 Well, thank you very much and I guess the first thing I want to say is for all the folks that That are here and for all the folks that were part of our getting ready for this flight It is with our sincerest thanks and appreciation. I think this flight was Was extremely complex as we all know especially those of us that are close to it And we were trained for anything that potentially could have happened and kind of did happen But we were ready for whatever the situation was and we felt ready for anything that could possibly even happen and I noticed that the mr. Abbey published a note that I sent to him from from orbit and And it's the way we feel if there's a chance that we could take each and every person that would like to go with us We'd be more than happy to do that Unfortunately the system just can't work that way, but if it could We would certainly accommodate all those that wanted to go And so the best thing we can do is try to come back and share everything with you all at the same time realize That what got us there or the or the hearts and the souls and the efforts that the people have made Down here on the ground to get us there and and we definitely do appreciate it And now we are just an extension of what you prepare us to do when we go on orbit With that we're gonna go ahead and show some slides Of course the hardest thing that the crew has to do is Is to decide on what their patches gonna look like To take seven very different people with seven different personalities strengths and weaknesses and all come up and put a patch together It takes some work We did come up with one and we're very happy with it We actually had the help of a friend and a co-worker here Mike Santy and and we he came up with a very nice idea for us and we went ahead and put it together Just a brief introduction. We had lots of flight data file That's me with some of the flight data file on board We're gonna go through the slides kind of rapidly just so everyone gets an idea of what we look like without a coat and tie on Which is our preferred mode and of course you can't fly the space shuttle without cool glasses So here's your pilot cool glasses ready to go And I guess I'm about as happy as I can be when I've got a camera with some nice lenses on it I'm working out the window. So I was real happy Guess that I am working at the glove box, which was a very neat experiment. We had in the middeck This was mission specialist number three European Space Agency astronauts and I'm here at my favorite spot near the galley holding Holding mushroom soup on my left hand. I'm very happy to be on this flight I would like to take this opportunity to thank NASA for assigning me to this mission Well, this is my mother's son wondering What could possibly go wrong? I guess I found out and That was my job on board. I mean taking care of the computers TSS activity and And this was actually Before the deployment when I was downstairs in the middeck as was already mentioned there was an important International aspect to this mission. There were three Space agencies NASA and the Italian Space Agency, which were cooperating on the tethered satellite project and you see Umberto in the middle has a you're the Italian Space Agency patch on his shoulder But of course NASA and the ESA were the other two agencies ESA contributed in the loan of two astronauts Mauricio Kelly and myself and this is a view of the middeck At the time of the launch You can see that in this flight that we had the me the glove box that was just in front of Franklin and He was Pretty good. I mean he didn't feel anything different with this big thing just on top of it because we are sitting on our on our back of course Well, here's a here's a vantage point. You don't get to see every day. You may be wondering who took the picture I'll just let you ponder that but The orientation is you're up on the nose of the shuttle looking down at us sitting in the flight deck on the pad They're pretty interesting view. That was a two-person job We're gonna go ahead and show the movie There's Columbia. She was all ready to go Launch morning just waiting for the crew to show up and Here comes the crew and of course the thing that's up most of the crew's mind is What is some soup half scripted for us that day? And the best we can hope for is an on-time launch and this was my third flight my third on-time launch So I'm very grateful. I was a rookie pilot on board So my eyes are real big staring at those main engine gauges about this point Of course the left engine said 40% so we were convinced that we're not going anywhere We're a pad of board today, so we're getting ready for our pad of board and all of a sudden main engines SRVs like Well, it's exciting enough to ride the rocket, but it's even more exciting right about now because we also have the Fact that the computer is not talking to the the engine at least it says so but Annie calls a role program Tells them what we got and the ground comes back says you got three good engines, so we're off to space It's a heck of a ride especially for a rookie. I mean it's just a tremendous amount of power It's it's smooth It shakes on the SRVs once you come off the SRVs It's like an electric jet going as fast as you can imagine Probably the most awesome site during the ascent was leaving air satin sphere behind and going into the darkness of space quite a ride As soon as we get into orbit we have to configure the shuttle for orbit operations So this is a nice picture of opening the payload bay doors You can see the shadow of the starboard side of the shuttle on the door and the earth in the background There's some spectacular visual