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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 3 Highlights

On this third day of the STS-105 mission, footage shows Discovery docking with the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 2 crewmembers, Yuriy Usachev, James Voss, and Susan Helms, are seen as they work in the Destiny Laboratory Module on the ISS. The STS-105 crew (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Frederick Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester), Expedition 2 crew, and Expedition 3 crew (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov) are seen as the connecting hatches are opened between the ISS and Discovery and the crews meet.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 4 Highlights

On this fourth day of the STS-105 mission, footage shows the Shuttle's robotic arm as it moves into position to grapple the Leonardo Multipurpose Module (LMPM) out of Discovery's payload bay and into position to be installed to the Unity Module on the International Space Station (ISS). The STS-105 crew (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Frederick Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Daniel Barry and Patrick Forrester), Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms), and the Expedition 3 crew (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov) are seen as they unload LMPM and transfer racks to and from the Destiny Laboratory Module and the Space Shuttle.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 5 Highlights

On this fifth day of the STS-105 mission, the transfer of supplies from the Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module to the International Space Station (ISS) and the handover of control of the ISS from the Expedition 2 crew (Yuriy Usachev, Jim Voss, and Susan Helms) to the Expedition 3 crew (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov) continue. Commanders Usachev and Culbertson answer questions about the ISS in an on-orbit interview, and the Expedition 3 crewmembers give a video tour of their new sleeping quarters on the ISS. The north Pacific Ocean and the United States Pacific northwest are seen from space.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 6 Highlights

In this sixth day of the STS-105 mission, Expedition 2 crewmember Susan Helms answers questions about her long-duration flight on the International Space Station (ISS) in this on-orbit interview. Footage shows portions of Canada and the northern United States from space as the orbiter flies over, including Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 11 Highlights

On this 11th day of the STS-105 mission, the three crews, Expedition 2 (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms), Expedition 3 (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov), and STS-105 (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester), gather to say a few words about the changeover of the control of the International Space Station (ISS). Footage shows the undocking of Discovery from the ISS. STS-105 and E2 crews answer questions about the stay on the ISS in an on-orbit interview.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-105 Flight Day 12 Highlights

In this 12th day of the STS-105 mission, Discovery continues to fly towards Earth after the previous day's undocking from the International Space Station (ISS). Several on-orbit interviews are conducted, including questions to the STS-105 crew (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester) about spaceflight, questions to the Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) about their stay on the ISS, and questions to the Expedition 3 crew (Frank Culbertson, Jr., Mikhail Turin, and Vladimir Dezhurov) about some of the experiments on board the ISS. Typhoon 14 is seen from above as Discovery passes over the storm.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-104 Post Flight Presentation

The crewmembers of STS-104, Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Charles Hobaugh, and Mission Specialists Mike Gernhardt, Jim Reilly, and Janet Kavandi, are heard narrating this video as footage is shown from various points in the mission. The crew is seen during suit-up, boarding the Shuttle, during launch, and performing many on-orbit activities, including the rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) (live and a computer animation), the three spacewalks (installing Quest Airlock and three external gas tanks), and the opening and outfitting of Quest. As the mission ends the crew bids farewell to the Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) and the Atlantis Orbiter undocks from ISS, performs the fly-around of the space station, and lands.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape

A continuation of 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 1 of 4' (internal ID 2001214904), this video shows footage from flight days four through seven of the STS-104 mission. Mission Specialists Mike Gernhardt and Jim Reilly are seen during their spacewalks, Pilot Charles Hobaugh and Mission Specialists Janet Kavandi, Mike Gernhardt, and Jim Reilly, and Expedition 2 Flight Engineer Susan Helms work inside the newly installed Quest Airlock. Expedition 2 Flight Engineer Jim Voss is seen as he works to outfit the vestibule between the Unity Module and Quest and opening the hatch between the two components of the International Space Station. Flight days seven (continued) though twelve can be found on the videos 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 3 of 4' (internal ID 2001214906) and 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 4 of 4' (internal ID 2001214905).

