♪♪
-♪ Floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'm getting ready ♪
♪ For astronaut school ♪
♪ Floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'll be an astronaut ♪
♪ Because I'm so cool ♪
♪ My mama says their diet's no good ♪
♪ She wants to go to space with me ♪
♪ She thinks she can eat all she wants ♪
♪ And float around weightlessly ♪
♪ Oh, I'm floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'm getting ready ♪
♪ For astronaut school ♪
♪ Floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'll be an astronaut ♪
♪ Because I'm so cool ♪
♪ My daddy hates to exercise ♪
♪ Push-ups just make him wheeze ♪
♪ But if he came out in space with me ♪
♪ He'd look like Hercules ♪
♪ Oh, I'm floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'm getting ready ♪
♪ For astronaut school ♪
♪ Floating in the bathtub ♪
♪ Swimming in the pool ♪
♪ I'll be an astronaut ♪
♪ Because I'm so cool ♪
♪ I'm so cool ♪
-Columbia, Houston, good morning.
Jim, that one was for you.
That was Tonja Evetts Weimer
singing "Floating in the Bathtub."
I don't think we can add much to that.
I think it pretty much says it all.
Good morning.
-Well, good morning, Dan, and thanks to Marlene and the kids.
Mike and I are getting up,
and we're going to be ready to go here pretty quick.
Thanks.
-And I'd like to say that as the Orbit 3 team
hands over to Orbit 1,
we would just like to pass on these words.
Remember, go slow like Joe LoPiccolo.
And for Jim and Mike, have a great EVA.
We'll talk to you guys tomorrow.
-Thanks, Dan.
-And you can see that the telescope
has begun its rotation to present the port solar array
to the front of Columbia's cargo bay,
setting the stage for its replacement
in the early morning hours of Tuesday,
just a few hours from now,
by Jim Newman and Mike Massimino.
Again, they have begun to climb into their suits.
Their suits have been checked out,
Newman designated as EV 3, Massimino as EV 4.
Again, Newman will be wearing the suit
bearing the broken horizontal red stripes,
Massimino bearing the suit with the barber pole red stripes.
-And, Digger, we're on the mid-deck with Jim and company.
-Welcome aboard.
-Downlink television from the mid-deck of Columbia
showing Jim Newman, a veteran spacewalker,
again about to embark on his fifth spacewalk in his career.
John Grunsfeld is ducking into the air lock of Columbia.
Grunsfeld will tonight serve
as the primary intravehicular crew member,
or IV crew member.
He will be basically the spacewalk choreographer
at the aft flight deck of Columbia,
making sure that Newman and Mike Massimino
are on the timeline,
that all of their tasks are moving ahead
according to the checklists provided onboard.
And you're looking at Rick Linnehan,
who will be helping Grunsfeld
as you see him helping Mike Massimino into his spacesuit.
Again, Grunsfeld and Linnehan conducted
a very successful 7-hour, 1-minute spacewalk on Monday
to replace the starboard solar array
on the Hubble Space Telescope with a brand-new rigid array.
Again, the same procedures will be duplicated
this morning by Mike Massimino,
who you see in your picture giving the thumbs-up,
as well as Jim Newman, who will be working in tandem.
Again, Newman will be tethered
as the so-called free-floating astronaut
while Massimino rides at the end of the shuttle's robot arm,
which will be operated by Nancy Currie.
You see the barber pole or candy stripe
broken diagonal red stripes on Massimino's suit.
Newman will be wearing the suit
bearing the horizontal broken red stripes.
Pilot Duane Carey up on the flight deck of Columbia
as he runs through checklists in preparation
for all of the orbiter's systems
in advance of the start of tonight's spacewalk.
-Digger floating high on top of the world there.
-Houston, Columbia for EVA, we're soon to start step 66.
-Copy, John, 66.
Appreciate the update.
-And the outer thermal cover now open.
The outer hatch of the air lock now swinging open
as Jim Newman will be emerging shortly after final suit checks.
-Go on the D ring.
-Newman and Massimino now configuring their suit tethers
to the proper configuration, both in the air lock so that
they can tether themselves properly once they emerge.
-...attached to your tether.
-First order of business once they're both out
in the payload bay, and you now can see Jim Newman
beginning to emerge, his head sticking out.
