 The first thing I'd like to do here now is to reintroduce my crew. On my right is Scott Horowitz, the mission pilot. To his right is Joe Tanner, one of our space walkers. Next to him is Steve Holly, this was Steve's fourth flight. Next to him is Greg Harbaugh, another one of our space walkers. To his right is Mark Lee, our payload commander. And on the end is Steve Smith, the youngest member of the crew. This was Steve's second flight. The goal of our mission was to fly up to the Hubble Space Telescope, retrieve it, mount it in the bay on the servicing structure, perform four EVAs that were planned to replace some of the major science instruments with modern technology that would allow the telescope to return more data at a faster rate and also to replace some of the electronic components of the telescope. We were able to do more than it was planned if you include the MLI repairs that were a late addition during the flight. The success of the mission is directly attributable to thousands of people here on the ground, people who planned the flight, people who prepared the hardware, and the people who trained the folks on the ground in mission control and who helped us train as a crew. We were really happy to be the ones that got to go up and see the telescope up close. We had a lot of fun and we saw some beautiful sights. We brought a movie with us today and some slides to try and share some of that with you. So if we could get the lights down and start the movie. Something that was great for me as the commander of this flight was not only did we launch on time, we launched two days earlier than the initial scheduled date when I was assigned as the mission commander. It started here at about midnight as we walked out of the crew quarters and manned up the AstroVan. A few hours later the main engines lit to take us on up into orbit. You feel that rumble of the engines when they light outside but you're not really sure until the SRB's light. Then there's a tremendous bright light reflecting off of the launch platform. It looks like somebody's welding right outside your window and then you feel the kick in your back and you know you're off. And as you can see we're going through the clouds here at about 3,000 feet. I guess folks are a little concerned with weather but pretty soon we're VFR on top and we're off on our way to space. SRB's are kind of a bumpy ride. You're getting shook around. It was interesting around Mach 3. It smoothed out and then shortly there after the SRB set and folks on the ground at night got this beautiful view of the two SRB's as they tailed off and set from the orbiter and looked kind of like a point of light like a star going off into orbit. Now once we got to orbit the real work of the mission started opening the payload bay doors and getting about the business of turning our rocket ship into an on-orbit space ship. We had to convert the mid-deck to a working area, set up the tools and the spacesuits in preparation for the spacewalks upcoming. Prior to the rendezvous as is normally done on flights like this we checked out the robot arm. The robot arm was tremendously enjoyable piece of gear to operate and in our case it checked out fully, completely as it always does. It's a very reliable piece of gear. None of our simulators can fully prepare you for everything you're going to see during a rendezvous. Number one, the beauty of the real satellite is compared to our visuals but also the sun in the real world and the confusion you can get on the flight deck just from the number of people who are up there with the task. It really is a team effort with everybody providing an input. But we managed to stabilize the telescope like this in the co-ass and bring it down so Steve could grab it. Scotty and Sox were responsible for the first 330 miles or so and my job was the last 10 feet. They did such a good job with their part that my job was easy. We were able to grab it and for Sox and me it was enjoyable to get to see it again and got it birthed on the FSS so that the real mission operations could begin with the EVAs. Alright here we are. This is a couple days into the flight. We need to check out the EMUs first. As you know these EMUs were updated. That's a new configuration we hope to have on station. Once they're all checked out it's time to don the suits for the first of the EVAs. I've got my Green Bay Packers hat on here for war every day and I'm sure that was one of the forces that kept us on target the whole time. This is coming out of the hatch the very first day. It seems like I'm having a little trouble. I can't figure out why but you have a lot of cords and the umbilicals and you also have tools in the airlock and a lot of times it's hard to kind of get out the door. But once we get out you can go ahead and start setting up for the day. The manipulator foot restraint handle was detached and it was developed here at the Johnson Space Center. Real good job on that. We went up and hooked it on to the MFR and went to work. The first day, the first of the 5 EVAs was spent removing two large refrigerator sized objects from the telescope here I am pulling out the FOS instrument. These instruments weighed between 685 and 850 pounds. After we pull out one of the old instruments we then go get one of the new ones out of the payload bay and this is STIS coming out. Of course these boxes are designed to increase the scientific returns that Hubble will have. We are putting STIS into the telescope here. Unfortunately it happened at night. The major three boxes that we installed all occurred at night so it made it a little bit more difficult task. That just is a matter of timing. After you put a new box into the telescope you stole the old box and this is stowing the GHRS box. I might add that these scenes are all sped up to some extent. About five times the normal speed. Everything goes a lot slower in space. This is just another view of stowing GHRS into the payload bay. You might notice over my left shoulder there's a gold colored box. That's