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape

An overview of the STS-104 mission is given through footage of each flight day. Scenes from flight days one through three show activities such as astronaut prelaunch procedures (breakfast, suit-up, and boarding Atlantis), launch, and on-orbit activities such as the opening of the payload bay doors, rendezvous and docking of the Orbiter to the International Space Station (ISS), and the opening of the hatches separating the Orbiter from ISS. The STS-104 crew (Commander Steven Lindsey, Pilot Charles Hobaugh, and Mission Specialists Mike Gernhardt, Jim Reilly, and Janet Kavandi) greets the Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms). Footage from flight days four through twelve can be found on the following videos: 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 2 of 4' (internal ID 2001214902), 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 3 of 4' (internal ID 2001214906), and 'STS-104 Mission Highlights Resource Tape, Part 4 of 4' (internal ID 2001214905).

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NASA NTRS2002

STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 4-6

A continuation of 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 1-3' (internal ID 2002046550), this video shows footage from flight days four through six of the STS-105 mission. Commander Scott Horowitz helps Mission Specialist Pat Forrester maneuver the Space Shuttle's robotic arm as it grapples the Multipurpose Logistics Module (MPLM) from Discovery's payload bay to the International Space Station (ISS). The three crews, STS-105 (Commander Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Forrester), Expedition 2 (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms), and Expedition 3 (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), are seen during unloading operations as they transfer equipment from the MPLM to the ISS. Forrester and Barry check their equipment and suits for the next day's spacewalks. The E2 crew shows the E3 crew around ISS. The crescent moon and the end of a sunset are seen from space. For activities from flight days 7-13, see 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 7-9' (internal ID 2002046552) and 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 10-13' (internal ID 2002046551).

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NASA NTRS2002

STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 7-9

A continuation of 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 1-3' (internal ID 2002046550) and 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 4-6' (internal ID 2002046549), this video shows footage from flight days seven through nine of the STS-105 mission. Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester are seen preparing for and performing their spacewalks, where they install an Early Ammonia Servicer on the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) hands control of the ISS over to the Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov) in a short ceremony. Barry and Forrester return to space the next day for another spacewalk to install handrails and heater cables. Hawaii is seen from space as ISS passes over, and the smoke from forest fires in Oregon and Idaho is shown. For footage from flight days 10-13, see 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 10-13' (internal ID 2002049551).

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NASA NTRS2002

STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 10-13

A continuation of 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 1-3' (internal ID 2002046550), 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 4-6' (internal ID 2002046549), and 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 7-9' (internal ID 2002046552), this video shows footage from flight days 10 through 13 of the STS-105 mission. The Multipurpose Logistics Module (MPLM) is moved from the International Space Station (ISS) to the payload bay of Discovery. The STS-105 crew (Commander Scott Horowitz, Pilot Fred Sturckow, and Mission Specialists Dan Barry and Pat Forrester) and Expedition 2 crew (Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms) bid farewell to the Expedition 3 crew (Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineers Mikhail Turin and Vladimir Dezhurov), who are to remain on ISS. ISS is seen against the Earth as Discovery performs its fly-around after the orbiter undocks. There is no flight day footage from flight day 12. Discovery is seen landing.

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NASA NTRS2002

STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 1-3

An overview of the STS-105 mission is given through footage of each flight day. Scenes from flight days one through three show activities such as astronaut prelaunch procedures (breakfast, suit-up, and boarding Discovery), the launch from multiple vantage points, and various on-orbit activities. Expedition 3 (E3) Commander Frank Culbertson, Jr. and Flight Engineer Mikhail Turin perform the H-Reflex Experiment, an experiment to test the effects of microgravity on the human spinal cord. As Discovery approaches the International Space Station (ISS), the Expedition 2 (E2) crew, Commander Yuriy Usachev and Flight Engineers James Voss and Susan Helms, are seen working in the Destiny Laboratory Module aboard ISS. Discovery docks to the space station and the three crews (STS-105, E2, and E3) greet each other after the hatches between the orbiter and ISS are opened. As Discovery passes over the United States, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Minnesota are seen through patchy clouds. Footage from flight days 4-13 can be found on 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 4-6' (internal ID 2002046549), 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 7-9' (internal ID 2002046552), and 'STS-105 Mission Highlights Resource Tape: Flight Days 10-13' (internal ID 2002046551).

