12 minutes to launch
 

Rushworth:	No BCS check.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Russel:	Bob, I'm reading 844 on velocity, how do you read?
Rushworth:	Roger, 865.
Russel:	Roger.
B-52:	11 minutes.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	Precool off.
B-52:	10 minutes.
Rushworth:	APU cooling switch to normal. Both blowers BLN2. Pressure cooling lever is on.
Russel:	LN2 is off.
Rushworth:	33° and 44,500. 870 and zero H dot. Attitudes look good.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	Cabin source is 33.
NASA 1:	Roger. 008, left to 031°.
B-52:	031°.
Rushworth:	Helium shutoff valve switch is open. APU's coming on.
B-52:	9 minutes, about 10 seconds ago.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	We'll call the 8 minute point.
B-52:	Roger, NASA 1, call 8.
Rushworth:	Took a long time for it to get up there.
NASA 1:	OK to start #1.
Rushworth:	Roger. Going .......... 100% left.......... 3450, #1 i6 coming up, settling back down ........
Chase:	It's moving.
Rushworth:	Engine reset. Surfaces are OK. Flaps coming down, Woody.
Chase:	Roger, clear. Coming down.
Rushworth:	#1 is setting on 34. Flaps going back up.
Chase:	Up.
Rushworth:	Circuit breakers are shut.
NASA 1:	8 minutes now, 008.
B-52:	8 minutes, turning.
Rushworth:	Mixing chambers are, #1 -40 and #2 -50. Cabin source, in the turn, is 1-3/4° Position is .......... at the moment. Angle of attack has gone way up to 3+. Aux cabin pressure switch is on at 7 minutes.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	IFDS switch is auto. Fire extinguisher is auto.
B-52:	7 minutes.
Russel:	Lube oil temp 105.
NASA 1:	Give us an angle of attack check, Bob.
Rushworth:	Say again, Pete?
NASA 1:	Angle of attack check.
Rushworth:	Was that angle of attack check?
NASA 1:	What are you reading on a?
Rushworth:	Almost 4° right now.
NASA 1:	Rog.
B-52:	6 minutes.
Rushworth:	OK, I've completed the SAS check. Hi lo hi gain. Check my stabilizer position, Woody, when you get in position.
Chase:	Rog. Looks good.
NASA 1:	008, shallow out your turn just a little bit.
B-52:	Roger.
Chase:	Your surfaces are checked trim, Bob.
Rushworth:	Roger.
B-52:	5 minutes.
Rushworth:	2500 pounds oxygen, going to X-15 oxygen.
Russel:	Lox topoff is complete and shut off.
Rushworth:	Roger. Cabin altitude is 35,000. Little turbulence here.
NASA 1:	008, roll out on 022, correction 222.
B-52:	222.
NASA 1:	4 minutes now.
B-52:	Roger, 4.
Rushworth:	Tank handle pressurize. Data on, calibrate. Fuel went to 40, Lox is 40, holding good. 3 jettison switches in jettison. Ready to go to jettison, Woody?
Chase:	Right. Jettisoning.
Rushworth:	Rog, stop jettisoning.
Chase:	Rog, you're in the closed, stopped.
Rushworth:	OK, data went off. 3 jettison switches to jettison. Intercom is off, how do you read me, Pete?
NASA 1:	Rog, 5 square, Bob.
Rushworth:	OK, tape is on.
B-52:	3 minutes.
Rushworth:	Data is on. IFDS altitude switch internal. Got a computer malfunction, have reset. Have 44,700 fps, zero H dot, attitudes look good. APU bearing temps, +80 and +60. 2° angle of attack, 2°+ sideslip, needle left.
B-52:	2 minutes.
Rushworth:	Altitude is on. Push to test ball nose. Data remains the same, a is 1-1/2 now. How do you read me, Pete?
NASA 1:	5 square, we'll call 1 minute.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	1 minute now, Bob.
Rushworth:	OK.
B-52:	Launch master on.
NASA 1:	Go 214° launch heading.
B-52:	Roger.
Rushworth:	Prime, ignition ready light came on. Precool is on. Igniter idle is on. Pump. Manifolds good, pressures good. Ready to go, Pete?
NASA 1:	Affirmative, Bob.
Chase:	Light.
NASA 1:	Got a good light, Bob. Hold your angle of attack up. Right on track. On theta. Right on track. Profile looking good. Standby for 60,000. 60,000 now. Track looks real good.
Rushworth:	Angle of attack just gone to "pot"
NASA 1:	Speed brakes now.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	Coming up on 80,000 now. You're drifting just little bit left of track. Speed brakes and you're going little low, Bob.
