NASA's Return To Flight Web Coverage

At Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B, Space Shuttle Discovery is largely hidden by the Rotating Service Structure. To the left of the pad is the 290-foot-tall water tower that holds 300,000 gallons of water, part of the sound suppression system during a launch. Click for larger image. Image credit: NASA/KSC

SPACE SHUTTLE ONLINE
NASA has signed innovative agreements with Yahoo! Inc. and Akamai Technologies,
Inc. to help bring the Space Shuttle's return to flight mission (STS-114) to
millions of Internet users through the NASA Web portal.

NASA's agreement with Yahoo! is one of the agency's first online media
partnerships. Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will provide a
co-branded Windows Media Player that will stream the mission's official
online video on the Web sites of both NASA and Yahoo!.

"We're very excited to be able to offer this expanded coverage to the public,"
said NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Operations, William Readdy.
"Internet users will be able to follow every event from launch through
landing, including the spacewalks. Thanks to this agreement, they'll be able
to do so at no additional cost to the taxpayers."

For information about the STS-114 mission and NASA's Return to Flight,
visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20050718A8