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NASA NTRS2000

STS-101 Meal - Suit Up - Depart O&C Launch - On Orbit - Landing - Crew Depart

The STS-101 Space Shuttle Atlantis Assembly Flight International Space Station (ISS) -2A-2a mission begins with Commander Jim Halsell, and mission specialists Jeff Williams and Yuri Usachev talking briefly to the media. Pilot Scott Horowitz, and Mission Specialists Susan Helms, James Voss, and Mary Ellen Weber are shown arriving later to take crew photos. Footage of the entire STS-101 crew is shown getting suited and departing the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building. Views of the actual launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis are presented from the vehicle assembly building (VAB), PAD-A, Tower 1, Universal Camera Sites (UCS) 15 and 23 and Press sites. Jeff Williams and James Voss are shown on orbit performing a single space walk to complete maintenance to the International Space Station. A nighttime touchdown of the Space Shuttle Atlantis is also presented.

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NASA NTRS2001

STS-102 Photo-op/Suit-up/Depart O&C/Launch Discovery On Orbit/Landing/Crew Egress

The spacecrews of STS-102 and the Expedition 1 and 2 crews of the International Space Station (ISS) are seen in this video, which presents an overview of their activities. The crew consists of Commander Jim Wetherbee, Pilot James Kelly, and Mission Specialists Andrew Thomas, and Paul Richards. The sections of the video include: Photo-op, Suit-up, Depart O&C, Ingress, Launch with Playbacks, On-orbit, Landing with Playbacks, and Crew Egress & Departs. The prelaunch activities are explained by two narrators, and the crew members are assisted in the White Room just before boarding the Space Shuttle Discovery. Isolated views of the shuttle's launch include: VAB, PAD-B, DLTR-3, UCS-23 Tracker, PATRICK IGOR, UCS-10 Tracker, Grandstand, Tower-1, OTV-160, OTV-170, OTV-171, and On-board Camera. The video shows two extravehicular activities (EVAs) to perform work on the ISS, one by astronauts Helms and Voss from Expedition 2, and another by Richards and Thomas. The attachment of the Leonardo Multipurpose Logistics Module, a temporary resupply module, is shown in a series of still images. The on-orbit footage also includes a view of the Nile River, and a crew exhange ceremony between Expedition 1 (Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer Sergei Krikalev) and Expedition 2 (Commander Yury Usachev, Flight Engineers James Voss, Susan Helms). Isolated views of the landing at Kennedy Space Center include: North Runway Camera, VAB, Tower-1, Mid-field, Midfield IR, Tower-2, and UCS-12 IR. The Crew Transfer Vehicle (CTV) for unloading the astronauts is shown, administrators greet the crew upon landing, and Commander Wetherbee gives a briefing.

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NASA NTRS2003

Image Acquisition in Real Time

In 1995, Carlos Jorquera left NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to focus on erasing the growing void between high-performance cameras and the requisite software to capture and process the resulting digital images. Since his departure from NASA, Jorquera s efforts have not only satisfied the private industry's cravings for faster, more flexible, and more favorable software applications, but have blossomed into a successful entrepreneurship that is making its mark with improvements in fields such as medicine, weather forecasting, and X-ray inspection. Formerly a JPL engineer who constructed imaging systems for spacecraft and ground-based astronomy projects, Jorquera is the founder and president of the three-person firm, Boulder Imaging Inc., based in Louisville, Colorado. Joining Jorquera to round out the Boulder Imaging staff are Chief Operations Engineer Susan Downey, who also gained experience at JPL working on space-bound projects including Galileo and the Hubble Space Telescope, and Vice President of Engineering and Machine Vision Specialist Jie Zhu Kulbida, who has extensive industrial and research and development experience within the private sector.

