2005 Pre-flight Guide to NASA Space Shuttle Mission STS-114, the Historic Voyage of Orbiter Discovery Returning the Shuttle to Flight (DVD-ROM)

This electronic book on DVD-ROM provides a comprehensive collection of documents and images about the recovery of the Space Shuttle program from the Columbia tragedy of February 2003, and the impending return to flight of Discovery on STS-114 with the heroic crew of commander Eileen Collins, pilot James Kelly, and mission specialists Wendy Lawrence, Stephen Robinson, Andrew Thomas, Charles Camarda, and Soichi Noguchi.

AMERICA’S SPACE SHUTTLE RETURNS TO FLIGHT - A seven-member crew will fly the Return to Flight mission to the International Space Station. The crew will deliver supplies to the International Space Station, but the major focus of their mission will be testing and evaluating Shuttle flight safety, which includes new thermal protection system inspection and repair techniques. Station-related activities on Logistics Flight 1 are delivering new supplies and replacing one of the orbital outpost's Control Moment Gyroscopes (CMGs). STS-114 will also carry a Raffaello Multi-Purpose Logistics Module and the External Stowage Platform-2. The crew will conduct at least three spacewalks while at the ISS. The first spacewalk will demonstrate repair techniques of the Shuttle's Thermal Protection System. During the second, the spacewalkers will replace the failed CMG; on the third they will install the External Stowage Platform.

IMAGE GALLERIES – Hundreds of shuttle hardware and crew images for STS-114 and the shuttle program are presented in Acrobat PDF Image Galleries.

RETURN TO FLIGHT PLANNING – The complete record of the RTF committee, known as the Stafford-Covey Task Group, with full reports and briefing updates. Includes Shuttle RTF Plan documents from NASA, along with NASA’s Implementation Plan for International Space Station Continuing Flight.

FLIGHT DATA FILE DOCUMENTS: STS-114 Flight Plan, PDRS Checklist, Rendezvous Checklist, EVA Checklist; STS-113 Rendezvous and EVA Checklists.

CRITICAL ITEMS LIST (CIL) and FMEA DOCUMENTS: Complete database as released by NASA after the Columbia accident, with PDF reproductions of the baseline history, baseline lookup, and complete parts list of over 22,000 critical parts.

COLUMBIA ACCIDENT AND SHUTTLE PROGRAM BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS – Extensive collections of internal program documents from the Johnson Space Center and NASA Headquarters, and a complete reproduction of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) multi-volume report.

NASA ENGINEERING AND SAFETY CENTER – documents from the NESC.

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