good morning discovery if you look out
the window a little more than 500 miles
off to the northeast you'll see the
Houston Rodeo good morning wish we could
be there listen a constable Bill Bailey
and Reba
it's in discovering red doctors TV right
now
yes sir if you want to select the camera
and we're watching it right now
it's a it's showing out right in the
middle
sure is great to have an astronomer
reporters it's a lot more impressive
bark but it's kind of neat on TV anyway
certainly is and we were saying it's
great to have an astronomer on board I
think we should always have astronomers
on board Jeff Hoffman is not here to
agree with you
okay message for Jerry Linenger on the
MIR Space Station from your three
classmates three fellow hogs in
Discovery orbiting that 335 nautical
miles 334 I guess today we say hi to you
Jerry and we've been thinking about you
frequently during our mission here we
wish that we were in an orbit that we
could pass a little closer to each other
and maybe talk a little bit but we're
very proud of all the work that you're
doing there and we're looking after your
family real we're close I guess they're
in Russia right now but or keep track of
them and we're hoping that you're doing
well and all of your experiments are
going well but you're just having a
great time look forward to seeing you
when you get back here Scott hey Jer
it's doc I hope you're having a real
good time over there on that MIR space
station obviously you're doing all that
great stuff to get us ready for a next
generation of spacecraft we're getting
ready to build we had up last year on
the Hubble telescope missions I got to
fix a lot of stuff so as a happy camper
you got anything broken on me or give me
a holler I'll come and fix it I don't
charge much for house calls here Steve
AJ stepped on Jonah and after you go out
the door here a couple times on this
side we know you're going to be doing
that in the next month or two so I just
want to say it's a great time it's a
good experience that we look forward to
sharing your thoughts on that your
family fine we've seen them quite a bit
actually before they headed back to
Russia and that's been really fun taking
that we're all up here together you take
care and we'll talk to you soon
and again the light says Florida that's
Miami in the upper right hand corner you
can see the Cape middle the screen right
now and Orlando's the large city in the
lower part of the screen going out of
you copy
and the lower left-hand corner this
picture is Long Island in New York you
see quite clearly Sox can see the
darkness the Central Park with some in
our cars
now that's good vision
hey Kevin the intra vestiges are coming
in the tips go ahead
okay well waiting for the tips to spit
out the messages the weather for the
Cape tomorrow is looking fairly good
some scattered clouds at low and high
altitudes our only concern right now is
possible showers inside the box but we
think we have a good chance of getting
into Kennedy Edwards is also looking
good when obviously tomorrow's against
daylight will evaluate the weather and
see exactly what our options are but
right now we think we have a good chance
of bringing it down to the prime place
tomorrow I pray and just free info the
winds at this time the air at KSC are
pretty light at high altitude 30 to 40
knots and of course out of the West
they're out of the Northwest at Edwards
running around 75 knots
this is Michelle Corden with the
Associated Press this is for Joe tanner
it seems like this is kind of like
training for a marathon you trained for
months and months and then it's over can
you describe what you're feeling now are
you relieved are you kind of let down
that it's over we're having a great time
sterling yes a little relieved Steve
Smith 100 years from now people will
look back on Hubble as having
revolutionized the way we see ourselves
in the universe how do you feel about
having a part in that this is Mark Carew
from the Houston Chronicle and I'll
asked us to Greg Harbaugh and if it's
not in the right direction please sort
it out but my question has to do really
with the disc the process by what you
sort of discovered the damage to the
outer layer of the Space Telescope
during the spacewalks wasn't clear to me
whether you could see it from the crew
cabin or it was something that sort of
surprised you as you got right up on the
telescope and I wonder if you might
elaborate a little bit on on what you
saw was their sort of extensive minor
damage with with acute damage that you
could repair or was there really more
damage than you could get to that look
bad you just could fix what you could
with the amount of materials you had
available to you for the patches
there was quite a bit of damage mark and
my personal experience was I didn't
realize how expensive it was until I got
up close and looked at it
my impression my assessment is that it's
fairly superficial it's the outer layer
or two of the multi-layer insulation
that's just been cycled so many times in
going through the thermal transitions
for the millions of miles that this
telescope is traveled that it's finally
fatigued in some places and so it cracks
and so you have these spider type cracks
in places any web that cracks and other
places would be long straight that sort
of thing I think I think we could do
everything in really good shape thank
you I have a question also for Mark Lee
I wonder if you might be able to
elaborate some on some comments you made
about this set of spacewalks and what
you see will be required for space
station assembly were you heartened by
what you could do to react and be
flexible and the way you prepared for
this do you see that sort of thing
applying to the many assembly flights
that astronauts will be required to
undertake for the space station assembly
I would have to do for a planned
spacewalk like this cover every
