Disc One begins with a brief summary of what is known about the accident, and then provides NASA biographies of each crewmember, complete experiment and hardware descriptions, and mission science information. It includes the text of the address to the nation by President Bush, mission status reports, a review of each of Columbia's previous 27 missions, and two annual shuttle program reports. Our "Photo Gallery" in Adobe Acrobat PDF format presents over 150 in-flight and pre-flight electronic images. Electronic still images from JSC are also presented as JPG files in high, medium, low, and thumbnail resolutions. Audio files provide clips of the wakeup calls during the mission.
Disc Two is devoted to KSC image files and video movie clips. There are about 1500 image files in high, medium, low, and tiny resolutions. Sixty-six video movie clips include:
* Thirteen that show animations of the payloads and Spacehab module; * Launch day activities including suitup, the walk to the astro van, and liftoff; * In-flight highlights with significant views and audio descriptions of onboard experiments; and * Landing day events including Mission Control discussing landing weather and giving the crew the "go" for the deorbit burn, and the subsequent loss of signal.
STS-107 images cover everything from crew training, orbiter processing, VAB assembly, pad rollout, suitup and launch, and inflight experiment activities.
Over 5000 pages of documents in 18 files are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is provided. In addition, over 2000 image files at various resolutions in JPG and GIF computer format, and 66 movie clips in MPG, MOV (Quicktime), and Real Player (RM) formats are included. In all, the two discs have over 1.2 gigabytes of digital material.
Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading.
