WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:20.020 --> 00:00:21.621 HUBBLE SERVICING. 2 00:00:21.621 --> 00:00:22.956 YOU MAY WONDER WHAT IS 3 00:00:22.956 --> 00:00:23.523 SERVICING. 4 00:00:23.523 --> 00:00:25.792 THE SAME WAY YOU TAKE IN YOUR 5 00:00:25.792 --> 00:00:27.093 DOOR GET THE OIL CHANGED. 6 00:00:27.093 --> 00:00:29.129 STYLES SATELLITES IN SPACE NEED 7 00:00:29.129 --> 00:00:30.330 A LITTLE HELP. 8 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:31.965 LUCKILY TODAY WE HAVE A PANEL OF 9 00:00:31.965 --> 00:00:34.501 ASTRONAUTS FROM AM THE HUBBLE 10 00:00:34.501 --> 00:00:35.602 SERVICING MISSIONS HERE TO TELL 11 00:00:35.602 --> 00:00:36.936 US A LITTLE ABOUT THEIR 12 00:00:36.936 --> 00:00:39.739 EXPERIENCE AND ABOUT SERVICING. 13 00:00:39.739 --> 00:00:41.274 STAY TUNED FOR A GREAT SHOW. 14 00:00:41.274 --> 00:00:43.309 TAKE IT AWAY. 15 00:00:43.309 --> 00:00:45.011 >> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, ERIN. 16 00:00:45.011 --> 00:00:46.146 GOOD AFTERNOON I'M GEORGE 17 00:00:46.146 --> 00:00:47.447 MORROW. 18 00:00:47.447 --> 00:00:48.982 I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE 19 00:00:48.982 --> 00:00:51.384 GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER. 20 00:00:51.384 --> 00:00:54.554 I SUPPORTED THE HUBBLE PROJECT 21 00:00:54.554 --> 00:00:55.989 AT THE TIME OF THE DEPLOYMENT 22 00:00:55.989 --> 00:00:56.256 MISSION. 23 00:00:56.256 --> 00:00:57.891 I WAS THE OBSERVATORY 24 00:00:57.891 --> 00:00:58.925 DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATOR FOR 25 00:00:58.925 --> 00:01:00.727 THE FIRST SERVICING MISSION. 26 00:01:00.727 --> 00:01:02.062 HARD TO BELIEVE THAT WAS 25 27 00:01:02.062 --> 00:01:02.862 YEARS AGO. 28 00:01:02.862 --> 00:01:05.465 I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 29 00:01:05.465 --> 00:01:07.133 I WAS THE FLIGHT SYSTEMS AND 30 00:01:07.133 --> 00:01:08.768 SERVICING DEPUTY PROJECT MANAGER 31 00:01:08.768 --> 00:01:10.503 FOR THE SECOND SERVICING 32 00:01:10.503 --> 00:01:11.204 MISSION. 33 00:01:11.204 --> 00:01:12.639 I HAVE QUITE A BACKGROUND ON 34 00:01:12.639 --> 00:01:13.840 HUBBLE. 35 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:15.875 THE AGENDA THIS MORNING 36 00:01:15.875 --> 00:01:17.610 CONCENTRATED ON THE SITUATION 37 00:01:17.610 --> 00:01:19.212 NASA FOUND ITSELF IN AFTER 38 00:01:19.212 --> 00:01:20.313 HUBBLE'S LAUNCH. 39 00:01:20.313 --> 00:01:22.549 WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED THE MAIN 40 00:01:22.549 --> 00:01:25.819 MIRROR WAS NOT CONFIGURED 41 00:01:25.819 --> 00:01:26.586 CORRECTLY. 42 00:01:26.586 --> 00:01:28.955 THEN THE HEROIC FIRST MISSION TO 43 00:01:28.955 --> 00:01:30.123 CORRECT IT WAS DISCUSSED. 44 00:01:30.123 --> 00:01:32.092 THERE WOULD BE FIVE SERVICING 45 00:01:32.092 --> 00:01:33.993 MISSIONS THAT REQUIRED YEARS OF 46 00:01:33.993 --> 00:01:35.195 PREPARATORY WORK ON THE GROUND 47 00:01:35.195 --> 00:01:36.930 BY SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS. 48 00:01:36.930 --> 00:01:38.665 AFTER ALL THE TOOLS WERE 49 00:01:38.665 --> 00:01:40.900 DEVELOPED, THE HARDWARE FOR THE 50 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:42.702 OBSERVATORY BUILT AND TESTED, 51 00:01:42.702 --> 00:01:46.539 AND FINISHED, IT FELL TO 32 52 00:01:46.539 --> 00:01:48.274 ASTRONAUTS TO EXECUTE THESE 53 00:01:48.274 --> 00:01:49.409 MISSIONS AND THE ORIGINAL 54 00:01:49.409 --> 00:01:50.577 DEPLOYMENT MISSION. 55 00:01:50.577 --> 00:01:53.546 EACH MISSION HAD IT'S OWN 56 00:01:53.546 --> 00:01:54.247 OVERALL PURPOSE. 57 00:01:54.247 --> 00:01:55.949 SOME WERE TO SAVE HUBBLE. 58 00:01:55.949 --> 00:01:57.817 IT WAS HOBBLED BY THE BLURRED 59 00:01:57.817 --> 00:02:00.987 VISION OR INCAPACITATED. 60 00:02:00.987 --> 00:02:02.589 OTHER MISSIONS WERE CREATED TO 61 00:02:02.589 --> 00:02:04.524 EXPAND HUBBLE'S VISION WITH NEW 62 00:02:04.524 --> 00:02:08.328 INSTRUMENTS DESIGNED TO DETECT 63 00:02:08.328 --> 00:02:11.498 DIFFERENT WAVE LENGTHS. 64 00:02:11.498 --> 00:02:14.968 ONE WAS TO OUTFIT IT TO LAST AS 65 00:02:14.968 --> 00:02:16.269 LONG AS POSSIBLE. 66 00:02:16.269 --> 00:02:18.204 EACH MISSION HAD ITS OWN SET OF 67 00:02:18.204 --> 00:02:18.938 CHALLENGES. 68 00:02:18.938 --> 00:02:20.540 YET THEY ALL HAD THE SAME 69 00:02:20.540 --> 00:02:21.741 AMAZING RESULT. 70 00:02:21.741 --> 00:02:24.277 THE ASTRONAUTS EXCEEDED IN EVERY 71 00:02:24.277 --> 00:02:26.513 TASK ON EVERY MISSION, MAKING 72 00:02:26.513 --> 00:02:30.483 EACH FLIGHT A COMPLETE 73 00:02:30.483 --> 00:02:30.783 SUCCESSION. 74 00:02:30.783 --> 00:02:32.085 WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE SEVEN 75 00:02:32.085 --> 00:02:33.253 ASTRONAUTS REPRESENTING THE 76 00:02:33.253 --> 00:02:35.488 DEPLOYMENT MISSION AND ALL FIVE 77 00:02:35.488 --> 00:02:36.689 SERVICING MISSIONS TODAY. 78 00:02:36.689 --> 00:02:37.824 THEY ARE HERE TO TELL US ABOUT 79 00:02:37.824 --> 00:02:38.958 THE CHALLENGES OF WORKING IN 80 00:02:38.958 --> 00:02:39.626 SPACE. 81 00:02:39.626 --> 00:02:42.262 LET'S MEET THEM. 82 00:02:42.262 --> 00:02:43.897 THE FIRST, HE PILOTED TWO 83 00:02:43.897 --> 00:02:45.431 SHUTTLE MISSIONS, INCLUDING 84 00:02:45.431 --> 00:02:49.269 STS-31 THAT DEPLOYED HUBBLE AND 85 00:02:49.269 --> 00:02:50.904 MANNED TWO DIFFERENT MISSIONS 86 00:02:50.904 --> 00:02:52.739 INCLUDING THE HISTORIC FIRST 87 00:02:52.739 --> 00:02:54.941 JOINT AMERICAN-RUSSIAN SPACE 88 00:02:54.941 --> 00:02:56.943 SHUTTLE MISSION IN 1994. 89 00:02:56.943 --> 00:02:59.712 HE HAS A DISTINGUISHED 34-YEAR 90 00:02:59.712 --> 00:03:01.748 CAREER IN THE MARINE CORPS THAT 91 00:03:01.748 --> 00:03:04.384 INCLUDED FLYING OVER 100 COMBAT 92 00:03:04.384 --> 00:03:06.986 MISSIONS OVER SOUTHEAST ASIAN. 93 00:03:06.986 --> 00:03:09.022 HE WOULD SERVE AS ADMINISTRATOR 94 00:03:09.022 --> 00:03:12.091 OF NASA FOR OVER SEVEN YEARS. 95 00:03:12.091 --> 00:03:14.427 HE IS CURRENTLY AN INDEPENDENT 96 00:03:14.427 --> 00:03:18.598 CONSULTATN IN NATIONAL SECURITY 97 00:03:18.598 --> 00:03:19.365 AFFAIRS. 98 00:03:19.365 --> 00:03:24.637 PLEASE WELCOME MAJOR GENERAL 99 00:03:24.637 --> 00:03:29.175 CHARLES BOLDEN. 100 00:03:29.175 --> 00:03:31.444 [APPLAUSE] 101 00:03:31.444 --> 00:03:33.313 THE SECOND IS A VETERAN OF FIVE 102 00:03:33.313 --> 00:03:34.080 SHUTTLE FLIGHTS. 103 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.648 ON HIS FIRST MISSION, HE MADE 104 00:03:35.648 --> 00:03:39.219 THE FIRST STS CONTINGENCY 105 00:03:39.219 --> 00:03:40.720 SPACEWALK AND ATTEMPTED RESCUE 106 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:42.222 OF A MALFUNCTIONING SATELLITE. 107 00:03:42.222 --> 00:03:43.556 HIS FOURTH FLIGHT, HE WOULD 108 00:03:43.556 --> 00:03:45.692 CONDUCT THREE EVAs AS PART OF 109 00:03:45.692 --> 00:03:47.627 THE FIRST SERVICING MISSION AND 110 00:03:47.627 --> 00:03:49.429 INSTALLED THE HISTORIC WIDE 111 00:03:49.429 --> 00:03:51.831 FIELD PLANETARY CAMERA 2. 112 00:03:51.831 --> 00:03:53.600 HE WOULD BECOME NASA'S EUROPEAN 113 00:03:53.600 --> 00:03:54.701 REPRESENTATIVE IN PARIS. 114 00:03:54.701 --> 00:03:55.401 HE IS CURRENTLY AT THE AMERICAN 115 00:03:55.401 --> 00:04:01.574 INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND 116 00:04:01.574 --> 00:04:02.575 ASTRONAUTICS. 117 00:04:02.575 --> 00:04:04.911 PLEASE WELCOME DR. JEFFREY 118 00:04:04.911 --> 00:04:05.411 HOFFMAN. 119 00:04:05.411 --> 00:04:13.152 SHE WAS A MISSION SPECIALIST ON 120 00:04:13.152 --> 00:04:14.354 FOUR SHUTTLE FLIGHTS. 121 00:04:14.354 --> 00:04:15.888 HER FIRST FLIGHT WAS A 122 00:04:15.888 --> 00:04:17.190 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MISSION. 123 00:04:17.190 --> 00:04:18.725 HER SECOND WAS ON THE MAIDEN 124 00:04:18.725 --> 00:04:19.726 VOYAGE OF SPACE SHUTTLE 125 00:04:19.726 --> 00:04:22.662 ENDEAVOUR, WHERE THEY EVALUATED 126 00:04:22.662 --> 00:04:24.197 SPACE STATION ASSEMBLY 127 00:04:24.197 --> 00:04:24.564 TECHNIQUES. 128 00:04:24.564 --> 00:04:27.433 HER THIRD FLIGHT WAS THE FIRST 129 00:04:27.433 --> 00:04:29.969 SERVICING MISSION WHERE SHE 130 00:04:29.969 --> 00:04:33.273 INSTALLED COSTAR, A ROBOTIC 131 00:04:33.273 --> 00:04:34.874 DEVICE THAT COMPENSATED FOR THE 132 00:04:34.874 --> 00:04:38.811 INACCURATELY CONFIGURED MIRROR. 133 00:04:38.811 --> 00:04:40.446 SHE IS A PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL 134 00:04:40.446 --> 00:04:43.483 AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AT MY 135 00:04:43.483 --> 00:04:45.118 ALMA MATER, THE UNIVERSITY OF 136 00:04:45.118 --> 00:04:45.385 VIRGINIA. 137 00:04:45.385 --> 00:04:50.690 PLEASE WELCOME DR. KATHRYN 138 00:04:50.690 --> 00:04:52.692 THORNTON. 139 00:04:52.692 --> 00:04:56.963 HE FLEW FOUR SHUTTLE MISSIONS 140 00:04:56.963 --> 00:04:58.464 INCLUDING THE ONE THAT LAUNCHED 141 00:04:58.464 --> 00:05:01.000 THE MAGELLAN PROBE TO VENUS. 142 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:02.101 HUBBLE'S SECOND SERVICING 143 00:05:02.101 --> 00:05:03.036 MISSION, HE PERFORMED THREE 144 00:05:03.036 --> 00:05:04.971 EVAs AND INSTALLED TWO NEW 145 00:05:04.971 --> 00:05:06.272 INSTRUMENTS. 146 00:05:06.272 --> 00:05:09.008 THE SPACE TELESCOPE SPECTROGRAPH 147 00:05:09.008 --> 00:05:11.077 AND THE NEAR-INFRARED CAMERA AND 148 00:05:11.077 --> 00:05:14.080 A MULTIPLE OBJECT TRACKING. 149 00:05:14.080 --> 00:05:15.448 HE COMPLETED HIS DISTINGUISHED 150 00:05:15.448 --> 00:05:18.985 CAREER FLYING F-4s AND F-16s 151 00:05:18.985 --> 00:05:20.887 AND HAS BEEN IN THE UNITED 152 00:05:20.887 --> 00:05:21.921 STATES AIR FORCE AND IS THE 153 00:05:21.921 --> 00:05:23.423 DIRECTOR OF AEROSPACE FACILITIES 154 00:05:23.423 --> 00:05:26.159 FOR ENGINEERING, INCORPORATED. 155 00:05:26.159 --> 00:05:33.199 PLEASE WELCOME COLONEL MARK LEE. 156 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:35.134 [APPLAUSE] 157 00:05:35.134 --> 00:05:37.036 >> OUR NEXT ASTRONAUT VISITED 158 00:05:37.036 --> 00:05:38.671 HUBBLE MORE THAN ANY OTHER WITH 159 00:05:38.671 --> 00:05:40.406 THREE SERVICING MISSIONS TO HIS 160 00:05:40.406 --> 00:05:41.808 CREDIT. 161 00:05:41.808 --> 00:05:44.644 HE CONDUCTED EIGHT SPACEWALKS. 162 00:05:44.644 --> 00:05:46.279 HE FLEW ON TWO EARLIER SHUTTLE 163 00:05:46.279 --> 00:05:47.980 MISSIONS INCLUDING ONE TO THE 164 00:05:47.980 --> 00:05:51.617 RUSSIAN SPACE STATION MIR. 165 00:05:51.617 --> 00:05:54.053 HE WOULD SERVE AS NASA's CHIEF 166 00:05:54.053 --> 00:05:55.688 SCIENTIST AND LEAD ALL SCIENCE 167 00:05:55.688 --> 00:05:57.924 FOR NASA AS ASSOCIATED 168 00:05:57.924 --> 00:05:59.559 ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE SCIENCE 169 00:05:59.559 --> 00:06:00.760 MISSION DIRECTOR OF NASA 170 00:06:00.760 --> 00:06:01.561 HEADQUARTERS. 171 00:06:01.561 --> 00:06:04.697 HE IS CURRENTLY AN EMERITUS 172 00:06:04.697 --> 00:06:05.631 SCIENTIST WORKING ON HUBBLE 173 00:06:05.631 --> 00:06:07.333 OBSERVATIONS OF THE EUROPA AND 174 00:06:07.333 --> 00:06:09.502 COLLABORATING WITH GODDARD AND 175 00:06:09.502 --> 00:06:12.438 JPL ON THE DESIGN OF THE NEXT 176 00:06:12.438 --> 00:06:13.973 GENERATION OF SERVICEABLE 177 00:06:13.973 --> 00:06:14.974 TELESCOPES. 178 00:06:14.974 --> 00:06:17.410 PLEASE WELCOME DR. JOHN 179 00:06:17.410 --> 00:06:24.684 GRUNSFELD. 180 00:06:24.684 --> 00:06:25.918 >> HE PILOTED TWO SHUTTLE 181 00:06:25.918 --> 00:06:28.020 MISSIONS AND SERVED AS COMMANDER 182 00:06:28.020 --> 00:06:29.956 OF THE LAST TWO HUBBLE SERVICING 183 00:06:29.956 --> 00:06:30.623 MISSIONS. 184 00:06:30.623 --> 00:06:32.191 HE WAS ASSIGNED TO NASA 185 00:06:32.191 --> 00:06:35.795 HEADQUARTERS AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR 186 00:06:35.795 --> 00:06:37.397 OF THE EXPLORATION SYSTEMS 187 00:06:37.397 --> 00:06:38.831 MISSION DIRECTOR AND LATER 188 00:06:38.831 --> 00:06:40.566 SERVED AS CHIEF OF THE 189 00:06:40.566 --> 00:06:42.468 EXPLORATION BRANCH OF THE 190 00:06:42.468 --> 00:06:43.469 ASTRONAUT OFFICE. 191 00:06:43.469 --> 00:06:45.104 HE WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED PILOT IN 192 00:06:45.104 --> 00:06:49.542 THE NAVY FLYING F-14A AND F-14B 193 00:06:49.542 --> 00:06:52.678 TOMCATS, A NATIVE OF HOLLYWOOD. 194 00:06:52.678 --> 00:06:54.714 HE DEBUTED BUZZING THE TOWER IN 195 00:06:54.714 --> 00:06:56.516 THE MOVIE "TOP GUN." 196 00:06:56.516 --> 00:06:58.084 HE IS THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT 197 00:06:58.084 --> 00:07:01.220 FOR CIVIL PROGRAMS AT AEROSPACE 198 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:02.822 AND MISSION SYSTEMS. 199 00:07:02.822 --> 00:07:07.160 PLEASE WELCOME CAPTAIN SCOTT 200 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:08.861 ALTMAN. 201 00:07:08.861 --> 00:07:09.429 [APPLAUSE] 202 00:07:09.429 --> 00:07:11.964 >> THANK YOU. 203 00:07:11.964 --> 00:07:13.065 >> LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT 204 00:07:13.065 --> 00:07:13.833 LEAST. 205 00:07:13.833 --> 00:07:16.436 HE IS A VETERAN OF THE LAST TWO 206 00:07:16.436 --> 00:07:17.737 HUBBLE SERVICING MISSIONS. 207 00:07:17.737 --> 00:07:19.672 HE PERFORMED FOUR SPACEWALKS AND 208 00:07:19.672 --> 00:07:21.474 WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO REPAIR 209 00:07:21.474 --> 00:07:22.975 AN INSTRUMENT IN SPACE. 210 00:07:22.975 --> 00:07:25.645 AN ACTIVITY THAT IS NOT 211 00:07:25.645 --> 00:07:26.446 DESIGNED. 212 00:07:26.446 --> 00:07:27.680 HE HOLDS FIVE DEGREES AND HAS 213 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:30.616 BEEN ON THE FACULTY OF RICE AND 214 00:07:30.616 --> 00:07:32.518 GEORGIA TECH AND NOW IS 215 00:07:32.518 --> 00:07:33.719 PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL 216 00:07:33.719 --> 00:07:37.957 ENGINEERING AT COLUMBIA 217 00:07:37.957 --> 00:07:38.558 UNIVERSITY. 218 00:07:38.558 --> 00:07:41.928 TODAY WE GET TO SEE HIM HERE 219 00:07:41.928 --> 00:07:42.495 LIVE. 220 00:07:42.495 --> 00:07:45.465 PLEASE WECOME DR. MICHAEL 221 00:07:45.465 --> 00:07:47.567 MASSIMINO. 222 00:07:47.567 --> 00:07:51.804 [APPLAUSE] 223 00:07:51.804 --> 00:07:53.039 >> GREAT TO HAVE ALL OF YOU 224 00:07:53.039 --> 00:07:53.539 HERE. 225 00:07:53.539 --> 00:07:55.174 PLEASE MAKE YOURSELVES 226 00:07:55.174 --> 00:07:57.343 COMFORTABLE. 227 00:07:57.343 --> 00:07:59.512 SO WE ARE REALLY CHOMPING AT THE 228 00:07:59.512 --> 00:08:00.546 BIT TO HEAR ABOUT THE CHALLENGES 229 00:08:00.546 --> 00:08:02.381 AND LESSONS LEARNED ACROSS ALL 230 00:08:02.381 --> 00:08:03.149 THE MISSIONS. 231 00:08:03.149 --> 00:08:04.684 EACH HAD ITS OWN AMAZING 232 00:08:04.684 --> 00:08:05.184 STORIES. 233 00:08:05.184 --> 00:08:06.719 WE'LL HEAR FROM THEM. 234 00:08:06.719 --> 00:08:09.155 I'LL ASK THEM SOME THINGS AND 235 00:08:09.155 --> 00:08:11.290 LET THEM TALK ABOUT THEM. 236 00:08:11.290 --> 00:08:14.861 SO, FIRST, REALLY FOR CHARLES, 237 00:08:14.861 --> 00:08:16.395 CHARLEY I'D LIKE TO ASK YOU THE 238 00:08:16.395 --> 00:08:17.597 FIRST QUESTION. 239 00:08:17.597 --> 00:08:19.131 AS A FORMER ASTRONAUT 240 00:08:19.131 --> 00:08:21.267 PERSPECTIVE, AS WELL AS FROM A 241 00:08:21.267 --> 00:08:23.069 NASA ADMINISTRATIVE PERSPECTIVE, 242 00:08:23.069 --> 00:08:24.504 WHAT DO YOU THINK FOR THE TOP 243 00:08:24.504 --> 00:08:26.038 ONE OR TWO MOST CHALLENGING 244 00:08:26.038 --> 00:08:28.641 ASPECTS OF HUBBLE SERVICING? 245 00:08:28.641 --> 00:08:29.976 >> OH, I'M NOT THE RIGHT PERSON 246 00:08:29.976 --> 00:08:31.911 TO ASK, FIRST OF ALL, SINCE I 247 00:08:31.911 --> 00:08:33.579 WAS NOT A SERVICER. 248 00:08:33.579 --> 00:08:35.214 BUT I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT ONE OR 249 00:08:35.214 --> 00:08:37.116 TWO OF THE MOST CHALLENGING 250 00:08:37.116 --> 00:08:39.151 THINGS ABOUT DELIVERING IT AND 251 00:08:39.151 --> 00:08:41.687 THE PEOPLE HERE AT GODDARD 252 00:08:41.687 --> 00:08:44.023 PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN WORKING 253 00:08:44.023 --> 00:08:44.357 THROUGH IT. 254 00:08:44.357 --> 00:08:45.658 ONE WAS GETTING IT OUT OF THE 255 00:08:45.658 --> 00:08:49.195 PAYLOAD BAY WHEN WE HAD THE ROE 256 00:08:49.195 --> 00:08:51.631 MOAT SYSTEM AND THE ROBOTIC ARM 257 00:08:51.631 --> 00:08:53.666 DIDN'T WORK EXACTLY THE WAY THAT 258 00:08:53.666 --> 00:08:54.634 WE HAD TRAINED. 