 This is shuttle launch control, T-minus three hours and holding. Final inspection team is on the mobile launcher platform, continuing their inspections of the vehicle. The team has about eight members, representing NASA and the contractors, and Greg Katnick of Kennedy Space Center is leading the team. The team carries a variety of instruments. One is a portable infrared scanner to measure temperatures on the cryogenic surfaces of the tank, engines and orbiter. They also measure temperatures of the solid rocket booster cases and segment joints. This is shuttle launch control at T-minus three hours and holding. We are standing by to get live coverage of the flight crew as they're sitting down to have their pre-flight meal at their crew quarters and the operations and checkout building. The building is located at KSC's industrial area. This is the location for the crew, and here we have the crew sitting down at the traditional table, the decorated cake bearing their STS-72 insignia. We have mission specialist Koichi Wakata flying for the first time aboard the shuttle. Koichi is an astronaut from NASDA, born in Japan, and Dr. Daniel Berry flying for the first time aboard the shuttle this morning. Berry will be one of the EVA specialists and pilot Brent Jett also flying aboard the shuttle the first time. He'll be monitoring using the RMS for the flight crew while they're performing EVAs. Here we have Commander Brian Duffy flying for the third time aboard the shuttle today. Duffy the most experienced in the shuttle for the whole crew. Mission specialist Leroy Chow is making his second flight today aboard the shuttle. He will be involved in two of the space walks and serving as flight engineer Winston Scott flying for the first time aboard the shuttle today. Again, the crew has been awake since about 7 p.m. and they're getting right on their schedule that they'll be following during the nine-day mission for mission STS-72. The solid rocket booster retrieval ships departed the Hanger AF on Cape Canaveral Air Station yesterday and they are on station out of the Atlantic Ocean about 140 miles due east of KSC. They will be retrieving the solid rocket boosters following their splashdown into the ocean and they will be towed back to the Hanger for refurbishment. The booster casings are disassembled and refurbished at the Saikal Manufacturing Plant in Utah and also here at KSC at the USBI facility here at the Complex 39 area. There are no problems in our countdown. Countdown is proceeding on schedule and for the timeline, T-minus two hours, 57 minutes in counting. Here we have the astronauts for mission STS-72 coming out of their crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout Building. They'll be getting into an elevator where they'll ride down to the first floor. Crew is six. Again, it's been training for the better part of the year. They've spent most of their time training for this particular flight. Some employees wishing them well. Astronaut Bob Cabana is in the blue flight suit. He'll be flying weather reconnaissance in the KSC area and making a report back to the management. Down on the ground, we've got a big crowd of press including quite a large crowd of Japanese news media who made the trip over to see Koichi Wakata as he prepares for his first flight. Crew is getting ready for their nine-day mission to retrieve two satellites and conduct two space walks and conduct a variety of experiments on the mid-deck. We have the team led by Commander Brian Duffy. External tank is now being pressurized for flight. The gaseous oxygen vent hood at the very top of the tank will be moved away, retracted back to the launch position in the next few seconds. We're cautioning warning memory. Verify no one expected errors. Clear no one expected errors. Copy. Endeavour OTC. Close and lock your visors. Initiate O2 smoke flow, have a smooth ride and a safe landing. Alright, thanks OTC and let's get 96 off to a great start. Steelers, go for ET-LH2 pressurization. The six-member crew is about to embark on the first day of the planned nine-day flight. Crew will retrieve the Japanese space-flower unit, deploy and retrieve NASA's host free-flyer satellite and conduct two six-hour space walks. All systems aboard Endeavour are go. T-minus 90 seconds. Endeavour will be launched on an easterly trajectory on an orbit inclined 28.45 degrees to the equator. Endeavour's launch marks the 74th shuttle launch in the history of the program. T-minus one minute. At the T-minus 31 second point, Endeavour's onboard computers will have control of vehicle functions. Go for auto-sequence start. In the next few seconds, thousands of gallons of water will be dumped onto the launch platform to help suppress the sound and shock of the 7 million pounds of thrust produced by the shuttle. T-minus 15 seconds. 12, 11, 10, 9, 8. We have a go for engine start. 4, 3, 2, 1. Booster ignition and liftoff of Endeavour in pursuit of a Japanese satellite. Houston now controlling. 