-It was, you know... because it is taking a while.
[ Chatter ]
-[ Laughs ]
[ Chatter ]
-These are all connected capsules.
[ Chatter ]
-Yeah. Close it.
-That one you... [ Chatter ]
-Here you go.
[ Chatter ]
-Ah! What's that?
-The rib clamp. -No, no, no.
[ Chatter ]
[ Thumps ]
-The following...
[ Chatter ]
-Yeah.
[ Chatter ]
-The capsule is not...
[ Chatter ]
-Yeah. -Yeah.
Close that then. -Yeah.
Let's talk about the overrides here, too.
[ Chatter ]
-[ Laughs ]
[ Chatter ]
-That's right of the...
That's on the first right side of the...
[ Chatter ] -Right. Explain.
-Okay. Next storage is the right to the...
-Right? -Those will not be all on.
-May I?
[ Chatter ]
-Where's the map?
I'm going to jump in to figure it out.
-Paul has it. -Is it good enough?
-It's a designer capped on, essentially, so...
[ Chatter ] -Yeah.
-Okay. [ Chatter ]
-Rib clamp, rib clamps.
-Designer caps on them, what more could we need?
-You guys put a -- make a rib-clamp map?
-And attach it to a designer capped on record?
-There you go!
-So how many hours would you spend on something like that?
-This is one of the... -Oh.
-...smaller ones... -Jackie has the star map.
-... 16 to 20 hours or so.
-Wow. -Oh.
-The large ones... [ Chatter ]
-Because... [ Chatter ]
-Oh. It's the right one.
[ Chatter ] -That's real. That's real.
That's what's going to be launched.
-That's there. That's right. -Yeah.
This is right. -Okay.
We're going to do a nice test. This is the key.
-And as IV, I'm going to remind you...
[ Chatter ]
-Oh.
[ Chatter ]
[ Laughter ] -Oh.
-Bruce?
We're holding it. -Yes, sir.
-It's in my infinite wisdom... [ Chatter ]
d-I mean, I was just getting the ones I could reach.
-You're ready? You're ready?
[ Chatter ]
-These are actually our flight-clipped board box,
this time.
[ Chatter ]
-Mr. Artiste.
[ Chatter ]
-Yes!
[ Chatter ]
-[ Laughs ] -Oh!
[ Chatter ]
-I saw anything on these maps or anything we think we need.
-I think...
-Ogletree is fine. Okay?
[ Chatter ] -Okay.
I'm just going to clean that first one
because I think this is newer than all the others.
-Okay. [ Chatter ]
-One thing, leave the alignment markings.
-They're not reflecting light. [ Chatter ]
-Once we receive the special material, these alignment marks,
we want it to make sure...
[ Chatter ]
[ Whirring, beeping ]
-We haven't heard anything about it.
-Right? -On Cooper's calendar,
it says that they're supposed to be
putting patches in today on all the strings.
-Yeah. -Huh. What's he talking about?
-Fourteen, 55 and 15 down.
-And what does it say?
-I can -- And there are...
[ Chatter ]
-That's okay.
[ Chatter ]
-$79,000.
Yes.
-No, no.
HST is getting better like a fine wine.
HST was designed to be serviced and upgraded with time.
Its overall mission period will be 20 years.
Present, we were planning that the mission will end in 2010.
Each time we fly the Hubble, we leave it a far better
and more capable observatory than it was before,
and in fact, during our final servicing mission
currently planned for 2003,
we will install a final set of two instruments on Hubble,
and at that point, it will be at the very peak of its power.
It will be better than it ever has been,
so, no, it's not getting old.
It's getting better.
One of the things we found out in 1997 about Hubble
was that the very thinnest exterior layer of its skin
was showing the effects of aging from being in space
for this long a period of time,
and it was showing some blemishes and cracks,
and this has had no effect
on the performance of the telescope to date,
but just to make sure that the thermal system of the telescope
continues to work properly,
that it stays at a uniform temperature,
doesn't get too hot and too cold,
we thought it was a prudent thing to do to go up
and put some covers over these cracked areas
so that they wouldn't get worse with time,
so basically, we have big rolls
of what will look like shiny wallpaper
that you'll see the astronauts installing on the telescope,
and other kinds of sheets will be placed in appropriate places
with something that's analogous to a bottle stopper,
for example, to fasten them on the telescope.