259 00:08:54.634 --> 00:08:57.103 IT ACTUALLY WAS NOT ACCUSTOMED, 260 00:08:57.103 --> 00:09:00.239 I THINK, TO JUST THE MASS OF 261 00:09:00.239 --> 00:09:00.540 HUBBLE. 262 00:09:00.540 --> 00:09:02.375 SO WE STARTED WHAT WAS TO BE A 263 00:09:02.375 --> 00:09:05.378 STRAIGHTFORWARD, LIFT IT OUT. 264 00:09:05.378 --> 00:09:08.948 DR. STEVE HARLEY, THE RNS 265 00:09:08.948 --> 00:09:10.316 OPERATOR SAU IT WAS BEGINNING TO 266 00:09:10.316 --> 00:09:11.918 PITCH AND ROLL AND DO ALL SORTS 267 00:09:11.918 --> 00:09:12.718 OF THINKS. 268 00:09:12.718 --> 00:09:14.253 I WAS CALLED TO DO MY DUTY, 269 00:09:14.253 --> 00:09:15.888 WHICH WAS TO READ HIM NUMBERS SO 270 00:09:15.888 --> 00:09:18.324 HE COULD KEEP IT STRAIGHT AS WE 271 00:09:18.324 --> 00:09:19.825 TOOK WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A 272 00:09:19.825 --> 00:09:22.061 57 OR 10 MINUTE EVOLUTION AND 273 00:09:22.061 --> 00:09:23.863 TURN IT INTO AN HOUR OR MORE. 274 00:09:23.863 --> 00:09:27.033 THEN WE GOT HIGH GAIN ANTENNA, 275 00:09:27.033 --> 00:09:29.869 THE FIRST SOLAR ARRAY OUT, THE 276 00:09:29.869 --> 00:09:30.970 SECOND STARTED. 277 00:09:30.970 --> 00:09:34.307 I THINK WE GOT 16-INCHES OUT AND 278 00:09:34.307 --> 00:09:35.708 IT STOPPED. 279 00:09:35.708 --> 00:09:38.244 WE SPENT THE REST OF THE DAY 280 00:09:38.244 --> 00:09:39.579 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS 281 00:09:39.579 --> 00:09:41.180 WRONG. 282 00:09:41.180 --> 00:09:42.582 IF I GET THIS STORY WRONG, 283 00:09:42.582 --> 00:09:43.916 SOMEBODY IN THE AUDIENCE SAY 284 00:09:43.916 --> 00:09:45.651 "THAT'S NOT RIGHT." 285 00:09:45.651 --> 00:09:47.853 WE WERE TOLD THERE WAS A YOUNG 286 00:09:47.853 --> 00:09:50.690 ENGINEER AT GODDARD WHO SAID I 287 00:09:50.690 --> 00:09:52.024 DON'T THINK THERE IS ANYTHING 288 00:09:52.024 --> 00:09:54.660 MECHANICALLY WRONG, I THINK IT'S 289 00:09:54.660 --> 00:09:55.661 SOMETHING CALLED THE TENSION 290 00:09:55.661 --> 00:09:57.463 MONITORING MODULE. 291 00:09:57.463 --> 00:10:01.434 THE LATE BRUCE McCANDLESS, AS 292 00:10:01.434 --> 00:10:04.270 SOON AS IT STOPPED, HE SAYS, I 293 00:10:04.270 --> 00:10:05.304 THINK IT'S THE TENSION 294 00:10:05.304 --> 00:10:06.706 MONITORING MODULE. 295 00:10:06.706 --> 00:10:09.842 FOR THOSE WHO KNEW BRUCE, WE 296 00:10:09.842 --> 00:10:11.377 LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, WHAT THE 297 00:10:11.377 --> 00:10:14.113 HELL IS A TENSION MONITORING 298 00:10:14.113 --> 00:10:15.114 MODULE? 299 00:10:15.114 --> 00:10:16.148 SEVERAL HOURS LATER IT TURNED 300 00:10:16.148 --> 00:10:18.451 OUT THAT THAT IS WHAT IT WAS. 301 00:10:18.451 --> 00:10:20.987 IT TURNED THE 1 INTO A 0. 302 00:10:20.987 --> 00:10:22.922 THE SOLAR ARRAY WENT OUT. 303 00:10:22.922 --> 00:10:25.658 WE TESTED TO GET INTO AN 304 00:10:25.658 --> 00:10:26.892 APPROPRIATE ATTITUDE AND 305 00:10:26.892 --> 00:10:27.860 DEPLOYED IT. 306 00:10:27.860 --> 00:10:29.528 THOSE ARE TWO OF THE THINGS THAT 307 00:10:29.528 --> 00:10:32.965 ALMOST KEPT HUBBLE FROM BEING 308 00:10:32.965 --> 00:10:33.633 HUBBLE. 309 00:10:33.633 --> 00:10:35.401 BRUCE AND CATHY DIDN'T GET TO 310 00:10:35.401 --> 00:10:36.802 SEE IT DEPLOYED BECAUSE THEY 311 00:10:36.802 --> 00:10:38.838 WERE IN THE AIRLOCK AND GETTING 312 00:10:38.838 --> 00:10:43.175 READY TO PERFORM A MANUAL DEPLOY 313 00:10:43.175 --> 00:10:46.345 OF THE SOLAR ARRAY. 314 00:10:46.345 --> 00:10:47.446 >> EVEN ON THE MISSION WE WERE 315 00:10:47.446 --> 00:10:49.849 TRAINING FOR CONTINGENCIES. 316 00:10:49.849 --> 00:10:55.321 I REMEMBER THAT VERY WELL. 317 00:10:55.321 --> 00:10:56.555 >> ANOTHER MINUTE OR TWO TO 318 00:10:56.555 --> 00:10:59.792 RESET THAT MONITORING DEVICE, 319 00:10:59.792 --> 00:11:01.427 THE AIRLOCK WOULD HAVE BEEN OPEN 320 00:11:01.427 --> 00:11:02.828 AND WE WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF 321 00:11:02.828 --> 00:11:03.529 THERE. 322 00:11:03.529 --> 00:11:05.765 THAT IS WHY THEY HAVE NEVER 323 00:11:05.765 --> 00:11:07.466 FORGIVEN ME TO THIS DAY. 324 00:11:07.466 --> 00:11:09.502 THEY BLAME ME FOR THE GUYS AT 325 00:11:09.502 --> 00:11:14.607 GODDARD BEING VERY EFFICIENT. 326 00:11:14.607 --> 00:11:15.307 >> ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, 327 00:11:15.307 --> 00:11:16.008 CHARLES. 328 00:11:16.008 --> 00:11:18.544 LET'S SEE, FOR JEFF AND KATHY, 329 00:11:18.544 --> 00:11:19.645 MAYBE. 330 00:11:19.645 --> 00:11:20.479 YOU HAD THE HONOR OF BEING 331 00:11:20.479 --> 00:11:21.914 ASSIGNED TO THE FIRST SERVICING 332 00:11:21.914 --> 00:11:23.315 MISSION, WHICH WAS MUCH MORE 333 00:11:23.315 --> 00:11:24.550 COMPLEX THAN ANYTHING THAT HAD 334 00:11:24.550 --> 00:11:26.152 BEEN DONE PREVIOUSLY. 335 00:11:26.152 --> 00:11:28.487 WHAT WORRIED YOU THE MOST BEFORE 336 00:11:28.487 --> 00:11:34.827 LAUNCH? 337 00:11:34.827 --> 00:11:36.762 >> THIS MISSION WAS CERTAINLY 338 00:11:36.762 --> 00:11:38.764 THE MOST COMPLEX SHUTTLE MISSION 339 00:11:38.764 --> 00:11:41.300 THAN HAD EVER BEEN ATTEMPTED. 340 00:11:41.300 --> 00:11:42.735 AND THERE WAS SO MANY PEOPLE 341 00:11:42.735 --> 00:11:45.137 ALONG THE LINES WHO HAD FELT 342 00:11:45.137 --> 00:11:47.773 THAT IT WAS TOO COMPLICATED. 343 00:11:47.773 --> 00:11:50.009 THE CHANCES OF IT WORKING RIGHT 344 00:11:50.009 --> 00:11:50.910 WERE TOO SMALL. 345 00:11:50.910 --> 00:11:55.281 BUT WHEN YOU REALLY COME DOWN TO 346 00:11:55.281 --> 00:11:57.216 IT, I THINK THE THING THAT GOES 347 00:11:57.216 --> 00:11:59.018 THROUGH THE MIND OF EVERYBODY, 348 00:11:59.018 --> 00:12:00.453 WHEN YOU ARE GETTING IN THE 349 00:12:00.453 --> 00:12:04.890 AIRLOCK, "DON'T SCREW UP." 350 00:12:04.890 --> 00:12:05.725 I DON'T WANT TO BE THE PERSON 351 00:12:05.725 --> 00:12:07.026 WHO BREAKS SOMETHING IN THIS 352 00:12:07.026 --> 00:12:08.961 TELESCOPE THAT ISN'T ALREADY 353 00:12:08.961 --> 00:12:10.062 BROKEN. 354 00:12:10.062 --> 00:12:12.031 OF COURSE, WE HAD TO GET OUR JOB 355 00:12:12.031 --> 00:12:13.032 DONE, WHICH WE DID. 356 00:12:13.032 --> 00:12:14.767 >> I WAS CONCERNED THAT THE 357 00:12:14.767 --> 00:12:16.268 INSTRUMENTS WEREN'T GOING TO 358 00:12:16.268 --> 00:12:18.104 SLIDE IN THERE LIKE THEY WERE 359 00:12:18.104 --> 00:12:19.705 SUPPOSED TO. 360 00:12:19.705 --> 00:12:22.374 WE TOUCHED AN ORBIT BEFORE THAT 361 00:12:22.374 --> 00:12:24.076 AND THERE WAS SMOKE PROBLEM AND 362 00:12:24.076 --> 00:12:25.911 SOME WORK-AROUND TO GET IT TO 363 00:12:25.911 --> 00:12:26.378 WORK. 364 00:12:26.378 --> 00:12:27.747 I WOULD ABOUT THE YOU MONEY WE 365 00:12:27.747 --> 00:12:29.381 WOULD HAVE RUN INTO SOMETHING 366 00:12:29.381 --> 00:12:32.384 INSTALLING THE COSTAR AND THE 367 00:12:32.384 --> 00:12:35.788 WFPC2, THAT SOMETHING WASN'T 368 00:12:35.788 --> 00:12:37.523 BUILT TO THE DRAWINGS OR IT 369 00:12:37.523 --> 00:12:39.024 WOULDN'T HAVE GONE IN. 370 00:12:39.024 --> 00:12:40.359 WE WOULD HAVE HAD TO BACK OUT 371 00:12:40.359 --> 00:12:43.429 AND THINK ABOUT IT SOME MORE, 372 00:12:43.429 --> 00:12:46.866 BUT IT'S WAS AMAZING, THANKS TO 373 00:12:46.866 --> 00:12:48.567 THE FOLKS AT GODDARD THAT 374 00:12:48.567 --> 00:12:50.503 MAINTAINED THE HIGH FIDELITY 375 00:12:50.503 --> 00:12:51.203 SIMULATOR. 376 00:12:51.203 --> 00:12:57.777 >> THE CONFIGURATION CONTROL, 377 00:12:57.777 --> 00:13:00.212 MADE IT EXACTLY WHAT TOOLS WOULD 378 00:13:00.212 --> 00:13:03.449 GO ON WHAT BOLTS AND EVERYTHING. 379 00:13:03.449 --> 00:13:04.383 THAT HAD A LOT OF 380 00:13:04.383 --> 00:13:05.684 RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE SUCCESS 381 00:13:05.684 --> 00:13:07.186 OF THE MISSION. 382 00:13:07.186 --> 00:13:09.221 YOU CAN'T FORGET ABOUT THAT. 383 00:13:09.221 --> 00:13:10.790 >> AS I REMEMBER WORKING THE 384 00:13:10.790 --> 00:13:16.762 MISSION, FRANK CEPOLLINA'S 385 00:13:16.762 --> 00:13:18.597 MANTRA WAS TEST, TEST, AND 386 00:13:18.597 --> 00:13:19.565 RETEST. 387 00:13:19.565 --> 00:13:21.200 TRAIN, TRAIN, AND RETRAIN. 388 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:23.536 IT PAID OFF. 389 00:13:23.536 --> 00:13:24.370 >> SO YOU ACTUALLY 390 00:13:24.370 --> 00:13:26.305 EXPERIENCED -- YOU BOTH ACTUALLY 391 00:13:26.305 --> 00:13:28.407 EXPERIENCED SOME UNEXPECTED 392 00:13:28.407 --> 00:13:30.309 CHALLENGES DURING THE MISSION. 393 00:13:30.309 --> 00:13:33.846 CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT SOME IDEAS 394 00:13:33.846 --> 00:13:36.682 MIGHT BE THE DOORS, CHASING A 395 00:13:36.682 --> 00:13:40.920 SCREW, MAYBE THE IMAGE OF THE 396 00:13:40.920 --> 00:13:41.520 SOLAR PANEL. 397 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:42.955 >> WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE GREAT 398 00:13:42.955 --> 00:13:43.522 SCREW CHASE. 399 00:13:43.522 --> 00:13:44.990 WE TALKED ABOUT THE DOOR THIS 400 00:13:44.990 --> 00:13:45.958 MORNING. 401 00:13:45.958 --> 00:13:49.728 IN THE LAST EVA, WE WENT OVER 402 00:13:49.728 --> 00:13:52.264 THESE TWO SOLAR ARRAY DRIVER 403 00:13:52.264 --> 00:13:54.400 ELECTRONICS, VERY SIMPLE PIECES 404 00:13:54.400 --> 00:13:55.267 OF EQUIPMENT. 405 00:13:55.267 --> 00:13:56.836 CHANCES OF FAILURE ARE VERY 406 00:13:56.836 --> 00:13:57.303 SMALL. 407 00:13:57.303 --> 00:13:58.704 THERE ARE TWO OF THEM. 408 00:13:58.704 --> 00:14:00.172 SO THEY WEREN'T ACTUALLY 409 00:14:00.172 --> 00:14:05.444 DESIGNED TO BE WHAT WE CALL EVA 410 00:14:05.444 --> 00:14:06.712 COMPATIBLE. 411 00:14:06.712 --> 00:14:09.815 INSTEAD OF ONE BIG BOLT, THE 412 00:14:09.815 --> 00:14:11.750 PEOPLE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER 413 00:14:11.750 --> 00:14:13.352 SCSI CONNECTORS, THERE WERE 414 00:14:13.352 --> 00:14:15.087 EIGHT SCSI CONNECTORS, 415 00:14:15.087 --> 00:14:18.324 2-MILLIMETER SCREWS WHICH ARE 416 00:14:18.324 --> 00:14:21.460 SUPPOSED TO BE CAPPED IN, BUT UP 417 00:14:21.460 --> 00:14:23.696 IN SPACE, THE WIRES DON'T LIE ON 418 00:14:23.696 --> 00:14:24.597 THE GROUND. 419 00:14:24.597 --> 00:14:26.298 THEY ARE SORT OF FLOATING. 420 00:14:26.298 --> 00:14:28.667 AS THEY FLOAT AROUND AND THE 421 00:14:28.667 --> 00:14:31.103 SCREWS START TO SPIN, HALF OF 422 00:14:31.103 --> 00:14:33.372 THEM SPIN CLOCKWISE, WHICH IS 423 00:14:33.372 --> 00:14:33.973 OKAY. 424 00:14:33.973 --> 00:14:35.407 THE OTHER HALF SPINS 425 00:14:35.407 --> 00:14:37.243 COUNTER-CLOCKWISE AND THEY COME 426 00:14:37.243 --> 00:14:37.743 OUT. 427 00:14:37.743 --> 00:14:39.478 AS YOU DO THE WORK TO REMOVE 428 00:14:39.478 --> 00:14:41.981 THESE AND PUT NEW ONES IN -- ONE 429 00:14:41.981 --> 00:14:45.517 OF THEM DID FALL OUT. 430 00:14:45.517 --> 00:14:51.590 WE HAD TO REPLACE IT IN A SECOND 431 00:14:51.590 --> 00:14:53.292 MISSION. 432 00:14:53.292 --> 00:14:55.561 WE WERE BASICALLY THESE LITTLE 433 00:14:55.561 --> 00:14:57.062 2-MILLIMETER SCREWS WERE 434 00:14:57.062 --> 00:14:58.063 FLOATING AROUND. 435 00:14:58.063 --> 00:14:59.999 WE HAVE LITTLE TRASH CONTAINERS 436 00:14:59.999 --> 00:15:02.735 THAT WE HAVE ON OUR CHEST. 437 00:15:02.735 --> 00:15:05.671 YOU GRAB A SCREW AND PUT IT IN. 438 00:15:05.671 --> 00:15:07.006 AFTER A WHILE, WHEN YOU WOULD 439 00:15:07.006 --> 00:15:08.707 OPEN THE TRASH CONTAINER TO PUT 440 00:15:08.707 --> 00:15:11.076 ANOTHER SCREW IN, TWO SCREWS 441 00:15:11.076 --> 00:15:11.977 WOULD COME OUT. 442 00:15:11.977 --> 00:15:16.649 IT'S A DEFUSION PROCESS. 443 00:15:16.649 --> 00:15:18.884 THEY SINCE REDESIGNED THOSE 444 00:15:18.884 --> 00:15:20.519 TRASH CONTAINERS SO THAT 445 00:15:20.519 --> 00:15:21.287 WOULDN'T HAPPEN. 446 00:15:21.287 --> 00:15:23.322 WE LEARNED A LOT. 447 00:15:23.322 --> 00:15:27.293 AT ONE POINT, STORY WAS IN THERE 448 00:15:27.293 --> 00:15:29.295 WITH HIS FEET LOCKED IN. 449 00:15:29.295 --> 00:15:32.231 HIS MOBILITY WAS LIMITED. 450 00:15:32.231 --> 00:15:34.033 STORY REACHED FOR A SCREW. 451 00:15:34.033 --> 00:15:36.735 DIDN'T QUITE GET IT. 452 00:15:36.735 --> 00:15:38.704 TAPPED IT SO THAT THE CREW WAS 453 00:15:38.704 --> 00:15:40.706 HEADED DOWN TOWARDS THE BAY, 454 00:15:40.706 --> 00:15:42.641 WHICH YOU DON'T REALLY WANT 455 00:15:42.641 --> 00:15:44.643 STUFF FLOATING AROUND IN THERE. 456 00:15:44.643 --> 00:15:47.012 IT COULD GET INTO A PIECE OF A 457 00:15:47.012 --> 00:15:48.814 MOTOR OR SOMETHING. 458 00:15:48.814 --> 00:15:50.616 I TRIED TO GRAB IT. 459 00:15:50.616 --> 00:15:53.385 BUT IT WAS ABOUT A FOOT FARTHER 460 00:15:53.385 --> 00:15:54.586 THAN I COULD REACH. 461 00:15:54.586 --> 00:15:58.657 CLAUDE, WHO WAS OPERATING THE 462 00:15:58.657 --> 00:16:00.960 ARM, SAID, OKAY, HOLD ON, JEFF, 463 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:02.494 I'LL DRIVE THE ARM AND YOU CAN 464 00:16:02.494 --> 00:16:03.062 GET IT. 465 00:16:03.062 --> 00:16:04.430 TURNED OUT THE MAXIMUM SPEED AT 466 00:16:04.430 --> 00:16:06.365 WHICH THE ARM COULD MOVE WAS 467 00:16:06.365 --> 00:16:08.867 EXACTLY THE SPEED THAT THE SCREW 468 00:16:08.867 --> 00:16:10.903 WAS MOVING AWAY. 469 00:16:10.903 --> 00:16:15.574 SO AS I WAS MOVING -- AHGH. 470 00:16:15.574 --> 00:16:16.809 THIS IS WHERE THE TRAINING COMES 471 00:16:16.809 --> 00:16:18.777 IN. 472 00:16:18.777 --> 00:16:20.980 KEN BOWERSOX, WHO WAS THE 473 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:24.016 BACKUP, REMEMBERED THAT THERE 474 00:16:24.016 --> 00:16:25.718 WAS A CERTAIN BIT IN THE 475 00:16:25.718 --> 00:16:26.752 SOFTWARE THAT TELLS THE ARM IT 476 00:16:26.752 --> 00:16:27.619 IS LOADED. 477 00:16:27.619 --> 00:16:31.090 IF THE ARM IS LOADED, WITH A 478 00:16:31.090 --> 00:16:32.424 SATELLITE OR A PERSON, ITS 479 00:16:32.424 --> 00:16:33.792 MAXIMUM SPEED IS LIMITED. 480 00:16:33.792 --> 00:16:35.627 SO HE QUICKLY FLOATED OVER, 481 00:16:35.627 --> 00:16:37.863 RESET THAT BIT TO TELL THE ARM 482 00:16:37.863 --> 00:16:39.465 IT WAS NOT LOADED. 483 00:16:39.465 --> 00:16:41.100 THE ARM SPEEDED UP AND I WAS 484 00:16:41.100 --> 00:16:42.701 ABLE TO GET THE SCREW. 485 00:16:42.701 --> 00:16:46.472 THAT WAS THE GREAT SCREW CHASE. 486 00:16:46.472 --> 00:16:47.573 [LAUGHTER] 487 00:16:47.573 --> 00:16:49.508 >> I WAS TALKING ABOUT -- THERE 488 00:16:49.508 --> 00:16:50.709 WAS ANOTHER CHASE F YOU 489 00:16:50.709 --> 00:16:53.545 REMEMBER, AT THE ENDS OF THE 490 00:16:53.545 --> 00:16:54.546 EVA. 491 00:16:54.546 --> 00:16:56.081 THERE WAS A SCREW THAT GOT AWAY 492 00:16:56.081 --> 00:16:56.882 FROM HIM. 493 00:16:56.882 --> 00:16:58.117 YOU HAVE ALL OF THIS STUFF 494 00:16:58.117 --> 00:17:00.019 FLOATING AROUND AND SOME OF IT 495 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:00.819 IS JUNK. 496 00:17:00.819 --> 00:17:02.054 SOMETIMES YOU DON'T KNOW IF IT'S 497 00:17:02.054 --> 00:17:03.055 CONNECTED OR NOT. 498 00:17:03.055 --> 00:17:05.224 THIS WHOLE STRINGER WAS NOT 499 00:17:05.224 --> 00:17:06.725 CONNECTED AND IT GOT AWAY FROM 500 00:17:06.725 --> 00:17:07.026 STORY. 501 00:17:07.026 --> 00:17:14.166 STORY JUST SAID, "UP, CLAUDE." 502 00:17:14.166 --> 00:17:15.567 HE SAW THE TOOLS AND THE ARM 503 00:17:15.567 --> 00:17:17.970 WENT UP. 504 00:17:17.970 --> 00:17:19.805 HE NEVER REPORTED THAT TO THE 505 00:17:19.805 --> 00:17:21.407 GROUND. 506 00:17:21.407 --> 00:17:24.176 GROUND ONLY HEARD "UP, CLAUDE." 507 00:17:24.176 --> 00:17:26.812 WHICH IS NOTE AN UNUSUAL COMMAND 508 00:17:26.812 --> 00:17:27.379 TO HEAR. 509 00:17:27.379 --> 00:17:28.814 THE THING I GOT TO DO WHICH IS 510 00:17:28.814 --> 00:17:30.449 SOMETHING THEY TRAINED FOR, BUM 511 00:17:30.449 --> 00:17:34.053 NOT EXPECTED, THAT IS THE SOLAR 512 00:17:34.053 --> 00:17:36.155 ARRAYS INTO ORBIT. 513 00:17:36.155 --> 00:17:37.322 ONE OF THEM ROLLED UP JUST LIKE 514 00:17:37.322 --> 00:17:38.390 IT WAS SUPPOSED TO. 515 00:17:38.390 --> 00:17:41.427 THE OTHER WAS RETRACTING. 