1 00:00:00,133 --> 00:00:01,534 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 2 00:00:01,534 --> 00:00:02,736 HOUSTON, GOOD MORNING, YOU ARE 3 00:00:02,736 --> 00:00:06,706 GETTING A LIVE LOOK AT THE HTV-9 4 00:00:06,706 --> 00:00:07,540 VEHICLE AT THE END OF THE 5 00:00:07,540 --> 00:00:09,442 STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM WHERE IT'S 6 00:00:09,442 --> 00:00:11,678 BEING CURRENTLY MANEUVERED IN TO 7 00:00:11,678 --> 00:00:13,012 ITS BERTHING POSITION. 8 00:00:13,012 --> 00:00:13,847 IT WILL BE ATTACHED TO THE 9 00:00:13,847 --> 00:00:16,182 INTERNATIONAL STATION STATION'S 10 00:00:16,182 --> 00:00:18,118 HARMONY MODULE, THE MOM YOU 11 00:00:18,118 --> 00:00:19,619 WOULD AT THE VERY FORWARD END OF 12 00:00:19,619 --> 00:00:22,188 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 13 00:00:22,188 --> 00:00:23,623 WHERE IT WILL REMAIN FOR AT 14 00:00:23,623 --> 00:00:24,424 LEAST TWO MONTHS. 15 00:00:24,424 --> 00:00:25,425 THANKS FOR JOINING US HERE ON 16 00:00:25,425 --> 00:00:26,860 MEMORIAL DAY. 17 00:00:26,860 --> 00:00:28,595 YOU ARE IN THE INTERNATIONAL 18 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:29,896 SPACE STATION FLIGHT CONTROL 19 00:00:29,896 --> 00:00:30,830 ROOM. 20 00:00:30,830 --> 00:00:31,931 TEAMS HAVE JUST HANDED OVER TO 21 00:00:31,931 --> 00:00:33,867 THE ORBIT TWO SHIFTED TO. 22 00:00:33,867 --> 00:00:36,703 LED BY FLIGHT DIRECTOR 23 00:00:36,703 --> 00:00:39,239 [ INAUDIBLE ] FLIGHT DIRECTOR IS 24 00:00:39,239 --> 00:00:41,141 LEADING TEAMS HERE THROUGH THE 25 00:00:41,141 --> 00:00:43,276 BERTHING PROCESS AFTER JUST 26 00:00:43,276 --> 00:00:45,645 BEING CAPTURED MORE THAN AN HOUR 27 00:00:45,645 --> 00:00:48,982 AGO AT 7:13 A.M. CENTRAL TIME, 28 00:00:48,982 --> 00:00:53,319 8:13 A.M. EASTERN, 9:13 P.M. IN 29 00:00:53,319 --> 00:00:54,654 JAPAN. 30 00:00:54,654 --> 00:00:58,291 HE HAS HE IS THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR 31 00:00:58,291 --> 00:01:01,127 TALKING US THROUGH THE PROCESS, 32 00:01:01,127 --> 00:01:03,663 TO HER RIGHT IS TRAVIS THE 33 00:01:03,663 --> 00:01:05,165 FLIGHT COM. 34 00:01:05,165 --> 00:01:06,599 YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE HERE 35 00:01:06,599 --> 00:01:07,734 COMMUNICATING WITH THE CREW 36 00:01:07,734 --> 00:01:09,035 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 37 00:01:09,035 --> 00:01:09,269 STATION. 38 00:01:09,269 --> 00:01:15,208 CURRENTLY ON BOARD IS ISS 39 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:16,543 COMMANDER INTERNATIONAL SPACE 40 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:18,244 STATION COMMANDER CHRIS CASSIDY, 41 00:01:18,244 --> 00:01:20,880 WHO JUST AN HOUR AGO USED THE 42 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,449 STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM TO 43 00:01:22,449 --> 00:01:25,251 MANEUVER IN FOR CAPTURING THE 44 00:01:25,251 --> 00:01:28,288 HTV-9 VEHICLE FOR THE LAST TIME. 45 00:01:28,288 --> 00:01:30,523 THIS HTV IS THE LAST OF ITS 46 00:01:30,523 --> 00:01:32,025 GENERATION, THE NEXT GENERATION 47 00:01:32,025 --> 00:01:36,496 OF HTV CARGO CRAFT CALLED THE 48 00:01:36,496 --> 00:01:38,231 HTV X. 49 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:41,267 WILL BE IN A -- BE ABLE TO DOCK 50 00:01:41,267 --> 00:01:42,969 TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 51 00:01:42,969 --> 00:01:43,703 STATION. 52 00:01:43,703 --> 00:01:44,804 THE INTERNATIONAL DOCKING 53 00:01:44,804 --> 00:01:46,339 ADAPTORS ON THE FORWARD END. 54 00:01:46,339 --> 00:01:52,312 SO EQUIPMENT ON THE HTV-9 IS 55 00:01:52,312 --> 00:01:53,313 BEING USED TO TEST THE 56 00:01:53,313 --> 00:01:54,314 CAPABILITIES THAT ARE TO BE SET 57 00:01:54,314 --> 00:01:59,586 FORTH BY THE HTV X. 58 00:01:59,586 --> 00:02:01,521 COMMUNE A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION 59 00:02:01,521 --> 00:02:03,756 SYSTEM ON THE HTV-9 IS CALLED 60 00:02:03,756 --> 00:02:04,958 WILD. 61 00:02:04,958 --> 00:02:10,029 DURING ITS APPROACH AND 62 00:02:10,029 --> 00:02:11,464 RENDEZVOUS BEFORE CAPTURE THEY 63 00:02:11,464 --> 00:02:14,801 WERE TESTING A WIFI 64 00:02:14,801 --> 00:02:15,602 CONNECTION THROUGH SOME OF THE 65 00:02:15,602 --> 00:02:17,637 EXTERNAL WIRELESS PORTS ON THE 66 00:02:17,637 --> 00:02:18,638 OUTSIDE OF THE INTERNATIONAL 67 00:02:18,638 --> 00:02:19,038 SPACE STATION. 68 00:02:19,038 --> 00:02:23,209 HTV CURRENTLY LOADED WITH 69 00:02:23,209 --> 00:02:24,711 FOUR TONS OF CARGO. 70 00:02:24,711 --> 00:02:25,945 THIS INCLUDES ALMOST 71 00:02:25,945 --> 00:02:28,248 5,000 POUNDS OF PRESSURIZED 72 00:02:28,248 --> 00:02:29,482 CARING OH, INCLUDING SOME 73 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:31,184 EXPERIMENTS AND HARDWARE AS WELL 74 00:02:31,184 --> 00:02:34,120 AS SOME RESUPPLY OF CONSUMABLES, 75 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,655 INCLUDING WATER AND NITROGEN AND 76 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:36,456 SOME FRESH FOOD. 77 00:02:36,456 --> 00:02:39,993 IN THE MIDDLE THERE ISN'T 78 00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:41,628 UNPRESSURIZED COMPARTMENT 79 00:02:41,628 --> 00:02:43,997 CONTAINING A PALATE OF NEW 80 00:02:43,997 --> 00:02:46,299 LITHIUM ION BATTERIES. 81 00:02:46,299 --> 00:02:49,335 THERE ARE SIX LITHIUM ION 82 00:02:49,335 --> 00:02:53,206 BATTERIES WITH SIX UPGRADES TO 83 00:02:53,206 --> 00:02:55,808 COMPLETE THE BATTERIES ON THE 84 00:02:55,808 --> 00:02:56,442 SPACE STATION. 85 00:02:56,442 --> 00:02:59,479 THE SPACE STATION HAS EIGHT 86 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:01,014 POWER CHAMPIONS SIX FULLY 87 00:03:01,014 --> 00:03:03,950 UPGRADED WITH BRAND-NEW LITHIUM 88 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:05,385 ICON BATTERIES OVER THE PAST 89 00:03:05,385 --> 00:03:06,719 THREE YEARS, THE FINAL SET, 90 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,322 THESE SIX CARED BY HTV-9 WILL BE 91 00:03:09,322 --> 00:03:10,657 ONCE INSTALLED TO THE 92 00:03:10,657 --> 00:03:11,858 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, 93 00:03:11,858 --> 00:03:15,328 WILL BE REMOVED FROM HTV AND SET 94 00:03:15,328 --> 00:03:17,964 UP FOR FUTURE SPACE WALKS TYPE 95 00:03:17,964 --> 00:03:19,399 STALL THE FINAL SET OF LITHIUM 96 00:03:19,399 --> 00:03:23,336 ION BATTERIES ON THE S6 TRUSS OF 97 00:03:23,336 --> 00:03:24,837 THE SPACE STATION THE FACT 98 00:03:24,837 --> 00:03:27,173 EFFORT STARBOARD TRUSS SEGMENT 99 00:03:27,173 --> 00:03:28,608 THAT CONTAINS THE INTEGRATED 100 00:03:28,608 --> 00:03:30,743 ELECTRONICS ASSEMBLY, SWAPPING 101 00:03:30,743 --> 00:03:32,445 OUT SOME OF THE OLD NICKEL EYED 102 00:03:32,445 --> 00:03:34,080 HYDE GENERAL BATTERIES FOR THE 103 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,615 NEW LITHIUM ION. 104 00:03:35,615 --> 00:03:44,724 SPACE STATION AND HTV ARE JUST 105 00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:48,561 UNDER 270 STATUTE MILES OVER THE 106 00:03:48,561 --> 00:03:51,698 SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN THE ROBOTIC 107 00:03:51,698 --> 00:03:52,932 ARM IS IN THE HOLD POSITION. 108 00:03:52,932 --> 00:03:58,571 AT THE CONTROLS OF ROBOTICS 109 00:03:58,571 --> 00:03:59,606 OFFICERS ON THE GROUND. 110 00:03:59,606 --> 00:04:01,608 SOME OF THOSE INCREMENTAL MOVERS 111 00:04:01,608 --> 00:04:03,543 TO GET IT IN POSITION ON THE 112 00:04:03,543 --> 00:04:04,844 HARMONY MODULE, THIS IS THE 113 00:04:04,844 --> 00:04:06,613 EARTH-FACING SIDE OF THE MODULE 114 00:04:06,613 --> 00:04:08,915 AT THE FURTHER FORWARD PORT OF 115 00:04:08,915 --> 00:04:10,149 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 116 00:04:10,149 --> 00:04:47,020 JUST ABOUT AN HOUR AGO HTV 117 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:49,856 COMPLETED ITS 5-DAY RENDEZVOUS 118 00:04:49,856 --> 00:04:51,491 TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 119 00:04:51,491 --> 00:04:54,027 STATION LAUNCHING ON MAY 20TH, 120 00:04:54,027 --> 00:04:56,529 U.S. TIME. 121 00:04:56,529 --> 00:05:00,600 12:31 P.M. CENTRAL TIME, 122 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:04,203 2:31 A.M. JAPAN TIME. 123 00:05:04,203 --> 00:05:06,873 HTV-9 LIFTED OFF THE TOP OF AN 124 00:05:06,873 --> 00:05:10,109 H2 B ROCKET FROM THE LAUNCH 125 00:05:10,109 --> 00:05:11,611 COMPLEXION IN JAPAN. 