 The Robot Arm Officer here in the Mission Control Center called the Payload Deployment and Retrieval Systems Officer, or PDRS, reports that the wake shield has now broken its seal with its carrier platform and is in the process of slowly being raised above the payload bay into the low hover position. This is the first major step on the road to the deployment of the wake shield, which is scheduled at around 4.38 a.m. central time this morning, if all goes well. Astronauts Jim Newman and Jim Voss raising the wake shield facility out of its carrier platform in this view from payload bay cameras in the shuttle. The wake shield is being carefully lifted directly vertical behind the Spartan Science Satellite. Now this view from the rear of the payload bay clearly showing the wake shield facility being lifted out of its cargo bay. The orbiter is currently tracking over the Pacific Ocean on the SC2 repower command. Again the two ton wake shield facility now being lifted to a low hover position over the payload bay by astronauts Jim Newman and Jim Voss. This is a clear view of the wake side of the satellite, the carousel side where the thin films will be grown in that canister at the bottom of the satellite that looks like the bottom of a triangle. Chemical compounds of predominantly gallium arsenide compounds will be shot into that carousel atom by atom layer by layer as thin films are grown over the course of two days of free flight by the wake shield once it is deployed by Jim Newman later this morning. This close-up view now showing the wake side of the satellite, the science side of the satellite where shutters will open back and forth during the course of the thin film growth to allow chemicals to stream through those tubes at the bottom of the picture into a carousel. Those tubes are the carrier panels if you will for all of the chemical compounds that will be used to build the thin films, the thin wafer like. With some updates on wake shield we're in step three page two dash four. We have sent the bus selection prefire comm channel two and we are not getting ages resetting and incrementing on flyer SCIU PDU sensors and A to D converters. Copy underdog we're looking to it. We do see some are down list that you apparently are getting data. Astronaut Jim Newman now slowly maneuvering the wake shield facility from directly over the cargo bay to position over the port side of the sill of the payload bay for the so-called ram cleaning operation. This view from payload bay cameras on endeavor shows the orbiter approaching sunrise in the west coast of Africa with the wake shield facility hanging at the end of the robot arm over the port side of the payload bay in the so-called ram cleaning position that has now begun about a two to two and a half hour procedure where atomic oxygen will stream over the wake shield and give it a bath if you will to remove any excess contamination which may have built up on the wake shield during its time in the cargo bay. All of the free flyer activation operations will continue at this point. The wake shield itself is called the free flyer. The other component of the wake shield facility is its carrier platform in the cargo bay. This is mission control Houston at a mission elapsed time of three days 15 hours 54 minutes into the flight of endeavor. This live picture from the elbow camera on the robot arm of the shuttle endeavor showing the wake shield facility as it hangs outside the port side of the payload bay of the shuttle in the ram cleaning position as it is called but payload officials and the flight control team want to make sure that there is no further interruption of that stream of telemetry before giving the go to deploy the wake shield facility. This live television picture now from the shuttle endeavor shows the wake shield hanging at the end of the robot arm over the starboard side of the orbiter as it passes over the northwest portion of Africa. This is in the attitude and the position for the continuing checkout of the attitude determination and control system on the wake shield before it is scheduled to be deployed an hour and a half from now at 6 10 a.m central time. The MMD referred to by astronaut Jim Newman aboard endeavor is a microgravity measurement device which will be used on the wake shield facility as part of the data collection effort that the wake shield will undertake over the next 50 hours. On the left is the Goddard payload stuff and the one on the right is the GPS the orbiter now has GPS installed and we're helping those guys learn more about GPS so that we can when we install GPS into the flight software our flight controllers will be able to use it the same way they do the KU band now and the tracking stations on the ground. This is just one of the displays that they have it shows the satellites being tracked and where we are on the earth we also have a little world map on there it shows us where GPS thinks we are and it agrees quite well with the orbiter state vector that the DeFido's uplink to us on this flight we do have a GPS on the wake shield as well as on the orbiter about the rendezvous now here's part of the team it really took all five of us to do this one who goes up in the front keeping everybody focused and back in me up well we have Pluto and underdog in the back underdog getting ready of course to to do the grapple Pluto running the rendezvous tools handheld laser and generally helping me out and then Jim played a vital role trying to document this and in helping me build sunshades in real time to try and keep the sun out of our eyes this turned out to be real challenging with the beta angle we've got particularly with the fly around that we had which caused us to spend a little extra time so we didn't get as good a video as we would have liked out of these cameras we were too busy in the windows however we did manage to get the thing aboard as you saw and underdog did just a super job of grappling the thing because we had rates in two axes and we weren't able to adapt them to damp them all out we did get them fairly low for him and he did a terrific job on the capture and here we now see the final desired end result into its cradle to be brought home hopefully after a successful mission. Yeah I kind of delayed my exercise a bit to be with you for wake shield it shows an exercise period here on the flight plan followed by some more wake shield monitoring which I'd be happy to do um how would you like me to fit that exercise in? Braskin we'll get back with you it's a great picture okay well as you can see we're a really nice release here I Pluto did a super job of letting it go without any tip off or anything you can see he just muffled the dog face out of the out of the window that's the absolutely perfect smooth release really good job by him it's a good looking spaceship yeah it is it's real pretty interestingly enough we had trouble getting laser marks on it at close range off the uh the uh ram side I'm sorry the wake side yeah the ram side's a little better reflecting it back on that really smooth surface area where the real thing sure beats the simulator all the heck although the behavior was exactly as I said it sure was a lot easier to see