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-♪ I'm sitting on top of the world ♪
♪ Just rolling along ♪
♪ Rolling along ♪
♪ I'm quitting the blues of the world ♪
♪ Just singing a song ♪
♪ Singing a song ♪
♪ Hallelujah, I just phoned the parson ♪
♪ Hey, Par, get ready to call ♪
♪ Just like Humpty Dumpty ♪
♪ I'm ready to fall ♪
♪ I'm sitting on top of the world ♪
♪ Just rolling along ♪
♪ Rolling along ♪
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-Good morning, Columbia. This is Les Paul.
Hi, Scooter.
Hi, gang.
We're proud of you and wish you
all the luck in the world up there.
Don't get a speeding ticket or any of that stuff.
[ Speaks indistinctly ]
-Good morning, Columbia.
That was "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
by Les Paul and Mary Ford.
Les, who's one of the great jazz guitarists
and also the inventor of the solid body electric guitar,
recorded that dedication for you last week.
He's a big supporter of the space program,
and space travelers have been waking up to his music
since the Apollo days.
-Hey, good morning, Houston.
Thank you very much for that.
Wow.
We're having a great time here on top of the world,
and we really thank Les Paul for thinking of us,
and glad to get his support.
So we appreciate that morning wake-up music,
and it's a great way to get going.
We had a good day yesterday,
and now we're ready to press ahead and finish this thing up.
-Thanks there, we copy, good data on both suits.
-And as John Grunsfeld assists Jim Newman and Mike Massimino
in getting suited up for this morning's spacewalk,
which is scheduled to begin less than 2 hours from now.
A good view of the Hubble Space Telescope
on its birthing platform at the rear of the cargo bay,
you can see on the lower left-hand side of your picture
the second axial carrier, that's the cargo compartment
within which lies the advanced camera for surveys.
Again, Jim Newman will be riding
at the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
He'll open up the door to that axial carrier,
remove the advanced camera for surveys
once the Faint Object Camera has been removed
from the aft shroud of the telescope
and parked on a bracket on the side of Columbia's cargo bay
and install the advanced camera
for surveys in the empty slot vacated
by the removal of the Faint Object Camera.
-Right now you're looking at the face of the telescope
that contains the three fixed-head star trackers
that provide navigational and pointing information
for the Hubble Space Telescope.
Directly over it, that white rectangular area
at the top of your screen is the Wide Field/Planetary Camera,
which this morning gets a new scientific companion,
the Advanced Camera for Surveys,
to study the most distant celestial objects
ever studied in the history of astronomy.
You're looking at one of the two new solar arrays,
the port solar array, on the Hubble Space Telescope,
which was installed on Tuesday morning by Newman and Massimino.
The commanding being sent to reposition the arrays
to provide the best access possible
throughout the course of the morning this morning
for Jim Newman and Mike Massimino.
Looking up the 43 1/2-foot long Hubble Space Telescope,
this view being provided to show the area
where a thermal blanket,
the new outer blanket layer insulation,
was installed the other day by Newman and Massimino
as a so-called get-ahead task.
They were able to take advantage of some time
to lay that blanket on the Hubble Space Telescope
over one of the sensitive equipment bays.
There may be another opportunity if things go well this morning
for them to lay another blanket over another area,
yet to be determined, on the telescope
just to sure up its thermal insulation
over some of its sensitive scientific
and engineering instruments.
-Howdy, Digger. -Yeah, I kicked him out
so I can get back to work.
-Commander Scott Altman as he prepares to back up
Nancy Currie on the shuttle's robot arm this morning.
-Telescope.
-It's getting a little dark.
-Very good.
-Good. I understand I'm go for egress.
That correct, Rick?
Rick? -Go ahead, Mike.
-Understand I'm go for egress.
-Go for egress. -Good.
Yeah, I'm rolling starboard.
-Good. Pause when you're out.
Let me double-check. -Hey, Mike, I moved the arm
back a little bit so you get plenty of room.
-Thank you, Nancy.
-Yeah, I see that's how it's config.
