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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 makea perfect landing now.
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He has no enginesto 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 210.
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 ofa 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 mostare the astronauts.
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But, actually, there are thousands moreworking behind the scenes...
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...to keep the shuttles flying.
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They inspect and maintainthe more than 30,000 tiles...
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...that protect the orbiterfrom 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 matingof 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: 7wo weeks to launch,the shuttle rolls out to the pad.
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The flight crew has been trainingat 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 rehearsalwith the launch team.
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In preparation for a potential emergency...
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...they practice rapid egressfrom the orbiter...
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...and the possible useof 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, 200 miles up.
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At last, we can seeour 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 10 tons...
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...and is the size of a school bus.
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It carries 67 experiments...
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...the work of more than 200 scientistsfrom eight countries.
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LDEF will stay up herefor more than a year...
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...exposing various materialsto 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 15.
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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 fiveto 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 functionsas 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 orbiterto a predetermined point in space...
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...so that the communications satellitethey 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 orbiterflies 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 Riverflows 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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It was here that Leonardo first said,"We can fly."
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And now, we circle the Earthevery 90 minutes...
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...at 17,000 miles an hour.
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It's as if we're in a time machine...
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...looking back across the centuriesat 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 Mediterraneanfrom Cairo.
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It 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 climateturned North Africa into a desert.
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What will future climatic changesdo 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: In 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 sandstormsin 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 becomepart gymnasium and part factory.
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While Steve Hawley exercises...
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...Charlie Walker operatesa compact laboratory on the far bulkhead.
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This is a commercial venture.
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It'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 satelliteis 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 scheduleas on Earth.
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In the early days of space we sometimesheard complaints about the food...
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...which was mostly squeezedout of toothpaste tubes.
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Now the crewsget 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 haveextended 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: In the future, such a devicemay 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 100-foot-high structurefolds 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 Gal8pagos lslands.
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An orbital sunrise.
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MAN 1 [ON RADIO]:
Altitude: 2000 feet.
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Range: 12,000 feet.
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NARRATOR:
As this is Discovery's maiden voyage...
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...Commander Hartsfield will landon 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 thosetwo 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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...2.17 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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NARRATOR: Discovery rides back to Floridaatop 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 lNDISTINCTLY]
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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 toan 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 repairof 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 l...
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...take Pinky and roll him upside down
and get him back here--
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NARRATOR: They will be assistedby 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 playsa 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 dressedin a spacesuit, weighs close to 400 lbs.
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In space, he'll weigh nothing at all.
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Pinky and Ox practice the repair in a tankat Johnson Space Center.
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It's the closest one can come on Earthto 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-upof the manned maneuvering unit.
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A one-man spacecraft that will propel himaway 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 rehearsedthis 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 17...
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...16, 15...
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...13, 12...
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...1 1 , 10. 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 builda 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 Crippenand Pilot Dick Scobee...
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...bring the orbiter toward rendezvouswith Solar Max.
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MAN 1 : Twelve thousand feet,
closing at 16 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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In 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 teamconcentrates on finding a solution.
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Finally, near dawn, a new planfor the capture is hammered out.
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It will call upon all the skillsof Commander Bob Crippen...
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...to bring the orbiter within arm's reachof 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 fuelis nearing the red line...
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...running low.
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There are serious doubtsthat 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 takethe 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 survivein the vacuum of space.
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The suits provide protection, warmth,and oxygen...
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...and will keep them alivefor 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 repairfaster than anyone expected...
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...he has time to takethe 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 lNDISTINCTLY]
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NARRATOR:
Now Solar Max's circuits are checked out...
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...and the Goddard engineersmake certain that it works perfectly.
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T.J. holds it facing the sununtil 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 proofthat 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 meare beginning to travel into space.
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Some of our children will live in space...
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...and their childrenmay even be born there.
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Soon, we will use the shuttle...
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...to build a space stationin permanent orbit...
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...operated by international crews.
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Pilot John McBride is preparingDavid Leestma and kathy Sullivan...
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...for an EVA.
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Kathy will be the first American womanto 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 backat the majestic panorama of Earth:
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Our home.
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Like Columbus, "We dreamof distant shores we've not yet seen."
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Now that we know how to liveand work in space...
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...we stand at the thresholdof a new age of discovery.
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