a new camera we had on board that actually brought the ground into the work envelope basically and looked over our shoulder and you'll see pictures of that in the upcoming scenes. The EVA took about 7 hours that first day. Often we had a chance to look out at beautiful sites. Notice the airlock here also. That was the first flight of the external airlock. Gorgeous view. Well after Mark and Steve had shown us how to correctly perform EVA it was Greg and my turn on day two. Put your pants on a little different in space. You can put both legs in at the same time and suit up was assisted by Doc every time. Here's Greg reporting that he was ready to go. Our job was to change one of the fine guidance sensors and here we are working on the doors to that bay and here is the insertion also done at night as Steve noted of the new fine guidance sensor. This box weighs about 500 pounds but in space it doesn't feel like anything. Here we are stowing the old FGS to return it to home where it will be refurbished and launched on a future mission. We also changed out one of the science tape recorders and that's the black box that I'm holding right there and this is a beautiful shot of the earth reflecting off the telescope and you can see Greg behind me to my left. Once we got down with all the large boxes the lower 12 feet or so has all of the scientific instruments. We started going in the bays and there's about 15, 20 different bays that have the electronics that run the Hubble Space Telescope. In this case I'm changing out a data interface unit and the DIU had lost essentially half of its capability so we put a new one in. It's a little bit tougher task than some of the normal EVA because it wasn't designed to be EVA compatible. Electro connectors didn't have wing tabs, a lot of the other things that we tend to do like the reaction wheel that you see here. The reaction wheel was one of those 12, 15 years ago in a first build Hubble that was meant to be changed out EVA and when we weren't doing the work the people inside were looking down, this is thunderstorms over the top of Houston and certainly it's like a string of firecrackers. It's probably the most incredible lightning display that any of us had ever seen from orbit so it was pretty spectacular and you were on the other end of that. I guess here we are getting to work on the EVA-4. This is a solar array drive electronics box change out. That's Joe handing it off to me and then closing the lid and I'm on the arm there and I've got it in my hands and we go up to the work site. I believe this is at sunrise so you'll see the lighting change fairly rapidly here and this is real time. Sun goes up and goes down very quickly on orbit. Real accommodation to the folks who trained this, this task was just like it was in the training process except the screws were although they were equally small they weren't nearly as corroded as they were in the water. It was a challenging task to change that solar array drive electronics box but it was very doable the way it was designed by the engineers. There are Joe and I up at the top of the telescope. We're not paying any attention to the earth up there, putting some covers on magnetometers. One of the efforts that was underway while we were out there was Scott was working on some other repairs, some patches that were designed and built up by Scott in the course of that EVA day. Joe and I actually put a couple patches on towards the end of EVA day 4 but then Mark and Steve put on the remainder of the patches on an unscheduled EVA day 5. That all went absolutely superbly The design developed by the folks on the ground with the stuff available to us was just great. Real kudos to everybody that was involved in that. Towards the end of that activity then we finished up and it was the end of the EVAs. With the EVAs successfully completed it was time to let Hubble fly free again. It's a little bit like having your kids come home from college. We were really happy to see Hubble when it showed up and when it was time to send it off we were really happy to see it go. Once again I got to grapple it and raise it up off of the FSS, bring it forward in the bay release it from the arm and then I told Scott to go ahead and execute the maneuver which he did. The maneuver was kicked off by firing forward jets and as soon as we did that we fired the jets. The orbiter went back and the telescope flew right over the top window. This is a view right over our heads looking out the starboard window. It was pretty amazing to see this large telescope fly right over our heads. The maneuver after the telescope went out of the window took us so we flew like a loop over the telescope. The next thing we saw about 15 minutes later was the telescope flying over Sharks Bay Australia. We saw a lot of Sharks Bay. It was a beautiful sight and then we got to see the telescope almost like a telescope riser said as it goes across the horizon with a beautiful blue planet in the background. It was quite an amazing sight. Of course our calling theme the whole time was more power to the telescope and here we are celebrating the fact that telescope has more power. Sox was in real trouble because Valentine's Day had come and gone and he hadn't written home yet. So he's catching up and this is a demonstration of one of the real problems with using power tools on orbit. This is a study in hydrofluid mechanics but it's interesting to note that the little M&M's will float right in the middle of the water ball. It makes kind of a pretty picture to show your kids. Exercise is an important part of daily life on orbit just as it is on Earth. We have a little bit better view and if you find a scene that you want to take a picture of on Earth weighs quite a bit and someone just passes it over to you. Sox's motto was a clean ship is a happy ship and he got us all busy cleaning up and we were real fortunate to get some excellent views of the hail bop comet that is still visible in the morning sky right now. Our first landing opportunity was waved