-Okay.
Rick, I'm headed up to the sidebar.
Is that correct?
-Mike, you got to translate to the orbit or starboard zone.
-Helping fishing in attach the safety tether to the aft.
In this case today, we're going to go with --
try the forward slider.
-Copy.
-The Space Telescope Operations Control Center engineers
at the Goddard Space Flight Center
in the process of powering down the faint object camera
for the final time in its lifetime.
In preparation for the opening of the aft shroud,
you see Jim Newman affixed
at the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
Once the aft shroud doors are open,
he will then begin the process of unbolting
the Faint Object Camera from its station.
It basically sits on rails,
but there are a number of latches and bolts
that hold that camera securely in place
in the compartment in the aft shroud.
-I sort of pitch forward.
Place around.
-That was a shot from helmet- mounted camera on Mike Massimino
as he begins works to retrieve an electrical harness
that will be installed in the aft shroud
of the Hubble Space Telescope
associated with tomorrow's installation
of a cryocooling device for the Near Infrared Camera
and Multi-Object Spectrometer.
Now back to the helmet-mounted view from Jim Newman
as he uses a pistol-grip tool
to begin to unloose the latches and bolts
holding the aft shroud doors together
containing the COSTAR, Corrective Optics Instrument,
and the Faint Object Camera.
-Four of them.
-Okay.
-More.
-That's fine.
Use gentle pressure is fine.
-Okay. That's what you're going to get.
Okay, I see it coming open.
-Okay. See anything coming out?
-Not yet.
No, nothing.
Okay, we see doors coming open, and it's straight right.
-Okay, you can head back, Mike. -Okay, Jim.
-Okay.
-So 54 minutes into this morning's spacewalk,
the aft shroud doors are open on the Hubble Space Telescope
to the compartment housing the Faint Object Camera
and next to it the Corrective Optics package called COSTAR,
which provided basically the contact lenses
that corrected the vision
for the original instruments on Hubble
because of the spherical aberration
to the telescope's primary mirror.
-Okay, it's tightened. It's wide open.
-We can see that, Mike. Good work.
You can [Indistinct] the Y harness in the lower left,
and you can get that door opened
a little bit while you're doing that.
-No carrying out. -Jim Newman at that end
of the robot arm will be ready to being sliding
the Faint Object Camera out of its compartment.
-And, Mike, notes for you,
bottom of the FOC connector panel has a sharp edge
and to please minimize as possible boots
in the aft shroud.
-Copy, Rick.
-Jim Newman now changing out sockets
for the end of his pistol-grip tool
on the workstation that he has available to him
as he is affixed at the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
This view from Newman's helmet-mounted camera,
1 hour 24 minutes into this morning's spacewalk.
-Go in nice and straight. Looking perfect.
-I want the really slow rates going into the telescope,
and these are slow enough for this.
Maneuver, no problem.
-Jim Newman now lifting the brand-new Advanced Camera
for Surveys out of its enclosure in the cargo bay
of the shuttle Columbia
carefully sliding it out of its protective box,
ready to install it in the Hubble Space Telescope
to replace the Faint Object Camera
which is temporarily stowed on a mounting bracket
on the side of Columbia's cargo bay.
-...maybe just go out a little bit to your left.
-Agree.
-Jim, you got to loop or roll it.
-Thank you.
We got to have a left, Jim, roll --
-Yeah, roll towards the portside.
-What size axis are you using?
-I'm readying an orbiter axis and your body axis.
-That is we are recording.
-So tell me what you want me to do with --
-One roll.
-And, I do.
In position, Nancy. -Okay.
We're just [Indistinct] camera stuff in.
-And you're moving it a little bit over center now.
I think you need to come a little right,
maybe about 2 inches.
-Agreed.
-Move it about 2 inches.
-You want help with the arm, Jim?
-Do you need any more, Mike? -I think maybe 1 more inch.
-I'll take the 1 inch, Jim.
-Okay, you've got it about 10 inches away
from the clip of the telescope.
