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The space shuttle was developed because the weight of satellites or payload required huge rockets. The shuttle main claim to fame is that it was also reusable. The only thing that is not recovered after launch is the liquid hydrogen fuel tank. The solid rockets on either side of the hydrogen tank burn out, separate, then fall to Earth. After the solid rocket separation the shuttles main engines continue to fire to get into orbit. When the fuel tank is separated it burns up in the atmosphere.
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What was the first Canadian space shuttle sent to space?
Canada has never sent a Space Shuttle into space.
Which space shuttle was sent to the Smithsonian in 2012?
Space Shuttle Discovery.
Which is the shuttle Sent to space mOST times?
The space shuttle Discovery has flown the most times of all the space shuttle orbiters.
What was the name of the last space shuttle sent by NASA?
The last Space Shuttle to go into space and to the Space Station was Endeavour
What is the name of the latest space shuttle sent to space?
atlantis
Which was the first space shuttle sent to space?
Columbia was the first space shuttle sent into space on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
What was the name of first space shuttle sent into outer space?
Columbia
What country sent the space shuttle challenger?
US
What space shuttle landed on Mars?
There was no space shuttle that landed on mars but there were unmanned rockets that went to mars that sent probes
What was the last space mission that sent people into space?
Shuttle STS 127
What is the name of the planet which India has recently sent a space shuttle to?
India has no space shuttles.
What is the first space shuttle sent into orbit?
Columbia was the first shuttle in to orbit on April 13, 1981
