WEBVTT FILE 00:00:10.100.00:00:11.367 -I'd like to welcome you all. 00:00:11.367.00:00:14.634 Good afternoon to the STS-61 postflight 00:00:14.634.00:00:16.567 crew press conference. 00:00:16.567.00:00:19.133 Joining us of course is the seven-member crew, 00:00:19.133.00:00:21.267 and as usual with all of our briefings, 00:00:21.267.00:00:23.868 the crew will show some slides from the mission 00:00:23.868.00:00:27.601 as well as some video that was shot on orbit, 00:00:27.601.00:00:29.868 and after that, we'll take our usual question 00:00:29.868.00:00:31.667 and answers from here at JSC 00:00:31.667.00:00:33.801 and check with some of the other NASA centers. 00:00:33.801.00:00:36.400 With that, I'll turn it over to the commander of the flight, 00:00:36.400.00:00:38.100 Richard Covey. 00:00:38.100.00:00:39.634 -Thank you, Kyle. 00:00:39.634.00:00:41.200 Well, good afternoon. 00:00:41.200.00:00:44.434 It's surely a pleasure for the STS-61 crew to be here today. 00:00:44.434.00:00:50.000 A month ago today, we had snugly tucked the Hubble 00:00:50.000.00:00:51.701 into the payload bay of Endeavor 00:00:51.701.00:00:52.934 and were beginning to embark 00:00:52.934.00:00:55.834 upon the rest of the great adventure 00:00:55.834.00:00:58.300 that was the Hubble servicing and repair. 00:00:58.300.00:01:02.667 I'd like to briefly reintroduce to you the crew members 00:01:02.667.00:01:05.200 just so you can recognize them in their coats 00:01:05.200.00:01:09.634 and ties and nice suits. 00:01:09.634.00:01:12.868 On my right immediately is the pilot 00:01:12.868.00:01:18.601 and backup RMS operator Ken Bowersox. 00:01:18.601.00:01:21.934 Probably have heard him called Sox a lot during the mission. 00:01:21.934.00:01:23.701 Next to him is Claude Nicollier. 00:01:23.701.00:01:26.767 Claude is a European Space Agency astronaut 00:01:26.767.00:01:29.501 that we were really privileged to have on board, 00:01:29.501.00:01:31.667 served as the RMS operator 00:01:31.667.00:01:33.567 and also as flight engineer for ascent, 00:01:33.567.00:01:36.901 entry and other orbiter functions. 00:01:36.901.00:01:41.300 Next are the odd couple, and they're called the odd couple 00:01:41.300.00:01:45.200 because they performed the EVAs 1, 3, and 5, 00:01:45.200.00:01:46.801 and that's Dr. Story Musgrave, 00:01:46.801.00:01:48.701 who's also a payload commander, 00:01:50.767.00:01:54.133 and Dr. Jeff Hoffman. 00:01:54.133.00:01:58.067 And last but certainly not least are the even couple, 00:01:58.067.00:02:02.234 who performed EVAs 2 and 4, and that's Tom Akers, 00:02:02.234.00:02:06.167 Air Force lieutenant colonel and Dr. Kathy Thornton. 00:02:08.667.00:02:11.767 -We're going to move right on into our film. 00:02:14.267.00:02:16.434 -The night ascent is pretty spectacular. 00:02:16.434.00:02:18.067 You look out the window, and it's like a welding torch 00:02:18.067.00:02:20.767 going off when the SRBs light. 00:02:20.767.00:02:22.501 KT got to look out the overhead windows, 00:02:22.501.00:02:25.567 and I think that was pretty spectacular, too. 00:02:25.567.00:02:27.801 -It looked like daylight behind us on the pad, 00:02:27.801.00:02:30.501 and I could follow it for maybe 20 seconds 00:02:30.501.00:02:35.000 before it went into just light, just fire behind us. 00:02:35.000.00:02:37.968 -The vibrations and the roar is pretty much 00:02:37.968.00:02:40.200 the same as in the daytime. 00:02:40.200.00:02:44.534 Probably the big difference is up when you get towards SRB-7. 00:02:44.534.00:02:47.067 When the rockets go off to separate those boosters, 00:02:47.067.00:02:48.934 it really flashes up outside the windows, 00:02:48.934.00:02:52.601 and it gives me a thrill just seeing that right there. 00:02:52.601.00:02:55.400 -I tried to warn these guys. -Yeah, Covey warned us, 00:02:55.400.00:02:57.467 but it was still exciting. 00:02:57.467.00:02:59.200 Engines worked pretty well, and then next thing you know, 00:02:59.200.00:03:02.133 we were up on orbit and saw a beautiful sunrise. 00:03:02.133.00:03:04.601 -Because of the altitude of the Hubble Space Telescope, 00:03:04.601.00:03:07.400 we got to go into a relatively high -- 00:03:07.400.00:03:09.300 inserted into a high orbit. 00:03:09.300.00:03:10.634 What we found almost immediately is, 00:03:10.634.00:03:13.934 this orbit allowed us greater views 00:03:13.934.00:03:17.567 than we had seen before on any of our flights. 00:03:17.567.00:03:19.334 This was what Houston looked like at night. 00:03:19.334.00:03:20.934 In fact, you can follow the Gulf Freeway 00:03:20.934.00:03:22.367 down to the bottom part of the picture. 