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STS-129 Media Resources
› Execute Packages
› Mission TV Schedule
› Briefing and Events Schedule
› Launch Countdown Milestones and Times
› STS-129 Mission Overview
› STS-129 Press Kit (15.5 Mb PDF)
› Mission Summary (518 Kb PDF)
› More about STS-129 Crew

STS-129 Preflight Briefing Materials
› Mission Overview Briefing Graphics
› Preflight Briefing Animations

General Space Shuttle Resources
› Orbiter Status
› Remaining Space Shuttle Missions
› Draft Space Shuttle Program Environmental Assessment
A Feb. 25, 2008 report that addresses the potential environmental impacts associated with the transition and retirement of the Space Shuttle Program.
› NASA Human Capital Plan for Mission Execution, Transition, and Retirement of the Space Shuttle Program (PDF)

Multi-Program Integrated Milestones
› View PDF

Return to Flight Implementation Plan :
› Final Edition -- May 2007 (19.8 Mb PDF)
› All Shuttle and Station Implementation Plans

Space Shuttle Facts
› Flights by Orbiter
› Night Launches
› Extended Missions
› Extended Duration Missions
› Shortened Missions
› End of Mission Landings

STS-129 MCC Status Report #09

11.20.09 - Preparations for the second spacewalk of Atlantis’ STS-129 visit to the International Space Station, transfer of material between the spacecraft and talks with media representatives helped keep astronauts busy Friday.
STS-129 MCC Status Report #08

11.20.09 - Though it began a little later than planned, the STS-129 crew is awake and starting work on the day’s activities.

Informes Sobre La Misión Del Trasbordador Atlantis STS-129

Informes del estado de la Misión STS-129 del Trasbordador Atlantis están disponibles en español.

Students Send Microbe Experiment on Space Shuttle Atlantis

11.12.09 - An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.
NASA Sets Ares I-X Prelaunch Events and Countdown Details

10.23.09 - News conferences, events and operating hours for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are set for the upcoming Ares I-X flight test.