-Why I give you end, so take one last look at alignment
and let me know when you're ready.
-Ready. -Okay, I'm going to move it in.
-I'm in a little high now. -No problem.
-The Hubble Space Telescope has a brand-new
scientific instrument, the Advanced Camera for Surveys,
having been successfully installed and latched in place.
One final look-see by Mike Massimino
inside the aft shroud of the telescope.
You're getting this view from the helmet-mounted camera
on Jim Newman.
-...first, right? -Exactly.
-Newman still at the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
-If you feel that you need Jim,
please ask him to hold on to you and maneuver you as needed.
-Okay, I think I'll wait. -The --
-What's my next then, John? -FOC is coming up.
-I see it. Nance, come on over again.
-Jim Newman at the end of the shuttle's robot arm
now beginning to move the Faint Object Camera
into the proper location for its storage
and its cargo carrier in the cargo bay of Columbia.
The Advanced Camera for Surveys
has been successfully installed and latched in place
awaiting its aliveness test,
its health check from the engineers
at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Space
Telescope Operations Control Center.
-Yes, I do. -Check.
-And Jim, just information over your right side
as you look at the FOC is about 18 inches from the 85 door.
-Okay. -Yeah, we want --
-The guide real nicely back here.
-Okay, I see we've got cars in the boot pipe too.
-I agree.
-Got a left hand on the FOC attachment here, John.
-Copy. -Good place.
-I see it coming in nice and straight.
-Mike, keep an eye out, so be ready.
-Yeah, I see lights still on. -Thank you.
-Guys, you're doing tremendous.
First 3 days, we gave Hubble the power,
and now you've given Hubble the eyes.
Good job. -Thanks, John.
We look forward to hearing that good report from the ground.
I just want those first pictures to come out a couple 3 months.
-Jim Newman working at the very rear of Columbia's cargo bay.
You're looking at the view from the helmet-mounted camera
on Mike Massimino
as he is maneuvered down towards Newman
to help retrieve the Electronic Support Module
from the cargo carrier at the very rear of the cargo bay.
That module will then be brought back up
to the aft shroud of the telescope
and installed right in front of the Advanced Camera
for Surveys, again.
-Scooter, come up 2.
-Sure, I'll be up in a minute.
-Mike Massimino at the end of the shuttle's robot arm
being transported by robot arm operator Nancy Currie back
to the aft shroud of the Hubble Space Telescope
with a firm grasp on the Electronic Support Module.
This is the component that will be installed
in front of the newly installed Advanced Camera
for Surveys in the aft shroud.
You see the open doors there.
It will be installed and latched in place.
It then will be connected with an electrical harness
that had been supplying power to the Corrective Optics package
just next to the Advanced Camera for Surveys,
the COSTAR instrument that was first launched
on the STS-61 mission in December of 1993
to correct the blurred vision
caused by the spherical aberration
in Hubble's primary mirror.
The electronics box being held by Massimino in this view
from the elbow camera of the shuttle's robot arm
will supply the power to the cryocooling device
and the radiator for the NICMOS instrument in the repair work
that John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan
will undertake tomorrow
in the fifth and final spacewalk of this mission.
-Okay, Scooter. I think we need to go
into the telescope about 1 more foot.
-Copy.
-And probably to my right about 1 foot.
-Jim, I got you the handle latch clear.
-Great. Thank you.
-Jim Newman is at the very lip
of the aft shroud of the Hubble Space Telescope
on the lower left-hand side of your screen.
This view from the helmet-mounted camera
on Mike Massimino.
-Up a little, Mike, move it up a little.
-Okay.
-Your latch over here. You've got to get by.
Take it a little to your right there still.
That's it.
Carefully, slowly bring it down.
Very nice.
Coming in.
-How is that? -Great.
-This view from the helmet cam of Mike Massimino
as he continues putting those connectors
on the new Electronic Support Module.
-1, 2, 3.
[ Speaks indistinctly ]
-Copy, Houston. Good to go.
-That's excellent, Jim. Nice job.