00:03:22.367.00:03:27.934 You see clearly Texas City and Galveston and all that in there. 00:03:27.934.00:03:29.934 We never saw the US in the daytime. 00:03:29.934.00:03:32.033 We saw it at night, but this shows you 00:03:32.033.00:03:33.467 some of the view of the lights. 00:03:33.467.00:03:36.167 You see New Orleans just going off the left side of the screen. 00:03:36.167.00:03:39.734 At the far top left is Chicago. 00:03:39.734.00:03:42.000 Center screen is Atlanta. 00:03:42.000.00:03:44.901 As we come across here, you can see the lights of Florida 00:03:44.901.00:03:49.400 and then on up the East Coast. 00:03:49.400.00:03:52.133 Post-insertion is a busy time for the crew. 00:03:52.133.00:03:55.834 You're adapting to zero-g and spectacular views, 00:03:55.834.00:03:59.100 but we were able to get everything cleaned up 00:03:59.100.00:04:02.067 and ready for our stay in orbit. 00:04:02.067.00:04:04.701 This shows the crew members at their different positions 00:04:04.701.00:04:06.534 and being busy. 00:04:06.534.00:04:08.801 Claude and Jeff... 00:04:12.868.00:04:14.567 and Story... 00:04:17.234.00:04:19.968 and Tom trying to work on our rat's nest 00:04:19.968.00:04:23.534 of photo TV equipment over in the corner. 00:04:23.534.00:04:25.334 -That's our beautiful payload bay again, 00:04:25.334.00:04:27.901 just waiting for us to go to work out there. 00:04:32.767.00:04:34.634 Here we're getting ready for the rendezvous. 00:04:34.634.00:04:35.834 -Yeah, before those guys could go to work, 00:04:35.834.00:04:37.868 we had to get the orbiter up there, 00:04:37.868.00:04:39.501 and this next sequence should give you a feel 00:04:39.501.00:04:42.234 just how busy it is during a rendezvous. 00:04:42.234.00:04:43.501 Covey, Claude and I were working up 00:04:43.501.00:04:45.334 front most of the time maneuvering the orbiter, 00:04:45.334.00:04:47.801 and then Covey moved back to the aft station. 00:04:47.801.00:04:49.601 Everybody else was busy taking pictures 00:04:49.601.00:04:51.367 like with this IMAX camera, 00:04:51.367.00:04:53.367 shooting a laser out the window 00:04:53.367.00:04:57.501 and getting pictures like that of the telescope. 00:04:57.501.00:05:00.400 The closer we got, the more excited I got. 00:05:00.400.00:05:01.934 I was pretty impressed when I got my first view 00:05:01.934.00:05:03.767 out the window, and that's just what it looked like. 00:05:03.767.00:05:06.467 You can see the blue glow from the Earth below. 00:05:08.834.00:05:12.033 -And this is the final approach to the telescope. 00:05:12.033.00:05:16.601 Covey was flying the orbiter in a very professional way 00:05:16.601.00:05:19.734 and stabilized the orbiter versus the telescope 00:05:19.734.00:05:22.434 in such a position that I could grab it. 00:05:22.434.00:05:25.634 The remote manipulator system had been already 00:05:25.634.00:05:27.834 put in the poised for capture position 00:05:27.834.00:05:29.701 about an hour before the final grapple. 00:05:29.701.00:05:30.767 This is the final grapple. 00:05:30.767.00:05:32.834 We saw the target that I was using. 00:05:32.834.00:05:35.667 In order to position the end affector on the telescope 00:05:35.667.00:05:37.667 and grab it and rigidize it 00:05:37.667.00:05:39.501 and then move it to the aft cargo bay 00:05:39.501.00:05:40.701 to install it 00:05:40.701.00:05:43.200 on the flat-surface structure. 00:05:45.601.00:05:47.367 -We had checked out the suits on Flight Day 2, 00:05:47.367.00:05:49.801 so we knew we had four good suits going into this. 00:05:49.801.00:05:52.067 We had spent a lot of hours training in the water tank, 00:05:52.067.00:05:54.868 and we were all excited and ready to go do it for real. 00:06:01.067.00:06:04.501 -Here we are doing it for real on EVA Day 1. 00:06:04.501.00:06:06.000 Get up, stuff some breakfast down, 00:06:06.000.00:06:07.100 and while you're eating breakfast, 00:06:07.100.00:06:08.567 you start putting electrodes on. 00:06:08.567.00:06:14.300 Those are biomed electrodes to get the electrocardiogram off. 00:06:14.300.00:06:17.968 Next thing you do is, KT and Tom put you in a suit. 00:06:17.968.00:06:21.934 Here's Jeff inside the suit and myself. 00:06:21.934.00:06:25.567 You check out the suits, and they're all checked out. 00:06:25.567.00:06:29.968 Depressurize the air lock, go outside. 