomalies at all. 00:15:59.400,00:16:02.200 -That sounds great, Steve, and we concur. 00:16:08.033,00:16:09.834 -Discovery, Houston, just wanted to let you know 00:16:09.834,00:16:12.067 that the ground is currently configured 00:16:12.067,00:16:16.167 for HST main bus activation, so we're ready when you are. 00:16:20.667,00:16:26.234 -And, Houston, we just put the main-bus power on. 00:16:26.234,00:16:28.834 -Roger, Loren. We copy. 00:16:31.834,00:16:37.133 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:16:37.133,00:16:40.934 -!!musiC@! Good morning, outer space from all the human race !!musiC@! 00:16:40.934,00:16:44.801 !!musiC@! It's time to stow your sleeping gear !!musiC@! 00:16:44.801,00:16:49.067 !!musiC@! We know you had a blast, you're up in space at last !!musiC@! 00:16:49.067,00:16:53.467 !!musiC@! Now your main objective's clear !!musiC@! 00:16:53.467,00:16:58.534 !!musiC@! Deploy the Space Telescope !!musiC@! 00:16:58.534,00:17:01.200 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:17:01.200,00:17:07.033 !!musiC@! To carry on our dreams and hopes !!musiC@! 00:17:07.033,00:17:08.901 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:08.901,00:17:10.667 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:17:10.667,00:17:14.400 !!musiC@! We're living our destiny !!musiC@! 00:17:14.400,00:17:16.601 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:16.601,00:17:18.634 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:17:18.634,00:17:21.934 !!musiC@! The spirit of Discovery !!musiC@! 00:17:21.934,00:17:25.834 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:25.834,00:17:29.467 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:29.467,00:17:31.400 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:31.400,00:17:33.267 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:33.267,00:17:37.033 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:37.033,00:17:40.667 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:40.667,00:17:44.400 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:44.400,00:17:47.834 !!musiC@! Space is our world !!musiC@! 00:17:47.834,00:17:49.200 -Good morning, Discovery. 00:17:49.200,00:17:50.501 Your wake-up music today 00:17:50.501,00:17:52.801 is compliments of your training team. 00:17:52.801,00:17:54.701 We want you to make them proud today. 00:18:01.067,00:18:03.534 -Discovery, Houston. 00:18:08.100,00:18:10.767 -Good morning. 00:18:10.767,00:18:12.367 -Good morning, Discovery. 00:18:12.367,00:18:14.601 Good morning from Bill Reeves and Orbit 1 team, 00:18:14.601,00:18:17.434 and you got a go for HST deploy ops. 00:18:22.100,00:18:25.901 -That's outstanding, thank you. -It sure is. 00:18:31.434,00:18:32.734 -This is Mission Control Houston, 00:18:32.734,00:18:36.267 this digital animation being fed by live telemetry 00:18:36.267,00:18:38.801 depicting the motion of the robot arm 00:18:38.801,00:18:41.334 as mission specialist Steve Hawley 00:18:41.334,00:18:43.200 begins to put it through its paces. 00:18:43.200,00:18:48.834 This live view coming from the forward-port bulkhead camera 00:18:48.834,00:18:52.267 aboard Discovery, gives us a look at the real thing. 00:18:52.267,00:18:55.701 Steve Hawley has unberthed the arm and has begun to move it 00:18:55.701,00:18:59.434 into position for grapple of the Hubble Space Telescope. 00:19:08.033,00:19:10.634 This is Mission Control Houston. 00:19:10.634,00:19:13.067 Our PDRS officer here in the flight control room 00:19:13.067,00:19:15.667 confirms via telemetry 00:19:15.667,00:19:19.767 that the Hubble Space Telescope has been grappled. 00:19:26.200,00:19:27.701 This is Mission Control Houston. 00:19:27.701,00:19:30.234 We're continuing to take live television from the shuttle 00:19:30.234,00:19:34.100 Discovery, this from the aft flight deck of the vehicle 00:19:34.100,00:19:36.467 as mission specialist Kathy Sullivan 00:19:36.467,00:19:40.200 continues to prepare for deploy operations, 00:19:40.200,00:19:44.200 at this point, beginning to set up photographic equipment 00:19:44.200,00:19:49.133 on the flight deck to document the deploy activities. 00:19:52.634,00:19:56.200 -Discovery, Houston. 00:19:56.200,00:19:58.734 -Go ahead. 00:19:58.734,00:20:01.334 -You got a go to release the pillars 00:20:01.334,00:20:04.968 and a go to transfer Hubble to internal power on time. 00:20:07.868,00:20:10.133 -Roger that. Understand. Go for pillar release 00:20:10.133,00:20:13.801 and go for transfer to internal power on time. 00:20:13.801,00:20:15.334 -It's affirmed. 00:20:27.701,00:20:31.634 -And Houston, Discovery, 00:20:31.634,00:20:33.968 the transfer to internal power is complete. 00:20:33.968,00:20:36.133 The umbilical is steadfast, 00:20:36.133,00:20:39.734 and we'll be standing by for your go for umbilical release. 