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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #60 on: 12/26/2011 07:43 pm »
CapCom: Roger, roll.

PAO: Vehicle rolling from tail south around a 35 degree azimuth northeast… altitude 1.1… All APUs running at 106% rpm… distance one mile, 2.7 nautical miles altitude… 5 miles altitude…

CapCom: Columbia, Houston, you are go at throttle up.

PAO: Throttling up from 85% back to the 488,000 lbs of thrust that each of Columbia’s new engines has… 13 miles altitude, ten miles downrange. Each of the three fuel cells producing 7.8, 7.2 and 7.2 kilowatts respectively. 20 miles altitude, 18 miles downrange, velocity 4163 feet per second.

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #61 on: 12/26/2011 07:45 pm »

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #62 on: 12/26/2011 07:48 pm »

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #63 on: 12/26/2011 07:54 pm »

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #64 on: 12/26/2011 08:03 pm »

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #66 on: 12/26/2011 08:12 pm »
Young: Pc less than 50.

CapCom: Roger on the pc.

PAO: 25 miles altitude, 26 miles downrange…

Young: We have separation.

CapCom: Roger, SRB sep.

PAO: SRBs have separated. SRB engines have pulled away from the spacecraft at this time.
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #67 on: 12/26/2011 08:18 pm »
John Young was as enthusiastic after his sixth launch into space, as he probably had been after his first - Gemini 3 back in 1965:

"That is really some ride, I want to tell you. It hadn't changed a bit. It's the smoothest way to fly you ever saw."
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #71 on: 12/26/2011 08:43 pm »
With the Ku-band antenna Columbia was in contact with the ground for about one half of every orbit - thanks to the additional capacity provided by TDRS-A.

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #73 on: 12/26/2011 08:59 pm »
On their fourth lap around the earth, Columbia astronauts had a bit of a struggle opening the airlock hatch leading to their space laboratory. But with the right amount of patience, force - and a swiss army knife - they succeded at last.
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #76 on: 12/26/2011 09:23 pm »
CapCom (Franklin Chang-Diaz): And Columbia, Houston, we can see you coming down the tunnel. You’ve got about 11 and a half more minutes of TV coverage. Welcome to Spacelab.

Garriott: Okay, we are just moving into Spacelab right now.

PAO: Left in the field of view mission specialist Owen Garriott and to the right payload specialist Byron Lichtenberg, followed by European Space Agency’s payload specialist Ulf Merbold… now in the Spacelab module for the first time.

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #78 on: 12/26/2011 09:42 pm »
But there wasn't much time for celebration - 72 Experiments in the areas of life sciences, materials science, Earth observation, astronomy and atmospheric physics stood on the agenda. In order to maximise the resulting amount of data, the astronauts worked 24/7 in two shifts. The "Red Team" consisted of CDR John Young, MS2 Robert Parker and PS1 Ulf Merbold, the "Blue Team" of PLT Brewster Shaw, MS1 Owen Garriott and PS2 Byron Lichtenberg.

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Re: Columbia STS-9 / Spacelab 1 - Screenshots
« Reply #79 on: 12/26/2011 09:58 pm »
A second Mission Control, responsible for all scientific aspects of the mission, had been established at Johnson Space Center. In addition to the POCC (Payloads Operations Control Center) project scientists at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and at Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich in West-Germany had the chance to follow their experiments and sometimes speak directly to the astronauts.

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