| STS-121: Discovery takes its position atop launch pad 39B |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 3 min 17 sec
As night fell over Kennedy Space Center on May 19, space shuttle Discovery reached launch pad 39B to complete the slow journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Discovery will be traveling much faster in a few weeks when it blasts off to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-121: Turning toward the pad |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
The crawler-transporter reaches a fork in the road and turns northward to follow the path to launch pad 39B during its heavy-duty hauling mission to deliver space shuttle Discovery to the seaside complex. |  |
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| Shuttle Manager Wayne Hale discusses wind tunnel test results |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Space shuttle program manager Wayne Hales talks with reporters about the results of wind tunnel tests on the redesigned external fuel tank. Speaking during Discovery's rollout, Hale says a preliminary look at the test data suggests that the removal of the protuberance airload - PAL - ramp will not place adverse aerodynamic loads on the vehicle. |  |
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| STS-121: Cruising down the crawlerway |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Space shuttle Discovery drives along the crawlerway en route to the pad. The crawlerway is 130 feet wide -- almost as broad as an eight-lane highway. |  |
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| STS-121: Time-lapse view of Discovery emerging from VAB |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Watch space shuttle Discovery emerge from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building in sped-up fashion. This time-lapse movie was created using video from an engineering camera positioned to the north of the VAB. The old Titan 4 launch pad -- Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral -- can be seen in the background. |  |
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| STS-121: Shuttle Discovery begins rollout to the launch pad |
Posted: May 19, 2006
Duration: 6 min 43 sec
At 12:45 p.m. EDT on May 19, space shuttle Discovery began the slow trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B aboard an Apollo-era crawler-transporter. |  |
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