00:20:42.834,00:20:45.334 -Roger, Discovery. 00:20:49.734,00:20:52.400 Discovery, you're go for umbilical disconnect. 00:20:56.067,00:20:58.901 -Copy that, go for umbilical disconnect 00:20:58.901,00:21:00.334 -It's affirm. 00:21:05.767,00:21:08.434 -You have this solar-array- deploy attitude that 00:21:08.434,00:21:10.734 Discovery is in at the time, 00:21:10.734,00:21:14.367 which has the Sun constantly off the nose 00:21:14.367,00:21:16.767 of the Orbiter Discovery. 00:21:16.767,00:21:20.234 The image in the majority of the field of view 00:21:20.234,00:21:23.601 is a reflection of the forward bulkhead 00:21:23.601,00:21:27.501 and the metallic aperture door of the telescope. 00:21:31.400,00:21:34.834 -You know, pitch is about 4 degrees off, attitude-wise. 00:21:34.834,00:21:37.334 -Okay. 00:21:40.200,00:21:43.300 -Maybe that's what's making it look like that. 00:21:43.300,00:21:45.334 You're going to pitch it up? 00:21:45.334,00:21:48.434 -Okay. 00:21:48.434,00:21:52.534 -I see you coming up. 00:21:52.534,00:21:55.334 How does it look out your window as far as clearance? 00:21:55.334,00:21:56.767 Because that's the only thing. 00:21:56.767,00:21:58.501 Oh, you can't see. -I really can't see. 00:21:58.501,00:22:03.634 -I can't see out the window either. 00:22:03.634,00:22:07.534 I'd show us about 2 inches starboard. 00:22:07.534,00:22:10.133 Good clearance. Still looks good. 00:22:15.167,00:22:18.968 And... 00:22:18.968,00:22:21.901 it's about an inch forward, but I think that may be pitch. 00:22:21.901,00:22:24.133 Pitch, again, kind of sagged. 00:22:24.133,00:22:26.434 It's 355 right now. 00:22:41.400,00:22:43.167 -It sure looks like I want to go to starboard. 00:22:43.167,00:22:46.701 -Starboard, yeah, I'd go ahead and do it because you got -- 00:22:46.701,00:22:51.100 Over here, I can see lots of clearance, 00:22:51.100,00:22:52.667 coming to starboard nicely. 00:22:58.234,00:22:59.634 -Charlie, coming in over your shoulder. 00:22:59.634,00:23:01.567 -A little bit more. 00:23:01.567,00:23:03.100 -Okay, still coming. -Okay. 00:23:03.100,00:23:08.734 -What's my "Z?" -Okay, "Z" is minus 538, 00:23:08.734,00:23:10.601 and it's coming up nicely. 00:23:25.801,00:23:29.167 -And this is Hubble Telescope Control in Greenbelt. 00:23:29.167,00:23:31.534 We have been given the go-ahead 00:23:31.534,00:23:35.667 to begin commanding release of the forward latches, 00:23:35.667,00:23:38.968 which hold the solar arrays in place during launch 00:23:38.968,00:23:41.801 along the side of the telescope. 00:23:41.801,00:23:44.667 The forward latches are on both sides. 00:23:44.667,00:23:47.000 The port and starboard side of the telescope 00:23:47.000,00:23:51.267 are released simultaneously. 00:24:07.567,00:24:10.033 -Discovery, no need to acknowledge. 00:24:10.033,00:24:12.067 The forward latches are in motion. 00:24:16.267,00:24:17.968 -Roger, Houston, we copy. 00:24:23.300,00:24:25.400 -Discovery, we'll take this attitude right here. 00:24:25.400,00:24:31.167 We'd like you to go free drift for PDM deploy. 00:24:31.167,00:24:32.901 -Roger, free drift. 00:24:36.033,00:24:37.934 -This is Hubble Telescope Control, 00:24:37.934,00:24:41.934 Greenbelt, 1 day, 1 hour, 54 minutes, mission-elapse time, 00:24:41.934,00:24:43.767 continuing to receive television 00:24:43.767,00:24:48.667 through the Vandenberg Tracking Station, 00:24:48.667,00:24:52.634 and it is clearly showing the deployment 00:24:52.634,00:24:56.434 of the solar-array mass 00:24:56.434,00:25:01.901 with the solar-array package in stowed position. 00:25:01.901,00:25:07.067 The arrays are wound much like a pair of window shades 00:25:07.067,00:25:14.734 around a roller and kept in that configuration for launch, 00:25:14.734,00:25:20.334 and once the primary deployment activity has been completed, 00:25:20.334,00:25:25.133 the crew tweaks the attitude 00:25:25.133,00:25:28.534 and replaces the vehicle in free drift. 00:25:28.534,00:25:32.534 The operations team here will begin commanding 00:25:32.534,00:25:36.000 the solar-array blankets to unfurl. 00:25:48.601,00:25:52.100 -Discovery, in order to preserve an orbit-20 release, 00:25:52.100,00:25:54.267 I'd like you to get into EVA prep. 00:25:59.234,00:26:03.901 -Okay, we're proceeding with that. 00:26:03.901,00:26:06.400 -Thank you. 00:26:12.868,00:26:15.701 -So, we see both high gains moving. 00:26:17.801,00:26:19.434 -Thank you, Loren. 00:26:23.334,00:26:26.601 -And that's Commander Loren Shriver, 00:26:26.601,00:26:29.300 just confirmed what our data screens 00:26:29.300,00:26:31.133 are showing here in the control center, 00:26:31.133,00:26:33.901 that the motors are in operation, 00:26:33.901,00:26:36.300 and the two high-gain antenna masts 00:26:36.300,00:26:38.567 are in the process of swinging 90 degrees 00:26:38.567,00:26:40.334 to the perpendicular position. 