Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 1:54 · Video file(10 MB)
Astronauts grapple Wake Shield facility during Endeavor's approach, demonstrating a successful rendezvous with detailed plume impingement tests.
Transcript
Dr. with the grapple fixture on the satellite. We don't see the dissonor mode is happening. We'll speed to get in the eye when we think about going back to safe mode. And the wheel speed is probably going up because it's trimming out the attitude. And my guy we think Wake Shield is doing fine. We are a minute and a half to a teacher cellOS. Get your back at 22 hours, 45 minutes. Roger that, sir. To recap, as you can see from this live television picture from Endeavor, the orbiter is closing in on the Wake Shield facility. Astronaut Jim Newman has extended the robot arm. Commander Dave Walker will be doing a slight fly around maneuver as had been predicted. He would do in order to align the grapple fixture on the Wake Shield facility with the robot arms and defector and its snares. You can see the grapple fixture on the Wake Shield almost in the center of this picture. A successful rendezvous so far for Endeavor. The Jetthruster plume impingement tests that were conducted at distances of 295 and 200 feed resulted in approximately 14 Jetthruster firings, which gave engineers all the data that they were looking for as far as the effect of Jetthruster plumes on an orbiting spacecraft we're concerned. So a textbook rendezvous for Walker and his pilot Ken Cockrell this morning. As Endeavor closes in for the grapple of the Wake Shield facility to complete it.