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[BIRDS CHIRPING]
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[BOOMING]
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]: Sonic booms
just heard at the Kennedy Space Center.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
Yeah; okay; I got a tallyho on the cape.
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Looking good; Vance.
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You can hear the wind real loud.
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NARRATOR:
At the end of a 3-million-mile journey. . .
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. . .the space shuttle is coming home.
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MAN 2:
The APU's are looking good; Vance.
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NARRATOR: The commander has to make
a perfect landing now.
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He has no engines
to take him around again.
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MAN 2:
Boy; I tell you; that's a good one.
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Yeah; looking good.
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MAN 3:
Okay.
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MAN 2:
Okay; get them.
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Put on the gear.
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MAN 3:
Gear is on; got a light.
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Four hundred; 300. Gear's coming.
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-One hundred; 255.
MAN 4: Gear's down.
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MAN 3:
Fifty feet at 240.
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Thirty feet at 235.
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Twenty feet at 225.
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Eight feet at 250.
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Five feet at 21 0.
Two feet at 200. One foot.
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MAN 4:
Touchdown.
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MAN 3:
One-ninety-five.
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One-seventy.
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One-sixty-five. One-sixty.
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One-fifty.
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Ninety at 5.
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Seventy at 5.
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Fifty knots at 5 deceleration.
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Thirty at 5.
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NARRATOR: Here, in the middle of
a Florida wildlife refuge, the shuttles land.
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They are serviced and are launched again.
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MAN 3:
Okay; Houston; wheels are stopped.
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MAN 2: Way to go; guys.
MAN 3: Great job!
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MAN 4:
Magnificent.
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NARRATOR: This is Kennedy Space Center,
America's spaceport.
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[CROWD CHEERING]
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NARRATOR: The people we hear about most
are the astronauts.
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But, actually, there are thousands more
working behind the scenes. . .
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. . .to keep the shuttles flying.
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They inspect and maintain
the more than 30,000 tiles...
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. . .that protect the orbiter
from the heat of re-entry.
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WOMAN [OVER PA]:
Steve Neihardt. Lockheed Comm.
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MAN [OVER PA]: I say again; "Hazardous
operations are continuing in the VAB."
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NARRATOR: They watch over the mating
of the components: the solid rockets. . .
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...the massive external tank,
and the orbiter.
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MAN [OVER PA]: All unofficial personnel
clear level 3 in the transfer aisle.
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NARRATOR: Two weeks to launch,
the shuttle rolls out to the pad.
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The flight crew has been training
at Johnson Space Center near Houston.
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They've come here to Florida. . .
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. . .to take part in a dress rehearsal
with the launch team.
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ln preparation for a potential emergency. . .
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. . .they practice rapid egress
from the orbiter. . .
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. . .and the possible use
of an escape basket.
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MAN:
Okay; baby; let's go.
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That's four good HPU's. Four good ones.
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All right; I got four. All the pix are up.
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[RUMBLING]
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Fly; baby; fly.
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]: Thrust tailing off
in SRB. Standing by for separation.
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Separation confirmed.
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Nominal first-stage performance.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
Okay; nominal.
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NARRATOR:
Now the engines have stopped.
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We are in space, 280 miles up.
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At last, we can see
our magnificent Earth. . .
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. . .in all its splendor.
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
Mission Control to Houston.
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Challenger crossing the coast
of Baja California.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
LDEF deploy.
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NARRATOR:
The LDEF satellite weighs 1 0 tons. . .
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. . .and is the size of a school bus.
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lt carries 57 experiments. . .
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. . .the work of more than 200 scientists
from eight countries.
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LDEF will stay up here
for more than a year. . .
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. . .exposing various materials
to the vacuum of space.
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WOMAN:
Okay; the VTR's are running.
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Next thing's at 30 seconds.
I'll delay it a little bit.
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MAN 1 :
I'll count by tens till I get to 1 5.
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-Forty seconds.
MAN 2: Don't forget free drift; Mike.
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[MAN 1 CLEARS THROAT]
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NARRATOR: For us inside the spacecraft,
there is a new experience:
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Weightlessness.
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[RIDE LAUGHING]
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RIDE:
Whoo!
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NARRATOR: A typical crew consists of five
to seven people.
