 two, one, lift off of Atlantis and the six-man crew on a Department of Defense flight. This is shuttle launch control at T-minus three hours and holding. All is going well in our countdown. We've got the flight crew for STS-44 having breakfast in the crew quarters at the Operations and Checkout Building. Crew is just beginning their first flight day of a 10-day mission. We've got mission specialist Jim Voss flying for the first time. Pilot specialist Tom Hennan, Mario Runco flying for the first time today. He's a mission specialist. And we've got Commander Fred Gregory making his third trip into space today. There's pilot Tom Henricks. He's flying for the first time today in space. And mission specialist Story Musgrave. He becomes a four-time shuttle veteran today. This is shuttle launch control at T-minus three hours and holding. We've got Commander Fred Gregory, Colonel in the United States Air Force, being assisted. He's getting his helmet on. And this is in the suit-up room at the Operations and Checkout Building. Commander Gregory was just briefed on the weather conditions here at Kennedy and essentially world weather conditions in case they had to make a landing at a trans-oceanic abort site. We've got mission specialist James Voss. He's being assisted with getting things stuffed into his pockets. We've got mission specialist Mario Runco. He's flying for the first time today. Mario is a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. Pilot specialist Tom Hennan standing up. Hennan is a Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army. He's a payload specialist on this flight. He'll be conducting the Terra Scala experiment for this mission, making observations of various sites on the ground from space. We've got Pilot Tom Hennricks flying for the first time today. He's got on his watch pointing to it. He's the Colonel in the United States Air Force. The crew does a brief test of the suit. They have air circulated through the suit and it just tests for a leakage rate in the suit while they're in the suit-up room. We've got here mission specialist Story Musgrave. He's a medical doctor. Story is becoming a four-time shuttle veteran today. This is shuttle launch control. We've got the STS-44 flight crew coming down the hall at the Operations and Checkout Building. Commander Fred Gregory is leading the group. Pilot Tom Hennricks. They're all waving goodbye to well-wishers at the ONC building. We've got the crew coming out and a group of well-wishers. The crew is all ready to go fly today. NTD launch director, T-12. Go ahead. Okay. I think we've about converged on the calculations for the replenish time, so you ought to have the team prepared to come out of this hold at 35 past the hour, looking for a T-0 at 45 past the hour. I'm sorry, 44 past the hour. Understand. Thank you. T-minus two minutes 30 seconds. The orbiter test conductors requested that Pilot Hennricks clear the caution and warning memory system. Retraction of the gaseous oxygen vent hood is now underway. Liquid oxygen tank is now at flight pressure. T-minus two minutes and counting. Tonight's launch will mark the seventh night launch in the history of the shuttle program and the tenth flight of the orbiter Atlantis. Enjoy your Thanksgiving. Okay, let's go for ET-LH2 pressure. T-minus is ready. T-minus 31 seconds. We have a go for auto sequence start. Atlantis' four redundant computers have primary control of critical functions. 20, 15. T-minus 13, 12, 11, 10, 9. We have a go for engine start. Six, five, four, three, two, one. Lift off of Atlantis and the six-man crew on a department of defense flight. Roger all, Atlantis. Houston now controlling. Atlantis is completely rolling over to the proper position for its climb to a 28.5-degree inclination orbit. Three main engines now throttling back to 70 percent as Atlantis prepares to pass through the area of maximum aerodynamic pressure. Atlantis' speed is now 1,000 miles an hour. Altitude 34,000 feet downrange from Kennedy Space Center four nautical miles. Atlantis, Houston, go with throttle up. Roger, go with throttle up. Three engines now back operating at 104 percent of rated capacity. Good hydraulic systems, good electrical systems. Atlantis, Houston, Com check, UHF only. Loud and clear, Jeff. You're loud and clear also. Altitude now 127,000 feet. Atlantis' speed, 2,725 miles an hour. Downrange from Kennedy Space Center, 25 nautical miles. Yes, sir, be safe. Roger. Whitney Coast. Three engines continuing to operate well at 104 percent of rated capacity. Good hydraulic systems, good electrical systems. Altitude now 198,000 feet. Velocity 3,068 miles an hour. Two-engine banjool. One-engine banjool. Roger, and performance nominal. Nominal. Those calls indicated Atlantis' performance so far has been as planned and that Atlantis could now perform a transatlantic landing at banjool to Gambia on only two engines if one were to fail. However, all three engines continuing to operate well at 104 percent. Atlantis altitude is 286,000 feet. Velocity now 4,200 miles an hour. Downrange from Kennedy Space Center 102 nautical miles. Atlantis, negative return. Roger, negative. That call indicates Atlantis can no longer return to the Kennedy Space Center for landing if that were to become necessary. However, all three engines still operating at 104 percent. Good hydraulic systems, good electrical systems. Okay, hi, Dan. And everybody else there in the MCC and anyone else is listening today. We're going to play back our deploy ops and we're going to start with the