Sts- 135

Mike Curie/STS-133 Launch Commentator: We're seeing Commander Steve Lindsey with one of the suit technicians assisting him into his ACEs suit, or his Launch and Entry Suit. Pilot Eric Boe. He...

Music George Diller/NASA Public Affairs Officer: Atlantis is the fourth orbiter in NASA’s space shuttle fleet to launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also designated Orbiter Vehicle-104, or...

NARRATOR: Training for a mission is as important for astronauts as the integrity of the spacesuits they wear to venture into the vacuum of space. One preflight training program called the Crew...

  Chris Ferguson, Commander, STS-135: The magic of the space shuttle is just its enormity, it's huge and it flies up and back and there will be no parallel like that, I think, for 100 years....

  Charlie Hobaugh/CAPCOM: We have polled the room and you will be "go" for the deorbit burn. I hate to bring you back down so early after extending two days, I know you're...

Gravity is a force that governs motion throughout the universe. It holds us to the ground; it keeps the moon and the station in orbit around the Earth, and the Earth in orbit around the sun. It is...

  Music.   The STS-126 astronauts flew into NASA's Kennedy Space Center   in Florida on October 26 for their scheduled countdown rehearsal.   The seven-member crew spent three days in...

Mike Leinbach/Shuttle Launch Director: KSC Safety and Mission Assurance? KSC SMA: KSC Safety and Mission Assurance is go, Mike. Mike Leinbach/Shuttle Launch Director: Thank you, Mark. Range weather?...

  Rick Sturckow/Capcom: Hey, Dex. The folks really worked it hard down here and there was a lot of cause for optimism with breaking up all around the SLF. But, in the end of the day, it's...