00:06:29.968.00:06:32.601 -It's an exciting moment when you first open the air lock, 00:06:32.601.00:06:34.534 and you look out, and there's the entire universe 00:06:34.534.00:06:35.934 staring you in the face. 00:06:35.934.00:06:40.367 Here I am coming out on the first EVA. 00:06:40.367.00:06:42.033 Grabbing onto the manipulator arm 00:06:42.033.00:06:43.901 while Story is coming out now, 00:06:43.901.00:06:46.200 and I took a whole bunch of tools on the arm, 00:06:46.200.00:06:49.567 and the arm is now, under Claude's skillful guidance, 00:06:49.567.00:06:51.901 carrying me over to where 00:06:51.901.00:06:54.200 I'll get the manipulator foot restraint 00:06:54.200.00:06:57.934 which will then remain attached to the arm. 00:06:57.934.00:07:00.367 We should tell you, some of these EVA shots 00:07:00.367.00:07:01.734 are actually speeded up two 00:07:01.734.00:07:05.968 or even four times because things move pretty slowly. 00:07:05.968.00:07:07.934 This gives you the basic idea of how we work, 00:07:07.934.00:07:10.934 one person on the arm, one person moving, helping, 00:07:10.934.00:07:13.033 free floating. 00:07:13.033.00:07:17.100 The first task, the gyros inside the bay here, 00:07:17.100.00:07:19.701 I'm opening the doors, and Story is coming up, 00:07:19.701.00:07:21.467 and we're ready to go. 00:07:21.467.00:07:23.934 -And Jeff positions me very carefully inside 00:07:23.934.00:07:27.534 and puts my feet inside of the portable foot restraints, 00:07:27.534.00:07:29.267 and here, we're, as we talked about earlier, 00:07:29.267.00:07:33.367 changing out four out of the eight gyros. 00:07:33.367.00:07:34.734 Here we're working on the doors. 00:07:34.734.00:07:36.067 As you recall, during the flight, 00:07:36.067.00:07:38.501 we had a difficult time closing the doors, 00:07:38.501.00:07:40.033 so with Jeff on the central handle, 00:07:40.033.00:07:41.267 myself on the come-along, 00:07:41.267.00:07:42.834 we were able to position the doors 00:07:42.834.00:07:46.734 and then work the striker plates and get them closed. 00:07:46.734.00:07:49.367 -That was something we didn't expect. 00:07:53.501.00:07:55.834 -And here's myself getting a leg 00:07:55.834.00:07:57.901 up on the solar array changeout for the next day. 00:07:57.901.00:08:00.767 I'm just undoing various bolts there, 00:08:00.767.00:08:02.634 so when Tom and KT come along, 00:08:02.634.00:08:06.701 they won't have quite as much work to do on EVA Day #2. 00:08:09.334.00:08:12.300 -While Story was doing this, I was working on the fuses. 00:08:12.300.00:08:13.901 It was pretty spectacular working. 00:08:13.901.00:08:19.067 You can see right underneath the solar array there. 00:08:19.067.00:08:20.901 This is a view from the elbow camera 00:08:20.901.00:08:23.534 looking down from the top of the solar array. 00:08:23.534.00:08:26.534 We replaced a whole bunch of fuses. 00:08:30.701.00:08:33.601 -The solar arrays were slewed to the XY plane 00:08:33.601.00:08:37.467 to prepare for retraction after the end of that EVA. 00:08:37.467.00:08:39.100 You can see the one on the left is the one 00:08:39.100.00:08:42.534 that we expected to behave well, and it did. 00:08:42.534.00:08:44.634 This footage is also sped up a little bit. 00:08:44.634.00:08:47.701 It took several minutes for this slew to occur. 00:08:47.701.00:08:49.767 I spent most of this time when it was happening down 00:08:49.767.00:08:51.200 in the mid-deck and the air lock 00:08:51.200.00:08:52.968 cleaning up suits and getting ready for the next day, 00:08:52.968.00:08:54.701 but I did pop my head up every now 00:08:54.701.00:08:56.100 and then to watch the retraction 00:08:56.100.00:08:58.868 so we'd know what was going to happen for tomorrow. 00:08:58.868.00:09:02.067 This is the good solar array, the Plus V2 array, 00:09:02.067.00:09:03.901 which retracted normally. 00:09:03.901.00:09:05.901 The bistems are being pulled up in the cassette, 00:09:05.901.00:09:08.734 and the blanket is rolling smoothly on the drum, 00:09:08.734.00:09:11.834 and this is the way we wanted them both to work. 00:09:11.834.00:09:14.601 The other one, we could tell by a kink in the bistem, 00:09:14.601.00:09:16.334 it was unlikely that that was going to be 00:09:16.334.00:09:18.300 pulled up in the cassette, that we would have to leave 00:09:18.300.00:09:20.534 this thing partially deployed. 00:09:20.534.00:09:22.467 The retraction is ground-commanded. 00:09:22.467.00:09:25.434 However, we do have a stop command on board, 00:09:25.434.00:09:28.334 and we did exercise it when this one was retracting, 00:09:28.334.00:09:31.000 when the blanket began to get a little bit slack. 