♪♪
[ No audio ]
[ Static crackling ]
[ No audio ]
[ "Macarena" plays ]
♪♪
-From the frozen tundra of Green Bay...
-Well, the Packers are going all the way this year.
There's no doubt about it.
-Farve is in the pocket. Pass complete.
Touchdown, Green Bay!
Boy, Lombardi would have loved this.
-♪ We are cheese-heads cheering at the Lambeau ♪
♪ This is the year we make it to the big show ♪
♪ Farve passes, makes touchdowns ♪
♪ And we will do the Lambeau Leap in Titletown ♪
♪ Move with us, camp with us ♪
♪ And you will be a Packer fan just like us ♪
-♪ Brett and-a Brooks and-an Edgar and-a Reggie ♪
♪ Jackson and Chmura and-a Holmgren and-a Jacke ♪
♪ Jones and-a LeRoy and-a Newsome and a-Dorsey ♪
♪ Hey, Packarena Hut-hut ♪
♪ Brett and-a Brooks and-an Edgar and-a Reggie ♪
♪ Jackson and Chmura and-a Holmgren ♪
♪ And-a Jacke Jones ♪
♪ and-a LeRoy and-a Newsome and a-Dorsey ♪
♪ Hey, Packarena ♪
-Discovery, the Green Bay Packers
and all of Wisconsin wish you,
and especially Mark Lee, a good morning.
-And good morning to you.
[ No audio ]
[ Static crackling ]
-All right, so, this thing is good to be seeing.
I'm gonna do all of these here.
Count test. All right. Cutting.
-Eight-three, 10 o'clock, right two-tenths.
-All right. Copy that.
-All right, Doc. Good for you to take me down.
-Going down.
-Okay.
Stop.
-Mark, they should come out 7 1/2 to 9 turns.
And of course, watch for the washer.
[ No audio ]
-All right. I need your FRT again.
-Okay.
[ Static crackling ]
-Really good FRT.
-Right.
I'm gonna pull off and see if that bolt --
Tell me if that bolt starts to come loose, and move...
Cancel out the NFR.
-Still tight. Okay.
Roll it a little bit to the left.
Left, roll left.
Roll...this side up a little bit.
There you go, so I can see it.
-And now, tell me if it comes loose.
[ Static crackling ]
-Mike, do we need to wait till Steve gets here
before I bring you down?
-I have Steve coming first.
-Okay. Move forward.
[ Static crackling ]
-Houston, Discovery.
-Go ahead, Joti.
-You have a go for DIU aliveness test.
-Copy.
Good work, Mark and Steve. Aliveness test in work.
-Discovery, Houston. DIU aliveness test successful.
-Fantastic.
Thanks for the news. -All right.
Stop.
[ Indistinct speech ]
[ Static crackling ]
-You know, the battery kind of blocks any view.
I'm gonna need to -- let me just measure it.
-You guys are kind of pretty close to it.
Okay. Back to Steve.
Take me off.
-Okay. Back out.
-All right. Take me in.
-Okay. Going it again.
And check the stance and position, Mark.
-I know.
-All right. Uh, looks good.
Do you think the left side is okay, still?
-Left side is the same.
-All right. And it's inside the battery, isn't it?
-Yes.
Good job on that.
-Thank you so much. -[ Indistinct ]
Okay. -All right.
That's good. Let's go out.
-Going out. -[ Indistinct ]
[ No audio ]
-Holy cow.
-It looks like the Hubble Space Telescope
should stay in the planet Earth or the moon, in my view.
-Just an average day for us. -What a great place to be.
Where's the moon?
-And these good-looking guys over here.
The moon is over the port wing, right above Shark's Bay.
-Just an average day for a couple space walkers.
-You guys enjoy it.
That's great up there.
Just one more word on this MLI business --
what we want to do is to avoid doing anything
that will distract anybody's mind
from the current EVA at hand,
because that's the number-one priority.
And we will be scheduling time later on
to talk about this whole issue
so that you can get your inputs to us,
and we will have a full discussion on the whole issue.
