 The dogs have their famous dog movie, which we're going to show you now, and we will narrate it for you as it goes through, and then we'll show you some slides. Talk a little bit about the mission and invite you to share with us as best as it can be done through the medium of the film and the slides. The terrific experience that you made possible, because the people in this room, and a lot of them who aren't here, of course, because they're doing other things, are the people who deserve the credit for this and many other successful spaceflights. And we are operating as part of a team. I'm really proud and pleased to have some of that team here, and I know that you all are going to do terrific work henceforth for the rest of the folks, and for the rest of the missions coming up. With that, I think we can roll the movie and probably bring down the house lights. There's a laser pointer. There's our patch. It was a challenge to come up with a good patch for this mission, but we think we did. And now a quick view of our suit-up process. You saw me there, and there's Kujo, Ken Cockrell. Most of you all know the dog names. That's probably underdog, and there, of course, is Pluto. And last but not least, my payload commander dog face. We were happy to be going flying. As you know, we'd had a few little bumps in the road getting there. But finally walking out to a resounding chorus of wolves at the Kennedy Space Center on the 7th of September. The training team might be pleased to note that this is one event we made on time. The main engines starting up and the vehicle twanging forward on the launch pad and fives screaming young men heading off to orbit. Sort of young, anyway. We had some interesting atmospheric conditions that weren't really evident to us as we were going uphill, but they did create some good flow visualization of the Mach waves on the rough parts of the shape of the vehicle around the booster cones and just above the cabin creates some shock waves as we're going through Mach 1 and going past the speed of sound. This is kind of a rough part of the ride, very exciting. The boosters let you know for sure that there's a lot of thrust back there. When they separate, the ride smooths out a bunch, but it's only just partway beginning. In fact, there's six and a half more minutes of powered flight to go and lots more that can happen as the training team would be glad to share with you from this point on to orbit. Once we get on orbit, we have a lot of things we had to do and we had a tremendous number of things to get out and get ready for our flight. Dave and Kujo were up on the flight deck reconfiguring the digital processing system and getting the orbiter ready for orbit operations and underdog was downstairs looking for something to eat. Jim was reconfiguring getting things set up. This was the ergometer. We had a lot of things to get out, put in place, take out of the lockers and get ready for our orbit operations before the next day when we started our primary payload ops. This is our first major payload of the mission, the Spartan. It's a solar science satellite studying the solar wind and ultimately its effects on satellite communications and weather on Earth here. It was a great satellite. It was all autonomous, so all we had to do was unbirth it and turn it loose and then it went off and flew around and did its thing for a couple of days. You'll see a little bit later it actually shut down a little bit early as it turns out we got 95% of the science done though. That's out the aft flight deck window during the release process. It did a little pirouette where it rotates clockwise and counterclockwise to signal that everything is okay. It was really beautiful to see the thing as we separated from it and to look back down to Earth and see this little satellite scooting along. Great site. I might mention that thanks to excellent training among other things underdog would be the perfect job of deploying the Spartan. We had a lot of secondary experiments that we did while the Spartan was out. One of them was the commercial generic bioprocessing apparatus. It's a large tube filled with a bunch of small test tubes that have different experiments in them. You turn the crank to activate each tube and then later we turn the crank to fix the things that had done their thing in 0G then they're all brought back to evaluate the effects of 0G on all these different experiments. This is a mass measurement device that uses a linear acceleration that at times to figure out how much something weighs on orbit. It's kind of like getting a miniature cat shot with a couple of Navy guys here. Reliving old times. Here's one of our more interesting experiments. The training team remembers vividly me going around seeking victims for this while we were practicing prior to flight. But it actually is a way to test blood on orbit or any place in a field situation with this portable clinical blood analyzer The training for it was actually kind of tricky because there's a lot more to taking blood than one realizes and we were able to do it pretty well on orbit although some pain was inflicted. This is the Spartan rendezvous. We're returning to pick up the spacecraft and it was, as we mentioned earlier, a perfect deploy. The rendezvous itself wasn't nominal. Let me let Underdog talk about the grapple here. Basically things went real well. It was spanned a little bit and between the training that we'd had and then the incredibly proficient teamwork amongst the whole crew we did the fly around and did a rate track and capture very successfully and I was real proud to be part of the team on that one. This is the birthing of the Spartan which went pretty much like we expected and after that exciting rendezvous of grapple we were real happy to get that sucker clamp down in the payload bay. This is a view back Florida in the background in the Bahama Islands, Andros