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Some are career astronauts,
others are specialists in a variety of fields. . .
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. . .representing various countries.
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MAN: Sally?
RIDE: Yes.
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MAN:
We're hooked up. Checking.
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NARRATOR: Above is the flight deck,
with windows facing up and back. . .
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. . .into the payload bay.
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[ELECTRIC SHAVER HUMMING]
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NARRATOR: Below, the mid deck functions
as living room, dining room. . .
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. . .bedroom, workshop and study.
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MAN [ON RADIO]: Discovery; Houston.
You're looking good for deploy.
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NARRATOR:
Commander Hartsfield and Pilot Coats. . .
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. . .navigate the orbiter
to a predetermined point in space. . .
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. . .so that the communications satellite
they are deploying. . .
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. . .will be precisely positioned.
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[THUMP]
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WOMAN:
Gee. Look at that!
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MAN 1 :
That's a big hummer; isn't it?
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Look at that! Get some shots of that!
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[CAMERAS CLICKING]
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
Syncom's deployed; Houston.
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NARRATOR: Much of the time, the orbiter
flies with its payload bay facing the Earth.
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So, to see our planet's features,
the crew uses the overhead windows.
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WOMAN:
That's pretty.
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NARRATOR: As we cross the Alps into ltaly,
Genoa is on the left. . .
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. . .home of Christopher Columbus.
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Eastward, the Po River
flows down to the Adriatic. . .
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. . .and just north of its mouth,
glorious Venice.
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This is the ltaly of the Renaissance.
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lt was here that Leonardo first said,
"We can fly."
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And now, we circle the Earth
every 90 minutes. . .
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...at 1 7,000 miles an hour.
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lt's as if we're in a time machine. . .
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. . .looking back across the centuries
at our own history.
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The boot of ltaly.
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lslands of the Mediterranean,
of Homer's Odyssey.
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Now on toward Crete,
site of the ancient Minoan culture.
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The great city of Alexandria. . .
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. . .once the world's center of learning.
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Beyond it, the lush delta of the River Nile. . .
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. . .spreading down to the Mediterranean
from Cairo.
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lt is thought that thousands of years ago. . .
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. . .everything below us now was fertile. . .
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. . .but a change in climate
turned North Africa into a desert.
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What will future climatic changes
do to our Earth and to us?
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]: We're still looking
for a deploy; as planned. . .
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. . .over the next MILA pass. . . .
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RIDE: Okay; how's that?
MAN 2: I'll pass you the camera.
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NARRATOR: ln search of the answer,
Sally Ride deploys a satellite called ERBS.
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RIDE:
That's a pretty spacecraft.
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MAN 3 [ON RADIO]: Challenger;
it's Houston. You're "go" for release.
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MAN 4:
Okay; we'll put it in work.
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NARRATOR:
ERBS will help us to know. . .
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. . .whether there'll be more sandstorms
in our future. . .
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...or blizzards, or hurricanes...
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. . .like Josephine. . .
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. . .500 miles in diameter. . .
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. . .and packing winds of 90 miles an hour.
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MAN 1 : You're only seeing
not even half of it; right here.
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MAN 2:
There's the eye of the storm.
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MAN 1 :
The East Coast of the U.S. is to your right.
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NARRATOR: Now the mid deck has become
part gymnasium and part factory.
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While Steve Hawley exercises. . .
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. . .Charlie Walker operates
a compact laboratory on the far bulkhead.
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This is a commercial venture.
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lt's object:
To develop new kinds of medicines. . .
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. . .that can only be made in zero gravity.
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MAN 1 :
Ten seconds.
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Nine; eight; seven; six; five.
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Got it armed? Three; two; one.
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WOMAN:
Yay.
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MAN 1 :
There she goes. The five-string arm is off.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
Congratulations! Three for three.
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MAN 1 :
I'm going to close the sun shield.
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NARRATOR: The communications satellite
is deployed by Judy Resnick. . .
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. . .and photographed by Mike Mullane.
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MAN 1 :
Okay; deploy was on time.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]: Discovery;
it's Houston. Good news; Steve. . .
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. . .we're watching it
with a lot of smiles down here.
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STEVE [ON RADIO]:
Yeah; there's a lot of them up here too.