-And the lead EVA officer reporting that the team
is very happy with the job Jim Newman did in getting
these cables all cleaned up and put away out of the way
of all the instruments in this area.
-RMS view, or WVS view of the ESM connector panel, please,
and we're going to switch over to your center camera.
-Okay. I think --
Let me just look over and tell me what you have,
and we can maneuver as necessary.
-He's gonna weigh them.
Hey, Mike, okay,
let's get the right closed first.
-I understand. -Okay.
-We checked the door seal. -Very good.
Inspect, if you would, a last one quick look at the bay,
make sure everything looks clean, nothing is floating,
and we'll close them up.
-Okay, Scooter, let's go port 2 feet please.
-And Mike, once that right one is closed,
you've got to go for the left, and you reinstall the handle in.
-Astronaut Jim Newman coming into view here
at the bottom of the Hubble Space Telescope.
-Okay.
-Closing the right door of the aft shroud.
-How's that?
-How about 6 inches into the telescope?
-Massimino working here with the pistol-grip tool
ensuring that all the bolts have been torqued
down to the proper values here
on the aft shroud doors of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Above him in bay 10, Jim Newman
working to remove some of those thermal covers
that were used yesterday when the Hubble Space Telescope
was powered down for the first time in its life.
-...DVA thermal covers verify secure?
-Copy. DVA thermal covers secure.
You're good to remove the thermal cover
of the whole 10 with the DVA and then go to the A site.
-Okay. -Thanks, Jim,
it's been a pleasure.
-Enjoyed it, Mike, really enjoyed working with you.
-I feel like you're heading in.
-It's quite a thrill.
-Got a lot of good work done. -You guys had a fantastic day.
You got everything done, and you got the ACS in on the first try.
-You did a great job with that alignment.
We really appreciate that. -Seemed to work real well.
-Well, a lot of people got us ready.
It's not nothing.
I can still feel all those guys did a great job.
-I'm sure they're all watching and listening.
-Okay, Mike, you're going to go in.
Once you're in and comfortable, you'll attach your tear-away
tether on your right side in the air lock...
-Come in, Houston, with that long day for both you
and a lot of the folks down here in the control center.
We'll hand over to orbit two.
Tony and Steve will take you the rest of the way.
Great work today.
I know you guys worked long and hard,
and the days are cumulatively adding up,
but it doesn't show in the big sense, so good work,
and we'll catch you tomorrow.
-Hey, Mario, please pass along to everybody
in the control center that we're all in this together,
and we appreciate all the long days
you've been putting in at the odd hours.
We're all flea shifted, but you still have families
and everything to go home to, so we appreciate it.
The team is doing a great job staying in sync.
We appreciate everything that you did for us today
talking about options,
and I think we all converged on doing the right thing.
And I'm glad that we've got all the tasks done we have so far,
and we're looking forward to a successful EVA-5,
so thanks again, and we'll keep pushing and get there tomorrow.
-Thanks for the words, Scooter, and we'll see you tomorrow.
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-Columbia, Houston -- -And Steven,
he's going to be on the middeck.
It seems to look this way quite often,
both in the morning and in the evening.
-We understand, and we have it on the big screen.
And while I have you, the only illuminators that we would like
to leave on tonight are Bravo and Charlie.
-Steve, those are the only ones on.
-Thanks, Nancy.
We don't have an insight.
-You can see pretty much everybody in the crew pitches
in to get the guys ready to head out the door.
-We see a great team effort here.
-And with four suits and something seven crew members,
I think we've successfully proved that 11 people
will fit in Columbia with the air lock inside.
-And the shorter the better, huh, Nancy?
-That's my personal theory.
Yeah, I think ECOM and the EVA guys will be happy
we're taking good care of the seals
on the air lock that are very important to us
before we close it out for the EVA.
And you can see Mr. Mike and Dr. Jim
all ready to go outside with lots of smiles
and all ready to go.
-And while you narrate, message 57 and 58
should be printing on board.
-And here is the guy
that PAO can thank for all this great video,
and that's Digger in his photo-TV corner.