00:09:31.000.00:09:33.033 It seemed like the prudent thing to do was to stop 00:09:33.033.00:09:35.033 the retraction at that point 00:09:35.033.00:09:37.000 and let us take care of it 00:09:37.000.00:09:38.701 by hand when we got out there the next day. 00:09:38.701.00:09:40.868 This is the kinked bistem. 00:09:40.868.00:09:42.434 The bistem is two pieces of metal 00:09:42.434.00:09:44.200 that are flat when they're in the cassette, 00:09:44.200.00:09:45.534 and when they're released from the cassette, 00:09:45.534.00:09:47.934 roll up into tubes, one around the other, 00:09:47.934.00:09:49.467 and it appeared that one of those tubes 00:09:49.467.00:09:51.467 was 8 or 10 inches longer than the other, 00:09:51.467.00:09:55.868 so it made some loops in the bistem. 00:09:55.868.00:09:57.434 Story and Jeff were our IVs. 00:09:57.434.00:10:00.267 They put me and Tom in the suits as we had done 00:10:00.267.00:10:03.334 for them the day before and sent us out to do our work. 00:10:03.334.00:10:06.567 As I said earlier, this jettison had to be done. 00:10:06.567.00:10:08.734 The disconnecting of the electrical connections 00:10:08.734.00:10:10.767 had to be done at night because, with the solar arrays 00:10:10.767.00:10:13.400 still deployed, it is still producing electricity 00:10:13.400.00:10:15.167 when the Sun is on it, 00:10:15.167.00:10:18.000 so Tom had to cut some live wire and take some connectors off 00:10:18.000.00:10:20.601 and open the clamp while I was holding it 00:10:20.601.00:10:22.267 because the solar array tended to flap 00:10:22.267.00:10:26.300 and move around a lot any time anybody was touching it. 00:10:26.300.00:10:29.200 I held it up there and let it go with no rates on it at all. 00:10:29.200.00:10:30.300 It was very, very stable. 00:10:30.300.00:10:32.467 Claude pulled me back away from it, 00:10:32.467.00:10:35.133 and then Sox did the separation maneuver 00:10:35.133.00:10:36.868 that pushed us away from it, 00:10:36.868.00:10:39.334 and you can see some as the jets fire. 00:10:39.334.00:10:42.901 The solar array begins flapping, and it looked like a giant bird, 00:10:42.901.00:10:44.567 giant soaring bird over the desert. 00:10:44.567.00:10:46.133 It was just the most incredible sight. 00:10:46.133.00:10:49.167 I was mesmerized for a period of time just watching it. 00:10:53.200.00:10:54.434 There's not much more you can say about it. 00:10:54.434.00:10:57.033 It's just fabulous. 00:10:57.033.00:10:58.901 You see the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. 00:10:58.901.00:11:01.601 It was one spectacular sight. 00:11:05.133.00:11:08.000 On the solar array that retracted properly, 00:11:08.000.00:11:10.968 they were unable to stow it by ground command 00:11:10.968.00:11:12.734 because it wasn't slewed in the right direction. 00:11:12.734.00:11:15.033 The latches were not going to meet when it came up to the top, 00:11:15.033.00:11:17.133 so we did that manually as well. 00:11:17.133.00:11:18.767 Tom was driving up with a wrench, 00:11:18.767.00:11:20.968 although it was actually coasting on its own, 00:11:20.968.00:11:22.434 pretty much, and I went up to the top 00:11:22.434.00:11:23.934 to be sure that I had my hand on it 00:11:23.934.00:11:25.234 when it got close to the telescope 00:11:25.234.00:11:29.901 so we didn't do any damage by slamming it in. 00:11:32.534.00:11:35.200 We removed that one, put it on the solar array carrier. 00:11:35.200.00:11:38.167 It's been brought back to Earth for people to study 00:11:38.167.00:11:40.300 and see what life is like in orbit, 00:11:40.300.00:11:42.868 3 years of orbit for solar arrays, 00:11:42.868.00:11:45.400 what we can do to future solar arrays to make them better. 00:11:45.400.00:11:47.334 This was our first mass handling exercise. 00:11:47.334.00:11:49.601 It weighs between 300 and 400 pounds, 00:11:49.601.00:11:52.300 and it moves as if it's nothing. 00:11:52.300.00:11:53.534 Just put your hand on it, 00:11:53.534.00:11:56.467 and pretty much just the natural forces in the suit 00:11:56.467.00:11:59.467 cause your hands to want to be in a semiclosed position, 00:11:59.467.00:12:02.834 and that's all it takes to hang onto it. 00:12:02.834.00:12:06.267 I held it in place while Tom closed the clamp 00:12:06.267.00:12:08.701 to mechanically connect it to the telescope, 00:12:08.701.00:12:12.000 and then I came down to help with the electrical connections. 00:12:12.000.00:12:15.567 The connectors are driven in place by one drive screw, 00:12:15.567.00:12:18.033 and we were very, very concerned about stripping that screw 00:12:18.033.00:12:21.801 because it had happened in ground testing at times, 00:12:21.801.00:12:25.834 so we opted to drive that by hand very, very gently 00:12:25.834.00:12:27.667 so that we would feel if there were any kind of torques 00:12:27.667.00:12:28.801 that we weren't expecting, 00:12:28.801.00:12:31.567 and we could back off and try it again. 