Shuttle launch

      Music   NARRATOR: Space shuttle Atlantis stands on Launch Pad 39A one last time following a nearly   seven-hour ride to the structure on the top of a crawler-transporter. For 30 years,   space...

George Diller/STS-133 NASA Commentator: From Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this is Shuttle Launch Control at T-minus three hours and holding. We have approximately one hour...

      Music   Space shuttle Atlantis began its 3.4-mile journey to Launch Pad 39A   in the predawn darkness, leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building   at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 6:38...

  Steve Payne/STS-133 NASA Test Director: Launch director, NTD. Mike Leinbach/STS-133 Shuttle Launch Director: Yes, sir? Steve Payne/STS-133 NASA Test Director: OK, our launch team is ready to...

Music NASA has permanently marked the spot where the space shuttles' last missions came to an end. Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis came home from space for the last time in 2011, touching...

Music The doors to the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, opened to reveal space shuttle Discovery secured on its mobile launcher platform. Around 8...

(Roar of rocket engines) NARRATOR: Since before the Space Shuttle’s first launch in 1981, every astronaut flight crew has come to Ames Research Center to practice the final stage of a Shuttle...

10, 9, ignition sequence start, 6 A rich history We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard That's one small step...

Brandi Dean/STS-129 Commentator: Commander Charlie Hobaugh pulling up the shuttle's nose for landing, and as you can see the main gear of Atlantis. Main gear touchdown. Pilot Barry Wilmore...

George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: T minus 10... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... three... two... one... zero... and launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as NASA turns to the...