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NARRATOR:
The crew eats and sleeps pretty much. . .
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. . .according to the same schedule
as on Earth.
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ln the early days of space we sometimes
heard complaints about the food. . .
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. . .which was mostly squeezed
out of toothpaste tubes.
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Now the crews
get to eat what they want:
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Steak, strawberries, shrimp cocktail.
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
I would say that the extension. . .
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. . .was about as nominal
as you could expect.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
We copy that; Henry.
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NARRATOR: On this flight we have
extended an experimental solar array.
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MAN 1 : It is not budging one iota.
It's solid as a rock.
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MAN 2:
We're about ready to retract now.
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WOMAN:
It's folding smoothly.
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NARRATOR: ln the future, such a device
may tap the sun's energy. . .
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. . .to help power the space station.
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WOMAN:
It's got a little wiggle in it.
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NARRATOR:
The leaves are so thin. . .
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. . .and the mast so ingeniously contrived. . .
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. . .that the 1 00-foot-high structure
folds into a box. . .
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. . .7 inches deep.
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While the crew sleeps,
flight controllers on the ground. . .
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. . .watch over the orbiter.
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The Hawaiian lslands.
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The Andes Mountains in South America.
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Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center,
our home port.
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South Florida and the Keys.
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The deep blue of the Gulf Stream. . .
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. . .and the turquoise reefs of the Bahamas.
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The vast craters of the Galapagos lslands.
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An orbital sunrise.
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
Altitude: 2000 feet.
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Range: 1 2;000 feet.
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NARRATOR:
As this is Discovery's maiden voyage. . .
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. . .Commander Hartsfield will land
on the long runway. . .
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. . .at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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He's got lots of room. . .
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. . .but he'd like to touch down on those
two black stripes ahead on the runway.
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MAN 1 : Touchdown. Discovery safely back
on Earth after having traveled. . .
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. . .2. 1 7 million nautical miles. . .
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. . . in 6 days and 57 minutes.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
Welcome home.
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NARRA�OR: Discovery rides back to Florida
atop NASA's 747.
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With four orbiters in the fleet,
new astronauts are needed.
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Thousands of candidates apply.
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Few make it.
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MAN: Check your body position.
"Bail out! Bail out! Bail out!"
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MAN 1 :
Hook is down. Keep on walking !
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MAN 2:
Whoo!
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NARRATOR: Although some are pilots,
many are engineers, medical doctors. . .
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. . .and scientists.
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MAN:
Keep your heels in the water!
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Good job!
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[MAN 1 YELLING INDISTINCTLY]
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MAN 2:
Yeehaw!
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MAN 1 :
Delay canopy for a release.
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MAN 3:
Release!
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MAN 2:
Whoo!
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MAN 1 :
Okay; head on down.
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MAN 3: Keep your eyes on the horizon.
Get your elbows in tight.
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MAN 4: Keep it together.
MAN 3: There you go.
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MAN 4: Elbows in.
MAN 3: Whoa. Whoa!
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NARRATOR: Once selected,
the new astronaut develops specific skills. . .
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. . .leading to
an eventual flight assignment.
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Then, training for that mission begins.
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This is James van Hoften,
otherwise known as "Ox."
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And this is George Nelson,
known as "Pinky."
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Together they'll attempt something. . .
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. . .which has never been done before:
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The capture and repair
of a satellite in space.
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The satellite, called Solar Max,
broke down after its first few months. . .
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. . .and is now rotating in orbit,
partially crippled.
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HART [OVER PA]:
Okay; we show a dock.
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Okay; Len; how about if I. . .
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. . .take Pinky and roll him upside down
and get him back here--
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NARRATOR: They will be assisted
by astronaut T.J. Hart.
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And here he goes with a roll.
I'll pick him back up again.
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NARRATOR: The shuttle's arm plays
a vital role in the repair. . .
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. . .and "T.J.", as they call him, is an expert.
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HART:
And back up to the satellite.
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Whoops.
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NARRATOR: An astronaut, fully dressed
in a spacesuit, weighs close to 400 lbs.
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ln space, he'll weigh nothing at all.
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Pinky and Ox practice the repair in a tank
at Johnson Space Center.
