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Q&A with Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator on NASA’s Dawn mission

September 27, 2017

Carol Raymond helps lead the Dawn science team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where she oversees research investigating comets and asteroids, including the two objects visited during Dawn’s decade-long mission: Vesta and Ceres.

Space Station Live: October 7, 2015

October 7, 2015

A video update from mission control Houston on activities aboard the International Space Station. (Membership required)

STS-135 crew module camera: astronauts rocket off the launch pad

July 8, 2011

This video from a camera on Atlantis’ flight deck shows what it’s like to launch into orbit aboard the space shuttle. The footage begins with the final countdown to blastoff and continues through the astronauts getting out of their seats to see the jettisoned fuel tank fall away. (Membership Required)

Timelapse video: The final space shuttle assembled for flight

May 19, 2011

A timelapse video shot inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center chronicles the stacking of the final shuttle mission’s booster, external fuel tank and the addition of the orbiter Atlantis. (Membership Required)

STS-133 onboard camera launch video

February 24, 2011

The final flight of Space Shuttle Discovery seen from the ET-Cam mounted near the top of its fuel tank. Mission STS-133 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on February 24, 2011. (Membership required)