There were two fatal- All hands accidents in the Shuttle program. The first one was the Challenger blast- which occured during the launch phase in the upper atmosphere- l986. The second was the Columbia accident which broke up and disintegrated on re-entry over the West Coast- this happened in 2003. One occured on the way up- the other on the descent.l
Challenger, Columbia
Two out of five Space Shuttles: Challager and Columbia, were the only 2 shuttles to be lost, challager exploded 72 seconds after takeoff while Columbia burned up in the atmosphere.
5 different space shuttles have been launched on 129 missions.
5 NASA Shuttles have been into space. Of those 5 shuttles, 2 were unfortunately destroyed. There has been a total of 135 Space missions using the space shuttle between the years 1980 and 2011 :)
3 space shuttles have crashed so far
Currently NASA have three space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
No new space shuttles are being built at this time.
5 Space Shuttle orbiters have been built. 3 remain in service.
4 Space Shuttles existed in 2011. Including the test vehicle, Space Shuttle Enterprise. Space Shuttles that actually went into space? 3. Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.
6 TotalChallenger, Columbia,Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour, and Buran (Soviet reusable spacecraft) There have been six Space Shuttles. Five have flown in space. The first, Enterprise, flew only in Earth's atmosphere.
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There were six NASA Space Shuttles.