pre-deploy check and we'll show you that first. This is a check that we do on orbit. Dan, this is, as you can see, I hope you're getting now the nozzle of the IES. Yeah, we see that, Jim. Okay, and during the pre-deploy check, the nozzle gimbals are checked twice on each different system and you may have already seen the first one and then it'll switch over to the other side and it will then take the gimbals in each direction. There it goes. It goes up and back to the center and then down and back to the center and then it'll go to our right as seen there, back and center and to the left and back. This is all part of the pre-deploy check. Now we're going to show you some camcorder video of the payload-based survey that we did right after we opened the payload-based doors. We looked at our satellite. There it is, the DSP in the foreground with the inertial upper stage booster hidden behind it. Starting over on what's your left as you look at the screen, looking at the actuator mechanism that will eventually tilt the IUSD-SD up into its deployed position. Now we're looking back over the top of the payload as it's in the bay. You can see the solar panels that are there that later after we deploy it, the controllers on the ground will send the signals to deploy those solar panels and they'll fold out, looking down on the other side now. You can see various antennas and other types of sensors that are on other parts of the satellite. And we're coming up on the front of the payload. Now you can see the main sensor there on the end of the sentiate over it. That looks like a nozzle point yet, but that's the IR side of it. Now, Jen, we're going to show you some ice that we saw coming off the aft end of the orbiter while we were waiting for the deploy. Yeah, we see that. There's a tremendous amount of ice that we saw coming off the back end, some very large chunks of it. This is the PCRS ops. This is the covers that you can see just about in the middle of the screen. The covers that were on some of the sensors on the spacecraft, they're pulled off by strings that go into the funnel-shaped devices in the foreground. There's a motor that reels in the string and it pulls those covers into the funnel so that they don't flop around any in the vehicle after they've been removed. You can see one of the sensors that was uncovered and watches the string pulls the covers into the funnel to secure them. It works real well. It was well designed and did a good job. They pulled right off and they sucked right into the funnel just like they were supposed to. Here's the payload bay right before we raised the payload up to deploy it. You can see the motion starting. We raise it up to 29 degrees. We do some other checks there and the ground does some checks. Then we pull them umbilical so that we no longer have power to load. Once we pull that umbilical we're pretty sure we're going to go ahead and deploy. You can see the round object is the top of the cover for the infrared sensor that looks down at the Earth that's used for detecting missile launches. Just below that there are a cluster of three and then one other round object, dark round objects that you can see. Those are other sensors. Larger white circles to the left and to the lower part of the antennas that are used for communicating with the satellite. We do this in stages so that we can stop before we pull the umbilical at 29 degrees before we stop and then we'll go ahead and raise it up to 58 degrees which is the final elevation. We need to get it up to about 45 degrees or so to ensure that we're going to have clearance when the payload is separated from the shuttle. It separates and then it goes right up over the top of the crew compartment. So we've got to have a pretty good angle so that we don't run into the structure. You know, it really is a pretty satellite with all the silver and the gold on it. Story was really excited about it. He thinks he's got some great pictures of the whole deploy sequence with both the air flicks and with half a blad. So we did. Once we get it up elevated like this we do another survey of the payload and make sure that we don't see anything that could be wrong. Sunnyvale are checking out everything and making sure that the inertial upper stage which is the booster is in good shape and the Defense Support Program satellite folks are making sure that their satellite is working correctly. The inertial upper stage once we deploy it one hour after we've kicked it off it ignites its solid rocket motor and it pushes it on out in orbit. And this is what we got into the dark. Unfortunately it was a dark deploy so we weren't able to get shots of it too long. We could only use the payload bay lights to be able to see it. So once it goes a little bit away from the orbit it no longer has any lighting and we won't be able to see very much of it but you'll see it deploy here in just a minute. When it deploy there's something called a SuperZip it's a charge that separates the inertial upper stage from the airborne support equipment and it cuts it very cleanly. The payload is then pushed out away from the orbiter and after one minute Fred moves the orbiter away from the payload and then a little bit later we do an ohms burn which we'll show you an orbital maneuvering system burn but as we deploy right now you can see it drift away very slowly and gracefully it cleared up all the support equipment very nicely the deployment system worked real well you can see the inertial upper stage at the bottom with the USAF I don't know what