 This is the assent portion of our mission the countdown of the cave just went flawlessly We were really really pleased with the way things went down went on down there The engine starting you can see the shock waves come out of the throats of the the nozzles The nozzles vibrate the engines get up and stable in about six seconds solid rocket motors fire and and we're off and For a new guy doing this the first time It's really a thrill and that thing feels like being on a rough train while the solid rocket motors are firing if y'all have been on rough railroad track, that's about what it feels like and It's a very interesting ride You can function normally and right before we lifted off Crip said get ready for the ride of your lives And he was right. It's the ride of your life. It's still a big throw on your third time The one of the one of the neat things about this mission was we're going to do direct insertion into orbit So we didn't do an orbital maneuvering system one burn right after the main engines cut off So we're going right into orbit off the pad and we're going up 250 miles So the trajectory and everything was a little bit different and it made a made a real interesting ride out of it the Solid rocket motors the engines and everything just are magnificent. We didn't have a glitch the whole ascent, which is really nice You don't want any glitches when this kind of stuff's going on outside your window We all kept on watching Crip make sure this is the way it's really supposed to be Okay solid rocket motors separated They saw the plumes from the separation motors those fog up our windows pretty good up in front They they put a haze on the on the forward windows when they go off and you get a nice flash in the windows But it's a nice smooth separation. This is letting the bees out of their little house here kind of We did this a couple times a day. It was a good entertainment if nothing else and we were watching their progress on their on their honeycomb Yeah, we were made sure that there was no way they were going to get out of it. I checked that first thing Okay, this is more of the house work I did a lot of a lot of the cooking and bottle washing and if you look out the window there You can see the snow going by we're doing a water dump at the same time cooking a meal It's about like doing it on the ground there. This is a bank shot by Crip. I get my eggs in my mouth. We do You do tend to eat in space like you do on the ground almost almost I At least I in space I eat like I do on the ground Right So did ox That was a real rotating grapple of one Give us time to play up there Well in this particular sequence we're showing how we prepare a meal and We divided these tasks up among all the crew members a daily usually wound up doing breakfast because nobody was quick enough for him Making meals is a fairly easy task on orbit. All you had to do is essentially like It's very good essentially like backpacking you essentially add water to to the food and it was very good I'll let Rick describe what we're doing here. Well at the risk of endorsing a product. That's interesting Physical demonstration on orbit of the fact that things really are weightless That's how the crew was rewarded when we did something a properly Rick would release another handful Since Anna did more things right than anybody she got most of Dave on orbit described Dr. Rowan as a large in personality But the diminutive stature whenever his personality got a little bit too large We would stuff him away in a locker for a few hours and then when the tasks needed to be done That was my job to go out go down and get him out This was a somewhat unpleasant task for me, but but Joe Joe seemed to like the freedom at times and The hard part was putting him back in there again later once we got it And here's Gordon getting ready for one of the many Burns with our smaller orbital maneuvering system rocket engines here. You see us maneuvering attitude and the small Attitude jets firing we did an experiment so you could appreciate the acceleration We get out of these rocket engine firings We put eight ounces of water on the mid-deck and here you see it traveling across Dr. Bartow is catching it We also tried to sleep through some of these burns and we staged this next thing to show you what it felt like in the bunk That hurt knows a great train wreck Believe it or not some of them slept through those once they got used to it Here we're setting up for an on orbit ohms burn. We're getting some things ready in the mid-deck There's the ohms engines firing out at the back and now watch what happens in the mid-deck That's one sixteenth of a G each of the ohms engine says one foot per second squared for a total of two feet per second squared And that one sixteenth of a G felt felt like a lot to us after being up there for three or four days You can see the acceleration on the tape keeps wanting to go back towards the aft bulkhead Because we're accelerating forward towards the left of the screen here. We can see the left ohms engine burn And that's just a start-up the burn last for a little while and