On the big day, I departed the airlock with my partner, Mike Good, “Bueno.” The thought in my mind was that I wanted a perfect day. Have you ever had a perfect day at work? No problems, no issues, just clear sailing? I wanted one of those, and the day of spacewalking started out very well. We were trained as well as any crew had ever been trained for a Hubble space walk, and our teams on the ground in Houston and at Goddard were fully prepared and watching closely. Everything went smoothly for the first hour or so. We were even ahead of schedule. A perfect day in the making.