516 00:17:41.427 --> 00:17:43.762 THERE WAS A KINK IN THE STAND. 517 00:17:43.762 --> 00:17:46.632 IT WASN'T GOING TO RETRACT 518 00:17:46.632 --> 00:17:47.599 PROPERLY. 519 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.669 AS SOON AS HE SAW IT GO FLAT, HE 520 00:17:50.669 --> 00:17:52.271 STROM THE RETRACTION. 521 00:17:52.271 --> 00:17:54.406 WE KNEW WE WOULD HAVE TO GO OUT 522 00:17:54.406 --> 00:17:56.208 AND TOSS IT OVERBOARD. 523 00:17:56.208 --> 00:17:58.477 WE WENT OUT TO EVA 2, OUR FIRST 524 00:17:58.477 --> 00:18:00.946 JOB, TO GO UP AND DISCONNECT IT. 525 00:18:00.946 --> 00:18:06.285 I HAD A HAND FIXTURE IN THE 526 00:18:06.285 --> 00:18:06.752 HOLD. 527 00:18:06.752 --> 00:18:09.188 TOM DISCONNECTED IT FROM THE 528 00:18:09.188 --> 00:18:11.056 TELESCOPE, THE ELECTRICAL 529 00:18:11.056 --> 00:18:12.691 CONNECTION IN THE DARK, SO IT 530 00:18:12.691 --> 00:18:16.428 WASN'T PRODUCING ELECTRICITY. 531 00:18:16.428 --> 00:18:19.164 THEN HE MOVED ME AND THE PHOTO 532 00:18:19.164 --> 00:18:23.102 ARRAY OUT THEREOF AND WE WAITED 533 00:18:23.102 --> 00:18:24.603 UNTIL SUNRISE. 534 00:18:24.603 --> 00:18:26.238 WE WANTED TO SEE THE SOLAR ARRAY 535 00:18:26.238 --> 00:18:27.973 AS WE WERE DRIFTING AWAY FROM IT 536 00:18:27.973 --> 00:18:29.808 TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS NO 537 00:18:29.808 --> 00:18:30.175 CONTACT. 538 00:18:30.175 --> 00:18:31.743 I WAS JUST HANGING IN THERE 539 00:18:31.743 --> 00:18:33.712 HOLDING THE THING. 540 00:18:33.712 --> 00:18:35.547 ONE OF THE OTHER CONCERNS THAT 541 00:18:35.547 --> 00:18:37.850 WE HAD ON THE GROUND BEFORE 542 00:18:37.850 --> 00:18:39.685 FLIGHT WAS THAT IF I EVER GOT IN 543 00:18:39.685 --> 00:18:41.420 A POSITION WHERE I HAD TO HOLD 544 00:18:41.420 --> 00:18:43.956 OUT AND DO NOTHING FOR A WHILE 545 00:18:43.956 --> 00:18:45.958 THAT I WOULD GET VERY COLD. 546 00:18:45.958 --> 00:18:48.827 MY RESTING METABOLIC RATE IS 547 00:18:48.827 --> 00:18:52.965 LOWER THAN THE MINUTE HEAT 548 00:18:52.965 --> 00:18:54.166 PRODUCED IN THE SUIT. 549 00:18:54.166 --> 00:18:56.602 THEN YOU PUT ON THE OVERGLOVES, 550 00:18:56.602 --> 00:18:58.637 AS IF THE GLOVES AREN'T CLUMSY 551 00:18:58.637 --> 00:18:59.071 ENOUGH. 552 00:18:59.071 --> 00:19:00.973 I HAD OVERGLOVES OVER THE TOP OF 553 00:19:00.973 --> 00:19:01.373 THOSE. 554 00:19:01.373 --> 00:19:03.909 I HELD ON TO IT UNTIL THE SUN 555 00:19:03.909 --> 00:19:04.910 CAME UP. 556 00:19:04.910 --> 00:19:07.079 THEN EVERYBODY GOT IN POSITION, 557 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:08.780 TOM GOT IN POSITION WHERE HE 558 00:19:08.780 --> 00:19:10.215 COULD SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. 559 00:19:10.215 --> 00:19:11.450 I TURNED LOOSE. 560 00:19:11.450 --> 00:19:12.651 I DIDN'T SHOVE IT. 561 00:19:12.651 --> 00:19:15.587 IT LOOKED LIKE I DID. 562 00:19:15.587 --> 00:19:16.588 I LET IT GO. 563 00:19:16.588 --> 00:19:18.457 CLAUDE MOVED ME BACK AWAY FROM 564 00:19:18.457 --> 00:19:19.324 IT. 565 00:19:19.324 --> 00:19:22.294 KEN BOWERSOX FIRED THE JET TO 566 00:19:22.294 --> 00:19:25.030 SEPARATE THE ORBITER FROM THE 567 00:19:25.030 --> 00:19:26.532 SOLAR ARRAY. 568 00:19:26.532 --> 00:19:29.401 YOU SEE VIDEO OF THAT, WHEN THE 569 00:19:29.401 --> 00:19:31.904 JET PLUME HIT THE SOLAR ARRAY, 570 00:19:31.904 --> 00:19:34.206 IT BENT OVER AND FLAPPED BACK. 571 00:19:34.206 --> 00:19:39.378 IT LOOKED LIKE A GIANT 572 00:19:39.378 --> 00:19:41.413 PTERODACTYL CRUISING OVER THE 573 00:19:41.413 --> 00:19:42.915 DESERTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST. 574 00:19:42.915 --> 00:19:44.850 IT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, 575 00:19:44.850 --> 00:19:47.352 MESMERIZING IMAGE. 576 00:19:47.352 --> 00:19:48.787 I HAD THE BEST VIEW. 577 00:19:48.787 --> 00:19:50.522 I HUNG OUT THERE AND WATCHED FOR 578 00:19:50.522 --> 00:19:51.223 A WHILE. 579 00:19:51.223 --> 00:19:53.692 WE ALL DID, UNTIL WE DECIDED WE 580 00:19:53.692 --> 00:19:55.294 HAD TO GET BACK TO WORK. 581 00:19:55.294 --> 00:19:57.329 >> IT WAS AN AMAZING THING TO 582 00:19:57.329 --> 00:19:59.331 WATCH FROM THE GROUND. 583 00:19:59.331 --> 00:20:01.066 MARK, YOU HAD YOUR OWN 584 00:20:01.066 --> 00:20:04.002 CHALLENGES DURING THE MISSION. 585 00:20:04.002 --> 00:20:07.639 THE FIRST INVOLVED SOME PAINT 586 00:20:07.639 --> 00:20:09.041 AND HAND RAILS. 587 00:20:09.041 --> 00:20:11.009 WOULD YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT? 588 00:20:11.009 --> 00:20:15.147 >> WELL, WHEN WE FINALLY HUBBLE 589 00:20:15.147 --> 00:20:17.482 HAD BEEN UP THERE SIX YEARS AND 590 00:20:17.482 --> 00:20:19.518 IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE SAW IT 591 00:20:19.518 --> 00:20:21.320 IN SPACE FOR THAT LENGTH OF 592 00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:21.820 TIME. 593 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:23.855 SOME OF THE HANDRAILS HAD THE 594 00:20:23.855 --> 00:20:26.491 PAINT, THE YELLOW PAINT AND IT 595 00:20:26.491 --> 00:20:27.693 CAME OFF. 596 00:20:27.693 --> 00:20:29.328 AS IT CAME OFF T STAYED IN ONE 597 00:20:29.328 --> 00:20:29.728 PIECE. 598 00:20:29.728 --> 00:20:31.964 IT JUST WRAPPED AROUND THE 599 00:20:31.964 --> 00:20:36.835 HANDRAILS LIKE A CURLY Q FRY 600 00:20:36.835 --> 00:20:38.337 SITTING ON THE HANDRAIL. 601 00:20:38.337 --> 00:20:39.771 IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE 602 00:20:39.771 --> 00:20:43.008 THE REGULATIONS, YOU HAVE TO 603 00:20:43.008 --> 00:20:44.209 PAINT THE HANDLE YELLOW. 604 00:20:44.209 --> 00:20:46.745 IT'S NOT LIKE WE DIDN'T KNOW THE 605 00:20:46.745 --> 00:20:48.280 HANDLE AND HAVING PAINTS ON THEM 606 00:20:48.280 --> 00:20:50.215 FOR 25 YEARS, YOU LOOK BACK AT 607 00:20:50.215 --> 00:20:51.116 IT. 608 00:20:51.116 --> 00:20:52.651 THAT PROBABLY DIDN'T MAKE A LOT 609 00:20:52.651 --> 00:20:53.719 OF SENSE. 610 00:20:53.719 --> 00:20:55.287 IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLEBARS 611 00:20:55.287 --> 00:20:56.989 OR SOMETHING ELSE IF YOU WANTED 612 00:20:56.989 --> 00:20:58.390 TO HIGHLIGHT THEM. 613 00:20:58.390 --> 00:20:59.524 THE OTHER THING ABOUT HUBBLE, 614 00:20:59.524 --> 00:21:00.959 YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE, YOU SEE 615 00:21:00.959 --> 00:21:02.461 THIS BEAUTIFUL THING, EVEN FROM 616 00:21:02.461 --> 00:21:04.263 INSIDE OF THE CABIN. 617 00:21:04.263 --> 00:21:06.131 YOU GO NEXT TO IT AND THERE ARE 618 00:21:06.131 --> 00:21:09.067 ALL KINDS EVER CRATERS LIKE 619 00:21:09.067 --> 00:21:10.802 GRAINS EVER SAND, THINGS THAT 620 00:21:10.802 --> 00:21:12.204 HAVE HIT IT. 621 00:21:12.204 --> 00:21:16.775 IT'S LIKE LOOKING AT THE MOON. 622 00:21:16.775 --> 00:21:18.777 IT'S LIKE IT'S TAKEN SOME HITS. 623 00:21:18.777 --> 00:21:19.811 OTHER THINGS AS A RESULT OF 624 00:21:19.811 --> 00:21:21.046 BEING UP THERE, I DON'T KNOW IF 625 00:21:21.046 --> 00:21:23.982 THEY NOTICED IT ON MISSION 1 OR 626 00:21:23.982 --> 00:21:24.983 NOT. 627 00:21:24.983 --> 00:21:27.819 AS WE UNDID THE BOLTS, THE 628 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:29.855 PLATING ON THE BOLTS, I THINK 629 00:21:29.855 --> 00:21:31.990 WAS NICKING PLATING, WAS COMING 630 00:21:31.990 --> 00:21:33.759 OFF AS WELL. 631 00:21:33.759 --> 00:21:35.694 SO YOU HAD DEBRIS FROM THE PAINT 632 00:21:35.694 --> 00:21:37.629 ON THE HANDRAILS AND LITTLE 633 00:21:37.629 --> 00:21:40.766 PIECES OF METAL OR METAL PLATING 634 00:21:40.766 --> 00:21:43.068 THAT WERE COMING OFF. 635 00:21:43.068 --> 00:21:44.102 EVERYBODY TALKED ABOUT IT 636 00:21:44.102 --> 00:21:44.503 BEFORE. 637 00:21:44.503 --> 00:21:49.074 THAT KIND OF STUFF INSIDE 638 00:21:49.074 --> 00:21:52.911 HUBBLE, IT CAN GET UP -- 639 00:21:52.911 --> 00:21:54.613 RESULTING IN PARTICLES THAT HAVE 640 00:21:54.613 --> 00:21:57.249 BEEN UP THERE, IT COULD AFFECT 641 00:21:57.249 --> 00:21:58.450 THINGS ON BOARD. 642 00:21:58.450 --> 00:21:59.985 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT OVER TIME 643 00:21:59.985 --> 00:22:01.620 WE STARTED TO SEE A LITTLE BIT 644 00:22:01.620 --> 00:22:03.822 MORE OF THE DEGRADATION. 645 00:22:03.822 --> 00:22:09.294 PART OF THE LESSONS LEARNED THAT 646 00:22:09.294 --> 00:22:10.962 IS SATELLITE CAN BE UP THERE FOR 647 00:22:10.962 --> 00:22:12.064 A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND PEOPLE 648 00:22:12.064 --> 00:22:14.700 WILL GO BACK TO. 649 00:22:14.700 --> 00:22:16.034 I DON'T THINK THEY EXPECTED THE 650 00:22:16.034 --> 00:22:17.836 BOLTS TO FALL APART. 651 00:22:17.836 --> 00:22:19.171 I DON'T THINK THEY EXPECTED THE 652 00:22:19.171 --> 00:22:22.274 PAINT TO COME OFF LIKE THAT. 653 00:22:22.274 --> 00:22:23.608 WE LEARNED SOME THINGS LIKE 654 00:22:23.608 --> 00:22:25.644 THAT. 655 00:22:25.644 --> 00:22:29.081 WE ALSO HAD EXPERIENCE WITH THE 656 00:22:29.081 --> 00:22:33.919 EXTERNAL -- ON HUBBLE DEGRADING. 657 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:35.220 >> THAT IS ANOTHER ONE. 658 00:22:35.220 --> 00:22:36.955 SOMEONE HERE CAN TELL ME IF THEY 659 00:22:36.955 --> 00:22:38.757 ANTICIPATED THAT. 660 00:22:38.757 --> 00:22:44.029 REMOVING THE BASICALLY ALUMINUM 661 00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:46.164 FOIL ON THE DOORS, BECAUSE OF 662 00:22:46.164 --> 00:22:46.865 THE HEAT. 663 00:22:46.865 --> 00:22:48.900 IT WILL CYCLE BACK AND FORTH AND 664 00:22:48.900 --> 00:22:52.070 GET FATIGUED AND PIECES OF IT 665 00:22:52.070 --> 00:22:54.373 WERE STARTING TO COME OFF. 666 00:22:54.373 --> 00:22:56.208 IT WASN'T DOING ITS JOB ANYMORE 667 00:22:56.208 --> 00:22:57.309 BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE A SHEET 668 00:22:57.309 --> 00:22:58.944 OF PAPER THAT HAD BEEN LIFT UP 669 00:22:58.944 --> 00:23:01.546 AND WAS STILL HANGING ON. 670 00:23:01.546 --> 00:23:03.281 CAN SOMEONE TELL ME IF THEY 671 00:23:03.281 --> 00:23:07.452 ANTICIPATED HAVING -- THEY ARE 672 00:23:07.452 --> 00:23:09.554 RAISING THEIR HAND. 673 00:23:09.554 --> 00:23:11.523 DID YOU ANTICIPATE THAT 674 00:23:11.523 --> 00:23:16.762 HAPPENING? 675 00:23:16.762 --> 00:23:18.096 [INAUDIBLE] 676 00:23:18.096 --> 00:23:23.935 [LAUGHTER] 677 00:23:23.935 --> 00:23:27.672 >> WE HAD TO PUT TOGETHER 678 00:23:27.672 --> 00:23:30.709 INSIDE, THE GUYS INSIDE, HE WAS 679 00:23:30.709 --> 00:23:34.212 A PILOT AND HE HAD TO FASHION 680 00:23:34.212 --> 00:23:38.784 SOME MAKESHIFT PANELS TO PUT ON, 681 00:23:38.784 --> 00:23:40.519 WHICH WERE THEN ON SUBSEQUENT 682 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.621 MISSIONS IN PLACE. 683 00:23:42.621 --> 00:23:44.956 IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I DIDN'T 684 00:23:44.956 --> 00:23:49.194 KNOW ABOUT. 685 00:23:49.194 --> 00:23:50.829 IT WAS IN SPACE THAT LENGTH OF 686 00:23:50.829 --> 00:23:53.165 TIME. 687 00:23:53.165 --> 00:23:54.166 >> IT SEEMS LIKE THE FIRST 688 00:23:54.166 --> 00:23:55.400 SERVICING MISSION WAS JUST THE 689 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.302 RIGHT AMOUNT OF TIME IN ORBIT 690 00:23:57.302 --> 00:24:01.339 FOR HUBBLE TO HAVE THE MATERIALS 691 00:24:01.339 --> 00:24:02.641 ISSUES SHOWING UP. 692 00:24:02.641 --> 00:24:05.710 BOTH THE HANDRAILS AND THEN THE 693 00:24:05.710 --> 00:24:08.146 INSULATION WERE WORKED ON IN 694 00:24:08.146 --> 00:24:10.816 SUBSEQUENT MISSIONS. 695 00:24:10.816 --> 00:24:17.989 MOVING ON TO THE SCOTT, JOHN AND 696 00:24:17.989 --> 00:24:18.790 MASS. 697 00:24:18.790 --> 00:24:25.163 YOU WERE BOTH IN SM3B AND 4. 698 00:24:25.163 --> 00:24:26.498 THERE WAS A DIFFICULT MISSION, 699 00:24:26.498 --> 00:24:27.499 CAN YOU DESCRIBE AND TALK ABOUT 700 00:24:27.499 --> 00:24:31.369 THAT FOR US? 701 00:24:31.369 --> 00:24:33.472 >> LIKE ALL THE MISSIONS, WE HAD 702 00:24:33.472 --> 00:24:37.175 AN AMBITIOUS PROFILE. 703 00:24:37.175 --> 00:24:39.744 AND ON THE THIRD EVA, OUR JOB 704 00:24:39.744 --> 00:24:42.080 WAS TO REPLACE THE POWER CONTROL 705 00:24:42.080 --> 00:24:42.347 UNIT. 706 00:24:42.347 --> 00:24:44.082 THIS IS THE CENTRAL SWITCH BACK 707 00:24:44.082 --> 00:24:45.684 FOR HUBBLE. 708 00:24:45.684 --> 00:24:47.519 THAT IN ITSELF WAS CHALLENGINGEN 709 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:51.690 WE HAD 36 CONNECTORS WE HAD TO 710 00:24:51.690 --> 00:24:53.492 REMOVE THAT WERE NOT INTENDED TO 711 00:24:53.492 --> 00:24:55.827 BE REPLACED. 712 00:24:55.827 --> 00:24:57.462 SIMPLE S BARS AND LITTLE 713 00:24:57.462 --> 00:25:01.199 SWITCHES, LITTLE RELAYS. 714 00:25:01.199 --> 00:25:03.368 BUT WE HAD TO CHANGE IT. 715 00:25:03.368 --> 00:25:06.471 IN FACT, I REMEMBER ED WEILER 716 00:25:06.471 --> 00:25:09.708 GOING TO SEE DAN GOLDEN TO BRIEF 717 00:25:09.708 --> 00:25:12.544 HIM. 718 00:25:12.544 --> 00:25:14.479 IT WAS BIG ENOUGH WORK FOR THE 719 00:25:14.479 --> 00:25:16.314 HUBBLE THAT IF WE DIDN'T FIX IT, 720 00:25:16.314 --> 00:25:19.150 WE KNEW WE WOULD LOSE THE HUBBLE 721 00:25:19.150 --> 00:25:20.452 IN A PERIOD OF YEARS. 722 00:25:20.452 --> 00:25:22.521 IF WE TRIED TO FIX IT, IT'S A 723 00:25:22.521 --> 00:25:24.022 GOOD CHANCE WE WOULD LOSE THE 724 00:25:24.022 --> 00:25:25.524 HUBBLE DURING THE MISSION. 725 00:25:25.524 --> 00:25:27.158 WE HAD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 726 00:25:27.158 --> 00:25:29.094 HUBBLE HISTORY AND FOR ANY 727 00:25:29.094 --> 00:25:31.029 SPACECRAFT, ENTIRELY POWER IT 728 00:25:31.029 --> 00:25:31.830 OFF. 729 00:25:31.830 --> 00:25:33.365 AS SOON AS YOU POWER OFF A 730 00:25:33.365 --> 00:25:34.332 SPACECRAFT. 731 00:25:34.332 --> 00:25:36.401 IT STARTS STARTS GETTING COLD. 732 00:25:36.401 --> 00:25:37.669 THERE IS A TIME CLOCK. 733 00:25:37.669 --> 00:25:40.505 EVERYTHING IS CHOREOGRAPHED. 734 00:25:40.505 --> 00:25:42.440 THERE WAS A MACRO OF COMMANDS 735 00:25:42.440 --> 00:25:45.477 THAT WERE DEVELOPED A SUPER 736 00:25:45.477 --> 00:25:46.278 COMMAND SET. 737 00:25:46.278 --> 00:25:48.313 EVEN BEFORE THE EVA, ONE AFTER 738 00:25:48.313 --> 00:25:50.448 ANOTHER STARTED SHUTTING DOWN 739 00:25:50.448 --> 00:25:51.550 HUBBLE'S SYSTEMS. 740 00:25:51.550 --> 00:25:53.385 AS WE STARTED INTO EVA PREPARE 741 00:25:53.385 --> 00:25:55.720 THEY STARTED SHUTTING DOWN THE 742 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:55.987 HUBBLE. 743 00:25:55.987 --> 00:26:00.258 WE GOT INTO OUR SPACE SUITS. 744 00:26:00.258 --> 00:26:01.660 WE WERE UP AGAINST THE WALL 745 00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:06.031 DOING OUR PREBRIEF, CHECKING THE 746 00:26:06.031 --> 00:26:07.832 BLOODSTREAM. 747 00:26:07.832 --> 00:26:09.568 THERE IS A STEP YOU GET TAKEN 748 00:26:09.568 --> 00:26:12.837 OFF OF THE WALL TO FLOAT FREE IN 749 00:26:12.837 --> 00:26:15.473 WITH YOUR SUIT BOLTED AROUND THE 750 00:26:15.473 --> 00:26:15.941 WALL. 751 00:26:15.941 --> 00:26:17.809 THEN YOU ARE RELEASED TO FLOAT 752 00:26:17.809 --> 00:26:19.010 AROUND THE AIRLOCK. 753 00:26:19.010 --> 00:26:30.822 THEY WERE UNLATCHING -- 754 00:26:30.822 --> 00:26:31.856 >> IT'S GREAT TO BE HERE, 755 00:26:31.856 --> 00:26:32.223 EVERYBODY. 756 00:26:32.223 --> 00:26:36.361 I DON'T KNOW WHO THOUGHT OF 757 00:26:36.361 --> 00:26:37.362 THIS. 758 00:26:37.362 --> 00:26:40.498 YOU THOUGHT EVERY 25 YEARS YOU 759 00:26:40.498 --> 00:26:41.700 NEED TO HAVE A PARTY. 760 00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:43.268 IT'S GREAT TO SEE ALL THE PEOPLE 761 00:26:43.268 --> 00:26:45.370 HERE AND TO BE WITH THESE GUYS 762 00:26:45.370 --> 00:26:47.105 AGAINEN THANKS FOR WHOEVER IS 763 00:26:47.105 --> 00:26:48.206 RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING THIS 764 00:26:48.206 --> 00:26:48.607 HAPPEN. 765 00:26:48.607 --> 00:26:50.141 WHAT HAPPENED ON THAT DAY, I WAS 766 00:26:50.141 --> 00:26:55.380 THE NEW GUY ON THE CREW. 767 00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:57.215 THERE WAS ANOTHER ROOKIE. 