00:12:31.567.00:12:34.033 -After each EVA, we had to go through... 00:12:34.033.00:12:36.267 It was really about a 3-hour process 00:12:36.267.00:12:38.701 to clean up the old suits, 00:12:38.701.00:12:40.601 pack them up for the night, get the new suits out 00:12:40.601.00:12:42.000 before we're ready to go. 00:12:42.000.00:12:43.734 Here we are on the third EVA. 00:12:43.734.00:12:47.200 We talked about the use of these searchlights from inside. 00:12:47.200.00:12:49.834 This is a good example of what it was like working at night, 00:12:49.834.00:12:52.467 and the people inside would shine the light 00:12:52.467.00:12:54.033 to augment our helmet lights. 00:12:54.033.00:12:56.667 Here I am putting the guide studs -- 00:12:56.667.00:12:58.133 These are little two-ended bolts -- 00:12:58.133.00:13:00.400 into the Wide Field/Planetary Camera. 00:13:00.400.00:13:05.167 This is so that this handhold that I'm picking up now 00:13:05.167.00:13:06.634 we can then attach it, 00:13:06.634.00:13:09.534 and we have a little set of nuts which we then 00:13:09.534.00:13:12.367 put on top of those guide bolts 00:13:12.367.00:13:14.234 or guide studs as we call them. 00:13:14.234.00:13:15.567 So we take the handhold up. 00:13:15.567.00:13:19.534 We install it onto the WF/PC. 00:13:19.534.00:13:22.100 You can see Story free-floating over at the right. 00:13:22.100.00:13:26.133 He's going to get into the foot restraint right below him. 00:13:26.133.00:13:30.334 I'm undoing the bolts here that hold the WF/PC in, 00:13:30.334.00:13:33.167 and then the two of us working together 00:13:33.167.00:13:38.868 actually pull the WFPC1 out from the telescope. 00:13:41.767.00:13:43.634 And it slides out on some tracks, 00:13:43.634.00:13:48.400 and it just came out really beautifully. 00:13:48.400.00:13:51.634 Claude doing the driving on the arm, 00:13:54.467.00:13:56.601 Claude did this so beautifully, you know, 00:13:56.601.00:13:58.968 it was hardly necessary to say what you wanted to do. 00:13:58.968.00:14:02.767 He almost anticipated where we needed to be. 00:14:02.767.00:14:06.634 Both Claude and Sox did incredible job driving the arm. 00:14:06.634.00:14:10.667 We stowed the WFPC1 on the side of the shuttle 00:14:10.667.00:14:13.434 in a temporary stowage bracket there 00:14:13.434.00:14:16.934 and then extracted the WF/PC number two, 00:14:16.934.00:14:19.834 and remember, this is about four times real speed. 00:14:19.834.00:14:24.467 We were doing this very slowly, so slowly that you probably 00:14:24.467.00:14:28.133 wouldn't want to watch the whole thing in real-time, 00:14:28.133.00:14:30.567 but it came off without a hitch, 00:14:30.567.00:14:34.634 and then the delicate process of inserting it in again 00:14:34.634.00:14:36.067 with me on one side 00:14:36.067.00:14:39.934 and Story on the other side went very well, just beautifully. 00:14:39.934.00:14:44.601 This was a very finely designed instrument 00:14:44.601.00:14:47.601 for EVA repair and handling. 00:14:47.601.00:14:49.868 It's a good example of what you can do 00:14:49.868.00:14:51.767 when you design something right. 00:14:58.300.00:15:00.367 Story was around back in the Apollo days, 00:15:00.367.00:15:03.467 and he had commented that nobody had ever taken a Hasselblad 00:15:03.467.00:15:04.968 into space since Apollo, 00:15:04.968.00:15:08.000 and so he arranged to have this reactivated, 00:15:08.000.00:15:10.267 and there I am using it. 00:15:10.267.00:15:13.467 We got some fabulous pictures with that. 00:15:13.467.00:15:15.501 Here we are putting on the magnetometer. 00:15:15.501.00:15:17.968 It's a unit which we basically put on top 00:15:17.968.00:15:19.701 of the old magnetometers, 00:15:19.701.00:15:25.267 so we never remove the old ones, and then we screw it into place. 00:15:25.267.00:15:29.067 We're 50 feet above the payload bay, 00:15:29.067.00:15:33.300 and so not only was it quite a view looking towards the Earth, 00:15:33.300.00:15:37.734 but looking down towards the shuttle was pretty spectacular. 00:15:37.734.00:15:42.467 -EVA Day 4, as we mentioned, the swap out, 00:15:42.467.00:15:46.634 the new COSTAR instrument for the HSP. 00:15:46.634.00:15:48.667 Opening the doors there getting into the bay, 00:15:48.667.00:15:50.434 and then it got dark fairly quickly, 00:15:50.434.00:15:55.033 so we did the HSP removal in the dark, 00:15:55.033.00:15:56.934 and you can see the searchlight 00:15:56.934.00:15:59.167 providing extra light for us there. 