Published 2025-05-12 · Duration 3:03 · Video file(16 MB)
Astronauts Jim Voss and Mike demonstrating the challenges of installing handrails in the cargo bay of the Endeavour space shuttle.
Transcript
...was from a camcorder inside the airlock of Endeavour, looking out the hatch into the darkness of the cargo bay where the astronauts are working. This picture shows Jim Voss working by the light of his helmet, like a miner with a miner lamp on top of his helmet, working on a variety of tasks at a worksite on the starboard side of the payload bay. And again, now a different view showing Voss at the worksite. Voss is wearing the suit with the stripes....tail over the left wing there. Action. suit with the stripes over the left wing a little bit cloudy. Hello, everybody down there. There comes the sunrise. Okay, hello, Houston. We've got a good, clear view of it. The orbiter passing directly over Houston right now. We agree. Looks great. on the I don't know if it installed handrails Well, the aero helps, you know which way to engage it. The lock devices float freely, so we had intended to not lock it. They lock themselves and they don't stay where you put them. They just float freely back and forth. I rate the lock part of that a D because it doesn't stay where it belongs. The actual engagement of the handrail in placing it in place is a B, there is compensation required, and the SOPDOC does not stay well. When it's SOPDOCed, it comes right off. Just a slight pull. It's only stable. That was soft docked and it just came right off. So once it's installed, uh... And Mike, we think wake shield is doing fine. We are a minute and a half to a TDRS LOS.