Beautiful images, beautiful launches and awesome new features on your SpacePod for June 30th, 2010 Lets take a look at some stunning images, shall we? We start or journey with an amazing picture taken...
      George Diller/SDO Launch Commentator: T minus 10... nine... eight... seven... six... five... four... "go" for main engine start...   three... two... one... zero... and...
  Mike Curie/STS-133 Launch Commentator: This is Shuttle Launch Control at T-3 hours and holding, with about one hour, 22 minutes and 50 seconds remaining in our hold today. Space shuttle Discovery...
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....

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For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have slowly traveled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads...
[engines start] roaring (female voice) Five. Four. Three. Two. One. [quieter] rumbling [louder] roaring (female voice) And liftoff. (launch control) Ten. (launch control) GLS is go for main engine...
      George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: From Vandenberg Air Force Base in California,   this is Atlas Launch Control at T-minus two hours, five minutes, 28 seconds and counting.   We're...
>>Hello to everybody who in Houston has supported the space shuttle program for 30 years. This has been an incredible accomplishment and there will be more spacecraft to come. I hope...
      George Diller/NASA Launch Commentator: Sound suppression water system armed.   T-10... nine... eight... seven... sixůfive... fourůthreeůtwoů oneůand liftoff of space shuttle Atlantis,   the...