STS-128: Discovery "rollover"

Space shuttle Discovery was moved Sunday, July 26, from Orbiter Processing Facility 3
to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for its upcoming
STS-128 mission to the International Space Station. The move from Discoverys hangar
is referred to as a "rollover."
Following rollover, technicians will attach the lifting sling to Discovery for rotation
and hoisting. The shuttle then is bolted to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket
boosters for its rollout to Launch Pad 39A the following week.During the 13-day STS-128 mission,
Discoverys seven astronauts will bring supplies and equipment to the space station.
Launch is targeted for late August.

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[rayman4449]

I have always wanted to see this done, excellent video! Thanks for posting :) Nasa needs to sell Bluray discs of all this.

[danese0420]

I still hope someone from Canada will purchase one. After all it was us who gave them and built the robotics for the shuttles, Canada is a major contributer to Nasa.

[danese0420]

I dont understand why they just dont convert them over like they did with the three Saturn V rockets for general public viewing at the three NASA Centers. Even though they would need to be maintain and protected by the everyday outside environment from the weather.

[ironmagma]

How did you get this video? Can you visit the rollovers?

[CarolynAces]

What a girl! What dedication these people must have!

[josephgrovers]

But yeah, i would love to hear about when Canada has a space program. What their space shuttle would be and everything. One thing i just thought of right as i was writing this comment was, if Canada came up with a space program, if the US could just do a joint program and combine and just make a NASA-Canada Space program and have both countries do funding, It would mark a milestone in the two countries' alliance. I wish Canada and the US could do more stuff like that.

[josephgrovers]

Yeah, it wouldn't be a good idea at all, there was a reason they retired it and aren't flying it anymore.

[TheOnlineCommunity]

Yeah, come to think of it, you're completely right. Still, it's kind of sad that we HAVE to rely on russia for a few years to come. I guess there would only be transport/supply missions to ISS anyway, which you don't NEED the space shuttle for, so NASA's retiring the space shuttle in order to pioneer the way to the next frontier, the moon..... anyway, they are really old and they can't run forever, so it would be dangerous just to hand it down to another country.

[josephgrovers]

Yeah but these are american space shuttles, im sure nomatter how close a country is to america, we wouldnt give old messed up space shuttles to a country. And im not even sure you would want an old beat up space shuttle either, unless you want to be as far away from safe as you can get.

[TheOnlineCommunity]

So the world won't end up having to rely on russia to take our astronauts into space for the next few years! What fun that will be...