126 00:05:11,611 --> 00:05:13,146 ONE OF THE ISLANDS THAT IS SOUTH 127 00:05:13,146 --> 00:05:14,347 OF JAPAN. 128 00:05:14,347 --> 00:05:19,819 THE 12-TON VEHICLE CONTAINING 129 00:05:19,819 --> 00:05:21,788 FOUR TONS OF CARGO MADE ITS 130 00:05:21,788 --> 00:05:23,623 ASCENT THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE IN 131 00:05:23,623 --> 00:05:25,425 TO HONOR BIT JUST NINE MINUTES 132 00:05:25,425 --> 00:05:37,537 LATER. 133 00:05:37,537 --> 00:05:38,671 SPENT THE LAST FIVE DAYS 134 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:39,472 CATCHING UP WITH THE 135 00:05:39,472 --> 00:05:43,109 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION JUST 136 00:05:43,109 --> 00:05:45,578 THIS MORNING GOING RIGHT ON TIME 137 00:05:45,578 --> 00:05:47,580 THROUGH THE PREDICTED SCHEDULE 138 00:05:47,580 --> 00:05:49,615 OF RENDEZVOUSING WITH THE 139 00:05:49,615 --> 00:05:54,087 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 140 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:55,822 ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY INSIDE 141 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:57,023 THE SPACE STATION TOOK CONTROL 142 00:05:57,023 --> 00:05:59,158 OF THE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM, 143 00:05:59,158 --> 00:06:02,095 ASSISTED BY IVAN VAGNER OF 144 00:06:02,095 --> 00:06:02,895 ROSCOSMOS. 145 00:06:02,895 --> 00:06:07,433 WAS ABLE TO HEAD IN A LITTLE BIT 146 00:06:07,433 --> 00:06:09,168 EARLY AHEAD OF SCHEDULE FOR 147 00:06:09,168 --> 00:06:13,106 CAPTURING THE HTV AND IT'S A 148 00:06:13,106 --> 00:06:16,042 FOUR TONS OF CARGO AT 7:13 A.M. 149 00:06:16,042 --> 00:06:18,878 CENTRAL TIME, 8:13 A.M. EASTERN. 150 00:06:18,878 --> 00:06:23,850 AT THE TIME THE INTERNATIONAL 151 00:06:23,850 --> 00:06:26,986 SPACE STATION WAS 260 STATUTE 152 00:06:26,986 --> 00:06:30,123 MILES RIGHT OVER TANZANIA OF 153 00:06:30,123 --> 00:06:30,523 AFRICA. 154 00:06:30,523 --> 00:06:41,167 AFTER HTV WAS SUCCESSFULLY 155 00:06:41,167 --> 00:06:43,836 CAPTURED WORST WERE SHARED BY 156 00:06:43,836 --> 00:06:45,238 CASSIDY HIMSELF AS WELL HE'S 157 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:48,574 LESLEY RING OWE THE CAPCOM OF 158 00:06:48,574 --> 00:06:50,510 THE ONE SHIFT IN MISSION ARE 159 00:06:50,510 --> 00:06:54,981 MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON AND ALSO 160 00:06:54,981 --> 00:06:58,317 A REPRESENTATIVE OF JAXA WAS 161 00:06:58,317 --> 00:06:59,318 STATIONED HERE IN MISSION 162 00:06:59,318 --> 00:07:00,052 CONTROL HOUSTON. 163 00:07:00,052 --> 00:07:09,629 THE FLIGHT CONTROL TEAMS IN 164 00:07:09,629 --> 00:07:11,464 HOUSTON HAVE BEEN WORKING IN 165 00:07:11,464 --> 00:07:14,100 TANDEM WITH THE FLIGHT SCROLLERS 166 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:19,038 OF SCUBA JAPAN OF HTV FLIGHT 167 00:07:19,038 --> 00:07:19,272 CONTROL. 168 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:33,886 AFTER CASSIDY CAPTURED THE HTV, 169 00:07:33,886 --> 00:07:36,622 RIGHT ON TIME, 7:13 A.M. CENTRAL 170 00:07:36,622 --> 00:07:38,457 TIME, HE HANDED OVERCONTROL OF 171 00:07:38,457 --> 00:07:40,660 THE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM TO 172 00:07:40,660 --> 00:07:42,895 ROBOTIC OFFICERS HERE ON THE 173 00:07:42,895 --> 00:07:44,564 GROUND. 174 00:07:44,564 --> 00:07:46,465 FROM THERE, THE ROBOTIC ARM 175 00:07:46,465 --> 00:07:48,701 ABOARD STATION HAS BEEN 176 00:07:48,701 --> 00:07:50,736 MANEUVERED REMOTELY BY 177 00:07:50,736 --> 00:07:52,338 CONTROLLERS HERE ON THE GROUND 178 00:07:52,338 --> 00:07:55,374 INCREMENTALLY TO ITS ANY 179 00:07:55,374 --> 00:07:56,676 BERTHING POSITION ON THE NADER 180 00:07:56,676 --> 00:07:57,710 PORT OF HARMONY. 181 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:12,892 WE ARE NOW A BREIF HAND OVER OF 182 00:08:12,892 --> 00:08:14,560 COMMUNICATIONS GETTING THEM NOW 183 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,195 AS WE SPEAK THIS WILL HAPPEN 184 00:08:16,195 --> 00:08:17,363 FROM TIME TO TIME THROUGHOUT OUR 185 00:08:17,363 --> 00:08:19,098 COVERAGE, COMMUNICATIONS, VIDEO 186 00:08:19,098 --> 00:08:21,100 AND AUDIO FROM THE SPACE STATION 187 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:23,402 COME BY WAY OF GEO SYNCHRONOUS 188 00:08:23,402 --> 00:08:25,805 SATELLITES TRACKING IN DATA 189 00:08:25,805 --> 00:08:29,909 RELAY SATELLITES. 190 00:08:29,909 --> 00:08:31,844 THEY ARE POSITIONED AND GEO SINK 191 00:08:31,844 --> 00:08:33,746 NEWS POINTS ACROSS THE GLOBE 192 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:35,548 HANDING OVER FROM SATELLITE TO 193 00:08:35,548 --> 00:08:37,783 SATELLITE AS THE STATION AND HTV 194 00:08:37,783 --> 00:08:41,320 FLY 17,500 MILES PER HOUR AROUND 195 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:42,622 THE EARTH EVERY 90 MINUTES. 196 00:08:42,622 --> 00:09:21,527 ANOTHER HAND OVER OF THOSE 197 00:09:21,527 --> 00:09:23,763 TRACKING AND DATA RELAY 198 00:09:23,763 --> 00:09:25,498 SATELLITES AGAIN THAT WILL 199 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:27,500 HAPPEN INCREMENTALLY THROUGHOUT 200 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:29,135 TODAY'S COVERAGE OF THE 201 00:09:29,135 --> 00:09:33,806 BERTHING, FINAL BERTHING OF HTV, 202 00:09:33,806 --> 00:09:36,142 FUTURE GENERATIONS OF HTV CARGO 203 00:09:36,142 --> 00:09:37,043 VEHICLES WILL DOCK TO THE 204 00:09:37,043 --> 00:09:38,577 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S 205 00:09:38,577 --> 00:09:40,179 INTERNATIONAL DOCKING ADAPTORS, 206 00:09:40,179 --> 00:09:41,314 THERE ARE TWO OF THEM ON THE 207 00:09:41,314 --> 00:09:42,915 FORWARD END OF THE SPACE 208 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:43,149 STATION. 209 00:09:43,149 --> 00:09:52,325 AT THIS TIME THE ARM IS IN 210 00:09:52,325 --> 00:09:53,960 MOTION, MAKING ANOTHER ONE OF 211 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,561 THOSE INCREMENTAL MOVEMENTS 212 00:09:55,561 --> 00:09:58,998 TOWARDS ITS BERTH -- THE HTV'S 213 00:09:58,998 --> 00:10:00,433 BERTHING POSITION AT THE NODE 214 00:10:00,433 --> 00:10:02,835 TWO HARMONY MODULE THE 215 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:03,736 EARTH-FACING SIDE. 216 00:10:03,736 --> 00:10:23,022 BERTHING TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF A 217 00:10:23,022 --> 00:10:24,657 DIFFERENT COORDINATION FROM 218 00:10:24,657 --> 00:10:25,157 DOCKING. 219 00:10:25,157 --> 00:10:30,329 DOCKING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED 220 00:10:30,329 --> 00:10:31,864 AUTOMATICALLY. 221 00:10:31,864 --> 00:10:34,066 ESSENTIAL A VEHICLE CAN FLY 222 00:10:34,066 --> 00:10:35,434 RIGHT IN TO THE DOCKING 223 00:10:35,434 --> 00:10:37,136 INTERFACE OF THE INTERNATIONAL 224 00:10:37,136 --> 00:10:38,671 SPACE STATION, ATTACH ITSELF. 225 00:10:38,671 --> 00:10:40,172 IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A FASTER 226 00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:41,407 PROCESS. 227 00:10:41,407 --> 00:10:43,209 BERTHING REQUIRES THE VEHICLE TO 228 00:10:43,209 --> 00:10:45,878 HOVER AT A CAPTURE POSITION, FOR 229 00:10:45,878 --> 00:10:48,314 THE CASE OF THIS VEHICLE HTV-9 230 00:10:48,314 --> 00:10:50,449 WAS 9.2 METERS AWAY FROM THE 231 00:10:50,449 --> 00:10:53,886 STATION TO BE CAPTURED BY THE 232 00:10:53,886 --> 00:10:55,821 SPACE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM. 233 00:10:55,821 --> 00:10:57,823 IT'S THEN MANEUVERED IN TO A 234 00:10:57,823 --> 00:10:59,458 PORT CALLED THE COMMON BERTHING 235 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:01,894 MECHANISM. 236 00:11:01,894 --> 00:11:03,496 WHERE IT'S ATTACHED BY FOUR 237 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:05,431 LATCHES AND 16 BOLTS TO SECURE 238 00:11:05,431 --> 00:11:06,665 IT TO IT THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 239 00:11:06,665 --> 00:11:06,899 STATION. 240 00:11:06,899 --> 00:11:13,039 THAT COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM 241 00:11:13,039 --> 00:11:14,774 HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A WIDER 242 00:11:14,774 --> 00:11:18,411 HATCH THAN THE DOCKING PORTS 243 00:11:18,411 --> 00:11:20,212 HAVE. 244 00:11:20,212 --> 00:11:21,947 SO BERTHING WAS ESPECIALLY 245 00:11:21,947 --> 00:11:23,349 COMMON DURING THE EARLY PHASES 246 00:11:23,349 --> 00:11:25,351 OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 247 00:11:25,351 --> 00:11:27,686 ASSEMBLY WHEN LARGE RACKS HAD TO 248 00:11:27,686 --> 00:11:29,955 BE BROUGHT THROUGH THESE COMMON 249 00:11:29,955 --> 00:11:30,956 BERTHING MECHANISMS. 