And every once and while, we let him come out and play.
-Columbia, Houston, Nancy, PAO is saying
that Digger's work is very much appreciated,
and I'm sure we'll look after him when he gets back.
Checking.
-Thank you.
-Columbia, Houston, we are with you on the middeck.
-Copy, Steve. Welcome to the jungle.
-We concur.
-I'm sure you'll find those two safely on the flight deck.
-I can tell these cowboys really like to tempt fate.
-We understand.
Remember, there's one more day to go.
-Houston, Columbia from the flight deck.
-Go ahead, Digger. We got you on the big screen.
-Hi, Steve.
We have an Internet question that we'd like to answer.
It's from Michael J. Massimino from Hunker, Pennsylvania.
He's age 9, and he asks --
he says, "It is so neat to see someone in space
with the same name as me.
My third grade class thinks that is really cool too.
My question is for Mike Massimino, astronaut,
veteran spacewalker and Hubble hugger.
Please ask him what it was like
to walk out into space for the first time."
Can you remember that, Mike, a couple days ago
when you were -- when it was the first time?
-Well, for Michael J Massimino, has the same name
as me including the same middle initial.
It is pretty cool to get a note from someone with the same name
that I have from Hunker, Pennsylvania,
and it was really quite an experience.
The first time I was pretty nervous about it,
but we had some really good training,
and I had a great partner with me,
Jim Newman, and a great team inside.
The other spacewalkers, John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan,
were keeping an eye on us,
and we had Digger here looking after us,
Nancy flying me around on the arm most of the day
and Scooter, our commander, looking out for me too
and plus all the folks on the ground,
so that made me feel a lot better about it.
And it was just an awesome feeling.
Our training is really good. It got us ready.
I felt very familiar with all the tasks,
but when we train, they leave out one major event,
and that is the view and the experience
of actually really being in space,
and that was the added feature to it
that was just really awesome to be able to do it in space
and to be able to look down at the Earth every once and a while
and see it go by was just an awesome experience.
So it was -- It's something I'll never forget.
Was just a great opportunity,
and I'm glad that the spacewalks went well.
-And Mike, why don't you tell us what was different
about your second spacewalk compared to your first one.
Were you more scared, or were you less scared or what?
-Actually, I was --
I felt more relaxed for the second one.
You know, after doing it one time,
and, you know, the idea that first
I'm looking at that hatch, and it was going to open,
and I was actually going to go out into space
was really quite a feeling.
And the second time I figured,
"Well, we've already done this one time.
I know what it's like. I've been there before."
And so I felt, you know, more relaxed,
but still, you know, you want to make sure everything goes well
and wanted to concentrate the whole time
to make sure that we did all the tasks
we had to do the best we could.
So it was a lot -- I guess it was a little more relaxed,
but both of them were just great experiences.
-I noticed today, Mike, looking out the window
that you had quite a bit of time as the free-floater.
How is that different from being the astronaut
that's being moved around on the arm by Nancy or Scooter?
-Both are good jobs.
Either one of them is fine.
When you're on the arm though,
the arm takes you where you got to go,
so you don't have to worry so much about your body position
because Nancy or Scooter will take you
where you need to go and the orientation you need.
When you're free-floating, know it's all up to you
to control yourself though.
It's a little bit
more challenging from a body control standpoint.
-Now you and Jim were out in space
for an awful long time today.
I had probably three or meals while you guys were out there,
and I was wondering how -- what do you do out there
for food when you're in your space suit?
-Well, the only thing you have with you
is water, you know, so --
In fact, that's one of our Internet questions
from Bill Gruteshank from Edmonton,
Alberta asks what do we do for nourishment
while we're out there.
And we eat as much as we can before we go out.
And then we have a drink bag with us that we can fill up with
to about 32 ounces of water that we can have with us,
and that keeps us in good shape for the EVAs.
-Thank you, Mike, for that
very illuminating talk on spacewalks,
and Steve, we're ready to send you back down to the jungle.
-Well done, guys, and Jay Leno is next.