| Ares 1-X: Rocket stabilizing arms installed at launch pad 39B |
Posted: October 22, 2009
Duration: 11 min 16 sec
The Vehicle Stabilization System was constructed to secure the Ares 1-X test rocket during its stay at launch pad 39B. This footage shows the two arms of the system being installed on the pad's umbilical tower. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: New lightning towers completed |
Posted: October 22, 2009
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Giant new lightning towers have been built around Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B, each measuring nearly 600 feet tall to protect the future Ares rockets while sitting on the seaside complex. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Sped up pad arrival |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
This time-lapse clip captures the crawler-transporter climbing up the launch pad 39B ramp and delivering the Ares 1-X flight test rocket to the seaside complete for liftoff. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Time-lapse of the rollout |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
It took about seven hours for the Ares 1-X rocket to journey from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B positioned 4.2 miles away. The trip is condensed into this time-lapse movie. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Pad arms grab the rocket |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
The Vehicle Stabilization System, a pair of hydraulic arms added to launch pad 39B, are extended to lock ahold of the Ares 1-X rocket for added protection during the days leading up to liftoff. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Positioned on pad 39B |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Following the same path as the mighty Saturn rockets and the space shuttles, the new Ares 1-X test vehicle treks to launch pad 39B on October 20. The rocket arrived shortly after sunrise following an overnight move from the assembly building. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Rocket heads for the pad |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Riding atop the Apollo-era transporter, the Ares 1-X emerges from the Vehicle Assembly Building to begin an overnight journey to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B for its experimental test flight. |  |
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| STS-129: Hoisting payloads to transporter |
Posted: October 21, 2009
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
The two carriers loaded with nearly 28,000 pounds of spare parts for International Space Station are placed into the payload transportation canister at the Space Station Processing Facility for the trip to launch pad 39A. |  |
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| STS-129: Rollout in fast-forward |
Posted: October 20, 2009
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
It took several hours for the Ares 1-X rocket to journey from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to launch pad 39B positioned 3.5 miles away. The trip is condensed into this time-lapse movie. |  |
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| STS-129: Emergency training at the pad |
Posted: October 20, 2009
Duration: 1 min 39 sec
The astronauts spend time learning how to evacuate pad 39A if there is an emergency, 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-129: Tank test driving |
Posted: October 19, 2009
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Atlantis' six astronauts take turns test-driving an armored tank available for the crew to escape the pad 39A area if an emergency arises during the launch countdown. |  |
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| STS-129: Crew flies to Cape for training |
Posted: October 19, 2009
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Members of space shuttle Atlantis' crew arrive at Kennedy Space Center in T-38 jets for an abbreviated training session on emergency procedures and equipment. |  |
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| Atlas 5 launches DMSP F18 |
Posted: October 18, 2009
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
An Atlas 5 rocket escapes the heavy blanket of fog smothering its Vandenberg Air Force Base pad to successfully launch the DMSP F18 global weather observatory for America's military. |  |
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| Expedition 21: Progress 35P docking |
Posted: October 17, 2009
Duration: 15 min 21 sec
The International Space Station receives a new load of supplies from the latest Russian-built cargo freighter, which successfully docks to the Pirs module at 9:40 p.m. EDT on October 17. |  |
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| STS-129 pre-flight briefings: Programs |
Posted: October 16, 2009
Duration: 85 min 14 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon and International Space Station program manager Mike Suffredini open the day of pre-flight news conferences previewing Atlantis' STS-129 mission with this program perspectives briefing. They discuss various hot topics for both programs. |  |
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| STS-129 pre-flight briefings: The mission |
Posted: October 16, 2009
Duration: 68 min 34 sec
A detailed preview of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission that will deliver two large pallets of spare parts to the space station is provided in this briefing with lead shuttle flight director Mike Sarafin and lead station flight director Brian Smith. |  |
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| STS-129 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Posted: October 16, 2009
Duration: 28 min 19 sec
Three spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 assembly mission to the space station. Sarah Kazukiewicz Korona, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing. |  |
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| STS-129 pre-flight briefings: The Atlantis astronauts meet the press |
Posted: October 16, 2009
Duration: 39 min 3 sec
Commander Charlie Hobaugh, pilot Barry Wilmore and mission specialists Leland Melvin, Randy Bresnik, Mike Foreman and Robert Satcher hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center. |  |
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| STS-129: Shuttle assembly in fastforward |
Posted: October 15, 2009
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
This remarkable time-lapse movie compresses a couple of days' work inside the Vehicle Assembly Building into just two minutes. It shows viewers the entire process to join Atlantis with its external tank and booster rockets. |  |
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| STS-129: Atlantis perched atop pad 39A |
Posted: October 14, 2009
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
Space shuttle Atlantis completes its three-and-a-half-mile trek to launch pad 39A, reaching the seaside complex to prepare for blastoff to the International Space Station. |  |
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