that stands for but something and then the gold nozzle down below it which is the solid rocket motor that will boost it up the first stage of the solid rocket motor that will boost it up to a spinal geosynchronous orbit about 22,000 miles above the Earth's surface once it's up there and in spinal orbit it'll be where it wants it to be and it'll look down and watch for missile launches and continue to protect our nation and now you can barely see the satellite in there once it gets out of our lights it's very difficult to see I hope you can see it almost in the middle of the screen as it moves away from us as it got away from us the more difficult it was to see and off to the right is the moon which is much easier to see now we're going to show you a little bit of what we can see with our CCTV system the old maneuvering system engines ignite that was the ignition and now you can see a little glow just on the top of the ohms pods that's the burning ohms engines so we'll see a little rcsjet fire on the right side of your screen when the burn is over there it was and that was the completion of our burn still see it? see it from the over here too far away what do you mean it's only 6 miles how about in the video? it's only 6 miles a little bit far away to get real good pictures of it but it certainly showed up well with the sun coming up on it like that we're looking down at the old surface our ohms burn brought us up above it so we were looking down at the iusdsp as it flew underneath us getting ready for its burn to put it into the entire orbit I hope you can see it it doesn't even really show it moves so 4 3 1 there it goes we got it space the final frontier this is the voyage of the space shuttle atlantis it's 10 day mission to explore new methods of remote sensing and observation of the planet earth to seek out new data new radiation in space and a new understanding of the effects of microgravity on the human body to boldly go where 255 men and women have gone before hello fred, tom, story jim, tom and especially mario this is patrick stewart choosing not to outrank you as captain Jean-Luc Picard saying that we are confident of a productive and a successful mission make itself good morning atlantis you will recognize this is dso611 the microbial air sampler and all we do is put a that looks like 3 minutes it takes an air sample on the middeck and here it is taking a sample on the okay when i let it go is there's a as the sun in the end it looks like a a light and that's causing the genoscopic effect and jim what tom is doing is characterizing his system he's looking at how the device functions up here in space like how much he can adjust his viewing angle checking out all of his lenses and just generally a good checkout calibration seeing how it works fred's working fred and tom henrich are both working with tom on this as kind of backups he's working with tom right now and setting it up and checking it out happy that jim what we're looking at now is northeastern australia some rivers down there you can probably see the river passing through right now that's primitive we've got a good shot hey you can see an island there in the barrier reef near australia and tom is tracking that on the screen right now as we fly over we've got it my hand is our antenna that mounts in the window for m881 this is our UHF direct com antenna this essentially is the computer brain for our charge couple device or ccd camera the camera which you see over here I'll bring it into view has basically an onus 232 type port on it that takes the signal from the ccd back and this is just a nikon f3 camera the f3 camera has been modified a little bit the film back has been taken off and the the ccd device has been put on the electronics part of the ccd is down below here the camera then outputs its signal through the rs232 cable to the tethered electronics module the tethered electronics module has a disk drive in it essentially it records the digital image from the ccd on a disk the disk then can be accessed and displayed on the black and white high density monitor that I have mounted next to the tim ok jen as you can see I've got the camera all hooked up together the lens is on the camera and the lens essentially mounts up to be about a thousand millimeter telephoto lens the basic lens is a 300mm and there are two doublers on it essentially it's a 1.4 and a 2 so in any combination I can go up from 300 millimeters to about 450 or to about 600 and then up to a thousand if you do the multiplication out in detail for that hopefully we'll be able to see things on the ground with the camera and displayed on the monitor to the greatest detail we've been able to get to date we also have associated with M881 some radios at direct com I showed you the antenna earlier a little bit about the radios that we have mounted up neatly stacked under the monitors underneath the tim with the Velcro I have the radio itself and then below that the crypto gear for the radio the radio essentially is a standard military issue UHF radio it's an LST5B and a KY57 set unit used in the field basically by the Army and the Marines but we have it on board to talk direct down to a person on the ground that will be located on site for an individual target and he'll be passing to us weather and conditions at the target for example if we're going by a port facility you might tell us what ships are in port or what ships are moving in and out of port information like that and then armed with that information and then try and look for those on the