Island in particular in the center of the screen and just to the lower right of that is the deep dark blue is the tongue of the ocean. Very spectacular views passing over the Bahamas of Florida. With the Spartan back in the bay it perfectly blocked our direct viewing of the weight shield so we had to pull the weight shield up from behind the Spartan and then it was planned to grow some semiconductor so we took it off to one side into the ram in order to clean the very clean side of it, the wake side and used the atomic oxygen and low earth orbit to clean it. Then we moved it over to the other side in order to test out the attitude control system. After getting through that Mike running the systems and me running the arm at that point we brought it up to the overhead deploy position in order to do a gravity gradient deploy for which one of the awards was given earlier. We didn't touch the attitude control system on the orbiter for about five hours prior to deploy and then for a few hours after that as well. The arm is now clear of the wake shield it turns on a two ounce nitrogen gas thruster and it thrusts away from the shuttle in order to maintain that very clean environment which we had set up. We were able to track it using the laser out to about 15,000 feet and dog face holds the record for that. This is the wake shield science center and we had two computers which we used to command and process the data. This is all the work on the mid-deck Jim Rowling and Mike working with a secondary experiment. This was the C-Mix experiment and it was always a great challenge to hunt down these test tubes that kept coming loose because the Velcro didn't work well but the science was really great. One of the things that we worked on was a crystal that could result in a drug that could prevent the spread of breast cancer and so we're real happy to be working on it. We did get to exercise a fair amount on this flight and when you don't have gravity to constrain you you can ride your bike almost any way you want to. Dave is studying a little bit on the mid-deck there and we're going to pan around and take a quick look at part of the Orbiter Wide Web. This is the mid-deck implementation. That's the global positioning satellite, PGSC on the right, the computer that allowed us to tell where we were quite accurately using the onboard GPS receivers. To the left is the Goddard PGSC which allowed us to command the Goddard payloads. Now it's time to bring back wake shield more realistically to go and get it. This is the view out of the commander's window, the overhead window, window 9. You can see the gun-side appearance of the Coaz there and the wake shield itself out in the ether. We could always see it even though we were 30 miles away at times. It's shown like a bright star. It was very, very visible and we, because the Spartan rendezvous had been a bit challenging in some parts, particularly the proxops, were very confident and comfortable. Again, due to a lot of good training and simulation and the fact that the flight control team had worked very closely with us setting this up. So the rendezvous and the proxops went very nominally unlike some of the wake shield science operations and we got into close proximity. It's really a beautiful satellite. We have a gorgeous view coming up here shortly, I think. The sun was eclipsed there by the wake shield and it's just come out right before sunset. The free flight of the wake shield was challenging and we gave awards out for that today. We're very proud to have that help. It really made a difference in the entire operation of the wake shield from beginning to end. There were challenges at every step of the way but we're confident with their help that they'll be able to take that information back to the wake shield program and help them get a really good flight on their next flight, wake shield 3. We did grapple the wake shield. We did another day's worth of experimentation with it looking at the charging of the wake shield in order to help assess the impact of charging of spacecraft in that environment. Of course, while you're on orbit, you have to eat and we're provided with this galley arrangement here that lets you rehydrate dehydrated food and also warm it up if it needs warming up and here I am, I must be fixing some food for underdog Suda was eating in bed again. Mike spends a lot of time contemplating what he's going to do and this is some cream of mushroom soup and I think it's really very good but he took a while to decide that he was actually going to eat it. This is getting ready for the EVA preparing our helmets with some antifog. A lot of equipment that we had to get ready for it. We spent six to eight hours getting all of our equipment and tools ready to go outside. Here we are preparing some of the tools, the rigid tether in my hands and Jim Newman had a hope that Mike's shoulder wouldn't get better and he'd get the opportunity to go outside. It didn't work out that way. If there's any chance of him doing it, he just lost it when we shoved him under there because we banged him right into the airlock. This is a shot in the airlock with Mike and I almost ready to go outside. We spent about 40 minutes pre-breathing in there and here Kujo is closing the door on us, shutting up the hatch and sealing it up before we go out. Here's Mike headed out the door. We didn't know if it even had an automatic closing thermal cover. One of the first things we did was remove a debris shield from a task board and you see that right here. Really all of the tasks we did were excellent and as a sort of a mid-term exam where we're headed for space station I think we're in really good shape. We're presently surprised by essentially everything that we did. There's a shot of me maneuvering the debris shield and we tied that off on the forward bulkhead. There were two major objectives to the EVA. One was