250 00:11:30,956 --> 00:11:42,568 ARM IS CURRENTLY IN MOTION. 251 00:11:42,568 --> 00:11:44,637 SLOWLY BUT SURELY MANEUVERING TO 252 00:11:44,637 --> 00:11:48,074 THAT COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM, 253 00:11:48,074 --> 00:11:50,910 SPACE STATION AND HTV FLYING TWO 254 00:11:50,910 --> 00:11:53,746 UP 62 STATUTE MILES OVER THE 255 00:11:53,746 --> 00:11:54,947 SOUTHERN ATLANTIC ON OR ABOUT 256 00:11:54,947 --> 00:11:56,682 END. 257 00:11:56,682 --> 00:11:59,118 ON A NORTHEASTERLY COURSE 258 00:11:59,118 --> 00:12:00,219 HEADING TOWARDS THE WEST COAST 259 00:12:00,219 --> 00:15:41,173 OF AFRICA. 260 00:15:41,173 --> 00:15:42,274 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 261 00:15:42,274 --> 00:15:43,642 HOUSTON AT THE END OF STATION'S 262 00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:45,878 ROBOTIC ARM THIS -- THE GOLD 263 00:15:45,878 --> 00:15:48,180 STRUCTURE YOU SEE AT THE END 264 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:50,816 THERE IS THE HTV-9. 265 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:52,751 THE ROBOTIC ARM IS CURRENTLY IN 266 00:15:52,751 --> 00:15:53,152 MOTION. 267 00:15:53,152 --> 00:15:55,287 THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF 268 00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:58,223 NOT THE LARGEST CARGO VEHICLE 269 00:15:58,223 --> 00:15:59,725 THAT MAKES TRIPS TO THE 270 00:15:59,725 --> 00:16:02,394 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 271 00:16:02,394 --> 00:16:04,096 HTV-9 COMING IN AT JUST ABOUT 272 00:16:04,096 --> 00:16:06,632 12 TONS TOTAL. 273 00:16:06,632 --> 00:16:08,767 SLOW INCREMENTAL MOVEMENTS ARE 274 00:16:08,767 --> 00:16:11,804 NECESSARY FOR THESE ROBOTIC 275 00:16:11,804 --> 00:16:12,204 OPERATIONS. 276 00:16:12,204 --> 00:16:18,143 THE ARM IS IN MOTION. 277 00:16:18,143 --> 00:16:20,512 ONE OF SEVERAL INCREMENTAL 278 00:16:20,512 --> 00:16:22,214 MOTIONS TO GET IT IN TO ITS 279 00:16:22,214 --> 00:16:22,915 BERTHING POSITION. 280 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:25,184 RIGHT NOW THE SPACE STATION IS 281 00:16:25,184 --> 00:16:27,219 FLYING 260 STATUTE MILES OVER 282 00:16:27,219 --> 00:16:29,221 THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. 283 00:16:29,221 --> 00:16:30,255 THERE IN THE DISTANCE YOU ARE 284 00:16:30,255 --> 00:16:31,557 SEEING THE WEST COAST OF THE 285 00:16:31,557 --> 00:18:18,864 AFRICAN COUNTRY OF GABON. 286 00:18:18,864 --> 00:18:20,299 >> FROM THIS VIEW, YOU CAN SEE A 287 00:18:20,299 --> 00:18:21,600 LITTLE BIT MORE CLEARLY SOME OF 288 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,335 THE VERY SUBTLE MOVEMENTS OF THE 289 00:18:23,335 --> 00:18:25,871 ROBOTIC ARM. 290 00:18:25,871 --> 00:18:29,408 TO MANEUVER THE HTV IN TO PLACE. 291 00:18:29,408 --> 00:18:33,545 THIS VIEW COMING FROM THE COMING 292 00:18:33,545 --> 00:18:35,681 BERTHING MECHANISM, THIS IS A 293 00:18:35,681 --> 00:18:40,419 CAMERA FACING DOWN TOWARDS THE 294 00:18:40,419 --> 00:18:42,054 WINDOW AT THE CENTER OF THE 295 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:42,254 HATCH. 296 00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:48,494 A HATCH WHICH ASTRONAUT CHRIS 297 00:18:48,494 --> 00:18:50,596 CASSIDY ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL 298 00:18:50,596 --> 00:18:51,830 SPACE STATION WILL LATER OPEN TO 299 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:54,266 REVEAL THE NEARLY 5,000 POUNDS 300 00:18:54,266 --> 00:18:57,603 OF PRESSURIZED CARGO INSIDE HTV. 301 00:18:57,603 --> 00:19:13,685 ROBOTIC ARM WILL CONTINUE TO 302 00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:16,922 MANEUVER HTV TO ESSENTIALLY LINE 303 00:19:16,922 --> 00:19:20,058 UP WITH THE COMMON BERTHING 304 00:19:20,058 --> 00:19:22,895 MECHANISM AND INCREMENTAL PUSH 305 00:19:22,895 --> 00:19:25,197 CLOSER TOWARDS THE POSITION THAT 306 00:19:25,197 --> 00:19:31,270 WILL TURN THE THINGS CALLED 307 00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:33,205 READY TWO LATCH INDICATORS 308 00:19:33,205 --> 00:19:33,505 GREEN. 309 00:19:33,505 --> 00:19:36,108 THESE INDICATORS INDICATE THAT 310 00:19:36,108 --> 00:19:37,543 HTV IS LINED UP AND THAT THE 311 00:19:37,543 --> 00:19:40,612 LATCHES CAN BE DRIVEN TO HOLD 312 00:19:40,612 --> 00:19:41,713 HTV IN MACE, THERE ARE FOUR 313 00:19:41,713 --> 00:19:44,149 LATCHES AT THE END OF THIS 314 00:19:44,149 --> 00:19:46,885 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM THAT 315 00:19:46,885 --> 00:19:48,587 WILL HOLD HTV IN PLACE AS WELL 316 00:19:48,587 --> 00:20:08,073 AS 16 BOLDS. 317 00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:09,408 >> FROM THIS VIEW YOU CAN GET A 318 00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:11,343 GOOD LOOK AT THAT OPEN 319 00:20:11,343 --> 00:20:13,345 COMPARTMENT TOWARDS THE CENTER 320 00:20:13,345 --> 00:20:16,481 OF THE VEHICLE AND THE LEFT. 321 00:20:16,481 --> 00:20:18,116 THE GAP THERE IS REVEALING THE 322 00:20:18,116 --> 00:20:19,918 EXTERNAL PALATE. 323 00:20:19,918 --> 00:20:21,453 THIS IS THE UNPRESSURIZED 324 00:20:21,453 --> 00:20:22,354 PORTION OF HTV. 325 00:20:22,354 --> 00:20:28,026 THAT PALATE CONTAINS SIX NEW 326 00:20:28,026 --> 00:20:30,429 LITHIUM ICON BATTERIES AND 327 00:20:30,429 --> 00:20:32,464 ASSOCIATED ADAPTOR PLATES. 328 00:20:32,464 --> 00:20:35,701 THE PALATES MOUNTED ON THE 329 00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:37,135 UNPRESSURIZED PORTION WHICH IS 330 00:20:37,135 --> 00:20:39,137 OPEN AND EXPOSED TO THE VACUUM 331 00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:41,273 OF SPACE ONCE HTV IS ATTACHED 332 00:20:41,273 --> 00:20:44,876 AND OFFICIALLY BERTHED, ROBOTICS 333 00:20:44,876 --> 00:20:46,511 OFFICERS WILL BE ABLE TO 334 00:20:46,511 --> 00:20:50,382 MANEUVER THE STATION'S ARM AND A 335 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:52,384 SPACE MA ANYBODY LATER UNIT 336 00:20:52,384 --> 00:20:53,819 CALLED DEXTER AT THE END OF THE 337 00:20:53,819 --> 00:20:55,721 ROBOTIC ARM, DEXTER WILL PULL 338 00:20:55,721 --> 00:20:59,591 OUT THE EXTERNAL PALATE 339 00:20:59,591 --> 00:21:01,627 CONTAINING THE SIX NEW LITHIUM 340 00:21:01,627 --> 00:21:04,463 ION BATTERIES AND GET IT STAGED 341 00:21:04,463 --> 00:21:06,765 OVER ON THE STATION'S TRUSS. 342 00:21:06,765 --> 00:21:09,101 SO THAT THEY CAN BE INSTALLED 343 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:11,236 LATER VIA SPACEWALKS. 344 00:21:11,236 --> 00:21:16,408 THERE IS ALSO ANNEX CERTAINLY 345 00:21:16,408 --> 00:21:17,909 PALATE CURRENTLY ON THE SPACE 346 00:21:17,909 --> 00:21:20,746 STATION FULL OF OLD NICKEL 347 00:21:20,746 --> 00:21:26,451 HYDROGEN BATTERIES FROM THE PORT 348 00:21:26,451 --> 00:21:28,153 FIX TRUSS THAT WERE WRAPPED UP 349 00:21:28,153 --> 00:21:29,354 EARLIER THIS YEAR IN JANUARY. 350 00:21:29,354 --> 00:22:00,719 HTV CONTINUING TO MANEUVER IN TO 351 00:22:00,719 --> 00:22:02,921 ITS BERTHING POSITION. 352 00:22:02,921 --> 00:22:04,756 ROBOTICS OFFICERS LINING IT UP 353 00:22:04,756 --> 00:22:07,592 RIGHT WITH THE BERTHING 354 00:22:07,592 --> 00:22:09,795 MECHANISM, STATION AND HTV 355 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:12,264 FLYING AT 259 STATUTE MILES 356 00:22:12,264 --> 00:23:57,536 RIGHT OVER THE SAHARA. 357 00:23:57,536 --> 00:23:58,937 THIS AGAIN IS A VIEW OF THE 358 00:23:58,937 --> 00:24:01,973 HATCH OF THE HTV FROM THE COMMON 359 00:24:01,973 --> 00:24:04,810 BERTHING MECHANISM OF THE SPACE 360 00:24:04,810 --> 00:24:05,043 STATION. 361 00:24:05,043 --> 00:24:09,447 THAT COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM 362 00:24:09,447 --> 00:24:12,184 WILL BE -- HAS A SERIES OF 363 00:24:12,184 --> 00:24:15,620 HARDWARE TO OFFICIALLY MATE THE 364 00:24:15,620 --> 00:24:18,657 HTV WITH THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 365 00:24:18,657 --> 00:24:20,058 STATION. 366 00:24:20,058 --> 00:24:21,893 >> THIS IS STATION ON TWO FOR 367 00:24:21,893 --> 00:24:26,631 TIME LINE. 368 00:24:26,631 --> 00:24:27,432 >> GO AHEAD, CHRIS. 