-Go ahead, Jeff. -Got some good news.
The commands have gone through to the ESTER,
and it will be ready for you when you get there.
And you'll be glad to know that all the commanding
has been done through the new DIU,
which you just finished installing,
so, complete success. Good work.
Great hands, Mark.
[ No audio ]
-Well, the whole surface of the telescope
looks different on this side
because of the constant exposure to the sun.
The handrails are a different color.
The ALI has little spiderweb cracks in it.
[ No audio ]
-Yeah. The handrails look like
they've got a really good suntan, don't they?
-Yeah. They sure do.
[ No audio ]
-That has to be Houston, Texas.
-You're exactly right.
-Right there. -You're just right over Houston.
Say, "Hello, Houston."
-Hello, Discovery. We're waving.
-I wonder if anybody's still awake down there.
-A few of us are.
-And you guys are doing a fantastic job supporting us.
We appreciate it.
-Okay, John.
I'm gonna mate one, two and three up.
Start with one.
[ No audio ]
-One is on.
-They're all -- Okay. Why don't you pitch down
just a little bit?
All right. Stop right there.
Do you see all four connectors? -Yes, we can.
And we're gonna zoom just a little bit.
-Okay.
-All right, and hold your shot right there.
-HST now has a self-made tape recorder.
-Good job, Steve.
-Okay. On my first flap.
-Could you put that straight on the bayonet bearing --
the top bayonet bearing, opposite the CRD.
-Okay. I will.
I need to back away from the telescope first,
and head me towards the MFR Swap, there, near the rope.
-Okay. That's where I'm headed.
-Stand up straight once, there, Steve.
[ No audio ]
-I see the PGG over there.
[ No audio ]
I see the motor, 10 o'clock, right in front of you.
Okay, and you've got the stretch bags.
-Today, it's just gonna be 135 right.
Steve, you want to move that over there?
-Mm-hmm.
-Steve, let's go right, and we'll be ready.
-Okay. Four or five to the right.
-Perfect. Perfect.
[ No audio ]
-And Steve, you might as well just bring those up to the hatch
right now, and the stone, there.
And then, we'll get the ice and thermal shields and repair kits.
-Yes.
-And let's go to PGG and the airlock, also.
[ No audio ]
-All right. Stop. Stop.
Facing forward around there.
-Forward.
-All right. Stop.
[ No audio ]
-Okay. I think this one called P1 is mated.
Take me.
And...
stop.
Stop. All right.
Over here, there's a crack that goes along this area,
one that goes across the back,
one that goes up through the middle, here,
one that comes over there, a small one in the middle,
and another couple small cracks up the left side.
[ No audio ]
-And then, we haven't retrieved
the thermal-shield repair kits yet,
but we're gonna do that right now.
We knew that.
[ No audio ]
-Okay. Copy.
-But I can confirm that the tethers requested
are in the airlock.
The tape caddy is with Mark.
The MLI repair patch is in the airlock,
and the thermal kits will be there soon.
[ No audio ]
♪♪
[ No audio ]
-♪ Meet me in the crowd ♪
♪ People, people ♪
♪ Throw your love around ♪
♪ Love me, love me ♪
♪ Take it into town ♪
♪ Happy, happy ♪
♪ Put it in the ground, where the flowers... ♪
-Good morning, Discovery.
-Good morning, Chris.
[ No audio ]
I think his assessment is, it's pretty stuck.
-It looks like one of Doc's patented extenders,
so, we have absolutely no concern.
-Yeah. We think we can...
We think we can pull a trailer with it.
-We agree.
[ No audio ]
-Discovery, Houston, we really appreciate these mid-deck views.
PAO is delighted to finally see Dr. Stevie,
and I'm very glad to have the pictures.
That way, I can recognize the voices.
[ No audio ]
-Well, you're welcome, Mark,
and I figured I was gonna be in trouble
unless I got on TV at least once.
-Yes. Kyle is visibly relieved.