00:26:49.400,00:26:53.634 -Discovery, go free drift for Plus SDM deploy. 00:26:56.300,00:26:58.801 -We have free drift starting, 00:27:01.968,00:27:04.400 and we see first motion -- looks good. 00:27:15.767,00:27:20.033 -And as the crew just confirmed, we're seeing both blankets 00:27:20.033,00:27:24.767 beginning to unfurl on the port side solar array. 00:27:28.400,00:27:32.133 -So far, we see good, smooth motion, both sides. 00:27:34.267,00:27:37.968 -And we got TV down here, Loren. 00:27:37.968,00:27:39.734 -Roger that. 00:27:54.934,00:28:00.701 -The solar arrays are driven out of their cassettes by bi-stems, 00:28:00.701,00:28:04.367 which are at each side of the array. 00:28:04.367,00:28:09.834 The bi-stem is visible in the television 00:28:09.834,00:28:11.868 being downlinked from the spacecraft at this time. 00:28:11.868,00:28:15.834 It's attached at the end of the array to the spreader bar, 00:28:15.834,00:28:19.267 and the spreader bar is, in turn, attached to the array, 00:28:19.267,00:28:24.334 which literally pulls the array out of the cassette, 00:28:24.334,00:28:27.467 which held it packaged during the launch. 00:28:40.234,00:28:45.267 -And as you can see, we've got three panels out. 00:28:47.367,00:28:49.234 -Thanks, Loren. 00:28:52.901,00:28:55.968 -When fully deployed, both of the arrays together 00:28:55.968,00:28:58.234 produce about 6,000 volts, 00:28:58.234,00:29:02.767 about half of which is required to operate telescope systems, 00:29:02.767,00:29:05.734 and during the daylight side of the path, the other half, 00:29:05.734,00:29:10.534 is used to recharge the six nickel-hydrogen batteries. 00:29:16.267,00:29:18.234 Ship supervisor Pete Peterro 00:29:18.234,00:29:23.000 just checking with his control team, 00:29:23.000,00:29:25.968 receiving a report that, from the ground, 00:29:25.968,00:29:28.400 as confirmed by the crew from orbit, 00:29:28.400,00:29:32.667 the deploy activity, so far, is going very smoothly. 00:29:32.667,00:29:36.267 We see no indications of any problems at this time. 00:29:40.834,00:29:43.000 -Discovery, you can go autovern. 00:29:43.000,00:29:46.901 We're setting up for the other array. 00:29:46.901,00:29:49.400 -Okay, we'll go autovern. 00:29:49.400,00:29:50.934 -It's affirm. 00:29:53.300,00:29:54.968 Discovery, Houston. 00:29:57.734,00:29:59.567 -Go ahead. 00:29:59.567,00:30:02.834 -We're looking more and more like an orbit-20 release. 00:30:02.834,00:30:05.501 We'd like you to press on with the EVA prep. 00:30:10.467,00:30:12.000 -Okay, we copy. 00:30:12.000,00:30:14.033 -We'll press on with that. 00:30:25.000,00:30:28.100 -Discovery, your aperture door latch is open. 00:30:32.133,00:30:33.901 -Copy that. Thank you. 00:30:45.567,00:30:47.801 And status for you, Houston. 00:30:47.801,00:30:50.601 Charlie is downstairs in the process of getting Bruce 00:30:50.601,00:30:52.834 and Kathy buttoned up in the suits. 00:30:54.934,00:30:58.100 -EVA copies, and we're watching the fans come on. 00:31:02.601,00:31:07.300 Discovery, we'd like free drift for minus SDM deploy. 00:31:11.934,00:31:14.767 -Okay, we copy free drift. 00:31:14.767,00:31:17.567 -It's affirmed. 00:31:17.567,00:31:20.000 -Okay, you're in free drift now. 00:31:20.000,00:31:21.901 -Thank you. 00:31:24.667,00:31:28.400 -All right, we see motion. 00:31:28.400,00:31:30.000 -So do we, Loren. 00:31:43.200,00:31:46.767 -As the blankets begin deploying, 00:31:46.767,00:31:51.234 the orbital verification team is watching very closely, 00:31:51.234,00:31:55.634 the tension being placed on those wings so far, 00:31:55.634,00:31:57.067 looking good. 00:32:07.634,00:32:09.767 -Houston, Discovery, it looks like motion 00:32:09.767,00:32:14.934 stopped with just about one panel showing. 00:32:14.934,00:32:16.567 -And we see that, too, Loren. 00:32:16.567,00:32:18.300 The DCE is off. 00:32:24.200,00:32:26.234 -This is Mission Control Houston. 00:32:26.234,00:32:28.868 Flight controllers here in Mission Control Center 00:32:28.868,00:32:32.400 discussing an impending deadline. 00:32:32.400,00:32:35.400 Within about 13 minutes, we will reach a point 00:32:35.400,00:32:37.267 of having concluded the prebreathe, 00:32:37.267,00:32:39.667 and in order to provide enough rapid 00:32:39.667,00:32:43.434 response time to support an EVA, 00:32:43.434,00:32:46.767 we would need to begin depressurizing the air lock 00:32:46.767,00:32:50.067 in about 12 to 13 minutes from now. 00:32:52.834,00:32:55.067 -The other thing I need an answer to 00:32:55.067,00:32:58.300 is if I can go ahead and commit to EVA, 00:32:58.300,00:33:01.501 the thought of going out and cranking it out, 00:33:01.501,00:33:03.467 if whatever they're about to do fails, 00:33:03.467,00:33:06.033 do they want us to just press on to back them up? 00:33:06.033,00:33:09.667 We need to get on with it. 00:33:09.667,00:33:11.901 -Okay, Flight. I'll come back with the answers. 