effects soon after you get into orbit. We're we're In the post insertion period. We're using primary thrusters And a lot of the ice which is formed in the main engines because we're burning hydrogen and oxygen Oxygen is coming out as crystals. You could see the rcs fire in there. It's uh, it's quite exciting And next is the view of the Flight deck there one hour into the post insertion You see somebody still wearing the underwear But we were already hungry and you can see we had a big appetite at this point Everybody felt great And this is a view of the first sunrise on the cargo bay on the foreground You can see the tether satellite on the background. There was a usnp Well a lot of Stuff to do lots of equipment to set up computers cameras Video stuff audio lots of wires and all of it in preparation for the big moment which was The deployment of of the tether and here I'm setting up one of our major computers which not only helped us on the science But also to keep in touch with the ground and and also our families down in our homes Next there will be some shots about The boom deploy we are very much into pre Tss deploy activities. The first thing of course is to deploy the boom the purpose of the boom was to Basically take the satellite away from the orbiter structure This is an accelerated view which normally would take about 12 minutes The boom is an incredible piece of engineering. You can see it in this in these shots You can see the tss actually actual tether in the middle and all the electrical wires The satellite was lodged on top of the boom and just underneath the satellite You could see what we call it a vernier motor which was basically an auxiliary motor which helped Extract the wire. We had an attitude this kind of attitude will be flying Basically backwards with the nose pitched down about 40 degrees and that was due to the particular Dynamics of the Deployed profile and this is the initial fly away of the satellite. It's pushed by Two sets of two newton thrusters. So very small thrusters pushing that half metric ton satellite upwards Cold gas thrusters Everything happens very slowly at the beginning. This is accelerated three times But the velocity initially was about one centimeter per second. Everything went very well at this time of the deployment Everything was controlled and you see here a little later the tether is taught which is always something we desire to see Because it's much more controllable this way slight oscillations, but we were predicting those and that was not a problem So a very controlled initial phase at the deployment of the tether satellite We're going to see a few sequences here of the phases of deployment This is the early phase and as you see It looked pretty straight low tension and you can see a little bit of the wiggles of the tether in the bottom But everything completely nominal The tether speeds up and it gets to a high speed of about 2.2 meters per second maximum And as it does that it begins to of course Develop a little bit of a bow and you can see the bow as it begins to to grow as the tether gets longer and longer Of course as the tether gets longer and longer also begins to generate more and more power We were generating quite a high voltage and of course able to collect lots of current and All in all on the order of about a couple of kilowatts of power were being generated You can see also the progression of the bow at this in this long shot picture near The satellite itself And at 19.7 kilometers, we were we were looking at the shape of that bow When I started to notice you look at the left hand side some waves going up and down the tether Clearly the tether had gone slack either because of a jam or a tether break Looking back we quickly saw that in fact the tether had broken. This was a very It's a big shock It's a it's kind of an empty feeling in the pit of your stomach when you look and you realize that there There is the tether moving away from us at about 80 feet per second And you just wanted to reach out and grab it and pull it back Of course, there was nothing we could do there. You can see the end of the tether coming up in the lower part of the field of view and So At this point, of course, we have some procedures which were trained in Basically here at this point in time There's four of us that were awake the four veterans the three rookies were sleeping And of course the very first concern we have is to make sure that none of this ball of tether Starts coming back towards the orbiter We were concerned pre-flight and we did a pretty good share Of training pre-flight, but if we had a ball of tether coming back at us We'd do the proper evasive maneuvering to make sure we didn't have a big problem But it all stayed with the satellite The tether actually broke inside the boom So there was nothing required on the orbiter side of the house other than to monitor the satellite And this is all that's left or that was left just a stub of tether and in close A view with a very powerful lens we had we could see that it was charred and it was burnt And this was further confirmed later With the hardware of the cape There was nothing much to do except to retract the boom and and really get ready for For the remainder of the flight which was concentrating on on microgravity science And it was a whole mission to do this spectacular views actually were taken from the ground by Paul Maley from mod He was in australia and he was able to to capture a glimpse of the tether and you even see a meteorite go by Just for a glimpse there So we are very appreciative to paul for being able to do that after the tether was over We still use the top camera