768 00:26:57.215 --> 00:27:01.886 JIM NEWMAN AND I WERE IN THE 769 00:27:01.886 --> 00:27:02.754 AIRLOCK. 770 00:27:02.754 --> 00:27:04.889 JIM FELT -- I FELT WATER. 771 00:27:04.889 --> 00:27:06.224 YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG. 772 00:27:06.224 --> 00:27:07.425 YOU COULDN'T SEE A THING. 773 00:27:07.425 --> 00:27:09.394 JOHN WAS TRYING TO GET MOVED 774 00:27:09.394 --> 00:27:11.830 AROUND, NOT KNOWING REALLY WHAT 775 00:27:11.830 --> 00:27:12.631 WAS HAPPENING. 776 00:27:12.631 --> 00:27:14.866 JIM NOTICED ALL OF THIS WATER. 777 00:27:14.866 --> 00:27:16.368 HE GRABBED THE TOWEL. 778 00:27:16.368 --> 00:27:18.637 I REMEMBER SOMEONE SAID, I DON'T 779 00:27:18.637 --> 00:27:20.338 KNOW WHO IT WAS. 780 00:27:20.338 --> 00:27:22.574 SOMEONE SAID "ARE WE GOING TO BE 781 00:27:22.574 --> 00:27:25.510 ABLE TO GO OUT?" 782 00:27:25.510 --> 00:27:27.646 NEWMAN SAID NOT IN THIS SUIT, 783 00:27:27.646 --> 00:27:29.147 HE'S NOT. 784 00:27:29.147 --> 00:27:32.083 I REMEMBER GETTING INTO -- JOHN 785 00:27:32.083 --> 00:27:33.118 STAYED IN THE SUIT THE WHOLE 786 00:27:33.118 --> 00:27:36.121 TIME. 787 00:27:36.121 --> 00:27:37.656 >> I WAS STILL IN THE SUIT. 788 00:27:37.656 --> 00:27:39.658 >> WE WERE MAN-HANDLING YOU AND 789 00:27:39.658 --> 00:27:41.092 THEN IT WAS DECIDED WE WOULD 790 00:27:41.092 --> 00:27:42.293 HAVE TO RECONSIDER. 791 00:27:42.293 --> 00:27:44.529 >> FACEDOWN ON THE MID DECK. 792 00:27:44.529 --> 00:27:45.430 I'M THE COMMANDER. 793 00:27:45.430 --> 00:27:47.065 I HAVEN'T TRAINED WITH THE SUIT 794 00:27:47.065 --> 00:27:47.966 OR ANYTHING. 795 00:27:47.966 --> 00:27:51.436 WE HAVE JOHN FACE DOWN, WIPING 796 00:27:51.436 --> 00:27:53.538 OFF THIS THING. 797 00:27:53.538 --> 00:27:55.774 SOMEBODY, IT WAS PROBABLY ME, 798 00:27:55.774 --> 00:27:58.309 DISCONNECTED AND ALL OF A SUDDEN 799 00:27:58.309 --> 00:28:02.380 HIS SUIT DEPRESSURIZED. 800 00:28:02.380 --> 00:28:04.182 >> I FORGOT ABOUT THAT. 801 00:28:04.182 --> 00:28:06.317 WE BROKE A LOT OF RULES. 802 00:28:06.317 --> 00:28:07.218 >> I FORGOT ABOUT THAT. 803 00:28:07.218 --> 00:28:11.222 THE THING IS, IF YOU HAVE WATER 804 00:28:11.222 --> 00:28:12.924 ON THE BACK OF A SPACESUIT AND 805 00:28:12.924 --> 00:28:15.260 YOU GO OUTSIDE, AS SOON AS UP 806 00:28:15.260 --> 00:28:17.495 GET TO THAT PRESSURE, THAT WATER 807 00:28:17.495 --> 00:28:18.496 WILL FLASH FREEZE. 808 00:28:18.496 --> 00:28:20.532 IF THERE IS WATER ON THE 809 00:28:20.532 --> 00:28:22.567 PLUMBING, WATER EXPANDS A LITTLE 810 00:28:22.567 --> 00:28:24.469 AND IT WILL BREAK THE SUIT THAT 811 00:28:24.469 --> 00:28:26.204 WOULD HAVE BEEN THE END OF ME. 812 00:28:26.204 --> 00:28:28.339 THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE FINISHED 813 00:28:28.339 --> 00:28:29.340 THE EVA. 814 00:28:29.340 --> 00:28:30.442 I WOULD HAVE BEEN DEAD. 815 00:28:30.442 --> 00:28:31.676 THE GROUND IS FREEZING OUT 816 00:28:31.676 --> 00:28:33.011 BECAUSE SUDDENLY THEY ARE 817 00:28:33.011 --> 00:28:35.914 TURNING HUBBLE OFF AND PUT IN A 818 00:28:35.914 --> 00:28:38.016 POSITION WHERE DO YOU UNDO THAT? 819 00:28:38.016 --> 00:28:39.651 IT COULD TAKE HOURS TO CHANGE 820 00:28:39.651 --> 00:28:40.018 THE SUIT. 821 00:28:40.018 --> 00:28:45.623 THE SUIT IS TIGHT, YOU DIDN'T 822 00:28:45.623 --> 00:28:46.925 HAVE TIME TO MANAGE THE WHOLE 823 00:28:46.925 --> 00:28:48.960 THING ON BOARD, TO FIGURE OUT 824 00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:50.462 HOW WE RECOVER. 825 00:28:50.462 --> 00:28:51.796 WE TRAINED PRETTY WELL. 826 00:28:51.796 --> 00:28:53.531 WE HAD TRAINED HOW TO RESIZE 827 00:28:53.531 --> 00:28:55.600 SUITS AND CHANGE SUITS. 828 00:28:55.600 --> 00:28:59.604 NOT IN PRESSURE. 829 00:28:59.604 --> 00:29:01.639 WE SAID, YEAH, WE CAN SWITCH 830 00:29:01.639 --> 00:29:02.207 SUITS. 831 00:29:02.207 --> 00:29:04.142 WE HAD PARTS TO CHANGE. 832 00:29:04.142 --> 00:29:06.044 I GOT A NEW SUIT. 833 00:29:06.044 --> 00:29:10.749 JIM NEWMAN IS TALL, I'M 5'8". 834 00:29:10.749 --> 00:29:12.383 WE HAD TO SHRINK A LITTLE BIT 835 00:29:12.383 --> 00:29:13.918 AND CHANGE GLOVES AND ALL OF 836 00:29:13.918 --> 00:29:14.986 THAT. 837 00:29:14.986 --> 00:29:16.855 IN TRAINING, I HAD A RULE WHICH 838 00:29:16.855 --> 00:29:18.356 IF YOU ARE GOING OUT EVA THAT 839 00:29:18.356 --> 00:29:21.593 DAY, YOU DON'T HELP RE-SIZE THE 840 00:29:21.593 --> 00:29:23.228 SUIT BECAUSE IT INVOLVES A LOT 841 00:29:23.228 --> 00:29:25.063 OF INTENSE DIFFICULT HAND 842 00:29:25.063 --> 00:29:26.231 OPERATIONS. 843 00:29:26.231 --> 00:29:28.466 WE THREW THAT OUT THE WINDOW. 844 00:29:28.466 --> 00:29:30.568 BECAUSE WE HAD TO GO. 845 00:29:30.568 --> 00:29:34.606 I HAD NEVER RE-SIZED. 846 00:29:34.606 --> 00:29:38.209 "OKAY, DO IT LIKE THIS." 847 00:29:38.209 --> 00:29:41.012 IN AN HOUR WE RESIZED THE SUIT 848 00:29:41.012 --> 00:29:45.350 AND I WAS BACK IN THE AIRLOCK. 849 00:29:45.350 --> 00:29:47.685 >> I REMEMBER HE HOPPED RIGHT TO 850 00:29:47.685 --> 00:29:49.120 IT TO HELP. 851 00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:50.488 >> I GOT IN THE AIRLOCK. 852 00:29:50.488 --> 00:29:52.757 I LOOKED OVER, RICK WAS SOUND 853 00:29:52.757 --> 00:29:54.859 ASLEEP IN HIS SPACESUIT. 854 00:29:54.859 --> 00:29:56.194 HANGING OUT ON THE WALL FOR A 855 00:29:56.194 --> 00:29:57.428 COUPLE OF HOURS. 856 00:29:57.428 --> 00:29:59.964 >> I THINK THAT SPACEWALK, WE 857 00:29:59.964 --> 00:30:03.001 WERE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT EDA 858 00:30:03.001 --> 00:30:04.402 AND THEN TO HAVE THIS HAPPEN 859 00:30:04.402 --> 00:30:06.838 BEFORE TO EVEN GET OUT THE DOOR, 860 00:30:06.838 --> 00:30:08.673 I WAS WORRIED ABOUT HOW LONG IT 861 00:30:08.673 --> 00:30:14.345 WILL TAKE. 862 00:30:14.345 --> 00:30:17.982 >> IT WAS, AND THIS TASK WAS SO 863 00:30:17.982 --> 00:30:19.417 COMPLEX AND SO DIFFICULT THAT WE 864 00:30:19.417 --> 00:30:21.719 HAD ALL OF ATHLETES PORTIONS, 865 00:30:21.719 --> 00:30:23.454 YOU END UP AT THE END OF THE DAY 866 00:30:23.454 --> 00:30:24.989 AND HALFWAY THROUGH WE WOULD 867 00:30:24.989 --> 00:30:28.326 FIGURE OUT HOWE TO JERRY RIG 868 00:30:28.326 --> 00:30:30.562 HUBBLE TO KEEP IS ALIVE 869 00:30:30.562 --> 00:30:31.663 OVERNIGHT AND FINISH THE NEXT 870 00:30:31.663 --> 00:30:33.064 DAY. 871 00:30:33.064 --> 00:30:37.936 JIM AND MASSIMINO HAD BEEN 872 00:30:37.936 --> 00:30:39.838 TRAINED HOW TO FINISH IT UP. 873 00:30:39.838 --> 00:30:41.706 THE PEOPLE INVOLVED 874 00:30:41.706 --> 00:30:44.442 INDIVIDUALLY, BUT IT WAS LED BY 875 00:30:44.442 --> 00:30:47.178 FRANK CEPOLLINA, THE OPS TEAM, 876 00:30:47.178 --> 00:30:48.980 THE FOLKS AT JOHNSON. 877 00:30:48.980 --> 00:30:50.615 WE HAD TRAINED THE DIFFICULT 878 00:30:50.615 --> 00:30:54.052 TEST OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 879 00:30:54.052 --> 00:30:58.022 WE TALKED ABOUT IT THIS MORNING, 880 00:30:58.022 --> 00:31:01.125 BUT A HIGH FIDELITY TRAINER. 881 00:31:01.125 --> 00:31:03.862 EVERY NIGHT I WOULD DO THE TASK. 882 00:31:03.862 --> 00:31:05.296 I HAD DONE THIS HUNDREDS OF 883 00:31:05.296 --> 00:31:08.633 TIMES BEFORE WE GOT TO ORBIT. 884 00:31:08.633 --> 00:31:14.539 EVERY WIRE AND THIS TOOK THE 885 00:31:14.539 --> 00:31:18.076 AMOUNT OF TIME WE SAID IT WOULD. 886 00:31:18.076 --> 00:31:18.910 >> PLUS THE HOUR, HOUR AND A 887 00:31:18.910 --> 00:31:21.512 HALF FOR THE SUIT. 888 00:31:21.512 --> 00:31:23.615 IT WAS STILL A LONG DAY. 889 00:31:23.615 --> 00:31:26.384 WHAT IS AMAZING TO ME, 890 00:31:26.384 --> 00:31:30.021 PERSONALLY, EVERYBODY ON BOARD 891 00:31:30.021 --> 00:31:31.222 ACCOMMODATED THE FACT THAT WE 892 00:31:31.222 --> 00:31:34.626 WERE ON THIS EVA, WE GOT BACK IN 893 00:31:34.626 --> 00:31:36.928 THE GAME. 894 00:31:36.928 --> 00:31:39.597 BUT THE HUBBLE OPS TEAM, THEY 895 00:31:39.597 --> 00:31:41.199 WERE ABLE TO GET HUBBLE TO THE 896 00:31:41.199 --> 00:31:42.000 RIGHT PLACE. 897 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.669 BY THE TIME WE WERE 15, 20 898 00:31:44.669 --> 00:31:46.070 MINUTES INTO THE SPACEWALK, I 899 00:31:46.070 --> 00:31:48.506 HAD TOTALLY FORGOTTEN WE HAD HAD 900 00:31:48.506 --> 00:31:50.208 THE SUIT ISSUE. 901 00:31:50.208 --> 00:31:51.442 EVERYBODY GOT RIGHT BACK ON 902 00:31:51.442 --> 00:31:53.478 TRACK. 903 00:31:53.478 --> 00:31:56.214 >> REMEMBER, WE WERE ON COLUMBIA 904 00:31:56.214 --> 00:31:58.316 WHICH HAD AN INTERNAL AIRLOCK 905 00:31:58.316 --> 00:31:59.550 STICKING IN THE MIDDLE MUCH THE 906 00:31:59.550 --> 00:32:02.253 MID DECK. 907 00:32:02.253 --> 00:32:03.388 WE WERE HAPPY WHEN THEY WERE 908 00:32:03.388 --> 00:32:04.088 OUTSIDE BECAUSE THERE WAS A 909 00:32:04.088 --> 00:32:08.326 LITTLE MORE ROOM INSIDE. 910 00:32:08.326 --> 00:32:09.961 [LAUGHTER] 911 00:32:09.961 --> 00:32:12.830 >> SO THE SAME MISSION, WE ALSO 912 00:32:12.830 --> 00:32:15.566 HAD TROUBLE WITH A STRIPPED 913 00:32:15.566 --> 00:32:17.168 SCREW ON THE HANDLE OF THE 914 00:32:17.168 --> 00:32:20.805 SPECTROGRAPH. 915 00:32:20.805 --> 00:32:22.440 TELL US ABOUT THAT. 916 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:27.278 >> RIGHT, THAT WAS -- YEAH, 917 00:32:27.278 --> 00:32:29.013 TALKING ABOUT THE HANDRAIL, 918 00:32:29.013 --> 00:32:29.714 TALKING ABOUT THE MISTAKE I 919 00:32:29.714 --> 00:32:31.616 MADE. 920 00:32:31.616 --> 00:32:34.953 YOU DIDN'T WANT TO SAY THAT. 921 00:32:34.953 --> 00:32:37.588 IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY. 922 00:32:37.588 --> 00:32:39.824 >> THAT'S FUNNY, MARKS, WE WERE 923 00:32:39.824 --> 00:32:40.591 TALKING ABOUT THAT. 924 00:32:40.591 --> 00:32:46.497 SAYING HOW FRANTIC -- EVERYONE 925 00:32:46.497 --> 00:32:47.265 WAS NERVOUS. 926 00:32:47.265 --> 00:32:48.533 I HEARD A LOT OF STORIES ABOUT 927 00:32:48.533 --> 00:32:49.534 WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH THE 928 00:32:49.534 --> 00:32:51.669 TEAM'S MIND WHEN WE HAD THE 929 00:32:51.669 --> 00:32:54.472 STRIPPED-OUT SCREW. 930 00:32:54.472 --> 00:32:55.840 LOOK, THIS TURNS INTO A GOOD 931 00:32:55.840 --> 00:32:56.307 STORY. 932 00:32:56.307 --> 00:32:57.141 AND IT HAS. 933 00:32:57.141 --> 00:33:00.678 SO NOW YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, 934 00:33:00.678 --> 00:33:02.714 IT IS A GOOD STORY, THE WAY WE 935 00:33:02.714 --> 00:33:03.848 FIXED THAT. 936 00:33:03.848 --> 00:33:05.550 I'LL GET TO THAT IN A SECOND. 937 00:33:05.550 --> 00:33:07.485 BUT WAS IT WORTH THE 938 00:33:07.485 --> 00:33:07.986 AGGRAVATION. 939 00:33:07.986 --> 00:33:10.088 BILL SAID, NO, IT WASN'T. 940 00:33:10.088 --> 00:33:11.956 THAT WHOLE EXPERIENCE, GOING 941 00:33:11.956 --> 00:33:13.992 THROUGH THAT, I THINK IT WAS THE 942 00:33:13.992 --> 00:33:16.127 EASIEST WE FELT WE WOULD DO THAT 943 00:33:16.127 --> 00:33:19.998 DAY ON THAT SPACEWALK. 944 00:33:19.998 --> 00:33:23.634 SO THAT TASK IN GENERAL, THE ACS 945 00:33:23.634 --> 00:33:25.236 TEST THAT OCCURRED THE DAY 946 00:33:25.236 --> 00:33:27.138 EARLIER ON EVA 3. 947 00:33:27.138 --> 00:33:29.674 THIS IS EVA 4 IN OUR MISSION. 948 00:33:29.674 --> 00:33:32.744 IT WAS -- RESTARTED WORKING WITH 949 00:33:32.744 --> 00:33:34.278 THAT YEARS BEFORE THEY WERE 950 00:33:34.278 --> 00:33:36.147 ASSIGNED. 951 00:33:36.147 --> 00:33:39.917 WE WERE LOOKING AT WAYS TO 952 00:33:39.917 --> 00:33:40.184 REFER. 953 00:33:40.184 --> 00:33:41.853 IT WAS A CHALLENGE FOR THE TEAM. 954 00:33:41.853 --> 00:33:42.754 WE WERE TRYING TO HELP AS MUCH 955 00:33:42.754 --> 00:33:44.422 AS WE COULD. 956 00:33:44.422 --> 00:33:48.326 MANY PEOPLE THAT MAY WELL 957 00:33:48.326 --> 00:33:49.594 HAPPEN. 958 00:33:49.594 --> 00:33:51.029 WE DESIGNED FOR THAT TASK. 959 00:33:51.029 --> 00:33:52.563 A LOT OF EFFORT WAS PUT INTO IT 960 00:33:52.563 --> 00:33:53.865 FOR THE FIRST TIME WE WEREN'T 961 00:33:53.865 --> 00:33:55.600 GOING TO REMOVE AN INSTRUMENT 962 00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:59.037 AND REPLACE IT WITH A NEW ONE. 963 00:33:59.037 --> 00:34:01.372 WE HAD TO FIGURE A WAY TO UNDO 964 00:34:01.372 --> 00:34:02.273 SOMETHING THAT WAS NEVER 965 00:34:02.273 --> 00:34:03.574 INTENDED TO BE UNDONE. 966 00:34:03.574 --> 00:34:07.945 IT WAS BUTTONED UP AND READY FOR 967 00:34:07.945 --> 00:34:09.480 LAUNCH AND NO ONE WAS SUPPOSED 968 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.315 TO MESS WITH IT EVER AGAIN. 969 00:34:11.315 --> 00:34:13.384 BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID 970 00:34:13.384 --> 00:34:14.152 ON OUR MISSION. 971 00:34:14.152 --> 00:34:15.987 IT TOOK A LOT OF CREATIVITY TO 972 00:34:15.987 --> 00:34:17.321 FIGURE OUT WHAT WE NEEDED TO 973 00:34:17.321 --> 00:34:19.057 REMOVE TO GET OUT AND REMOVE THE 974 00:34:19.057 --> 00:34:20.591 POWER SUPPLIES AND PUTT A NEW 975 00:34:20.591 --> 00:34:21.259 ONE IN. 976 00:34:21.259 --> 00:34:23.127 I THINK WE HAD BACKUPS FORKER 977 00:34:23.127 --> 00:34:25.730 JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER SCREW. 978 00:34:25.730 --> 00:34:28.499 WE HAD 161 SMALL CREWS ON THE 979 00:34:28.499 --> 00:34:30.601 PANEL, TWO MORE ON THE CLAMP AND 980 00:34:30.601 --> 00:34:33.738 FOUR BIGGER SCREWS ON THAT HANDS 981 00:34:33.738 --> 00:34:34.806 RAIL. 982 00:34:34.806 --> 00:34:36.641 WE WEREN'T WORRIED ABOUT THOSE. 983 00:34:36.641 --> 00:34:39.277 THOSE WERE HEX TYPE SCREWS. 984 00:34:39.277 --> 00:34:46.350 AND, OF COURSE, I STRIP THE HEAD 985 00:34:46.350 --> 00:34:49.587 ON ONE OF THEM AND THE BOTTOM 986 00:34:49.587 --> 00:34:52.090 RIGHT. 987 00:34:52.090 --> 00:34:58.196 I SAW WHAT I HAD DONE. 988 00:34:58.196 --> 00:34:59.597 >> YOU HAD TO TAKE THE PANEL OFF 989 00:34:59.597 --> 00:35:01.232 UNLESS THE HANDRAIL WAS OFF. 990 00:35:01.232 --> 00:35:02.834 >> I DID THE DEDUCTION, THE 991 00:35:02.834 --> 00:35:05.169 SCREW DOESN'T COME OFF, 111 992 00:35:05.169 --> 00:35:08.506 SCREWS DON'T COME OUT, NEW ONE 993 00:35:08.506 --> 00:35:10.241 DOES NOT COME IN, THE SYSTEM 994 00:35:10.241 --> 00:35:11.476 DOESN'T COME BACK TO LIFE. 995 00:35:11.476 --> 00:35:13.511 WE'LL NEVER FIGURE OUT IF THERE 996 00:35:13.511 --> 00:35:15.246 IS LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE AND 997 00:35:15.246 --> 00:35:16.881 EVERYONE WILL BLAME ME. 998 00:35:16.881 --> 00:35:19.684 I QUICKLY CAME THROUGH THAT. 999 00:35:19.684 --> 00:35:20.618 >> WE ARE ON THE SIDE WITH THAT 1000 00:35:20.618 --> 00:35:21.786 PROBLEM. 1001 00:35:21.786 --> 00:35:27.258 INSIDE, EVENTUALLY ON BOARD WE 1002 00:35:27.258 --> 00:35:28.493 CAN IDENTIFY THAT WE HAD A 1003 00:35:28.493 --> 00:35:30.428 SOCKET THAT COULD TAKE THE BIG 1004 00:35:30.428 --> 00:35:32.263 BOLTS THAT HELL THE STANCHIONS 1005 00:35:32.263 --> 00:35:34.932 ON THE HANDSRAIL. 1006 00:35:34.932 --> 00:35:36.834 BUT THAT WAS INSIDE. 1007 00:35:36.834 --> 00:35:38.703 BUTCH THE GROUND WAS WORKING ON 1008 00:35:38.703 --> 00:35:40.705 OTHER IDEAS. 1009 00:35:40.705 --> 00:35:43.341 IT TOOK FOUR HOURS FOR US TO 1010 00:35:43.341 --> 00:35:45.476 EVENTUALLY GET CAUGHT UP FROM 1011 00:35:45.476 --> 00:35:47.979 THE GROUND. 1012 00:35:47.979 --> 00:35:52.650 WE WERE INSIDE WATCHING MASS AND 1013 00:35:52.650 --> 00:35:55.987 MIKE OUTSIDE, THINKING THIS HAS 1014 00:35:55.987 --> 00:35:58.823 TO BE REALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR 1015 00:35:58.823 --> 00:36:01.359 THOSE GUYS TO BE OUT THERE, NOT 1016 00:36:01.359 --> 00:36:03.261 KNOWING THAT WE HAD A SOLUTION. 1017 00:36:03.261 --> 00:36:08.633 WE HAD BEEN TALKING. 1018 00:36:08.633 --> 00:36:09.834 >> YOU HAD HAD INFORMED ME 1019 00:36:09.834 --> 00:36:10.468 EARLIER. 1020 00:36:10.468 --> 00:36:12.003 >> I THOUGHT, WE HAVE TO KEEP 1021 00:36:12.003 --> 00:36:13.304 THEIR SPIRITS UP. 1022 00:36:13.304 --> 00:36:14.405 THIS COULD BE DEVASTATING. 1023 00:36:14.405 --> 00:36:17.275 KNOWING SOMEBODY IS MAKING A 1024 00:36:17.275 --> 00:36:18.676 MISTAKE. 1025 00:36:18.676 --> 00:36:20.811 CRYING IN YOUR SLEEP, YOU COULD 1026 00:36:20.811 --> 00:36:24.048 FLOAT AROUND AND GET IN -- 1027 00:36:24.048 --> 00:36:25.149 >> IT WAS TOUGH. 