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lt's the closest one can come on Earth
to weightlessness.
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MAN 1 :
What was that? This must be space.
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MAN 2:
Isn't that great?
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MAN 3 [ON RADIO]: Houston to Challenger.
You are unreadable. Big echo; big echo.
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MAN 4:
Safety divers; take the subjects down. . .
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. . .for final ballasting in heads-up position.
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MAN 5:
Sam; bring the pressure down on eV1 .
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MAN 6: Okay; and I'm about ready to jump
out of restraints here and do a check flight.
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NARRATOR: On Pinky's back is a mock-up
of the manned maneuvering unit.
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A one-man spacecraft that will propel him
away from the shuttle. . .
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. . .and over to the ailing satellite.
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MAN 3: Roger; Ox. We'd like you to
press on with the MEB change out. . .
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. . . being careful to keep the stuff
out of the inside of the spacecraft.
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VAN HOFTEN:
It doesn't work.
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MAN 3:
You've got all day to do it; Ox.
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VAN HOFTEN:
I'll get it; I promise.
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MAN 5:
I figured you would; eventually.
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VAN HOFTEN:
I tell you; it's not as easy as I had thought.
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NARRATOR: For one year they've rehearsed
this scenario, over and over again.
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And now, it's time to go.
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MAN 1 [OVER PA]:
T minus 20 seconds.
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T minus 1 7. . .
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. . . 1 6; 1 5. . .
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. . . 1 3; 1 2. . .
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. . . 1 1 ; 1 0. We are "go"
for main-engine start.
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Eight; seven; six.
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We have main-engine start.
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Three; two. . .
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. . .one.
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Solid motor ignition and liftoff.
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MAN 2:
Good roll; standing by to throttle down.
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Throttles down to 67 percent through
its period of maximum dynamic pressure.
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Standing by to throttle back up.
Passing through the speed of sound.
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MAN 1 :
"Go" at throttle up.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]: This mission is one for
the Guinness Book of Records. . .
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. . .with the size of flight crew aboard:
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3305.
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That is five humans and 3300 honey bees.
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NARRATOR:
The bees are part of a student experiment.
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Their efforts to build
a zero-gravity honeycomb. . .
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. . .soon capture the curiosity of the crew.
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MAN 3: There's too many of them
to really see a hive. . .
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. . . but it sure looks like they're having fun.
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NARRATOR:
Forty-eight hours into the mission. . .
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. . .Commander Bob Crippen
and Pilot Dick Scobee. . .
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. . .bring the orbiter toward rendezvous
with Solar Max.
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MAN 1 : Twelve thousand feet;
closing at 1 6 feet per second.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]: Challenger; Houston.
The Solar Max is ready for capture.
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MAN 3:
Roger; we copy. Ready for capture.
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NARRATOR: According to plan,
Pinky dons the man-maneuvering unit.
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ln Mission Control, the mood is optimistic.
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MAN 1 : Looking good; Pinky.
NELSON [ON RADIO]: Okay.
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This is a pretty good flying machine
you got here.
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MAN 2: Roger; I can see the smile
on your face from here.
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NELSON:
The satellite looks in excellent condition.
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MAN 3 [ON RADIO]:
It doesn't work.
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[ALL LAUGHING]
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NELSON:
Picky; picky; picky.
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MAN 1 :
Pinky; are you reading us?
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MAN 2:
I don't know if he's docked yet or not.
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MAN 3:
The jaws didn't fire.
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MAN 4:
EVA? The jaws didn't fire; do you have a--?
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MAN 3:
They did it again. They didn't fire again.
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MAN 4:
Okay; didn't fire again.
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MAN 2: Apparently the trunnion-pin adaptor
did not latch properly.
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No joy there.
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NARRATOR:
The orbiter backs away.
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To make matters worse,
the satellite is now tumbling. . .
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. . .and losing power.
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Throughout the night, the flight team
concentrates on finding a solution.
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Finally, near dawn, a new plan
for the capture is hammered out.
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lt will call upon all the skills
of Commander Bob Crippen. . .
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. . .to bring the orbiter within arm's reach
of the wobbling satellite. . .
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. . .and on T.J. Hart to try to grapple it.
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MAN 1 : Roger. Copy that. We know we're
in good hands and use nice; soft gloves.
