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From: starrfie@hydro.la.asu.edu (Sumner Starrfield) Subject: Mission Control FSM report 3 (fwd)-thanks to Steve Shore Date: Fri, 3 Dec 93 10:51:33 MST Forwarded message: >From HRSSHORE%STARS.decnet@hrs.gsfc.nasa.gov Fri Dec 3 10:47:13 1993 Date: 3 Dec 93 12:36:00 EST From: "STARS::HRSSHORE" <HRSSHORE%STARS.decnet@hrs.gsfc.nasa.gov> Subject: Mission Control FSM report 3 To: "sshore" <sshore@vines.iusb.indiana.edu> Cc: "starrfie" <starrfie@hydro.la.asu.edu> From: HRS::HRSAKE 3-DEC-1993 12:35:20.10 To: HRSSHORE ! SENT TO @FSM CC: Subj: Mission Control Status Report 3 Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 1993 10:42 AM EST Msg: JJJD-1775-3595 From: PAO.POST To: pao, (site:smtpmail,id:<pao-post(a)gsfc.nasa.gov>) Subj: MC Status #3 Mission Control Center STS-61 Status Report #3 Friday, December 3, 1993, 8 a.m. CST Endeavour's astronauts spent their second day in space closing in on the Hubble Space Telescope for the capture early tomorrow morning. The following is a summary of the day's events, and all times given are in Central Standard Time. The crew started its day Thursday night with a 6:57 p.m. wake-up call featuring the tune "Cosmos." Soon after, spacewalkers Story Musgrave, Jeff Hoffman, Kathy Thornton and Tom Akers checked out the life support, power and communication systems of their four Extravehicular Mobility Units, or space suits, and found them ready for Saturday's first servicing EVA. European Space Agency astronaut Claude Nicollier gave the robotic arm system a warm up and used its TV camera to verify that payload bay equipment was in excellent condition. Nicollier also received a congratulatory message from Adolf Ogi, president of the Swiss Confederation. Later, Nicollier, Commander Dick Covey and Pilot Ken Bowersox participated in an early morning interview with the Associated Press. The crew also depressurized the orbiter's cabin atmosphere from 14.7 to 10.2 psi to reduce the amount of time Musgrave and Hoffman must breath pure oxygen before taking their first space walk. The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera and High Speed Photometer completed their last observations of the solar system before the observatory's aperture door was closed about 5 a.m. The Space Telescope Operations Control Center at Goddard Space Flight Center also sent commands to the Telescope to move into its proper solar inertial attitude for tomorrow's rendezvous with the shuttle. Before Endeavour's crew members settle down for their eight-hour sleep period beginning just before 10 a.m. today, Covey completed the two orbiter maneuvering burns to move Endeavour closer to HST. The NSR burn was performed at 7:11 a.m. and the NC-2 burn about a half hour later. The crew will be awakened around 6 p.m. Friday night for the final phase of the rendezvous with Hubble. At approximately 1 a.m. Saturday, another burn will put the orbiter 8 nautical miles behind HST with grapple to follow around 3:10 a.m. About an hour later, HST will be berthed in Endeavour's payload bay, after which the crew will get to visually check the observatory for the first time in three-and-a-half years. All Endeavour's systems are performing very well. Endeavour circles the Earth every 95 minutes in a 317 by 303 nautical mile orbit, closing in on HST at a rate of 60 nautical miles per orbit.
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