possibility so you have to think about
everything that can go wrong and that's
the key thing to carry forward to
station so we're gonna talk a lot about
planning when we get back the other
thing is we had a lot of Space Station
tools up here our pistol grip tool our
power tool a lot of the handrails that
we have other components our space
station era tools so they were great and
I'm
very confident build space station and
in fact you know for the spacewalkers
here today will probably take part in
that so they've got leaved out the
experience to carry forward to station
this is Michelle coy dan again for Greg
Harbaugh what went through your mind
when it looked like there might be a
sixth space walk can you elaborate I
think that kind of speaks for itself we
had such a great time on the first to
the third would have been anything on
the icing on the cake but the fact that
we didn't do it was just fine with Joe
and I think what we had the two that we
did do was two experiences of a lifetime
I feel very very privileged to have been
able to do what we already and for Steve
Holly will be tough for you to hold out
until May when the first images are
supposed to be released we've been
talking about how long it'll be before
the instruments are fully checked out
and we'll know exactly what capability
Hubble has and we're really hopeful to
the capability but things have got very
well up to now and my expectation is
that this is Mark Cairo again for Ken
Bowersox could you talk a little bit
about the intensity of the work a lot of
the attention on the mission was focused
on the spacewalk team but I wonder just
sort of what the chemistry was like if
you felt like you were pumped up all
seven of you working hard trying to help
each other if you're pretty tired at
this point or whether you're sort of
relaxed and ready to land or just kind
of what the state of the state is up
there
well I think the overall state of the
crew right now is relaxed prepared to
land we're ready to come home we're
happy with what we've done from what I
could see every minute we were was work
we were working as a seven-man team up
here we were in two groups we had four
people who concentrated on TVA and we
had three people who concentrated on the
orbiter and we did that to make training
more efficient and just to be a little
more efficient in how we divided tasks
up but when one group was working on
their particular part of the mission the
other group was blowing strong for them
and it's a great bunch of guys to be
associated with I think and one question
for a Sox could you tell us a little bit
but I understand at Kennedy Space Center
they're gonna be new runway lights in
and you were involved in some of that
testing how is that going to help you
with this night landing at KSC just a
little bit tougher to judge our line up
with the runway especially if you just
have side lights there at the runway
it's tough to see the aspect changing as
you drift left and right of the center
line so at Kennedy Space Center we've
added a strip of lights down the center
to help us with that line up tasks when
we're in the air and also once the nose
wheels on the ground so we have a line
to steer for so we can be right on the
centerline stripe when we take the
picture at the end and you guys are the
new shadow altitude holders the highest
altitude since the Apollo program how
different does the view look like from
that high up versus your previous or
lower orbit missions well I couldn't
tell you my last mission was a
relatively low about 160 miles and the
view from up here is absolutely
fantastic a little while ago we're all
amazed watching out the window you can
see almost the entire United States in
in one window as you look out the
shuttle especially at night you can see
the lights from all way down to Key West
all the way up north of New York and
it's an absolutely fantastic sight it's
just an incredibly a beautiful planet
below us and fro out here we get a much
better view point
since this is probably one of the most
important astronomy missions and you've
really not made any any kind of
astronomy observations driving in today
we could really see a great view of Hale
Bopp house Hale Bopp looking for you
guys hey Bob looks great matter of fact
we downlink some video this morning of
it from our perspective the TV cameras
don't really do it justice in the
binoculars that we carry onboard it's
it's a very spectacular appears to have
two tails 1 tails longer than the other
really a tremendous sight and this is a
good place to observe it high above the
atmosphere and and the other part we
have is trying to get the ship dark
enough so that you can get really well
dark adapted but it's a spectacular
sight also in the morning sky you can
see three planets rising just before the
Sun and again that's a very spectacular
view as a as a gauging on how little
things that can be overlooked and have
such grave consequences during the first
DBA when you depressed and you saw the
solar panel slew all the way to the hard
stop like that can you give me your
thoughts on what you what was going
through your mind when you saw this you
know something relatively minor having
such a consequence three of us were
actually in the Windows when that
happened but my attention was diverted
to the airlock depress and at that
instant we didn't connect the two
although our depress rate was very rapid
and I urgently requested the EBA guys to
stop the depress and then later we
determined that those two events were
connected but our first thought was hey
this cannot happen these solar arrays
cannot move that fast we know about the
motors that drive the solar arrays and
they will not drive the solar arrays
that mass so the first impression was
one of disbelief and when they finally
settled out which
only took a few seconds as you know we
had to accept the fact that they were
