| STS-132: Launch director update |
Date: May 5, 2010
Duration: 1 min 13 sec
Mike Leinbach, the space shuttle launch director, gives an update on preparations at Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A for Atlantis' countdown and liftoff. |  |
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| STS-132 pre-flight briefings: Programs |
Date: May 3, 2010
Duration: 51 min 55 sec
Space shuttle program manager John Shannon and space station deputy program manager Mike Suffredini open the day of pre-flight news conferences previewing Atlantis' STS-132 mission with this program perspectives briefing. They discuss various hot topics for both programs.
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| STS-132 pre-flight briefings: The mission |
Date: May 3, 2010
Duration: 73 min 52 sec
A detailed preview of space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission that will deliver the Russian Mini Research Module Rassvet to the International Space Station is provided in this briefing with lead shuttle flight director Mike Sarafin and lead station flight director Emily Nelson.
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| STS-132 pre-flight briefings: The EVAs |
Date: May 3, 2010
Duration: 34 min 18 sec
Three spacewalks are planned during space shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 mission to the International Space Station. Lisa Shore, the lead spacewalk officer, previews the EVAs in this briefing.
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| STS-132 pre-flight briefings: The Atlantis astronauts meet the press |
Date: May 3, 2010
Duration: 55 min 7 sec
Commander Ken Ham, pilot Tony Antonelli and mission specialists Garrett Reisman, Mike Good, Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers hold the traditional pre-flight news conference from Johnson Space Center.
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| STS-132: Shuttle evacuation practice |
Date: April 24, 2010
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
After clocks halted in the final seconds to simulate a shutdown of the three main engines just prior to liftoff, the crew exits the shuttle and practices scurrying to the slide-wire baskets for a quick evacuation of the pad.
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| STS-132: Crew boards Atlantis |
Date: April 24, 2010
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
After the short ride out to launch pad 39A, the astronauts walk across the access arm to the White Room and begin boarding shuttle Atlantis for the final three hours of the practice countdown.
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| STS-132: Launch day simulation begins |
Date: April 24, 2010
Duration: 4 min 53 sec
The astronauts follow a normal launch morning routine during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, donning their bright orange spacesuits and departing the crew quarters building to get into the Astrovan.
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| STS-132: Emergency training at launch pad tower and bunker |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
The astronauts spend time learning how to evacuate pad 39A if an emergency arises, including procedures to operate the slide-wire baskets that would quickly whisk the crew from the launch tower to a bunker west of the pad.
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| STS-132: Gantry encloses Atlantis |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
With the mobile launching platform securely anchored atop pad 39A, the rotating service gantry that contains the payloads inside the cleanroom is placed around space shuttle Atlantis.
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| STS-132: Crew chat at the pad |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 21 min 40 sec
The STS-132 astronauts take a few minutes during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test events to talk with reporters at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39A on the morning of April 22. |  |
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| STS-132: Atlantis perched atop pad 39A |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 10 min 31 sec
Space shuttle Atlantis completes its journey to Kennedy Space Center's launch pad for perhaps the final time before retirement. |  |
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| STS-132: Cheering on Atlantis |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 5 min 56 sec
A large crowd of workers and their families witness space shuttle Atlantis' late-night rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building along with the mission's astronauts.
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| STS-132: Space shuttle Atlantis begins overnight rollout |
Date: April 22, 2010
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Facing what could be the final voyage in its quarter-century of spaceflight, the shuttle Atlantis emerges from Kennedy Space Center's assembly building bathed in spotlights. |  |
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| STS-132: Tank test driving |
Date: April 21, 2010
Duration: 4 min 49 sec
Atlantis' astronauts take turns test-driving an armored tank available for the crew to escape the pad 39A area if an emergency arises during the launch countdown. |  |
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| STS-132: Commander's comments |
Date: April 20, 2010
Duration: 5 min 34 sec
Hear from space shuttle Atlantis commander Ken Ham on the occasion of the crew's arrival at Kennedy Space Center to begin the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. |  |
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| STS-132: Crew jets in for practice count |
Date: April 20, 2010
Duration: 10 min 8 sec
Commander Ken Ham and his crew of space station builders reached Kennedy Space Center at sundown April 20 for the week's emergency training exercises and a countdown dress rehearsal. |  |
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| STS-132: Canister heads to the pad |
Date: April 15, 2010
Duration: 11 min 39 sec
The transportation canister hauling the Rassvet module and cargo pallet payloads is rotated vertically for delivery to the launch pad. |  |
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| STS-132: Hoisting shuttle Atlantis |
Date: April 13, 2010
Duration: 5 min 38 sec
The shuttle Atlantis is hoisted from the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building over to high bay No. 1 where the external tank and twin solid rockets await. |  |
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| STS-132: Orbiter turns vertical |
Date: April 13, 2010
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Space shuttle Atlantis is rotated from horizontal to vertical in the center aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building for its attachment to the waiting fuel tank and boosters. |  |
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