Early astronauts went into space aboard rockets protected within a capsule that would orbit the earth and then return by landing in the ocean where military helicopters and ships would recover them.
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Space shuttles were designed for multiple missions, typically flying around 25-30 missions before being retired. NASA had multiple space shuttles in its fleet, such as Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavour, and Columbia, which were used for various missions before being replaced.
It will go on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum.
answer:it can go upto exosphere.Exosphere is the layer of a atmosphere.
They have been decommissioned- they are obsolete, so to speak. Some are scheduled to go to space museums.
No space shuttle has been to the moon and back.
None. The shuttle didnt fly until 1981.
Space shuttles are not designed to go to other planets, they stay in a near earth orbit, orbiting earth several times in a mission before returning back to earth. They don't really go far from our planet.
As of 2021, around 580 individuals have traveled to space. This includes astronauts from various countries who have journeyed to space for missions to the International Space Station, aboard space shuttles, or on other spacecraft.
No the Space Shuttle was only designed for low earth orbit it can't even go to the moon.
Columbia flew in April of 1981 on its first mission. Onboard were John Young and Bob Crippen
because they are small in the front and big in the back for less frickion