00:16:01.667.00:16:06.367 KT then took the HSP down and stowed it 00:16:06.367.00:16:10.100 on a temporary fixture over on the port side, 00:16:12.901.00:16:16.367 then came and pulled out the new COSTAR unit 00:16:16.367.00:16:21.033 from its stowage container, 00:16:21.033.00:16:24.033 brought it up and then held it here 00:16:24.033.00:16:26.467 and then pointed the corner down toward me 00:16:26.467.00:16:29.300 as I came around to remove the DOB, 00:16:29.300.00:16:32.801 or deployable optical bench, protective cover, 00:16:32.801.00:16:35.901 which is all those little mirrors in COSTAR 00:16:35.901.00:16:37.100 right in that corner, 00:16:37.100.00:16:39.267 and they're retracted down inside there, 00:16:39.267.00:16:41.767 and then those were deployed several inches up 00:16:41.767.00:16:45.067 out of the COSTAR several days 00:16:45.067.00:16:47.801 after we had come home. 00:16:47.801.00:16:50.400 Getting ready to put COSTAR in again, 00:16:50.400.00:16:51.634 we spent quite a bit of time 00:16:51.634.00:16:54.267 making sure it's perfectly lined up, 00:16:54.267.00:16:56.968 and again, with only about an inch of clearance, 00:16:56.968.00:17:01.067 KT did a super job of just giving me millimeters of control 00:17:01.067.00:17:04.300 when I asked for it, guiding it in. 00:17:04.300.00:17:08.200 And she might want to say something about how it felt. 00:17:08.200.00:17:10.167 -It was very easy to move, but it was... 00:17:10.167.00:17:12.234 All I could see in front of my face was a box, 00:17:12.234.00:17:15.734 so Tom was my eyes to put it in that little hole. 00:17:15.734.00:17:18.968 -This is getting the new co-processor out, 00:17:18.968.00:17:20.934 and then we did a swap out on the end of the arm, 00:17:20.934.00:17:22.434 and I got on the end of the arm, 00:17:22.434.00:17:26.133 and KT behind me there to manage tools 00:17:26.133.00:17:30.334 and the co-processor went up using the power tools. 00:17:30.334.00:17:34.000 You noticed here all the bolts that we had to do 00:17:34.000.00:17:37.834 except those solar array connector bolts, 00:17:37.834.00:17:39.100 we used a power tool on, 00:17:39.100.00:17:41.400 and our tools really held up well 00:17:41.400.00:17:43.767 and served us well during the mission. 00:17:43.767.00:17:45.367 Coming back in, this is a good shot 00:17:45.367.00:17:46.767 of coming back in the air lock. 00:17:46.767.00:17:50.501 Again, this is four or five times actual speed, I think. 00:17:50.501.00:17:53.000 You have to be really careful coming into the air lock. 00:17:53.000.00:17:56.801 It's got a fragile covering on it. 00:17:56.801.00:18:00.334 Going out at the end of every day, we had to untether 00:18:00.334.00:18:02.868 the MFR, or manipulator foot restraint, 00:18:02.868.00:18:04.567 so if we had to get rid of it overnight, 00:18:04.567.00:18:06.834 it would come loose from the arm. 00:18:06.834.00:18:11.434 You see all the tools hanging off of each of us as we come in. 00:18:11.434.00:18:15.400 We had to be very careful coming inside. 00:18:15.400.00:18:20.334 And then again at the end of each EVA, getting out of suits, 00:18:20.334.00:18:22.267 reconfiguring tools 00:18:22.267.00:18:25.767 and suits, changing out batteries for the next day. 00:18:31.567.00:18:35.100 -Shows Covey, Claude and Sox configuring MLI 00:18:35.100.00:18:39.434 for the covers that we're going to put on the magnetometers 00:18:39.434.00:18:40.834 on the last EVA, 00:18:40.834.00:18:42.767 EVA Day #5. 00:18:45.000.00:18:47.734 Here's EVA Day #5. 00:18:47.734.00:18:51.133 I was on the MFR Day 5, and the other two days 00:18:51.133.00:18:52.367 that Jeff and I were out, 00:18:52.367.00:18:54.801 Jeff was on the MFR, so we took turns at that. 00:18:54.801.00:18:55.601 Here's Jeff. 00:18:55.601.00:18:57.968 He's getting the GHRS, 00:18:57.968.00:19:00.267 the guided high-rate spectrometer, 00:19:00.267.00:19:02.033 our repair kit out. 00:19:02.033.00:19:04.400 Here's myself and Jeff working on the SADE, 00:19:04.400.00:19:07.501 the solar array drive electronics, changing that out. 00:19:07.501.00:19:08.734 There's not much to look at here. 00:19:08.734.00:19:10.667 It's just very hand-intensive work 00:19:10.667.00:19:16.234 on doing mostly electrical connectors for about 3 hours. 00:19:16.234.00:19:18.167 This is one of the more spectacular views 00:19:18.167.00:19:19.901 up on top here, looking straight down 00:19:19.901.00:19:21.767 to Earth, 370 miles. 