 This lab Huntsville for Fred. Yeah Fred just wanted to check and see where you are and also I have an update to your pKaF after the Deorbit brief This is mission control Houston this live television from Columbia shows the problem with the So that you know at that time there wasn't any correlation with the jet-firing or any other disturbance Yeah, I copy it. This is just going on and on now You like when we first powered it up it lasted probably for a good I'd say three four minutes Well, you know the discussion we're having obviously we're going to hand it off to the next team But we have a potential IFM here. Don't think I understand that kind of feels good to be stopped back in the seat You know, I believe the video up. We're going to stop this yaw maneuver in about a minute and a half With this gold clip floating and you'll see what the acceleration will do to it. Oh, and that'll be great. Thanks When we're done with the yaw maneuvers here, we'll send up your entry messages We want to have good under it uninterrupted calm currently Columbia is in the midst of a Yaw maneuver one of several maneuvers that it's been performing over the past few minutes to windy These maneuvers for the space acceleration measurement system experiment on board measuring The various rates of acceleration on board the spacecraft during such maneuvers again earlier. Columbia performed a roll maneuver a 360-degree roll now it's been performing a 360-degree yaw maneuver Maneuvering it About a degree per second. It's nearing the end of that maneuver at which point Pilot Kent Rominger will stop to work with their This is mission control Houston. We're continuing to receive live television from Columbia. We're handing over in the control center Orbit one is our last shift for Brian and I but the orbit one team is your entry team Back to Blaine and Richard here now And we're handing over now to story and John Shannon and now orbit four. It was great work with all you today I Guess having that sim soup on console Got us into a little bit of trouble with your key to maybe you should leave him home next time But we really enjoyed working with y'all. I thought it went pretty smooth the little problems We had going through the checkout Yeah, it got pretty busy and you guys did a great job keeping up with it with the malfunctions So we've really enjoyed it and it did start to feel like a sim Handing over to story in this television live from Columbia's Columbia passes just off the Cape of Africa the southern tip of that continent currently an altitude of 170 Statute miles on board the red team continuing through the early hours of their 12-hour shift Flight day 16 four members of the red team Hey slap Huntsville We have a live module video from EBC two in the one position. Hi, Al So the crystal growth furnace Gets to be the last major experiment system to Shut down and it has been running for the longest continuous period of operation during during this us microgravity laboratory and the furnace used that time for doing High temperature materials processing research they were able to successfully process eight samples of The specialized types of electronic materials known as semiconductors And for the last two samples that that were run in the crystal growth furnace material known as germanium gallium Those last two runs were intended Not so much for producing The crystalline material itself because of of any special interest in it but rather as part of a a particular engineering test that One group wanted to perform with the crystal growth furnace And get all their equipment Prepared for Sending it back to their home base institutions In the case of the surface tension team Their equipment coming from the nasa lewis research center and So those members of the science teams who have been on duty here For more than two weeks now Will be preparing to return to their home institutions at different places around the united states and shortly Fairly soon after columbia's landing they will Be getting the data that in some cases has to be physically brought back by the orbiter for instance all the tapes that have been Uh videotaped on board will be eagerly aware in the lower portion of the screen columbia's direction of travel now being South and easterly a little more to the east as it Starts to approach the southernmost point of the current orbit Currently at about 30 degrees south latitude and starting to Swing more in the direct easterly direction since this orbit for the sts 73 flight is a 39 degree inclination orbit and And columbia is now getting fairly close to the Eastern coast of south america just about at the southernmost Point of The vast country of brazil Should be somewhere over the Large city of sau Paulo And looking down on the coast now as it heads out over the atlantic ocean. We see the coastline of South america there with cloudiness picking up just as the landmass turns to ocean And the view towards the horizon here would be back in the direction that columbia has just flown over Aiming the camera out of the payload bay. We get a good view towards the west over a large portion of Central and somewhat southern south america payload bay camera lens Zoomed to a wide angle. We start to see the not only the broad areas of the south atlantic Spread out below columbia, but the space lab module where crew members over the past 14 days and and a little over close to 15 days have been Using that module as a workplace in space doing a variety of Different types of science operations in a laboratory that has been very carefully assembled over About a three-year process a planning and preparation for this mission extended over Roughly three years in getting these experiment systems already and that Preparation and planning and training that went into a flight like this as we've seen now paid off with And is that an inverse crystal growth maneuver there? I was trying hard to avoid the easy ones putting into place Procedure to just make sure that that flexible glove box won't be Loose during Deorbital landing and that being done Uh, that is the last major operation Or the crew has to actually do much in a hands-on sense for the experiment systems And this is all part of the process of getting the Workshop that the crew members have been using now for the last more than two weeks getting it all set for The conclusion of the mission Applauds for the amazing saco And yes, Al this is the fulfillment of a dream, huh? This is space live operations control huntsville And they were let me a minute and a half put teenagers hand over We continue to get live down like video We will be having an interruption of that shortly however as uh, columbia Comes up to the handover point or transition from the western tracking and data relay satellite to the eastern But while we do have it, uh, we're using that downlink Signal capability to take these earth views over the extreme eastern portion of the pacific ocean and uh The that being the eastern pacific ocean and the point in the orbit, which is about the furthest south that columbia flies spacecraft is just about to come up on the 39 degree south latitude portion of this orbit