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STS-115 Atlantis long countdown to launch (launch status check at 3:03) (video private as of 4/7/24) Space Shuttle STS-114 Launch Final Poll ; Go For Launch Part 1 of 2 (2 examples launch director's poll) (video private as of 2/23/24) Go For Launch Part 2 of 2 (example final readiness poll) (video private as of 2/23/24)
Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) is an initiative created by NASA to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. [1] The program is managed by the Launch Services Program (LSP) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The American Rocketry Challenge is an annual American model rocketry competition for students in grades six to 12 sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry. [1] Co-sponsors include NASA, United States Department of Defense, the American Association of Physics Teachers and the Civil Air Patrol. [2]
Comparison of NASA Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle spacecraft with their launch vehicles. This is a list of NASA missions, both crewed and robotic, since the establishment of NASA in 1957. There are over 80 currently active science missions. [1]
The launch history of NASA's Launch Services Program (LSP) since the program formed in 1998 at Kennedy Space Center. The launch of NASA robotic missions occurred from a number of launch sites on a variety of rockets. After the list of launches are descriptions of select historic LSP missions.
Spur student interest in mathematics, science, and space exploration: Achieved: Launched Christa McAuliffe on STS-51-L; killed during launch in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster: Organizer: NASA: Casualties: 1: Related programs: Educator Astronaut Project Teachers in Space, Inc.
May 6, 2020 – Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the site of NASA's return to the Moon and is now ready for Artemis 1—an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back. Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) has completed modifications and upgrades to the launch pad for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft ...
The Checkout, Control and Monitor Subsystem (CCMS) controls the actual processing and launch of the Space Shuttle. [4] This subsystem consists of the staffed consoles in the firing room, as well as minicomputers, and data transmission and recording systems, which monitor the pre-launch performance of all electrical and mechanical systems on board the Shuttle vehicle.