that was supposed to you to be used during the tether activity while we had Current flowing the tether to observe glowing and we used to point to the earth glow and to the Lightening that we had during our night pass A lot of things behave strange and weightlessness you've seen pictures probably of of astronauts doing strange things with water drops They they behave very counter-intuitively Claude has a little goldfish here, which he's putting in a tank And we can glow low air bubbles inside the water bubbles But other things behave strange too such as flames combustion and we did these combustion experiments in orbit And here is the place where we did him this Glove box facility which lived in the middeck and in it we actually burned different kinds of materials This is one of them is that just a birthday cake? Candle just like what you see on the ground, but the the flame looks a lot different It's more round and it's more determined and controlled by the amount of oxygen in it in its proximity And when the flame extinguishes itself the smoke just stagnates there Inside the cavity just like what you see is not dominated by convection or anything like that The flow has stopped if we actually induce a flow you can see what happens It's very laminar very slow and we use this to test some of the new generation smoke detectors This is another one of the combustion experiments called thrifty You can see all the little numerical data is giving temperatures of the probe you can see in the flow It's a cylindrical paper type sample And there's a very low flow the little ball on the left side is showing you the flow in centimeters per second And uh, this this sort of looked like a jet engine to me And here it comes another combustion experiment ritzy We are burning the paper samples in this case a flash lamp is used to ignite the sample And the setup was such that there was a high flow circulation from the right And in fact, you see that the flame tend to go on to the right That is quite Uncommon with respect to the experiment we we do on hurt while the flame is trying to go the other way And you see that in fact The the flame is on the right until all the paper is gone and then it starts to move on the left Right which stands for radiative ignition and transition to spread basically had used the paper samples, but two different types of Investigations one was a flaming investigation, which you just saw and the next one we'll see was basically a smoldering investigation They were carried out inside this enclosed compartment Which was what was called a glove box which provided a safe environment for combustion experiments Even this sample paper was ignited by radiative basically By radiation and the smoldering was really very interesting as you can see it assumed Forms that are Quite strange somebody said don't let the animal out of the cage there And And the scientists are still working on the data we brought back back from space to explain all this We're doing all that in the mid-deck out in the payload bay. We had a lot of microgravity experiments This a picture of some of those and one thing to be careful with is like if you're doing exercise So here i'm on the ergometer and it's not during a microgravity period obviously because this actually could shake the whole orbiter And we had to be careful of that Even a simple activity like moving into the cabin has to be done carefully when you are in a microgravity environment We had accelerometer on board that allow us to to see real time Our contribution to the micro g environment and that was very useful to keep it very long Of course, there are lots of other things you can do while being by ascent for of course Eating and taking care of the cabin and of course we had to update all our documents the updates came up on Sort of fax machine that we had on board and with scott and umberto As first time flies we try to spend as much time as possible free time of course Looking out of the window The here we are flying over chad and unfortunately the movie doesn't really Do justice to the real colors that we will be able to see from space We are around the tibesti region and the colors are really really bright and vivid and this is something that really catches your Imaginations imagination after this will move on to the nile Valley, which is of course one of the places that is very easy to detect from From space because you can really see the difference between The green of the area around the nile and of course the desert Around it we try to take shots of the pyramid several times. Unfortunately, we always over flew the pyramids Around noon and so we couldn't use the shadow to detect them and strange enough. There was always a thin cloud layer Hanging over the pyramids maybe next time Then we flew out into asia and this is a zoom shot of the mount everus region You can see mount everus right in the middle macaloo below it and the aran valley And then we zoom back and you see really the whole himalayan massif with the indian subcontinent On the left crashing into the tibetan plateau on the right and if you take a strong zoom lens You aim it at these mountains. This is the eastern most part of the himalayas. That's the top of the world And we're over flying china now actually out over the pacific ocean and you can actually see the himalayas Set behind the horizon. It's a pretty spectacular view. It really Put you in orbit one of the very important things to us on board obviously is our personal man from home This is just a picture of uh Coloring that my daughter did This is what the water dump looks like in space the water immediately crystallizes to ice crystals