-And we're gonna go the Egress on the captain's checklist.
-We almost opened the thermal shield, there.
What do you think? -Let's do that.
-And Houston, Discovery, tank 408 heater 02A is coming off.
-Okay, we copy. Thanks.
-Nice job on the Velcro yesterday.
Oh.
[ No audio ]
-You didn't quite get it out of there, Joe.
It keeps coming back. There's one more.
There you go.
-Discovery, Houston, for Joe, you have some fans
who came into the viewing room a moment ago.
You might just give them a wave. -Yeah.
Which camera? End sector?
Elbow, excuse me, up and left.
Hi. It's probably my mother, father, wife, and two children.
Hi.
Having fun.
-One more wave.
[ No audio ]
-Okay. The end-sector tether is secured.
I think I may need your help, here.
-Okay. -Just a sec.
-Okay. Come over this way a little bit.
[ Static crackling ]
And back me out just a few inches.
That's good.
We're always expecting, here.
Okay, Steve. I don't see anything at all.
Everything looks nice and clean, just like the rest.
All right.
Okay. I've got it.
-Make that go in here, then.
-Okay. Turn back.
Just lead me back to the work site, please.
-Right away.
[ No audio ]
-Okay. You can stop there.
-I'll stop for now.
[ No audio ]
-Now, it's a little too far.
-[ Indistinct speech ]
One...good.
-Houston, Discovery, the EVA camera is a nice view,
if you have a chance to take a look at it.
-Two.
-We're looking at it, and it's a great view.
-Three.
Do three turns, so there's no release.
-And Discovery, for Greg and Joe,
Story has got a big smile on his face,
and he's giving you a big thumb's up.
We're both envious, and I'm sure that you join us
in wanting to congratulate the designers up at Goddard
who came up with this really elegant solution
to the SADE problem.
-Yes.
I couldn't be happier. And I'll tell you what,
being here, in situ,
I can appreciate the challenge that you two faced
in doing it the first time.
We wouldn't be able to do it this easily if it wasn't for you
and if it wasn't for those guys at Goddard.
-If, for some reason, we have to vacate,
the stock is coming with us anyway, so...
-So, Dr. Stevie, I am tethered to the old SADE-2 right now.
-Okay. We copy.
-And I'm releasing a fourth bolt.
[ No audio ]
[ Indistinct speech ]
There we go.
-Greg, since we can't really see the connectors on SADE-2,
can you come up and pan down?
There you go. Hold it right there.
Awesome.
[ No audio ]
-There's that tool they were tied to.
-[ Indistinct speech ]
Lean a little more to your right, Greg.
-Just a little over to the right.
We're about 6 feet in front of the telescope,
so you can take me up.
-Keep doing that.
-There's our space shuttle payload section.
-Discovery, Houston, superb work on the magnetometers.
We have a nice view of the aperture cover,
and a question for the EVA folks --
which looks further away,
the Earth or the shuttle, at this point?
-It's a close call. -Yeah.
The Earth...almost looks like you could touch it.
-And Steve, this is for Keith.
The view is just unbelievable.
-Greg, while we're getting some pictures,
just a reminder -- the first thing we're gonna do
is cut off a curled edge from the torn area --
about a 4-by-4 or bigger -- and put it in the trash bag.
And your choice where to do that.
[ Static crackling ]
-Putting my fingers out.
Okay. You got the trash caddy?
-And this view, looking from one of
the bulkhead cameras in the payload bay,
looking up at Joe Tanner and Greg Harbaugh.
Joe Tanner is the free-floating astronaut
with the diagonal stripes on the legs of his suit,
while Greg Harbaugh is mounted in the manipulator foot restrain
on the end of the shuttle's robot arm.
The two astronauts have just wrapped up the task
installing new covers over the magnetic sensing system sensors.
[ No audio ]
-All right. Now, I just need you to back me out.
Let's take another look.
-Backing you out.
[ No audio ]
-And, Discovery, Houston,
we've been watching from the ground,
and everybody is marveling at Greg's superb skills
in putting that blanket. It looks really great.
