The Air & Space Magazine website has a neat time-lapse video documenting the process of preparing NASA’s Discovery space shuttle for launch, the launch itself, and finally its return to Earth. The time-lapse was composed from photos taken over a six week period. Watch the video below.

Thanks to Open Culture for sharing the video.

Applications for Education
This video could be used as a nice little introduction to a lesson on space exploration and NASA.

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