[ Thunder rumbles ]
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Let's go! -Go, Atlantis!
-Yeah! -Whoo!
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ No sound ]
-Go, no-go for launch. GC. -Go.
-Guidance. Fido. -Go. Go.
-PROP. GNC. -Go. Go.
-MMACS. EGIL. -Go. Go.
-EECOM. FAO. -Go. Go.
-Payloads. -Go.
-It's a great day to go fly.
On behalf of the KSC Processing and Launch team,
I'd like to wish you, your crew,
and the whole Hubble Space Telescope team a great mission.
Good luck. Godspeed.
And we'll see you back here in about 11 days.
[ Water rushing ]
[ Engines firing ]
[ No sound ]
-Okay. Here we go.
I think I got it.
-It turned. It definitely turned.
-Yep. It turned.
[ No sound ]
-Now it's time for our favorite segment, which is...
-Good to see you again. -Likewise.
-In my corner. -In your cor--
Scooter's Corner. -Scooter's Corner.
-And he's actually in his real corner.
-This is my seat.
-Where are you sitting right now?
[ No sound ]
-That darn handrail.
Sunset in 11 minutes.
-Houston, are you ready for this?
-Yeah, we're ready.
-Okay...go.
-Dispose of that, please.
Okay.
[ No sound ]
-10 seconds.
-Scooter, you got that, I assume.
-5 seconds. The mode switch is in auto.
3. 2. 1. release.
[ Beeping ]
I'm backing away. -I see you got...
Clear the pin. -Clear the pin.
Mode switch is in off.
Clear the antenna.
[ No sound ]
-3, 2, 1. Mark.
-Engines are up.
[ No sound ]
[ Rumbling ]
-This is a really tremendous adventure that we've been on,
a very challenging mission.
Hubble isn't just a satellite.
It's about humanity's quest for knowledge.
As Arthur C. Clarke says,
the only way of finding the limits on the possible
is by going beyond them into the impossible.
And on this mission, we tried some things
that many people said was impossible --
fixing STIS, repairing ACS,
achieving all the content that we have in this mission.
But we've achieved that,
and we wish Hubble the very best.
It's really a sign of the great country that we live in
that we're able to do things like this
on a marvelous spaceship like the space shuttle Atlantis.
And I'm convinced that if we can solve problems
like repairing Hubble, getting to space,
doing the servicing we do
traveling 17,500 miles an hour around the Earth,
that we can achieve other great things,
like solving our energy problems and our climate problems,
all things that are in the middle
of NASA's prime and core values.
I want to wish Hubble its own set of adventures
and, with the new instruments we've installed,
that it may unlock further mysteries of the universe.