NASA Vodcasts Deliver Launches To Portable Media Players

For the first time, NASA is making space shuttle launch footage available to anyone who has a portable media player with video capability.

By Space War Editorial Team · Editorial process

Published September 6, 2006

For the first time, NASA is making space shuttle launch footage available to anyone who has a portable media player with video capability. A video podcast, or "vodcast," of the liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis for the STS-115 mission will be available to subscribers. Atlantis is set to launch at 4:30 p.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 27 from the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA will continue to offer these free downloads for every launch.

A podcast is a digital audio or video file automatically downloaded to a personal computer and transferred to an iPod or similar media player. On the

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