00:01And if I had to single out one single moment that gave me the greatest pride in my three
00:10missions, it was on the second mission when I had to capture a free-flying spacecraft
00:16called Spartan 207, which we had released a couple of days before and which we had to
00:23now recover and bring back to Earth.
00:29Endeavor, Houston for Spartan.
00:34Go ahead.
00:36Yeah, at this point, what we'd like to do real quickly is see if we can get a view of
00:42the
00:42top of the Spartan and then go ahead and proceed with the berth and RMS power down.
00:50Okay, and that's exactly where we were going, Bill.
00:54I'm rotating it now.
00:56Thanks, John.
00:59You got a good downlink.
01:01Affirmative.
01:03And this is really when the rubber hits the road, you have to capture it.
01:12And it's different from capturing a payload that's in the payload bay that's fixed.
01:19If you aren't successful, the payload you're trying to grab is not going to go anywhere.
01:25But if you make a mistake trying to grab a free-flying satellite.
01:30And remember, you and the orbiter are both moving around the Earth in tandem at 28,000 kilometers per hour.
01:37But if you do it wrongly, there's the potential for you to cause unwanted motion in your spacecraft.
01:43And then it's an extremely challenging task to be able to recover it after that.
01:49So I felt that was the moment when I really had to be successful.
01:55And it's the moment it worked out.
01:58And it gave me a huge amount of pride being a Canadian to operate that Canadarm and to capture a
02:06free-flying payload.
02:07So thank you very much.
02:10And that's all I was able to cover.
02:13See you in the next episode.
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