Yes, fairly early in the ascent.
The Space Shuttle is not capable of leaving Earths orbit.
2003
40,000 km/h
The Kennedy Space Center, the launch facility for all NASA manned flights including the shuttle, is located on the barrier islands of Cape Canaveral, Florida (on the Atlantic coast eat of Orlando).
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This is because the pressure needed to break the sound barrier is impossible to exceed but on the way back, the pressure is reduced and gravity pulls the aircraft down and the pressure for the sound barrier is reversed so it is a bit easier.
The Space Shuttle is not capable of leaving Earths orbit.
To break the atmosphere and go into space easily.
2003
A thermal barrier is any protective covering or barrier which inhibits the transfer of heat. For example the space shuttle used a thermal barrier to prevent the astronauts from burning to death when entering the earth atmosphere during re-entry. The thermal barrier reduced the heat caused by the friction of the air passing over the spacecraft to acceptable levels. Without it the shuttle would have burn up and disintegrate. The failure of the thermal barrier was the reason that the Space Shuttle Columbia burned up during re-entry on February 1, 2003.
The Space Shuttle was a reusable spacecraft developed by NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program. It was used for a variety of missions including launches into low Earth orbit and repair and maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Space Shuttle was retired in 2011 and no longer in use. None of the Space Shuttles broke in space.
40,000 km/h
Yes. It is harder for a Space Shuttle to break through the Earth's atmosphere when it's going against the rotation of Earth.
Sound requires a medium to be transported from one point to another. On earth, that is normally the air. In space, which is a vacuum, no sound is heard, as there is no medium to transport it.
The Bell X-1. It is a bright orange plane that can be seen on exhibit in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.
The Kennedy Space Center, the launch facility for all NASA manned flights including the shuttle, is located on the barrier islands of Cape Canaveral, Florida (on the Atlantic coast eat of Orlando).
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