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STS-93: Crew Arrival and PR Location

The primary objective of the STS-93 mission was to deploy the Advanced X-ray Astrophysical Facility, which had been renamed the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel Laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar. The mission was launched at 12:31 on July 23, 1999 onboard the space shuttle Columbia. The mission was led by Commander Eileen Collins. The crew was Pilot Jeff Ashby and Mission Specialists Cady Coleman, Steve Hawley and Michel Tognini from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). This videotape shows the astronauts arriving at Kennedy and an inspection in the clean room.

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STS-96 Crew Training, Mission Animation, Crew Interviews, STARSHINE, Discovery Rollout and Repair of Hail Damage

Live footage shows the crewmembers of STS-96, Commander Kent V. Rominger, Pilot Rick D. Husband, Mission Specialists Ellen Ochoa, Tamara E. Jernigan, Daniel T. Barry, Julie Payette and Valery Ivanovich Tokarev during various training activities. Scenes include astronaut suit-up, EVA training in the Virtual Reality Lab, Orbiter space vision training, bailout training, and crew photo session. Footage also shows individual crew interviews, repair activities to the external fuel tank, and Discovery's return to the launch pad. The engineers are seen sanding, bending, and painting the foam used in repairing the tank. An animation of the deployment of the STARSHINE satellite, International Space Station, and the STS-96 Mission is presented. Footage shows the students from Edgar Allen Poe Middle School sanding, polishing, and inspecting the mirrors for the STARSHINE satellite. Live footage also includes students from St. Michael the Archangel School wearing bunny suits and entering the clean room at Goddard Space Flight Center.

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STS-99 Payload Door Closure in Orbiter Processing Facility # 2, Endeavour, (SRTM)

The primary objective of the STS-99 mission was to complete high resolution mapping of large sections of the Earth's surface using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a specially modified radar system. This videotape shows the SRTM in Endeavour's payload bay, while the payload bay doors are being closed. There are some views of the Orbiter Processing Facility and technicians in the clean room environment.

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STS-37 The Payload bay door closing at PCR Pad B

The primary objective of the STS-37 mission was to deploy the Gamma Ray Observatory. The mission was launched at 9:22:44 am on April 5, 1991, onboard the space shuttle Atlantis. This videotape shows the payload bay doors being closed. Included are views of the Gamma Ray Observatory in the payload bay, and the clean room operations in the Payload Changeout Room (PCR).

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STS-99 Payload Bay Door Opening at Pad 39A Endeavour

The primary objective of the STS-99 mission was to complete high resolution mapping of large sections of the Earth's surface using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a specially modified radar system. This videotape shows the doors to the payload bay opening prior to the emplacement of the SRTM. It also shows views of the personnel in the clean room during the process.

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STS-99 SRTM Lift and Insert into Canister

The primary objective of the STS-99 mission was to complete high resolution mapping of large sections of the Earth's surface using the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), a specially modified radar system. This radar system produced unrivaled 3-D images of the Earth's Surface. The mission was launched at 12:31 on February 11, 2000 onboard the space shuttle Endeavour. and led by Commander Kevin Kregel. The crew was Pilot Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie and Mission Specialists Janet L. Kavandi, Janice E. Voss, Mamoru Mohri from the National Space Development Agency (Japanese Space Agency), and Gerhard P. J. Thiele from DARA (German Space Agency). This videotape shows clean room technicians working on a part of the 200 foot long mast that will hold the SRTM in position during the mission. This videotape also shows the lowering of the SRTM into the canister.

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STS-34 Galileo PCR at Pad & Galileo in Atlantis

The primary objective of the STS-34 mission was the deployment of the Galileo spacecraft and the attached Inertial Upper Stage. This videotape shows the Galileo in the Payload Clean Room in preparation for the six year trip to Jupiter. There are also views of the spacecraft in the Atlantis Payload Bay.

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STS-31: Hubble in VPF Lift to Work Platform

This videotape shows the Hubble Space Telescope being moved in the clean room Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) to the work platform. The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed on April 25, 1990 from the space shuttle Discovery during STS-31.

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STS-35: Astro-1 BBXRT Problem Area

The primary objective of STS-35 was to conduct observations in ultraviolet and X-ray astronomy with the ASTRO-1 observatory. ASTRO-1 consisted of four telescopes: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT); Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE); Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT); and Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT). This videotape shows work on the BBXRT in the clean room. Two days before a scheduled September 1 launch date, the avionics box on the BBXRT malfunctioned and had to be changed and retested.

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STS-34: Galileo Processing

This videotape shows work being done on the Galileo spacecraft in the clean room, Vertical Processing Facility (VPF). It also shows the spacecraft being lifted to a work platform in the VPF. The deployment of Galileo on its trip to Jupiter was the primary objective of the STS-34 mission.

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STS-31: Hubble Discovery Payload Doors Closing

The primary objective of mission STS-31 was to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. The videotape shows the Hubble Space Telescope in Discovery's payload bay in the Vertical Assembly Building (VAB) clean room, while the payload bay's doors slowly close.

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Delta XTE Spacecraft Removed from Transfer Cannister at Hangar AO, CCAS

The X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE) is a satellite that observes the fast-moving, high-energy worlds of black holes, neutron stars, X-ray pulsars and bursts of X-rays that light up the sky and then disappear forever. It was launched on Dec. 30, 1995. This videotape shows the spacecraft being removed from the transfer cannister. After the spacecraft is set down, the foil covering is removed by workers in clean room clothing.

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XTE Payload at Hangar AO

The X-ray Timing Explorer (XTE), launched on Dec. 30, 1995, is a satellite that observes the fast-moving, high-energy worlds of black holes, neutron stars, X-ray pulsars and bursts of X-rays that light up the sky and then disappear forever. This videotape shows the XTE satellite being worked on by personnel in clean room clothing. The XTE is mounted on a base, which moves the satellite from the vertical to the horizontal position, to allow for access to various parts.

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ATLAS-SOHO: Satellite Arrival and Uncrating, Uncrating of the Propulsion Unit and Electric Module

The SOHO satellite, part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Program (ISTP), is a solar observatory designed to study the structure, chemical composition, and dynamics of the solar interior. It will also observe the structure (density, temperature and velocity fields), dynamics and composition of the outer solar atmosphere, and the solar wind and its relation to the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft was launched on December 2, 1995. This video shows the unloading of the satellite from the transport plane at the Kennedy Space Station and the lowering to an awaiting flatbed truck. The video also shows the uncrating of the satellite, the propulsion unit and the electric module in a clean room.

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STS-40/SLS-1: Lift to Cargo Bay

The footage shows the lifting of the solid state micro-accelerometer into Colombia's cargo bay. This was done in a clean room setting and is part of the In Orbit Technology Demonstration Program.

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Spacecraft Communications System Verification Using On-Axis Near Field Measurement Techniques

Determination of the readiness of a spacecraft for launch is a critical requirement. The final assembly of all subsystems must be verified. Testing of a communications system can mostly be done using closed-circuits (cabling to/from test ports), but the final connections to the antenna require radiation tests. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Project used a readily available 'near-fleld on-axis' equation to predict the values to be used for comparison with those obtained in a test program. Tests were performed in a 'clean room' environment at both Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and in Japan at the Tanegashima Space Center (TnSC) launch facilities. Most of the measured values agreed with the predicted values to within 0.5 dB. This demonstrates that sometimes you can use relatively simple techniques to make antenna performance measurements when use of the 'far field ranges, anechoic chambers, or precision near-field ranges' are neither available nor practical. Test data and photographs are provided.

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