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Video: Robonaut-1: Time Lapse View: Entire flight from Liftfoff to Touchdown

“Rise to the edge of space, freefall for 50,000 feet, fly through clouds, and land gently in bushes” Educational Balloon Provides Space Shuttle Launch Images and Video From Over 110,000 feet “A balloon with a student-oriented payload shot high resolution photos and video from an altitude of over 110,000 feet of Space Shuttle Discovery as it climbed into space.”

  • NASA Watch
  • March 7, 2011
HD Video From The Edge of Space

If you can, watch this video in HD (select the 720p option). As the payload slowly rotates you will see Discovery’s vapor trail at the Earth’s limb – twice. The payload (with camera) first swings to the west and then reverses and swings back to the east, past Discovery’s vapor trail, around to the west again, and then continues to rotate to the east toward the vapor trail again. Educational […]

  • NASA Watch
  • March 2, 2011
STS-133 Operating On Orbit

NASA STS-133 Report #02 Friday, February 25, 2011 – 6:30 a.m. CST “The main focus of the day will be the six-hour inspection of Discoverys wing leading edges and nose cap. Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe and Mission Specialist Alvin Drew will use the shuttles robotic arm and specialized cameras to downlink the detailed views of the thermal protection system for analysis by specialists on the ground.” NASA STS-133 […]

  • NASA Watch
  • February 25, 2011
Discovery Poised to Liftoff – Just One Small Issue

Discovery Poised to Liftoff, SpaceRef “NASA is poised to launch space shuttle Discovery on her last mission this Thursday at 4:50 p.m. EST. It seems with all recent attempts to get Discovery launched, NASA is working one minor leak issue. However the issue should not cause any delay.”

  • NASA Watch
  • February 22, 2011
Steve Bowen Replaces Tim Kopra on STS-133

Astronaut Steve Bowen Named to STS-133 Shuttle Crew “NASA selected astronaut Steve Bowen as a mission specialist on STS-133, the next space shuttle mission planned for launch on Feb. 24. Bowen replaces astronaut Tim Kopra, who was injured in a bicycle accident over the weekend. The agency will hold a media teleconference at 3:30 p.m. CST on Wednesday, Jan. 19, to discuss the change in crew personnel.”

  • NASA Watch
  • January 19, 2011
STS-133 Crew Member Injured

Shuttle Discovery’s lead spacewalker hurt in accident, Spaceflight Now “Space station veteran Timothy Kopra, scheduled for launch Feb. 24 aboard the shuttle Discovery, was injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, a NASA official said. The injury was not life threatening and the NASA official, citing medical privacy issues, provided no additional details. But multiple sources said Kopra may have broken his hip, raising the prospect of a significant impact to […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 14, 2011
Bill Nelson, Rocket Scientist

Senator: NASA May Have To Consider Having Only 2 Launches “NASA is getting a stern reality check from one of its biggest supporters. Senator Bill Nelson admitted Monday there may only be two more shuttle missions instead of three. WFTV learned NASA will announce another delay for Discovery on Tuesday and, Nelson says, if engineers can’t fix Discovery’s external tank they must cancel the Atlantis mission and use that tank, […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 10, 2011
STS-133 Delayed Again

Discovery’s Early February Launch Opportunity Delayed as Work Continues on External Tank “The Space Shuttle Program held its weekly Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) meeting today to review progress on the continuing engineering investigation, testing and analysis regarding shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank stringer crack issue. With the work remaining, the potential for additional modifications yet to be defined, and further reviews pending, the decision was made today to allow […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 6, 2011
More Delays for STS-133?

Shuttle engineers consider beefing up all tank ‘stringers’, Spaceflight Now “If that decision is made, it is unlikely NASA could complete the work, repair the tank’s foam insulation and get Discovery back out to the launch pad in time to support a launch attempt during the next available window, which opens Feb. 3 and closes Feb. 10. Work to beef up all 108 stringers at the top of the intertank […]

  • NASA Watch
  • January 4, 2011