and As we are crossing the terminator. It's really beautiful sites We were doing this periodically to maintain the water in the tanks on board the orbiter within predetermined limit And this is jeff and i looking out the window at the sunrise And during the night we had a lot of Moonlight during the nights and you see these crystals of ice that are following us and are twinkling In the moonlit over the moonlit landscape really beautiful view during the night Well, it's been one heck of a journey. We've done a lot of experiments. We've seen a lot of great sites And now you can see the folks on your flight deck. You're probably with his glasses again ready to go And we're already on the flight deck in our suits ready to come on home And the same situation Seen from the mid deck. We were very busy getting ready for re-entry and you see a lot of stuff floating around included our parachute that are still are still up in the air you see And we have to do this twice because of the extra day And this is the last pass over the Himalayas and you see the full the full moon or nearly full moon setting It's always very impressive to see how fast the moon and the sun rise and set and this is a The view of the moon sets With the telephoto lens powerful telephoto lens about 40 millimeters and due to the differential refraction in the atmosphere You have the whole moon that is completely crushed as it Penetrates the lower layers of the atmosphere very beautiful sight And now we're re-entering if you look closely you can start seeing kind of a red glow out Out the side window there as exciting as launch was re-entry was just as fascinating Especially as you come into the in the atmosphere going Mach 25 The sky turns of pink and then a deeper and deeper red and orange And then you break out and then you can see below going a mere mach 15 over houston We went zipping by and andy was nice enough to leave us in a right bank so I could look out my window Those puffs of smoke or the rcs jets that shut off just prior to mach one as we're coming into the kennedy space center We did have a wave off day, but finally it was a pretty day There's east coast of florida going by scott's right window there And we're in a right hand turn here to land on ksc runway 33 heading towards the north atmosphere conditions were great that day for the folks on the ground to See us as well as when they hurt us when they when we did our double sonic boom So we made some nice contrials coming around the vertical assembly buildings out on scott's right window again This is over his shoulder As we come on back in it's the standard world's worst glider at this point 300 night dive 20 degrees down to the ground probably and scott finally gets the gear out down there at about 350 feet But that was just like we had planned and at that point We continually continuously decelerate as we're coming across the runway the shuttle training airplane Which had been giving us a lot of our landing data previously is coming by our left-hand side there Tried to make the black marks there, but landed just a little bit short Some wind shears that day and headwind helped me do that We put the drag chute out to continue the deceleration process It's a real hard thing to do to lift your legs up to get on those brake pedals And you got to do it because you don't want to look bad on cnn. So I get the legs up there get on the brakes But the deceleration from the drag chute provides us a quite a bit of deceleration So it's not that hard of an effort. We dropped the drag chute off at about 60 knots or so Just prior to uh coming to wheel stop and we were just real happy to be home A few minutes into posting session is a very busy period as you can see here And we are trying to get rid of our suits and Make room for all the stuff that we have to store Well, there were three rookies on the flight And this is just to have to get into orbit and as you can see everyone said you know be careful You may not feel good. We all felt great So I decided just come on diving down the hatch into that mess downstairs to let these guys get me out of my suit And i'm probably smiling because I know i'm going to get out of my suit here soon Well, uh unpacking for seven people for 16 days in that little tiny place This is a big uh, it's a big job and we had to make the airlock The place to put all the stuff and of course it also had to be somebody's Bedroom so we we have to make provisions for somebody to actually slip sleep right in there We are already into the payload operation activity. You can see the satellite just left the top of the boom And on the satellite you can see the The nitrogen small nitrogen jets that they used to provide some initial Tension for the tether This is a view of the aft flight deck during the initial fly away of the satellite And as you see there was a very high density of bodies in the aft flight deck Franklin and scott went forward to Flight deck and you see andy on the left flying the orbiter jet was in the middle of Guiding us on the procedures and using the binoculars. I was Busy with operating the cctv cameras and uh Mauricio is using a laser range fighter to determine the range and range rate of the satellite So it was very busy but everything went well in this initial deployment as I mentioned before but each of us had Certain procedures he had to perform in case we were going to have problems. So it was a big team effort Uh the satellite actually as it left did not go completely straight up the boom like we'd liked it to And on ss-46 the first flight of the tether side didn't do that either But it was such an easy Thing for us to do because we had