♪♪
[ Guitar strumming ]
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪♪
♪ Now, the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ The Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪♪
♪ And there's a void where the Bang ♪
♪ Caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a void where the Bang ♪
♪ Caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ And there is nothing in the void where the Bang ♪
♪ Caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's nothing in the void where the Bang ♪
♪ Caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ And now I'm looking for the nothing in the void ♪
♪ Where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ I'm looking for the nothing in the void ♪
♪ Where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
♪ There's a hole ♪ -♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ There's a hole ♪
-♪ Assuming the theory holds ♪
♪ There's a hole in the middle of it all ♪
-Hey, good morning, Houston.
It can't be time to get up yet.
It's still night outside.
-No, you're confused again, Sox. Good morning.
-Good morning, Carl.
-That was a little inspirational music
just to make sure you didn't lose sight of the big picture.
-We are all inspired.
-And, Endeavour, we've got some video.
-Okay, great.
-This is Mission Control Houston.
This television from Endeavour shows the mechanical arm
currently being put through its paces
by mission specialist Claude Nicollier.
We will be operating the arm throughout the flight
for the capture of the Hubble Space Telescope
on Saturday, as well as maneuvering the arm about
with the EVA crew member mounted on the end of it
during work on the Hubble Space Telescope
while it's latched in the cargo bay.
-And, Houston, for the biomed people,
the keeping installation has been done,
and it's set up on the starboard side.
-Okay, we copy, Jeff. Thanks.
-Endeavour is just now moving into sunrise,
as well, as it moves above Central Africa
on a course that will take it across the Middle East.
This view shows the mechanical arm of Endeavour.
As, again, Nicollier puts it through its paces
for a standard checkout to ensure that everything is
in good working order with it in preparation for its use
on Saturday to capture the Space Telescope.
And this view from Endeavour's camera
showing the end of the arm
called the end effector by flight controllers,
which will lock onto a fixture already supplied
on the Hubble Space Telescope
that was designed into this telescope to capture it.
-Houston, Endeavour.
-Go ahead, Endeavour.
-Roger.
We think we got a good debreast attempt, too.
If y'all are happy with it, we'll press on
with the cabin config, and you can...
-Okay, Covey. We like your cabin config,
and a ten is in the works.
We'll call you when we're ready for the SM checkpoint.
-Currently onboard, the crew is also going through a checkout
of the support equipment in the cargo bay,
checking out the umbilical that will be used
to be attached to the Space Telescope
to make sure it's in good working order.
The umbilical will supply power to the telescope
when it's latched in the cargo bay
during the time that it's being serviced by the crew.
This live television from Endeavour is from a camera
that's mounted at the tip of the mechanical arm.
-We're out of blockage now.
We're getting the arm and effector camera at this time,
and we see you in step three of the SSE checkout procedure,
everything looking good.
-That's good, then we're pressing on.
-In this view now from the television camera
at the end of the arm is the flight support system,
the system which the Hubble Space Telescope
will be mounted on and latched in place
during the servicing operations.
As Endeavour rendezvous with the telescope on Saturday,
mission specialist Claude Nicollier,
who is currently operating the arm,
will use the arm to capture the telescope
and then berth it into position on top of this structure
at the aft of the cargo bay.
This television from Endeavour shows the umbilical that would
be connected to the Space Telescope once it's berthed.
-We have a really good picture of that umbilical down here.
-Great.
-Currently, the crew is moving through a test
of the umbilical mechanisms to make sure that it extends
and retracts properly and ensure that it's ready
for the berthing of the telescope on Saturday.
All with the checkout has been going very well so far.
Now the umbilical is retracting.
-Endeavour, we're on the west, and we got the video.
-Houston, you've got a shot of the...
It's not as colorful, but as you see,
we have good visibility of it, should have no trouble using it.
-Okay, Jeff, most of what you said was dropped out
because of ratty comm.
Could you repeat?
-I hope you got the brief picture
we sent you of the protractor.
It's not as colorful as what you're getting now,
but I just wanted you to see that we have good visibility
and should have no trouble
using the protractor view when we need it.
-And we did get a good view of that.
Thanks a lot.
-This television from Endeavour
is from a camera mounted on the mechanical arm
as it moves over the forward portion of the cargo bay area
where the replacement solar arrays...
In this view is an end of a replacement solar array
for the Hubble Space Telescope
and their carrier where they're stored for launch.
