:16:02
...and photographed by Mike Mullane.
:16:06
Deploy was on time.
:16:08
Discovery, Houston. We're watching
it and a lot of smiles down here.
:16:13
There's a lot of them here too.
:16:19
The crew eats and sleeps pretty much
to the same schedule as on Earth.
:16:25
In the early days, we heard
complaints about the food...
:16:29
...which was mostly squeezed
out of toothpaste tubes.
:16:35
Now, the crews eat what they want:
:16:38
Steak, strawberries, shrimp cocktail.
:16:47
The extension was about as nominal
as you could expect.
:16:51
We copy that, Henry.
:16:53
This flight, we've extended
an experimental solar array.
:16:58
It's not budging one iota.
It's solid as a rock.
:17:01
- We're about ready to retract now.
- It's folding smoothly.
:17:06
Such a device may use the sun's energy
to power the space station.
:17:11
It's wiggling a little.
:17:13
The leaves are so thin and the mast
so ingeniously contrived...
:17:18
...that the 100-foot-high structure
folds into a box seven inches deep.
:17:58
While the crew sleeps, ground flight
controllers watch over the orbiter.