off due to bad weather at the Cape and so but we didn't mind we got this extra view of Florida flying over and you can see Orlando and the Cape and Miami. This is what it looks like inside during a night entry. You get flashes from the plasma in the overhead windows that light up the inside of the ship and you can see the orange glow from the fireball. That's what the orange glow looks like from the outside and that's pretty much the view that folks here in Houston saw as we streaked overhead at a couple hundred thousand feet. It was great for me. I looked out my left window and there was Houston I could see the street outlines and right at the lower window frame was where the Johnson Space Center should be. This is the first flight at Kennedy Space Center where we had centerline lights on the runway. It was a really nice addition to the runway. It gave me a good feel during the landing in the rollout for where I was on the runway. Scott did a super job getting the drag shoot out and we tapped the brakes just to check them and make sure they worked. We really didn't need the brakes with the wind that we had that day but as a pilot I wanted to see what they felt like. They were beautiful. Jettison the shoot and rolled to a stop there on the runway. 103 had been a great place to live and a great place to work. The whole 10 days we were up in space and I was kind of sad to see it come to an end. It's always tough when you end the mission you're not going to be spending as much time with your crew as you got to during the previous 10 days. We're seeing how things move in space but nothing can quite beat the still imagery, the slides that we get. We've got a lot of them to show you today. This is our crew patch. It was actually pretty easy to do this patch and we took the image of the telescopes directly from a picture from the first servicing mission and that's why the arrays look a little bit twisted. But it looked just like that when we got back up in Rendezvous with it. The night launch is just spectacular. My first flight was on a day launch and the forces are all the same but the light show out your window is pretty incredible. In fact it's pretty hard to see the stars in the beach as you take off because the light is so bright from the flames that surround you. I talked about the sun on the Rendezvous. I used my thumb a lot, an old fighter pilot trick, an attack pilot trick too. You just take your thumb up in the window to block out the disc of the sun and that worked great to keep the sun out of my eyes during the approach. This is what the telescope looked like at about 1500 feet. The aperture end was pointed towards us and as we continued the Rendezvous the telescope actually rotated 180 degrees until we were in close the bottom end of the telescope was pointed down at the payload bay and then we went inertial so that we matched the exact rate of the telescope and then drifted in another 100 feet or so until Steve was able to grab it. I know Sox and I talked a lot during preparations for the flight that we felt very fortunate to have a chance to be able to see the Hubble telescope twice and we had exchanged memories about what it looked like and of course we had told the other crew members back and how pretty the satellite was. I know Sox used to say that he remembered being able to see the reflections of the Earth in the telescope such that the telescope actually looked bluish rather than silver and one of my recollections was at the terminator it was the sun setting or rising would shine on the solar rays such that it almost appeared that the solar rays had their own source of illumination and this is a picture of kind of what that looked like it was a treat special privilege to see the telescope again. The side that you see here which is the side that was facing us as we did the grapple and the birth actually looked quite a lot like I remembered it from before. It wasn't until we had just to the other side that we realized there was a difference between the side that preferentially faces the sun and the side that doesn't and of course that led to the MOI repair activities later on but it's a big spacecraft and it's truly a beautiful spacecraft. We all had different duties on the EVA days and leading up to the EVAs my job was getting the guys up and ready to go when Joe and I were not going out the door ourselves one of the things we all took care of ourselves was wiping down our own helmets and putting the antifog in there. So here is Mark in the next slide of Steve getting ready for their first EVA and they're all pumped up and ready to go. So we got these guys all suited up and pre-breathed and all that and then it was time to hand off to Joe who directed the operation from there. Steve and I on our off EVA days acted as the IV or the person, the choreographer I guess of the EVA task and we pretty much they glued to W-9 the window looking at everything that was going on keeping track of the activities and making sure that the EVA was going as we had trained and as we had planned. Of course we were always assisted ably by Dr. Stevie and we refer to Steve and Dr. Stevie in that way so as not to get them confused. But Steve, Dr. Stevie and Steve and I all worked together closely to make sure the arm movements were what we had trained and planned on and it was really a team effort with socks you can't see them in the picture but he's right behind us acting worried. And here Steve is handling one of the large boxes and that is probably G-H-R-S being stowed on the fixture and while we stowed them temporarily there while we got the new instrument out of one of the protective enclosures and installed a new instrument in the telescope and then retrieved the old instrument for stowage and what is now an empty closure. This is during the first EVA Mark and myself you can see this large enclosure in the front is where the new instruments launched and the instruments were stowed for entry. That's myself on the arm there you can see the camera is right in front