| Enterprise leaves the launch pad |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 3 min 31 sec
Having accomplished the first-ever validations of how to assemble the space shuttle vehicle and interactions with the launch pad, Enterprise is rolled back from pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
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| Shuttle Enterprise rolls to pad 39A |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 21 min 49 sec
Riding atop the Apollo-era crawler-transporter, the fully assembly space shuttle Enterprise rollout in the spring of 1979 for fit-checks with launch pad 39A. The momentous event includes "live" NASA commentator and a speech by the Kennedy Space Center director.
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| Hoisting Enterprise in the VAB |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 20 min 5 sec
The orbiter Enterprise is lifted from the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building, rotated vertically and then hoisted into position for mating with its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters atop a mobile launching platform.
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| Space shuttle Enterprise's first approach and landing test |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 16 min 51 sec
On August 12, 1977, the space shuttle Enterprise performed the first approach and landing test at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Enterprise was ferried into the sky by the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, and then released to fly a controlled trajectory and touch down on the runway, a major test in developing the space shuttle program.
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| Enterprise takes piggyback test-ride |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 11 min 32 sec
The Boeing 747 aircraft modified into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft makes a brief "captive-carry" test flight with the space shuttle Enterprise into the skies over Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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| "The Space Shuttle: Transport for Tomorrow" |
Posted: March 30, 2010
Duration: 9 min 51 sec
This NASA film dating back to the mid 1970s previews the nation's space shuttle program and how winged spaceplanes would be used in the coming decades. "Transport for Tomorrow" provides a fascinating look the original concepts for the shuttles. |  |
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Alan Poindexter |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 24 min 8 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter, commander of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Jim Dutton |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 34 min 30 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Jim Dutton, pilot of space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Rick Mastracchio |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 18 min 56 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, mission specialist number 1 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 34 min 1 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, mission specialist number 2 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Stephanie Wilson |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 23 min 2 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson, mission specialist number 3 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Naoko Yamazaki |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 26 min 49 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, mission specialist number 4 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station.
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| STS-131 crew interviews: Clay Anderson |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 36 min 12 sec
This pre-flight interview talks with NASA astronaut Clay Anderson, mission specialist number 5 for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-132: External tank meets SRBs |
Posted: March 29, 2010
Duration: 8 min 16 sec
The external fuel tank for shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission was hoisted out of its checkout cell and moved into position for attachment to the twin solid rocket booster in the Vehicle Assembly Building. |  |
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| STS-131: FRR news conference |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 60 min 3 sec
NASA officials announce the launch date for space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station during this briefing at Kennedy Space Center following the Flight Readiness Review.
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| STS-131: Flight Readiness Review |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, recaps the agency's senior-level Flight Readiness Review that cleared shuttle Discovery for its April 5 launch date.
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| STS-131: Issues assessed by managers |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon describes the issues and technical concerns that officials had to assess in preparation to launching Discovery on the STS-131 mission.
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| STS-131: Valve no constraint to launch |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon explains the helium isolation valve problem aboard Discovery and how officials determined it was safe to launch without replacing the valve.
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| STS-131: Launch director update |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Pete Nickolenko, the STS-131 launch director, gives an update on preparations at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A for shuttle Discovery's countdown and liftoff.
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| STS-131: Payload arrives at launch pad |
Posted: March 26, 2010
Duration: 9 min 12 sec
The transportation canister holding space shuttle Discovery's payloads for the STS-131 space station mission is driven to launch pad 39A and lifted into service gantry. |  |
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