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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #60 on: 01/02/2012 10:39 pm »

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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #62 on: 01/02/2012 10:46 pm »

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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #63 on: 01/02/2012 10:50 pm »
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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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #64 on: 01/02/2012 10:55 pm »

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« Reply #66 on: 01/02/2012 11:05 pm »

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« Reply #68 on: 01/02/2012 11:13 pm »

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« Reply #69 on: 01/02/2012 11:16 pm »

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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #70 on: 01/03/2012 04:01 pm »
April 8, 1984 - Dances with Satellites


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Re: Challenger STS 41-C / Ace Satellite Repair Company
« Reply #71 on: 01/03/2012 04:11 pm »
With Solar Max in sight - about 200 feet away - George Nelson and James van  Hoften entered the payload bay.

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« Reply #76 on: 01/03/2012 04:44 pm »
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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