testing tools and procedures for space station. All of those worked extremely well and the other was the thermal environment for the suit testing modifications to the suit and seeing if they worked. Here I have the rigid tether on with a PFR attached to the integral foot restraint and a large mass. It was a pretty awkward arrangement that we had to then put behind us to translate down the sill. Here Mike is, he's very stationary. If you look just to the left of his elbow you see the body restraint tether which is a device used to hold you in place in orbit and it worked very well. It held you very rigid. This is during the thermal of Valin we had the opportunity to spend 45 minutes hanging upside down on the arm and I tell you the view was just exceptional and that's probably the last chance we'll have to actually spend 45 minutes doing nothing but observing. Moving the guys around on the end of the arm was kind of fun actually. I found if I moved them quick enough I could shake them loose. Which he did a couple of times. It was a great view and the EVA went very well. When we were done we had to clean up all the mess we'd made out of the payload bay. We were taking off one of the thermal cubes to measure the thermal environment and the sack I have in my hand has all of our tools. It was a great tool bag and we carried that back to the airlock for putting everything away. We were out for about six and a half hours and accomplished all the major objectives for the EVA. Besides being a great experience it went very well. This is the final stages of ingress. It was a great experience and I think we're in good shape to do the station. This is back in the airlock and buttoning things up to come home. We had to put everything away after we got back inside clean up the suits for the possibility of having to reuse them again. We weren't so lucky. One of the good things you can do when you have people in space is to look out the window and use your mind to figure out what's a good thing you could take a picture of and what might help geologists, on the ground in their study of the Earth. This is the tip of Somalia and one of the single tombolos that sticks out into the Red Sea. From a meteorologist point of view our flight had great opportunities to see two large hurricanes. One was Luis and this one here is Maryland. Luis was so big you could hardly see it all through one window. It covered almost more than the horizon. We also had a small problem you may have heard about with our potty. We had to dump our water into a bag and this is just getting ready that's a filter that's attached to a tube that then gets attached to a bag. At this point in the flight I felt like I had done just about everything you could hope for on your first flight but no and we got a chance to excel at being space plumbers. Underdog found out why plumbers make so much money. Kevin Stowe was getting ready to come home we're pulling all the bags out of the airlock and trying to find places for them so we're stuffing them into the sleep bunks and arranging them to try to get ahead of the timeline. The Diorbid prep timeline is fairly tight so the day before we pulled all the bags out and actually buttoned up the airlock and here's a gorgeous shot fortunately we had some great photographers on board both Kujo and Dogface are exceptionally good photographers they captured some great scenes and this one sort of was a nostalgic one for us because we're getting ready to come home a great experience at an end we had tried hard to milk the program for another day but we just couldn't do it and here's the entry this obviously is late in the entry Ken had a great view of Houston as we came over it by now we're in the range of the long range optics from the Cape and this is approaching the hack turn in fact it's probably on the hack now we made a right hand turn entry to runway 33 at Kennedy Space Center kind of a personal triumph I've been trying to land in my home state ever since my first mission and the last two have gone to California so we were glad to get back to Florida with this one the weather was really good we got great support from the entry team making sure the weather was good and that all the facilities were good and finally returning to light at the Kennedy Space Center really really enjoyed the whole flight and the culmination of it here to land on Florida soil was really nice there not being any place to land here in Texas chute came out we hardly had to use the brakes because the chute worked really well we had a little tailwind so we rolled quite a ways but we knew we were going to stop so we took it easy on the brakes pretty close to where the convoy was and stopped at 69 knots we jettisoned the drag chute and you do it at a little bit of airspeed so that it pulls cleanly away from the engine bells because this after all is a reusable spacecraft it was the ninth space flight of Endeavour, the 71st space flight of the shuttle program and the second dog flight everything about this patch was a challenge including getting it produced and it's still a challenge for some people to figure out which way is up on it it's supposed to be oriented so the shuttle is going straight up but it almost never gets projected that way the two constellations that you see there are Canis Major and Canis Minor we considered it a small triumph over bureaucracy to get that through headquarters without anybody complaining about that they we wove the 69 motif in there we think very subtly we were later accused of having attracted hurricanes by putting them and we did attract quite a few but the colors of the flag and the colors of NASA the wake shield and the Spartan are both represented by the vaguely satellite shaped center depiction of the astronaut symbol and of course we have our favorite spacecraft going up and coming down safely depicted there I might mention that underdog wrote