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Crippen: Okay, Houston, she is … we’re backing out.
PAO: Slightly early acquisition through Hawaii…
CapCom (Jerry Ross): Challenger, Houston through Hawaii for ten minutes. We are getting pictures and I think I copied it deployed and backing away.
Crippen: It is …, Jerry, and it was as steady as the Rock of Gibraltar and just about as big.
CapCom: Roger that, thank you very much. All the Langley folks are cheering downstairs and we have got our LDEF buttons on up here… Challenger, Houston. TJ, we’d like a verification of the deploy time, please.
Hart: It was on time. (12:19 pm EST)
CapCom: Copy, thank you.
Crippen: We got a sweet lock on the radar at 70 feet.
CapCom: Roger, that sounds real good to us.
PAO: LDEF holding steady attitude. That last radar mark from the crew is 70 feet as Crippen described it steady as the Rock of Gibraltar and just as big.
CapCom: Challenger, Houston, we’d like to take control of delta if that’s all right.
Crippen: You bet, Jerry, go ahead. You can have any of the cameras now.
PAO: K-band radar currently showing the separation at 330 feet, separating at about .55 feet per second. 400 feet range, separating at .65 feet per second.
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April 8, 1984 - Dances with Satellites
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With Solar Max in sight - about 200 feet away - George Nelson and James van Hoften entered the payload bay.
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With the T-PAD docking device attached in front of his chest, Pinky Nelson fired the MMU thrusters and slowly - at a rate of 0.5 feet per second - left Challenger's payload bay enroute to Solar Max. It took him about 8 minutes to reach the slowly rotating satellite.
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