 This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-minus 3 hours and holding, where the astronauts and the crew quarters are just entering the dining room for breakfast. Their activities are right on schedule this morning. And here are all six of our STS-77 crew members ready for breakfast and our traditional cake on the table. At the end, mission specialist Dan Birch, our flight engineer on this mission. Kurt Brown, our pilot on this flight. We'll be busy with numerous rendezvous activities along with our commander, John Casper, making his fourth flight into space today. Mission specialist Mario Oronco, making his third trip into space. Mission specialist Pre-Be able to see him in 1991 and 1993. And Andy Thomas from Australia, our payload commander during the flight from Australia and Canadian mission specialist Mark Garneau. And all of our payload team, now our commander and pilot and our flight engineer at the far end. This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-minus 3 hours and holding. The astronauts have just completed their weather briefing and are now moving to the suit up room. This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-minus 3 hours and holding, where we're in the suit up room now with the astronauts. We just saw our commander, John Casper, and here is pilot Kurt Brown. And here is mission specialist Andy Thomas. He's our payload commander from southern Australia. He has considerable background in microgravity research, having been at NASA's, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena before joining the astronaut corps. So with all the microgravity research on this flight, he's the logical one to be taking that responsibility for the oversight of all of this microgravity research on this mission. And here is Dan Burch, making his third flight. He flew previously on STS-51 in 1993 and STS-68 in 1994, so this is his third flight. He'll be our flight engineer on this mission. Here is Canadian mission specialist Mark Garneau. He'll be doing a number of microgravity research experiments, particularly with the Aquatic Research Facility. This is his second flight into space. He was a payload specialist previously on STS-41G in 1984. And here is Mario Runco making his third trip into space. He was on STS-44 in 1991 and STS-54 in 1993. He was an environmental services officer in the Navy. We have about a minute left in this built-in hold. Crew should be preparing to leave the astronaut quarters here in just another couple of minutes. And here are our astronauts now, just leaving the suit up room headed for the elevator. Third floor of the Operations and Checkout building located in the KSC industrial area. Director of Flight Crew Operations, Dave Leesma is with him. Bob Cabana will be flying the weather reconnaissance this morning. And they'll be entering the Astrovan here momentarily, where we see members of the media and KSC employees. And here they come. This is John Casper now. So we have a good deal of flexibility to launch based on any number of wind patterns that we see. And right now it does look like upper level winds are any issue for us at all today. Mario Runco will be sitting in the seat next to the crew orbiter access hatch in the mid-deck. And next to him is Dr. Mark Garneau who has already boarded. Up on the flight deck, Dan Burch as the flight engineer will sit in the aft center seat. And payload commander Andy Thomas will sit in the aft right seat behind pilot Kirk Brown. Kirk Brown and Mark Garneau will switch on landing. Kirk Brown will sit on the mid-deck next to Mario Runco and Andy Thomas. OTC, OTC. OTC, CDR. OTC, CDR. Casper, ready for the AstroConnect. Okay, copy that. And as OTC on 212, any conversation on OIS, panel 212 during AstroConnect will be heard by the crew. Panel should remain silent except for emergency calls. And for the flight crew OTC during AstroConnect to adjust your appropriate volume control on 1, 2, icon AB or air-to-air for comfort, do not change audio panel switch configuration. Now let's go ahead and do a two-way conflict here on air-to-ground 1. Endeavour OTC, air-to-ground 1. How do you read? CDR, loud and clear. PRT, loud and clear. MS-1, loud and clear. MS-2, loud and clear. MS-3, loud and clear. MS-4, loud and clear. Verifying all of our teachers launch commit criteria are verified. Standing by to retract the outdoor access arm. Yeah, let's just go for outdoor access arm retract. Going out to internal reactants. Apollo. I do too. Also, warning assembly cleared. Complete. No unexpected nurse. Copy that. Endeavour OTC, close and lock your visors. Make sure they're two-flow. And we all give you our best wishes for a smooth ride up the hill. Roger. And we'll see you in 10 days. D-minus two minutes. Apollo for the fuel cells, it's terminated. Look at the liquid hydrogen tank now on the bottom two-thirds of the external tank being pressurized. SRB nozzles, gimbal to flight position. Firing chain is armed. Sound suppression water system is activated. Rain safety command systems are armed. D-minus 10, 9, 8, 7. Ignition sequence starts. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0. And liftoff of the space shuttle Endeavour to develop the practical and the beneficial aspects of space. Roger all, Endeavour. Houston now controlling. Endeavour's underway on its 11th trip to space. Currently rolling on course for an east-north-east trajectory away from the Kennedy Space Center toward a 39-degree inclination, 153 nautical miles altitude orbit. Three engines on board Endeavour have now throttled back to two-thirds throttle to prepare the spacecraft to pass through the area of maximum air pressure and go supersonic. Endeavour's speed now 700 miles per hour. Altitude four and a half miles. Endeavour, go at throttle up. Go at throttle up. Three engines on Endeavour now back at full throttle. Altitude 10 miles. Endeavour traveling 1,400 miles per hour. Eight miles east-north-east of the Kennedy Space Center. One and a half minutes since launch, Endeavour's already used more than two and a quarter million pounds of propellant. The spacecraft weighs less than half of what it did at liftoff. One minute 50 seconds since liftoff. Endeavour now traveling 2,700 miles per hour. Altitude 24 miles. 