this is what it looks like in the mid-deck And Jerry made it right into the airlock and we collected all those pieces Here's a picture of Gordo Establishing himself in that area and watch and move the coat there Gordo and get it out of the way. Thank you And of course one of the things Gordo had to do is brush his hair every morning Eating was a real pleasure. Of course, it's impossible to knock your milk off the table up there kiddos It's there's no way to get in trouble with mom You just leave things float around and when you want them you just grab them out of thin air and You can eat standing on your head or however you please Demonstrate what happens if you ever drop a cat it always ends up on its four feet no matter what attitude We've had a lot of discussions about how this works. He's not shoveling the air It's actually he's The one on the right of course is a magnet and the one on the left is just a pencil and we had no idea They were going to decide to meet We're still waiting the results Gordo practicing his landing technique you're ready for reentry Looks like we're lost in space there, but we get up in the morning and um You know Brush our teeth and comb our hair and the rest of that stuff here some of the crew equipment we had was limited So we had to share it this sequence. We call a hair wars As you might expect the commander one of course, I'm not dumb enough to get the hairbrush away from the commander This set next scene is not staged. This is a real teleprinter message We set a new record on this flight for the amount of teleprinter messages sent up every single rev on the night side they send up a new detail plan for the Scientist here to accomplish on the next solar pass And that was an actual message all full of fine print That fortunately for me all I had to do is take it up to the upper deck and pass it out to the people who really had to read it We Recorded a new space first on this flight We ran out of teleprinter paper after five and a half days is the first time this happened And story must grave changed out the paper roll in space for the first time But the hairbrush one wasn't staged either We had to devise a number of exercise routines Balancing act here how many it can do this right here He doesn't put him on one leg at a time like everybody else As soon as I get this down, I'm gonna get a Dorothy Hamill wagon try out for the ice cream And of course Marines aren't happy unless they do their push-ups every day That wasn't too tough. So, you know look one arm, and if you want to you can do foot up Now if you really got frustrated you can do Here we are sitting down for supper We had trays you can see some of the food stuck to the back there They're trays that we could position on our laps velcro and then set our food in them And Steve pointed out this zero gravity adds new meaning to the term past the potatoes They float them all the way across the cabin the menu was quite varied and Really pretty good People accused me we had color code and people accused me of always having my color on everything Exercise was part of our daily routine on orbit just like it is back here on earth Getting set up on the treadmill takes a little bit longer on orbit, but it feels just as good to quit And our sleep arrangements looked a lot like a summer camp a Little bit of bunks here and there two of us slept anchored to lockers Two of us slept strong across the room and two of us slept on the wall and Notice that in zero G when you relax your arms tend to float up. It was very comfortable We didn't always sleep with a nightlight on Well, it's constantly fascinating just to watch the way objects behave in zero gravity here We have a set of gyro stabilized binoculars. There was a little bit too much friction in them so they were actually a bit gyro unstable eyes, but Still with 14 power binoculars. It was just amazing what we could see on the ground and Of course, I also enjoyed what I could see up in the sky since I'm Astronomer we also carried some science demonstration objects commonly known as to ys This was done primarily to make some educational footage which we can use and distribute to science teachers throughout the country here Forgot to spend the gyroscope up and somehow it just didn't didn't stay stable so we're gonna give him another chance and Here he's gonna get it spinning There we go, of course the principle of gyroscopic stability has been around a long time We use it for navigation our satellites use it when they come out of the cargo bay But of course without the Without gravity and just being able to float it free here. You can study the behavior Of the gyroscope and and watch the way it moves around in a way that we never get a chance to do in laboratories on the earth I'm sure all of you have held a gyroscope on a string or on your fingers and After a while as it spins down The force of gravity starts to torque it and it starts to process around of course that that never happens in Zero gravity you can keep playing with it almost up up to the moment where where it is not spinning at all And it still stays stable in fact