1028 00:36:25.149 --> 00:36:26.584 I REMEMBER ONE THING I LEARNED 1029 00:36:26.584 --> 00:36:28.719 FROM JIM NEWMAN IN THE FIRST 1030 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:29.921 FLIGHT THAT I KEPT IN MINDS. 1031 00:36:29.921 --> 00:36:31.756 NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS SEEMED 1032 00:36:31.756 --> 00:36:33.191 TO APPEAR, NO MATTER HOW 1033 00:36:33.191 --> 00:36:34.992 HOPELESS THE SITUATION IS, YOU 1034 00:36:34.992 --> 00:36:37.195 HAVE TO REMEMBER, YOU CAN MAKE 1035 00:36:37.195 --> 00:36:38.729 IT WORSE. 1036 00:36:38.729 --> 00:36:39.230 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 1037 00:36:39.230 --> 00:36:41.732 >> THAT'S WHAT I KEPT THINKING. 1038 00:36:41.732 --> 00:36:43.568 THAT'S WHAT HE USED TO SAY. 1039 00:36:43.568 --> 00:36:44.969 I KEPT THINKING THAT. 1040 00:36:44.969 --> 00:36:47.838 AS BAD AS IT WAS, LOSING TOOLS 1041 00:36:47.838 --> 00:36:49.574 AND AT THAT POINT YOU MAY NOT 1042 00:36:49.574 --> 00:36:51.075 WANTS TO COME BACK AND GET ME. 1043 00:36:51.075 --> 00:36:52.910 I KNEW I HAD TO STAY IN THE GAME 1044 00:36:52.910 --> 00:36:55.046 AND NOT MAKE THINGS WORSE AND 1045 00:36:55.046 --> 00:36:56.847 LET THE TEAM DO WHAT THEY NEEDED 1046 00:36:56.847 --> 00:36:57.848 TO DO. 1047 00:36:57.848 --> 00:37:01.419 JEFF WAS THERE AND OTHERS THAT 1048 00:37:01.419 --> 00:37:02.620 WORKED THAT PROBLEM. 1049 00:37:02.620 --> 00:37:06.991 I THINK IT WAS A VERY TOUGH 1050 00:37:06.991 --> 00:37:07.458 MOMENT. 1051 00:37:07.458 --> 00:37:09.193 I WAS KIDDING AROUND EARLIER, I 1052 00:37:09.193 --> 00:37:12.063 WOULD RATHER THAT SPACEWALK GO 1053 00:37:12.063 --> 00:37:14.098 SMOOTHER, BUT IT TURNED OUT 1054 00:37:14.098 --> 00:37:14.699 OKAY. 1055 00:37:14.699 --> 00:37:16.834 AND I THINK WHAT IT SHOWED TO 1056 00:37:16.834 --> 00:37:18.269 ME, I LEARNED SO MUCH ON THAT 1057 00:37:18.269 --> 00:37:20.171 SPACEWALK ABOUT MY FRIENDS AND 1058 00:37:20.171 --> 00:37:23.107 THE TEAM HERE, THE CREW, THAT 1059 00:37:23.107 --> 00:37:25.376 I'M GLAD IT WORKED OUT THE WAY 1060 00:37:25.376 --> 00:37:26.978 IT DID, EVEN WITH THE STRIPPED 1061 00:37:26.978 --> 00:37:27.278 SCREW. 1062 00:37:27.278 --> 00:37:28.613 I NEVER FORGET, YOU WERE TRYING 1063 00:37:28.613 --> 00:37:30.548 TO GET MY ATTENTION IN THE 1064 00:37:30.548 --> 00:37:31.015 WINDOW. 1065 00:37:31.015 --> 00:37:32.984 I THINK I WAS GETTING VICE 1066 00:37:32.984 --> 00:37:34.485 GRIPS. 1067 00:37:34.485 --> 00:37:38.623 I HAD TO COME UP TO THE TOOLBOX 1068 00:37:38.623 --> 00:37:40.925 AT THE FRONT OF THE ORBITER. 1069 00:37:40.925 --> 00:37:41.926 YOU WERE IN THE WINDOW. 1070 00:37:41.926 --> 00:37:43.160 I DIDN'T WANT TO LOOK AT YOU 1071 00:37:43.160 --> 00:37:43.561 GUYS. 1072 00:37:43.561 --> 00:37:44.862 I FELT TERRIBLE. 1073 00:37:44.862 --> 00:37:46.230 LIKE I HAD MESSED UP OUR 1074 00:37:46.230 --> 00:37:46.697 MISSION. 1075 00:37:46.697 --> 00:37:48.866 I JUST FELT HORRIBLE TRYING TO 1076 00:37:48.866 --> 00:37:50.868 GET IT, NOT MAKING WORSE, MAYBE 1077 00:37:50.868 --> 00:37:51.969 WE'LL GET A SOLUTION. 1078 00:37:51.969 --> 00:37:53.304 I DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD COME UP 1079 00:37:53.304 --> 00:37:54.138 WITH ONE. 1080 00:37:54.138 --> 00:37:56.040 I LOOKED UP AT THE WINDOW, YOU 1081 00:37:56.040 --> 00:37:58.676 GUYS ARE GIVING ME THUMBS UP AND 1082 00:37:58.676 --> 00:37:59.577 OKAY SIGNS. 1083 00:37:59.577 --> 00:38:01.312 I THOUGHT WHAT THE HECK IS GOING 1084 00:38:01.312 --> 00:38:01.612 ON. 1085 00:38:01.612 --> 00:38:02.647 I THOUGHT THERE WAS ANOTHER 1086 00:38:02.647 --> 00:38:04.148 SPACEWALK GOING ON. 1087 00:38:04.148 --> 00:38:06.784 I REALIZED AT THAT POINT WE WERE 1088 00:38:06.784 --> 00:38:09.520 A TEAM AND WE WERE GOING TO 1089 00:38:09.520 --> 00:38:11.188 EITHER SUCCEED OR FAIL AS A 1090 00:38:11.188 --> 00:38:11.656 TEAM. 1091 00:38:11.656 --> 00:38:13.591 YOU GUYS KEPT ME IN THE GAME. 1092 00:38:13.591 --> 00:38:15.226 I REALIZE THAT WHILE WELL MIGHT 1093 00:38:15.226 --> 00:38:17.161 BE GOING DOWN, BUT AT LEAST I'M 1094 00:38:17.161 --> 00:38:20.097 GOING DOWN WITH MY BEST FRIENDS. 1095 00:38:20.097 --> 00:38:26.137 IT ALL WORKED OUT. 1096 00:38:26.137 --> 00:38:28.272 [INAUDIBLE] 1097 00:38:28.272 --> 00:38:29.273 >> THAT WAS THE THING. 1098 00:38:29.273 --> 00:38:34.812 THE WFPC2 WE PUT IN, WE HAD TOE 1099 00:38:34.812 --> 00:38:37.181 TAKE OUT TO GET WFC3. 1100 00:38:37.181 --> 00:38:41.585 I WASN'T GOING TO BRING THAT UP. 1101 00:38:41.585 --> 00:38:47.124 IT WAS TWO, AM I RIGHT? 1102 00:38:47.124 --> 00:38:52.596 IT WOULDN'T MOVE. 1103 00:38:52.596 --> 00:38:56.200 THEY SAID INCREASE THE TORQUE. 1104 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:58.169 WE USED THE TORQUE BECAUSE YOU 1105 00:38:58.169 --> 00:39:00.171 DON'T WANT TO BREAK THE BOLT. 1106 00:39:00.171 --> 00:39:01.839 BECAUSE IF YOU BREAK THE BOLT, 1107 00:39:01.839 --> 00:39:03.741 THEN YOU WILL NEVER GET IT OUT. 1108 00:39:03.741 --> 00:39:05.476 FINALLY, THEY SAID -- I WAS 1109 00:39:05.476 --> 00:39:06.477 WATCHING THIS. 1110 00:39:06.477 --> 00:39:08.646 I WAS THINKING TO MYSELF, "I PUT 1111 00:39:08.646 --> 00:39:10.448 THAT BOLT IN." 1112 00:39:10.448 --> 00:39:13.084 I DID USE THE TORQUE LIMITER. 1113 00:39:13.084 --> 00:39:15.753 I CALLED OUT THE NUMBER AND I 1114 00:39:15.753 --> 00:39:19.090 ACTUALLY -- I TOLD THEM -- YOU 1115 00:39:19.090 --> 00:39:21.492 REMEMBER THAT NIGHT? 1116 00:39:21.492 --> 00:39:22.393 YOU REMEMBER? 1117 00:39:22.393 --> 00:39:24.462 I SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING 1118 00:39:24.462 --> 00:39:25.863 ON HERE? 1119 00:39:25.863 --> 00:39:28.999 I THINK YOU CALLED SUE. 1120 00:39:28.999 --> 00:39:30.735 IT TURNS OUT WE HAD DIFFERENT 1121 00:39:30.735 --> 00:39:31.602 TORQUE LIMITERS. 1122 00:39:31.602 --> 00:39:41.011 THERE IS AN ERROR BAR -- ON 1123 00:39:41.011 --> 00:39:42.713 TORQUE LIMITERS. 1124 00:39:42.713 --> 00:39:43.748 >> THEY ARE TEMPERATURE 1125 00:39:43.748 --> 00:39:44.248 DEPENDENT. 1126 00:39:44.248 --> 00:39:46.050 YOU HAVE THE CODE SIDE OF THE 1127 00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:47.685 TEMPERATURE, AND IT WAS WELL OUT 1128 00:39:47.685 --> 00:39:48.486 OF THE RANGE. 1129 00:39:48.486 --> 00:39:49.520 IT WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE 1130 00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:53.457 BREAKING POINT FOR THAT BOLT. 1131 00:39:53.457 --> 00:39:55.693 >> AS MY 2-YEAR-OLD SON USED TO 1132 00:39:55.693 --> 00:39:57.895 SAY WHEN SOMETHING WENT WRONG, 1133 00:39:57.895 --> 00:40:02.066 IT'S NOT MY FAULT! 1134 00:40:02.066 --> 00:40:02.867 [LAUGHTER] 1135 00:40:02.867 --> 00:40:05.002 >> IN THE END, THE CALL CAME UP 1136 00:40:05.002 --> 00:40:06.237 FROM THE GROUND. 1137 00:40:06.237 --> 00:40:09.140 IT WAS NOT A "THIS IS HOW YOU 1138 00:40:09.140 --> 00:40:09.874 FIX IT." 1139 00:40:09.874 --> 00:40:12.076 IT WAS A QUESTION. 1140 00:40:12.076 --> 00:40:14.912 THE QUESTION WAS, DO YOU THINK 1141 00:40:14.912 --> 00:40:18.749 MASS CAN PULL THAT HANDLE WITH 1142 00:40:18.749 --> 00:40:21.285 60 POUNDS EVER FORCE? 1143 00:40:21.285 --> 00:40:23.287 INSTANTLY I KNEW WE WERE OKAY. 1144 00:40:23.287 --> 00:40:24.922 AT THAT POINT, HE PROBABLY COULD 1145 00:40:24.922 --> 00:40:27.258 HAVE DONE 200. 1146 00:40:27.258 --> 00:40:28.793 >> I COULD HAVE REMOVE THE 1147 00:40:28.793 --> 00:40:30.795 INSTRUMENT. 1148 00:40:30.795 --> 00:40:32.496 >> WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT. 1149 00:40:32.496 --> 00:40:33.731 AS A COMMANDER, I'M THINKING 1150 00:40:33.731 --> 00:40:36.867 WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED HERE. 1151 00:40:36.867 --> 00:40:37.067 WHAM! 1152 00:40:37.067 --> 00:40:43.340 , RIPS HIS SUIT, BUT THE GROUND 1153 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:44.642 SAID 60 POUNDS. 1154 00:40:44.642 --> 00:40:46.811 I SID, I THINK WE CAN HANDLE 1155 00:40:46.811 --> 00:40:47.111 THAT. 1156 00:40:47.111 --> 00:40:48.612 THE WAY THEY KNEW IT WAS 1157 00:40:48.612 --> 00:40:51.949 60 POUNDS, THEY MOCKED IT UP AND 1158 00:40:51.949 --> 00:40:53.317 PULLED IT UNTIL IT BROKE. 1159 00:40:53.317 --> 00:40:54.585 THEY HAD A VIDEO. 1160 00:40:54.585 --> 00:40:56.020 THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T SEND THAT 1161 00:40:56.020 --> 00:40:56.720 UP THERE. 1162 00:40:56.720 --> 00:40:57.755 IF I HAD HAD SEEN THAT VIDEO, 1163 00:40:57.755 --> 00:41:02.593 WHEN IT BREAKS, IT'S GOES -- 1164 00:41:02.593 --> 00:41:05.296 >> THAT WAS AFTER THE MISSION. 1165 00:41:05.296 --> 00:41:06.630 WE THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY. 1166 00:41:06.630 --> 00:41:08.666 THAT IS ON YouTube. 1167 00:41:08.666 --> 00:41:11.202 >> THEY DIDN'T SHOW IT TO OUR 1168 00:41:11.202 --> 00:41:13.437 FLIGHT DIRECTOR EITHER. 1169 00:41:13.437 --> 00:41:15.306 THAT IS ONE OF THE MOST 1170 00:41:15.306 --> 00:41:17.708 REMARKABLE THINGS I SAW IN ANY 1171 00:41:17.708 --> 00:41:19.276 EVER THE MISSIONS. 1172 00:41:19.276 --> 00:41:21.946 LET'S MOVE ON. 1173 00:41:21.946 --> 00:41:24.782 BACK TO SCOOTER AND CHARLEY. 1174 00:41:24.782 --> 00:41:26.817 YOU WERE BOTH COMMANDERS OF TWO 1175 00:41:26.817 --> 00:41:28.519 MISSIONS, I THINK. 1176 00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:30.855 SCOOTER FOR TWO HUBBLE MISSIONS. 1177 00:41:30.855 --> 00:41:33.190 CHARLEY FOR TWO OTHER MISSIONS. 1178 00:41:33.190 --> 00:41:34.725 WHAT, IN YOUR MIND, ARE THE 1179 00:41:34.725 --> 00:41:37.127 BIGGEST CHALLENGES THAT HUBBLE 1180 00:41:37.127 --> 00:41:39.363 SERVICING IS ONE THING AND 1181 00:41:39.363 --> 00:41:40.130 UNIQUE. 1182 00:41:40.130 --> 00:41:41.565 WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT 1183 00:41:41.565 --> 00:41:44.401 CREWS IN ORBIT ON YOUR MISSIONS 1184 00:41:44.401 --> 00:41:46.937 FACED? 1185 00:41:46.937 --> 00:41:48.472 >> I'LL FOLLOW YOU, SIR. 1186 00:41:48.472 --> 00:41:50.574 >> I WAS GOING TO GO BACK ON THE 1187 00:41:50.574 --> 00:41:54.111 LESSON THAT JIM NEWMAN MENTIONED 1188 00:41:54.111 --> 00:41:56.113 TO MASS. 1189 00:41:56.113 --> 00:42:04.488 WHOSE LAW, WHO GETS IT. 1190 00:42:04.488 --> 00:42:06.156 HE WAS MY FIRST COMMANDER, MY 1191 00:42:06.156 --> 00:42:09.393 MENTOR. 1192 00:42:09.393 --> 00:42:11.862 JIM NEWMAN, WAS NOT AN 1193 00:42:11.862 --> 00:42:14.064 ASTRONAUT, HE WAS A TRAINER. 1194 00:42:14.064 --> 00:42:17.535 I TELL MY CREWMEMBERS, I SHUT 1195 00:42:17.535 --> 00:42:22.006 DOWN A GOOD BUS, IT TOOK OUT THE 1196 00:42:22.006 --> 00:42:23.607 SECOND ENGINE. 1197 00:42:23.607 --> 00:42:25.643 WE WENT INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN 1198 00:42:25.643 --> 00:42:27.645 AND DIVED. 1199 00:42:27.645 --> 00:42:29.280 AS WE LAND, I REACHED OVER, HE 1200 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.715 PUT HIS HAND ON MY SHOULDER, HE 1201 00:42:31.715 --> 00:42:35.119 SAYS, "CHARLES?" 1202 00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:37.454 WHEN I GOT IN TROUBLE MY MOTHER, 1203 00:42:37.454 --> 00:42:43.727 SHE WOULD SAY "CHARLES FRANK." 1204 00:42:43.727 --> 00:42:47.464 HE SAID, DID I TEACH YOU WHOSE 1205 00:42:47.464 --> 00:42:47.865 LAW. 1206 00:42:47.865 --> 00:42:49.400 NO MATTER HOW BAD THINGS ARE, 1207 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:52.703 YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE THEM WORSE. 1208 00:42:52.703 --> 00:42:55.339 THAT WAS WHOSE LAW. 1209 00:42:55.339 --> 00:42:57.374 THAT IS WHERE HE GOT IT FROM. 1210 00:42:57.374 --> 00:42:59.410 IT SERVED US WELL THROUGHOUT THE 1211 00:42:59.410 --> 00:43:00.010 PROGRAM. 1212 00:43:00.010 --> 00:43:01.245 ANYWAY, GOING BACK TO THE MOST 1213 00:43:01.245 --> 00:43:04.281 DIFFICULT THINGEN IMTHINK IT'S 1214 00:43:04.281 --> 00:43:05.082 PEOPLE. 1215 00:43:05.082 --> 00:43:06.917 MY MOST DIFFICULT CHALLENGE WAS 1216 00:43:06.917 --> 00:43:08.852 A COMMANDER WAS TRYING TO MAKE 1217 00:43:08.852 --> 00:43:12.923 SURE WE HAD A COLLEGIAL CREW, WE 1218 00:43:12.923 --> 00:43:15.259 ALL WORKED AS A TEAM, THAT WE 1219 00:43:15.259 --> 00:43:19.330 ALL UNDERSTOOD -- LIKE YOU SAID, 1220 00:43:19.330 --> 00:43:20.831 IT'S A TEAM EFFORT. 1221 00:43:20.831 --> 00:43:22.766 WE EITHER ALL SUCCEED TOGETHER 1222 00:43:22.766 --> 00:43:24.268 OR WE FAIL TOGETHER. 1223 00:43:24.268 --> 00:43:26.070 IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. 1224 00:43:26.070 --> 00:43:28.839 I DID SOMETHING THAT MIKE COATS 1225 00:43:28.839 --> 00:43:30.641 HAD HAD DONE. 1226 00:43:30.641 --> 00:43:32.376 WE WERE HEAVILY CHASTISED NOR IT 1227 00:43:32.376 --> 00:43:34.211 BECAUSE NO COMMANDERS HAD DONE 1228 00:43:34.211 --> 00:43:36.480 FOR IT BEFORE. 1229 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.915 I BROUGHT THE PSYCHIATRIST 1230 00:43:37.915 --> 00:43:42.853 BEFORE AND WE EVEN BROUGHT 1231 00:43:42.853 --> 00:43:43.454 OTHERS IN. 1232 00:43:43.454 --> 00:43:44.688 WHAT I WANTED THE CREW TO 1233 00:43:44.688 --> 00:43:47.124 UNDERSTAND, WE KNEW WORKING 1234 00:43:47.124 --> 00:43:49.460 AROUND THE SIMULATOR, NONE OF US 1235 00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:51.462 HAD HAD EVER FAILED TOGETHER. 1236 00:43:51.462 --> 00:43:53.797 NONE OF US HAD BEEN UNDER STRESS 1237 00:43:53.797 --> 00:43:54.198 TOGETHER. 1238 00:43:54.198 --> 00:43:55.633 I WANTED THE CREW TO UNDERSTAND 1239 00:43:55.633 --> 00:43:57.968 IS HOW DOES A PERSON WITH THIS 1240 00:43:57.968 --> 00:44:00.204 PERSONALITY TIME REACT UNDER 1241 00:44:00.204 --> 00:44:02.006 THIS KIND OF STRESS. 1242 00:44:02.006 --> 00:44:03.440 IT WAS INCREDIBLY USEFUL BECAUSE 1243 00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.042 WE DID HAVE ONE SITUATION THAT 1244 00:44:05.042 --> 00:44:07.378 WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED. 1245 00:44:07.378 --> 00:44:09.213 YOU ALWAYS HAVE CREWMEMBERS THAT 1246 00:44:09.213 --> 00:44:12.182 ARE -- YOU JUST THINK, ARE THEY 1247 00:44:12.182 --> 00:44:14.618 GOING TO BE OKAY WHEN SOMETHING 1248 00:44:14.618 --> 00:44:15.586 COMES UP. 1249 00:44:15.586 --> 00:44:17.955 IT WAS INVALUABLE TO US TO 1250 00:44:17.955 --> 00:44:19.256 UNDERSTAND HOW WE COULD HELP 1251 00:44:19.256 --> 00:44:21.592 EACH OTHER IN ??? GOT INTO A 1252 00:44:21.592 --> 00:44:23.093 REAL STRESSFUL SITUATION. 1253 00:44:23.093 --> 00:44:25.062 I LEARNED THAT FROM MIKE COATS, 1254 00:44:25.062 --> 00:44:26.463 WHO DID THE SAME THING WITH ONE 1255 00:44:26.463 --> 00:44:27.665 OF HIS CREW. 1256 00:44:27.665 --> 00:44:30.501 I THINK THE PEOPLE SKILL WAS THE 1257 00:44:30.501 --> 00:44:33.437 HARDEST THING FOR ME. 1258 00:44:33.437 --> 00:44:35.539 >> I HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU. 1259 00:44:35.539 --> 00:44:36.974 NOT JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE A 1260 00:44:36.974 --> 00:44:38.375 FORMER ADMINISTRATOR. 1261 00:44:38.375 --> 00:44:39.710 BUT BECAUSE I HAD THE SAME 1262 00:44:39.710 --> 00:44:40.010 EXPERIENCE. 1263 00:44:40.010 --> 00:44:45.349 YOU TAKE A GROUP OF INCREDIBLY 1264 00:44:45.349 --> 00:44:46.350 TALENTED PEOPLE. 1265 00:44:46.350 --> 00:44:47.584 THE THING THAT YOU WANT TO DO IS 1266 00:44:47.584 --> 00:44:49.319 TAKE ALL OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL 1267 00:44:49.319 --> 00:44:51.722 SKILLS AND FORM A TEAM. 1268 00:44:51.722 --> 00:44:53.357 ESPECIALLY A TEAM WITH ALL THE 1269 00:44:53.357 --> 00:44:55.192 FOLKS ON THE GROUND THAT ARE 1270 00:44:55.192 --> 00:44:56.694 TRAINING WITH YOU AND WORKING 1271 00:44:56.694 --> 00:44:57.494 WITH YOU. 1272 00:44:57.494 --> 00:44:59.129 GOING THROUGH THOSE, COMING UP 1273 00:44:59.129 --> 00:45:00.664 HERE TO GODDARD, WORKING WITH 1274 00:45:00.664 --> 00:45:02.800 PEOPLE WAS A KEY PART OF 1275 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:04.802 BRINGING SUCCESS ON THE FLIGHT. 