00:19:21.767.00:19:23.834 We're getting try to put the covers, 00:19:23.834.00:19:26.567 those MLI covers that we had constructed, 00:19:26.567.00:19:30.100 on top of the magnetometers. 00:19:30.100.00:19:32.367 Here's deployment of the main solar array boom. 00:19:32.367.00:19:35.434 It just took a couple ounces to get it started down, 00:19:35.434.00:19:38.000 but the motors were unable to deploy that, 00:19:38.000.00:19:40.734 so Jeff and I just with a couple ounces 00:19:40.734.00:19:43.667 on a wrench were able to deploy 00:19:43.667.00:19:45.667 what's called the primary drive mechanism, 00:19:45.667.00:19:47.868 but it's really just the solar array boom. 00:19:52.601.00:19:56.801 Here's deployment of the new solar arrays, the blankets, 00:19:56.801.00:19:59.434 which will go out there and convert solar energy 00:19:59.434.00:20:02.434 into electrical energy. 00:20:02.434.00:20:04.300 But this is the final completion, 00:20:04.300.00:20:06.767 really, of the EVA here. 00:20:06.767.00:20:09.334 They were able to deploy these while we were still out 00:20:09.334.00:20:12.834 and also be able to deploy the high-gain antennas 00:20:12.834.00:20:13.934 and all these things. 00:20:13.934.00:20:15.100 It was great to get these things done 00:20:15.100.00:20:17.167 because they did have EVA backups in case 00:20:17.167.00:20:20.267 any of these mechanisms did not work. 00:20:24.667.00:20:29.267 Here we are coming inside after the final EVA, EVA Day #5, 00:20:29.267.00:20:32.133 and we never really did let our hair down 00:20:32.133.00:20:35.868 until this final day here. 00:20:35.868.00:20:38.767 We breathed a slight sigh of relief on each day when we... 00:20:38.767.00:20:42.100 Because we got each day's job done, but I'll tell you, 00:20:42.100.00:20:43.901 we've been working at this for years, 00:20:43.901.00:20:45.567 incredible attention to detail, 00:20:45.567.00:20:48.667 and we did have a moment of jubilation here, 00:20:48.667.00:20:50.767 although of course we had many weeks 00:20:50.767.00:20:53.801 to wait to see that Hubble really did work. 00:20:53.801.00:20:57.367 -This is Flight Day 9, the release day. 00:20:57.367.00:20:59.033 You saw the telescope at the back of the bay 00:20:59.033.00:21:00.367 ready for release. 00:21:00.367.00:21:03.767 First, we had to capture the telescope using the arm. 00:21:03.767.00:21:06.434 You see here the final approach 00:21:06.434.00:21:08.167 to the grapple fixture on the telescope. 00:21:08.167.00:21:11.567 Then we released the latches on the flat-surface structure, 00:21:11.567.00:21:14.400 lifted Hubble over the flat-surface structure, 00:21:14.400.00:21:15.968 over the cargo bay, 00:21:15.968.00:21:20.868 and here you can see the release of the telescope. 00:21:20.868.00:21:23.267 The arm is being pulled away, 00:21:23.267.00:21:25.334 and Sox at the controls of the orbiter 00:21:25.334.00:21:28.100 for the separation maneuver. 00:21:28.100.00:21:30.701 -Yeah, after Claude released the telescope, 00:21:30.701.00:21:34.367 I fired a few pulses to get us backing away, 00:21:34.367.00:21:37.067 and the telescope slowly started drifting. 00:21:37.067.00:21:38.234 Once it was at a safe distance, 00:21:38.234.00:21:39.534 we put some cameras up in the window, 00:21:39.534.00:21:40.834 and I hope we got some good photos, 00:21:40.834.00:21:42.968 especially with the IMAX camera. 00:21:42.968.00:21:45.133 And that's what it looked like, a pretty majestic sight 00:21:45.133.00:21:46.367 with that big telescope 00:21:46.367.00:21:48.734 and its brand-new solar arrays drifting away. 00:21:53.534.00:21:56.901 We got lots of film, and I can't wait to see it. 00:21:56.901.00:21:59.801 I think we may get an advance screening here on Thursday 00:21:59.801.00:22:02.701 or Friday of some of our IMAX footage. 00:22:06.801.00:22:09.567 -After deploy, we did, 00:22:09.567.00:22:11.834 as Sox talked about earlier, had a day off. 00:22:11.834.00:22:14.567 I showed some of the activities on our light day 00:22:14.567.00:22:16.801 and actually on every day, reading the mail. 00:22:16.801.00:22:20.300 We'd get up through our computers. 00:22:20.300.00:22:24.901 Here's Sox doing some trash compaction and management. 00:22:24.901.00:22:27.434 KT is taking care of the laundry, 00:22:27.434.00:22:34.467 and we also, on the day before entry, 00:22:34.467.00:22:40.133 practiced landing with our new pilot simulator. 00:22:40.133.00:22:44.434 It's a little onboard computer simulation of the landing task, 00:22:44.434.00:22:47.400 and it proved extremely useful to us 00:22:47.400.00:22:49.501 for getting ready for landing. 