We haven't seen the top one, but that one looks fabulous.
-There's you, right there. -Oh, okay.
One of these close-up shots,
zoom me in over there or something?
-Okay. Slightly to your left, and up a little bit.
Come left.
More.
There we go. We're upside down,
and that's Dr. Stevie in the window there, though.
-I see him. -And we see that,
and you do have a go for rotate when they're clear.
-All right. Thanks.
Go ahead and pan up, Joe.
-That's a good view of Socks, and also Dr. Stevie, we think.
-That is Socks and Stevie.
-Well, they've been working hard today.
-Well, guys, I guess we really left our mark on this telescope.
Mark, I do want to express my appreciation
for all the folks on the ground that work these procedures.
I know it was probably a sleepless couple days
for some folks, and Jeff Hoffman and Jerry Ross,
and whoever else in the EBU community,
and all the Goddard guys that teamed up to come up
with this much of the repair work.
I think it was just superb.
It was very easy to execute, so, many thanks.
-Those words are much appreciated.
[ No audio ]
-I think, if you take a second
to look to the left past that left solar array,
you can see the tip of Africa.
-Yeah. -And then, the big desert --
I'm sure, Joe, you'll be able to see here in a second.
-Found it already.
[ No audio ]
-Tell you what, the world will never look the same to me.
-Me, either.
[ No audio ]
♪♪
[ No audio ]
♪♪
-♪ Oh, my life ♪
♪ Is changing every day ♪
♪ In every possible way ♪
♪♪
♪ And oh, my dreams ♪
♪ It's never quite as it seems ♪
♪ Never quite as it seems ♪
♪♪
♪ I know I've felt like this before ♪
♪ But now, I'm feeling it even more ♪
♪ Because it came from you ♪
♪♪
♪ And then, I open up and see ♪
♪ The person falling here is me ♪
♪ A different way to be ♪
-Good morning, Discovery.
[ No audio ]
-Good morning, Chris.
[ No audio ]
-Yes, but can you do the Packarena?
[ No audio ]
-I want to make sure my security blanket
gets on TV, Chris.
This is from my son, Matthew.
It floated out of my sleeping bag on the first day.
-Will go.
-Okay, well, things are out of control, here.
Here is my mom and all the gang at Walmart
in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
They'll love this one when they see it.
I'll do the Packarena when I come home.
-While we're showing pictures, this is my family
staying at my workplace at home.
And I just found something that they had worked up for me --
some very fine artwork that I hadn't seen before.
So, thanks a lot, you guys, and I love you, and I miss you.
I'll see you soon.
[ No audio ]
-I guess I'll get off the odometer for a minute here
and show my family.
Here's Lisa and the cherub.
Hi. I hope you guys are having fun.
We're having a great time up here.
See you soon.
-Well, you know, and right now KU is number one in basketball,
but here is a picture of the real number-one person,
so, thanks a lot.
[ No audio ]
-All right. This is good.
Stop.
Steve, can you look down and see if both of those...
-I already did.
I can't see them from where I'm at.
I could pop down there real fast.
-No, that's okay.
[ No audio ]
-You'll find out when you turn the switch.
Okay. Stop. Stop.
[ No audio ]
-Some more [ indistinct speech ] down there.
-We just turned the starboard one off, right?
-No. We turned the aft port off.
[ Laughs ]
-Well, it's the starboard one that...
-All right. Well, we'll wait 10 minutes,
and then turn it on again. -Sorry about that.
-Upper right wire clips
to the bay 9 door hinge-side doorstop.
-All right. Stop.
-Clip to the doors. -All right.
[ No audio ]
-Discovery, Houston, on the upper-right attachment.
-Go ahead, Jeff.
-I'm afraid the HST people don't really trust the MLI.
I understand your words, that you've gone
to the entire thickness of it.
I guess the fear is what might happen over the next 3 years,
given the observed deterioration that we saw
during the last 3 years.