seen it in practice so much in our simulations That having the satellite go out a little bit kakai was just a simple thing to do And all I needed to do is keep the orbiter I had to do some maneuver to keep the orbiter within a little bit of a cone To make sure that they didn't get too far away from us And the tss science worked really Flowless during deployment. We could verify the the power generated why the tether was reeling out And Actually was was completely nominal. I mean we we got very good data during this phase Well, that's the sad picture After the tether did break Um And as we said, there wasn't very much we could do with it except uh shed a few tears Trying to cry when there's no weight to pull the tears off your face is Well, we had a few opportunities to actually take a look at the tether Fly over and this is one of the pictures taken with long Lenses that we had and I should also say that Serendipity plus the quick response of the ground controllers was able to Define a new a new type of science. I guess we call it the detached science And they actually turned on the instruments in the satellite and were able to Do a whole bunch of new observations that were not were not expected and also After tether was over why we needed to get ready for all the microgravity operations and That all came in instructions from the ground and Miles and miles of teleprinter paper Which would then have to sort out and put in our flight plan and executed Here we are very much into the second part of the mission We start we started concentrating on mid-dike activities. We had basically three Investigations that all had in common burning. We all became a pyromaniax in one way And And we use this mid-dike glove box for to provide safety for the for the shuttle This is a montage of the sequence of Burning in particular this experiment is ritzy as you can see the flame And we used the normally we used Video cameras to catch the whole burning sequence on on video on videotape And on top of the mid-dike glove box. We had the 35 millimeter camera to take these shots What is really astonishing is that the flame is really tends to be spherical and is counter-intuitive and it tries to move into the Basically upstream instead of downstream the flow in that picture was coming from the right side We had an immense amount of photo tv requirements for all of our payload Plus we some of some of the events to do just with the public affairs. I felt like we had about as much Electrical outlets and cords on board as we did tether that was floating up there somewhere in space So it was a it was quite a handful and very crew intensive getting ready for all the photo tv requirement a very Modest experiment, but nevertheless a very important one was carried out in protein crystal growth and was the first experiment from A joint effort between the countries of latin america Among the countries and it was an effort to look for potential drugs to combat chagas disease and we'll be looking To see more of this in the in the years to come You can't see us as well as we can see you down here sometimes But this is just a shot of the houston area the intercontinental is up there on the Upper center and the johnson space center clearly carries down there towards the bottom right Going to space. I was really surprised how easy It is for the human body to adapt to different environments and I think this picture Shares basically the same flavor. This was Was taken on the saara in the saara. You can see the dunes there incredible view and on the bottom right corner There's a human settlement This is a good shot of the nile river on the upper left corner. There is the laxar temple The big contrast between the green part and the surrounding desert give you an idea How important is this piece of land for for egypt? Almost 95 percent of the people lives in this area even though it's only five percent of the entire land in egypt A little later in the flight. We got this wonderful picture You're looking at the southern tip of india and you can see the little land bridge going over to shri lanka And it's a fairly unusually a clear day in shri lanka. It's just a gorgeous shot Now this is a view of a east himalaya And what I would call the big bend of brahmaputra brahmaputra is a very long river about 1800 miles long and it starts in the high tibetan plateau Close to the top of the picture Then flows to the east which is toward the bottom of the picture North of the himalaya then makes a bend through these very Narrow gorgeous that you see in the middle of the picture towards The left and then you see it takes a course To the west on the left hand side of the picture It was amazing to see the different climate that you have here You have the high tibetan plateau which are rather dry You have the himalaya with all these high mountains and the ice and snow And a very wet area on the left hand side northern indian bangladesh that gets up to 400 Inches of rain per year an amazing picture And here if we follow the course of the brahmaputra from the low end of the picture towards the center Then he turns to the left and he joins with the ganges that comes from the upper right corner of the picture Through bangladesh and then he goes via the area of dakka the capital of bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal really a very very clear View of this part of indian bangladesh very unusual Of all the beauty of the himalaya As you fly out over china you see here the red basin where The increasing population and the use of coal burning fires has Created a pollution which has been measured now to be increasing over the last 50 years We have