a beautiful piece of verbiage to go along with this to send it up to headquarters to get it approved and for those of you who have the stickers and the patches and the crew pictures that stuff is on the back there he did that and I was impressed with the way that worked out here we are lifting off a gorgeous shot every time I'm amazed at how good the photography is and I'll mention here those boosters that you see working so well there if you'll remember we had worries about pre-flight an absolutely terrific effort on the part of everybody from the Tha'akal folks to the Cape folks to the people here who made sure it all was checked out properly to get that booster situation resolved and get us some fine boosters and as most of you may have heard we found the boosters to be in perfect shape after the flight this is our payload bay and you can see all of our payloads it's not a very good picture for Earth Obs but for the bay it is down at the bottom is the Spartan closest to us behind it the wake shield you can see how difficult it would be to observe it if you were down in front of the Spartan and then behind it another payload we haven't talked about yet the IEH International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker which had a lot of different science payloads on it that Kujo was responsible for he involved maneuvering the orbiter pointing the instruments at celestial objects for taking all of its science and it proved to be very successful also the bay was quite full and in front which you can just barely see in front of Spartan is our EVA Development Flight Test Task Board which occupied the forward bays of the orbiter well this is the fun part for me I guess because I get to talk about my crew and they were a terrific lot one of the one of the thrills for me on this flight Kujo and I both being naval officers got a chance to promote our favorite army officer and make him a real bird colonel this was set up with cooperation from the flight control team and the army space command and we wanted to make sure everybody could tell that it was done in space so we got him upside down and took his picture and that's was a highlight for me dog face and I flew together on my previous flight and he did a terrific job it was pretty meaningful for me being a career army officer to be promoted in space you can see his university he managed to sneak Auburn posters into every single picture that he's in if you look carefully in the back you can see the Auburn poster Kujo's taken over control underdog our rookie he reluctantly acknowledged that he was a rookie towards the end of the flight just after we gave him the contingency wastewater IFM said okay fine I'm a rookie now Mike came to us with a lot of undersea experience which was helpful in the EVA he came to us with credible science PhD and a ton of native intelligence which we used extensively for a guy in his first flight he was really challenged primary responsibility for spartan wake shield systems responsibility arm operator EVA it was a wonderful opportunity for him he rose to every challenge he's going to now go do terrific things I think in the space station era he's a close personal friend of mine before the flight and the friendship was submitted during it and just really proud to have had underdog along he learned a lot in the process I think he did vanish to hit all the corners of every square that could be filled as a rookie and he did them all just perfect Kujo, who used to call himself taco and his mother called him ken but I don't think anybody's called him since was a joy to fly with the perfect PLT he covered all my mistakes up as well as anybody could and flew really well when he gave him opportunities to fly because I knew he would fly beautifully and he did he did his share and more of the science he helped pull the team together at every turn he managed the most complex photo TV setup that I've ever seen in a space flight and he did that all with incredible skill and aplomb and told some of the worst jokes that I've ever heard in my entire life he's not going to let me talk about it anymore at that point Pluto our science officer manager owner operator of the orbiter wide web we had probably probably the world's largest collection in orbit anyway of small computers he made them all sing he was also the MS-2 consummate flight engineer did a terrific job on the wake shield deploy and managed the wake shield science and did the best that anybody could do to make sure that that went smoothly he wasn't able to make it go smoothly but he was with the help of a great team on the ground able to salvage a lot of it and I think carry on a good a good concept into the future I can't think of enough things to say about Pluto we named in that it was really a compliment because his orbit was so far out that none of us could even begin to keep up with him and everything he did he did so well that we started logging his little mistakes when he would make one in order to see if we could catch him at something finally did because he didn't know what a probiscus is but it took that long and that was eight days into the mission we didn't we don't have and I'm sorry we don't a picture just of Dave but we have sitting to my left here the finest shuttle commander you could hope to fly with he takes care of his crew he takes care of the people that are working with us and working for us just a joy to be around and fun to try to keep up with anybody out there that's a fellow crewman you do well to fly with this man that's a great compliment let's move on to some great pictures of the earth and I'm going to turn it over to Kujo for that because he was the photographer and earth observer par excellence I mentioned during the movie that it's a great opportunity to have humans in space and to be able to look down and with intelligence such that well I guess we had dogs in space this