Let me give you a couple of ideas.
And it's really your choice.
Number one -- if there's enough wire to actually wrap around
the doorstop and back on itself, if that would work.
Number two -- if you have access to the ribs on the bay 9 door
and can clip to that.
Number three -- to actually pull up the MLI
and wrap the wire and the clamp underneath,
and then redo the Velcro, and hold it like that.
-I got a better idea. If the wire was extended,
I'll wrap one of the extenders around and put the...
-Oh, okay.
You think the extender will lock tight on that doorstop?
-I don't know, but I can, yeah, I can wrap
the extender around the doorstop,
and then twist it, and hook to that.
-All right. I like that idea, too.
Houston, I think Mark has come up with
a really good plan, here.
-That sounds great. And like we say here, you're on the spot,
so, you're the ones who have the best ability to decide.
-Okay, stop. Stop.
I see it.
[ No audio ]
I've got to go to a higher torque spin.
Scan the attach points real quick.
[ No audio ]
And, Houston, Discovery, one reason that particular patch
looks a little bit funny,
and looks like that upper left might be too tight,
is because there's nothing pulling
on the lower-left corner.
-[ Indistinct speech ] -Copy, Joe T.
-Okay, I'm on it.
Take me forward.
-Going forward.
-Do we get that aft payload realigned?
[ No audio ]
-All three latches are now super latched.
[ No audio ]
-Go ahead, Mark.
-Yes. In the last half hour,
Goddard has noticed a glitch on one of the RWAs --
not the one you changed out, but RWA number two in bay six.
They would like to perform some testing on it.
It may take 15 to 30 minutes just to assure themselves
that nothing is wrong with it.
In the meantime, because we want to keep open the possibility
of changing it out today,
we would like you to hold off doing anything further,
and we would like you to go into the air lock
and connect to the SCUs.
And we'll get back to you as soon as we have confirmation
on the state of the RWA.
-Okay. We'll go to the air lock.
-Push RWAs in, too.
[ No audio ]
-So, I'm in the sub-channel. We're hooking it up here now.
-[ Indistinct speech ] -[ Indistinct speech ]
-Yeah. We got a lot closer. And being close
to the thermal cover, turn your waters off.
-Hi. Did we get confirmation of the [indistinct],
or don't we need to?
-No, we have to leave the thermal cover open.
That's why we're...
-And, Houston, Discovery, for EVA verification.
-Our second home away from home this week.
[ No audio ]
Okay, Joe.
It looks like the thermal cover is coming closed now.
-Discovery, Houston, with an attempt to explain the glitch.
-We're ready to listen. -Okay.
What's happened is that, Goddard powered up RWAs two,
three, and four a while back. And when you do power them up,
and they haven't had torque applied to them,
but when they're powered up, they do rotate a little bit.
Now, RWAs three and four are rotating about 20 RPM,
and they sort of drift, and that's normal.
However, RWA two is hardly rotating, perhaps 1 RPM.
And so, they're a little bit concerned
that, possibly, there might be a problem.
However, at the moment, the assessment is
the probability of a problem is very low.
However, to be on the safe side,
what they're doing is coming up with a test
which they want to verify in the vest.
That's going to take 30, 45 minutes.
And then, we'll put the RWA two through that test,
spin it up, and check it out.
And then, we'll have a higher degree of confidence
that it's working properly,
And so, in the meantime, we're gonna ask you to hold.
Another thing with RWA two
is that it is a little colder than the other RWAs.
-Okay. I'll give you the bottom line first,
and that is that we're going to proceed
with a final payload-bay cleanup,
which means to go right into your post-depress and get on out
and proceed as though there will be no EVA tomorrow.
Goddard is continuing their test of the reaction-wheel assembly,
but it's gonna be at least a couple of hours
before they would know enough to make a decision,
and that's why we're proceeding with the cleanup.
We will, however, maintain an option, of course,
to do an EVA plus deploy tomorrow,
if that should be necessary.
