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-We had a good time.

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It gave us a chance
to review our procedures

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and just hone ourself
to that razor edge.

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Claude designed our patch, here,

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and we're very proud
of that patch.

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It looks very much like
Hubble does up in orbit.

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Launch morning, one of the first
things we have to do

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is get in those
orange-pumpkin suits.

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You can tell Scott is pretty
nervous,

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being the rookie here.

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But everybody is pretty excited.

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We've been in quarantine,
like I said, a few more days,

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and Steve is ready to go,
and Billy Bob,

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you know,
he's pretty tense,

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and he's thinking about
that Canadian arm,

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fly it around.

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John is ready.
What we're doing here

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is actually doing some
pressure checks on this suit,

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making sure the integrity
of the suit --

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Mike is ready to go, and he's
never without a loss of words.

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And good old Claude,

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and obviously he couldn't
be here with us tonight.

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Well, we left
the quarantine facility

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on the way out to the pad.

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Notice the Sun is out.

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The weather is good,
and we're ready to go.

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The folks at USA and mission

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control had checked out
Discovery,

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and it's in perfect condition,
so we're ready.

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-Here we are exiting
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of the launchpad
prior to manning up,

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another beautiful view
of Discovery.

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Here is Curt
strapping into the vehicle.

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As you can see,
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and that's easy to tell here.

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Here is myself getting ready
to go in the orbiter

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in what's called
the White Room,

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and Jean-Francois
getting into his seat.

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John Grunsfeld is to his right.

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Another beautiful night view.

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Obviously we manned up
during the day.

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Here is 2 minutes
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You can see the beanie cap

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coming off the top
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About 6 seconds
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the main engines light,

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and when the computers
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and see that
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the solid-rocket motors
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Here is the view inside
the cockpit at SRB ignition,

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and you could see
a lot of shaking going on.

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Looks a little bit slow
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but there's
nothing slow about it.

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The things that come to my mind
are power and speed.

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Here is a beautiful view
of the orbiter.

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You could see here, it gets
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at the bottom
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but the insulation
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About 2 minutes after liftoff,

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the solid-rocket motors
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Here is a, obviously,
an external view,

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and the next view
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and you can see.
It's very, very bright.

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It's the first time I looked out
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really got my attention.

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Here is the view from
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Certainly a spectacular view,

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but not something we could see
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it takes about another 6 minutes
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Here we are at zero-G.

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I didn't believe it,
so Curt had to tell me.

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And once we get into space,

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we have to convert our rocket
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One of the first things we do
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Here is some jet firings,
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that followed us into space from
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-The second day on orbit
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all the main equipments
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for rendezvous
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You see here, that's the RMS
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Canadian-built robotic arm,
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that will be used
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And here Steve is checking out
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with the other EVA crew members
before going EVA 2 days after.

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-Well, the most important event
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was the rendezvous, obviously,

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because without the rendezvous,
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Anyway, that's from
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So we started a rendezvous
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actually, when we launched.

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We were launching into position
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with the Hubble Space Telescope.

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We did a few more burns the day
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and then on rendezvous day
we did a few more,

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and the first good glimpse
we got of Hubble was beautiful.

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She was in a little bit
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than we had planned,

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and our trainers had trained us
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-When the telescope is
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As you can see,
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to stabilize the end effector

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and the snare that you saw
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snaring that grapple pin

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and then do a firm attachment
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The next scene is the berthing
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-It was a great relief

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to finally have Hubble
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and to get ready
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John and I, about an hour
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got our suits on.

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We'd end up having the suits on
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Here we are setting up
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You can see Hubble
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That's John in the foreground
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Our first task, as Curt said,
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The aft shroud doors are open,

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and inside are
the three small boxes

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that contain a total
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One of the things you want
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is sometimes they're occurring
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like this,
but then you'll also see scenes

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that are in the very dark
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and you can imagine
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and having 45 minutes of light
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and then 45 minutes of night
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It's a strange work environment.

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The suits weigh 300 pounds
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and, of course, in space,
they don't weigh anything,

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so it's really a pleasure
to work in them in space

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because on Earth,
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you're actually supported
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Here we are actually inside
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replacing the gyroscopes.

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Again, it's three small boxes.

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We used both power tools
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Every time we held onto a box
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we had to have it
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so that if it came out of
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The EVA lasted about 8 hours
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John and I had cross-trained
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we were called to do that,
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we actually did
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After the gyroscopes
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we closed the aft shroud doors
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on the voltage-improvement kits
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Here is John opening that door,

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and I was on the back
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placing some handrail covers
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that had some degraded
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-After Steve and John had done
such a fantastic job

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basically putting
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and they could have easily let
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and it would have
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They then --
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having Claude and myself go out
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and here you see me
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Not nervously, of course.

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Actually, I was just checking
that the door stay was free.

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Opened up the door and pulled
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and installed the 486

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which is basically
a pretty souped-up computer

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that can handle all the
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while it's in orbit
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That took us about 2 hours,
and Claude assisted me there.

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Here you see me installing
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onto the outside
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The new computer uses
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uses a lot less energy
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and as a result, the computer
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to keep it warm
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Having finished that task,
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to change out
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This is, like, a small
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weighs about 300 pounds,

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and here he's installed
a handle onto it

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so he can pull it
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It's what's called an axial
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and has a mirror at the end
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coming into the telescope
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Once we'd extracted the box
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we installed it on a temporary
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like a gun rack
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And then with that stored,
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we pulled out the new FGS
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pulling up out of the bay,
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and then I get on
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and just basically pull off
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that covers the very fragile
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that's going to receive
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and we slide it in.

