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NASA TV (originally NASA Select) was the television service of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was broadcast by satellite with a simulcast over the Internet . Local cable television providers across the United States and amateur television repeaters carried NASA TV at their own discretion, as NASA-created content is ...
A launch status check, also known as a "go/no go poll" and several other terms, occurs at the beginning of an American spaceflight mission in which flight controllers monitoring various systems are queried for operation and readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center ...
The shuttle was flown to Los Angeles International Airport in 2012 atop a NASA Boeing 747 and then created a spectacle as it was inched through tight city streets to Exposition Park.
Shortly after launch NASA TV online and via cable was seriously disrupted by a thunderstorm over Goddard Space Flight Center from where NASA TV is uplinked to satellites for distribution. The entire mission was covered on NASA TV and was available online worldwide, on cable, and on satellite in the USA.
STS-400 was the Space Shuttle contingency support (Launch On Need) flight that would have been launched using Space Shuttle Endeavour if a major problem occurred on Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-4).
Launch was rescheduled for July 2 at 3:26 p.m. STS-121 was the first launch during which NASA took special precautions to deter vultures, particularly the local turkey vulture, from flying over the area. Efforts included the swift removal of roadkill and other dead animals from areas around the launch site.
Liftoff of Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon at noon Wednesday, Oct. 5! The launch marks the start of a roughly 29-hour flight to the International Space Station.
NASA's main Space Shuttle page; NASA: Meet the STS-122 Launch Team Archived June 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; NASA: STS-122 mission summary; STS-122 mission animations Archived June 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine "STS-122". National Space Science Data Center. CBS News Space Place – Full coverage of STS-122; ESA: STS-122 lift off info