It was just a constant source of fascination all the different things you could do with these very ordinary devices This is a little magnetic wheel. Oh that I'm using and normally on the earth you start this with gravity I found it was pretty easy to start it up using centrifugal force This one as long as I was holding it behave pretty much the way it did on the earth But as soon as you let it go then it does all sorts of neat things and Here comes mr. Yo-Yo We had so yeah, I've had a lot of discussions with physicist friends of mine about whether the yo-yo was going to work And it worked fabulous. You could do it fast. You could do it slow. You could do it To the ceiling. That's the famous oi-oi Dave did flying saucers around the moon. He's a real champ and if they don't let him into the yo-yo association of America There's just no justice in the world Putting the jacks here There was constant constant danger of massive explosions if the ball came back in the wrong place We we managed to go through without ever losing the jacks and although it's not on film Ray did manage to do her twelvesies by the end of the flight If you if you let up a paper airplane just Float it's pretty much carried away by the air currents in the shuttle as you see here And so it really doesn't take very much force just to start it on the most beautiful flight that you ever seen of any paper glider Hope you like our home movies so far The paddle ball behaved a lot like it does on earth and that you can paddle it in nearly any direction if you're clever enough I'm not sure I am clever enough to keep it going in in in each direction As you can see here so the ins and outs ups and downs were about the same It's a little harder to do Let's say to do this trick on earth The straightforward sort of paddle ball operation Is much slower and it's much easier. This one is a little tougher Jeff has here some magnetic marbles I'm not sure how you shoot marbles in space because it's a little hard to keep them in that ring But your shooter seems to work fine. It joins right up with them all And it forms it forms into a into a toroid as you might expect with the magnetic lines And the magnetism that's inherent in the marbles if you watch carefully now on not this Not this one, but the one after this as Jeff sails the marble past after he repositions the His ring here with its little tail and relative to the horizontal lines on the on the ball cap behind him. Watch what this marble does See a curve upward as it as the magnetic lines of force Passed by the others and here's our unofficial mascot. You might say he flipped out over this Rad stuff really had it the slinky Uh Without the sag that you have to contend with in 1g behave pretty much the same as it does in 1g You can start to see that of course they've set up a sine wave oscillation here Which continues to be reflected back and forth and now a double one or perhaps a triple and perhaps within there You can also see the standing waves reflected back and forth The centrifugal force of course keeps this little car going around its track On earth when it gets to the top it would of course fall out in space. What do you expect it's going to do? Well with a little help from the doctor sure enough It falls out See when you've been in space a little while down is up and up is down. It doesn't make any difference really doesn't Mission this complex requires strict discipline. Uh, and fortunately we had the well disciplined crew Of course, you know, you take four guys off the farm. Some of them are able to respond a little quicker and learn a little faster than others to military movements and Some guys just never learned We did have a drill team a crack drill team here that we practiced every morning So gravity's got to be fun if you hadn't noticed or picked up on it right now After 300 hours of space flight You can really learn how to adapt yourself to zero g and and and do the tasks A lot more rapidly than than you ever could on the ground and and most of the things like stowing the cabin were really no problem at all With some exception Cable's develop a mind of their own This helps you understand why we didn't break the camera how big The real difficulty of this scene was holding the camera still while he was trying not to Giggle it Well in the words of an old philosopher it ain't over till it's over and I guarantee it's not over yet Because we still have to land and here we are at runway 15 at the kennedy space center Good calls from the folks uh in the air and on the ground john young weather pilot The weather was good to the north. So we landed with a slight tailwind And coming down here at 300 feet dave deployed the landing gear And the orbiter flew beautifully just as we train for it to fly in the shuttle training airplane Look at the uh vortex is being shed off the wingtips there and when we touch down You can see how the smoke from the tires gets caught up in those vortices real pretty picture Touchdown was at about 190 knots Understand about 2700 feet down the runway And we used a total of 93 to 9500 feet of runway during the rollout