| Mission STS-26: Crowds flock to Edward AFB landing site |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 13 sec
This aerial video shows the packed viewing area at the dry lake bed landing site of Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert just before Discovery's arrival. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Suiting up for return |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
The astronauts struggle to put on their launch and entry spacesuits in the microgravity of space, as illustrated in this video recorded on the middeck during the deorbit preparations. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Tribute to the Challenger crew |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
The Discovery astronauts pay tribute to the fallen crew of shuttle Challenger during this orbital ceremony held on the middeck and downlinked to Earth. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Discovery dispatches cargo into orbit |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-C (TDRS-C) is successfully deployed into space from shuttle Discovery's payload bay on the first day of the STS-26 mission. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Astronauts ready to release satellite |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Footage recorded on the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery shows the astronauts preparing for deployment the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite riding in the payload bay. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: TDRS prepared for deployment |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and Inertial Upper Stage booster are readied for release from Discovery's payload bay in the hours after the shuttle arrived in orbit. |  |
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| Discovery's launch on STS-26: America returns to space! |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 2 min 59 sec
Space shuttle Discovery launches September 29, 1988 at 11:37 a.m. from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39B on the first post-Challenger mission. This ended the 32-month grounding of American human spaceflights to redesign the space shuttle system after Challenger. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Boarding Discovery |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
This compilation shows the five astronauts boarding the shuttle Discovery and the crew module hatch on the orbiter's port side being closed for flight. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Aerial views of crew arriving at pad 39B |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 20 sec
These aerial views show the astronauts arriving at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B where the fully fueled space shuttle stands in preparation for boarding Discovery. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Astronauts depart quarters for launch pad |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 51 sec
The astronauts walk out of the Operations & Checkout Building, which serves as crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center, and board the AstroVan for the ride to the launch pad. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Crewmembers don their orange spacesuits |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 49 sec
After breakfast the shuttle astronauts put on their day-glow orange launch and entry partial pressure spacesuits. STS-26 marked the first time these suits were worn on the shuttle. |  |
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| Mission STS-26: Astronauts have pre-launch breakfast |
Posted: September 6, 2004
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
The five astronauts to fly aboard space shuttle Discovery are seated in the dining room in crew quarters for breakfast in the hours before liftoff. |  |
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