1276 00:45:04.802 --> 00:45:06.236 SOMETHING WE DID THAT WAS 1277 00:45:06.236 --> 00:45:07.337 SIMILAR TO WHAT CHARLEY 1278 00:45:07.337 --> 00:45:09.373 MENTIONED IS BEFORE THE FLIGHT, 1279 00:45:09.373 --> 00:45:12.142 MY CREW AND THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR 1280 00:45:12.142 --> 00:45:13.243 CAN A LEADERSHIP SCHOOL 1281 00:45:13.243 --> 00:45:15.279 EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY WENT 1282 00:45:15.279 --> 00:45:17.014 KAYAKING UP IN PRINCE WILLIAM 1283 00:45:17.014 --> 00:45:19.950 SOUND IN ALASKA FOR TEN DAYS OUT 1284 00:45:19.950 --> 00:45:22.152 IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE GIVING 1285 00:45:22.152 --> 00:45:23.587 EACH OTHER A CHANCE TO BE A 1286 00:45:23.587 --> 00:45:25.189 LEADER ONE DAY A FOLLOWER. 1287 00:45:25.189 --> 00:45:26.790 THERE WAS A LOT OF STRESS. 1288 00:45:26.790 --> 00:45:28.659 PADDLING FOR EIGHT HOURS AND 1289 00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:30.260 COMING IN TO LAND AND SEE A 1290 00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:31.795 BUNCH OF BEARS WHERE YOU ARE 1291 00:45:31.795 --> 00:45:33.097 SUPPOSED TO CAMP. 1292 00:45:33.097 --> 00:45:33.831 AH! 1293 00:45:33.831 --> 00:45:35.199 WE ARE GOING SOMEWHERE ELSE 1294 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:36.834 TONIGHT. 1295 00:45:36.834 --> 00:45:39.169 A CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS 1296 00:45:39.169 --> 00:45:41.371 IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. 1297 00:45:41.371 --> 00:45:42.806 LIKE I HAD A CREW MEMBER WHO WAS 1298 00:45:42.806 --> 00:45:45.242 VERY VOCAL ABOUT WHAT THE 1299 00:45:45.242 --> 00:45:46.610 OPINION WAS. 1300 00:45:46.610 --> 00:45:48.045 THIS IS THE THING YOU SHOULD DO. 1301 00:45:48.045 --> 00:45:49.513 THIS IS THE ONLY THING I THINK 1302 00:45:49.513 --> 00:45:51.014 YOU SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT. 1303 00:45:51.014 --> 00:45:52.916 THEN WE WOULD TALK ABOUT IT. 1304 00:45:52.916 --> 00:45:54.551 I'D SAY, OKAY, WE'LL DO THIS. 1305 00:45:54.551 --> 00:45:58.288 IT'S LIKE, NO WAY. 1306 00:45:58.288 --> 00:46:00.057 I FOUND OUT AS LONG AS THE 1307 00:46:00.057 --> 00:46:01.759 PERSON IS LISTENED TO, HE IS 1308 00:46:01.759 --> 00:46:02.760 OKAY. 1309 00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:04.995 I HAD MY CHANCE TO TALK, NOW I'M 1310 00:46:04.995 --> 00:46:06.797 WILLING TO GO WITH THE GROUP. 1311 00:46:06.797 --> 00:46:08.432 IT WAS GOOD INSIGHT. 1312 00:46:08.432 --> 00:46:09.967 IT HELPED US BOND. 1313 00:46:09.967 --> 00:46:12.136 HAVING THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR THERE 1314 00:46:12.136 --> 00:46:15.139 HELPED US. 1315 00:46:15.139 --> 00:46:16.173 IT WAS GREAT. 1316 00:46:16.173 --> 00:46:18.909 >> ONE OTHER THING I WILL ADD. 1317 00:46:18.909 --> 00:46:20.511 YOU MENTIONED IT. 1318 00:46:20.511 --> 00:46:23.046 FOR THE COMMANDER, A SQUAD 1319 00:46:23.046 --> 00:46:24.081 MISSION WITH THE FLIGHT 1320 00:46:24.081 --> 00:46:26.817 DIRECTORS, PARTICULARLY THE LEAD 1321 00:46:26.817 --> 00:46:27.918 FLIGHT DIRECTOR. 1322 00:46:27.918 --> 00:46:30.320 WE A THING ABOUT LANDING. 1323 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:34.691 WE HAD AN ENDPOINT. 1324 00:46:34.691 --> 00:46:38.729 AND I JUST HAD THIS HABIT OF -- 1325 00:46:38.729 --> 00:46:41.064 I BELIEVED IN THE ORBITER AS A 1326 00:46:41.064 --> 00:46:42.466 SYSTEM AND I WAS NEVER WORRIED 1327 00:46:42.466 --> 00:46:44.101 ABOUT RUNNING OFF THE OTHER END 1328 00:46:44.101 --> 00:46:46.003 OF THE RUNWAY. 1329 00:46:46.003 --> 00:46:48.939 THE ENGINEER WAS DEATHLY AFRAID 1330 00:46:48.939 --> 00:46:51.175 WE WOULD RUN AN ORBITER OFF THE 1331 00:46:51.175 --> 00:46:52.776 OTHER END OF THE RUNWAY. 1332 00:46:52.776 --> 00:46:55.245 THEY ALWAYS WANTED TO USE THE 1333 00:46:55.245 --> 00:46:57.781 NOMINAL LANE POINT WHICH PUTS 1334 00:46:57.781 --> 00:47:00.050 YOU FARTHER FROM THE RUNWAY. 1335 00:47:00.050 --> 00:47:03.220 THE ORBITER IS A GLIDER. 1336 00:47:03.220 --> 00:47:05.155 I KNEW I WAS ALWAYS MORE 1337 00:47:05.155 --> 00:47:06.790 COMFORTABLE JUST GETTING TO THE 1338 00:47:06.790 --> 00:47:08.792 RUNWAY, I CAN STOP IT. 1339 00:47:08.792 --> 00:47:10.828 THERE IS NO PROBLEM. 1340 00:47:10.828 --> 00:47:12.596 WE KNEW WE HAD MORE THAN ENOUGH 1341 00:47:12.596 --> 00:47:12.996 ROOM. 1342 00:47:12.996 --> 00:47:16.834 SO I REMEMBER ONE DAY WE HAD HAD 1343 00:47:16.834 --> 00:47:17.734 A SESSION. 1344 00:47:17.734 --> 00:47:21.071 THE COMPUTER, THAT THING WHICH 1345 00:47:21.071 --> 00:47:24.041 SETS WHICH END POINT YOU WOULD 1346 00:47:24.041 --> 00:47:25.008 GO TO. 1347 00:47:25.008 --> 00:47:26.977 IT WOULD SEND US TO A NORMAL END 1348 00:47:26.977 --> 00:47:27.344 POINT. 1349 00:47:27.344 --> 00:47:29.079 THE WIND WAS HIGHER THAN I WAS 1350 00:47:29.079 --> 00:47:29.780 COMFORTABLE WITH. 1351 00:47:29.780 --> 00:47:33.250 I SAID, NO, I'M NOT GOING TO DO 1352 00:47:33.250 --> 00:47:33.617 THAT. 1353 00:47:33.617 --> 00:47:35.252 I'M GOING TO THE CLOSER ENDS 1354 00:47:35.252 --> 00:47:36.553 POINT. 1355 00:47:36.553 --> 00:47:38.188 ON THAT PARTICULAR FLIGHT I SAT 1356 00:47:38.188 --> 00:47:39.389 DOWN WITH THE LEAD FLIGHT 1357 00:47:39.389 --> 00:47:39.690 DIRECTOR. 1358 00:47:39.690 --> 00:47:41.225 I SAID LET'S GET ONE THING 1359 00:47:41.225 --> 00:47:42.025 STRAIGHT RIGHT NOW. 1360 00:47:42.025 --> 00:47:46.697 IF YOU TRY TO SEND ME TO THE 1361 00:47:46.697 --> 00:47:49.099 NOMINAL ENDPOINT ON A DAY WHEN 1362 00:47:49.099 --> 00:47:50.934 THE WIND IS LIKE THIS, I'M GOING 1363 00:47:50.934 --> 00:47:53.270 TO POLITELY TELL YOU THAT I'M 1364 00:47:53.270 --> 00:47:55.072 NOT GOING TO DO THAT. 1365 00:47:55.072 --> 00:47:58.642 SO DO ME ONE FAVOR, LEAVE THE 1366 00:47:58.642 --> 00:48:01.078 SELECTION OF THE ENDPOINT UP TO 1367 00:48:01.078 --> 00:48:02.746 ME UNLESS IT'S REALLY EXTREME. 1368 00:48:02.746 --> 00:48:04.214 BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO LAND IN 1369 00:48:04.214 --> 00:48:05.749 THE WATER. 1370 00:48:05.749 --> 00:48:08.085 AND I DO NOT WANT TO LAND SHORT 1371 00:48:08.085 --> 00:48:08.952 OF THE RUNWAY. 1372 00:48:08.952 --> 00:48:11.855 WE HAD TWO LANDERS WHERE YOU 1373 00:48:11.855 --> 00:48:13.257 NORTHERLYIZE EVERYTHING AND WE 1374 00:48:13.257 --> 00:48:14.691 DIDN'T MAKE THE RUNWAY BECAUSE 1375 00:48:14.691 --> 00:48:19.029 THE TOUCHDOWN WAS 160,000 KNOTS. 1376 00:48:19.029 --> 00:48:25.502 I ALWAYS TALKED TO THE FLIGHT -- 1377 00:48:25.502 --> 00:48:29.139 I THINK THAT THE CAMARADERIE 1378 00:48:29.139 --> 00:48:30.974 BETWEEN THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR AND 1379 00:48:30.974 --> 00:48:32.709 THE COMMANDER, THE WHOLE CREW, 1380 00:48:32.709 --> 00:48:33.410 ACTUALLY. 1381 00:48:33.410 --> 00:48:35.012 AGAIN, AT PEOPLE THING. 1382 00:48:35.012 --> 00:48:36.513 IT WAS REALLY CRITICAL FOR US TO 1383 00:48:36.513 --> 00:48:39.750 GET INTO EACH OTHER'S HEAD. 1384 00:48:39.750 --> 00:48:41.385 HE NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT 1385 00:48:41.385 --> 00:48:43.420 FROM ME AS MUCH AS I NEEDED TO 1386 00:48:43.420 --> 00:48:45.656 KNOW WHAT HE WAS THINKING ABOUT 1387 00:48:45.656 --> 00:48:47.658 ON THE GROUND. 1388 00:48:47.658 --> 00:48:48.292 >> WE TALKED ABOUT THE 1389 00:48:48.292 --> 00:48:51.128 CAMARADERIE, AFTER EVERY FLIGHT 1390 00:48:51.128 --> 00:48:55.232 WE GO ON A POST-FLIGHT TRIP. 1391 00:48:55.232 --> 00:48:58.001 BECAUSE WITH THE EUROPEAN 1392 00:48:58.001 --> 00:49:01.438 CONNECTION, AND WE INSISTED THEY 1393 00:49:01.438 --> 00:49:02.539 COME HERE. 1394 00:49:02.539 --> 00:49:03.373 >> THAT WASN'T THE FLIGHT 1395 00:49:03.373 --> 00:49:04.675 DIRECTOR, BY THE WAY. 1396 00:49:04.675 --> 00:49:07.311 I DIDN'T WANT TO IMPLY THAT. 1397 00:49:07.311 --> 00:49:08.645 HE WASN'T THE ONE THAT I HAD THE 1398 00:49:08.645 --> 00:49:09.646 DISCUSSION WITH. 1399 00:49:09.646 --> 00:49:10.247 >> OKAY. 1400 00:49:10.247 --> 00:49:17.054 [LAUGHTER] 1401 00:49:17.054 --> 00:49:18.388 >> I'LL OPEN IT UP A BIT AS FAR 1402 00:49:18.388 --> 00:49:19.389 AS HUBBLE AND THE 1403 00:49:19.389 --> 00:49:20.757 SERVICEABILITY. 1404 00:49:20.757 --> 00:49:22.726 WITH ALL OF YOUR EXPERIENCES, 1405 00:49:22.726 --> 00:49:25.362 TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 1406 00:49:25.362 --> 00:49:28.799 WHAT -- SO HUBBLE IS DESIGNED TO 1407 00:49:28.799 --> 00:49:31.601 BE SERVICED, SO TO SPEAK, RIGHT? 1408 00:49:31.601 --> 00:49:32.970 THERE WERE THINGS THAT WERE 1409 00:49:32.970 --> 00:49:35.172 DESIGNED IN IT AND INTENDED TO 1410 00:49:35.172 --> 00:49:36.540 BE SERVICEABLE. 1411 00:49:36.540 --> 00:49:37.975 AND THERE WERE THINGS THAT YOU 1412 00:49:37.975 --> 00:49:40.010 ALL DID THAT WERE NEVER INTENDED 1413 00:49:40.010 --> 00:49:40.777 TO BE DONE. 1414 00:49:40.777 --> 00:49:41.945 TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT HOW 1415 00:49:41.945 --> 00:49:43.246 HUBBLE WAS DESIGNED TO BE 1416 00:49:43.246 --> 00:49:46.283 SERVICEABLE AND WHAT ABOUT THE 1417 00:49:46.283 --> 00:49:50.954 OBSERVATORY MADE THAT THE MOST 1418 00:49:50.954 --> 00:49:51.221 FRIENDLY. 1419 00:49:51.221 --> 00:49:52.889 AND ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE, TELL 1420 00:49:52.889 --> 00:49:54.891 US WHAT YOU SAW ABOUT HUBBLE 1421 00:49:54.891 --> 00:49:57.327 THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE TO 1422 00:49:57.327 --> 00:50:01.064 MAKE IT MORE FRIENDLY? 1423 00:50:01.064 --> 00:50:02.399 >> WELL, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 1424 00:50:02.399 --> 00:50:03.600 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT EVA 1425 00:50:03.600 --> 00:50:06.036 SERVICEABILITY, YOU ARE WORKING 1426 00:50:06.036 --> 00:50:08.238 IN A BULKY SUIT. 1427 00:50:08.238 --> 00:50:13.310 YOUR VISIBILITY IS -- YOUR 1428 00:50:13.310 --> 00:50:14.878 CAPABILITIES ARE LIMITED. 1429 00:50:14.878 --> 00:50:15.846 THE OBJECT IS TO MAKE THE 1430 00:50:15.846 --> 00:50:17.381 INTERFACES AS SIMPLE AS 1431 00:50:17.381 --> 00:50:17.881 POSSIBLE. 1432 00:50:17.881 --> 00:50:19.216 THE IDEA IS THAT YOU HAVE TO 1433 00:50:19.216 --> 00:50:20.917 TAKE SOMETHING OUT, IF IT'S HELD 1434 00:50:20.917 --> 00:50:23.553 IN JUST WITH ONE OR TWO LARGE 1435 00:50:23.553 --> 00:50:26.289 BOLTS THAT YOU CAN PUT A BIG 1436 00:50:26.289 --> 00:50:29.826 WRENCH ON, THAT'S A MUCH EASIER 1437 00:50:29.826 --> 00:50:31.661 WAY THAN HAVING THE 2-MILLIMETER 1438 00:50:31.661 --> 00:50:31.895 SCREWS. 1439 00:50:31.895 --> 00:50:36.299 AND THEN AS FAR AS TAKING THE 1440 00:50:36.299 --> 00:50:38.635 BIG INSTRUMENTS IN AND OUT, THEY 1441 00:50:38.635 --> 00:50:40.771 WERE REALLY WELL DESIGNED WITH 1442 00:50:40.771 --> 00:50:43.306 MECHANISM SO THAT IF YOU PUSHED 1443 00:50:43.306 --> 00:50:45.642 THEM IN -- WE HAD TO GET THEM 1444 00:50:45.642 --> 00:50:46.510 STARTED. 1445 00:50:46.510 --> 00:50:49.379 BUT THEN THERE WITH A TRIANGLE 1446 00:50:49.379 --> 00:50:50.981 MECHANISM, SO AS YOU GOT FURTHER 1447 00:50:50.981 --> 00:50:52.716 AND FURTHER IN, YOU WERE 1448 00:50:52.716 --> 00:50:54.151 GUARANTEED THEY WOULD ENDS UP IN 1449 00:50:54.151 --> 00:50:55.152 THE RIGHT PLACE THAT WAS 1450 00:50:55.152 --> 00:50:56.653 CRITICAL FOR THE OPTICAL 1451 00:50:56.653 --> 00:50:57.921 ALIGNMENT. 1452 00:50:57.921 --> 00:51:00.924 ALL OF THOSE ASPECTS, AND 1453 00:51:00.924 --> 00:51:04.661 SOMEONE ELSE TALKED ABOUT THE 1454 00:51:04.661 --> 00:51:08.398 WRENCH -- 1455 00:51:08.398 --> 00:51:11.134 >> FOR US TO TAKE APART A 1456 00:51:11.134 --> 00:51:11.635 FEATURE. 1457 00:51:11.635 --> 00:51:13.003 IF YOU HAD TOE BACK OUT A BALL 1458 00:51:13.003 --> 00:51:15.005 THAT WAS CAPTIVE, IT WOULDN'T BE 1459 00:51:15.005 --> 00:51:16.540 FLOATING AROUND AND ONE LESS 1460 00:51:16.540 --> 00:51:18.141 THING TO CHASE AFTER. 1461 00:51:18.141 --> 00:51:19.276 EVERY ON THE FIRST SERVICE 1462 00:51:19.276 --> 00:51:20.911 MISSION, WE ENDED UP WITH THINGS 1463 00:51:20.911 --> 00:51:22.512 THAT WERE NEVER INTENDED TO BE 1464 00:51:22.512 --> 00:51:23.113 DONE. 1465 00:51:23.113 --> 00:51:24.748 SO THEY DIDN'T HAVE CAPTIVE 1466 00:51:24.748 --> 00:51:25.449 FEATURES. 1467 00:51:25.449 --> 00:51:26.583 JEFF TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT 1468 00:51:26.583 --> 00:51:28.285 SCREW CHASE. 1469 00:51:28.285 --> 00:51:31.154 I KNOW ON ONE OF OUR EVAs HE 1470 00:51:31.154 --> 00:51:37.194 TOOK OFF AN ELECTRONICS BOX THAT 1471 00:51:37.194 --> 00:51:38.495 WAS BOLTED TO THE DOOR. 1472 00:51:38.495 --> 00:51:41.932 IT HAD A BOLT AND TWO WASHERS. 1473 00:51:41.932 --> 00:51:43.233 MAYBE EIGHT OF THOSE. 1474 00:51:43.233 --> 00:51:45.102 IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU BACK 1475 00:51:45.102 --> 00:51:47.204 OUT THE BOLT, YOU ARE NOT ONLY 1476 00:51:47.204 --> 00:51:48.638 CHASING THE BOLTS BUT TRYING TO 1477 00:51:48.638 --> 00:51:50.474 CHASE THE WASHERS TRYING TO GET 1478 00:51:50.474 --> 00:51:52.976 THEM IN THE TRASH BAG THING. 1479 00:51:52.976 --> 00:51:55.011 KNOWING WE WOULD DO THAT, TOM 1480 00:51:55.011 --> 00:51:57.247 ACRES CAME UP WITH A HAIRPIN. 1481 00:51:57.247 --> 00:51:59.683 IT WAS SIMPLE FIXES YOU CAN DO 1482 00:51:59.683 --> 00:52:03.320 TO MAKE IT EVA-COMPATIBLE. 1483 00:52:03.320 --> 00:52:05.655 WE BACKED OUT THE BOLT A LITTLE 1484 00:52:05.655 --> 00:52:07.991 BIT, MOVE THE WASHERS OUT AWAY 1485 00:52:07.991 --> 00:52:09.626 FROM THE BOX, THEN STUCK THIS 1486 00:52:09.626 --> 00:52:11.428 HAIRPIN IN. 1487 00:52:11.428 --> 00:52:13.597 IT HAD A TETHER HOOK ON IT AND 1488 00:52:13.597 --> 00:52:15.132 MANAGED TO CAPTURE THE BOLT AND 1489 00:52:15.132 --> 00:52:18.168 TWO WASHERS WITH ONE DEVICE 1490 00:52:18.168 --> 00:52:19.469 THERE. 1491 00:52:19.469 --> 00:52:21.605 THINGS LIKE THAT, IF WE KNOW WE 1492 00:52:21.605 --> 00:52:24.341 ARE GOING TO DO IT WE CAN FIND 1493 00:52:24.341 --> 00:52:27.144 WAYS TO MAKE IT COMPATIBLE. 1494 00:52:27.144 --> 00:52:28.712 SOME OF THE THINGS THEY DID, AND 1495 00:52:28.712 --> 00:52:29.713 SOME OF THE THINGS WE DID AS 1496 00:52:29.713 --> 00:52:31.348 WELL, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE 1497 00:52:31.348 --> 00:52:33.884 WERE GOING TO DO. 1498 00:52:33.884 --> 00:52:35.852 >> IT'S THE ABILITY TO PREDICT 1499 00:52:35.852 --> 00:52:37.087 WHAT YOU WILL HAVE TO SERVICE 1500 00:52:37.087 --> 00:52:38.688 AND WHAT YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO 1501 00:52:38.688 --> 00:52:40.590 SERVICE. 1502 00:52:40.590 --> 00:52:42.859 WE HAD A BACKUP TO A LOT OF 1503 00:52:42.859 --> 00:52:44.261 THINGS WE DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD 1504 00:52:44.261 --> 00:52:46.096 HAVE TO SERVICE, WE ENDED UP 1505 00:52:46.096 --> 00:52:46.796 SERVICING. 1506 00:52:46.796 --> 00:52:48.632 >> BUT I THINK GOING IN, IT 1507 00:52:48.632 --> 00:52:50.267 MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO 1508 00:52:50.267 --> 00:52:52.369 HAVE BEEN DONE. 1509 00:52:52.369 --> 00:52:56.206 THEN IT BECAME POSSIBLE. 1510 00:52:56.206 --> 00:52:57.440 >> THERE WERE THINGS WE THOUGHT 1511 00:52:57.440 --> 00:52:58.942 WOULD NEVER FAIL. 1512 00:52:58.942 --> 00:53:01.878 THE MAGNETOMETERS. 1513 00:53:01.878 --> 00:53:02.812 >> ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK 1514 00:53:02.812 --> 00:53:04.948 ABOUT HUBBLE IS IT WAS A PROVING 1515 00:53:04.948 --> 00:53:06.850 GROUND OR A LOT OF THINGS WE DID 1516 00:53:06.850 --> 00:53:12.155 ON SpaceX. 1517 00:53:12.155 --> 00:53:14.591 IT WAS THE PAYLOAD THAT WAS 1518 00:53:14.591 --> 00:53:15.692 BUILT TO BE SERVICED. 1519 00:53:15.692 --> 00:53:17.494 WE WENT UP THERE SEVERAL TILES. 1520 00:53:17.494 --> 00:53:18.929 WE LEARNED A LOT FROM THAT. 1521 00:53:18.929 --> 00:53:21.398 A LOT OF THE TESTING WE DID FOR 1522 00:53:21.398 --> 00:53:23.400 SPACE STATION COMPONENTS FED OFF 1523 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:24.834 OF THE EXPERIENCES ON HUBBLE 1524 00:53:24.834 --> 00:53:26.236 HAD. 1525 00:53:26.236 --> 00:53:27.571 IT WAS EXTREMELY VALUABLE FOR 1526 00:53:27.571 --> 00:53:30.273 THE WHOLE SHUTTLE PROGRAM. 