24 miles downrange from the Kennedy Space Center. Flight control is standing by for burnout in Jettison of the Twin Solid Rockets. Booster officer confirms a good Jettison of the Twin Solid Rockets. Endeavour now on second-stage main engines. Endeavour, performance nominal. Stopping nominal. Clear cause and warning memory. Verify no unexpected errors. Indeavour OTC. Close and lock your visors. Initiate a two-flow and we all give you our best wishes for a smooth ride up the hill. Flight booster locks down. Roger and work and we'll see you in ten days. Let's just go for main engines. I'll then open. Copy. Liftoff confirmed. Copy. Old program. I'm Houston. Roger roll, Endeavour. In flight we see the roll. Copy. Press to ATO. Endeavour, press to ATO. Press to ATO. Morning, Andy. I don't know if you can see it in the TVs, but the parabolic antenna has a sort of a whippling to it almost as if we're in a wind. Copy, and we can't see that. Endeavour, Houston, request you zoom in on the lens so we can see if any of these perturbations are more readily apparent. We'll put that word coming down. Endeavour, Houston, just for information, the CG of the combined system is nine feet above the bottom of the Spartan. Okay, bill, that sure helps. We were trying to actually figure that out up here because it's obviously rotating a point about that point and we were trying to keep that steady in the co-est. Endeavour, Houston, for the flight deck. We'd like a ohms interconnect tank switch. It's orbit pocket page 8-4, and it'll be from left to right. Okay, Chris, we'll put that word, switching from left to right. And, Kurt, when that's complete, we'd like a repress using helium press A. Endeavour, Houston, for Spartan. Yeah, at this point, what we'd like to do real quickly is see if we can get a view of the top of the Spartan and then go ahead and proceed with the berth and RMS power down. And that's exactly where we were going, Bill. It's rotating it now. Thanks, John. Affirmative. Kurt, we'd like to stay in the RMS dab, of course, until Spartan is berth. You do have a go to maneuver. And, of course, we need to be in free drift during the final berthing. Flight plan. I just want to make sure that the attitude in the flight plan was still good. Endeavour, Houston, we are with you in the space hub. Mark and good morning to Kurt down there as well. Let me back here very much. There's not much pilot science in the space hub. Nice place to visit, Roger. Houston, Endeavour, door is opening. Houston, Endeavour, the Stu satellite is on its way. And Houston, Endeavour, it looks like it has a bit of a tip-off right after it left the field of view. Turn the camera up so you can see it. Have a tip-off rate. Good downlink. This is so much a night. Curl up in here. You've got so many times a night, it's really good. John, roll, curl yourself in. You got it in. Roll and roll. Well on your way. Okay, and that's it. 99. Totally abnormal in space. It's very clever. There we go again. How much is this? That's interesting, brother. This is your spin-up. Just stop. Oh, you mean the liquid? Yeah. The liquid just kills the motion. And it keeps reading the camera field. Field field. Excellent. Sorry. Okay. Because they stopped the engine. Do it now. It's injected. Ah, okay. Beegar, no trick. That's a little easier than the... Oh, and look, it tends to go. See, it's re-invert. Re-inverts. Yeah. It's like a shell. Look at the surface tension. Attaches kind of to the needle. Oh, you can see your reflection in it. See? Yeah. Or I mean your... Beauty. Beauty. What a fly-by. What a fly-by. Here you go. I want to see it. Stand by. Maybe we can... Say something. Say something. Going down. We need Andy up here to get a complete meal with everybody. That's good. Sausage patty, yes. Mmm. Andy, I can make an Egg McMuffin. This is the closing. Very sad moment. After ten days, we have to close up the airlock with space pad with some regret as Andy puts the final closing touches. I'm not checked here. The O2 hooked up. You can check your G-suit if you would. Just a little bit to make sure it's gonna work. Yep. Okay, and we're gonna... Is it okay if I take your head cover off? Yes, sir. There we go. Good job. You kind of caught him maneuvering that one. I didn't caught him maneuvering. Okay, here we go. All right. Oh, well, that's not free. He has a go for the deorbit burn. Happy flight. Never, Houston. The weather trends at KSC are very favorable. If you'd like, I can read you the new forecast. But basically, weather has removed the occasional 1,500-foot broken four miles in fog, and the prevailing forecast remains the same. Based on that, you have a go for the deorbit burn. Roger. We're glad to hear that. Go for the burn. Copy. Well, guys, we see a good burn. Good residuals. Copy. We'll type up our left-heeled africages. It's a little bit biased, so we did get a left-quantity message. No action, of course. Copy. A mile ago for command. Copy. Never, Houston. We have you through my law. Com check. Copy. Got you out and clear, and we have an update on your weather at KSC. It's looking good. 13,000 scattered, 23,000 thin broken. Winds 250, 6 peak to 10. We saw a beautiful sunrise down here, and the STA says you should have no clouds on the hack. Never, Houston. We show you on-energy approaching the hack. No change to weather. Your new winds are 260 at 6 peak to 9, and you are go for nominal drag-shoot deploy. Nominal drag-shoot deploy. Flight CSS, all commanders flying. Copy. On at the 180. Copy. Endeavour, on at the 180. Stand, field in sight. Copy, field in sight. Gear down and locked. Copy. Main gear touched down. Copy. Stop, Houston. Max flight, any immediate deltas? No deltas flight. Okay, no deltas. Roger, and congratulations on a highly successful flight. Endeavour, you set a record for the most rendezvous in the shuttle era, and the longest amount of time spent in rendezvous ops. Congratulations. Roger, and thank you very much, Alain, for all the support from your end. See the flashes. I know, the flashes, lots of flashes. Look how heavy, Mark. I know, it's been incredible, incredible. I got lots of it. Oh, all right. Good bye, good bye. After each flight, we'd like to get a quick photo of all crew members in front of the vehicle that was their home for the past 10 days.