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-♪ Got a blue telescope ♪

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♪ I'm looking at the world
tonight ♪

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♪ Through a blue telescope ♪

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♪ I wish I may, I wish I might ♪

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♪ Not see what I see ♪

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♪ Sheet metal on sheets of ice ♪

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♪ Looking through
this blue telescope ♪

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♪ Down a moonstruck road
tonight ♪

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♪ Blue breath on my windshield ♪

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♪ I came to a frozen place ♪

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♪ She shivered
when I said goodbye ♪

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♪ I wish I didn't have to face ♪

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♪ Her in that rearview mirror ♪

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♪ Though she lives
in the heart of me ♪

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♪ Looking through
this blue telescope ♪

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♪ I guess she'll always
be a star to me ♪

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-Columbia, Houston,
good morning.

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Welcome to your first
full day in space, and, Rick,

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that last "Blue Telescope"
by John Hiatt was for you.

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Scooter, wanted to
give you an update.

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The Hubble Space Telescope
is over the South Pacific

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currently, about
8.000 miles behind you.

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You're opening at about
1.000 miles per orbit.

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which will have you lapping
HST in about 1 day,

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6 hours from now as Nancy
moves in for the grapple.

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-And good morning, Houston.

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Thanks for your words
on the big picture,

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and it's great to be here
in space again.

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-Back to live downlink
television now

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from the cargo bay
of Columbia,

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once again looking
from front to aft.

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The robot arm on the right side
of your picture

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and the rigid array carrier on
the left on side of the picture,

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which houses
the two new solar arrays

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that will be installed
on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Those arrays to be installed
on spacewalks one

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and two next Monday
and Tuesday.

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Grunsfeld and Linnehan

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to conduct
the first spacewalk on Monday.

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Newman and Massimino to conduct
the second spacewalk on Tuesday,

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and after the installation
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on Tuesday,
Newman and Massimino

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will press on the replacement
of the reaction wheel assembly

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in the Hubble
Space Telescope as well.

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Here in the mission
control center,

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the payload deployment
and retrieval systems officer,

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basically the robot-arm
operator,

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the robot-arm officer
here in mission control reports

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that everything is looking
very good in the check

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out of that
Canadian-built robot arm

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that will be used so extensively

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over the course
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Robot-arm operator Nancy Currie
reporting to CapCom Mario Runco

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here
in the mission control center

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that she will be providing
television views of this

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from the camera at the end
of shuttle's robot arm,

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zooming in on various components
of the flight-support system.

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That is the berthing
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That post will be mounted
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of the flight-support
system after it is --

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After the Hubble Space Telescope
is mounted and latched in place

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by the space walkers
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at the beginning of their first
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Basically, it is a post
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the flight-support system
to prevent any EVA

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or spacewalking activity
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from imposing any vibrations
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during the servicing
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Those solar arrays,
although about twice as heavy

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as the current
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will generate
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and unlike the current arrays
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like Venetian blinds,
these arrays open up like a book

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into two sections one-third
the size of the current arrays

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on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Because they are one-third
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they'll also provide less drag
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thus preserving its altitude
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The new arrays that you're
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Once they unfold,
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which unfold like
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are about 25 feet long
and are about 8 feet high.

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Columbia commander Scott Altman

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looking out
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as the robot-arm cameras
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at the aft flight deck.

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Altman now joined by Jim Newman
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as the crew continues to pore
over all of it's instrumentation

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as they conduct the survey
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and all of the support equipment
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in preparation for the retrieval
of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Now this split-screen view

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showing the operation
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That is the wheel-like
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the circular structure at the
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which will be rotated upward,

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basically,
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to serve as the work platform
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once it is mounted on
that platform tomorrow morning.

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-Copy that, Mario.

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The pivot up is going smoothly.

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37-minute gap.
we'll pick up at 22:43.

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-Good copy, John.
See you then.

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-Payload commander and mission
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reporting that all going well
with the rotation

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of the flight-support system

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that you see on the left side
of this split-screen view.

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-Columbia for Eagle.
-Again, the engineering teams

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that have been formed to analyze
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in loop number one
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are pulling together a story
that provides growing optimism

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that there will be no impact
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to service
the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Last night, Shuttle program
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said that he was very optimistic

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that the stabilization
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in Freon loop number one

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will result
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to its full duration of 11 days,

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but another story will be told
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meeting at 12 noon
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to firm up all of
the engineering analysis

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and the rationale
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with a full-duration mission.

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-As you can see, Columbia is
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We've got some of the suits out,

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and we're getting ready
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and making sure that they're
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-Again, on the far right,
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in the middle, Rick Linnehan.

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That is the spacewalking team
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of the five spacewalks
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to service
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on Monday, Wednesday
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spacewalks one,
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Spacewalk number one by
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will be designed to replace
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on the telescope
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The new solar array is one-third
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They weigh twice as much
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on the telescope
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and will provide far more
electrical capability to power

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all of Hubble's scientific
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-James has been working
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at getting his photo-TV corner
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and the flight deck is starting
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-Columbia's pilot Duane Carey,
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and commander Scott Altman,
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up on the flight deck,
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which will be the center
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and now joined
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and primary
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Currie will be at the controls
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Altman flying Columbia manually
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at the controls
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on the right side of the aft
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as she reaches out
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with a 50-foot
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up front
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as he monitors
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and calls out range
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who will be looking out of the
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very much as he
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as he looks directly up
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which will be canted
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in preparation for its grapple.

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-What's the status
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What do you think is the chance
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to stay up there and do
what they have in mind for you?

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-Well, I think things
are looking pretty good.

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Of course, the mission
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today,
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and made some final decisions
about what to do with us.