ground and then what we're watching now is Fred putting story into the LBMP they're zipping up the waste seal right now we have to have a real good tight seal so that when we lower the pressure in the bag we don't pull any air inside the leads here they get the electrocardiogram and also get the heart rate and also the heart here triggers when the blood pressure on my arm when that looks for different sounds you put a blood pressure cuff on the arm like this you pump up that blood pressure cuff higher than the blood pressure that's in the artery and then stops the blood from flowing down here as soon as you decrease the pressure in the cuff enough where the blood can flow through there's little accelerometer here like the Dr. Stepescope listening and the pulse is coming through and that goes into a blood pressure measuring device down which then records the pressure and then what you're watching now as Tom's updating our SPOC our PGSC we didn't think that it was synced up really well with our state vector so he's putting a new state vector in to make sure we're all synced up with it okay we see that and you can see Mario he's got two half a blad he's got a dual mount there he's going to be taking some pictures what he's got in there right now there's color positive and color IR as part of a test to look at the difference on the two and we'll be taking some shots so I think over the ocean here we're doing a visual function I'll let Tom Hendricks on the left on the right they look the best list Tom Hannon he is looking in what's called what you're looking at sometime too particularly on this mission vision from space is a very important thing and there are reasons to think that maybe vision changes you all see the puffy head that we have on board and if the head is puffy also you can expect the eyes to be a little larger we do measure changes in the eyeball pressure in space in size and if they change size just like a camera, the focal length of a camera vision would change now here you're cinematographer Jim Boss is doing a great job but they show is giving you one example of what you see in the visual function tester I'm similar in hearing what the crewman's activities are and that is to take a cassette tape I load a cassette tape in for each one of the test sequences and our buttons started to running and after sequences I'll then change out the tape the importance of bioreactor is it has three different size spheres and once we get it tested out and do the kinds of development and tweaking we need to on terms of RPMs and densities and like we will be able to grow tissue cultures in space not just single layer tissue cultures right now if you grow tissues in Earth and 1G you only get a single layer of tissue cells it is not very effective or efficient way once we protect this system we will be able to grow clumps of tissue cultures and you may ask why tissue cultures are important it's very important to be able to understand cancer cells you need to grow them such as a farm and then you can study them also many vaccines are grown in tissue cultures and Jim Boss here is focusing the camcorder in and you can see the different size spheres in theirs red white and blue as they traverse this is one particular sequence they will take up many many different motions and once we've perfected being able to hold and minimize the shear stresses across these spheres we will then be able to put living cultures in there and hopefully we'll be able to use the zero gravity environment the space environment to enhance our ability of biological tissues growing outside of the body and that's the completion of our bioreactor the last thing we have for bioreactors we'd like you to push and hold the reset button that should stop the drum and allow us to see the deceleration of the beat if you want me to hold it or just push it you need to hold it in in order to keep the drum stopped over to the right of the galley Shannon who's helping out here is going to show you what's inside of our food lockers they're stowed by each meal it's meal A B and C that's like breakfast lunch and dinner and all of the meals for the six of us are stowed inside there this is a couple of meals worth different kinds of containers we'll show you those later with some plastic bags to put our garbage in when we're done and then even different types of containers underneath look at all that stuff inside that tray it's a lot of food stowed into a very small space and once we get it out to take a look at it it's also very difficult for us to get it all back in to the locker so we have to eat a lot close back up and lock the locker back up again moving on we're going to show you what's in one more of the lockers just so you get a feel for some of the things that are stowed in there and this one is some of our photographic equipment we have an air effects camera in the front and then in the back is some of our 35 millimeter camera equipment and what we are showing now is some of the film it's all stowed in there nice and neatly so we can keep track of it find our film when we need to replace those that we've used books are a problem also up on the top you see an exercise protocol many of our procedure books that we have stowed away they each have their place and we return them there when we're done with them so that we can find them over on the wall are our sleeping bags they stay stowed on the wall until at night the bags are, others just get in their bags and float around we find a convenient place to store our running shoes that