Also, the carrier where the old arrays will be stored
once they're removed from the telescope.
Now in view is the edge of the array
as it's rolled up in the carrier.
Claude Nicollier is operating the arm,
moving it through a survey of all of the equipment in the bay,
nearing the end of that survey as he looks
at both sides of the solar array carrier
and each replacement solar array.
This live television view is from a camera that's mounted
in the front right-hand corner of Endeavour's cargo bay
looking back over the support equipment
mounted throughout the bay.
In the foreground
is the right-hand side of the solar array carrier
and one of the replacement solar arrays
for the Hubble Space Telescope.
In the background, about midway down the bay,
are the two
scientific-instrument protective enclosures.
The one enclosure, which is...
mounted across the bay,
and then, on the right-hand side,
orbital replacement unit enclosure.
Inside those enclosures
are the replacement equipment for the telescope.
As Nicollier wraps up the survey of the cargo bay of Endeavour
to ensure that all that equipment is in good shape,
he'll finish with a look at the top of the two
scientific-instrument protective enclosures,
one of which goes crossways across the bay
and the other one which is mounted longways across the bay.
They're present in this view, one of the enclosures.
It's from a camera that's mounted at the elbow joint
of the mechanical arm midway up the arm.
This view is of the lid of the Axial SIPE, as it's called,
or the Axial Scientific Instrument Protective Enclosure,
the enclosure that's mounted longways
in the cargo bay of Endeavour.
The Radial SIPE, the SIPE,
the scientific protective instrument enclosure...
...it runs crossways across the bay,
holds the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 instrument, or WFPC2.
The Axial Scientific Instrument Protective Enclosure,
the enclosure that runs lengthwise
about the middle of the cargo bay,
holds the Corrective Optics Space Telescope
axial replacement, or COSTAR, instrument.
The smaller enclosures
on the right-hand side of the cargo bay...
...hold the new coprocessor that will be added to the telescope
to increase its computer memory...
...in the larger enclosure.
And in the small enclosure are the new Rate Sensor Units,
the new gyroscopes that will be added to the telescope,
the electronics control units that will be added
and the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph redundancy kit.
Again, the survey of the cargo bay found no problems
reported with any of the equipment.
It all appears to be in excellent shape.
-Endeavour, Houston for KT.
You may be a maggot, but from our vantage point
right now, to me, you look like a true hairball.
-Is that a promotion or a demotion?
-That's a promotion.
-Well, thanks.
-Endeavour, Houston.
Sequence 11 is complete.
HST is in the rendezvous latitude.
-Great.
-This is mission control Houston.
Onboard, the crew is in their lunch break,
the mid-point of their day.
Controllers from
the Space Telescope Operations Control Center
at the Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland, have reported that --
-I guess that means HST has finished its last
preservicing mission operations, probably a good time
to bid farewell to the High Speed Photometer,
all the good work that it's done and great pictures
that WFPC1 has taken, even with the aberration.
It's a real tribute to the ingenuity
of a whole lot of astronomers who have worked really hard,
and we hope we can make it even better.
-We copy that, Jeff.
Thanks for the great words, and I think you're correct.
I think the HST has done its job,
and we're ready to have you guys
improve it even more than it is right now.
-And controllers for the telescope
at the Space Telescope Operations Control Center
at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,
have maneuvered the telescope into the proper orientation,
the orientation that it will stay in
until Endeavour catches up with it
and it's captured a little over 24 hours from now
on early Saturday morning around 3:31 a.m. Central Time,
or at 3:10 a.m. Central Time, rather.
This television from Endeavour
is looking up into the spacecraft's air lock
as mission specialist Tom Akers
works with the suits mounted in the air lock,
preparing for a checkout of the suits
that will take up about a little more
than 3 hours of the majority of the crew's
last half of their first full day in orbit.
This view, Commander Dick Covey is working at Endeavor's galley,
where the food is prepared each day onboard.
-This is Story for EVA.
-Go ahead, Story.
-Just let us know when you'd like us to start EMU checkout.
-Story, we'll be happy to work MU checkout with you
as soon as your hunger is sated.
-Well, looking at him, it looks like it's going to be a while.
How about about 10 minutes?
-Sounds good to us.
-We're now receiving television from Endeavor
for the last few seconds of its pass within the TDRS network
as it moves out over the southern Indian Ocean.
Checkouts of the suit so far have gone very smoothly
with no problems reported by the crew
or seen on the ground.