We will hold off on doing any reboost today
until we know some more. So, that's basically the story,
and we'll be working on bookkeeping
the record of maximum time spent on the SCU.
But in the meantime, carry on with your post-depress,
and enjoy the last of the EVA.
-And you go to egress. Come in, Hill.
-It's coming, and we're both still tethered,
just like we were before.
-Copy. -Is the camera all clear?
Are my feet there much?
-Yeah. It's good.
[ No audio ]
-Hey, Jeff. I wanted to say one thing,
and that's, almost everybody on this crew --
I think everyone on this crew --
has supported flights from mission-control people.
We've got some flight controllers up here,
ex-flight controllers.
Got some ex-cop coms, a lot of people
have supported Stan in the MIR.
And since we've been where you guys are before,
we know how hard you've worked getting ready for the mission.
Even when everything goes normally,
we know you put in long hours and a lot of hard work.
And the success of this mission really proves
that y'all did a great job,
so, many thanks to all the people at the Stalk,
and at Houston's Mission Control,
and all the other ground locations
supporting this mission.
We've all been there before.
We understand the sacrifices you've made to make sure
this mission was successful.
-And I just wanted to tell you how much I've enjoyed
talking with you guys during the EVA,
and how much everyone down here appreciates the TLC
that all of you have given the Hubble telescope.
[ No audio ]
-Well, Jeff, as an IV, I want to tell you
it's been a pleasure working with you, and we've got
a whole lot of confidence in the team down there.
And you've been an excellent spokesman, as well as Mark,
and it's been a real joy to work with all of you.
Thank you very much.
-Discover, Houston, with some word on RWA.
[ No audio ]
-Go ahead.
-We just completed a test on reaction wheel number two.
It's good. It checks out just fine.
-Oh, great. That's good news.
-So, we're gonna go ahead and press with our plan, here,
for a reboost to kick off at 1 hour 33 minutes.
-Okay. We'll get set up to kick off reboost at 1:33.
[ No audio ]
♪♪
[ No audio ]
♪♪
♪ You ♪
♪ Doing that thing you do ♪
♪ Breaking my heart into a million pieces ♪
♪ Like you always do ♪
♪ And you ♪
♪ Don't mean to be cruel ♪
♪ You never even knew about the heartache ♪
♪ I've been going through ♪
♪ And I try and try to forget you, girl ♪
♪ But it's just so hard to do ♪
♪ Every time you do that thing you do ♪
[ No audio ]
-Good morning, Discovery.
It's time to put Hubble back into the sky.
-Hey. Good morning, Chris.
We're ready to do that.
[ No audio ]
-Houston, Discovery.
They just needed three to study the stars.
-And we watched it all on television --
a beautiful spectacle.
[ No audio ]
-And Houston, the burn tig was 21, 46, 49.
-Copy.
[ No audio ]
The Hubble team recently completed a celebration
over in the Customer Support Room,
and everybody is just ecstatic.
It's been a great week that you guys have spent with Hubble,
and we look forward to putting it to work now.
-Yeah, Jeff.
Those guys have put in some great work
over the last few days, over the last few years.
And hope they get a little time off
before they have to ramp up for the next mission.
[ No audio ]
-Is it true that you describe this
as like winning the Super Bowl, Mark?
-Well, that's what I said this morning.
You know, I'm from Wisconsin, a big Packer fan,
and you sort of equate it to winning the Super Bowl
in that it takes a lot of teamwork, dedication,
leadership, a good organization,
a lot of support from different people.
And that's what NASA had,
from the Johnson Space Center to Goddard,
many other people, contractors,
all pulled together and accomplished this mission.
And it was great.
-What was the most difficult aspect of all of the surprises
that were thrown in?
I mean, I know you guys train a lot,
and you know what you're doing up there,
but what threw you through a loop?
-I don't think anything threw us through a loop.
I think we did an excellent job,
both on the ground and on board, adapting to the situation.
There was an awful lot of preparation work
that went into this flight.