of my face here that silver box Mark is in the back inspecting the enclosure there. This is the other large box that we moved during the flight the fine guidance sensor that's Joe on the arm holding it as he mentioned before it weighs about 500 pounds we often refer to it as the piano because it was about the size and shape of a grand piano. You see Greg in the back inspecting the bay after Joe has removed the old instrument also you notice Greg has it tethered going down by his right leg there he was always tethered to the shuttle in that respect. You also notice near his left foot is a foot restraint that we actually installed on the telescope to give Greg a platform somewhat like what Joe was using on the end of the arm. I might add that Joe and I compared notes after the flight just to describe how things went in space as they did on earth and it really was very very similar we each had installed these large boxes I'd say about 30 to 35 times on earth before we did it in space each of us got about 135 to 150 hours of water time before the flight also. Well at the end of a lot of the replacement work on the telescope one of our goals was to actually raise the telescope to a higher orbit the telescope doesn't have any engines it just has the reaction wheels to maintain attitude and so over time even though there's very little atmosphere up there what little atmosphere there is will drag the telescope down so we did what's called a vernier re-boost and you heard some people were rewarded for their efforts because this is a pretty unusual way to use the space shuttle to boost a payload because the little vernier jets really weren't designed for that. So they came up with a very clever procedure that basically faked the jets out into boosting us into a higher orbit and we spent 82 minutes using the little vernier jets over the entire mission and boosted the telescope about 8 miles higher which will ensure that it has a very safe orbit for years to come. Now these next four slides typifies some of the work that we do pre-flight and in-flight and it's the interaction between the astronauts and the engineers and the ground team and all of the designers that allow you to pull off some of this work. For the data interface unit it's something even before the crew was named that we had three or four runs over at the NBS at Marshall and we knew that it would be difficult to do because of reaching access in the bay so they designed umbilicals, gender changers for some of the connectors that were powered so on and so forth and the end result is you've come up with something through iteration that really works well. Next, and that's particularly true about the solar array drive electronics task which we did have to faulty on STS-61 because some of the screws came out but through the good work of the engineers up at Goddard and inputs from the crew were able to come up with a design that made change out of the box much easier to do and basically eliminated the possibility of losing connectors. All that interaction takes place before the flight and then even in-flight, the same people are able to work on the multi-layer installation repair kits where they look at all the things on board and I've heard some of the reporters that have talked to me after the flight talk about Apollo 13 and it's the same sort of effort where the people on the ground throw everything they've got in a room and they all come up with the best solution to the problems that we have and once Doc used all the kit that we had on board to fabricate them we were able to go outside and put them on and they worked just the way the people designed them. If you take the pictures of what they had at the NBL and compare them to what we had up in space they're virtually identical which shows a great work they do on the ground to get these things ready. This is a wide shot from the flight deck. One of the things you should notice the external airlock in the foreground again it was the first flight where we didn't have the airlock inside the cockpit instead it was outside and again a beautiful view of the earth with Hubble in front there that's marking myself doing some of the MLI repair. I might add that on my first flight I was at 120 nautical miles which is the lowest the shuttle goes and I had a very interesting view at that altitude and this was the highest the shuttle goes it was a real contrast for me and you noticed the curvature of the earth was very pronounced in that last picture. Here you see the enhanced space suit that we wore we had four people that did space walks on this flight but we only took three space suits in order to save weight. In order to do that the space suit had to be resizable very easily in orbit and folks here at the Johnson Space Center as well as a couple of the contractors up on the northeast came up with this new way to resize suits during the flight. Joe and I shared one space suit the one you see here over the five EVAs it worked very well. Next slide. On the second EVA the customer asked us to go take a look at some of the solar rays. You'll see Joe here at the top of the picture and Greg on the back of the arm here with the removable EVA camera that's what's in Joe's right hand there and they actually did a real time survey of the solar rays to help the customer determine why one of the panels on the solar rays wasn't operating as efficiently as some of these other solar rays. You'll see this camera in use likely during the space station here because it turned out to be very very useful on our flight. We also had a 35 millimeter camera out there an icon F3. This is what we often saw when we were up on the arm about 35 or 40 feet above the payload bay and we would look back at the cockpit so we're looking forward you see the four windows of the cockpit two facing F, two facing F, the external airlock at the lower part of the screen and to the right is the KU band antenna that we use for communication. Going back to that slide that you saw a moment ago with Joe and I looking up