extensive records going back that long and so it's it's almost like A laboratory to study the effect of human beings on their environment Well the extra day in space provided us with this unusually clear view of costa rica You can see almost 90 of the country Both coasts is basically looking from north to south You can see the under the clouds in the center there the city of san josei my hometown and you can see my My home is right over there to the left Actually My mom told me that it took me a thousand hours to to take this picture. So I guess I must be getting better It's such an international crew on board We all tried to have an opportunity to bring in some of our ethnic food from our cultures and our backgrounds Of course, philadelphia soft pretzels as about as ethnic as I get But we did manage to bring some on board It was a great food, especially for the first and second days while we're up there and why they were still fresh We had a lot of food on board But the two italians said to fight for the last piece of parmesan cheese that we bought And I think personally that the use of swiss chocolate should be mandatory on every space flight It has been on every flight I was privileged to fly on and this time the swiss chocolate had the shape of an orbiter This is white chocolate is in the middle of the picture and in the bottom in one hand Is a tethered satellite in chocolate also So we we ate quite a lot of chocolate on this flight. It was very good Well towards the end of the flight when we're getting a little tired of space food Franklin whipped up some dynamite burritos. He's got all the ingredients here And we thought you'd like to see just how you make burritos in space We've got the re-fried beans which He brought up In the natural form and spread that on the Tortillas which tortillas actually are are great in space. If you don't eat them you can make frisbees out of them Put on a little cheese, which you have to squeeze out of the two But that's space flight and put on a little taco sauce to vasco to taste put in a toothpick in the oven Whammy And of course the best part is getting to eat the burritos and not having mexican food for quite a while I was very appreciative of franklin's handiwork. It was just wonderful This is another this is another meal. This is the blue shift meal and We had a mentor for the the distinction of this meal Jeff Hoffman himself who doesn't take meals very lightly neither on the ground nor in space and he suggested that we have a formal meal the whole blue team and we went in our Sleeping stations with trays and we had napkins and we had appetizer and entrée and silverware And we were listening to a classical music where we're eating this meal This flight was very special for franklin and me who Completed 1,000 hours of space shuttle time. So we were quite pleased with that And we're looking forward to lots of other people joining the club, but it's nice to be charter members Well, I think I made andy nervous because every time he'd wake up He'd find me out there with the tools because I was looking for something to fix and good news bad news Good news orbit or hard labor broke. So there's hardly anything to fix bad news was I didn't have anything to fix most of the time So I just played with the tools I just know the shot when we finally got together again, there's a little gray blotch there on my head. It wasn't there before the flight So maybe it's a misprint in the color Fly Flying in space especially for a first time flyers also Also means a lot of emotions that are very difficult to To transmit or to catch Basically to describe it with words or pictures and This is basically what what what this picture was standing for I mean there's a beautiful view of the earth and everything that represents But flying in space is no less emotional for a third time fly like myself for for people who have flown thousands of hours in space Like two of us. This is a view at night. So shortly before sunrise We had the cargo bay illuminated by the moon and you see the earth underneath with the air glow And the sun is starting to illuminate the tail of the orbiter and you can still see stars In fact the stars the two bright stars that are just right of the tail are alpha and beta centauri And then further to the right we had the southern cross And you see also in the atmosphere on the left hand side the beginning of Of dawn just before sunrise a really beautiful site. It's incredible We we try to share with all of you some of the the beauties of space flight Which which does make it so special for for all of us who have been privileged to To be up there and of course 16 times every day you see the sunrise and the sunset And the colors are a little different every time depending on the atmospheric condition But it's always beautiful and this is a kind of a slow-motion montage of what the payload bay looks like as the sun gradually sets on it That's kind of a nice thought to bring us back to earth Space flight of course Has all the thrills chills challenges and rewards that anyone could ever want It's an honor and a privilege to to have the opportunities to go Um, but as much as we do go and as much as we enjoy it on board It's it's also uh extra special and uh, we certainly look forward to coming home Uh, columbia there that started out as a rocket ship and turned into a spaceship and came back as an airplane Albeit it's a different kind of airplane than most airplanes, but um That was our home for 16 days and uh, and we were happy to be here and the crew was doing doing great and we did our walk around and Try to express our appreciation for such a such a great machine