He'll emerge basically with his back to the air lock,
a thermal cover, looking right down at the Earth.
-Okay, John. -Okay, we're at daily setup.
Airlock egress, thermal covers open.
Jim, egress the air lock.
-After you, Mike.
-Say again? -After you.
-You have anything hanging me up there, Mike?
-Sorry, looks nice and clear. -We do.
-Good to be back.
Beautiful day for a spacewalk.
-Okay, John.
-Can you run up to the covered sill?
-Okay. On my way.
-Jim Newman out in the open cargo bay of Columbia,
beginning the fifth spacewalk of his career.
-Turn the handle. -Ready.
-Okay. Wait until it goes off,
and I'm going to fully move the handle upside.
-Ready. -I have it.
-I see you at my level.
I'm going to let go, and I'm going to go be waist tethered.
I'm going to --
-This is mission control, Houston,
as Jim Newman sets up tethers by the air lock hatch to Columbia,
awaiting the emergence of Mike Massimino.
-The waist tether
is disconnected from the air lock here.
-Engineers at the Space Telescope
Operations Control Center
at the Goddard Space Flight Center
report that work is now underway
to turn off all of the solar array drive electronics
and the deployment control electronics
associated with the port's solar array.
-...give Mike room enough to come out?
-Mike Massimino now emerging from the air lock
to begin the first EVA of his career.
-Mike. -Okay, I'm coming out.
This is incredible.
-Mike, welcome to the wonderful world of spacewalking.
-Thank you, John.
What's probably my first task? -Okay.
First thing is for you to egress the MFR,
and you'll receive the MFR handle from Jim.
-Copy. -When you have a chance,
you can just pull on that waist tether,
might reel in a bit more.
Wait until you get up on the arm.
It's fine now. Go ahead and get up on the arm.
Nice slow motions.
Mike, you're doing good.
-Thanks.
-Can you bring him through the --
-You see Mike Massimino at the end of the shuttle's robot arm
as he is holding the old port solar array wing,
which was removed from the Hubble Space Telescope
just a few minutes ago.
Columbia is currently traveling at an altitude
of 360 statute miles,
approaching the west coast of Central America.
-Here, hold that. -Is he ready?
-Ready. -How is that, Mike?
-Great, Nancy. Thank you.
-Driving. One, two --
-Push down a little bit.
-Say again? -Press down a little bit.
-Three.
Pick this up a little bit.
Four.
Five.
-Jim Newman driving a pistol-grip tool
to soft dock the port solar array
to its mounting bracket
on the port side of the rigid array carrier
at the front of Columbia's cargo bay.
-Copy, and the thermal cover is coming open now.
-Massimino is in the process of removing the thermal cover
which houses the new diode box assembly
in the rigid array carrier.
-It's the top right one.
-That's Jim Newman making his way
up the Hubble Space Telescope.
Right above Newman is the mounting point
for the port array on the Hubble Space telescope.
Those arrays are located, essentially,
just above the aft shroud of the 43 1/2-foot-long observatory.
-Copy. -And the gate is checked.
-Thank you, Mike.
-One, two, three, four.
-Jim Newman continuing to use his pistol-grip tool,
a high-tech screwdriver basically,
weighs about 32 pounds here on the Earth,
to disconnect bolts holding the old diode box assembly
along the port side of the Hubble Space Telescope
near the receptacle that you see
in the upper left-hand portion of your screen,
in which the new port solar array,
the new rigid array,
will be installed a short time from now.
-Houston will be pleased to know,
for those that come after, that the wave guide behind me,
this diode box is actually labeled fragile.
Okay.
I guess we're verified. -Hey, Jim,
if you put it a little lower, I've got a hook ready.
-Think you can do it off to your left a little more?
-Yeah, but check that gate.
Gate is good.
-You have it? -I have it.
-Off to the right a little more with the open.
-Newman and Massimino swapping out diode box assemblies.
This is the component that helps to relay power
from the Hubble Space Telescope's solar arrays
to the six nickel-hydrogen batteries in the observatory.
This new diode box assembly you see
Newman holding and tethering right now
is upgraded to accommodate the additional power
to be generated from the new rigid solar arrays
being installed on Hubble.
-Going to remove my tether. -And, Nancy,
I'm ready for motion down to the filter dish.