369 00:24:27,432 --> 00:24:32,270 >> WELCOME TO WORK. 370 00:24:32,270 --> 00:24:36,942 CAN GUYS -- ARE YOU ABLE TO 371 00:24:36,942 --> 00:24:38,677 ACCEPT ANY OF THOSE NEXT 372 00:24:38,677 --> 00:24:41,513 ACTIVITIES, THE SERIES OF THINGS 373 00:24:41,513 --> 00:24:43,114 AFTER MY MIDDAY MEAL ON THE 374 00:24:43,114 --> 00:24:43,682 PLAN? 375 00:24:43,682 --> 00:24:45,884 CAN YOU TAKE THEM NOW OR SHOULD 376 00:24:45,884 --> 00:24:47,319 I JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY COME UP 377 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:50,055 ON THE TIME LINE? 378 00:24:50,055 --> 00:24:51,656 >> ACTUALLY THE FIRST FOUR YOU 379 00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:53,191 CAN DO NOW. 380 00:24:53,191 --> 00:24:55,594 AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE DRAGON 381 00:24:55,594 --> 00:24:58,563 TOOLS TEAR DOWN I HAVE AN 382 00:24:58,563 --> 00:25:04,636 ADDITIONAL REQUEST FOR YOU. 383 00:25:04,636 --> 00:25:04,936 >> OKAY. 384 00:25:04,936 --> 00:25:08,874 DRAGON TOOLS TEAR DOWN THAT'S 385 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:09,708 THE FIRST ONE. 386 00:25:09,708 --> 00:25:11,209 SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL SEND IT TO 387 00:25:11,209 --> 00:25:14,346 ME NOW. 388 00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:14,746 >> OKAY. 389 00:25:14,746 --> 00:25:16,781 SO WHEN YOU GET THERE WHEN YOU 390 00:25:16,781 --> 00:25:18,216 ARE DONE WITH THE DRAGON TOOLS 391 00:25:18,216 --> 00:25:19,417 TEAR DOWN WE WOULD LIKE TO YOU 392 00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:22,454 PLUG IN THE REM USB AND IT CAN 393 00:25:22,454 --> 00:25:26,725 GO IN ANY USB EXCEPT THE BACK 394 00:25:26,725 --> 00:25:32,063 LEFT. 395 00:25:32,063 --> 00:25:32,797 >> COPY ALL. 396 00:25:32,797 --> 00:25:33,999 >> AND I DO HAVE ONE QUICK GO 397 00:25:33,999 --> 00:25:35,634 BACK FOR THE TIMELINE. 398 00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:37,569 WE ARE NOT READY TO DEACTIVATE 399 00:25:37,569 --> 00:25:45,510 THE LAB HD CAMCORDER YET. 400 00:25:45,510 --> 00:25:46,111 >> OKAY, NO PROBLEM. 401 00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:52,183 JUST MAYBE WHENEVER YOU ARE JUST 402 00:25:52,183 --> 00:25:53,785 GIVE ME A RADIO CALL, THAT WOULD 403 00:25:53,785 --> 00:25:55,020 BE GREAT. 404 00:25:55,020 --> 00:26:00,992 >> WILL DO. 405 00:26:00,992 --> 00:26:02,093 >> YOU ARE HEARING CHRIS CASSIDY 406 00:26:02,093 --> 00:26:03,828 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 407 00:26:03,828 --> 00:26:07,165 STATION GET THROUGH HIS WORKDAY. 408 00:26:07,165 --> 00:26:09,301 STATION AND HTV FLY RIGHT OVER 409 00:26:09,301 --> 00:26:11,836 EGYPT, YOU ARE SEEING THE NILE 410 00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:12,537 RIVER BACK THERE IN THE 411 00:26:12,537 --> 00:26:13,138 BACKGROUND. 412 00:26:13,138 --> 00:26:22,547 THE EX-PERSONAL PALATE CONTAIN 413 00:26:22,547 --> 00:26:25,684 THE NEW LITHIUM ION BATTERIES 414 00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:27,218 COMING CLEAR IN TO VIEW THERE. 415 00:26:27,218 --> 00:26:29,020 THAT WHITE BOX STRUCTURE TOWARDS 416 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:30,755 THE CENTER OF THE VEHICLE. 417 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:35,927 CASSIDY, YOU ARE HEARING HIM 418 00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:37,262 WORK THROUGH HIS WORKDAY, HE HAS 419 00:26:37,262 --> 00:26:40,799 SOME PREPARATIONS TO WORK 420 00:26:40,799 --> 00:26:42,400 THROUGH THE PRESSURIZATION AND 421 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,370 LEAK CHECKING ONCE HTV HAS 422 00:26:45,370 --> 00:26:47,806 BERTHED TO THE INTERNATIONAL 423 00:26:47,806 --> 00:26:48,740 SPACE STATION, YOU ARE ALSO 424 00:26:48,740 --> 00:26:50,241 HEARING HIM DO SOME REP WORK FOR 425 00:26:50,241 --> 00:26:53,878 THE DEMO TWO LAUNCH. 426 00:26:53,878 --> 00:26:55,714 JUST TWO DAYS FROM NOW, BOB 427 00:26:55,714 --> 00:26:58,083 BEHNKEN AND DOUG HURLEY WILL 428 00:26:58,083 --> 00:26:59,884 LIFT OFF FROM THE COAST OF THE 429 00:26:59,884 --> 00:27:01,619 FLORIDA, THE FIRST TIME HUMANS 430 00:27:01,619 --> 00:27:02,554 WILL LAUNCH FROM THE COAST OF 431 00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:03,755 THE U.S. IN NINE YEARS. 432 00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:13,865 OF COURSE HE HAS PREPARATIONS 433 00:27:13,865 --> 00:27:17,502 FOR THE WELCOMING HIS TWO NASA 434 00:27:17,502 --> 00:27:19,104 ASTRONAUT CREWMATES. 435 00:27:19,104 --> 00:27:23,975 SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH ON THE 436 00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:27,412 27TH, ARRIVE MAY 28TH, THIS 437 00:27:27,412 --> 00:27:27,679 THURSDAY. 438 00:27:27,679 --> 00:27:37,122 BUT, BEING, ONE OF THE ITEMS ON 439 00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:39,958 CASSIDY'S TO DO LIST FOR THE 440 00:27:39,958 --> 00:27:41,659 EARLY PARTS OF THIS WEEK WILL BE 441 00:27:41,659 --> 00:27:42,894 OPENING UP THE HATCH OF THE HTV 442 00:27:42,894 --> 00:27:45,563 AND REVEALING THE 5,000 POUNDS 443 00:27:45,563 --> 00:27:47,399 OF PRESSURIZED CARGO THAT'S 444 00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:47,799 INSIDE. 445 00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:59,511 HTV FINISHING UP THIS ROBOTICS 446 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:01,146 MANEUVER TO LINE UP WITH THE 447 00:28:01,146 --> 00:28:02,680 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM NOW 448 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,983 HOLDING. 449 00:28:04,983 --> 00:28:05,984 AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THE 450 00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:09,721 INCREMENTAL STEPS FOR HTV TO 451 00:28:09,721 --> 00:28:10,755 BERTH. 452 00:28:10,755 --> 00:28:12,557 ONCE IT DOES BERTH IT WILL BE 453 00:28:12,557 --> 00:28:14,993 BERTHED IN TWO STAGE. 454 00:28:14,993 --> 00:28:16,428 SECOND STAGE WILL BE THE 455 00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:18,430 OFFICIAL BERTHING WHEN ALL FOUR 456 00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:20,565 LATCHES ARE DRIVEN AND 16 BOLTS 457 00:28:20,565 --> 00:29:19,390 ARE IN PLACE. 458 00:29:19,390 --> 00:29:22,227 >> WITH THAT GOOD CHECK OUT FROM 459 00:29:22,227 --> 00:29:24,662 THAT HOLD POSITION, ARM IS NOW 460 00:29:24,662 --> 00:29:27,499 MOVING ONCE AGAIN. 461 00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:29,100 THIS MOVEMENT CLOSING IN ON THE 462 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:30,535 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM, 463 00:29:30,535 --> 00:29:32,036 YOU'LL SEE IT GET CLOSER TO THE 464 00:29:32,036 --> 00:29:33,571 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AS 465 00:29:33,571 --> 00:29:35,807 THE STATION FLIES 261 STATUTE 466 00:29:35,807 --> 00:29:37,742 MILES WITH HTV AT THE END OF THE 467 00:29:37,742 --> 00:30:47,712 ROBOTIC ARM RIGHT OVER SYRIA 468 00:30:47,712 --> 00:30:51,950 ROBOTIC ARM IS IN MOTION PUSHING 469 00:30:51,950 --> 00:30:53,384 HTV TO THE COMMON BERGING 470 00:30:53,384 --> 00:30:53,785 MECHANISM. 471 00:30:53,785 --> 00:30:55,720 IT WILL BE AN INNING CORRUPT THE 472 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:56,221 STEP. 473 00:30:56,221 --> 00:30:57,822 IT WILL PAUSE A LITTLE BIT 474 00:30:57,822 --> 00:30:58,957 BEFORE IT ACTUALLY GOES ALL THE 475 00:30:58,957 --> 00:31:00,158 WAY TO TOUCH WITH THE COMMON 476 00:31:00,158 --> 00:31:02,093 BERTHING MECHANISM AND TURN 477 00:31:02,093 --> 00:31:04,929 THOSE READY TWO LATCH INDICATORS 478 00:31:04,929 --> 00:31:05,930 GREEN. 479 00:31:05,930 --> 00:31:07,332 >> STATION HOUSTON, SPACE TO 480 00:31:07,332 --> 00:31:08,766 GROUND TWO FOR CHRIS. 481 00:31:08,766 --> 00:31:12,503 YOU DO HAVE A GO TO DEACTIVATE 482 00:31:12,503 --> 00:31:15,073 THE LAB CAMCORDER AT YOUR 483 00:31:15,073 --> 00:31:15,473 CONVENIENCE. 484 00:31:15,473 --> 00:31:17,075 AND JUST TO CONFIRM, WE DO NOT 485 00:31:17,075 --> 00:31:20,044 HAVE A GO FOR THE NODE TWO CBCS 486 00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:26,618 CAMERA YET. 487 00:31:26,618 --> 00:32:01,619 >> COPY ALL. 488 00:32:01,619 --> 00:32:03,521 >> YOU ARE SEEING HTV GET A 489 00:32:03,521 --> 00:32:05,323 LITTLE CLOSER TO THE COMMON 490 00:32:05,323 --> 00:32:07,058 BERTHING MECHANISM. 