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So far, everybody has been
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to make the right decision,
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we might stay
cautiously optimistic.

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However, you know,
safety is the first thing,

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and we're going to make sure
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is done safely.

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-Okay, would you talk
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just some of what's involved
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and starting to work on it.

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It's in fact quite dangerous to
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and do some of these things,
isn't it?

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-Well, there's a wide range
of activities

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that have to be done
to support all the work

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that we're going to do
on Hubble, and you're right.

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It is a jam-packed mission.

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We've been working very hard
basically from the moment

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we got into space

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until right now trying to get
the vehicle ready,

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our spacesuits ready
and all of ourselves

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ready for the rendezvous
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and then the subsequent
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They are demanding space walks.

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It's a very unforgiving
environment.

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You need to make sure
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and do the right thing,
and that's what we have in mind.

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John is the payload commander,

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and he's going to be basically
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so I can turn it over to him for
that portion of the question.

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-Okay, Dr. Grunsfeld,
why don't you tell us --

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You'll be outside
for that first EVA.

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Tell us when that is and what
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on that first one?

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-I think in Chicago,

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it starts approximately
Monday night at midnight,

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and so folks
who work hard all day,

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if they have an energy left,
hopefully they'll stay up

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and watch a little of the space
walks on NASA television,

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but the first space walk,

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we're going to get
the payload bay ready

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for all of
the subsequent space walks,

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and then the big task,

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which will be quite
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will be to install new --
a set of new solar arrays.

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We're going to put one side on
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on the Hubble telescope,
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we'll roll up the old ones
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and then swap out
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for some new, rigid arrays,
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on onto EVA two with Jim Newman
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But before, let me just
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because before we can even start
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we have to capture Hubble
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and I think you asked about that
just a little earlier.

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-Yeah, let's do that.

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Dr. Currie, good morning to you,
and why don't you tell us?

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Also, when you're operating
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you have an astronaut at the end
of the arm, don't you?

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-Yes, sir, I do, and this
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This is my third flight,
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that I've flown a crewman
by the end of the arm,

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and it's always
an exciting treat,

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and it's a great pleasure
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with such professionals
on this team.

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I flew my last flight
with Dr. Jim Newman,

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who will be one
of the space walkers.

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I've worked closely
with John before,

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and we've really been training
hard over the last year.

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I'm really looking
forward to it.

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-When the coolant-loop problem
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did your stomach sink?

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How worried were you

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that you'd wind up
with a shortened mission?

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-Well, it got our attention
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although I thought it might
just be a minor problem.

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It wasn't apparent
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what the impact was going to be.

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Since that time, we've been kind
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and just hopeful that we can
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to perform what we came here
to space to do.

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-The shuttle program manager
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looked gloomy at first,
and that's his own word, gloomy,

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is that how you'd describe the
mood aboard Columbia yesterday?

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-Well, to be honest,
we've gone on the assumption

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that we're here to stay,
that we're going to do our job,

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and we've just kind of kept that
thought foremost in our minds.

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There's been so much to do to
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the rendezvous
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that we've just
kept ourselves busy

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and tried not to think about it

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since we don't have
much control over it,

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so we'll wait and find out
what the final decision is,

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but until then,
we're charging ahead full speed

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with our eyes on the goal.

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-The shuttle Columbia
is the oldest space shuttle.

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The last mission, I think,
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and that mission
got a little hairy.

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There was some trouble there.

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Does that concern you,

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especially with this
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-Well, folks spent the last
2 years working on Columbia.

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going over it
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and I think, overall,

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that Columbia
is in a great shape.

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You know, we're taking a look
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and see after we get back
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take steps to prevent it
in the future.

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-Your mission this time is
to retool the Hubble telescope.

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What exactly are you
going to be doing?

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-Actually, when we're done
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it's fair to say the telescope
will be better than new.

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We're going to put a whole
new power system on board

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with new solar arrays

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that'll generate more than
20% power for the --

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20% more power
for the telescope.

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The super exciting part is going
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of the advanced camera
for surveys,

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and it's like buying the
top-of-the-line digital camera.

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It'll be able to do more
in less time

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than anything else
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and so I think
the really great discoveries

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that'll come out of Hubble
are those that are yet to come,

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and then we're also going to put
a cooling system on a camera

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that was put on in 1997,

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to bring that instrument
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and so overall, it's a mission
that's a combination

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of improving
the engineering on Hubble

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to make it last another decade
and also a lot of new science.

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-What exactly is the Hubble?
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it's a very powerful,
extraordinary telescope,

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but what does it do
for the United States here?

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How is it helping us?

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-So the Hubble is not just
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although on that score,
it's certainly

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the most productive
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ever produced by humans.

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It's also in a sense
an icon of science,

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and so students
all over the world

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and especially the United States
get to log onto the web,

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get to learn about astronomy
and science in textbooks,

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and so it's really
a tool of inspiration,

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but it's also developed
a lot of technology

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in producing the instruments
that have caused new revolutions

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in some ways
in medical research

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and in optics research that
are helping Americans all over.

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-Nancy, I see you sitting
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You're being very quiet.

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What's it's like as a woman
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You're with a bunch of guys.
How do you --

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I mean, this might be
sort of a naive question,

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but how do you change?

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How do you do things that,
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I guess the opposite sexes
need to do away from each other?

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-Well, I think each one of us

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considers this sort of
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and we just kind of are out
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in this case
several hundred miles up,

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and pretty much from the time
you go to bed --

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from the time you get up
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you go to bed, you're at work,
and as far as privacy, you know,

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even we are a little bit
surprised how crowded it is

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this time
with the airlock inside,

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and we've got six of probably
the biggest guys in the office

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and then the littlest person
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but we can still have
some privacy here

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and respect
each other's privacy.