-Okay. -Mike Massimino,
now holding the old diode box assembly,
will be transported back down to the rigid array carrier
by robot arm operator Nancy Currie
so that it can be stowed for the trip back home.
-Copy, connected input.
-As Mike Massimino is holding the new rigid solar array
for the port side of the Hubble Space Telescope,
Jim Newman is at the work site
near the installation port for that solar array.
On the ground, this solar array weighs about 640 pounds.
Each wing does.
Once unfurled and locked in place in its open position
like the pages of a book,
the array is 25 feet long, about 8 feet wide.
Each solar array will generate 5.270 watts of power.
which is about 600 or so watts more than the old arrays,
both of which have now been removed
from the Hubble Space Telescope.
-Still looking great, Mike. -Good.
-This is the helmet camera for Mike Massimino
as he very, very slowly rotates the array
to align the mast with the insertion point,
the installation point along the body
of the Hubble Space Telescope where Jim Newman is waiting.
-Hard to tell from here, Mike,
but it looks like it might be pinching down just a little.
Jim, what do you see?
-I think he's okay for now. -Good, thanks.
-Given his body orientation, he's pitched forward
in the orbital bit, so he's doing great.
-Okay. Thanks.
-Hey, looking good, Mike.
You're doing just the right thing.
Go ahead and pitch up now, Mike.
I'm pretty sure Nancy is going to bring you more.
I'll let them judge it. -Nancy is coming over.
We have a little bit of yard to go still.
-Slowly, we're at six.
This is the five, four, slowly now, two, one.
Hey, there was contact in the soft spot,
and I do need you to yaw because we're getting the --
-What direction? -No, no, no.
Let's try that.
You still both need to come to starboard a little bit,
but go ahead and wiggle and push forward into the telescope.
You can come on the right now, lighten up the ramp.
-Newman now using a pistol-grip tool,
beginning to engage the solar array drive assembly clamp
to permanently lock that array in place.
-One. Okay.
I'm going to release them all.
-A short time from now, Mike Massimino,
at the end of the robot arm,
will be maneuvered back down into the payload bay
to the rigid array carrier
to begin work to permanently clamp
the old solar array from the port side of Hubble
onto its cargo carrier for the trip back home.
-All right. I'm going to start it.
-Mike Massimino now at the rigid array carrier
at the end of the shuttle's robot arm,
ready to begin work to bolt down all of the latches
that will permanently hold the old port solar array
from the Hubble Space Telescope
in that carrier for the trip back home.
Meanwhile, a good view from Jim Newman's helmet camera
of the base of the mast of the newly installed
rigid array on the port side of Hubble
as he begins to hook up electrical connections.
-Houston, Columbia. Do you like the port-on view?
-Affirmative.
-Here is the problem.
-Now this view from Jim Newman's helmet camera
showing the electrical connections between
the newly installed rigid solar array
and its diode box assembly,
looking straight down at the payload bay of Columbia.
-Hey, John, I can see those systems you were talking about.
-Okay.
-Jim Newman is at the body of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Mike Massimino on the far right of your screen
at the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
He is being transported down the length
of the rigid array carrier
to continue on with the latching of four latches
that will permanently secure the old solar array from Hubble
onto the port bracket in the rigid array carrier.
-Maybe two turns until the M-tail flips.
-Okay.
That was a little less than one turn on the left one,
and I got the flip.
-Columbia, Houston, you have a go for panel deploy.
-Copy, Houston, we have a go for panel deploy.
-Houston, Columbia.
-Go ahead.
-We saw a complete with shut down 32 and the installation
of two new powerful solar arrays to bring Hubble into the future.
-Roger that, John.
We concur, and we're looking forward to having Hubble
look further toward the 3-degree Kelvin barrier.
Thanks a lot.
-Seven on the top bolt, John.
Okay. It's coming out now.
-Good job.
-Okay. That is clear,
and, Nancy, I'm ready for motion.
-Copy, moving your way.
-Just left on the top.
-Affirmative.
-Hey, Mike, I see it right across.
-I agree, Nancy. Thanks.
-My hand is on.
-Ready to go, Mike? -Just one second here.
-Okay. -Let me hand-position the RWA.
-It's going to retract. That'd be fine.
Jim, please help me up?
Thanks.
-You could probably see the lights from off the Hubble.
Twenty-three point oh. -Thank you.
-Now what's wrong? -I got it.