Rushworth:	I can see it.
NASA 1:	80,000.
Rushworth:	Brakes in.
NASA 1:	Rog, and you're going pretty low on profile, Bob.
Rushworth:	Angle of attack indicator is sticking.
NASA 1:	Rog, it went out here. Pull it on up.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	You're drifting little bit left of track.
Rushworth:	I'm still going up, do you agree?
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	I'm showing 95, still climbing.
NASA 1:	95 looks good here. We got 45 on velocity.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	OK, you're little short on energy. Behind a little. Drifting just little left of track. 42 on velocity.
Rushworth:	I show 43.
NASA 1:	Engine master off. Watch your rate of descent.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	Coming down pretty good. Got about 41. 4 now.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	Got 36 on velocity, Bob. Have you about 78,000.
Rushworth:	Rog, showing 79, coming up on 3 psi now.
NASA 1:	Roger, looks good. Running just little bit behind on energy. 32 now.
Rushworth:	Roger, 76,500.
NASA 1:	That looks good here. And your track looks good now, it will take you right in over the base.
Rushworth:	OK, am I 50 miles yet?
NASA 1:	Negative.
Rushworth:	Roger. OK, I'm going to do this beta thing.
NASA 1:	OK. Let's get your q down little bit, Bob. We're coming up on 50 miles shortly.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	At 27.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	Got 50 miles now.
Rushworth:	Roger. I won't use speed brakes then, I'll get it next time and just hold it up here.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	I show 350 on q.
NASA 1:	5 on velocity. The q checks.
Rushworth:	Showing 24 now. Holding 6-1/2° angle of attack.
NASA 1:	And you're drifting to the right considerably, let's make a correction little to the right.
Rushworth:	Roger understand.
NASA 1:	About 10° to the right.
Rushworth:	Roger. Should be about over Cuddeback.
NASA 1:	You're between Cuddeback and Three Sisters.
Rushworth:	Roger.
NASA 1:	At Mach 2. Going by Cuddeback now. And you want to do your pitch pulse now?
Rushworth:	Doing it. At 16.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	ASAS back on.
NASA 1:	Rog, ASAS back on.
Rushworth:	Angle of attack on.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	I'm showing 62. a is 1-1/2.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	Got downhill. I'm going to be paralleling the highway, Jerry.
NASA 1:	Rog, lets come right another 10° now.
Rushworth:	Roger. Got the field in site, Pete.
NASA 1:	Roger.
Rushworth:	Showing 51,000 feet and 11 right now.
NASA 1:	Rog, that checks here.
Rushworth:	I'm about 5 east of north base, Jerry. Landing SAS is on. Flap circuit breakers are in. Ready to go to jettison, over north base at 40,000 feet. .9, Jerry. Not getting much out of Jerry!
NASA 1:	You can go to all 3 jettison, Bob.
Rushworth:	Rog, I got a very, very strange buffet just then, Pete, just before I went to jettison.
NASA 1:	Rog.
Rushworth:	Something's gone wrong with this goat!
Chase:	Chase 4 has contact, Bob.
Rushworth:	Roger. Got a real bad buffet.
NASA 1:	Are you with him, Bob?
Chase:	Rog, that's affirmative, I'm about his 1 o'clock position.
Rushworth:	Something opened up, Bob.
Chase:	Say again?
Rushworth:	Something opened up, I got a bad buffet right at high key.
Chase:	OK, I'm coming in on you.
Rushworth:	At 25,000 feet.
NASA 1:	Roger. You see anything yet, Chase 4?
Chase:	No, not yet.
Rushworth:	Can't see anything wrong inside.
Chase:	I don't see anything out here either.
Rushworth:	Buffet is little bit still there, it's less. Bob, I'm going to use a little speed brakes here.
Chase:	OK.
Rushworth:	Glide seems to be normal.
Chase:	Still looks pretty good underneath.
Rushworth:	OK. OK, Bob, flaps.
Chase:	OK, they're coming down.
Rushworth:	Gear.
Chase:	Looks real good.
Rushworth:	OK. Just ground to a stop. 3 axis ball heading 181. Inertial height 2000+. Inertial climb zero. Velocity 10K. Oxygen pressure 2000. Hydraulic pressure 3400 each side. Peroxide tank pressure 560. APU bearing temps, #1 is 70, #2 is 60. No low lights. Mixing chamber temps, -40 and -50. All sources are zero on LH side, RH side. Cabin is 1700. APU sources are 2550 and 2650.