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    STS-103 Post Flight Crew Presentation

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    • Title STS-103 Post Flight Crew Presentation
    • Released: 03/02/2000
    • Length 00:15:04
    • Language English
    • Footage Type Documentary
    • Copyright NASA
    • Description

      The STS-103 shuttle mission was launched on 20 December 1999, from the Kennedy Space Centre, and is the third flight to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint NASA/ESA project.

      Crew members include ESA astronauts Claude Nicollier and Jean-Francois Clervoy. Other STS-103 crew members were: Curtis L. Brown, commander; Scott J. Kelly, pilot; Steven L. Smith, mission specialist; C. Michael Foale, mission specialist; John M. Grunsfeld, mission specialist.

      This video provides a post flight summary of the mission, as follows:

      crew suited up; pressure checks on space suits; crew leave operations and checkout building; daytime views of launch pad; crew strapped into position for launch; night view of launch pad; night launch; ignition of main engines; ignition of solid rocket motors; view inside cockpit at launch; booster separation; view of external tank ejection; opening of payload doors; jet firings; checking robotic arms; Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS), or Canadarm (Canadarm 1), view of earth from shuttle; EVA suit check; views of Hubble Space Telescope; mechanical contact with Hubble; berthing of telescope on payload bay; (EVA 1) astronauts replace Hubble's three Rate Sensor Units (RSUs), each containing two gyroscopes, inside telescope; footage of Hubble from shuttle; (EVA 2) opening of bay and replacement of Hubble's main computer by Foale and Nicollier; exchange of a Fine Guidance Sensor, used to point Hubble at objects observed; tension during spacewalk whilst sliding sensor into place; storing of FGSs in orbital replacement carrier for return to earth; views from shuttle of Bird Island and Kennedy Space Center; (EVA 3) installation of new radio transmitter aand data tape recorder; thermal insulation blankets outside of Hubble replaced; Clervoy releases Hubble with robotic arm; Discovery space shuttle pulls away slowly from Hubble; shot of crew member waving in Santa Claus hat; astronauts stow equipment away as preparation for landing; footage of everyday activities on board shuttle; closing of payload doors; night landing sequence including thermal imaging footage; exterior footage of Shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center; crew walk around Discovery.

      The video includes excellent footage of the Hubble Space Telescope and EVA to repair the telescope.

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    • Activity Human Spaceflight
    • Mission STS-103
    • People Claude Nicollier, ESA astronaut, Jean-François Clervoy
    • System Canadarm, Space Shuttle Discovery
    • Location Florida, Kennedy Space Center
    • Action Approaching, Ascending, Commanding, Communicating, Controlling, Descending, Docking, Drifting, Encounter, Filming from space, Imaging, Interviewing, Landing, Launching, Mission planning, Orbiting, Parachuting, Picturing, Preparing, Presenting, Re-entering, Recovering, Repairing, Separation
    • Keywords 3D view, Aerial view, Antenna, Astronauts, Astronauts on board Space Shuttle, Booster, Canada, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Cargo, Control room, Earth orbits, Earth views (taken by astronauts), Engineers, Hardware, Hubble servicing mission, Illustrations, Imager, Images, Launch, Launch pad, Lift-off, Manned Missions, Manoeuvres, NASA, Navigation for spacecraft, Orbiters, Orbits, Panoramic views, Payload, Reentry, Rescue, Robot, Robotic arm, Robotic control, Robotics, Shuttle launch, Space walk, Spacesuit, US Europe Cooperation, USA, Voice Communication

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