491 00:32:07,058 --> 00:32:08,393 IN THE BACKGROUND THERE IS THE 492 00:32:08,393 --> 00:32:09,894 CASPIAN SEAS. 493 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,030 THE STATION AND HTV FLYING 262 494 00:32:12,030 --> 00:32:15,767 STATUTE MILES HEAD ON THE GROUND 495 00:32:15,767 --> 00:32:18,002 A NORTHEASTERLY COURSE. 496 00:32:18,002 --> 00:32:19,337 WILL SOON BE PASSING OVER 497 00:32:19,337 --> 00:32:21,739 BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN. 498 00:32:21,739 --> 00:32:28,613 IT WAS FROM BAIKONUR THAT JUST 499 00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:33,751 LAST MONTH IT WAS CASSIDY, CHRIS 500 00:32:33,751 --> 00:32:36,688 CASSIDY, NASA ASTRONAUT AS WELL 501 00:32:36,688 --> 00:32:39,724 AS TWO ROSE COURSE KNOW NATS, 502 00:32:39,724 --> 00:32:58,376 IVAN VAGNER ANATOLY IVANISHIN WE 503 00:32:58,376 --> 00:33:00,645 WANT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 504 00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:00,878 STATION. 505 00:33:00,878 --> 00:33:15,093 ANOTHER HAND OVER OF VIDEO AND 506 00:33:15,093 --> 00:33:16,794 AUDIO COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE 507 00:33:16,794 --> 00:33:18,730 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, 508 00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:19,831 AGAIN THIS WILL HAPPEN 509 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:21,966 INCREMENTALLY THROUGHOUT THE 510 00:33:21,966 --> 00:33:23,067 DAY'S COVERAGE. 511 00:33:23,067 --> 00:33:30,775 VIDEO AND AUDIO COMING VIA 512 00:33:30,775 --> 00:33:33,511 GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITES, 513 00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:36,547 TRACKING AND RELAY SATELLITE 514 00:33:36,547 --> 00:33:38,883 STATIONED 23,000 MILES AWAY FROM 515 00:33:38,883 --> 00:33:39,384 EARTH. 516 00:33:39,384 --> 00:33:40,785 BUT ACROSS THE EQUATOR. 517 00:33:40,785 --> 00:34:00,004 AT THIS TIME THE ROBOTIC ARM HAS 518 00:34:00,004 --> 00:34:02,940 FINISH ITS INCREMENTAL MOVEMENT, 519 00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:09,714 NOW HOLDING. 520 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:15,086 ROBOTICS OFFICERS ON THE GROUND 521 00:34:15,086 --> 00:34:16,721 WILL VERIFY ITS POSITION, MAKE 522 00:34:16,721 --> 00:34:18,122 SURE IT'S GOOD TO GO BEFORE 523 00:34:18,122 --> 00:34:19,557 PROCEEDING WITH THE NEXT SET OF 524 00:34:19,557 --> 00:34:19,824 MOVEMENTS. 525 00:34:19,824 --> 00:34:30,368 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION NOW 526 00:34:30,368 --> 00:34:32,003 PLYING 262 STATUTE MILES RIGHT 527 00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:56,260 OVER BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN. 528 00:34:56,260 --> 00:35:00,398 >> HOUSTON STATION ON TWO. 529 00:35:00,398 --> 00:35:03,434 >> GO AHEAD. 530 00:35:03,434 --> 00:35:04,869 >> JUST WANT TO CONFIRM WE NO 531 00:35:04,869 --> 00:35:07,405 LONGER HAVE A CUPOLA WINDOW TWO 532 00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:08,506 CONSTRAINT. 533 00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:10,842 I DON'T SEE IT IN THE CREW BAN, 534 00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:17,014 I AM JUST DOUBLE CHECKING. 535 00:35:17,014 --> 00:35:18,316 >> THAT IS CORRECT. 536 00:35:18,316 --> 00:35:19,517 THE CONSTRAINT NO LONGER 537 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:25,289 APPLIES. 538 00:35:25,289 --> 00:35:42,139 >> COPY, THANKS. 539 00:35:42,139 --> 00:35:42,874 >> YOU WERE JUST HEARING 540 00:35:42,874 --> 00:35:44,108 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 541 00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:47,778 COMMANDER CHRIS CASSIDY SPEAKING 542 00:35:47,778 --> 00:35:49,480 WITH TRAVIS FITZGERALD WHO IS 543 00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:54,151 THE CAP COM HERE IN COMMISSION 544 00:35:54,151 --> 00:35:55,453 CONTROL HOUSTON DURING THE CON 545 00:35:55,453 --> 00:35:57,788 DAY VIEW PHASE OF HTV'S FLIGHT 546 00:35:57,788 --> 00:35:58,689 TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 547 00:35:58,689 --> 00:35:59,824 STATION THERE ARE SEVERAL 548 00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:00,825 CONSTRAINTS. 549 00:36:00,825 --> 00:36:04,161 MAINLY SAFETY PRECAUTIONS. 550 00:36:04,161 --> 00:36:08,099 THE CUPOLA IS A SEVEN-BUY WINDOW 551 00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:10,034 ON THE SPACE STATION THAT LOOKS 552 00:36:10,034 --> 00:36:10,935 RIGHT DOWN ON THE EARTH AND 553 00:36:10,935 --> 00:36:12,470 PROVIDES A REALLY GOOD VIEW OF 554 00:36:12,470 --> 00:36:18,543 ESPECIALLY EARTH OBSERVATION 555 00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:20,044 RESEARCH STUNT, DURING VISITING 556 00:36:20,044 --> 00:36:21,679 RENDEZVOUS OPERATIONS 557 00:36:21,679 --> 00:36:23,014 TRADITIONALLY THESE WINDOWS ARE 558 00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:27,084 CLOSED NOW THAT HTV HAS ARRIVED 559 00:36:27,084 --> 00:36:28,486 AT THE SPACE STATION AT THE 560 00:36:28,486 --> 00:36:29,921 HANDS OF THE ROBOTIC ARM SOME OF 561 00:36:29,921 --> 00:36:31,022 THE CONSTRAINTS OF CLOSING THE 562 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:32,623 SHUTTERS TO THE WINDOWS HAVE NOW 563 00:36:32,623 --> 00:36:33,658 BEEN LIFTED. 564 00:36:33,658 --> 00:36:41,632 THE ORBIT TWO TEAM HERE IN 565 00:36:41,632 --> 00:36:44,802 MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON LED BY 566 00:36:44,802 --> 00:36:49,240 THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR TAKING US 567 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,776 THROUGH THE OPERATIONS TO 568 00:36:51,776 --> 00:36:54,378 MANEUVER HTV FOR BERTHING TO THE 569 00:36:54,378 --> 00:37:30,514 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 570 00:37:30,514 --> 00:37:32,049 >> WE ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER 571 00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:32,950 FROM VIDEO FROM THE 572 00:37:32,950 --> 00:37:35,252 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HERE 573 00:37:35,252 --> 00:37:36,287 IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. 574 00:37:36,287 --> 00:37:41,993 ONCE WE DO REGAIN THE VIDEO 575 00:37:41,993 --> 00:37:43,427 YOU'LL SEE THE EARTH IN THE BACK 576 00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:44,762 OF HTV. 577 00:37:44,762 --> 00:37:46,430 START TO GET A LITTLE BIT 578 00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:48,466 DARKER. 579 00:37:48,466 --> 00:37:49,667 THE STATION IS HEADING TOWARDS 580 00:37:49,667 --> 00:37:51,002 THE TERMINATOR LINE. 581 00:37:51,002 --> 00:37:53,904 IN TO AN ORBITAL NIGHTTIME 582 00:37:53,904 --> 00:37:55,740 PASSING OVER THE SOUTHERN BORDER 583 00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:57,241 OF RUSSIA AND SOON OVER 584 00:37:57,241 --> 00:37:57,942 MONGOLIA. 585 00:37:57,942 --> 00:39:06,277 THIS IS MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON, 586 00:39:06,277 --> 00:39:07,511 AGAIN YOU ARE GETTING A LIVE 587 00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:11,282 VIEW OF THE INSIDE OF THE 588 00:39:11,282 --> 00:39:14,418 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 589 00:39:14,418 --> 00:39:15,352 FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM. 590 00:39:15,352 --> 00:39:16,654 SHOULD BE REGAINING VIDEO FROM 591 00:39:16,654 --> 00:39:18,089 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 592 00:39:18,089 --> 00:39:18,989 SHORTLY. 593 00:39:18,989 --> 00:39:21,225 IN THE MEANTIME, HTV IS LOADED 594 00:39:21,225 --> 00:39:26,297 WITH ABOUT FOUR TONS OF CARGO. 595 00:39:26,297 --> 00:39:28,432 ABOUT 5,000 POUNDS OF WHICH IS 596 00:39:28,432 --> 00:39:30,534 PRESSURIZED CARGO CONTAINING 597 00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:34,105 FOOD, CARGO, SUPPLIES, SOME 598 00:39:34,105 --> 00:39:35,339 HARDWARE AND EXPERIMENTS. 599 00:39:35,339 --> 00:39:45,149 AS WELL AS CONSUMABLE RESUPPLY. 600 00:39:45,149 --> 00:39:46,684 INCLUDING WATER, NEW FRESHWATER 601 00:39:46,684 --> 00:39:52,723 AND NITROGEN RESUPPLY TANKS. 