00:33:11.901,00:33:15.300 -I need answers now. 00:33:15.300,00:33:16.734 -Flight. -Go ahead. 00:33:16.734,00:33:19.234 -Yeah, I don't feel comfortable waiting until after 6:20. 00:33:19.234,00:33:20.934 -I don't either. That's why I want the answers now. 00:33:20.934,00:33:25.801 -Yeah, 6:20 is my drop-dead time from adding up all the times. 00:33:25.801,00:33:27.234 -Okay, I'm going to have them press on. 00:33:27.234,00:33:30.234 All right, CAPCOM, tell the crew 00:33:30.234,00:33:33.601 we want them to press on into EVA, 00:33:33.601,00:33:36.267 and we'll stop them whenever we have to. 00:33:36.267,00:33:38.634 So, quickly, we have 4 minutes on this pass. 00:33:42.000,00:33:47.300 -Discovery, Houston. 00:33:47.300,00:33:48.834 -Discovery. Go ahead. 00:33:51.133,00:33:54.567 -Okay, with the panels they you got out there right now, 00:33:54.567,00:33:57.567 that's not satisfactory to stay overnight, 00:33:57.567,00:33:59.801 so we're going to have to move out on the EVA. 00:34:04.100,00:34:05.767 -Okay. 00:34:08.567,00:34:11.367 -Discovery, Houston. 00:34:13.467,00:34:16.767 -Discovery, go ahead. 00:34:16.767,00:34:18.701 -We think there may be some problem 00:34:18.701,00:34:21.868 with the tension- monitoring software. 00:34:21.868,00:34:23.467 We've got the DCE back on. 00:34:23.467,00:34:26.234 We're going to disable the tension monitoring 00:34:26.234,00:34:31.000 and resend the prompt to deploy the minus SDM. 00:34:31.000,00:34:33.133 -Okay, hit it. 00:34:44.834,00:34:47.634 Okay, Houston. We see motion. 00:34:47.634,00:34:49.701 -We've got the image down here, Loren. 00:34:57.234,00:35:01.334 -Houston, we think it stopped. 00:35:01.334,00:35:02.834 -It's fully deployed. 00:35:02.834,00:35:06.601 The microswitches confirm it. 00:35:06.601,00:35:09.100 -Okay. 00:35:09.100,00:35:10.601 -And for Bruce and Kathy, 00:35:10.601,00:35:14.167 we'd like you to start the air lock depress at 5, please. 00:35:19.267,00:35:23.801 -Okay, they copied you, and we're at 5.5 right now. 00:35:23.801,00:35:25.534 -Okay, Charlie. 00:35:30.868,00:35:33.234 -Houston, for Loren. 00:35:35.968,00:35:38.334 -Go ahead, Houston. 00:35:38.334,00:35:41.400 -You can maneuver right to the release attitude right now. 00:35:41.400,00:35:45.501 That's in the CAP page 3-20. 00:35:45.501,00:35:50.033 -Page 3-20, we'll maneuver to the release attitude. 00:35:50.033,00:35:51.467 -That's affirm. 00:35:56.100,00:35:57.267 -Rendezvous. -We're go. 00:35:57.267,00:35:59.067 -FIDO. -Go. 00:35:59.067,00:36:00.534 -Eagle. -Go. 00:36:00.534,00:36:01.968 -DCOM. -Go. 00:36:01.968,00:36:03.634 -INCO. -We're go. 00:36:03.634,00:36:05.434 -FAO. -Go. 00:36:05.434,00:36:06.968 -Max. -Go. 00:36:06.968,00:36:08.434 -Peter S. -Go, Flight. 00:36:08.434,00:36:09.868 -EVA. -We're go. 00:36:09.868,00:36:12.167 -Sergeant, you're still go? -Go. 00:36:12.167,00:36:13.901 -G.C. -Go. 00:36:13.901,00:36:15.534 -And we're go. 00:36:15.534,00:36:17.367 Payloads, waiting on you. 00:36:19.601,00:36:21.567 -Flight payloads, we are go. 00:36:21.567,00:36:24.033 -CAPCOM, we have a go for release. 00:36:24.033,00:36:28.000 -Discovery, go for Hubble release. 00:36:28.000,00:36:29.334 -Okay, we have a go for release, 00:36:29.334,00:36:31.567 and we're going to be a minute late. 00:36:31.567,00:36:35.767 -Okay, Charlie. 00:36:35.767,00:36:38.734 -Houston, Discovery. 00:36:38.734,00:36:41.167 -Go ahead, Charlie. 00:36:41.167,00:36:44.300 -Okay, we've been taking marks. 00:36:44.300,00:36:46.133 Residuals and ratios look good, 00:36:46.133,00:36:53.767 and we'd like to go ahead and go to filter state. 00:36:53.767,00:36:57.067 -We concur, Charlie. 00:36:57.067,00:36:59.767 -I was taking pictures. 00:36:59.767,00:37:01.133 I may have missed your call. 00:37:01.133,00:37:04.067 You want us to go ahead and do the RMS power-down, 00:37:04.067,00:37:05.234 so we get the guys out of the air lock. 00:37:05.234,00:37:07.567 Is that affirm? 00:37:07.567,00:37:09.868 -That's at your convenience, Steve. 00:37:09.868,00:37:15.300 Once we do have the RMS stowed in, we'll back out of EVA. 00:37:15.300,00:37:17.434 -Okay. 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Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:17.501,00:38:19.133 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:19.133,00:38:20.767 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:20.767,00:38:22.300 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:22.300,00:38:24.000 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:24.000,00:38:25.601 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit softer now !!musiC@! 