7, 2, 1, 8. Roll program, Houston. Ride your roll, Endeavour. The roll maneuver is complete aboard the over Endeavour. The rover is now in a head-down position on course for a 28 and a half degrees, 250. The rendezvous and capture on Saturday morning. The air prepares to pass through the area of maximum dynamic pressure on the vehicle and it's now throttling back up. Endeavour's three liquid-fueled engines are now back at full throttle. The orbiter is now downrange from the Kennedy Space Center of 10 nautical miles. The orbiter is traveling 2,600 feet per second or about 1,700 miles per hour. The altitude is passing through 90,000 feet. The three hydraulic systems are in excellent shape as are the fuel cells. The main engines are still performing at full throttle. Approaching two minutes into the flight standing by for burnout and separation of the twin solid rocket boosters. SRB separation is confirmed. Time two minutes and 20 seconds into the flight. Performance thus far in the launch phase has been as expected. Endeavour is now at an altitude of 210,000 feet. Downrange from the launch site, 45 nautical miles. Now traveling 5,000 feet per second or about 3,400 miles per hour. Okay, we're there. A7B7? A7B7 and I want to say five downs to start. Okay. I'm going to take a look at that. Actually, it's not dropping at all yet. I'm going to start doing some braking. Okay. Two, three, one, one. That's a really good correlation. 660 minus 0.7. What's that X button? Let's see. I don't want to let a rate build up on that. There it goes. Good job. Good job. I'll see you in the camera. Endeavour, can you get us a laser rate on that departing staff? I doubt it. It's going tangent to us. Tangent 268. Slant rate is 0.6. The slant rate is 0.6. Tell them that it looks like it was nominal. I would guess a couple of feet per second or I don't know, it's just that it's hard to tell for this range. Range? 250. Three inches. Two inches. And which he's got at Houston? Standing job, Endeavour. No need to reply. Made a man's zero, only he's on board. Clockwise, your maneuver started. Clockwise, your period maneuver has stopped. Counterclockwise, period maneuver started. Counterclockwise, period maneuver stopped. We're on board the mid-deck, thank you. Endeavour, Houston, one minute till a TDRS handover and I have the SFU thermal bailout attitude when you're ready to copy. Target four, body vector five. Pitch, one, four. Yaw, zero. Omicron, two, seven, zero. Target four, body vector five. Pitch, zero, one, four. Yaw, zero. Omicron, two, seven, zero. Good copy, and I've got an adjustment to that after the handover. Endeavour, Houston, free V. Leroy, we see you coming out. 30 seconds to the ZOE. Okay, come out, Winston. Endeavour, get you back at two, zero, zero, nine. Ten minutes of ratty comm off the tail when we come back. I'll give you some slack here, Leroy. Okay. How am I doing, Dan? You're doing fine. I'm just... That's a fact. You've got one little cover around you. Endeavour, one minute to the ZOE. Get you back at two, zero, zero, nine. Ten minutes of comm off the tail when we come back on the West. Do that, too. Dan's clear. Second, I'm going to get my cutters set properly. Go stand by, tell you off. All right. Brian, if you could just move the MS where I can reach it. Leroy, your next step after the adjustable pattern now is to pay the message indirectly. You did that. Attach the message indirectly to be a part of your tool head. Go ahead, Leroy. We'll put that in work in just a moment. Winston, can you tell me what we're passing over right now? Leroy, what do you want me to do with the arm? Okay, go ahead. I'm done with the arm. You can go back to the grapple position. That's correct. That's where we need to be. Endeavour, Houston, for Daniel River, Australia. Next arm, it's an incredible fight. I'm envious. The pin is inverted to your point of view. I know, Dan. I'm just seeing the roll being like 180 degrees off. That looks good. Don't worry. Okay. That's supposed to be. Okay. Three more inches forward. That's exactly where it's supposed to be. I'm going to go... When you give me a go, I'm going to go for a capture. But, Brent, I'm showing the... Hammer's right where it's supposed to be. Parts of the end effector that go into the... They go into the five pieces, the three pieces each at 120 degrees each other. Yeah. I'm showing it off by 180 degrees. But, Dan, stay in there. Okay, we have a great view, Brent. Thanks. Endeavour, Brent. PDRS is looking at this just one moment. Okay, let me know when we go for a capture. You go for a capture. I show a good capture. I saw the snares grow nicely. Okay. I got good capture, Dan. Let me know when you go for a rigid. You go for a rigid. Here comes a rigid. I'm waiting. I see it rigidizing. We've got a rigid. Great. Fantastic. Good job, guys. Okay. Now, Brent, if you could come straight toward me a little bit. Stand by, Dan. I'm waiting for the rigid. I'll be back. Okay, I'm sorry. And... Okay. Winston, if you could tell me again, where to hook the cutter to? Which end of the indefector to hook the cutter to? Okay, Dan, you're going to hook that to, the yellow end of the indefector. Okay. They can't move it down toward you. Okay. Stand by just one second, Brent. I have to... Because of the