-At the rear of Columbia's cargo bay,
Jim Newman is currently stowing and bolting into place
on the multiuse lightweight equipment
carrier the old reaction wheel assembly
that was removed a few minutes ago
by Mike Massimino out of the same bay,
bay six, that you're looking at
on the aft shroud of the Hubble Space Telescope.
-Mike and Jim, you guys are doing great.
We're right at 5 hours. -Roger.
-Full stop, man. -I'll stop.
-You drive from here. -Okay, John,
I'm going to very carefully put the lower end in first.
-Looks like it's clear below, Mike.
-Thank you. -Okay.
Do you want to do two?
Ready for the door to close?
-Close the door.
-Okay, John, it's in.
-Good job, Mike. -Mike Massimino, again,
right at bay six of the Hubble Space Telescope
underneath the newly installed port solar array
for the observatory,
preparing to close out the door on bay six
and close out the newly
installed reaction wheel assembly,
one of four gyroscopic devices
used to maneuver the telescope toward deep space.
-Back of this thing, the serial number is -- Heads up.
Because if it is, I have it in the right orientation.
-Jim Newman holding the blanket insulation in his hand.
Mike Massimino is at the end of the shuttle's robot arm,
just below bay six of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Jim Newman has retrieved the blanket insulation panel
from the second axial carrier
and the middle of Columbia's cargo bay
and will be handing it off to Massimino a short time from now.
Again, that new insulation panel
will provide a greater capability
to keep the instruments in bay six thermally protected.
The Hubble Space Telescope, of course,
has been orbiting the Earth for almost 12 years now,
and some of its insulation
is requiring a bit of a refurbishment,
so this is a task of opportunity.
It was not required.
There was no need to do this had the opportunity not arisen,
but since the astronauts
continue to run ahead of schedule,
time is permitting a couple of extra tasks,
including the installation of this blanket panel.
-I'm moving away.
-Back with downlink television from Columbia.
This a helmet cam view as Mike Massimino
continues to work with Jim Newman.
This is Massimino's helmet camera,
Jim Newman on the left,
as they continue to apply lubricant
to the very lower aft shroud door latch.
This on the doors within which are housed
the NICMOS instrument,
the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer,
and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph.
-Mike Massimino on the end of the shuttle's robotic arm.
This view from his helmet camera
as he's maneuvered along the payload bay
by mission specialist Nancy Currie,
who's in the flight deck.
-You get those fine, and when you do come back
[speaks indistinctly]
-On the Houston reaction wheel
assembly functional test, it's good.
-Houston, Columbia, thanks for the words.
Could you see it in orbit?
-Okay, John, you ready? -Mike, I am ready.
-Looking at the front.
-Telling the crew that the reaction wheel assembly
that they installed is working as advertised.
-...spring socket being MTO.
Looks like a 2-inch socket.
I see a small ball panel. It's the alarm pull panel.
I think that's the one we started with.
-The port solar ray that they installed
has also passed its initial test.
-I see a door extension. I see an O tether.
The door extensions are identical to each other.
I see an O tether on an integral tether.
-Hey, Mike? -Yeah?
-Live video of the middeck of Columbia.
John Grunsfeld now looking into the airlock.
Behind him Rick Linnehan.
On the left hand corner of your screen
is Commander Scott Altman.
-On the Houston, FYI,
we're getting pretty close to the limit on DPO2.
If you'd like, you can inhibit hardware caution
and warning parameters 34 and 44.
We'll take care of the software versions of those,
and then we can reset them once we do the maintenance.
-All right, Houston. We'll just open up direct O2.
How about that since OCAC is not required right now?
-That'll work, Scooter.
Good idea, and dump term in a minute and a half.
-Wearing two watches to make sure I don't miss it.
-Okay, Steve. Just need to get something out.
-Copy, big Aaron. We have it on the big screen.
-Our operational views during that maneuver
might not be exactly what you were looking for.
I have a different tape with a different view.
Just request it if you want it.
-Copy.
-This is Houston Columbia.
-Go ahead.
-Yeah, I have this taped queued up.
I showed it as next on the priority list.
If you give me the MET of what you're looking for,
I can get you that tape.
-All right.
Houston Columbia, if you're getting the idea
that David never moves out of his photo TV corner,
that's pretty much the truth.