602 00:39:52,723 --> 00:39:53,758 SOME OF THE RESEARCH ON BOARD, 603 00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:54,859 PARTICULARLY THE RESEARCH 604 00:39:54,859 --> 00:39:56,093 SPONSORED BY THE JAPANESE 605 00:39:56,093 --> 00:40:00,030 AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY, OR 606 00:40:00,030 --> 00:40:02,233 JAXA, ONE SPECIALER EXPERIMENT 607 00:40:02,233 --> 00:40:04,769 CALLED JAXA ELF. 608 00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:06,303 STAND FOR ELECTROSTATIC 609 00:40:06,303 --> 00:40:07,605 LEVITATION FURNACE. 610 00:40:07,605 --> 00:40:14,678 THIS FACILITY IS ABLE TO SUSPEND 611 00:40:14,678 --> 00:40:17,281 DIFFERENT TERMS IN SPACE AT THE 612 00:40:17,281 --> 00:40:19,116 BENEFIT OF THE MICROGRAVITY 613 00:40:19,116 --> 00:40:20,451 ENVIRONMENT AND EXPOSE IT TO 614 00:40:20,451 --> 00:40:21,552 DIFFERENT THERMAL CONDITIONS. 615 00:40:21,552 --> 00:40:30,461 SOME OF THE MATERIALS THAT ARE 616 00:40:30,461 --> 00:40:31,662 BEING TESTED ON BOARD THE 617 00:40:31,662 --> 00:40:33,397 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 618 00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:35,432 INCLUDE SOME MATERIALS THAT 619 00:40:35,432 --> 00:40:37,434 COULD HELP WITH FUTURE SPACE 620 00:40:37,434 --> 00:40:39,670 EXPLORATION INITIATIVES, 621 00:40:39,670 --> 00:40:41,572 INCLUDING SOME TURBINE BLADE 622 00:40:41,572 --> 00:40:43,741 MATERIALS, SPACECRAFT EXTERNAL 623 00:40:43,741 --> 00:40:45,075 SHELL MATERIALS AND THE 624 00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:48,012 GLASS-FORMING ALLOY. 625 00:40:48,012 --> 00:40:49,947 NOW REGAINING SOME OF THAT VIDEO 626 00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:51,448 FROM THE SPACE STATION, YOU CAN 627 00:40:51,448 --> 00:40:53,884 ALREADY SEE AS THE SPACE STATION 628 00:40:53,884 --> 00:40:55,119 FLIES OVER THE SOUTHERN BORDER 629 00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:56,921 OF RUSSIA, WE ARE IN AN ORBITAL 630 00:40:56,921 --> 00:40:59,056 NIGHTTIME NOW, WE'LL SOON -- THE 631 00:40:59,056 --> 00:41:01,058 SUN WILL STOP ILLUMINATING THE 632 00:41:01,058 --> 00:41:03,093 HTV AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE 633 00:41:03,093 --> 00:41:03,694 STATION THAT ARE FLYING 634 00:41:03,694 --> 00:41:09,600 250 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH. 635 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,801 >> STATION HOUSTON SPACE TO 636 00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:12,036 GROUND TWO, WE ARE A LITTLE BIT 637 00:41:12,036 --> 00:41:14,672 AHEAD ON THE TIMELINE, SO THE 638 00:41:14,672 --> 00:41:17,174 NO-EXERCISE CONSTRAINT NOW 639 00:41:17,174 --> 00:41:18,008 APPLIES. 640 00:41:18,008 --> 00:41:19,210 SO NO EXERCISE RIGHT NOW, 641 00:41:19,210 --> 00:41:36,260 PLEASE. 642 00:41:36,260 --> 00:41:38,362 >> YOU JUST HEARD CAP C OFF. 643 00:41:38,362 --> 00:41:41,498 M TRAVIS FITZGERALD NOTIFY THE 644 00:41:41,498 --> 00:41:42,933 CREW OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE 645 00:41:42,933 --> 00:41:43,868 STATION OF AN EXERCISE 646 00:41:43,868 --> 00:41:45,102 CONSTRAINTS. 647 00:41:45,102 --> 00:41:46,904 THERE ARE SEVERAL EXERCISE 648 00:41:46,904 --> 00:41:48,606 EQUIPMENT FACILITIES ON BOARD 649 00:41:48,606 --> 00:41:50,140 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, 650 00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:52,276 INCLUDING A HYDRAULIC PIECE OF 651 00:41:52,276 --> 00:41:53,911 EQUIPMENT THAT SIMULATES WEIGHT 652 00:41:53,911 --> 00:41:54,612 LIFTING. 653 00:41:54,612 --> 00:41:56,013 THERE IS ALSO A TREADMILL AND A 654 00:41:56,013 --> 00:41:57,548 STATIONARY BICYCLE. 655 00:41:57,548 --> 00:41:59,483 SOME OF THESE PIECES OF 656 00:41:59,483 --> 00:42:01,185 EQUIPMENT CAN CAUSE LITTLE BITS 657 00:42:01,185 --> 00:42:03,120 OF VIBRATION THROUGHOUT THE 658 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:03,420 STATION. 659 00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:06,257 SO TO KEEP A STEADY ATTITUDE 660 00:42:06,257 --> 00:42:07,758 CONTROL THROUGHOUT THE DURATION 661 00:42:07,758 --> 00:42:10,194 OF THE BERTHING PROCESS, THE 662 00:42:10,194 --> 00:42:11,495 STATION WILL WITHHOLD ON ANY 663 00:42:11,495 --> 00:42:14,431 EXERCISE UNTIL HTV IS OFFICIALLY 664 00:42:14,431 --> 00:42:16,267 BERTHED TO THE INTERNATIONAL 665 00:42:16,267 --> 00:42:16,667 SPACE STATION. 666 00:42:16,667 --> 00:42:23,440 AT THIS POINT THE INTERNATIONAL 667 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,776 SPACE STATION HAS SWITCHED IT'S 668 00:42:25,776 --> 00:42:27,111 ATTITUDE CONTROL DISABLING SOME 669 00:42:27,111 --> 00:42:28,646 OF THE THRUSTERS ON THE U.S. 670 00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:30,347 SIDE TO PREVENT ANY PLUMES FROM 671 00:42:30,347 --> 00:42:31,482 INTERACTING WITH THE OUTSIDE OF 672 00:42:31,482 --> 00:42:31,715 THE HTV. 673 00:42:31,715 --> 00:43:38,215 MOTION IS RESUMING ON THE 674 00:43:38,215 --> 00:43:40,651 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S 675 00:43:40,651 --> 00:43:41,652 ROBOTIC ARM. 676 00:43:41,652 --> 00:43:47,458 IT WILL BE SLOW AND INCREMENTAL 677 00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:49,059 BUT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE HTV 678 00:43:49,059 --> 00:43:50,894 GET A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO ITS 679 00:43:50,894 --> 00:43:51,695 BERTHING PORT. 680 00:43:51,695 --> 00:43:53,831 LINED UP RIGHT NOW DIRECTLY IN 681 00:43:53,831 --> 00:43:57,167 FRONT OF THE NADER BERTHING 682 00:43:57,167 --> 00:43:58,569 PORT. 683 00:43:58,569 --> 00:43:59,603 THIS IS THE PORT ON THE VERY 684 00:43:59,603 --> 00:44:01,105 FORWARD END OF THE INTERNATIONAL 685 00:44:01,105 --> 00:44:02,539 SPACE STATION FACING TOWARDS THE 686 00:44:02,539 --> 00:44:02,740 EARTH. 687 00:44:02,740 --> 00:44:07,978 WE ARE STILL GETTING A LITTLE 688 00:44:07,978 --> 00:44:09,713 ILLUMINATION FROM THE SUN, WE'LL 689 00:44:09,713 --> 00:44:11,015 START TO SEE THAT GO AWAY. 690 00:44:11,015 --> 00:44:19,323 AS THE STATION AND HTV HEADING 691 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:21,859 TOWARDS THE NORTHEASTERN PORTION 692 00:44:21,859 --> 00:44:22,693 OF CHINA. 693 00:44:22,693 --> 00:44:27,631 AND THE SUN BEGINS TO SET OVER 694 00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:28,532 THE HORIZON. 695 00:44:28,532 --> 00:45:36,700 FROM THIS VIEW A CAMERA, 696 00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:39,036 POINTING RIGHT DOWN TOWARDS THE 697 00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:41,271 CENTER OF THE COMMON BERTHING 698 00:45:41,271 --> 00:45:42,673 MECHANISM, YOU CAN SEE THE HATCH 699 00:45:42,673 --> 00:45:44,741 OF THE HTV, YOU CAN SEE THAT 700 00:45:44,741 --> 00:45:48,679 VERY SLOW INCREMENTAL MOVEMENT. 701 00:45:48,679 --> 00:45:50,914 >> HOUSTON STATION, FOR 702 00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:53,050 PROCEDURE 2.005 CHECKING WITH 703 00:45:53,050 --> 00:45:56,286 YOU ABOUT EMBEDDED RF THINGS. 704 00:45:56,286 --> 00:46:02,126 EVEN INNING IS OFF. 705 00:46:02,126 --> 00:46:03,660 >> YEAH, WE COPY, CHRIS. 706 00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:06,296 THE RF I.D. READERS ARE OFF, YOU 707 00:46:06,296 --> 00:46:53,076 MAY PROCEED TO 1.2. 708 00:46:53,076 --> 00:46:54,478 >> YOU CAN SEE THE SUNLIGHT NO 709 00:46:54,478 --> 00:46:56,713 LONGER ILLUMINATING THE HTV 710 00:46:56,713 --> 00:46:56,914 HATCH. 711 00:46:56,914 --> 00:47:01,585 SOME OF THE LIGHTS REFLECTING 712 00:47:01,585 --> 00:47:04,321 OFF THE GLASS OF THE COMMON 713 00:47:04,321 --> 00:47:06,156 BERTHING MECHANISM'S SMALL 714 00:47:06,156 --> 00:47:07,157 CENTER WINDOW. 715 00:47:07,157 --> 00:47:17,868 STILL GOOD MOVEMENT AND 716 00:47:17,868 --> 00:47:21,705 ALIGNMENT FROM THE ROBOTIC ARM. 717 00:47:21,705 --> 00:47:23,006 PUSHING HTV RIGHT IN TO PLACE. 718 00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:27,678 THERE IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER 719 00:47:27,678 --> 00:47:29,913 PAUSE BEFORE IT'S PUSHED IN FOR 720 00:47:29,913 --> 00:47:30,814 ITS FINAL MOVEMENT. 721 00:47:30,814 --> 00:47:37,921 AGAIN BERTHING IS A TWO-STAGE 722 00:47:37,921 --> 00:47:39,423 PROCESS. 723 00:47:39,423 --> 00:47:41,124 FIRST THE READY TO LATCH 724 00:47:41,124 --> 00:47:42,960 INDICATORS WILL CURB GREEN AND 725 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,329 FOUR LATCHES WILL SECURE HTV IN 726 00:47:45,329 --> 00:47:46,863 PLACE. 