00:38:25.601,00:38:27.267 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:27.267,00:38:28.934 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:28.934,00:38:30.567 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:30.567,00:38:32.200 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:32.200,00:38:33.868 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:33.868,00:38:35.434 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! A little bit louder now !!musiC@! 00:38:35.434,00:38:37.400 -!!musiC@! Shout !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:37.400,00:38:38.934 -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:38.934,00:38:40.601 -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:40.601,00:38:42.133 -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:42.133,00:38:43.868 -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:43.868,00:38:46.834 -!!musiC@! Heeeey !!musiC@! 00:38:46.834,00:38:48.901 -Good morning, Discovery. 00:38:48.901,00:38:51.400 I guess you're awake after that song. 00:38:51.400,00:38:53.133 There are a lot of happy people down here. 00:38:53.133,00:38:54.901 We saw a great deploy yesterday, 00:38:54.901,00:38:59.100 and Hubble had a good night while you were asleep. 00:38:59.100,00:39:01.734 -Tell them they better find that guy and sign him up for max "Q" 00:39:01.734,00:39:03.434 that did the wake-up music. 00:39:08.033,00:39:09.334 -And we're here this morning 00:39:09.334,00:39:14.033 to perform Student Experiment 82-16 for Greg Peterson. 00:39:14.033,00:39:16.968 This is an experiment designed to investigate 00:39:16.968,00:39:19.601 what effects gravity-driven buoyancy 00:39:19.601,00:39:22.367 may have on the behavior of an electrical arc 00:39:22.367,00:39:24.334 as you observe it on the ground in 1 "G," 00:39:24.334,00:39:27.467 say, during a Jacob's Ladder experiment in high school, 00:39:27.467,00:39:29.133 and that is exactly, in fact, 00:39:29.133,00:39:32.767 the kind of experiment that first gave this idea to Greg. 00:39:34.901,00:39:37.701 What you see on your right here, taped to the forward lockers 00:39:37.701,00:39:39.434 is the arc chamber itself 00:39:39.434,00:39:42.501 and the Aeroflex camera is set up to look into the arc. 00:39:42.501,00:39:43.834 There are mirrors behind the arc 00:39:43.834,00:39:46.534 so that you get in fact three different views of it. 00:39:46.534,00:39:48.067 The first thing we're going to do here 00:39:48.067,00:39:50.300 is photograph the arc behavior 00:39:50.300,00:39:53.133 in the ambient magnetic fields of the Orbiter, 00:39:53.133,00:39:55.968 and we in fact will look at three different orientations. 00:39:55.968,00:39:59.267 The path of the arc as the experiment is currently placed 00:39:59.267,00:40:01.534 goes parallel to the Orbiter's "Y" axis 00:40:01.534,00:40:02.868 through the wings. 00:40:02.868,00:40:06.133 We will then rotate the box and camera 90 degrees 00:40:06.133,00:40:09.734 to look at the Orbiter's "Z" axis, vertical like this, 00:40:09.734,00:40:12.934 and then, again, we will rotate it 90 degrees 00:40:12.934,00:40:14.701 and tape it on the overhead panel 00:40:14.701,00:40:18.434 so that we can look at the ambient magnetic field 00:40:18.434,00:40:20.701 parallel to the vehicle's "Z" axis. 00:40:23.501,00:40:24.868 -We'll show you this a little bit. 00:40:24.868,00:40:29.667 We have actually, as you can tell, turned the power on, 00:40:29.667,00:40:32.501 and we have actually applied a magnetic field, 00:40:32.501,00:40:34.601 so we're stepping through the field. 00:40:34.601,00:40:38.434 The reason we think you see a very finely defined arc 00:40:38.434,00:40:41.901 on your right is because that's the tip of a nail. 00:40:41.901,00:40:47.133 The other part of the arc system 00:40:47.133,00:40:49.434 is actually the round head of the nail, 00:40:49.434,00:40:51.634 and we think that the arc is just -- 00:40:51.634,00:40:54.067 or the charge is just kind of jumping around 00:40:54.067,00:40:55.734 from place to place on the head of the nail, 00:40:55.734,00:40:57.400 and that's what allows it to go that way. 00:40:57.400,00:40:58.767 So, you guys can get Greg to come in, 00:40:58.767,00:41:01.834 he can probably tell you whether we're right or wrong. 00:41:01.834,00:41:04.901 But we did notice that the behavior of the arc 00:41:04.901,00:41:07.000 became more and more erratic, 00:41:07.000,00:41:13.334 and it's amplitude increased as the field went up, 00:41:13.334,00:41:16.133 and just as they had told us pre-flight, 00:41:16.133,00:41:18.701 once you put a charge into the system, 00:41:18.701,00:41:19.834 it never comes out of there. 