And Houston Columbia, we want to share this to show
that our EDA guys don't get enough workout outside.
They have to workout inside, too.
-Roger that.
♪♪
[ "Carmen Ohio" plays ]
♪♪
-Good morning, Columbia.
That was "Carmen Ohio" played the Ohio State marching band.
And, Nancy, that was for you from Dave and Stephanie.
Lots of folks back in Ohio
watching you work that robotics magic,
and I guess those helicopter stick and rudder skills
are going a long way for you.
-Good morning, Houston,
and good morning to all my fellow Buckeyes.
And we've got of Buckeyes working down at JSC
helping us out on this flight,
and what a great song to wake up to on orbit.
-Copy, Houston.
We're aboard with you on the middeck.
Looks a little bit crowded down there.
-This is mission control Houston.
A view from the middeck of Columbia.
A very crowded scene as the astronauts aboard the orbiter,
Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Duane Carey,
and mission specialists John Grunsfeld,
Nancy Currie, Rick Linnehan, Jim Newman and Mike Massimino
are set for one of the most complex days
in spacewalking history.
John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan
to emerge from Columbia's airlock
into the open payload pay
just before 12:30 a.m. Central Time this morning
to begin the third of five scheduled spacewalks
to service the Hubble Space Telescope tonight.
The very arduous task of disconnecting 36 tiny connectors
for a power control unit,
the main power routing unit in the Hubble Space Telescope,
its removal, and the replacement with a brand-new unit
able to distribute additional power
to be generated from the newly installed solar arrays
on the telescope and to be able to generate
and maintain electrical continuity
for the telescope for the rest of its lifetime.
-Just a bit of big picture regarding EVA activity
sequencing with the ground here.
-Go ahead, Dan. -Hey, John.
I just want to let you know we're still down here
working towards an on-time egress,
and we just wanted to let you know
if you think you're going to more than about 15 minutes
or so ahead of the time line, we'd probably like you told hold
that step 66 and delay the fan power on.
-Okay. We'll take a look at that.
I think it's unlikely. I think we're shooting
for an on-time departure. -Okay.
We copy, and that would be -- That would be great for us.
-Okay, thanks.
-Again, that call from offgoing spacecraft communicator
Dan Burbank to John Grunsfeld,
who is reviewing his checklists before he suits up
and moves into the airlock to join Rick Linnehan.
It has to do with the coordination
and the timing of all the critical commanding tonight
from the space telescope operations control center
at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The stock, as it is called --
The engineers at the operations control center at Goddard report
that the fine guidance electronics
have been turned off on the Hubble Space Telescope.
We are about 45 minutes away from the first critical commands
that will begin the first-ever power
down of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The telescope to be shut down and put in a dormant state
for the first time in its history
since it was launched back on April 24th, 1990.
You see John Grunsfeld on the left
and Rick Linnehan on the right.
They're all set to go for what --
a spacewalk that is expected
to last more than 7 hours in duration.
These direct power converters basically route the power
from the power control unit itself
to all the various systems of the telescope.
The powering off of the so-called DPCs
will set the stage for the expedited powering
down of all of the hardware.
-Houston, Columbia for EVA. -Go ahead, Columbia.
We're listening.
-Okay. As we put on mini workstations,
I'm monitoring John's suit,
and there's a large bit of water down here
at the bottom of the battery.
I'm fixing to open up now.
-Columbia, we would like you to cycle the water switch
from on to off, please.
-That discussion between flight director
Bryan Austin and Jim Newman,
who is assisting John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan
in their space suit preparations refers to some water
that basically sublimated out of Grunsfeld's suit
at the time that they were conducting
the purge of the extravehicular mobility unit,
or space suit, that Grunsfeld is wearing.
Newman said that they're in the process of cleaning up
that water in the airlock of Columbia.
The EVA officer here in mission control, Dana Weigel,
is now discussing with her engineers
and her back room what impact,
if any, this might have on the spacewalk preparations.
-Columbia Houston for EVA.
-Go ahead, Houston. -Yeah, Scooter.
We're going to have to get John out of the suit, so --
And we're working on some resize steps to resize another suit.
What we would like to do right now is go to post-EVA.
That's on flight 79-2.
Get you on out of the suit with steps six through 17 inclusive,
and then 23 through 28 inclusive.