727 00:47:46,863 --> 00:47:48,365 IT WILL BE OFFICIALLY BERTHED 728 00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:50,200 ONCE ALL 16 BOLTS HAVE BEEN 729 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,870 DRIVEN FOR SECOND-STEAMING 730 00:47:53,870 --> 00:47:54,271 BERTHING. 731 00:47:54,271 --> 00:48:09,820 HTV NOW HOLDING FOR ONE OF THOSE 732 00:48:09,820 --> 00:50:42,572 INCREMENTAL CHECKS. 733 00:50:42,572 --> 00:50:43,507 >> THIS IS COMMISSION CONTROL 734 00:50:43,507 --> 00:50:45,442 HOUSTON, HTV CURRENTLY BEING 735 00:50:45,442 --> 00:50:47,244 HELD RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE 736 00:50:47,244 --> 00:50:49,780 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM. 737 00:50:49,780 --> 00:50:52,516 ROBOTICS OFFICERS ON THE GROUND 738 00:50:52,516 --> 00:50:54,050 CHECKING THE ALIGNMENT MAKING 739 00:50:54,050 --> 00:50:55,051 SURE EVERYTHING IS OKAY BEFORE 740 00:50:55,051 --> 00:52:39,956 THEY MAKE THAT FINAL PUSH. 741 00:52:39,956 --> 00:52:43,727 >> AGAIN, HTV STILL HOLDING. 742 00:52:43,727 --> 00:52:45,629 WAITING FOR CHECKS OF A GOOD 743 00:52:45,629 --> 00:52:47,063 ALIGNMENT BEFORE MAKING THAT 744 00:52:47,063 --> 00:52:51,401 FINAL PUSH TO MEET UP WITH THE 745 00:52:51,401 --> 00:52:52,536 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM AND 746 00:52:52,536 --> 00:52:55,372 GET READY FOR READY TO LATCH 747 00:52:55,372 --> 00:52:55,872 INDICATORS. 748 00:52:55,872 --> 00:52:57,607 AT THIS TIME THE INTERNATIONAL 749 00:52:57,607 --> 00:53:05,415 SPACE STATION FLYING 261 STATUTE 750 00:53:05,415 --> 00:53:10,253 MILES, A FEW HUNDRED MILES EAST 751 00:53:10,253 --> 00:53:14,124 OFF THE COAST OF TANEGASHIMA 752 00:53:14,124 --> 00:53:16,226 WHERE JUST FIVE DAYS AGO HTV 753 00:53:16,226 --> 00:53:19,763 LAUNCHED FROM THE LAUNCH 754 00:53:19,763 --> 00:55:06,469 COMPLEX. 755 00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:08,505 >> THE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM NOW 756 00:55:08,505 --> 00:55:09,339 PROCEEDING WITH THE FINAL 757 00:55:09,339 --> 00:55:10,740 MOVEMENT TO LINE UP HTV WITH THE 758 00:55:10,740 --> 00:55:13,576 READY TO LATCH INDICATORS. 759 00:55:13,576 --> 00:55:15,311 THIS WILL BE THE FINAL ROBOTIC 760 00:55:15,311 --> 00:55:17,814 MOVEMENT TO PUSH HTV IN TO PLACE 761 00:55:17,814 --> 00:55:19,549 RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE COMMON 762 00:55:19,549 --> 00:55:21,051 BERTHING MECHANISM FOR OFFICIAL 763 00:55:21,051 --> 00:55:22,385 BERTHING TWO THE INTERNATIONAL 764 00:55:22,385 --> 00:55:23,486 SPACE STATION. 765 00:55:23,486 --> 00:55:25,121 AGAIN, BERTHING HAPPENS IN 766 00:55:25,121 --> 00:55:25,822 STAGES. 767 00:55:25,822 --> 00:55:27,924 SO FIRST STAGE WILL BE WHEN 768 00:55:27,924 --> 00:55:29,259 READY TO LATCH INDICATORS ARE 769 00:55:29,259 --> 00:55:30,660 GREEN. 770 00:55:30,660 --> 00:55:32,495 THEY'LL DRIVE FOUR LATCHES. 771 00:55:32,495 --> 00:55:36,733 AND SECURE 16 BOLTS. 772 00:55:36,733 --> 00:55:38,468 AND THAT WILL HOLD HTV IN PLACE 773 00:55:38,468 --> 00:55:39,969 FOR AN OFFICIAL SECOND STAGE 774 00:55:39,969 --> 00:55:40,370 BERTHING. 775 00:55:40,370 --> 00:55:45,942 WHERE HTV WILL BE OFFICIALLY 776 00:55:45,942 --> 00:55:49,512 MATE TODAY THE SPACE STATION IN 777 00:55:49,512 --> 00:55:51,881 THE MEANTIME ROBOTIC ARM PUSHING 778 00:55:51,881 --> 00:57:51,534 IN HTV FOR THE FINAL MANEUVER. 779 00:57:51,534 --> 00:57:54,571 >> ROBOTIC ARM NOW HOLDING HTV. 780 00:57:54,571 --> 00:57:56,673 WAITING FOR CONFIRMATION OF FOUR 781 00:57:56,673 --> 00:58:47,156 GREEN READY TO LATCH INDICATORS. 782 00:58:47,156 --> 00:58:48,358 >> AND WE HAVE CONFIRMATION OF 783 00:58:48,358 --> 00:58:49,792 FOUR GREEN READY TO LATCH 784 00:58:49,792 --> 00:58:52,228 INDICATORS. 785 00:58:52,228 --> 00:58:53,730 COMMON BERTHING MECHANISM NOW 786 00:58:53,730 --> 00:58:56,266 BEING CONFIGURED FOR FIRST STAGE 787 00:58:56,266 --> 00:58:56,566 BERTHING. 788 00:58:56,566 --> 00:59:07,944 AGAIN, WE NEED FOUR LATCHES AND 789 00:59:07,944 --> 00:59:10,079 16 BOLTS DRIVEN TO COMPLETE 790 00:59:10,079 --> 01:01:08,798 SECOND STAGE BETTERING. 791 01:01:08,798 --> 01:01:10,233 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 792 01:01:10,233 --> 01:01:11,834 HOUSTON IF YOU ARE JUST TUNING 793 01:01:11,834 --> 01:01:13,369 IN YOU ARE LOOKING FROM INSIDE 794 01:01:13,369 --> 01:01:16,305 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 795 01:01:16,305 --> 01:01:18,341 POINTING DOWN TOWARDS THE HALF 796 01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:20,943 OF THE HTV-9. 797 01:01:20,943 --> 01:01:22,278 THE FINAL ROBOTIC MOVEMENT HAS 798 01:01:22,278 --> 01:01:23,613 BEEN COMPLETED AND WE HAVE FOUR 799 01:01:23,613 --> 01:01:24,947 READY TO LATCH INDICATORS AND 800 01:01:24,947 --> 01:01:26,749 ARE PROCEEDING WITH FIRST STAGE 801 01:01:26,749 --> 01:01:28,584 CAPTURE OR FIRST STAGE BERTHING 802 01:01:28,584 --> 01:01:30,553 OF HTV TO THE INTERNATIONAL 803 01:01:30,553 --> 01:01:32,255 SPACE STATION. 804 01:01:32,255 --> 01:01:34,991 THERE ARE TWO STAGES, NEEDED TO 805 01:01:34,991 --> 01:01:38,761 COMPLETE THE BERTHING OF HTV TO 806 01:01:38,761 --> 01:01:41,264 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 807 01:01:41,264 --> 01:01:42,698 BY THE END OF SECOND STATEMENT 808 01:01:42,698 --> 01:01:44,867 WE'LL HAVE FOUR LATCHES AND 16 809 01:01:44,867 --> 01:01:47,670 BOLTS SECURING HTV TO THE 810 01:01:47,670 --> 01:02:40,089 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 811 01:02:40,089 --> 01:02:41,390 >> STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM HAS 812 01:02:41,390 --> 01:02:44,060 BEEN CONFIGURED TO GO LIMP 813 01:02:44,060 --> 01:02:45,795 DURING THE BERTHING PROCESS. 814 01:02:45,795 --> 01:02:57,106 THIS WILL ALLOW DURING THE 815 01:02:57,106 --> 01:02:58,808 BERTHING PROCESS FOR THERE NOT 816 01:02:58,808 --> 01:03:01,144 TO BE ANY UNNECESSARY TUGS ON 817 01:03:01,144 --> 01:03:03,880 THE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM. 818 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:11,988 WITH THE STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM 819 01:03:11,988 --> 01:03:14,023 NOW LIMP, FIRST STAGE CAPTURE IS 820 01:03:14,023 --> 01:03:14,290 COMPLETE. 821 01:03:14,290 --> 01:03:19,395 NOW PROCEEDING TO SECOND STAGE. 822 01:03:19,395 --> 01:03:27,370 AGAIN, SECOND STAGE MEANS FOUR 823 01:03:27,370 --> 01:03:44,620 LATCHES AND 16 BOLTS. 824 01:03:44,620 --> 01:03:45,821 >> STATION HOUSTON SPACE TO 825 01:03:45,821 --> 01:03:54,330 GROUND TWO FOR STATUS. 826 01:03:54,330 --> 01:03:55,631 >> CHRIS, JUST GIVING YOU A 827 01:03:55,631 --> 01:03:57,867 HEADS UP, WE HAVE FIRST STAGE 828 01:03:57,867 --> 01:04:00,703 CAPTURE OF THE C.B.M. 829 01:04:00,703 --> 01:04:02,205 SO THEY ARE PROCEEDING THROUGH 830 01:04:02,205 --> 01:04:04,941 C.B.M. OPS. 831 01:04:04,941 --> 01:04:06,075 EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL SO FAR 832 01:04:06,075 --> 01:04:09,011 AND ONE REQUEST TO YOU, WHICH 833 01:04:09,011 --> 01:04:11,647 MULTIMETER DID YOU USE FOR THE 834 01:04:11,647 --> 01:04:20,323 PRESSURIZATION, WAS IT KEPLER? 835 01:04:20,323 --> 01:04:22,458 >> NO, HOGANS I THINK. 836 01:04:22,458 --> 01:04:25,628 HOLD ON JUST A SECOND. 837 01:04:25,628 --> 01:04:32,802 I GUESS I PUT THE CODE SERIAL 838 01:04:32,802 --> 01:04:34,437 NUMBER BUT NOT THE MULTI MEETER. 839 01:04:34,437 --> 01:04:41,611 IT'S CALLED HOIGANS. 840 01:04:41,611 --> 01:04:42,812 >> OKAY, THAT WORKS FOR US. 841 01:04:42,812 --> 01:04:51,053 THANKS. 842 01:04:51,053 --> 01:04:52,989 >> YOU JUST HEARD CAP C OFF. 843 01:04:52,989 --> 01:04:54,190 M HERE IN MISSION CONTROL 844 01:04:54,190 --> 01:04:55,591 HOUSTON TRAVIS FITZGERALD 845 01:04:55,591 --> 01:04:57,426 CONFIRM TO THE CREW ABOARD THE 846 01:04:57,426 --> 01:04:58,728 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 847 01:04:58,728 --> 01:05:00,263 COMMANDER CHRIS CASSIDY 848 01:05:00,263 --> 01:05:01,797 RESPONDING POSITIVELY OF FIRST 849 01:05:01,797 --> 01:05:02,598 STAGE CAPTURE. 850 01:05:02,598 --> 01:05:10,873 NOW IN THE PROCESS OF SECOND 851 01:05:10,873 --> 01:05:11,507 STAGE CAPTURE. 