we use for the treadmill they fit very nicely in the airlock door and they stay there very well so once you get into space you find all the convenient places to store things and we use the locker that's available and put up some of our own and we find a spot that we really need something Tom's now opening up one of our personal hygiene kits it has our razors and shampoo and soap all the things you should normally keep in your bathroom we keep them in a little box like this or another means and I'll show you later this is a different way of keeping your personal hygiene items together from a long belt that has velcro on the back of it so you can velcro it to the wall where you're working when you're cleaning up and all the items go into elastic on them works fairly well it doesn't contain them quite as readily as the other type but it puts it all out easily available for you to use and you can see it a little bit better it's just personal choice which one you want to use this is our very large bag that we have inside the airlock it's a soft bag and inside it are about 10 smaller bags 10 or 12 smaller bags and each of the bags are color-coded so you know which is yours, there's mine it's got blue on it, that's my color and inside this bag I have all of my extra underwear and t-shirts and a couple of other kinds of shirts we'll look and see what one of them is oh, that's right, this is an army production, I forgot I'm going to show you some of the storage in our waste control compartment our bathroom back over here you see some of the container the places on the side the little black things, those are where we store our wash cloths and towels and they have a slot in them you push the wash cloth in them and they stay in very well to dry out before we put them in the dirty clothes we also have several cabinets in the back that we store a lot of our equipment that we use for personal hygiene here you see our containers for our urinals we have one of those for each of us wash cloths are stowed in here I'll show you how we put one of those up on the wall goes right in very nicely I'll show you how color coded so that we can keep our own wash cloths separate from the others here's a towel compartment and over on the other side we put our wet trash after we've used the bathroom sometimes we have moist items that need special storage we put them in a bag there here's some of our dry wipes our toilet paper and once they're used they go in this can which we then close up at the top and we put into our wet waste container Tom's going to show you some of the things that we have to contend with when we use up some of our particles in space and get rid of them we find it easier to put a little plastic bag on the front with some velcro and fill it up with our trash as we go by so we don't have to open it all the time so we just put things in there keep it sealed up like this we'll have a piece of dry piece of paper that he wants to put away we'll put it inside the plastic bag because it's very convenient just to go by and stick it in there once it's full we open up the trash compactor it has an easy access door it normally is very easy to open in fact it's getting a little bit full and it was jamming it a little bit there and then there's an easy access front that's kind of a diaphragm that has slots in it and you can just push your food into there so you won't have to pull a door off and put it back on so you just push the waste into it and we can continue to push stuff in there he closes up the door and he locks it set the waste that we had from our meals for a full day for six of us plus I think a little bit from this morning that we had so we have quite a bit of trash inside there now and we could have put a lot more in there but just so we could demonstrate it for you we decided to go ahead and compact it for you Tom's showing you how easily the handles can come off and go back on and then he's going to compact it for us he adjusts the handle so that they will now load and he's going to start cranking away on it it takes about 60 motions of the handles in order to fully compress the garbage that's inside there trying to back off and give you a little bit better view of how Tom has to brace himself to secure himself in place while he's compacting it has to back off just a little bit he had so much pressure on it he couldn't get the door open so he backed off a little relieved the pressure now he can pull the bag out that full days worth of six people's garbage in there pull these straws out that then we'll hold the plastic bag in and not let it expand back out to its former shape so it pulls the whole thing out and there's all of our trash for an entire day plus some more let me show you the flight deck we also have to store a lot of things up here you can see all of the books and papers that's our morning mail up there on the front in front of Fred's seat our good computer up there stored between the windows Tom's got the good photograph of his three children up there right above his feet some more messages that we got from the ground now we have our tape for our VTR over on the wall now we store things just about any place that we can on the wall on the floor on the ceiling this is where the terrace scout equipment goes all the extra binoculars and other equipment that Tom uses for his observations more messages from the ground more flight data fall this is where we store stories we put him up in a window with a couple of hassle blades in his hand and he's very happy up there our meal