00:41:19.834,00:41:22.133 So, even when we go back to no field at all, 00:41:22.133,00:41:26.367 we still have the erratic behavior on the arc. 00:41:26.367,00:41:28.868 -Okay, thank you, Charlie. 00:41:31.767,00:41:35.234 That's Hubble we're looking at, huh? 00:41:35.234,00:41:36.767 -Yes, sir. 00:41:36.767,00:41:39.801 -And through the gyro-stabilized binoculars, 00:41:39.801,00:41:42.100 I convinced myself that I could still make out 00:41:42.100,00:41:45.634 the orientation of the solar arrays. 00:41:45.634,00:41:48.934 -Fantastic. 00:41:48.934,00:41:52.434 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:41:52.434,00:41:55.167 -!!musiC@! Aruba, Jamaica, !!musiC@! 00:41:55.167,00:41:56.968 !!musiC@! Ooh, I want to take you !!musiC@! 00:41:56.968,00:41:59.167 !!musiC@! Bermuda, Bahama !!musiC@! 00:41:59.167,00:42:01.367 !!musiC@! Come on, pretty mama !!musiC@! 00:42:01.367,00:42:03.400 !!musiC@! Key Largo, Montego !!musiC@! 00:42:03.400,00:42:06.267 !!musiC@! Baby, why don't we go, Jamaica !!musiC@! 00:42:06.267,00:42:12.567 !!musiC@! Off the Florida Keeeys !!musiC@! 00:42:12.567,00:42:16.501 !!musiC@! There's a place called Kokomo !!musiC@! 00:42:16.501,00:42:19.400 !!musiC@! That's where you want to go !!musiC@! 00:42:19.400,00:42:22.601 !!musiC@! To get away from it all !!musiC@! 00:42:22.601,00:42:24.801 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:42:24.801,00:42:28.734 !!musiC@! Bodies in the sand !!musiC@! 00:42:28.734,00:42:32.934 !!musiC@! Tropical drink melting in your hand !!musiC@! 00:42:32.934,00:42:35.300 !!musiC@! We'll be falling in love !!musiC@! 00:42:35.300,00:42:39.267 !!musiC@! To the rhythm of a steel drum band !!musiC@! 00:42:39.267,00:42:40.868 !!musiC@! Down in Kokomo !!musiC@! 00:42:40.868,00:42:42.634 !!musiC@! Aruba, Jamaica, !!musiC@! 00:42:42.634,00:42:44.334 !!musiC@! Ooh, I want to take you !!musiC@! 00:42:44.334,00:42:46.734 !!musiC@! To Bermuda, Bahama !!musiC@! 00:42:46.734,00:42:48.701 !!musiC@! Come on, pretty mama !!musiC@! 00:42:48.701,00:42:50.868 !!musiC@! Key Largo, Montego !!musiC@! 00:42:50.868,00:42:52.601 !!musiC@! Baby, why don't we go !!musiC@! 00:42:52.601,00:42:55.000 !!musiC@! To the Kokomo !!musiC@! 00:42:55.000,00:42:59.334 !!musiC@! We'll get there fast, and then we'll take it slow !!musiC@! 00:42:59.334,00:43:03.767 !!musiC@! That's where we want to go !!musiC@! 00:43:03.767,00:43:05.467 !!musiC@! Way down in Kokomo !!musiC@! 00:43:05.467,00:43:09.334 !!musiC@! Martinique, the Monserrat mystique !!musiC@! 00:43:09.334,00:43:12.033 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:43:12.033,00:43:13.901 -Good morning, Discovery. 00:43:13.901,00:43:16.267 For Max Q's keyboard, 00:43:16.267,00:43:18.701 that's the way that song should really be done. 00:43:18.701,00:43:21.100 Your next practice is Sunday evening in the gym. 00:43:21.100,00:43:22.801 Don't be late. 00:43:26.501,00:43:28.400 -We're getting TV down here. 00:43:28.400,00:43:32.601 Is that lightning that you see down here? 00:43:32.601,00:43:33.868 -That is extreme lightning. 00:43:33.868,00:43:35.501 That's correct. 00:43:35.501,00:43:36.834 -Boy, you bet. 00:43:36.834,00:43:39.434 On CCTVs, I've never seen them pick it up like that. 00:43:44.834,00:43:48.968 -This is the Hubble Telescope Control in Greenbelt. 00:43:48.968,00:43:53.701 Commands have been sent up to open the aperture door. 00:44:04.234,00:44:06.300 And we have confirmation that the motor 00:44:06.300,00:44:09.067 is running on the door, 00:44:09.067,00:44:11.000 and the door is beginning to open. 00:44:29.601,00:44:32.133 And we have confirmation from the stock 00:44:32.133,00:44:34.868 that the aperture door is open. 00:44:47.300,00:44:49.200 -Okay, thank you, Steve. 00:44:52.300,00:44:54.968 -You know what that is, I bet. 00:44:54.968,00:44:58.000 -Not only what it is but whose it is. 00:45:01.133,00:45:03.767 -How much do you think it's worth to have it back? 00:45:15.200,00:45:17.701 And it's still running, too. 00:45:24.100,00:45:27.534 -Well, that watch gets two rides for the price of one. 00:45:30.367,00:45:31.834 -Absolutely. 00:45:37.033,00:45:41.567 What we wanted to do was say 00:45:41.567,00:45:44.767 a little bit of well-deserved thanks to our training team 00:45:44.767,00:45:47.467 who worked really so hard with us 00:45:47.467,00:45:50.067 for actually quite a long time, 00:45:50.067,00:45:52.767 a couple years while I've been with the crew anyway, 00:45:52.767,00:45:57.200 so we really appreciate all the long hours 00:45:57.200,00:46:00.634 and late hours and all the hard work that they did. 00:46:00.634,00:46:03.801 And it's really paid off, we believe. 