Shuttle launch

- One minute. No birds observed in the immediate vicinity of the flight path. Final check in the SRB commands. SRB joint heaters being turned off. Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fill and drain...

NASA offered a glimpse at what its launch pad will look like later this decade when workers moved the mobile launcher to Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B in Florida for two weeks of...

  George Diller/STS-132 Launch Commentator: From Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this is Shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding. We are now about to enter the final...

Music NARRATOR: Astronauts have been coming to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for 30 years to practice launch day aboard a space shuttle. Monday, June 20, saw the arrival of the last...

George Diller/ NASA Commentator: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Zero and liftoff of the Delta II with GRAIL. On a journey to the center of the moon! Steve Agid/Flight Commentator: Chamber pressure...

      Pete Nickolenko/STS-128 Launch Director: Discovery, launch director.   Rick Sturckow/STS-128 Commander: Discovery, go ahead sir.   Pete Nickolenko/STS-128 Launch Director: Well, C.J., the...

      ULA Launch Conductor: Status check to proceed with terminal count.   ULA Launch Conductor: Atlas systems. Propulsion? Controller: Go   ULA Launch Conductor: Hydraulics: Controller: Go ULA...

  George Diller/STS-132 Launch Commentator: Firing chain is armed. Sound suppression water system activated. T minus 13... 12... 11... 10... nine... eight... go for main engine start... six......

Music. In preparation for liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis on the STS-132 mission, the six-member crew arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The astronauts flew to Kennedy to...