Back here today welcome to all of our regulars. We bring scientist of all disciplines out of the labs and onto the public stages to be part of the cultural life of new york city to be engaged by science with ideas and to interact directly also the secret science club but we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries so thank you to all the staff thank you for helping us to expand our universe and yours also. [applause] also we have the bar to the back in the left if you have not visited yet where there are cocktails call the atlantis a fabulous blue drink of which the speaker was a crew member and its very tasty we highly recommend it. Also thinks to cspan who is here tonight. To find out more of our coming events please visit our retro website secret science club. Blogspot. Com also sign up for our mailing list we like new members. You will know about the goingson. So tonight we are thrilled to present astronaut and scientist and author Kathryn Sullivan spendin
lass of female astronauts and her participation in the launch and maintenance of the hubble space telescope. in iowa mpaign events iowa caucuses.he go for ing by now for a auto sequence start. t minus 33. t minus 31 seconds. sequencer nd launch would not hand off to the orbiter s computers to complete because the liquid off when it owing on.uld be t minus 10. go for main engine start. engine start.ain five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of space discovery with the hubble space telescope. our window on the universe. sullivan, you ve written a book about the hubble and we re going to talk a lot about it today. that video all these years later what was it like for you on-board? it was one of my lifesaver moments. you just saw the skill, and calm of that exceptional team on full display. cockpit.t to the we had no role in this at all. screen he guys on the but we just sat and listened, not to the commentator but to communications, followed the discussion through. it was just
t minus 10. go for main engine start. we re go for main engine start. t minus six, five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of space shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope. our window on the universe. dr. kathryn sullivan, you ve written a book about the hubble and we re going to talk a lot about it today. watch that video all these years later what was it like for you on-board? it was oddly one of my favorite moments. you just saw the skill, professionalism and calm of that exceptional team on full display. we all sat in the cockpit. we had no role in this at all. it was the guys on the screen but we just sat and listened, not to the commentator but to the technical communications, followed the discussion through. it was just a marvel. i had the launch control center get me the audiotape of the technical control loops because i wanted to be able to have that souvenir. these were my guys, the team i m a part of. you tell this story as your book opens about the
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