https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5a1394de-7e83-4c5f-b5db-e9183c1393b3 The flight crew of STS-80, Cmdr. Kenneth D. Cockrell, Pilot Kent V. Rominger, Mission Specialists, Tamara E. Jernigan, Thomas D. Jones, and F. Story Musgrave are seen performing pre-launch activities such as eating the traditional breakfast, being suited-up, and riding out to the launch pad. Also, included are various panoramic views of the shuttle on the pad. The crew is readied in the 'white room' for their mission. After the closing of the hatch and arm retraction, launch activities are shown including the countdown, engine ignition, launch, and the separation of the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) from the shuttle. The crew completes the first major objective of the mission with the deployment of the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (ORFEUS) on the reusable Shuttle Pallet Satellite. The crew then begins final preparations for the release of Wake Shield. Jones powers up the shuttle's Canadian-built robot arm and grapples the satellite, while Jernigan powers up the Orbiter Space Vision System, which will be used to track precisely the Wake Shield's location. Cockrell places Columbia in a gravity gradient attitude to minimize disturbances during the release. Jones uses the robot arm to hold Wake Shield in position for a two-and-a-half hour cleansing by atomic oxygen molecules before moving the arm to the deploy position. The failure of the hatch to properly open causes the cancellation of all EVAs planned for this mission by Jernigan and Jones. The mission ends with the shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center. Released Dec. 1996. Mirrored from YouTube: https://youtu.be/KkxdV1cT_D4 Original channel: NASA STI Program Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:29:47 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/ec5edb1e-3795-4978-be4f-c67e98fbc992.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/5a1394de-7e83-4c5f-b5db-e9183c1393b3 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.