-And we've got down link television now from Columbia,
as you see work underway to mop up some of the water
that spilled from John Grunsfeld's space suit
from the liquid cooling system in that suit.
-Not sure how well it'll come across.
We had a lot of people with towels in there,
but you can see the back of the suit is pretty well saturated.
-Roger that, Nancy. And if somebody is available,
got some words on suit resizing to get this back on track here.
-Okay, Mario.
Understand that we're going to get ICB 2027
from MF43K volume D.
But they're going to move on to resize on page 12-21.
-Twenty again. okay.
-And that's going to be for the lower arms and for the battery.
And for the battery steps, we're going to be on page 10-4.
And the start block, steps eight, nine and 10.
-Good. Copy.
And we're going to want to resize EMU3.
-Again, you're watching down link television of the crew
aboard Columbia
sopping up water that leaked out of John Grunsfeld's suit
about 25 minutes prior to the scheduled start
of depressurizing Columbia's airlock
for this morning's spacewalk by Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan
to change out the power control unit
on the Hubble Space Telescope.
Grunsfeld is out of the suit.
He is in the process of preparing to climb
into a different suit.
New batteries will be inserted into the suit.
Grunsfeld will have to redo his pre-breathe procedure,
and the purging of that particular space suit
prior to the time that he will once again
be ready to join Rick Linnehan for the start of the spacewalk.
Linnehan remains in the airlock in his suit.
No issues regarding Rick Linnehan's suit,
but Grunsfeld is moving into a different space suit
at the moment, and so our spacewalk has been delayed.
Here in the mission control center,
the lead EVA officer, or spacewalk officer,
Dana Weigel is working on a two-pronged approach
to this late development, one being the preparations
to get John Grunsfeld in his new suit.
And you can see Grunsfeld currently working with
Jim Newman down in the middeck along with Pilot Duane Carey,
on the left side of your screen, to do just that.
Also Weigel is working with her spacewalking engineers
to determine whether or not we can still retain
all of the objectives planned for this morning's spacewalk.
The payloads officer here in mission control,
Joe Cavallaro, is in discussions with Hubble Space Telescope
project management at the Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, Maryland,
to determine the best course of action
and the tasks that should be prioritized
for this morning's spacewalk.
It is still possible that we could press ahead
with the power control unit change-out
and simply make it a long day for the crew.
That's one of the options under discussion at the present time.
-Hey, Houston?
Houston, if you're listening we've got EME3 resized for arms.
We're going to install the battery
and read the battery at this time.
-Okay. I got your block.
-Hey, east hatch is unlocked.
The triple curve is now open.
-The thermal cover, the outer thermal cover
on the airlock has been
popped open,and the airlock hatch is now being opened.
John Grunsfeld will be first out.
EV1 wearing the suit bearing the solid red stripes,
followed by Rick Linnehan wearing the suit bearing the --
bearing no stripes, the pure white suit.
This will be Grunsfeld's fourth spacewalk,
all in the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The second spacewalk for Rick Linnehan.
-Nice work done. Yeah, we got it.
-Good data reported. -Good data on both suits.
You can press with the post-depress procedures
and con check for Rick.
I'll copy. -All right, John.
Clear on me.
-Read you the same. -Okay, I have the safety tether.
I'm watching it. Thank you.
I'm actually holding onto the air column right now.
-Okay. Then I'm going to tuck that under the airlock.
-Looks good, John. -Thank you.
-Been delayed, but hopefully powerful start.
-Okay, and Rick, I concur that that looks good.
-John Grunsfeld now out on the payload bay of Columbia.
-On the starboard side bar. -Roger that.
And I think you both have a couple of good suits now.
-Thank you. I appreciate that, Jim.
-Yeah, thanks for the work in there, guys.
That was really quick thinking and work getting all that done.
-He's down behind you about [Indistinct] for you also.
-Thank you very much. And also on the ground.
-I am tethered to it.
The gate is locked. -Okay.
Here it comes.
Okay. Let me get the top of it.
Tell me when you have it.
-I've got it. -Okay.
I'm feeding it out slow to you, John.
And if you could stop there, I'm going to get the weight setter.
-Okay. Thank you.
-Okay. You have it, John.
It's yours. -I'm taking it out,
and I'm going to stow the weight setter up here in the AP.
-Thank you.
