| STS-124: Shuttle evacuation test |
Posted: May 9, 2008
Duration: 3 min 51 sec
After clocks halted in the final seconds to simulate a shutdown of the three main engines just prior to liftoff, the crew exited the shuttle and practiced scurrying to the slide-wire baskets for a quick evacuation of the pad. |  |
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| STS-124: Crew boards shuttle Discovery for launch countdown test |
Posted: May 9, 2008
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
After arriving at launch pad 39A shortly past 8 a.m. on May 9, all seven astronauts climb inside space shuttle Discovery and strap into their assigned seats for the final three hours of the countdown dress rehearsal. |  |
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| STS-124: Emergency training |
Posted: May 8, 2008
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
The astronauts spend time learning how to evacuate pad 39A if an emergency arises, including procedures to operate the slide-wire baskets that would quickly whisk the crew from the launch tower to a bunker west of the pad. |  |
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| STS-82: Second servicing of Hubble |
Posted: May 8, 2008
Duration: 33 min 58 sec
The second servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope was accomplished in February 1997 when the shuttle Discovery astronauts replaced a pair of instruments and other internal equipment on the observatory. The STS-82 crew tell the story in this post-flight presentation. |  |
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| STS-81: Fifth shuttle linkup with Mir |
Posted: May 8, 2008
Duration: 41 min 46 sec
The fifth shuttle docking mission to the space station Mir launched NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger to begin his long-duration stay on the complex and brought John Blaha back to Earth after four months aboard the Russian outpost. The STS-81 astronauts narrate their slides and post-flight film from the January 1997 mission. |  |
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| STS-124: Crew chat at the pad |
Posted: May 8, 2008
Duration: 16 min 3 sec
The STS-124 astronauts take a few minutes during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test events to talk with reporters at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A on May 8. |  |
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| STS-124: Crew arrives for practice count |
Posted: May 6, 2008
Duration: 8 min 28 sec
The seven astronauts to launch aboard the shuttle Discovery for STS-124 arrive at the Kennedy Space Center in T-38 jets on May 6 to begin a countdown dress rehearsal. |  |
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| STS-124: Time-lapse of gantry |
Posted: May 3, 2008
Duration: 55 sec
This time-lapsed video shows the Rotating Service Structure enclosing space shuttle Discovery following rollout to launch pad 39A. Placing the RSS around the shuttle will allow the Kibo laboratory module, currently stowed inside the gantry's cleanroom, to be installed into Discovery's payload bay for launch. |  |
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| STS-124: Orbiter Access Arm |
Posted: May 3, 2008
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
The Orbiter Access Arm is swung into position next to space shuttle Discovery's crew hatch following the rollout. The arm is used to gain access to the shuttle's crew module from the pad 39A launch tower. |  |
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| STS-124: Time-lapse of crawler |
Posted: May 3, 2008
Duration: 30 sec
This time-lapsed video shows the crawler-transporter that carried the space shuttle Discovery from the Vehicle Assembly Building to pad 39A retreating following the overnight rollout. The crawler delivered the shuttle to the pad for the STS-124 mission. |  |
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| STS-124: Rollout to pad 39A |
Posted: May 3, 2008
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Space shuttle Discovery travels from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39A in the overnight hours of May 3 in preparation for liftoff on the STS-124 mission. |  |
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| Astronaut Hall of Fame: Class of 2008 |
Posted: May 3, 2008
Duration: 89 min 33 sec
Four former space shuttle commanders -- John Blaha, Bob Cabana, Bryan O'Connor and Loren Shriver -- were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. It was the seventh group of shuttle crewmembers named to the hall, which has enshrined 70 astronauts. |  |
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| STS-124 pre-flight briefings: Programs |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 76 min 17 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon and international space station program manager Mike Suffredini open the day of pre-flight news conferences previewing Discovery's STS-124 mission launching the Kibo laboratory with this program perspectives briefing. |  |
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| STS-124 pre-flight briefings: The mission |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 79 min 19 sec
A detailed preview of space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission to deliver Japan's science laboratory Kibo to the international space station is provided in this briefing. |  |
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| STS-124 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 39 min 47 sec
Three spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 assembly mission to the space station. David Beaver, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing. |  |
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| STS-124 pre-flight briefings: The Discovery astronauts meet the press |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 36 min 23 sec
STS-124 commander Mark Kelly, pilot Ken Ham and mission specialists Karen Nyberg, Ron Garan, Mike Fossum, Akihiko Hoshide and Greg Chamitoff hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center on May 1. |  |
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| STS-124: Kibo's trip to launch pad |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
The Kibo science laboratory module bound for the space station is driven across Kennedy Space Center to launch pad 39A on April 29 for installation into the gantry to await shuttle Discovery's arrival at the complex. |  |
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| STS-124: Kibo goes vertical |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 2 min 39 sec
The transportation canister housing the Japanese science laboratory module Kibo is rotated into a vertical position on April 24 in advance of the trip to launch pad 39A. |  |
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| STS-124: Kibo into transporter |
Posted: May 1, 2008
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Inside the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center on April 22, the Japanese science laboratory module Kibo is placed into the transportation canister for the trip to launch pad 39A. |  |
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| STS-124: Discovery hoisted for attachment to tank and boosters |
Posted: April 28, 2008
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, space shuttle Discovery is hoisted into position for attachment to the external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters for the ship's STS-124 mission. |  |
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