reconfigure, I have to move Lee or his cutter from where it was to the other side. Stand by. I'm going to rotate it back for storage. Okay. You're looking good. Both feet are... Your right foot is almost there. Your right foot's in the loop. Needs your heel to move. There you go. Your left hand. But you know what, Leroy? Your right is above the... You know how that angle is? Okay. Let me try again. Have that. Now you're improperly and your left is in beautifully. Great. Okay, you're looking good from in here, Leroy. Dan, can you verify again that you temporarily attached Leroy's slide to our state services in London? Negative, Winston. I'm going to do that after I hook him up so I don't have to go back and forth twice. Okay. Okay. Access and operate the PFRWS pitch controls. Go over to the... far here. Okay, Dan. Okay. Pitch control works. Winston, pitch control works fine. Okay, Leroy. You want to access and operate the PFRWS tool hits. Okay. Access and operate the yaw control to position the PFRWS around the ATFRWS. Attention. Attention. The... the handles are a little low. They're fine for me, but some of them are in the lead-up, so we'll see what happens. Look at the... look at the earth there. Take a look over the field if you can. Oh, my goodness. They're coming back in plane. Oh, I got it. I got it. Hold on. I got it. Okay. I got it. Okay, it's entirely yours. Yeah. I got it. Okay. Okay, Brent, come on up out of the bay. Endeavour Houston on air to ground two for the flight deck. I don't think that'll be a big problem. So I'm going to go to the other end of the bay. Endeavour Houston on the west. I've got some FESS actions for the flight deck. Unless you all can see that from the window. For the flight deck, we'd like the supply water dump using FESS on 5-9 using FESS-B. Okay, keep going. Keep going. You're almost there. You're at it. You're at the latch. Okay, it's latched. Okay. You can see how badly the... the cables are bound up. The cables are bound up. Yep. We actually want to take a picture of that for the ground. Okay, keep going. We'll do a couple other axes for you there. Endeavour Houston, no action on the PDRS slip. That's due to the ingress from Dan. Okay, we copy. Okay, right, Steve. You've got the PDAF there. You can install the PDAF on the starboard bay for latch play. Okay. That's in work. The primary jet firing is coming up for both of y'all. Okay. There's no one there. They're going to stop and they'll be done. And Winston then install and remove an avionics line from that TA line. Okay. And that will be in work after the burn. Dan, this configuration of the APF-R, and I'm going to do three clockwise on the Z-bolt. Endeavour Houston, we're two minutes from the ZOE. We'll get you back in approximately seven minutes for the flight deck. You'll go for the SM checkpoint at the end of 14-7 Cabin Repress. And for IV and EV, the plan right now is for Leroy to proceed as planned on the timeline for EV-3. The plan right now is for Leroy to proceed as planned on the timeline for EV-3. We're going to give you some easy tasks following your utility box so you both meet up at PWP setup. That's the plan for now. So you're going to be a quick grab, which is three times both hands to space. Three times both hands to space. Here we go. Three times single layback, no hands. Max. Okay, there's one. Minutes on East will be in blockage. You have the cameras. Okay, so are we copy that? Endeavour, we can take the cameras again. Okay, so are you ready? My BRT is going to go back here anyway. I've got it. Okay, I'm going to let go. Orientation one more time to go a little bit like this way. It goes in 180 from what you've got. That thing that's facing your chest goes into that probe sticking out of the wall. Okay, that's complete. You ingress your lock. You can both set your waters to off. Double clover's closed. Okay, you are going to close locking the outer hatch. They're going to close locking the outer hatch. Thanks. That's an intermittent leak and it's understood. We might have to do that again during the flight. Also, we're coming up on a handover with T-dress in two minutes. It's an extended handover and we'll get you back at 1938. Endeavour Houston, the flight director wants to know who Buzz Lightyear is down there. It's in his stash. He's got it stashed. It's back here. I'll get it on the swap out right whenever you're ready to start. Yeah, I'm ready. You ready? Okay. Swap. My heart's going. Roger, Brian. Again, you have a six knot tailwind. Gear down and locked. Commander Brian Duffy now pulling the nose of the orbiter up in a pre-flare maneuver. Altitude 700 feet. Pilot Brent Jett preparing to put the landing gear down. The landing gear is down and locked. Main gear touched down. Nose gear touched down. Endeavour rolling out on runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Endeavour's 10th mission in space, the 74th mission in the shuttle program, completing 142 orbits of the Earth traveling 3.7 million miles. Copy. We'll stop. Welcome back, guys. Duffy, you did a great job of getting this started in 1996. Standby for any post-landing deltas. Roger.