-Linnehan handing Grunsfeld a work board
upon which tools will be stowed for use by Linnehan,
who will spend the first half of this morning's spacewalk
riding at the end of the shuttle's robot arm
while Grunsfeld serves as the so-called free floater,
tethered to both the payload bay and the Hubble Space Telescope.
He'll be working on a portable work platform
on the side of the telescope near bay
four where the power control unit is housed.
-Okay. -Okay.
Good. Roll to the right if you can.
Good. Very good.
Nicely done. -Thank you.
-Now turn to your left to get to the arm.
-Okay. Thanks.
-Very good.
Turn towards me. -Rick Linnehan on the left.
John Grunsfeld on the right,
as they configure tethers and tools
at the very start of this morning's spacewalk,
which began officially at 2:28 a.m. Central Time.
We're about 19 minutes into the spacewalk.
Expected to last at least 7 hours in duration.
-Got to have it. -Okay.
-Down link television from Columbia
showing Rick Linnehan at the end of the shuttle's robot arm
working to complete the demate of the three final batteries
in bay two of the Hubble Space Telescope.
You see that white rectangular object near Linnehan.
That is the Wide Field Planetary Camera.
Just below it is one of the three fixed-head star trackers.
That would be fixed-head star tracker number one.
And you're looking at the helmet camera image
from Rick Linnehan's helmet-mounted camera.
-Please, Jim.
And I'll get that PVC right now.
-I think just anything [Indistinct].
Just anything will do it.
-All six batteries demated on the Hubble Space Telescope.
-Okay. I've got the handle.
-This is a view from John Grunsfeld's
helmet-mounted camera.
-John, you're right on my boot plate now.
-Thank you.
-So if you want to go ahead with that star tracker,
and then I'm going to need to move into close.
-Grunsfeld working near the fixed-head star trackers
to complete thermal cover installation.
-Okay, Nat.
When you feel you have good clearance, I'm ready to go in.
And we need to come in about 2 feet to the telescope. please.
-Okay. John has come back in my view,
so I'll let you call the clearance to your boot plate.
-Right now I see clearance to my boot plate
at about 3 1/2, 4 feet.
-That's right. -It's a zero.
-This is mission control Houston.
External power has now been shut off
to the Hubble Space Telescope
for the first time since its launch on April 24th, 1990.
Hubble is without a heartbeat.
-And I believe I've got about 3 feet off my left --
-And you're now looking at the heart
of the power control unit
in bay four of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Thirty-six connectors to be demated.
The first 30 to be accomplished by Rick Linnehan
at the end of the robot arm
before he swaps places with free-floating spacewalking
colleague John Grunsfeld.
-We see it. -And we stop arm motion.
-Grunsfeld will complete the other six connector demates,
and then we'll reconnect all 36 connectors to the new unit
that will be installed in that same bay.
-I'm not sure if it's really helping.
-Oh, it was for the -- that -- It's for the light safe.
-Linnehan has completed the removal
of the power distribution unit fuse plugs.
They are now stowed properly, allowing him to proceed on
with the start of the demate of the 36 connectors.
At least he will be involved in the first 30
of the 36 connectors
for the power control unit itself.
-Tool.
If you could pass me the F5?
-Oh, yeah. -Thank you.
-Yeah, that's fine.
-John, I could hand that to you right now if you'd like.
I assume just want it stay tethered to the tool head.
-Yeah.
Back away just a little bit for this.
-Okay. Clearance with my [Indistinct].
It's okay right now.
-Okay. -I'm trying to lean forward.
I'm going to take a tether. Okay.
Looks like a retractable back there is not retracting.
-Okay.
Probably just caught on something.
-Yeah, probably. If you could pass me the loop.
There it is.
Do you have it, John? -Tethered to the camera.
-Yeah, I'm going to take the retractable off.
-Okay.
-I think we've tried it several ways.
It looks like today if we did come straight in,
we could keep the boot plates flat.
I'll try to get in as close
as I can with good clearances on the left and center.
-Just let me know when you're high enough out of the bay.
-This is good right here.
-Okay. -Now if we could come --
Let's first come to my left.
Let's try 3 inches.
-How is that? -That's good.
Now let's come straight in, please.
And it looks like I have about
a foot or more of clearance in the boot plates.
Do you agree, John?
-I would say it's about 8 inches.
-That's about a foot right now, getting smaller.
The closest is the telescope.
