We backed away from it again, but we didn't feel quite as bad because we knew they could get it under control again. On the second day, we had a little more training and some lessons learned, and we tried six times before the satellite was kind of running out of control. But 30 minutes later or so, they called up and said the satellite was back under control and we could try again tomorrow. What do you remember most from that part of the mission?īrandenstein: The first day when we had no success, we felt really bad about it because we thought that was it. After you and your crewmates discovered the tools to retrieve the satellite didn't quite work as they were intended, you had to improvise a bit. : The pictures from the STS-49 mission, especially during the three-person spacewalk, are incredible. It was a very clean vehicle, it flew very well. And as it turned out, it was an excellent vehicle, and that was fortunate because the mission had more than its share of challenges. Getting onboard, there was no trepidation or anything like that, relative to the fact it was a new vehicle. And that was done on purpose, for training, especially as all the vehicles evolved. Endeavour was new, but the orbiters were all very similar. What was it like to command a vehicle on its maiden voyage?ĭan Brandenstein: It was a neat opportunity – a real honor. sat down with Brandenstein recently to reminisce about Endeavour's first mission, its contribution to the space shuttle program, the future of human spaceflight, and how he almost flew every orbiter in NASA's fleet:
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