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MAN 2 [ON RADIO]:
This is Mission Control; Houston.
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Loss of signal at the tracking satellite.
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NARRATOR: Crippen's maneuvering fuel
is nearing the red line. . .
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. . .running low.
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There are serious doubts
that the operation is possible at all.
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MAN 1 : The remote manipulator arm
was in motion. . .
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. . .at the time of loss of signal. . .
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. . .so hopefully; at reacquisition. . .
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. . .we should have. . .
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. . .confirmation of whether
the first grapple attempt was successful.
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HART [ON RADIO]:
Okay; we've got it. . .
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. . .and we're in the process
of putting it in the FSS.
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MAN 2:
Outstanding.
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CRIPPEN:
That is fantastic; T.J. !
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HART: You make it look easy; Crippen;
moving it like that.
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I'll tell you; when Crip flies like that
it makes it so easy.
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That's our ticket to
a margarita or two now.
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NARRATOR:
Solar Max, now safe in the cargo bay. . .
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. . .is rotated into position for repair.
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Even if they can't fix it here. . .
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. . .they could take
the satellite back to Earth. . .
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. . .repair it there, and redeploy it. . .
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. . .using another shuttle.
But nobody wants to do that.
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MAN 1 :
This is Mission Control; Houston.
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The next step:
EVA for both repair functions.
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NARRATOR:
Ox and Pinky prepare to move outside. . .
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. . .to begin their work in the payload bay.
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Without their suits they could not survive
in the vacuum of space.
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The suits provide protection, warmth,
and oxygen. . .
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. . .and will keep them alive
for up to eight and a half hours.
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MAN 1 :
Lift me up a little?
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MAN 2: Mission Control; Houston.
The EVA is working along very well.
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They've pulled out the old ACS module. . .
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. . .endeavoring to take the new one
and place it in the Solar Max.
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We're about an hour and nine minutes
into the Extra Vehicular Activity.
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MAN 3:
Don't drop anything on us; guys.
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MAN 1 :
Okay.
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Jerry; the hinge is on.
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MAN 4:
Roger; it's all downhill from here.
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MAN 1 :
Yeah. Right.
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Everything's on.
I've double-checked all the little clips. . .
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. . .that are over the connectors
and I'm gonna get ready to button it up.
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MAN 5:
Houston; Challenger: Has Ox got a "go"?
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NARRATOR: Because Ox finishes the repair
faster than anyone expected. . .
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. . .he has time to take
the man-maneuvering unit for a test flight.
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VAN HOFTEN:
Hello; Houston !
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MAN 1 :
Hello; space!
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MAN 2: Have we got a "go"
for Ox and Pinky to come in?
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Is that affirm?
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MAN 1 :
That's affirm.
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It's time for Jimbo and Pinky to come in
and get their hands washed for supper.
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MAN 2: Sounds like a winner.
We got steaks on tonight.
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[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
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NARRATOR:
Now Solar Max's circuits are checked out. . .
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. . .and the Goddard engineers
make certain that it works perfectly.
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T.J. holds it facing the sun
until its batteries are recharged.
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Then, gently, he returns it to orbit.
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MAN:
And we have release.
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NARRATOR:
As Challenger and her crew pull away...
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. . .they leave behind vivid proof
that we can work in space.
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This repair is only the first step.
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Already, people like you and me
are beginning to travel into space.
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Some of our children will live in space. . .
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. . .and their children
may even be born there.
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Soon, we will use the shuttle...
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. . .to build a space station
in permanent orbit. . .
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. . .operated by international crews.
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Pilot John McBride is preparing
David Leestma and Kathy Sullivan. . .
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. . .for an EVA.
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Kathy will be the first American woman
to walk in space.
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RIDE:
I hear somebody kicking the orbiter.
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SULLIVAN:
Hi; guys.
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LEESTMA:
Can't believe we're doing this.
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SULLIVAN:
That makes two of us.
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NARRATOR: Floating free, we look back
at the majestic panorama of Earth:
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Our home.
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Like Columbus, "We dream
of distant shores we've not yet seen."
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Now that we know how to live
and work in space. . .
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. . .we stand at the threshold
of a new age of discovery.
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