And when we had some things come up,
such as the insulation, in real time,
that time on the ground that supports us went to work
and came through like true professionals,
and just did a spectacular job
looking at what what we had available here on board
and figuring out what we could do with it.
And I think the end product was just terrific.
-Joe Tanner, I'd like to ask you a question,
if we can pass the mic over to you.
What was the view like from,
I guess it was something like 370 miles up.
-What did you think about when you were looking down at Earth?
Well, when you have time to look down --
'cause most of the time we're concentrating on the tasks --
every once in a while, you have a spare moment, and you look,
and of course, your first impression
is just wonderment about what you're seeing.
You try to convince your brain that what your eyes are seeing
is real.
It's an incredible sight.
We have an opportunity to look through the Orbiter windows,
but that vision is restricted somewhat in the field of view
that you can see.
The spacesuit opens that field of view up a little bit,
and you just marvel at what a magnificent planet
that is here that we've been given to live on.
-Steve Smith, I know that you and Mark Lee did the fith,
and unscheduled, walk.
How would you describe the condition of the Hubble?
Either of you,
Mark Lee or Steve Smith, can answer this one.
-Well, considering that the telescope has been in space
for 7 years
and traveled 10s of billions of miles,
it's actually in very good shape.
The side of the telescope that faces the sun
did have some what I'll call "blistering" on it.
Some of the insulation had bubbled,
and there were some cracks in it.
But I don't want to lose perspective that,
you know, most of the telescope was in excellent shape.
When we opened up about nine different doors
to get inside of Hubble,
everything inside was in pristine condition.
The vacuum of space, of course,
is a very clean environment, generally,
and inside the telescope looked brand-new, basically.
So, putting nine new boxes in,
all that worked really well, was very rewarding,
and it looks really good inside.
-Telescope is flying free of the shuttle right now,
the astronauts winding down
after an often-tense 6 days of spacewalking
and releasing the telescope.
Mark Lee, as payload commander,
give me your assessment of this mission.
How would you grade it? And compare it to previous times
you've been up on the shuttle.
-Well, I'd have to give it an A-plus for several reasons.
First of all, you get an A
when you accomplish everything that you're supposed to do,
and the plus gets thrown in for the support we got from the crew
and all the contingency things we were able to accomplish.
So, when you're able to do everything plus take care of
all the problems that were thrown in --
and the great part about that is,
we were ready for most of them --
it gives it an A-plus in my mind.
-Steve Smith, I see you have a spacesuit
floating there next to you.
How did it work? How good was it?
And what would you do to improve it for future spacewalkers?
-Well, John, the spacesuit actually worked very well.
We practiced with very similar suits in the water in Houston
and in Huntsville, Alabama
at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
And the suits that we actually wear in space
acted just like the ones we practiced in.
They're pressurized to 4.3 pounds per square inch.
You are working very hard in them.
It's a little bit hard to reach some things
because your reach is limited a little bit by the suits,
but in general, they worked great.
This was the first flight that we wore some new suits
that we could actually resize in space very easily.
Joe and I shared a spacesuit.
That's the first time that's been done.
We wore it basically 5 days in a row,
just changing out the arms and the legs to fit each of us.
-And Joe Tanner, one of my favorite moments
was the instant you stuck your spacesuit
and your head outside the door into the cargo bay.
What was going through your mind as you went outside
for the first time?
-Well, others that have traveled that same road have told me
that I would probably be filled with a mixture of emotions,
one of those being awe at the sight.
Now, I was maybe fortunate not to get too distracted.
Because, when I first stuck my head out, it was at night,
and it was just black except for the lights of the payload bay
and the lights of my helmet.
The other reaction that people frequently have is that
they want to grab ahold of the handrail right there
with a death grip, thinking that, if they let go,
they might fall all the way to the Earth.
Once again, it was at night,
so I didn't get to experience that.
But it was a moment that I had looked forward to
for a long, long time.
And when you've anticipated a moment like that
for such a long period of time, and it finally happens,
it really is a tremendous feeling of satisfaction
to finally accomplish that.