Hubble science is very valuable and very important,
and, yes, this extra mission is costing a big extra for NASA,
but it's well worth the investment
to keep Hubble science running.
-Well, many of you have seen the really beautiful pictures
that Hubble has sent back of stars and galaxies
and deep pictures into deep space with long exposures,
and the only way that Hubble can do this
is if the gyros are working and holding the telescope steady
so the motion doesn't cause shaking of the image,
and so those gyros are there to hold HST,
to hold Hubble steady.
We didn't change the gyros in Servicing Mission 2
because they were all operational,
and we had no better or improved gyros on the ground
to be able to replace it,
so we felt that given their nominal 4-to-6-year life
that these gyros would last
until the next servicing mission,
which was scheduled for about now,
and in fact, those gyros have lasted,
and the evidence is, Hubble is still doing science.
Now, we did know that the wires that carry the current
into the gyro motors were being corroded and weakened,
and yet we couldn't predict
when those wires might fall, so --
fail, so we had no reason to change out gyros then.
The wires have failed, and we'll now be changing
all of the gyros in the upcoming mission,
and that should restore the redundancy for all of the gyros
and will readily take us into the last servicing mission
where we'll replace all six of the gyros again.
The servicing missions are not routine.
Each time we do these things, we do them, many of the things,
the first time, and we practice, but this is very complex.
Working in space is difficult.
It takes a very large team,
and we never know when we're liable to run into a problem.
We train just rigorously to be able to solve problems.
We have pages and books of books of contingencies.
We work really closely with the astronauts
to work on contingencies.
Some of the things we've done before,
the Fine Guidance Sensors we've changed before,
and so we're confident we can do that
but then just like at home,
you never know when you bend a pin,
or the plug doesn't quite fit,
and you need to stop and squeeze the plug, so you need to...
It's not easy, and so you have to work hard
and keep your fingers crossed
that you'll be able to solve the problems as they come up.
The highlight of Hubble has been the Hubble Deep Field.
This is where using the gyros and using
the Fine Guidance Sensors that we change out and improve,
we locked onto a place in the sky
where there was nothing, no stars.
Nothing could be seen there, and stared at it for 10 days
just to see what was there, and it was amazing what we saw.
We saw -- We were able, by staring
and looking for a long time, we actually looked back in time,
and we have a census of galaxies that are relatively new,
some that are maybe only 6 billion years old
and some that are near their...
That are in the early years of the universe,
and the character of those galaxies are very different
whether they're new or old,
and it's a major change in the way
astronomers think about the universe and its creation.
[ Chatter ]
[ Machinery whirring ]
-The hardest part is getting it aligned.
-Huh?
[ Chatter ] -It's this one?
-[Indistinct] on that.
[Indistinct]
Now, when it's lined up...
[ Chatter ]
-Keep it down.
[ Chatter ]
-That's it?
-We're going to have you extend it all the way.
[ Chatter ]
-This it?
[ Chatter ]
[ All cheer ] -Yay!
-Right there! -Oh!
-We did it! -Hey!
-Wait, wait, wait, wait. -No, no, no.
-Go... -Yeah, yeah, let's get...
-Yeah, yeah. -Bring it up.
-Yeah. -Bring it up.
-Bring it -- Bring it up more. Come on, a little more.
-Come on. Come on. -Ooh.
-Hey. -Not bad. That's not bad.
[ Chatter ] -Well, can you...
Can we get a sense for which is the brightest pixel?
-Yeah, just run the cursor around on there.
-Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the... Oh, there, there, there.
-Oh, it's, like, new pixels. -Ah.
-Whoa! Not bad at all. -Vicki.
Yeah, Vicki and...
[ Chatter ]
-The previous one had the... -The previous one...
-Oh, and we were 560 in the second.
-Well, that looks a lot like... -[Indistinct]
-10. -T-minus 10.
Go for main engine start. We are go for main engine start.
T-minus six, five, four, three, two, one,
and liftoff of the Space Shuttle Discovery
with the Hubble Space Telescope, our window on the universe.
-Mission Control Houston. -[Indistinct].
-Roger roll, Discovery.
-The roll maneuver puts the vehicle
in the proper launch plane.