they didn't move that fast and we
pressed on from there but we were
actually I thought the cockpit was
fairly calm in that moment of crisis and
thank God the arrays held in there
pretty good
you just got
good morning discovery time for the
first two princess code little work
outside all right we're ready to go fix
that thing hey I got a compliment you on
that beautiful flexible or I didn't want
to say that the wake up you so far has
been really beautiful Chris
and Houston discovery we want to
reinforce what we said earlier that the
football appearance is from what we can
see the the arrays are normal just move
it off understand and that's what the
best thing we can get out of these
visuals is to reassure everybody that
everything is nominal
discovery Houston good video couple more
questions people are asking when you saw
the motion and I realize it was all over
pretty quick but in addition to the
motion of the slipping of the of the
joints themselves did you notice any by
stem flexing and what was the settling
time after the event occurred okay we've
just pulled our Dalek here but we
obviously didn't see the initiation so
he can't speak of bystander flexion at
that point but once it was moving and
then when in reverse directions we
wouldn't say that there was a tremendous
amount of by stem deflection the total
settling time when it finally stopped
where in its current location
was probably no more than five seconds I
guess we would say that the total
movement time from initiation to final
assembly probably 15 seconds thank you
okay Houston discovery with more words
on the solar a movement and a question
we're listening we all agree here that
the movement and even the damping
oscillations were more a movement of the
canister rather than the solar array
tips indicating a rotation of the solar
array itself rather than by steam
deflection and it also seen as the
dampening coincided with the closing of
the depressed valve which would confirm
your your earlier hypothesis of that
being the cause beautiful picture now
that the Sun is rose and soul erasure
looks pretty
just for your info Jessa Goddard is
getting ready to power up the Sadie so
we should get things moving
it looks like it's powered on now you
might think ahead if we proceed with
this plan to use the hatch equalization
valve we would be using the aft hatch
valve first and you'll be able to
throttle that you'll want to be keeping
an eye on the thermal cover make sure
that it does not pop open if it does
then close the valve and we might then
consider using the upper hatch valve
also of course you'll be watching the
solar arrays closely during the depress
and if you see any motion then you can
let the EBA crew know to close the valve
discovery we for your future reference
we have a timer set up
okay we copy and just so you can get
ready we are getting ready now we now
have a go for deep press and you will be
monitoring the solar array and if
there's if you see any motion stop the D
press and the ground will be monitoring
the say D angles
so for coming in if you can got me back
to zero that's can you take the offer is
it up fuck the toil the doors just rung
open go get that door if you want just
leave it out there about that
the clockwise direction which the behind
pushing this to do surrounds that you're
trying to keep it there Conover
Houston discovery you have a go for the
stiffs alive insist okay we copy a
really good work also looking ahead the
HST project copied marks description of
the seals and we understand what he said
but they would very much like to get
pictures ASAP in fact before the G hrs
installation so if you could try to put
that into your timeline we'd appreciate
it yes we do and we would appreciate
that thank you okay
you're good two feet above the outside
keep it pitch level what you can
a little bit more down
that's level right there
discovery Houston this aliveness test is
complete and was successful and toxic a
lot of scientists around the world are
happy about that you can see the
placement now if Nick Moss and net angle
iron that right angle guide rail at the
bottom right Steve Smith is looking down
the upper left hand corner and a line in
that rail Steve Smith and now making the
final installation of the Nick Moss into
the into the F shroud of the Hubble
Space Telescope with assistance from
Mark Lee operating the shuttles robot
arm is Greg Harbaugh who will be one of
the spacewalkers on the second and
fourth epa's
I just feel like a go I'm still that can
you take me up without me hit my
backpack about six inches you bet okay
yeah you got over a foot almost what
they have Clarence team until you stand
up straight so I won't do that okay
that's good not taking anything out
should take me about six inches six hey
stop stop and down and the same Saudis
for this fault yes sir that's good
okay we haven't tried to motor it a for
torque 38 would you like us to do that
first that's just a couple extra bones
it's good idea
okay discovery why don't you try one
more time with the nominal setting and
if that doesn't work then use the manual
38 like you did on the bottom bolt to
start it okay get my attitude right
discovery Houston if cameras Alfa and
Charlie are not in use at this time we'd
like to take them off and cool them down
I cup y'all five lashes are closed and
mark while you're back here go ahead and
rotate that PFR back up I guess I go to
the ends of position a formative like
their gods bitch Chad's efforts forget
those two boxes ready great job before
pretty role trades right chef Foreman
his troops a good time both those two
items produced great science ok Steve
thanks for the great words we'll pass
those to rich and run as we get kind of
busy
brother Lemmons birthday yesterday and
I'm sure we set them off and today so
that's your birthday present for us and
we'll tell them that we'll promise to
sing to him later
you