No.
The first time the space shuttle went into orbit was April 12th, 1981
No. The space shuttle has nothing to do with tornadoes.
It increases the amount of drag, since the space shuttle doesn't have thrust reversers like an airliner would.
Space Shuttle Discovery. STS-31.
No
The final space shuttle launch was on July 8, 2011. The shuttle Atlantis embarked on the STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, marking the end of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was the final Space Shuttle built. It was built to replace Space Shuttle Challenger.
The first space shuttle developed by NASA was the Space Shuttle Enterprise, which never flew in space and was used for atmospheric flight tests. The first space shuttle to reach space was the Space Shuttle Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981.
There were 5. Space Shuttle Columbia (destroyed in 2003), Space Shuttle Challenger (destroyed in 1886), Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle Atlantis, and Space Shuttle Endeavour.
Retro burners. Retro meaning opposite or backward. After burner is forward or ahead of you. They fire the thrusters to slow down or even stop. But really, who knows what stop is if we have no real reference? But if your talking about Earth as the reference, my statement is otherwise correct.
The name of the space shuttle was Challenger.
The space shuttle went into space and studied outer space.