at that solar ray, what you don't see in that slide is the incredible view of the earth that we had in the background. It was very difficult for me on the back of the arm there to not be staring at the earth and keep my mind on the solar ray that we were trying to inspect but it was just an absolutely spectacular view. This is Mark holding that camera again and I must say I think we've sort of set a precedent here that is most likely to be followed in satellite servicing from here on out in terms of use of a camera out with the EVA crew members. It was absolutely invaluable both for us on board but more importantly for the folks on the ground to assess the condition of the satellite and the state of the task once we completed it so it really proved it's worth over and over again. You can see on the top of it is a little light, actually a modified helmet light that was attached to the top and we used that to illuminate the work site. Every now and then if you take enough pictures you're going to get lucky and I have to admit I would love to say that I plan this picture but I think it was just pure luck. That's Joe it just turned out absolutely spectacularly I think. If you look at it maybe not here but if you study the photograph you can see Joe's face and it really just turned out nice so I'm really proud of that photograph. The work the EVA guys who described being able to perform servicing activities like this is obviously going to be very important as we move into space station it's probably worth noting as well that the ability of the robotic arm to move around heavy payloads and to position EVA crew members with precision is also going to be an important component of our suite of skills that we're going to need as we enter space station construction. Again after the successful completion of the five EVAs we were ready to let Hubble go back and perform its mission our contribution to Hubble was pretty much at an end at this point in the flight of course there's a lot of activity still ongoing by the rest of the Hubble team to check out the new instruments the new electronics that were installed and all that checkouts going very well so we're very hopeful that we really will leave Hubble with more power and better than it was when we found it all it's been able to do over the last 7 years with the 1970s technology has fundamentally changed the way we think of our universe and our place in it and our understanding of it and it's amazing to me to even speculate on what 1990s technology will allow Hubble to do so there's great promise and everybody that had a chance to work on the telescope either previously or part of 82 or on a future mission is contributing something that I think will be a tremendous legacy for the human race for years and years to come. Well we saw this view in the movie it happened pretty fleetingly because it went by so fast so it's real nice to have a still and we'll look at the sequence here of the Hubble during the deploy and as you look at the sequence I just want to note as we go through it it was really amazing to work on the Hubble we're very focused the crew was working very hard the ground was working very hard and even all the way up to deploy and at this point I guess it hit me what we had just done I mean we had planned and everyone worked really hard for all these years to get ready for this mission and now we were releasing Hubble to go out and do its job and it was really a beautiful sight and as we released the Hubble and it goes off to explore the universe I looked at it with the hope someday of maybe coming back to visit it again because it's an amazing thing that we do and hopefully the returns will produce scientific results that will improve our life for all of the people of the world and you have to have the obligatory crew in orbit photo and of course you can tell it's in orbit with the Hubble you can see the solar rays in a piece of the telescope there in the background and I just want you to note the wonderful use of color there maybe blue is a wonderful color maybe blue good of course here's our more power sign that really summed up as we said earlier what we had intended to do to the telescope and we felt after we had completed the five EVAs that we truly left the telescope in a more power situation and we were pretty happy you can see relief on the faces of everybody at about the mission being successfully accomplished you read that correctly they wanted to put that up on the telescope and of course socks spent a fair amount of time in the windows he made a challenge to doc that he couldn't shoot up all of the film that we had left on board after the telescope was gone and the telescope is still here right now but we were shooting some Earth OBS most of our photos that you've seen so far of the telescope that we did take a few beautiful shots of Australia and this next one is certainly one of the best this is Spencer Bay in northeast Australia and we covered every inch of Australia enjoyed it every time it came by we like to take pictures of all the dirt we see for the geologists we like to take pictures of the clouds and water too so here's one of our prettier pictures in that category the sun glint and the terminator it had been about over a year since Discovery had flown before this flight and we couldn't find the key so we had to make our own on orbit to make sure we could come home we're going to give that to the next crew and hopefully they'll be able to pass it on to cruise beyond them 103 was a fantastic vehicle to fly in it really gave us no problems during the flight that's because of all the work it had been done so well by the people on the ground and it really enabled us to focus on the mission of fixing the telescope every mission has to come to an end here's our empty payload bay the sun setting not long after this we closed the payload bay doors and came home touched down at the Kennedy Space Center because we were pretty sure we hadn't busted anything and I can't tell you what a release that is