| STS-119: On the launch pad |
Posted: January 14, 2009
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Poised to fly the 125th mission of the space shuttle program, Discovery arrives at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A following its journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. |  |
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| STS-119: Discovery leaves VAB |
Posted: January 14, 2009
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Space shuttle Discovery began its early morning rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:17 a.m. January 14 riding atop a mobile launch platform and carried by an Apollo-era transporter. |  |
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| STS-119: Pad arrival time-lapse |
Posted: January 14, 2009
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
This time-lapse movie shows the the crawler-transporter delivering space shuttle Discovery atop the Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A for its STS-119 mission to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-119 pre-flight briefings: Programs |
Posted: January 9, 2009
Duration: 77 min 43 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon and international space station program manager Mike Suffredini open the day of pre-flight news conferences previewing Discovery's STS-119 mission with this program perspectives briefing. They discuss various hot topics for both programs. |  |
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| STS-119 pre-flight briefings: The mission |
Posted: January 9, 2009
Duration: 55 min 50 sec
A detailed preview of space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission to deliver and activate the space station's final power truss is provided in this briefing with lead shuttle flight director Paul Dye and lead station flight director Kwatsi Alibaruho. |  |
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| STS-119 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Posted: January 9, 2009
Duration: 46 min 8 sec
Four spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 assembly mission to the space station. Glenda Brown, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing. |  |
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| STS-119 pre-flight briefings: The Discovery astronauts meet the press |
Posted: January 9, 2009
Duration: 40 min 38 sec
Commander Lee Archambault, pilot Tony Antonelli and mission specialists Joe Acaba, Steve Swanson, Ricky Arnold, John Phillips and station-bound astronaut Koichi Wakata hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center on January 9. |  |
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| STS-119: Time-lapse of shuttle Discovery's vertical ascent in VAB |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Discovery is rotated vertically, then lifted high into the rafters of the Vehicle Assembly Building on the way to meet up with its fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. This time-lapse movie condenses more than six hours of work into 95 seconds. |  |
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| STS-119: Time-lapse of VAB crane work |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
After arriving in the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building, an overhead crane hoists Discovery off the transporter that ferried the shuttle from the hangar. This time-lapse movie condenses more than six hours of work into 96 seconds. |  |
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| STS-119: Time-lapse of Starboard 6 truss being moved to transporter |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
In the Space Station Processing Facility on January 7, an overhead crane delivers the Starboard 6 power truss into the transportation canister that will haul the payload to launch pad 39A. This time-lapse movie condenses three hours of work into 92 seconds. |  |
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| STS-119: Discovery joins its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
In the early morning hours of January 8, shuttle Discovery was hoisted into the assembly bay where its external tank and solid rocket boosters stood stacked aboard the mobile launch platform. |  |
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| STS-119: Spaceplane goes vertical |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 5 min 14 sec
After Discovery rode into the Vehicle Assembly Building, ground crews quickly got to work hooking up the overhead crane and turning the shuttle upright with its nose pointed toward the ceiling. |  |
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| STS-119: Space shuttle Discovery travels from hangar to Vehicle Assembly Building |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
The first visible sign that a shuttle launch is nearing occurs when the orbiter moves from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building for attachment to the external fuel tank and twin solid rockets. Shuttle Discovery made that trip January 7 in preparation for its mid-February blastoff on STS-119. |  |
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| STS-119: Landing gear retracted |
Posted: January 8, 2009
Duration: 54 sec
The nose wheel landing gear of space shuttle Discovery is retracted for flight as the spacecraft rests atop its 76-wheel special transport vehicle inside the hangar on January 7. |  |
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| STS-119: Time-lapse of shuttle Discovery moving from hangar to VAB |
Posted: January 7, 2009
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
This time-lapse movie shows space shuttle Discovery leaving its hangar and making the short trip over to the Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation for its mission to launch the final power truss for the space station. |  |
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| "Chandra's Universe" |
Posted: January 4, 2009
Duration: 24 min 19 sec
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory began its mission by launching aboard the space shuttle in 1999. The spacecraft is one of NASA's Great Observatories, providing new insights into the frontier of X-ray astronomy. |  |
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| Expedition 18: Station's new toilet |
Posted: January 1, 2009
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
International space station commander Mike Fincke shows the new U.S. toilet installed aboard the complex. The astronauts are preparing the station for larger crews beginning in 2009. |  |
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| The Phoenix mission to Mars |
Posted: January 1, 2009
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
This video provides a recap of the Mars lander Phoenix and the spacecraft's mission to the frozen northern plains of the Red Planet to dig up samples of the soil and water ice. |  |
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| Missing mineral found on Mars |
Posted: December 31, 2008
Duration: 9 min 31 sec
Researchers using a powerful instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found a long-sought-after mineral on the Martian surface and with it, unexpected clues the Red Planet's water pasty. Scientists found carbonate minerals, indicated that Mars had neutral to alkaline water when the minerals formed more than 3.6 billion years ago. |  |
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| STS-119: Crew visits the Cape |
Posted: December 31, 2008
Duration: 8 min 10 sec
Members of the STS-119 crew to launch aboard space shuttle Discovery visited Kennedy Space Center in mid-November for an up-close inspection of their spacecraft, payloads and equipment. |  |
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