was prepared by uh, uh, Jim Vaughn and Tom Hennan while the rest of us were busy uh, they were slaving over the oven and in the kitchen for hours and prepared this delicious meal of turkey and gravy some noodles, we had fresh cranberry sauce and some pumpkin delight all the fixings of Thanksgiving the traditional Thanksgiving the only thing absent was family and friends but you're with us in our hearts and we'll take you as we go okay Jim, what we've got coming up for you is a camcorder mounted in the villages and you'll see Jim Vaughn doing the IFM around the cut screen okay, we'll be looking just to summarize, we've gone in with towels, we cleaned up about, uh, two cups of water there was about one cup on the filter on humsep what we're doing now is the preventive maintenance if for some reason we use need humsep Bravo again we just completed uh, stage 2-56 in the IFM procedure and that's what you're seeing the finish up on that okay, copy Fred that's Lantus I'm with you in the now book 8-5 8.1 Bravo when you're ready on the IMU Fred that is not required we're still polling the data to determine exactly what the problem is with the IMU, we don't need you to think everything on here is kept with MCC anyway Roger that Atlantis Houston for Fred Fred we want to have ideas on the IMU too, we see problems both with the attitude and the velocity we have declared IMU to fail we want you to leave it powered on for now and we're still discussing the implications of that failure and, uh, we'll get back with you when we, uh, we have a plan we're at a mission lapsed time of 5 days, 16 hours and 41 minutes Capcom Jan Davis has just informed the crew that inertial measurement unit 2 is failed the flight control team is still in the process of, uh, discussing and, uh, analyzing any impacts they may, that may have Flight Genesey Given this, uh, FPC 2 3 traces that you gave me up here for you and Eagle Be sure you want to leave this guy powered on We'll fight that, um, that's a good question to ask, we've been talking to Eagle folks The, uh, comforting data from that is that the, uh, IMU is not pulling any more current, uh, than it did prior to the failure and no more than we would expect, uh, from nominal operation So we don't believe it's an internal short Uh, in the box or anything that we call it sparking or anything else If that were the case, then I agree we would absolutely go, uh, go and turn it off Eagle flight Flight Eagle Be sure you go with that Yeah, at this point, uh, I'm not real concerned We're still looking into it, uh, I didn't see anything in those traces that really gave me any heartache Looked like a power shift, something internal to the unit I didn't see anything that indicated short Uh, or anything that would, uh make me uncomfortable at this time IMU 1 and 3 are working and, uh, their performance throughout the mission has been outstanding Atlantis Houston for Fred Fred, we've been Fred, we've been, uh, consulting with the management team, we're all at a consensus that we are declaring an MDF due to the failure of the IMU We also require a lakebed landing The first entry opportunity we'll have is for tomorrow We're looking at the weather at Edwards now to see if we can in fact do that tomorrow And as Houston the data looks good This is Mission Control Houston this view of, uh, what's left of the eye of the storm of Typhoon Yuri Typhoon Yuri has officially been classified down classified now to an extra tropical storm It's still got winds from, uh, 80 miles per hour gusting up to 105 at one point earlier in the flight that had a very well-defined eye, stretching 15 to 20 miles across and, uh, winds up to from 150 to 180 miles per hour You've got a go for the deorbit burn, we'll have a final runway selection between four and five for you shortly and you'll go to maneuver to, uh, deorbit burn attitude on time It's in position and ready to support Okay, fly, Chincey Go ahead We'll have AOS by then, but the EI-20 secondary actuator check will not be required Alright, essentially 090 11, uh, 11 11 gusts, okay That is energy is nominal now, fly Roger, seem good on that Okay The on-energy approach in the hack Surface winds are now 090 at 11 gusts to 13 That call indicates that Atlantis speed is, uh, perfectly normal as it begins a right overhead turn around the heading alignment cylinder to align with runway 05 This view shows Atlantis with wings angled in a bank to the right at 42 degrees, altitude 48,000 feet Atlantis airspeed now 207 knots range to touchdown 23 nautical miles That guidance navigation and control officer reports Commander Fred Gregory has now taken, uh, manual control of Atlantis Atlantis Houston on energy at the 270 That call indicates that Atlantis speed remains looking very good as it has 270 degrees left to go and it's right to turn to align with runway 05 Altitude now 31,000 feet Airspeed 263 knots 16 nautical miles Atlantis Houston slightly low at the 180 Atlantis Houston disregard the brake pressure message Crew told the disregard a message about brake pressure as a false message Altitude now 7,100 feet 4 miles to touchdown airspeed 290 knots Atlantis aligning with the center of runway 05 Altitude 3,000 feet landing gear down main gear touchdown Atlantis will roll out without braking due to a test objective Houston, I'm going to stop before we get to the end of the runway Roger that Atlantis, we concur Okay, here's the 15 knots put on some brakes, stop Houston Roger, we'll stop Good job, Fred, welcome home Atlantis and congratulations on a great flight