Have thirty years of Space Shuttle launches made us complacent? This montage of slow-motion launch footage, along with the accompanying commentary track, show every detail of the launch sequence.

Early next Monday morning (April 5) at 6:21:22 a.m. Eastern Time, the Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to be launched on mission STS-131 to the International Space Station.

Sky watchers in the Tri-State Area may get a look at an odd artificial cloud on Saturday night (Sep. 19) after it’s released from the fourth stage of a rocket set for launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Atlantic Shore.

Should a rocket blast off on schedule early Tuesday evening, May 5, 2009, from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, a potentially spectacular sight might be visible across a wide swath of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.