| STS-133: Final preps for fueling test |
Date: December 14, 2010
Duration: 7 min 54 sec
After engineers instrumented the tank with 89 strain gauges and temperature sensors, they route 162 wires about 200 feet from the two test zones around the front face of the tank. |  |
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| STS-133: Instrumenting the tank |
Date: December 10, 2010
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Strain gauges are affixed to testing zones on the external tank's ribbed midsection to collect data on the stresses experienced during the instrumented fueling exercise. |  |
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| STS-133: Launch delayed to February |
Date: December 3, 2010
Duration: 51 min 25 sec
Launch of space shuttle Discovery is being postponed until next year due to the ongoing efforts to understand and resolve the structural cracks on the external fuel tank. The next launch window opens on February 3. |  |
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| STS-133: Scanning tank for more cracks |
Date: December 2, 2010
Duration: 7 min 51 sec
A backscatter imaging device bounces radiation off the external fuel tank to detect any additional structural cracks underneath the insulation foam. |  |
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| STS-133: Background info on stringer cracks |
Date: November 24, 2010
Duration: 16 min 21 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon offers this detailed and informative explanation of the external fuel tank stringer cracks and how the team is working to resolve the problem for Discovery. |  |
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| STS-133: Launch delayed to mid-December |
Date: November 24, 2010
Duration: 51 min 1 sec
Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Space Operations, and John Shannon, space shuttle program manager, announce that Discovery's launch will slip to mid-December at the earliest while work continues on the cracked stringer problem with the external tank. |  |
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| STS-133: Repairing the tank cracks |
Date: November 19, 2010
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Structural reinforcements called "doublers" are installed around the cracked metal stringers of space shuttle Discovery's external tank as a means of repair. |  |
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| STS-133: Buttoning up hydrogen vent |
Date: November 16, 2010
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
With the new ground umbilical carrier plate installed onto Discovery's external tank to hopefully fix the gaseous hydrogen leak, the launch pad swing arm and 7-inch diameter vent line are reattached to the space shuttle. |  |
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| STS-133: Doublers to beef up cracked beams |
Date: November 15, 2010
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Space shuttle engineers make progress on plans to repair the cracked structural beams on Discovery's external fuel tank intertank stringers. |  |
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| STS-133: New GUCP installed |
Date: November 12, 2010
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
As the ground umbilical carrier plate repairs continue at launch pad 39A, technicians re-install the hydrogen fitting onto the external tank.
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| STS-133: External tank's door opened |
Date: November 11, 2010
Duration: 6 min 27 sec
The access door on space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank is opened, allowing technicians to climb inside the intertank area between the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks. |  |
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| STS-133: Leaky GUCP disassembled |
Date: November 10, 2010
Duration: 7 min 58 sec
A leaking hydrogen attachment fitting on the side of the shuttle Discovery's external tank is removed and internal seals removed for repairs. |  |
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| STS-133: Foam crack work begins |
Date: November 10, 2010
Duration: 2 min
Broken foam insulation on the intertank region of space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank is removed from the structural beams, ultimately revealing underlying metal cracks. |  |
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| STS-133: Vent arm detached |
Date: November 9, 2010
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
The gaseous hydrogen vent arm extending from the launch pad 39A tower to shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank was detached and lowered down, enabling technicians access inside the leaky ground umbilical carrier plate.
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| STS-133: Hydrogen vent arm detached |
Date: November 9, 2010
Duration: 6 min 21 sec
The gaseous hydrogen vent arm extending from the launch pad 39A tower to shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank was detached and lowered down, enabling technicians access inside the leaky ground umbilical carrier plate. |  |
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| STS-133: Preparing for repairs |
Date: November 9, 2010
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Scenes around Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A as workers get ready to troubleshoot the gaseous hydrogen leak at the ground umbilical carrier plate connection. |  |
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| STS-133: Crew biographies |
Date: November 8, 2010
Duration: 10 min 15 sec
This movie summarizes space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 mission that will launch the Permanent Multipurpose Module and Express Logistics Carrier No. 4 to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-133: Crew biographies |
Date: November 8, 2010
Duration: 10 min
Get to know the six astronauts launching on space shuttle Discovery's mission STS-133. This special biography movie profiles the crew and the path each took to become an astronaut. |  |
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| Expedition 25-26: Mission preview movie |
Date: November 8, 2010
Duration: 7 min 7 sec
This movie summarizes the main goals and objectives at the International Space Station over the next six months during the Expedition 25 and Expedition 26 crew increments. |  |
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| Expedition 25: Meet the crew |
Date: November 8, 2010
Duration: 13 min 52 sec
Get to know the six-person crew -- Wheelock, Walker, Kelly, Yurchikhin, Kaleri and Skripochka -- living aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 25. This special biography movie profiles the crew and the path each took to become an astronaut. |  |
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