1527 00:53:30.273 --> 00:53:34.444 WE LEARNED SO MUCH DOING THINGS 1528 00:53:34.444 --> 00:53:36.079 LIKE THAT. 1529 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:37.514 HOW THE SUIT WORKS. 1530 00:53:37.514 --> 00:53:39.382 A LOT THINGS THAT WERE PROVEN ON 1531 00:53:39.382 --> 00:53:41.318 HUBBLE THAT HAD BENEFITS TO THE 1532 00:53:41.318 --> 00:53:44.321 SPACE STATION. 1533 00:53:44.321 --> 00:53:46.256 >> MY EXPERIENCE, I FELT LIKE 1534 00:53:46.256 --> 00:53:51.528 MIKEY ON THE LIFE CEREAL. 1535 00:53:51.528 --> 00:53:54.331 THE KIDS SAY, IT'S GOOD FOR YOU. 1536 00:53:54.331 --> 00:53:55.632 I'M NOT GOING TO TRY IT. 1537 00:53:55.632 --> 00:53:58.068 YOU TRY IT. 1538 00:53:58.068 --> 00:54:00.904 PEOPLE WILL SAY, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE 1539 00:54:00.904 --> 00:54:01.905 TO FIX THAT. 1540 00:54:01.905 --> 00:54:03.974 I'D SAY, "I'LL DO IT." 1541 00:54:03.974 --> 00:54:06.610 TO ME, THAT'S A LESSON I THINK 1542 00:54:06.610 --> 00:54:08.111 WE'VE LEARNED. 1543 00:54:08.111 --> 00:54:09.713 I KNOW MASS EXPERIENCED THAT. 1544 00:54:09.713 --> 00:54:14.217 THINGS THAT WE THOUGHT WERE 1545 00:54:14.217 --> 00:54:15.318 IMPOSSIBLE -- I BELIEVE THERE IS 1546 00:54:15.318 --> 00:54:17.454 NOTHING, ON HUBBLE, ANYWAY -- 1547 00:54:17.454 --> 00:54:20.090 AND I THINK THE SPACEWALKS, THAT 1548 00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:22.225 YOU CAN'T DO IN A SPACESUIT THAT 1549 00:54:22.225 --> 00:54:26.663 YOU CAN DO IN A BUNNY SUIT HERE 1550 00:54:26.663 --> 00:54:28.064 ON THE GROUND, BASICALLY. 1551 00:54:28.064 --> 00:54:30.066 CAN YOU LEARN HOW TO DO IT. 1552 00:54:30.066 --> 00:54:31.234 THAT'S THE AMAZING INTERFACE 1553 00:54:31.234 --> 00:54:34.070 BETWEEN INCREDIBLE HUMAN HANDS 1554 00:54:34.070 --> 00:54:38.975 AND REALLY GOOD EVA. 1555 00:54:38.975 --> 00:54:40.410 THE AMAZING HUMAN HANDS, THE 1556 00:54:40.410 --> 00:54:42.312 HUMAN BRAIN, AND THE ABILITY OF 1557 00:54:42.312 --> 00:54:45.081 TOOLMAKERS TO BUILD TOOLS TO DO 1558 00:54:45.081 --> 00:54:46.850 THESE TASKS. 1559 00:54:46.850 --> 00:54:48.485 SOMETIMES THEY WERE SPECIALIZED 1560 00:54:48.485 --> 00:54:48.985 TOOLS. 1561 00:54:48.985 --> 00:54:51.855 SOMETIMES SIMPLE TOOLS OR BETTER 1562 00:54:51.855 --> 00:54:52.922 CONNECTOR TOOL. 1563 00:54:52.922 --> 00:54:56.593 THE GROUP THAT DIDN'T BELIEVE 1564 00:54:56.593 --> 00:54:59.696 ANYTHING WAS IMPOSSIBLE. 1565 00:54:59.696 --> 00:55:03.266 WE REWIRED THE TELESCOPE HE, 1566 00:55:03.266 --> 00:55:11.641 FIXED THE PROBLEM, THE SCREWS 1567 00:55:11.641 --> 00:55:13.310 ARE DESIGNED TO GO IN AND NOT 1568 00:55:13.310 --> 00:55:14.311 COME OUT. 1569 00:55:14.311 --> 00:55:15.145 THAT'S THE WAY THEY ARE 1570 00:55:15.145 --> 00:55:15.945 DESIGNED. 1571 00:55:15.945 --> 00:55:20.517 WE DID THATTEN THE HANDRAILS, WE 1572 00:55:20.517 --> 00:55:21.618 DEVELOPED COVERS FOR IT'S 1573 00:55:21.618 --> 00:55:22.819 HANDRAILS. 1574 00:55:22.819 --> 00:55:25.555 WE CROSSED THE POWER SUPPLIES. 1575 00:55:25.555 --> 00:55:28.425 THERE WERE DETAILS OF THINGS 1576 00:55:28.425 --> 00:55:30.827 THAT IN GENERAL THAT SAID, THERE 1577 00:55:30.827 --> 00:55:32.562 IS NO WAY YOU CAN DO IT. 1578 00:55:32.562 --> 00:55:34.097 THERE IS NO WAY CAN YOU DO IT ON 1579 00:55:34.097 --> 00:55:36.366 A SPACEWALK. 1580 00:55:36.366 --> 00:55:39.436 >> I COULD BE WRONG, WE MAY NOT 1581 00:55:39.436 --> 00:55:41.638 HAVE UNDERTAKEN THE 1582 00:55:41.638 --> 00:55:43.673 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HAD 1583 00:55:43.673 --> 00:55:45.175 IT NOT BEEN FOR HUBBLE. 1584 00:55:45.175 --> 00:55:49.846 IT WAS HARDER AND HARDER AND 1585 00:55:49.846 --> 00:55:53.083 HARDER, I REMEMBER I WAS AHEAD 1586 00:55:53.083 --> 00:55:56.219 OF THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL. 1587 00:55:56.219 --> 00:55:59.856 WE ALL SAID, "WE CAN'T DO THIS." 1588 00:55:59.856 --> 00:56:03.927 I REMEMBER SAYING -- I DON'T SAY 1589 00:56:03.927 --> 00:56:04.928 WE ALL SAID. 1590 00:56:04.928 --> 00:56:07.263 >> I REMEMBER YOU TELLING ME. 1591 00:56:07.263 --> 00:56:08.665 >> THIS IS TOO MUCH. 1592 00:56:08.665 --> 00:56:11.101 WE HAVE TOO MUCH ON OUR PLATE. 1593 00:56:11.101 --> 00:56:12.268 LET'S SPEND TIME THINKING ABOUT 1594 00:56:12.268 --> 00:56:18.174 HOW WE WILL DEAL WITH THE PRESS. 1595 00:56:18.174 --> 00:56:19.943 WE ARE NOT GOING TO FINISH ALL 1596 00:56:19.943 --> 00:56:20.643 OF THIS STUFF. 1597 00:56:20.643 --> 00:56:23.713 WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PRESS TO 1598 00:56:23.713 --> 00:56:26.049 HELP THEM UNDERSTAND THAT THIS 1599 00:56:26.049 --> 00:56:27.951 HAS STILL BEEN AN INCREDIBLY 1600 00:56:27.951 --> 00:56:29.986 SUCCESSFUL MISSION, ALTHOUGH WE 1601 00:56:29.986 --> 00:56:32.222 DIDN'T GET ALL FIVE DAYS' WORTH 1602 00:56:32.222 --> 00:56:33.823 OF STUFF DONE. 1603 00:56:33.823 --> 00:56:35.825 EVEN THOUGH WE ONLY DID TWO, 1604 00:56:35.825 --> 00:56:36.626 WHATEVER IT WAS. 1605 00:56:36.626 --> 00:56:38.995 THIS IS AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL 1606 00:56:38.995 --> 00:56:39.362 MISSION. 1607 00:56:39.362 --> 00:56:41.898 WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THAT. 1608 00:56:41.898 --> 00:56:43.400 TRYING TO BE PREPARED. 1609 00:56:43.400 --> 00:56:45.935 THEN WE WENT AND DID EVERYTHING. 1610 00:56:45.935 --> 00:56:48.405 HAVING LIVED THROUGH I DON'T 1611 00:56:48.405 --> 00:56:50.707 KNOW HOW MANY ITERATIONS WITH 1612 00:56:50.707 --> 00:56:51.841 PEOPLE DOWN HERE ON THE FIRST 1613 00:56:51.841 --> 00:56:52.642 TWO ROWS. 1614 00:56:52.642 --> 00:56:54.577 WE SAID, WE CAN'T DO IT. 1615 00:56:54.577 --> 00:56:56.780 THIS IS TOO EVA-INTENSIVE. 1616 00:56:56.780 --> 00:56:58.114 WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO 1617 00:56:58.114 --> 00:57:00.350 SOMETHING LIKE THIS ON THE 1618 00:57:00.350 --> 00:57:01.251 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 1619 00:57:01.251 --> 00:57:03.920 A LOT OF US THOUGHT, WE THINK WE 1620 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:04.988 CAN. 1621 00:57:04.988 --> 00:57:06.756 WE FOUND OURSELVES DOING THINGS 1622 00:57:06.756 --> 00:57:09.192 WE NEVER DREAMED OF, REPAIRING A 1623 00:57:09.192 --> 00:57:11.194 SOLAR ARRAY. 1624 00:57:11.194 --> 00:57:13.062 FITTING AN ASTRONAUT ON THE END 1625 00:57:13.062 --> 00:57:16.099 OF AN ARM AND HAVE HIM GO UP AND 1626 00:57:16.099 --> 00:57:18.835 LITERALLY STITCH A SOLAR ARRAY 1627 00:57:18.835 --> 00:57:22.071 THAT WE DIDN'T SHUT DOWN. 1628 00:57:22.071 --> 00:57:23.173 AS A MATTER OF FACT. 1629 00:57:23.173 --> 00:57:24.307 I'M NOT SURE WE WOULD HAVE HAD 1630 00:57:24.307 --> 00:57:25.408 THE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE 1631 00:57:25.408 --> 00:57:27.043 CONFIDENCE TO TRY ANY OF THAT 1632 00:57:27.043 --> 00:57:30.680 HAD THEY NOT SEEN -- HUBBLE 1633 00:57:30.680 --> 00:57:31.481 SHOWED US. 1634 00:57:31.481 --> 00:57:33.116 WE ARE BETTER THAN WE THINK WE 1635 00:57:33.116 --> 00:57:34.217 ARE. 1636 00:57:34.217 --> 00:57:35.752 WE ARE A LOT MORE CAPABLE THAN 1637 00:57:35.752 --> 00:57:37.353 WE THINK WE ARE. 1638 00:57:37.353 --> 00:57:39.289 >> BUILDING ON THAT. 1639 00:57:39.289 --> 00:57:41.691 SO AS I SAID IN THE INTRODUCTORY 1640 00:57:41.691 --> 00:57:44.627 COMMENTS, THE 12 CREWMEMBERS, 1641 00:57:44.627 --> 00:57:46.863 EVERY TASK THAT WAS PLANNED TO 1642 00:57:46.863 --> 00:57:48.898 BE UNDERTAKEN WAS SUCCESSFULLY 1643 00:57:48.898 --> 00:57:49.466 COMPLETED. 1644 00:57:49.466 --> 00:57:51.234 SAY A FEW WORDS ABOUT WHY YOU 1645 00:57:51.234 --> 00:57:53.970 ALL THINK -- NOT THE REASONS FOR 1646 00:57:53.970 --> 00:57:55.472 THE MISSION BEING SO SUCCESSFUL 1647 00:57:55.472 --> 00:57:57.807 WERE. 1648 00:57:57.807 --> 00:58:00.743 >> I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO WHAT 1649 00:58:00.743 --> 00:58:02.545 WE'VE ALL BEEN SAYING. 1650 00:58:02.545 --> 00:58:03.580 REALLY, THE TALENT, THE 1651 00:58:03.580 --> 00:58:04.581 CREATIVITY. 1652 00:58:04.581 --> 00:58:06.316 THE SKILL AND HARD WORK OF ALL 1653 00:58:06.316 --> 00:58:07.116 THE TEAM. 1654 00:58:07.116 --> 00:58:08.751 NOT JUST US WHO WERE LUCKY 1655 00:58:08.751 --> 00:58:11.054 ENOUGH TO GO UP AND DO IT. 1656 00:58:11.054 --> 00:58:14.057 STARTING FROM EVERY TECHNICIAN, 1657 00:58:14.057 --> 00:58:16.593 EVERY ENGINEER, THE SCIENTIFIC 1658 00:58:16.593 --> 00:58:18.094 COMMUNITY BEING SUPPORTIVE. 1659 00:58:18.094 --> 00:58:18.695 EVEN MANAGEMENT. 1660 00:58:18.695 --> 00:58:25.368 WE COULD HAVE DONE IT -- 1661 00:58:25.368 --> 00:58:27.804 OCCASIONALLY SOUND WOULD HAVE 1662 00:58:27.804 --> 00:58:29.105 SOMETHING IMPORTANT. 1663 00:58:29.105 --> 00:58:30.840 SO EVERYBODY PROVIDED SOME 1664 00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:33.142 VALUABLE. 1665 00:58:33.142 --> 00:58:35.111 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT FOLKED 1666 00:58:35.111 --> 00:58:37.280 BELIEVED IN THAT IT WAS A GOOD 1667 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:38.281 THING TO DO. 1668 00:58:38.281 --> 00:58:39.816 WE PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS AND 1669 00:58:39.816 --> 00:58:42.452 SACRIFICED FAMILY TIME AND 1670 00:58:42.452 --> 00:58:45.355 FRIENDS AND RECREATION. 1671 00:58:45.355 --> 00:58:47.724 BASICALLY PUT OUR LIVES ON HOLD 1672 00:58:47.724 --> 00:58:48.925 TO CHAMPION SOMETHING THAT WAS 1673 00:58:48.925 --> 00:58:51.160 REALLY IMPORTANT AND WE BELIEVED 1674 00:58:51.160 --> 00:58:53.162 IN. 1675 00:58:53.162 --> 00:58:54.397 >> IT WAS WORKING TOGETHER IN 1676 00:58:54.397 --> 00:58:57.300 THE SAME DIRECTION. 1677 00:58:57.300 --> 00:59:02.972 EVERY CONTRACTOR. 1678 00:59:02.972 --> 00:59:05.241 WE GOT TO FIX HUBBLE AND THEN 1679 00:59:05.241 --> 00:59:06.543 THE SUBSEQUENT MISSIONS, I 1680 00:59:06.543 --> 00:59:09.946 THINK, HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED. 1681 00:59:09.946 --> 00:59:13.349 PEOPLE WHO PUT IN THE EXTRA 1682 00:59:13.349 --> 00:59:15.952 EFFORT. 1683 00:59:15.952 --> 00:59:18.521 THE CONFIGURATIONS AND THE 1684 00:59:18.521 --> 00:59:22.659 INCREDIBLE SEPARATION AND, YEAH, 1685 00:59:22.659 --> 00:59:25.194 WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME AWAY FROM 1686 00:59:25.194 --> 00:59:25.695 FAMILY. 1687 00:59:25.695 --> 00:59:29.232 BUT SO DID ALL OF OUR 1688 00:59:29.232 --> 00:59:30.667 TECHNICIANS AND ENGINEERS 1689 00:59:30.667 --> 00:59:33.069 WORKING WITH US. 1690 00:59:33.069 --> 00:59:35.705 AND THAT IS WHAT IT TOOK. 1691 00:59:35.705 --> 00:59:38.808 IT PAID OFF. 1692 00:59:38.808 --> 00:59:39.042 >> OKAY. 1693 00:59:39.042 --> 00:59:42.845 LET'S SEE. 1694 00:59:42.845 --> 00:59:46.783 LET'S GO BACK TO SOME MORE 1695 00:59:46.783 --> 00:59:47.584 SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. 1696 00:59:47.584 --> 00:59:51.854 THERE WERE FOUR SERVICING 1697 00:59:51.854 --> 00:59:52.455 MISSIONS. 1698 00:59:52.455 --> 00:59:55.191 WE WERE THE FIRST TO TEST 1699 00:59:55.191 --> 00:59:58.695 ANOTHER CONTINGENCY HARDWARE. 1700 00:59:58.695 --> 00:59:59.862 CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT AND 1701 00:59:59.862 --> 01:00:09.839 HOW IT WAS USED IN HUBBLE? 1702 01:03:31.574 --> 01:03:33.476 END OF YOUR SPACEWALK, THERE'S 1703 01:03:33.476 --> 01:03:34.644 ONE THING FOR SURE, HE'S GOING 1704 01:03:34.644 --> 01:03:35.912 TO WANT TO COME IN. 1705 01:03:35.912 --> 01:03:43.853 I GOT THE KEY TO THE DOOR. 1706 01:03:43.853 --> 01:03:44.887 >> THEN, AFTER THEY WERE DONE 1707 01:03:44.887 --> 01:03:49.091 WITH ALL THEIR SPACEWALKS I HAD 1708 01:03:49.091 --> 01:03:50.860 NOTHING TO HOLD OVER THEIR HEAD 1709 01:03:50.860 --> 01:03:51.894 ANYMORE. 1710 01:03:51.894 --> 01:03:54.397 THROUGH THE CUE CARD. 1711 01:03:54.397 --> 01:03:57.333 IT WAS THAT LINE THAT SAID, EVA 1712 01:03:57.333 --> 01:03:58.234 CREW RESCUE. 1713 01:03:58.234 --> 01:04:02.972 IF YOU GOT ON TETHERED SOMEHOW, 1714 01:04:02.972 --> 01:04:06.976 SCOOTER WOULD COME GET YOU. 1715 01:04:06.976 --> 01:04:09.145 I REMEMBER RICK SAYING THIS, EVA 1716 01:04:09.145 --> 01:04:11.013 CREW RESCUE, DON'T WORRY. 1717 01:04:11.013 --> 01:04:12.081 IT. 1718 01:04:12.081 --> 01:04:15.484 [LAUGHTER] 1719 01:04:15.484 --> 01:04:18.788 >> BACK TO HUBBELL FOR A MINUTE. 1720 01:04:18.788 --> 01:04:19.555 REALLY SOMETHING COMMON TO ALL 1721 01:04:19.555 --> 01:04:24.227 THE M MISSIONS. 1722 01:04:24.227 --> 01:04:26.762 THAT WAS A DIFFICULT TASK TO 1723 01:04:26.762 --> 01:04:28.030 WHERE THEY WERE SITUATED. 1724 01:04:28.030 --> 01:04:32.068 I CAN REMEMBER THE PRACTICE AND 1725 01:04:32.068 --> 01:04:34.904 THE MECHANICAL SIMULATOR. 1726 01:04:34.904 --> 01:04:38.040 CAN'T IMAGINE HOW YOU ALL. 1727 01:04:38.040 --> 01:04:39.475 ABLE TO DO THAT TASK. 1728 01:04:39.475 --> 01:04:43.779 TALK ABOUT THAT FOR THOSE OF YOU 1729 01:04:43.779 --> 01:04:45.982 CHANGED OUT. 1730 01:04:45.982 --> 01:04:50.086 YOU MIGHT KNOW THAT HAD SOME 1731 01:04:50.086 --> 01:04:53.022 GYRO EXCITEMENTS IN THE LAST FEW 1732 01:04:53.022 --> 01:04:54.790 WEEKS ON HUBBELL 2. 1733 01:04:54.790 --> 01:04:56.559 >> THE GYRO THEMSELVES, THEY ARE 1734 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:58.527 LITTLE RECTANGULAR BOX WITH A 1735 01:04:58.527 --> 01:05:00.796 COUPLE OF BOLTS ON THE FRONT. 1736 01:05:00.796 --> 01:05:04.500 THE PROBLEM IS GETTING ACCESS IN 1737 01:05:04.500 --> 01:05:07.737 THERE TO GET AT THEM WHEN THE 1738 01:05:07.737 --> 01:05:11.140 JOB WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED. 1739 01:05:11.140 --> 01:05:15.678 BY THE WAY, THE DOOR THAT 1740 01:05:15.678 --> 01:05:17.647 ENCLOSED THE COMPARTMENT THEY 1741 01:05:17.647 --> 01:05:20.616 HAVE THE STAR TRACKERS THEY HAD 1742 01:05:20.616 --> 01:05:22.451 SUN SHADE OTHEM. 1743 01:05:22.451 --> 01:05:24.687 THE ORIGINAL IDEA WAS YOU HAVE 1744 01:05:24.687 --> 01:05:27.990 TO REMOVE THOSE SUN SHADES AND 1745 01:05:27.990 --> 01:05:30.393 STORE THEM SOMEWHERE, DO THE JOB 1746 01:05:30.393 --> 01:05:32.895 WHICH YOU COULD THEN DO SORT OF 1747 01:05:32.895 --> 01:05:33.896 FROM THE OUTSIDE. 1748 01:05:33.896 --> 01:05:35.197 BACK. 1749 01:05:35.197 --> 01:05:39.969 GIVEN THE TIME CRITIC, IF YOU 1750 01:05:39.969 --> 01:05:42.305 COULD SLIDE UNDERNEATH THE GYROS 1751 01:05:42.305 --> 01:05:45.541 AND INSIDE THE TELESCOPE, THEN 1752 01:05:45.541 --> 01:05:47.343 WE COULD DO THE JOB WITHOUT 1753 01:05:47.343 --> 01:05:49.512 HAVING TO REMOVE SUN SHADES TO 1754 01:05:49.512 --> 01:05:52.048 SAVE LOT OF TIME. 1755 01:05:52.048 --> 01:05:53.849 STORY WAS SHORTER THAN ME. 1756 01:05:53.849 --> 01:06:15.137 HE WAS THE ONE WHO WENT INSIDE 1757 01:06:15.137 --> 01:06:16.939 WHEN YOU'RED IN THE TELESCOPE, 1758 01:06:16.939 --> 01:06:17.940 WE HAVE TO BE CAME. 1759 01:06:17.940 --> 01:06:20.009 THAT ISN'T ALREADY BROKEN. 1760 01:06:20.009 --> 01:06:22.578 THAT'S WHAT WE CONTINUE TO 1761 01:06:22.578 --> 01:06:23.579 PRACTICE. 1762 01:06:23.579 --> 01:06:26.248 THE ENGINEERS WHO WERE 1763 01:06:26.248 --> 01:06:27.249 RESPONSIBLE FOR HUBBELL THAT YOU 1764 01:06:27.249 --> 01:06:29.452 BREAKING ANYTHING. 1765 01:06:29.452 --> 01:06:32.822 I REMEMBER WHAT STORY DID AT ONE 1766 01:06:32.822 --> 01:06:33.823 POINT. 1767 01:06:33.823 --> 01:06:36.926 FOR QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT RUNS. 1768 01:06:36.926 --> 01:06:39.528 AT THAT POINT, HE SAID, ALL 1769 01:06:39.528 --> 01:06:41.664 RIGHT, TELLING FOR THE 1770 01:06:41.664 --> 01:06:43.232 ENGINEERS, THIS IS OUR FINAL 1771 01:06:43.232 --> 01:06:44.233 EXAM. 1772 01:06:44.233 --> 01:06:47.837 IT ON TV, LET US KNOW IF YOU'RE 1773 01:06:47.837 --> 01:06:49.472 SATISFIED THAT YOU THINK IT'S 1774 01:06:49.472 --> 01:06:51.974 SAFE AND IF NOT, WE WON'T DO IT 1775 01:06:51.974 --> 01:06:53.943 BUT WE DID IT AND THEY WERE 1776 01:06:53.943 --> 01:06:56.379 HAPPY AND SO THAT'S HOW WE DID 1777 01:06:56.379 --> 01:06:57.713 IT AND IT WORKED. 