00:46:03.801,00:46:08.067 And we'd like to thank them for the little cards 00:46:08.067,00:46:10.667 they gave us to read while we're here on orbit. 00:46:10.667,00:46:15.534 They're really appropriate, and we'd just like to let them know 00:46:15.534,00:46:18.634 that all is going well, we're feeling great, 00:46:18.634,00:46:21.968 and to give Nicky our send signal. 00:46:25.567,00:46:27.868 -Okay. I'm sure they're watching. 00:46:27.868,00:46:32.167 If they don't happen to be right now, I will call them. 00:46:32.167,00:46:34.000 -Roger. 00:46:38.100,00:46:41.968 -Let me start with a little bit of a perspective comment. 00:46:41.968,00:46:44.734 Many of us were assigned to this crew back in 1985 00:46:44.734,00:46:46.801 and have been working like many with others 00:46:46.801,00:46:48.167 on the telescope project 00:46:48.167,00:46:50.434 for a long time to bring this mission off, 00:46:50.434,00:46:52.434 and we, again, as many others, 00:46:52.434,00:46:54.133 have thought numerous times 00:46:54.133,00:46:56.467 about the historical significance 00:46:56.467,00:46:58.434 that the advent of an observatory 00:46:58.434,00:47:01.200 such as the HST would have 00:47:01.200,00:47:04.634 and how it stands in comparison to the advances of Galileo 00:47:04.634,00:47:07.133 and even to the advances of Edwin Hubble's 00:47:07.133,00:47:09.467 periods of observation. 00:47:09.467,00:47:12.167 And in searching for some way to possibly commemorate that 00:47:12.167,00:47:14.467 or betoken that during our flight, 00:47:14.467,00:47:16.300 I happened upon the idea 00:47:16.300,00:47:18.968 that there must be some astronomical artifact 00:47:18.968,00:47:22.267 from one of the observatories Hubble worked 00:47:22.267,00:47:25.100 on that we possibly could take along as memento. 00:47:25.100,00:47:26.701 And with some considerable assistance 00:47:26.701,00:47:28.968 from the Smithsonian Museum, 00:47:28.968,00:47:32.100 we managed to obtain this device, 00:47:32.100,00:47:35.634 which is the guiding eyepiece, we are assured, 00:47:35.634,00:47:41.067 from the 100-inch telescope on which Edwin Hubble 00:47:41.067,00:47:44.067 did many of his observations out at Mount Wilson in California, 00:47:44.067,00:47:47.267 some of his most fundamental work, in fact. 00:47:47.267,00:47:49.267 We have it with us here, as I said, 00:47:49.267,00:47:50.701 courtesy of the Smithsonian 00:47:50.701,00:47:53.133 and the American Astronomical Society. 00:47:53.133,00:47:54.968 It was, in fact, presented to the crew 00:47:54.968,00:47:56.167 at the 100th anniversary 00:47:56.167,00:47:58.868 meeting of the AAS back in January. 00:47:58.868,00:48:01.067 It's a great pleasure to have something 00:48:01.067,00:48:02.634 of such historical significance, 00:48:02.634,00:48:05.400 of something that so directly symbolizes 00:48:05.400,00:48:09.434 Edwin Hubble's fundamental contributions to astronomy. 00:48:09.434,00:48:12.267 -And you can see at Orion's Belt 00:48:12.267,00:48:15.334 that the stars are gradually dimmed 00:48:15.334,00:48:18.100 as they pass through the Earth's atmosphere, 00:48:18.100,00:48:20.868 which is, of course, the problem that Earthbound astronomers 00:48:20.868,00:48:22.501 have faced a long time. 00:48:22.501,00:48:25.801 Not only does it diminish and spread out the amount of light 00:48:25.801,00:48:29.334 that you can see, but additionally, the atmosphere 00:48:29.334,00:48:31.200 is not transparent to all wavelengths 00:48:31.200,00:48:33.133 that are of interest typically, 00:48:33.133,00:48:36.634 and Hubble Space Telescope will be able to observe wavelengths 00:48:36.634,00:48:39.601 both short and longer of the wavelengths 00:48:39.601,00:48:44.100 that aren't visible to telescopes on the ground. 00:48:44.100,00:48:46.400 !!musiC@!!!musiC@! 00:48:46.400,00:48:48.601 -!!musiC@! And there is nothing in the void where the bang !!musiC@! 00:48:48.601,00:48:50.634 !!musiC@! Caused the hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:48:50.634,00:48:52.200 !!musiC@! There is nothing in the void where the bang !!musiC@! 00:48:52.200,00:48:53.968 !!musiC@! Caused the hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:48:53.968,00:48:55.300 !!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:48:55.300,00:48:56.567 -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:48:56.567,00:48:59.067 -!!musiC@! There's a hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:48:59.067,00:49:01.133 !!musiC@! And now I'm looking for the nothing in the void !!musiC@! 00:49:01.133,00:49:03.367 !!musiC@! Where the bang caused the hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:49:03.367,00:49:04.968 !!musiC@! I'm looking for the nothing in the void !!musiC@! 