And that's kind of what was going through my mind.
Hello, Mr. [Indistinct].
-Congratulations.
It is unbelievable.
Five spacewalks this time, five spacewalks last time.
NASA astronauts 10, failure zero on EVA.
This is wonderful.
You folks, you just look easy. But I want to tell you,
I know what skill and courage it took to get this job done.
And you know, tomorrow afternoon,
I'm going to go talk to some students with Dr. Mary Webber.
And these kids are just excited about space,
and you're inspiring future generations.
What do you think I ought to tell these kids
about the mission,
about what it takes to be successful in life,
and to be a future astronaut,
what do you think they ought to do?
-Well, sir, what I always say is, set goals and work hard.
Study hard in school, and try to have fun
while you're doing those two things.
But I think some of the other guys may have some ideas, too.
-Well, Mr. [Indistinct], whenever I speak to kids,
I always give them two really easy messages.
One is, do well in everything you do,
including school, and the other is,
if you fall down a lot on the pathway, get up.
So, that's -- Even my 4-year-old knows that --
if you fall down, get up.
-You know, we talked about safety with people and equipment
and the ton of things we did to prepare.
You know, this clearly is very, very important,
and you know, there's no guarantee
when you go to the edge of the frontier in space.
Did you learn anything on this lesson about safety,
about the procedures that we prepared?
What do you think?
-Well, sir, I think what I learned is,
we know how to do this job.
We know how to work in space,
and we know how to fly a space shuttle safely.
I think it's real important that we don't cut any corners,
and I think the whole workforce knows that.
But again, let me let one of the other guys answer.
-Sure. -Up first is Scott Horowitz.
You know, safety was something that was always
on all our minds.
Especially as a pilot, you know, in the flying community,
we grow up thinking about safety and safe operation of vehicles.
And just have to give real credit to all the folks
that supported us on this mission.
You know, everyone who works on the vehicle
and prepares the equipment,
and all the safety that they have in mind,
and all their procedures. Because,
if they weren't so diligent, we couldn't do this job safely.
So, I guess it's just nice to know
that we're supporting those folks in every way we can,
and I hope we keep doing it because,
because of them and their efforts,
we can continue to do this job safely.
-You know, I tell you, this was a great mission,
and you know, you opened a window on the world.
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-Discovery, Houston is back.
-Welcome back.
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-Discovery, Houston.
One minute from LOS.
We'll be back with you time 03:06.
-Zero three, zero six, we copy, Kay.
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-Well, good morning.
Welcome to the flight date, STS-82 mission status briefing.
With us to review the events of the night and the plans
for the remaining part of this mission are Jeff Bantle.
He's the STS-82 lead flight director.
Joining Jeff this morning, to his right, is Dr. John Campbell,
associate director of flight projects
at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Next to Dr. Campbell is Russ Werneth.
He's the EVA mission manager at Goddard.
And next to him, Dr. David Leckrone,
the Hubble Space Telescope project scientist at Goddard.
We'll have statements from all of these gentlemen,
and then take your questions.
Jeff? -Okay, thanks.
I'll be brief with my opening statement.
We finished the MLI repair task tonight,
and that started off working in bay seven
with a harness that was fabricated --
and I think Russ was going to show you a little bit
about that.
And then, putting two blankets on each of bays 8 and 10.
I did have the folks, since we completed
all the tasks today for EVA,
to equip rough back-of-the- envelope calculation,
and I asked them "How much hardware
did we actually remove and install?"
And that was about 4,500 pounds.
And also, this was a more connector-intensive flight,
and somewhere on the order of 150 connectors mated
and demated in the 5 days.
So, it was a pretty big day, and then, I don't know.
I guess somewhere around 12 square feet of insulation,
something like that, if you count the MSS covers.
So, you can see the crew was awful busy
and handled an awful lot of equipment.
I also asked the EVA guys how many tools
were on the tool inventory list
that includes parts and pit pins.
And there were over 200 tools on the inventory list.
But all the tasks were...