00:22:49.501.00:22:54.200 -We had great passes over North America and Europe, 00:22:54.200.00:22:58.167 and this is a pass over the Mediterranean Sea, 00:22:58.167.00:22:59.434 or south of the Mediterranean Sea. 00:22:59.434.00:23:02.801 You can see Sicily and the southern tip of Italy 00:23:02.801.00:23:05.367 with just a quick see of Rome. 00:23:05.367.00:23:06.734 It disappeared off the left-hand side 00:23:06.734.00:23:09.133 and Brindisi on the right-hand side. 00:23:09.133.00:23:13.400 A little later, we had passes of the delta of the Nile, 00:23:13.400.00:23:15.400 and you can see Cairo in the middle, 00:23:15.400.00:23:17.300 and a little further north 00:23:17.300.00:23:22.300 the lights of Tel Aviv and the west coast. 00:23:22.300.00:23:23.934 -Here's the West Coast of the U.S. 00:23:23.934.00:23:25.701 as we complete our trip around the world. 00:23:25.701.00:23:28.567 You can see San Francisco Bay up in the center, 00:23:28.567.00:23:33.133 Los Angeles down at the bottom, Las Vegas coming into view. 00:23:33.133.00:23:35.767 Las Vegas is outrageously bright. 00:23:35.767.00:23:38.567 You could see the strip from 350 miles. 00:23:38.567.00:23:39.667 This is Houston. 00:23:39.667.00:23:41.033 Take a look in the upper-left corner, 00:23:41.033.00:23:43.300 and you'll see a very bright fireball meteor 00:23:43.300.00:23:45.701 come through the atmosphere. 00:23:45.701.00:23:48.234 There you go. There it is. 00:23:48.234.00:23:51.701 You can also see Dallas and San Antonio. 00:23:51.701.00:23:53.601 This is looking up the East Coast. 00:23:53.601.00:23:54.834 You can see lightning storms. 00:23:54.834.00:23:56.667 You could see a little bit of aurora up there. 00:23:56.667.00:23:59.234 Looking back towards the west now over Florida, 00:23:59.234.00:24:03.567 you could see all the way back to Houston. 00:24:03.567.00:24:05.534 -We had a lot of long hours and intense days, 00:24:05.534.00:24:07.033 and when Covey said it was time to go to bed, 00:24:07.033.00:24:09.601 it was time to go to bed, and he covered the windows 00:24:09.601.00:24:11.667 and sent the kids down to the mid-deck. 00:24:11.667.00:24:15.200 With five of us sleeping down there, it was pretty cozy. 00:24:15.200.00:24:18.634 You knew if you moved, you were waking somebody else up, 00:24:18.634.00:24:20.968 but we managed to all find a place to strap our sleeping bags 00:24:20.968.00:24:23.300 and sent Story to the air lock. 00:24:23.300.00:24:25.801 That's on our getting ready to come home day. 00:24:25.801.00:24:28.067 This is flight control checkout. 00:24:28.067.00:24:30.634 We're making sure all the orbiter systems are working. 00:24:30.634.00:24:32.901 We brought home everything that we had intended to bring home 00:24:32.901.00:24:34.767 with the exception of that one solar array, 00:24:34.767.00:24:37.133 and the solar array carrier looks like a tool board 00:24:37.133.00:24:38.634 in your garage with one tool missing, 00:24:38.634.00:24:42.534 so we called that our dead tool silhouette. 00:24:42.534.00:24:44.000 This is HST. 00:24:44.000.00:24:45.868 It continued to stay with us through the rest of the flight, 00:24:45.868.00:24:47.300 and we called it our morning star 00:24:47.300.00:24:48.601 because we would see it every morning 00:24:48.601.00:24:51.667 when the Sun was reflecting off of it. 00:24:51.667.00:24:52.901 -All missions have to end. 00:24:52.901.00:24:54.868 They end with a deorbit and a landing, hopefully, 00:24:54.868.00:24:58.467 and this shows us getting ready for deorbit, 00:24:58.467.00:25:03.267 and then the infrared pictures from KSC 00:25:03.267.00:25:05.767 and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station 00:25:05.767.00:25:08.067 of our turnaround, 00:25:08.067.00:25:12.634 HAC and approach to Runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center. 00:25:12.634.00:25:14.601 Like I said before, there's nothing like bringing 00:25:14.601.00:25:17.701 in a space shuttle back to Kennedy Space Center. 00:25:22.667.00:25:24.567 We had an extraordinary night 00:25:24.567.00:25:26.901 to fly across Florida with the lights 00:25:26.901.00:25:33.200 and to make this landing onto Runway 33. 00:25:33.200.00:25:38.501 The orbiter flies exceptionally well for a big glider, 00:25:38.501.00:25:43.334 and we felt very good about safely rolling out to a stop 00:25:43.334.00:25:46.834 and bringing STS-61, 00:25:46.834.00:25:49.601 the servicing and repair mission, to a conclusion.