| STS-128: Astronauts arrive for launch |
Posted: August 19, 2009
Duration: 8 min 46 sec
Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts arrive at the launch site from Houston to begin final preparation for their middle-of-the-night blastoff to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-128: Flight Readiness Review |
Posted: August 19, 2009
Duration: 62 min 31 sec
NASA officials announce the launch date for space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission to the International Space Station during this briefing at Kennedy Space Center following the Flight Readiness Review. |  |
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| The history of Delta 2 and GPS satellites |
Posted: August 17, 2009
Duration: 12 min 59 sec
The Delta 2 rocket was born to launch Global Positioning System satellites for the U.S. Air Force. This video takes a look back at the remarkably successful partnership between booster and payload that lasted 20 years. |  |
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| Liftoff of Delta with GPS 2R-21 |
Posted: August 17, 2009
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
After 20 years and over 50 launches for the U.S. military, the Delta 2 rocket makes one last flight for the Air Force carrying the final spacecraft in the current generation of Global Positioning System satellites. |  |
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| Delta 2 rocket launches at dawn |
Posted: August 17, 2009
Duration: 5 min 6 sec
As view from Jetty Park just south of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the Delta 2 rocket launches at dawn carrying the Global Positioning System 2R-21 navigation satellite. |  |
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| Tower rolled back for GPS 2R-21 launch |
Posted: August 17, 2009
Duration: 58 sec
For what could be the final time in history, the mobile service gantry at Cape Canaveral's pad 17A is slowly rolled back from a Delta 2 rocket for launch. |  |
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| STS-128 pre-flight briefings: Programs |
Posted: August 16, 2009
Duration: 62 min 50 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon and space station deputy program manager Kirk Shireman open the day of pre-flight news conferences previewing Discovery's STS-128 mission with this program perspectives briefing. They discuss various hot topics for both programs. |  |
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| STS-128 pre-flight briefings: The mission |
Posted: August 16, 2009
Duration: 56 min 42 sec
A detailed preview of space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission that features the reusable Leonardo cargo module to deliver science research hardware and additional life support equipment to the space station is provided in this briefing with lead shuttle flight director Tony Ceccacci and lead station flight director Heather Rarick. |  |
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| STS-128 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Posted: August 16, 2009
Duration: 43 min 6 sec
Three spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 assembly mission to the space station. Zeb Scoville, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing. |  |
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| STS-128 pre-flight briefings: The Discovery astronauts meet the press |
Posted: August 16, 2009
Duration: 55 min 19 sec
Commander Rick Sturckow, pilot Kevin Ford, mission specialists Jose Hernandez, Danny Olivas, Christer Fuglesang, Pat Forrester and station-bound astronaut Nicole Stott hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center. |  |
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| Ares 1-X: Test flight animation |
Posted: August 14, 2009
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
This animation previews the launch of Ares 1-X, a test rocket for NASA's proposed new vehicle to carry the Orion crew capsule into orbit. The test uses a solid-propellant first stage with a simulator upper stage and capsule. |  |
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| STS-128: Fuel tank foam update |
Posted: August 13, 2009
Duration: 18 min 37 sec
John Shannon, head of the space shuttle program, provides this detailed description of the external tank foam insulation issues that his team has been dealing with in advance of the STS-128 launch of Discovery. |  |
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| STS-128: Shuttle Discovery's payload bay doors closed for flight |
Posted: August 9, 2009
Duration: 6 min 11 sec
The two 60-foot-long payload bay doors of space shuttle Discovery are closed for launch at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A in preparation for the STS-128 flight to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-128: Mission cargo loaded aboard |
Posted: August 9, 2009
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
The ground handling mechanism used to install the payloads into Discovery's cargo bay is retracted to reveal the Leonardo module and ammonia tank ready to fly. |  |
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| STS-128: Crew visits the payload bay |
Posted: August 7, 2009
Duration: 4 min 51 sec
Members of space shuttle Discovery's crew take the opportunity to inspect the payloads packed inside the cargo bay for launch during their visit to pad 39A's cleanroom. |  |
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| STS-128: Shuttle evacuation practice |
Posted: August 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
After clocks halted in the final seconds to simulate a shutdown of the three main engines just prior to liftoff, the crew exits the shuttle and practices scurrying to the slide-wire baskets for a quick evacuation of the pad. |  |
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| STS-128: Crew boards Discovery |
Posted: August 7, 2009
Duration: 11 min 15 sec
After the short ride out to launch pad 39A, the astronauts walk across the access arm to the White Room and begin boarding shuttle Discovery for the final three hours of the mock countdown. |  |
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| STS-128: Launch day simulation begins |
Posted: August 7, 2009
Duration: 8 min 34 sec
The astronauts follow a normal launch morning routine during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, donning their bright orange spacesuits and departing the crew quarters building to get into the Astrovan. |  |
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| STS-128: Emergency training at bunker |
Posted: August 6, 2009
Duration: 4 min 12 sec
Down at the bunker west of launch pad 39A, the astronauts continue their emergency procedures training on how to exit the slide-wire baskets and operate equipment in the shelter. |  |
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| STS-128: Emergency training on tower |
Posted: August 6, 2009
Duration: 6 min 29 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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