description: Here, in over three and a half gigabytes of material on DVD-ROM, is the complete story of the historic Shuttle return-to-flight mission of STS-114 by Discovery and her crew in July-August 2005. Coverage includes: * Over 500 digital images of preflight activities, crew training, and in-flight electronic still camera views of mission events. These images are available as high-resolution image files, and also are presented in our exclusive Image Gallery in PDF format. This gallery reproduces the photos in a computerized "photo album" suitable for quick full-screen browsing! This format was designed to mimic the look and "feel" of a real book; there is no need to laboriously import specific images into a slow-loading program for viewing and printing. As you flip through the images in the Gallery, you can magnify photographs for better viewing. * Return-to-flight and mission-specific technical documentation, including full reproductions of the presentation charts at the Flight Readiness Review (FRR), ET foam loss and tile gap filler problem charts and presentations, press kit, Mission Control status reports, and in-flight messages to the crew, including “execute packages” and technical updates. There are several hundred documents presented in PDF format. * Over 250 mission-related video clips and 30 audio clips. NASA reports: During this test mission, NASA accomplished a variety of goals while also learning important lessons. At liftoff on July 26, 2005, a large piece of foam broke off the External Tank. NASA engineers are working to determine the cause and design changes to prevent it. Using the Orbiter Boom Sensor System, Discovery crewmembers took an up-close look at the orbiter's thermal protection system. Commander Collins guided Discovery through the first-ever "rendezvous pitch maneuver" as the orbiter approached the International Space Station for docking. The back flip allowed Station crewmembers Phillips and Krikalev to snap high-resolution photos. During the first spacewalk, Robinson and Noguchi tested new TPS repair techniques. Two days later, Robinson and Noguchi again ventured out to replace a failed Control Moment Gyro. The RPM photos revealed two tile gap-fillers protruding from the underside, so Robinson extracted them during the third EVA. This incredible DVD-ROM is packed with over 12,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust. This DVD-ROM disc is for use in a computer DVD drive. The files can be accessed from the File Explorer in the same way that you open files from a CD-ROM disc; the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM formats are functionally the same, but the DVD has more than six times greater storage capacity. Of course, this disc cannot be "played" in a DVD player connected to a television set. It contains computer-formatted data, not video.
title: 2005 Space Shuttle Mission Sts 114 – Complete Story Of The Historic Flight Of Discovery, In Flight Images And Photo Gallery, Technical Documentation, Video And Audio Clips
titlecomplete: 2005 Space Shuttle Mission Sts 114 – Complete Story Of The Historic Flight Of Discovery, In Flight Images And Photo Gallery, Technical Documentation, Video And Audio Clips (Dvd Rom)