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Launch Guest Briefing

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welcome to the KSC Launch Guest Briefing Page

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  Launch Guest Briefers 

   

KSC Wildlife, Shuttle & Mission Briefing for:

Mission STS-101
 
(Updated through launch)

Alligators & Rocket Ships

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Crew Poster

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The civil service and contractor employees of the Kennedy Space Center are -- like many of you -- engineers, technicians, accountants, doctors, administrative professionals and secretaries who perform their day-to-day functions with little fanfare outside of their own work areas.  As launch time approaches, however, many of our employees "put on other hats" as they become NASA spokespersons and goodwill ambassadors to the general public, the media, U.S. and foreign dignitaries and others whom they welcome, tour, escort, entertain, inform and educate.

One such activity that few people are aware of is the pre-launch mission briefings that are provided to a limited number of VIPs who have been invited by NASA to attend the launch.  These extremely informative briefings, commonly known as the L-1 briefings (launch minus one day), are normally given the day before a Shuttle launch.  These briefings contain a wealth of information about KSC and how the Shuttle is prepared for launch and recovered after a mission.  Also included are insider insights relative to the crew, science and payloads of the impending mission.  

This page is designed to bring this information to you, our cyberspace public, as well as introduce those KSC professionals who prepare and deliver these briefings.  The actual script -- including photos, video and animations are all included.  This is your chance to learn about and be a participant in the science and excitement of  America's space program as NASA, KSC and its international partners build and launch the International Space Station and continue their quest to the planets, stars and beyond!

Previous Missions

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Cowart, Jon N.

Frostrom, Debra

Mellett, Kevin

Rainer, David

Schaible, Dawn

Armstrong, Dennis W.

Launch Guest Scriptwriters

Hagood, Kathy

Mission Payloads

   

Mission Payload

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   Launch Guest Schedule

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Press Kit

Shuttle Status

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Shuttle Manifest

   Astronaut Bios

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Mission Patch

Fact Sheet

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Shuttle Factoids

Page Last Revised:
11/01/00
Web Page Curator: Kathy Hagood, katharine.hagood-1@ksc.nasa.gov, JBOSC/SGS
A Service of the Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Office,