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About this point, we had
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and it was when we had it kind
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about that time Claude
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a false one, I should say,
message which made us wonder

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what we were going to do next,

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but luckily we quickly
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that as to being a false alarm
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-Well, with three EVAs
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we did get a little chance
to look out the window.

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Here we are flying
over Merritt Island

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and the Kennedy Space Center
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You can see the runway.

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Day 3, we set out to take care
of some rewiring of a box

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that helps the Fine Guidance
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These are new, improved
Fine Guidance Sensors

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and can not only
help point the telescope,

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but also to do science
in themselves.

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They're scientific instruments.

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So Steve and I went back
to rewire

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the optical control electronics,

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and when we do these tasks
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we're very close
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so it's kind of a touchy time.

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And Mike, as the IV,
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crew member directing the
whole scene kept reminding me:

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"Don't lean back," and, "Watch
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Next we were off to bay five
to replace

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the S band
single-access transmitter.

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This is one of the two
transmitters

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where all the science and
engineering data come through,

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and we had a lot
of very fine tasks

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with using just our fingers
on connectors

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which were aptly named
subminiature-assembly

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connectors,
and they're really tiny.

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They're smaller
than what you have,

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coaxial connectors
on the back of the TV.

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And along with Goddard,
we developed some special tools

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to be able to do that, so here
you see a little torque wrench.

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After that, we went about
the task of improving

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some of the thermal insulation
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had done on the first day,
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after which another 7-1/2-hour
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we had a chance to wish
everybody a Merry Christmas,

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since this was Christmas Eve.

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And unfortunately,
Curt had to order us back in.

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We wanted to stay out,
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but he doesn't have a button
to reel us in, so we came in.

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With the EVAs complete,

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it was time to send the newly
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back to science and back
to the scientists on the ground.

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It takes a lot of coordination
to deploy the telescope.

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It takes not only all the crew
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but many,
many people on the ground.

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I like this view.
You can see how bright the Sun

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is coming through the windows
of the orbiter.

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-We want you to notice
their shirts.

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They're pretty awesome.

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-Here is Jean-Francois

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holding the telescope
out over the payload bay.

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He's going to release
the robot arm,

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and once the robot arm
is clear of the telescope --

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And this is actually
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so the arm actually
moves really quick.

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And then we fire the forward
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and the telescope quickly
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and it's really
an impressive sight.

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It almost makes you want to duck
while you're in the cockpit,

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and it's hard to tell here,
but the telescope is rapidly

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preceding away from the orbiter.

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You can see the aperture door
open on the telescope.

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Here we are getting
some good pictures of Hubble.

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You can also see the high-gain
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and over the next several hours
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the telescope gets further
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We had a special visitor
on that Christmas.

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Once the telescope was
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we could have
a little bit of fun.

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Here is the commander
spinning up the pilot.

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Obviously we have to do normal
hygiene-type things in space,

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and also we get to talk to our
friends and family at home.

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Here is Mike doing some e-mail.

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-Yes, we do got e-mail with
friends and families at home.

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Here is a housekeeping task
gone wrong.

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Of course, we're trying to keep

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all those batteries
[Indistinct].

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One of the difficulties,
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that Curt has to go through
is see his beautiful spaceship

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after liftoff get turned
into a murder home gone wrong.

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Basically, with all the pieces
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and the stuff on the mid-deck
that we get out for the EVAs,

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it really kind of tears apart
the orderliness of the orbiter,

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and we have to get
that all back together.

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Here you see us
stowing equipment,

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getting the suits
back into bags,

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all the extra equipment set away
and all the seats and tools.

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We get to the point
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the payload-bay doors

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with ourselves
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getting ready for
the onset of Gs.

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Basically, Curt does a burn
that high up

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and brings us down
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and here you see us
waiting for free fall

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and then entry interface
when the Gs start to come on.

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We had a Mini-Cam camera

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that allowed us to take views
inside the cabin

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during the entry phase as well
as a view through the HUD,

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and here you see
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-Well, the folks at mission
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it was time to come home

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and complete
our Christmas adventure.

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This was a view from the thermal
camera on the ground

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as the shuttle approaches
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Now looking through
the heads-up display

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which Scott and I
have in front of us

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to help land the shuttle,
you can see the rectangle.

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That's where the shuttle
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but it's still pretty dark,

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so we're not sure exactly
where the runway is yet.

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We're passing about 9,000 feet,
300 knots

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and another thermal image here
as we get down to the preflares.

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Scott is going to put the gear
down at 300 feet

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above the ground,
and we'll cross the threshold

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and you can see
the two little bright lights.

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Those are the lights
to light up the runway

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since the orbiter does not
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and we'll just come on in here
and do a night landing.

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We've only done about 13 of
those in the shuttle program.

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I think this was number 13,
and we'll go to the outside

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just to give you a idea
of what the view is.

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With the orbiter safely
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Scott puts out the drag chute
that helps slow us down

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and also some of the derotation
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and we slowly start derotating.

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Again, on the right side,

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you can see the runway
center-line lights,

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and here is a view
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on the center-line lights.

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At about 60, 70 miles an hour,
so Scott jettisons the chute.

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We roll to a stop.

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The orbiter has been adamantly
perfect on the mission.

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We completed all the tasks
that was asked of us,

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even with a 2-day
shortened mission.

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We did the ground steps
to safety orbiter.

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We got off the orbiter into
the Crew Transport Vehicle

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and then had a chance to come
out and walk around the orbiter.

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Truly, just like
the Hubble Space Telescope,

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a truly impressive
piece of machinery,

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and that completed
our Christmas adventure.

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