00:49:04.968,00:49:07.167 !!musiC@! Where the bang caused the hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:49:07.167,00:49:08.501 !!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:49:08.501,00:49:09.667 -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:49:09.667,00:49:11.334 -!!musiC@! There's a hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:49:11.334,00:49:12.667 !!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:49:12.667,00:49:13.868 -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! -!!musiC@! There's a hole !!musiC@! 00:49:13.868,00:49:15.267 -Assuming the theory holds. 00:49:15.267,00:49:17.868 !!musiC@! There's a hole in the middle of it all !!musiC@! 00:49:20.801,00:49:23.601 -This is something like eight TB tests at once. 00:49:23.601,00:49:29.133 There's a certain toxin on each one of those sets of tines, 00:49:29.133,00:49:30.667 and the idea is to determine 00:49:30.667,00:49:33.767 whether the body's response to -- 00:49:33.767,00:49:37.167 immune system response varies at all in zero "G." 00:49:37.167,00:49:38.801 Some of the body's immune response, of course, 00:49:38.801,00:49:40.434 is governed by the blood system, 00:49:40.434,00:49:42.901 and another level of it is controlled 00:49:42.901,00:49:44.501 by the cellular structure of the body, 00:49:44.501,00:49:47.133 and the objective of this experience specifically 00:49:47.133,00:49:50.367 was to look at cell-mediated immune response. 00:49:54.801,00:49:57.267 -And Houston, Discovery, 00:49:57.267,00:50:01.767 we're ready to close the payload bay doors if you still are. 00:50:01.767,00:50:04.133 -Roger that. We were just talking about that, 00:50:04.133,00:50:05.667 and the FES looks good, 00:50:05.667,00:50:07.734 and you have a go for payload bay door closing. 00:50:12.934,00:50:14.634 -This is Mission Control. 00:50:14.634,00:50:17.534 Crew has been given the go for payload bay door closing 00:50:17.534,00:50:22.501 based on the possibility that weather forecasters 00:50:22.501,00:50:25.334 will be able to revise the forecast downward 00:50:25.334,00:50:29.000 on wind conditions for Edwards later this morning 00:50:29.000,00:50:31.067 for our landing opportunity. 00:50:37.300,00:50:40.200 -Discovery, Houston, we have taken a look at the weather. 00:50:40.200,00:50:42.734 Weatherman says it's going to hang in there. 00:50:42.734,00:50:46.400 You have a go to pro to Ops 302, 00:50:46.400,00:50:48.033 a go to maneuver to burn attitude, 00:50:48.033,00:50:51.501 and a go for the burn. 00:50:51.501,00:50:53.300 -Roger that. Go for the burn. 00:51:01.400,00:51:03.334 -We have been sighting Discovery 00:51:03.334,00:51:07.968 on the long-range optics from Vandenberg Air Force Base. 00:51:07.968,00:51:10.167 Discovery's velocity now Mach 6, 00:51:10.167,00:51:16.200 altitude 133,000 feet, 181 miles away from Edwards. 00:51:18.267,00:51:21.634 -Discovery, Houston, state vector transfer to BFS, please. 00:51:29.067,00:51:30.801 -Transfer in work. 00:51:38.734,00:51:40.834 -Discovery now at 14,000 feet, 00:51:40.834,00:51:45.133 making the final approach, lining up over Runway 22. 00:52:05.534,00:52:07.033 And Discovery is on the glide slope, 00:52:07.033,00:52:10.834 converging on the center line, 00:52:10.834,00:52:17.701 coming up now for the preflare maneuver at 2,500 feet, 00:52:17.701,00:52:20.634 current altitude about 6,800 feet. 00:53:14.334,00:53:16.167 Landing gear is down and locked. 00:53:24.067,00:53:26.734 Main gear touchdown. 00:53:32.834,00:53:35.334 Nose gear touchdown. 00:53:37.634,00:53:41.868 Discovery rolls out on Runway 22 at Edwards 00:53:41.868,00:53:45.033 at the end of Mission STS-31 00:53:45.033,00:53:51.734 after traveling 2,068,213 statute miles on this mission. 00:53:54.767,00:53:58.400 Mechanical systems officer reports steady braking. 00:53:58.400,00:54:03.334 The normal amount of braking is about 8 to 10 feet per second, 00:54:03.334,00:54:06.267 and this Detailed Test Objective today 00:54:06.267,00:54:10.000 is designed to be a light braking or low-energy braking 00:54:10.000,00:54:12.067 to try out the new carbon brakes. 00:54:24.334,00:54:27.300 Wheels stop. 00:54:27.300,00:54:30.400 -Houston, Discovery, wheels stop. 00:54:30.400,00:54:32.701 -Roger that, Discovery. Welcome back. 00:54:32.701,00:54:35.133 Congratulations on a super mission, 00:54:35.133,00:54:36.534 and the world is looking forward 00:54:36.534,00:54:38.234 to reaping the benefits of your good work 00:54:38.234,00:54:40.501 over the next 15 years. 00:54:40.501,00:54:43.767 Welcome back, guys, and we have no post-landing deltas. 00:54:45.834,00:54:49.334 -Okay, thank you, Steve, and we sure enjoyed it also. 00:54:49.334,00:54:52.767 It was great fun. 00:54:52.767,00:54:54.901 -It sure looked like it.