| STS-116: Shuttle escape drill |
Date: November 16, 2006
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
After completing the launch countdown rehearsal aboard space shuttle Discovery, the astronauts practice making an emergency exit from the orbiter and getting into the pad's slide-wire escape baskets. |  |
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| STS-116: In the whiteroom |
Date: November 16, 2006
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
Inside the whiteroom on the Orbiter Access Arm of launch pad 39B, the seven Discovery astronauts are assisted into the shuttle for the practice countdown. |  |
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| STS-116: Heading for the pad |
Date: November 16, 2006
Duration: 31 sec
On a rainy morning at Kennedy Space Center, Discovery's astronauts departs crew quarters to step aboard the AstroVan that will take them to launch pad 39B for the practice countdown. |  |
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| STS-116: Crew suits up |
Date: November 16, 2006
Duration: 8 min 51 sec
The seven Discovery astronauts don their bright orange pressure spacesuits in crew quarters in preparation for heading to launch pad 39B to participate in a countdown rehearsal. |  |
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| STS-116: Breakfast on mock launch day |
Date: November 16, 2006
Duration: 33 sec
The space shuttle Discovery astronauts gather in the crew quarters' dining room for breakfast on the morning of their practice launch countdown. |  |
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| STS-116: Astronauts meet the press at launch pad 39B |
Date: November 15, 2006
Duration: 18 min 56 sec
The seven astronauts to launch aboard shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission answer questions from local and international reporters during this informal briefing held at the base of Kennedy Space Center's pad 39B on November 15. |  |
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| STS-116: Slide-wire baskets |
Date: November 15, 2006
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
The space shuttle Discovery astronauts participate in a training lesson on the launch pad 39B tower about the emergency slide-wire baskets. If they had to escape the shuttle during the launch countdown, the crew would jump into the baskets and ride them to the ground. |  |
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| STS-116: Payload bay inspection |
Date: November 15, 2006
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
While visiting Kennedy Space Center for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, the Discovery astronauts get an up-close look at the shuttle's open payload bay. |  |
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| STS-116: Tank driving test |
Date: November 14, 2006
Duration: 6 min 42 sec
The astronauts test-drive an armored tank around launch pad 39B as part of the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. In the event of a major problem on launch day, the crew would escape the shuttle, get off the pad and drive the tank to safety. |  |
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| STS-116: Shuttle Training Aircraft |
Date: November 13, 2006
Duration: 4 min 18 sec
While at Kennedy Space Center for the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, Discovery commander Mark Polansky and Bill Oefelein board Shuttle Training Aircraft to make practice nighttime landing approaches at the shuttle runway. |  |
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| STS-116: Astronauts arrive at KSC for practice countdown |
Date: November 13, 2006
Duration: 6 min 24 sec
The astronauts of space shuttle Discovery arrive at Kennedy Space Center from Houston to begin the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. The traditional TCDT event includes launch pad evacuation training and a countdown simulation. |  |
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