Above it is a hand rail,
and you're still clear of the hand rail.
-Okay. Let me steady up.
I just looked up there to see my clearance.
-What do we see then, Rick? -Third loop broke.
-Roger. -I'll try to be gentler.
-Okay. That looks a lot better.
-I was trying to get to the topmost thing,
but there's just not enough space
around this large cable here.
Anyway, P25 is complete.
-Roger. -Starting P27.
-Roger.
-And 27 complete.
Starting P26.
-Roger 27.
-Good job. -Thanks.
-It looks very clean in there.
-And if you could stop right here.
-Copy to stop.
-Thank you. -Okay.
I guess I'm ready to back out.
-Cord out pull complete. -Copy, Rick.
-Copy. Pack it away.
-Second from aft. -Copy.
-One thing I'd like to mention now, Mike,
is that the starboard second-from-aft
and third-from-aftmost bolt
seem to have no torque on them at all.
They -- Okay.
-The bottom of the box should be coming into view.
-Okay. I see it.
-I'm going to wait until Nancy has got the --
-Twenty happy with that peripheral?
-Okay, Nancy. If you can stop here.
-Okay. I'm going to stop.
-Thank you.
-I have my terret on it, John. -Okay.
-And I have a hand on it, too. -Okay.
I'm going to slowly move it down.
-Okay. I have it, John.
-Okay.
-I'm going to slowly bring this down,
and when I have this in position
I'm going to move the good one up.
-Okay. -Okay.
I have it on the plate, and the bolts are all locked in.
I'm ready to tighten.
-Settings when you're ready. -Go ahead, Mike.
-Alpha three. Stand by.
-Alpha three.
Clockwise three.
-That's in. -Ten-45.
-That's in, Mike. -Six turns on 6 keyway bolts.
-Roger that. Starting the --
-Oh, it looks like the tail's pitched down a bit, huh?
-Yeah. -Okay, Nancy.
I see you clearing the door.
-Two, three, four, five, six.
-Okay. Stand by, John.
-Copy, John.
-One.
Two.
-Hey, Scooter. -Three.
-Hey, so far, so good. -Four.
Five.
Six.
-Thanks, man. I will.
-Mike, 6 1/4 upper left.
-Copy, 6 1/4 upper left.
-Mike, I still have the two bottom ones to do.
-Copy.
Copy that.
-Walking backwards.
-Okay, John.
-Okay, Nancy.
Start to take me back in slowly.
-Copy.
-Mike, P22 pin sockets are clean.
-P22 sockets clean.
-MJ17. Last one's on.
Take a good look, and clean.
-Columbia, Houston, from all of us here in Houston,
and I'm sure I'm speaking on behalf of the folks at the STOCC
at Goddard, outstanding work in getting that done,
both in removal on Rick's part and reattaching on your part.
That is some tough work with those gloves on.
-We really appreciate those words.
John and Rick trained long and hard for this.
-The Space Telescope Operations Control Center
has just relayed information to the payloads officer
here in mission control that Hubble has a heartbeat,
telemetry being received back on the Hubble Space Telescope,
4 hours and 24 minutes after power
was cut to the observatory.
-Jim's not sure. -It's your call.
-I'm okay. Thank you.
Thanks.
-Thank you very much.
I'm going zero, zero, zero.
-Copy.
-This is Mission Control Houston.
You're looking at the payload bay of Columbia,
Nancy Currie continuing to maneuver
the shuttle's robotic arm into position to remain overnight.
-Houston, Columbia for HST. -Go ahead, John.
-Steve, Rick and I are back in Columbia's cabin,
and I just want to extend my thanks
to all the folks on the ground
who have allowed us to give Hubble the power
to see to the edge of the universe
and gave us the great tools to do this EVA.
This was a tough one,
and I just want to say my hero is Nancy Currie for flying us
to all those tough positions to get to all those connectors,
couldn't have done it without her.
There go the intrepid duo out into the void.
-Copy.
-This video is a replay of events
that took place a little bit earlier this morning
on the F flight deck of Columbia
during the third spacewalk of this mission.
-[ Speaks indistinctly ]
-Stand by.
-Mission specialist Nancy Currie
was operating the shuttle's robotic arm.
Pilot Duane Carey here in this view.
-And Houston, here is an operation
that has to be performed at least twice a day.
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