| STS-131 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Date: March 9, 2010
Duration: 28 min 20 sec
Three spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the space station. David Coan, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing.
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| STS-131 pre-flight briefings: The Discovery astronauts meet the press |
Date: March 9, 2010
Duration: 46 min 50 sec
Commander Alan Poindexter, pilot Jim Dutton, spacewalkers Rick Mastracchio and Clay Anderson, and mission specialists Dotty Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center. |  |
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| STS-131: Station's new ammonia tank |
Date: March 8, 2010
Duration: 4 min 11 sec
The Ammonia Tank Assembly payload, mounted on a carrier structure, is put through final weighing and center of gravity checks before being loaded into the transport canister at the Space Station Processing Facility.
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| STS-131: Shuttle evacuation practice |
Date: March 5, 2010
Duration: 3 min 27 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-131: Crew module hatch closed |
Date: March 5, 2010
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
The pad's Orbiter Closeout Crew practices closing shuttle Discovery's hatch after the astronauts are aboard and strapping into their seats. |  |
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| STS-131: Crew boards Discovery for simulation |
Date: March 5, 2010
Duration: 9 min 26 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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| Delta 4/GOES P launch replays: Pad 39A |
Date: March 5, 2010
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
A camera positioned at the space shuttle Discovery's launch pad 39A offers this view of the Delta 4 rocket blasting off with the GOES P satellite. (Replay includes live launch audio!) |  |
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| STS-131: Emergency training at tower and bunker |
Date: March 4, 2010
Duration: 5 min 2 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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| STS-131: Crew chat at the pad |
Date: March 4, 2010
Duration: 16 min 10 sec
The STS-131 astronauts take a few minutes during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test events to talk with reporters at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A on the morning of March 4. |  |
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| STS-131: Nighttime landing simulations |
Date: March 3, 2010
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Commander Alan Poindexter and pilot Jim Dutton, wearing their launch and entry spacesuits, climb inside a pair of Shuttle Training Aircraft for practice nighttime landing approaches at Kennedy Space Center's runway during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. |  |
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| STS-131: Gantry encloses Discovery |
Date: March 3, 2010
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
With the mobile launching platform securely anchored atop pad 39A, the crawler-transporter drives away and the rotating service gantry is placed around space shuttle Discovery. |  |
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| STS-131: Discovery perched atop pad |
Date: March 3, 2010
Duration: 6 min 26 sec
Space shuttle Discovery arrives at launch pad 39A before dawn after its overnight journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building in preparation for the STS-131 mission to the International Space Station. |  |
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| STS-131: Shuttle begins overnight rollout |
Date: March 3, 2010
Duration: 6 min 52 sec
Shuttle Discovery emerges from the Vehicle Assembly Building at midnight aboard an Apollo-era transporter for the 3.5-mile trip to pad 39A. |  |
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| STS-131: Leonardo sealed for launch |
Date: March 3, 2010
Duration: 3 min 9 sec
Final packing of cargo into the Italian-made Leonardo module is completed and the hatch closed for launch aboard shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the space station.
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| STS-131: Tank test driving |
Date: March 2, 2010
Duration: 7 min 33 sec
Discovery's 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-131: Crew begins practice countdown |
Date: March 1, 2010
Duration: 5 min 50 sec
Commander Alan Poindexter and his crew arrive at Kennedy Space Center March 1 for the week's emergency training exercises and a countdown dress rehearsal. |  |
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| STS-131: Hoisting shuttle Discovery |
Date: February 23, 2010
Duration: 9 min 10 sec
The shuttle Discovery is hoisted from the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building over to high bay No. 3 and carefully lowered into position next to the awaiting fuel tank for attachment. |  |
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| STS-131: Orbiter goes vertical |
Date: February 23, 2010
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
The sling crane lifts Discovery from the transport hauler that carried the orbiter from its hangar and then rotates the shuttle verticallly in the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building. |  |
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| STS-131: Discovery moves to assembly building |
Date: February 22, 2010
Duration: 9 min 20 sec
Space shuttle Discovery rolled from its Orbiter Processing Facility hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building on the morning of February 22 for attachment to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters. |  |
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| STS-131: External tank meets SRBs |
Date: January 26, 2010
Duration: 8 min 48 sec
The external fuel tank for shuttle Discovery's STS-131 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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