1778 01:06:57.713 --> 01:07:00.750 I GUESS THAT'S BEEN DONE WITH 1779 01:07:00.750 --> 01:07:05.788 THAT TECHNIQUE. 1780 01:07:05.788 --> 01:07:09.025 >> FOR ME PERSONALLY PUTTING IN 1781 01:07:09.025 --> 01:07:10.359 RC2 WHICH IS THE MIDDLE ONE AND 1782 01:07:10.359 --> 01:07:13.562 THERE WAS A PICTURE SHOWN THIS 1783 01:07:13.562 --> 01:07:17.566 MORNING, I WAS ON THE ROBOTIC 1784 01:07:17.566 --> 01:07:20.036 ARM AND INSERT IT IN THE MIDDLE 1785 01:07:20.036 --> 01:07:22.371 OF THE TELESCOPE FACING UP. 1786 01:07:22.371 --> 01:07:24.440 >> YOU DID IT DIFFERENTLY? 1787 01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:25.875 >> WE DID ALL THREE. 1788 01:07:25.875 --> 01:07:28.277 FOR THE SIDE ONES THAT GOT 1789 01:07:28.277 --> 01:07:32.314 INSERTED IN THE TELESCOPE AND I 1790 01:07:32.314 --> 01:07:35.518 HAD STEVE SMITH AND HE'S TALL 1791 01:07:35.518 --> 01:07:37.186 AND HE WAS USE THE SAME 1792 01:07:37.186 --> 01:07:38.587 TECHNIQUE HE DIDN'T WANT TO 1793 01:07:38.587 --> 01:07:39.755 TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE. 1794 01:07:39.755 --> 01:07:43.893 WE WERE ALLOWED ONE TAB ON THE 1795 01:07:43.893 --> 01:07:46.028 HANDRAIL WITH HIS BACKPACK, MANY 1796 01:07:46.028 --> 01:07:49.432 HAD TO STAY FIT. 1797 01:07:49.432 --> 01:07:53.636 WE SAW WHERE STORY SCRATCHED 1798 01:07:53.636 --> 01:07:57.640 THAT HANDRAIL. 1799 01:07:57.640 --> 01:07:58.674 FOR ME IT WAS UIQUE. 1800 01:07:58.674 --> 01:08:01.777 I WAS IN THE MILITARY OF THE -- 1801 01:08:01.777 --> 01:08:03.946 MIDDLE OF THE TELESCOPE. 1802 01:08:03.946 --> 01:08:07.416 IT WAS LIKE EDWIN HUBBELL BEING 1803 01:08:07.416 --> 01:09:47.249 THE PRIME FOCUS THE TELESCOPE. 1804 01:09:47.249 --> 01:09:50.953 >> NUMBER ONE ON THE RIGHT, I'M 1805 01:09:50.953 --> 01:09:54.190 IN THERE AND COVER IS RIGHT IN 1806 01:09:54.190 --> 01:09:54.957 FRONT OF ME. 1807 01:09:54.957 --> 01:09:59.094 MANUFACTURED THAT COVER. 1808 01:09:59.094 --> 01:10:01.363 I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE 1809 01:10:01.363 --> 01:10:02.097 COMPANY. 1810 01:10:02.097 --> 01:10:04.366 WASN'T WARNED ABOUT THIS. 1811 01:10:04.366 --> 01:10:08.003 THERE'S A LITTLE PLACARD ON THAT 1812 01:10:08.003 --> 01:10:10.139 STAR TACKER COVER. 1813 01:10:10.139 --> 01:10:11.941 LITTLE METAL THING IN FRONT OF 1814 01:10:11.941 --> 01:10:12.942 ME. 1815 01:10:12.942 --> 01:10:18.180 THIS IS MANUFACTURED MY ACME 1816 01:10:18.180 --> 01:10:20.049 CORPORATION, BAY OWNED NEW 1817 01:10:20.049 --> 01:10:21.917 JERSEY. 1818 01:10:21.917 --> 01:10:25.287 350 MILES INSIDE THAT GREAT 1819 01:10:25.287 --> 01:10:26.522 TELESCOPE. 1820 01:10:26.522 --> 01:10:29.658 BAY-OWNED NEW JERSEY WAS STARING 1821 01:10:29.658 --> 01:10:42.404 AT ME. 1822 01:10:42.404 --> 01:10:43.706 I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE MOST 1823 01:10:43.706 --> 01:10:50.713 INCREDIBLE THING I EVER SEEN. 1824 01:10:50.713 --> 01:10:52.014 STORY DID THAT ON THE FIRST 1825 01:10:52.014 --> 01:10:53.015 MISSION. 1826 01:10:53.015 --> 01:10:54.049 SECOND. 1827 01:10:54.049 --> 01:10:59.989 STORY WAS, FEW OF THE CREW WAS 1828 01:10:59.989 --> 01:11:00.789 THERE. 1829 01:11:00.789 --> 01:11:03.125 I SEE STORY CONGRATULATING HIM. 1830 01:11:03.125 --> 01:11:07.630 STORY DID YOU SIGH THAT ON THAT 1831 01:11:07.630 --> 01:11:08.397 PLACARD. 1832 01:11:08.397 --> 01:11:12.034 HE GOES MAYBE I WAS THINKING. 1833 01:11:12.034 --> 01:11:15.437 TELESCOPE, THE MORE IMPORTANT 1834 01:11:15.437 --> 01:11:17.673 THING. 1835 01:11:17.673 --> 01:11:22.077 [LAUGHTER] 1836 01:11:22.077 --> 01:11:24.213 >> YOU SAID IT WAS THE ACME TOOL 1837 01:11:24.213 --> 01:11:25.180 COMPANY. 1838 01:11:25.180 --> 01:11:28.417 I COULDN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF 1839 01:11:28.417 --> 01:11:29.518 THE COMPANY. 1840 01:11:29.518 --> 01:11:32.187 IT'S GOT TO BE SOMEONE IN THIS 1841 01:11:32.187 --> 01:11:34.023 ROOM CAN FIND THAT OUT. 1842 01:11:34.023 --> 01:11:36.725 >> WE HAVE TWO OR THREE MINUTES 1843 01:11:36.725 --> 01:11:37.726 LEFT I'M TOLD. 1844 01:11:37.726 --> 01:11:38.727 TRAINING IN THE FACILITIES 1845 01:11:38.727 --> 01:11:40.296 PREPARATION FOR DEPLOYMENT 1846 01:11:40.296 --> 01:11:42.164 MISSION UNTIL 19 YEARS LATER 1847 01:11:42.164 --> 01:11:45.267 WHEN THERE'S A PREPARATION FOR 1848 01:11:45.267 --> 01:11:46.702 SM4? 1849 01:11:46.702 --> 01:11:48.771 >> THE ONE -- WE TALKED ABOUT 1850 01:11:48.771 --> 01:11:52.941 HOW MUCH TIME IT TOOK. 1851 01:11:52.941 --> 01:11:57.746 THERE WAS ONE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN 1852 01:11:57.746 --> 01:11:59.548 EVA UDERWATER TRAINING BECAUSE 1853 01:11:59.548 --> 01:12:01.884 HUBBELL BEING SO TALL, WE WERE 1854 01:12:01.884 --> 01:12:04.520 SPENDING LOT OF TIME PRETTY DEEP 1855 01:12:04.520 --> 01:12:05.788 IN THE WATER AND YOU ACTUALLY 1856 01:12:05.788 --> 01:12:08.824 WERE GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE 1857 01:12:08.824 --> 01:12:10.392 IN PRINCIPLE WE WOULD HAVE HAD 1858 01:12:10.392 --> 01:12:36.418 TO DO DECOMPRESSION STUFF. 1859 01:12:36.418 --> 01:12:38.987 >> I HAVE THE LUXURY, AND 1860 01:12:38.987 --> 01:12:41.390 PRIVILEGE THAT I WAS PICKED AS 1861 01:12:41.390 --> 01:12:44.626 AN ASTRONAUT IN '92. 1862 01:12:44.626 --> 01:12:47.296 I GOT TO DIVE ON A HUBBELL 1863 01:12:47.296 --> 01:12:54.503 MOCK-UP AT MARSHALL. 1864 01:12:54.503 --> 01:12:55.704 HUGE DEVELOPMENT WE WENT FROM 1865 01:12:55.704 --> 01:12:59.808 THE MARSHALL TANK TO THE NEUTRAL 1866 01:12:59.808 --> 01:13:00.809 JOHNSON. 1867 01:13:00.809 --> 01:13:02.845 IT'S REALLY THE PHILOSOPHY THAT 1868 01:13:02.845 --> 01:13:04.613 WE TRAINED OVER AND OVER AGAIN 1869 01:13:04.613 --> 01:13:07.149 IN THE POOL WITH OTHER 1870 01:13:07.149 --> 01:13:08.517 SIMULATORS AS WE WERE GOING TO 1871 01:13:08.517 --> 01:13:09.284 FLY. 1872 01:13:09.284 --> 01:13:16.191 I FORGOT THAT WE WERE ON ORBIT. 1873 01:13:16.191 --> 01:13:18.260 >> OTHER CHANGE THAT STARTED 1874 01:13:18.260 --> 01:13:24.032 WITH SM1 AND CONTINUE WITH SM2 1875 01:13:24.032 --> 01:13:27.436 AND 4, WE GOT EVER-INCREASING 1876 01:13:27.436 --> 01:13:29.571 FIDELITY SIMULATORS WHETHER THEY 1877 01:13:29.571 --> 01:13:32.541 WERE BIG SIMULATORS OR SMALL. 1878 01:13:32.541 --> 01:13:33.642 FOR INSTANCE THE DOOR TROUBLE 1879 01:13:33.642 --> 01:13:36.345 YOU HAD, THE TEAM BUILT AS 1880 01:13:36.345 --> 01:13:38.714 CLOSELY AS THEY COULD. 1881 01:13:38.714 --> 01:13:40.849 DOOR SIMULATOR SO WE CAN 1882 01:13:40.849 --> 01:13:46.422 PRACTICE AND MESS UP AS MUCH AS 1883 01:13:46.422 --> 01:13:58.066 WE COULD. 1884 01:14:50.352 --> 01:14:53.755 >> WE ARE OUT OF TIME, 1885 01:14:53.755 --> 01:14:56.124 UNFORTUNATELY. 1886 01:14:56.124 --> 01:14:58.126 BEING WITH US TODAY AND SHARING 1887 01:14:58.160 --> 01:15:00.062 YOUR MEMORIES AND YOUR THOUGHT 1888 01:15:00.062 --> 01:15:02.364 AND LET'S GIVE THEM ALL A BIG 1889 01:15:02.364 --> 01:15:05.067 ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 1890 01:15:05.067 --> 01:15:09.037 [APPLAUSE] 1891 01:15:23.051 --> 01:15:34.496 >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, LIFTOFF. 1892 01:17:00.015 --> 01:17:01.350 >> IT'S ABOUT HUMANITY'S QUEST. 1893 01:17:01.350 --> 01:17:05.420 ONLY WAY TO FINDING THE LIMITS 1894 01:17:05.420 --> 01:17:09.124 THAT'S POSSIBLE, IT'S TO THE 1895 01:17:09.124 --> 01:17:12.427 IMPOSSIBLE. 1896 01:17:23.171 --> 01:17:25.340 >> HUBBELL SPACE TELESCOPE 1897 01:17:25.340 --> 01:17:27.309 IMAGING HAS CAPABILITIES LIKE 1898 01:17:27.309 --> 01:17:28.810 SEARCHING FOR BLACK HOLES AND 1899 01:17:28.810 --> 01:17:30.345 LOOKING AT THE ATMOSPHERE OF 1900 01:17:30.345 --> 01:17:32.314 PLANETS ORBITING OTHER STARS. 1901 01:17:32.314 --> 01:17:35.217 THEY HAD A POWER FAILURE IN 1902 01:17:35.217 --> 01:17:37.719 2004, THE HUBBELL TEAM REPLACE 1903 01:17:37.719 --> 01:17:38.720 DAMAGE ELECTRONIC BOARD ON THE 1904 01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:41.390 FINAL SERVICE MISSION IN 2009. 1905 01:17:41.390 --> 01:17:43.025 WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A 1906 01:17:43.025 --> 01:17:48.163 MEMORABLE DAY FOR EVERYONE 1907 01:17:48.163 --> 01:17:50.832 INVOLVED. 1908 01:17:52.501 --> 01:17:54.770 >> FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS, I SPENT 1909 01:17:54.770 --> 01:17:57.305 ALMOST EVERYDAY WITH THE EVA 1910 01:17:57.305 --> 01:17:58.674 TEAM. 1911 01:17:58.674 --> 01:18:01.410 >> WE PRACTICED THAT MANY TIMES. 1912 01:18:01.410 --> 01:18:03.612 WE PRACTICED IT IN THE POOL. 1913 01:18:04.813 --> 01:18:07.849 >> WE SPENT HOURS, DAYS AND 1914 01:18:07.849 --> 01:18:11.486 WEEKS GOING THROUGH WHAT IF THIS 1915 01:18:11.486 --> 01:18:12.487 FAIL. 1916 01:18:12.487 --> 01:18:19.828 COULD GOING INTO THIS EVA. 1917 01:18:23.432 --> 01:18:25.634 >> WE CAME IN TO WORK HERE AT 1918 01:18:25.634 --> 01:18:27.335 THE SPACE TELESCOPE OPERATIONS 1919 01:18:27.335 --> 01:18:33.542 CONTROL CENTER AT GODDARD. 1920 01:18:33.542 --> 01:18:36.078 >> IT WAS LOCATED DOWN AT 1921 01:18:36.078 --> 01:18:37.079 JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ALONG WITH 1922 01:18:37.079 --> 01:18:38.513 SERVICING MISSION MANAGER. 1923 01:18:38.513 --> 01:18:39.981 FROM THE DAY STARTED OUT REALLY 1924 01:18:39.981 --> 01:18:40.749 WELL. 1925 01:18:40.749 --> 01:18:42.651 HANDRAIL, YOU HAVE TO REMOVE 1926 01:18:42.651 --> 01:18:43.685 THIS HANDRAIL THAT WAS DESIGNED 1927 01:18:43.685 --> 01:18:44.453 INSTRUMENT IN ORDER TO ACCESS 1928 01:18:52.561 --> 01:18:54.629 >> WE WATCHED MIKE TO DO A 1929 01:18:54.629 --> 01:18:56.198 SIMPLE TEST. 1930 01:18:56.198 --> 01:18:58.467 ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS REMOVE 1931 01:18:58.467 --> 01:18:59.935 FOUR SCREWS. 1932 01:18:59.935 --> 01:19:00.769 >> TWO SCREWS CAME OFF. 1933 01:19:00.769 --> 01:19:03.839 THE ONE ON THE BOTTOM LEFT COMES 1934 01:19:03.839 --> 01:19:04.940 OFF. 1935 01:19:04.940 --> 01:19:07.876 >> WE CAN SEE PENCIL GRIP TOOL 1936 01:19:07.876 --> 01:19:09.678 SPINNING IF THE BOLT HEAD AND 1937 01:19:09.678 --> 01:19:16.218 THE BOLT WASN'T COMING OUT. 1938 01:19:16.218 --> 01:19:17.285 >> THAT WAS FIRST THING. 1939 01:19:17.285 --> 01:19:19.087 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO. 1940 01:19:19.087 --> 01:19:21.189 THIS IS A SHOW-STOPPER HERE. 1941 01:19:23.158 --> 01:19:25.460 >> FOR A WHILE, ABOUT AN HOUR OR 1942 01:19:25.460 --> 01:19:26.261 SO, WE WERE TRYING DIFFERENT 1943 01:19:26.261 --> 01:19:29.698 BITS ON THE END THE POWER POOL. 1944 01:19:29.698 --> 01:19:33.769 WE WERE TRYING ALL KINDS OF 1945 01:19:33.769 --> 01:19:34.536 THINGS. 1946 01:19:35.704 --> 01:19:36.705 GARAGE? 1947 01:19:43.812 --> 01:19:47.949 >> IT DIDN'T OCCUR LOT TO US. 1948 01:19:54.322 --> 01:19:55.690 >> GUYS, YOU WATCHING THIS 1949 01:19:55.690 --> 01:19:56.758 RIGHT? 1950 01:19:56.758 --> 01:19:59.294 >> YEAH, OF COURSE. 1951 01:19:59.294 --> 01:20:01.563 >> WE DID HAVE A MOCK UP WITH 1952 01:20:01.563 --> 01:20:03.899 THIS PANEL WITH THE HANDRAIL ON 1953 01:20:03.899 --> 01:20:04.933 IT. 1954 01:20:07.702 --> 01:20:09.838 IN THE CLEAN ROOM AND KEN 1955 01:20:09.838 --> 01:20:11.139 DICKERSON AND I CAME UP WITH A 1956 01:20:11.139 --> 01:20:13.008 PLAN TO HOW TO RIG UP THE TEST 1957 01:20:13.008 --> 01:20:14.242 THAT WE SCATTERED IN THE 1958 01:20:14.242 --> 01:20:15.010 BUILDING TO GET ALL THE 1959 01:20:15.010 --> 01:20:16.044 IT WAS A SUNDAY. 1960 01:20:16.044 --> 01:20:18.413 NOBODY WAS AROUND. 1961 01:20:20.949 --> 01:20:24.119 I RUN INTO THE HALL I RUN TO 1962 01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:25.520 WHERE THE TEXT WOULD BE. 1963 01:20:25.520 --> 01:20:32.627 I FIND THE GUY GENE IN THE 1964 01:20:32.627 --> 01:20:33.628 BUILDING. 1965 01:20:38.700 --> 01:20:39.501 LANGUAGE. 1966 01:20:39.501 --> 01:20:42.003 HE RUNS OFF TO GET IT. 1967 01:20:42.003 --> 01:20:44.840 HE'S ALREADY IN THERE. 1968 01:20:44.840 --> 01:20:46.908 BILL MITCHELL COMES BUSTING 1969 01:20:46.908 --> 01:20:48.777 THROUGH THE DOOR CARRYING THE 1970 01:20:48.777 --> 01:20:51.346 HANDRAIL STILL IN HIS BUNNY SUIT 1971 01:20:51.346 --> 01:20:54.015 TO GET THE HANDRAIL UP, 1972 01:20:54.015 --> 01:20:57.485 EVERYTHING IS READY TO GO. 1973 01:20:57.485 --> 01:21:01.056 JAMES GIVES OUT THE GREEN LIGHT 1974 01:21:01.056 --> 01:21:03.725 AND JEAN STARTS PULLING THE 1975 01:21:03.725 --> 01:21:04.726 HANDRAIL. 1976 01:21:04.726 --> 01:21:06.261 THE BOLT WENT FLAYING. 1977 01:21:07.262 --> 01:21:08.930 >> I GOT ON OUR COMMUNICATIONS 1978 01:21:08.930 --> 01:21:13.168 LOOPS AND CALLED IN. 1979 01:21:13.168 --> 01:21:14.169 ULTIMATELY, JAME CAME BACK AND 1980 01:21:14.169 --> 01:21:17.572 THEM TO BREAK IT OFF. 1981 01:21:21.409 --> 01:21:24.546 >> WE TALKED TO THE FLIGHT 1982 01:21:24.546 --> 01:21:25.680 DIRECTOR ABOUT IT. 1983 01:21:25.881 --> 01:21:28.416 >> YOU COPY THAT, 60 POUNDS AT 1984 01:21:28.416 --> 01:21:30.852 THE TOP OF THE HANDRAIL. 1985 01:21:30.852 --> 01:21:34.890 I THINK YOU GOT THAT IN YOU. 1986 01:21:35.957 --> 01:21:39.027 >> WHAT IF HE PULLED OFF AND 1987 01:21:39.027 --> 01:21:41.730 THERE'S DEBRIS AND THERE'S A 1988 01:21:41.730 --> 01:21:45.901 SHARP EDGE? 1989 01:21:47.068 --> 01:21:51.506 >> MASSIMINO WAS ABLE TO PUT 1990 01:21:51.506 --> 01:21:52.507 TAPE OVER IT. 1991 01:22:04.853 --> 01:22:06.688 >> EVERYONE ERUPTED IN CHEERS. 1992 01:22:06.688 --> 01:22:08.857 WHEN WE PULLED IT OFF, HE DIDN'T 1993 01:22:08.857 --> 01:22:10.659 SEE ANY DEBRIS. 1994 01:22:10.659 --> 01:22:14.229 HE KNEW NOT TO TOUCH THE SHARP 1995 01:22:14.229 --> 01:22:15.263 EDGES. 1996 01:22:15.263 --> 01:22:15.997 WELL. 1997 01:22:22.804 --> 01:22:24.205 >> THAT ONE OR TWO HOURS THAT I 1998 01:22:24.205 --> 01:22:27.042 WORKED ON BREAKING THE HANDRAIL, 1999 01:22:27.042 --> 01:22:30.245 THAT VERY WELL COULD GO DOWN AS 2000 01:22:30.245 --> 01:22:32.514 HIGHLIGHT OF MY CAREER. 2001 01:22:32.514 --> 01:22:34.683 >> GODDARD TEAM DID GREAT JOB. 2002 01:22:34.683 --> 01:22:37.953 FOREVER IN THEIR DEBT. 2003 01:22:49.497 --> 01:22:56.838 >> WE'RE ALL EXPLORERS. 2004 01:22:56.838 --> 01:23:00.709 IT'S IN OUR DNA. 2005 01:23:00.709 --> 01:23:04.346 WE EXPLORE THE DEPTHS OF OUR 2006 01:23:04.346 --> 01:23:11.086 OCEANS, OUR PLANET'S INNER 2007 01:23:11.086 --> 01:23:16.491 REGIONS. 2008 01:23:16.491 --> 01:23:27.135 WE NEVER STOP EXPLORING. 2009 01:23:27.135 --> 01:23:30.472 GALILEO OPENED OUR EYES WITH 2010 01:23:30.472 --> 01:23:32.407 THIS INSTRUMENT, THE TELESCOPE. 2011 01:23:32.407 --> 01:23:36.745 HE STARTED AN EXPLORATION 2012 01:23:36.745 --> 01:23:38.279 RENAISSANCE IN THE SKY. 2013 01:23:38.279 --> 01:23:44.419 IT WOULD TAKE US TO THE MOON AND 2014 01:23:44.419 --> 01:23:45.453 BEYOND. 2015 01:23:45.453 --> 01:23:47.088 HUBBELL SPACE TELESCOPE HAS BEEN 2016 01:23:47.088 --> 01:23:52.027 UNLOCKING MYSTERIES OF THE 2017 01:23:52.027 --> 01:23:53.028 UNIVERSE. 2018 01:23:53.028 --> 01:24:09.244 OF SPACE AND TIME. 2019 01:24:09.244 --> 01:24:16.951 FROM NEWBORN STARS TO PLANET 2020 01:24:16.951 --> 01:24:20.555 FORMATION. 2021 01:24:20.555 --> 01:24:27.062 TO OUR OWN PLANET. 2022 01:24:27.062 --> 01:24:35.136 FROM DARK MATTER TO DARK ENERGY. 2023 01:24:35.136 --> 01:24:38.139 HUBBELL HAS ALLOWED US TO SEE 2024 01:24:38.139 --> 01:24:40.375 THE BREATH-TAKING DETAILS OF THE 2025 01:24:40.375 --> 01:24:44.646 UNIVERSE NEVER BEFORE SEEN. 2026 01:24:44.646 --> 01:24:45.980 WE SALUTE THE THOUSANDS OF MEN 2027 01:24:45.980 --> 01:24:48.783 AND WOMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD 2028 01:24:48.783 --> 01:24:54.155 AND IN SPACE THAT GIVEN HUMANITY 2029 01:24:54.155 --> 01:24:56.124 INCREDIBLE EXPLORATION MACHINE 2030 01:24:56.124 --> 01:25:00.829 WHILE WE SEPARATE ITS PAST AND 2031 01:25:00.829 --> 01:25:07.669 DREAM OF FUTURE DISCOVERIES, THE 2032 01:25:07.669 --> 01:25:09.204 HUBBELL SPACE TELESCOPE IS 2033 01:25:09.204 --> 01:25:14.876 INSPIRING EXPLORER IN ALL OF US.