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NASA NTRS2004

Optical Tweezer Assembly and Calibration

An Optical Tweezer, as the name implies, is a useful tool for precision manipulation of micro and nano scale objects. Using the principle of electromagnetic radiation pressure, an optical tweezer employs a tightly focused laser beam to trap and position objects of various shapes and sizes. These devices can trap micrometer and nanometer sized objects. An exciting possibility for optical tweezers is its future potential to manipulate and assemble micro and nano sized sensors. A typical optical tweezer makes use of the following components: laser, mirrors, lenses, a high quality microscope, stage, Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera, TV monitor and Position Sensitive Detectors (PSDs). The laser wavelength employed is typically in the visible or infrared spectrum. The laser beam is directed via mirrors and lenses into the microscope. It is then tightly focused by a high magnification, high numerical aperture microscope objective into the sample slide, which is mounted on a translating stage. The sample slide contains a sealed, small volume of fluid that the objects are suspended in. The most common objects trapped by optical tweezers are dielectric spheres. When trapped, a sphere will literally snap into and center itself in the laser beam. The PSD s are mounted in such a way to receive the backscatter after the beam has passed through the trap. PSD s used with the Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) technique provide highly precise data. Most optical tweezers employ lasers with power levels ranging from 10 to 100 miliwatts. Typical forces exerted on trapped objects are in the pico-newton range. When PSDs are employed, object movement can be resolved on a nanometer scale in a time range of milliseconds. Such accuracy, however, can only by utilized by calibrating the optical tweezer. Fortunately, an optical tweezer can be modeled accurately as a simple spring. This allows Hook s Law to be used. My goal this summer at NASA Glenn Research Center is the assembly and calibration of an optical tweezer setup in the Instrumentation and Controls Division (5520). I am utilizing a custom LabVIEW Virtual Instrument program for data collection and microscope stage control. Helping me in my assignment are the following people: Mentor Susan Wrbanek (5520), Dr. Baha Jassemnejad (UCO) and Technicians Ken Weiland (7650) and James Williams (7650). Without their help, my task would not be possible.

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NASA NTRS2006

Flora: A Proposed Hyperspectral Mission

In early 2004, one of the authors (Stephen Ungar, NASA GSFC) presented a mission concept called "Spectrasat" at the AVIRIS Workshop in Pasadena, CA. This mission concept grew out of the lessons learned from the Earth Observing-One (EO-1) Hyperion Imaging Spectrometer and was structured to more effectively accomplish the types of studies conducted with Hyperion. The Spectrasat concept represented an evolution of the technologies and operation strategies employed on EO-I. The Spectrasat concept had been preceded by two community-based missions proposed by Susan Ustin, UC Davis and Robert Green, NASA JPL. As a result of community participation, starting at this AVIRIS Workshop, the Spectrasat proposal evolved into the Flora concept which now represents the combined visions of Gregory Asner (Carnegie Institute), Stephen Ungar, Robert Green and Robert Knox, NASA GSFC. Flora is a proposed imaging spectrometer mission, designed to address global carbon cycle science issues. This mission centers on measuring ecological disturbance for purposes of ascertaining changes in global carbon stocks and draws heavily on experience gained through AVIRIS airborne flights and Hyperion space born flights. The observing strategy exploits the improved ability of imaging spectrometers, as compared with multi-spectral observing systems, to identify vegetation functional groups, detect ecosystem response to disturbance and assess the related discovery. Flora will be placed in a sun synchronous orbit, with a 45 meter pixel size, a 90 km swath width and a 31 day repeat cycle. It covers the spectral range from 0.4 to 2.5 micrometers with a spectral sampling interval of 10 nm. These specifications meet the needs of the Flora science team under the leadership of Gregory Asner. Robert Green, has introduced a spectrometer design for Flora which is expected to have a SNR of 600: 1 in the VNIR and 450: 1 in the SWIR. The mission team at NASA GSFC is designing an Intelligent Payload Module (IPM) designed to effectively reduce the volume of data required to be transmitted down to the ground. This paper discusses mission science objectives, describes the mission concept and presents the current status of possible funding opportunities leading to realization of the mission.

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