852 01:05:11,507 --> 01:06:34,056 FOUR LATCHES NOW DRIVING NOW. 853 01:06:34,056 --> 01:06:36,092 >> AGAIN, FIRST STAGE BERTHING 854 01:06:36,092 --> 01:06:39,829 OF HTV TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE 855 01:06:39,829 --> 01:06:40,629 STATION IS COMPLETE. 856 01:06:40,629 --> 01:06:41,864 NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF SECOND 857 01:06:41,864 --> 01:06:43,899 STAGE. 858 01:06:43,899 --> 01:06:45,434 THOSE FOUR LATCHES DRIVING 859 01:06:45,434 --> 01:08:36,946 INCREMENTALLY. 860 01:08:36,946 --> 01:08:38,247 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 861 01:08:38,247 --> 01:08:40,282 HOUSTON, AGAIN, FIRST STAGE 862 01:08:40,282 --> 01:08:41,183 BERTHING COMPLETE. 863 01:08:41,183 --> 01:08:43,352 SECOND STAGE UNDER WAY, FOUR 864 01:08:43,352 --> 01:08:44,487 LATCHES BEING TERRIFIC 865 01:08:44,487 --> 01:08:45,488 INCREMENTALLY. 866 01:08:45,488 --> 01:08:47,523 NEXT IT WILL BE 16 BOLTS. 867 01:08:47,523 --> 01:08:52,995 ONCE WE HAVE GOOD CONFIRMATION 868 01:08:52,995 --> 01:08:56,732 OF FOUR GOOD LATCHES AND 16 GOOD 869 01:08:56,732 --> 01:09:02,404 BOLTS, WE'LL HAVE AN OFFICIAL 870 01:09:02,404 --> 01:09:04,840 BERTHING OF HTV TO THE 871 01:09:04,840 --> 01:10:32,161 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 872 01:10:32,161 --> 01:10:32,995 >> THIS IS MISSION CONTROL 873 01:10:32,995 --> 01:10:34,830 HOUSTON, WE HAVE FOUR GOOD 874 01:10:34,830 --> 01:10:36,665 LATCHES. 875 01:10:36,665 --> 01:10:38,567 NOW THE 16 BOLTS ARE DRIVING. 876 01:10:38,567 --> 01:10:43,672 THAT WILL SECURE HTV TO THE 877 01:10:43,672 --> 01:10:45,874 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND 878 01:10:45,874 --> 01:10:46,909 COMPLETE SECOND STATEMENT 879 01:10:46,909 --> 01:12:34,149 CAPTURE. 880 01:12:34,149 --> 01:12:35,751 >> AGAIN, SECOND STAGE CAPTURE 881 01:12:35,751 --> 01:12:38,087 STILL UNDER WAY, THOSE 16 BOLTS 882 01:12:38,087 --> 01:12:39,822 CONTINUING TO DRIVE. 883 01:12:39,822 --> 01:12:41,023 THAT WILL BE THE LAST PART 884 01:12:41,023 --> 01:12:42,858 BEFORE HTV IS OFFICIALLY BERTHED 885 01:12:42,858 --> 01:12:44,293 TO THE SPACE STATION. 886 01:12:44,293 --> 01:12:46,428 AND THIS TIME STATION AND HTV 887 01:12:46,428 --> 01:12:48,464 FLYING 265 STATUTE MILES OVER 888 01:12:48,464 --> 01:12:49,898 THE SOUTH PACIFIC ON OR ABOUT HE 889 01:12:49,898 --> 01:12:50,999 WERE, STILL IN ORBITAL 890 01:12:50,999 --> 01:12:51,400 NIGHTTIME. 891 01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:56,371 THOUGH HTV STARTING TO TO BE 892 01:12:56,371 --> 01:12:58,173 ILLUMINATED BY THE SUN, WE 893 01:12:58,173 --> 01:13:00,743 SHOULD SEE A GOOD SUNRISE HERE 894 01:13:00,743 --> 01:14:55,557 IN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. 895 01:14:55,557 --> 01:14:56,725 >> STATION HOUSTON SPACE TO 896 01:14:56,725 --> 01:15:20,949 GROUND TWO FOR CVCS. 897 01:15:20,949 --> 01:15:23,185 >> YEAH, CHRIS, ROBO IS DONE 898 01:15:23,185 --> 01:15:24,987 WITH CVCS. 899 01:15:24,987 --> 01:15:26,421 WE HAVE TURNED IT OFF AND YOU 900 01:15:26,421 --> 01:15:30,759 ARE GO TO PICK UP IN YOUR CVCS 901 01:15:30,759 --> 01:15:32,794 NODE TWO CAMERA REMOVAL ACTIVE. 902 01:15:32,794 --> 01:15:36,331 >> GREAT WORK. 903 01:15:36,331 --> 01:15:37,466 >> AND TO BE CLEAR, YOU HAVE A 904 01:15:37,466 --> 01:15:49,111 GO IN STEP THREE DECIMAL ONE. 905 01:15:49,111 --> 01:16:56,111 >> COPY. 906 01:16:56,111 --> 01:16:57,312 >> AND WITH THAT, WE HAVE GOOD 907 01:16:57,312 --> 01:16:59,648 CONFIRMATION ALL 16 BOLTS ARE 908 01:16:59,648 --> 01:17:01,583 DRIVEN AND WE HAVE FOUR GOOD 909 01:17:01,583 --> 01:17:02,684 LATCHES. 910 01:17:02,684 --> 01:17:05,721 THIS WAS CONFIRMED AT 9:46 A.M. 911 01:17:05,721 --> 01:17:07,856 CENTRAL TIME, 10:46 A.M. 912 01:17:07,856 --> 01:17:09,391 EASTERN. 913 01:17:09,391 --> 01:17:11,593 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 914 01:17:11,593 --> 01:17:16,031 AND THE HTV FLYING 267 STATUTE 915 01:17:16,031 --> 01:17:17,366 MILES OVER THE SOUTH PACIFIC 916 01:17:17,366 --> 01:17:26,742 OCEAN. 917 01:17:26,742 --> 01:17:28,777 >> COPY ALL AND THE NODE TWO 918 01:17:28,777 --> 01:17:32,014 VIDEO CAMERA PORT IS RETURNED TO 919 01:17:32,014 --> 01:17:37,886 THE NORMAL CONFIG STEP 2.3. 920 01:17:37,886 --> 01:18:01,176 >> WE COPY, THANKS, CHRIS. 921 01:18:01,176 --> 01:18:02,210 >> AND THAT COMPLETES THE 922 01:18:02,210 --> 01:18:04,946 JOURNEY OF THE HTV'S FLIGHT TO 923 01:18:04,946 --> 01:18:07,049 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 924 01:18:07,049 --> 01:18:09,985 NOW INSTALLED ON THE NADER SIDE 925 01:18:09,985 --> 01:18:12,020 OF THE HARMONY MODULE, THIS IS 926 01:18:12,020 --> 01:18:13,221 THE EARTH-FACING SIDE. 927 01:18:13,221 --> 01:18:14,356 THAT WILL BE ITS HOME FOR THE 928 01:18:14,356 --> 01:18:15,157 NEXT TWO MONTHS. 929 01:18:15,157 --> 01:18:16,691 OFFICIAL BERTHING TIME WAS 930 01:18:16,691 --> 01:18:20,429 9:46 A.M. CENTRAL TIME. 931 01:18:20,429 --> 01:18:22,564 THE STATION WAS 267 STATUTE 932 01:18:22,564 --> 01:18:24,366 MILES OVER THE SOUTH PACIFIC 933 01:18:24,366 --> 01:18:25,801 OCEAN. 934 01:18:25,801 --> 01:18:28,203 THIS COMES JUST AFTER CAPTURE 935 01:18:28,203 --> 01:18:30,739 THIS MORNING. 936 01:18:30,739 --> 01:18:32,774 CHRIS CASSIDY MANEUVERED THE 937 01:18:32,774 --> 01:18:34,309 STATION'S ROBOTIC ARM FOR A 938 01:18:34,309 --> 01:18:36,645 CAPTURE AT 7:13 A.M. CENTRAL, 939 01:18:36,645 --> 01:18:39,781 8:13 A.M. EASTERN THE STATION AT 940 01:18:39,781 --> 01:18:41,783 THE TIME WAS 260 STATUTE MILES 941 01:18:41,783 --> 01:18:45,353 OVER TANZANIA IN AFRICA. 942 01:18:45,353 --> 01:18:47,989 THIS COMES AFTER A 5-DAY TRIP 943 01:18:47,989 --> 01:18:50,525 AFTER LIFTING OFF ON MAY 20TH, 944 01:18:50,525 --> 01:18:52,360 YOUR HONOR TIME MAY 21ST JAPAN 945 01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:53,862 TIME. 946 01:18:53,862 --> 01:18:57,899 FROM TANEGASHIMA AT THE LAUNCH 947 01:18:57,899 --> 01:18:58,133 COMPLEX. 948 01:18:58,133 --> 01:19:05,774 WITH HTV'S INSTALLATION TWO THE 949 01:19:05,774 --> 01:19:08,009 SPACE STATION COMPLETE, CASSIDY 950 01:19:08,009 --> 01:19:11,680 WILL OVERSEE SOME OF THE 951 01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,181 PRESSURIZATION CHECKS BEFORE 952 01:19:13,181 --> 01:19:15,183 OPENING UP THE HATCH. 953 01:19:15,183 --> 01:19:16,718 AND ACCESSING SOME OF THE 954 01:19:16,718 --> 01:19:18,753 5,000 POUNDS OF PRESSURIZED 955 01:19:18,753 --> 01:19:19,554 CARGO INSIDE. 956 01:19:19,554 --> 01:19:26,828 HTV'S ARRIVAL COMES AT A 957 01:19:26,828 --> 01:19:28,563 CRITICAL TIME FOR SPACE STATION 958 01:19:28,563 --> 01:19:30,398 PRAISES DELIVERING NEW LITHIUM 959 01:19:30,398 --> 01:19:33,435 ION BATTERIES AS WELL AS A 960 01:19:33,435 --> 01:19:35,770 RESUPPLY OF CONSUMABLES, FOOD 961 01:19:35,770 --> 01:19:37,506 AND RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS, 962 01:19:37,506 --> 01:19:39,107 SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT. 963 01:19:39,107 --> 01:19:40,942 THIS COMES JUST TWO DAYS BEFORE 964 01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:43,879 THE LAUNCH OF HUMANS FROM 965 01:19:43,879 --> 01:19:44,980 AMERICAN SOIL FOR THE FIRST TIME 966 01:19:44,980 --> 01:19:47,015 IN NINE YEARS, MAKE SURE TO TUNE 967 01:19:47,015 --> 01:19:51,253 IN TO THE LAUNCH OF DOUG HURLEY 968 01:19:51,253 --> 01:19:53,488 AND BOB BEHNKEN FROM THE COAST 969 01:19:53,488 --> 01:19:55,223 OF FLORIDA THE KENNEDY SPACE 970 01:19:55,223 --> 01:19:58,960 CENTER LIFTING OFF A DRAGON -- 971 01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:00,996 CREW DRAGON VEHICLE ON TOP OF A 972 01:20:00,996 --> 01:20:02,330 FALCON NINE ROCKET. 973 01:20:02,330 --> 01:20:03,732 THE LAUNCH IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS 974 01:20:03,732 --> 01:20:04,866 WEDNESDAY, MAY 27TH. 975 01:20:04,866 --> 01:20:06,168 TUNE IN FOR OUR BROAD DAFT AT 976 01:20:06,168 --> 01:20:08,603 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL TIME, 977 01:20:08,603 --> 01:20:11,740 12:15 P.M. EASTERN FOR A LAUNCH 978 01:20:11,740 --> 01:20:16,811 AT 3:33 P.M. CENTRAL, 4:33 P.M. 979 01:20:16,811 --> 01:20:18,446 EASTERN. 980 01:20:18,446 --> 01:20:20,849 HTV'S FLIGHT NOW COMPLETE MAKE 981 01:20:20,849 --> 01:20:21,983 SURE TO TUNE IN TO THE LAUNCH OF 982 01:20:21,983 --> 01:20:26,021 HUGH HUMANS ONCE AGAIN FROM 983 01:20:26,021 --> 01:20:27,355 AMERICAN SOIL FOR THE FIRST TIME 984 01:20:27,355 --> 01:20:28,356 IN AMERICAN YEARS.