Hubble 3D: Deep Space Page #4

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Phenomenal first stage performance.

Atlantis is continuing

in its due easterly course...

...to catch up with the Hubble Space

Telescope one last time.

- Hey Ray J, welcome to orbit.

- It's great to be here, Doug.

- How was that ride?

- It was wild, basically.

I like this floating in space.

- You have something in here?

- My food is in my stomach.

- Best place to store food is your stomach.

- Mine was there temporarily.

- Now it's in my tummy.

- Well, hopefully it stays there.

You don't really shower.

You wet a washcloth with this.

This is our water-wetter thing.

It's kind of like a garden hose.

Let me show you how it works here.

All I can tell you about going to

the bathroom in space is suction.

- Hey, John.

- Hey, Drew.

- What's going on?

- Not too much, what you doing?

- Hanging around.

- What are you, a bat?

Nope, just a spacewalker.

Those tears on the shield shell were--

Day three.

Their first task is to capture Hubble.

The rendezvous is basically

us finding the telescope.

Now it's doing 17,500 miles an hour...

...so by the time we get right next to it...

...we're doing the same thing.

That's the tense part,

are we going the right speed?

To make things even harder...

...in orbit

the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes.

.03, I see you slowing down.

Till we can finally come up

right underneath the telescope...

...with it floating just inches away

from the aft window...

...so that Megan can reach out

with the arm and grapple it.

- Still 0.03 over the pin.

- Over the pin.

- Keep coming.

- Keep going.

- I see halfway down.

- Envelope out the window.

Trigger.

- Timer.

- We got it.

- Close and capture.

- I got close and capture.

Congratulations. Awesome job.

Houston, Atlantis,

Hubble has arrived on board Atlantis.

Atlantis, Houston,

we copy. Nice job, Megan...

...it's great to be back with the telescope.

Once we have the telescope

hovering over the latches...

...the idea is to just bring it

straight down...

...slow enough so that if we did

perhaps tap into the latches at all...

...that no damage would be done.

This last mission to repair it...

...will be the most challenging

and difficult of all.

These are our EVA,

that means spacewalking...

...tool caddies, called mini workstations.

They have our tethers on them so we

don't lose things. We can tether to stuff.

You always gotta have that on you.

You gotta have these on.

- Drew?

- Yeah.

This is your first spacewalk tomorrow.

What do you feel? What do you think?

- I'm excited. I'm getting excited.

- You're ready.

Seeing Hubble come into

the payload bay was pretty amazing.

The rendezvous was fun

and now we're ready to go.

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