time but anyway with some level of intelligence look at something interesting that's happening on the ground and take a picture of it it's a picture of the Amazon river and another river that runs parallel to it and South America was remarkably cloud free so we got some great views for the earth ops office here at JSC these are called von Karman vortices just simply the shape that clouds take as the wind blows over an island near the bottom of the picture is Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico and when the wind is the right speed about between 5 knots and 13 knots and when you have a high pressure system holding a cloud layer down close to the the island itself it creates this very interesting vortex pattern in the wake of the island as we mentioned we saw some great shots of two large hurricanes the biggest was Luis and this is Luis and we didn't have a camera lens that could see it all at once very impressive system sure glad that it didn't go over any more populated area than it did it was a beautiful thing for us to look at we had to stop and remind ourselves that there are some people down there thinking this thing is quite as beautiful as we were this is an interesting photo in that it shows what you can see and pick up on very quickly in that you may never realize this from a ground point of view but this green area which stands out in the deserts of Oman is a result of some recent and very unusual heavy rains that occurred probably because the area that's green is higher to rain and as the moist onshore wind at a certain time of the year blows it creates rainfall or graphic lifting that creates rainfall and it gives you a good insight as to what could be going on with the land in countries that are really not accessible enough for us to really monitor any other way except from Earth orbit same thing for the Sinai Peninsula and a particular note in the Nile River Valley is this flood plain here sort of shaped a little bit like a heart and each shuttle flight that goes over this can get a photo of it and the Earth Ops group can monitor the relative size of this flood plain and get a good idea of what's going on as far as rainfall upstream in the Nile and what you can expect from Egypt and other countries along the Nile for crop production that season this is a picture of literally hundreds of center pivot irrigation fields wells are drilled straight down into the Earth you see these out in West Texas and New Mexico as well but in Saudi Arabia they're done extensively and there's a mixture of fields currently in productions and fields that aren't in production perhaps the water has dried up in the area of those wells some of those wells go down 3,000 feet to tap into the ancient aquifer water supply below the desert and finally a couple more pictures this is a city of Surabaya in Indonesia we took it once with color film and you can see the city right here you can get a good idea of the kind of a fluid that's in the water using the color film and then we had another shot using color infrared film and using the two different kinds of films you can bring out different contrasts and the contrast that color infrared brings out the best is that between what shows up as red lush vegetation and rich farm fields and the blues and greens of areas that either have less vegetation or have been stripped of their vegetation well we've about come to the end of our presentation this sort of symbolizes our feelings about humans in space and the eventful mission that we had we can see here one of our men in space in the actually this is taken when we're in our thermal testing and underneath is Maryland we can tell that because we can see most of it if it was Louise we'd not be able to see anything but the hurricane and another gorgeous shot which we view with nostalgia for having had a wonderful time on orbit and we wish that we could take every one of you with us up there you are there in our hearts and we thank you for having made it possible for us to have done this there's home plate in terms of landing gorgeous view of Florida which we took just before the end of the mission we were checking our own weather the day before actually and finally during the entry out the overhead window in the mirror Mike and I could see the plasma trail behind us in addition to the orange glow that envelops the orbiter the plasma trail stretches hundreds and thousands actually thousands of miles behind us as anyone would know who got up that morning and washed a streak across the northern Houston sky we found it particularly wonderful to be passing over Houston in the pre-dawn darkness that since my first flight that time we went south this time we went north and Kujo had the good view out his window of looking down at Houston and could see that we were crossing home and people that we've talked to subsequently talked to us and it was kind of neat that they had gone out and looked at this and had gotten back inside just in time to see us land on TV at the Cape it gives you some appreciation for how quickly the orbiter crosses and how much energy is being harnessed by man's technological capability for our use, pleasure and mankind's benefit again humans can do some pretty terrific things when they set their mind to it as teams and finally here we are at the end of what was for us a very pleasurable and we think for NASA a very successful mission thanks to you and this represents for us the fact that every shuttle mission is only a part of the big picture here's the moon the moon, Mars, the outer planets and the stars are where we believe we ought to be going we took another small step in that direction with this flight and each subsequent flight will be playing its role and making its contribution as you will to that eventual goal and thanks again for being here for all you did for listening to us and for all you will do from the docks