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International Space Station is about 400km from Earth and travels around it at about 27000Km/hr making several revolutions per day. Space Shuttles travel at about the same speed at a place called Low Earth Orbit. Logically a Space shuttle should arrive at the ISS in seconds but this is not so because the ISS is moving arround the world at a tremendous speed and the shuttle is moving towards it, so it should be taken into consideration that they do not collide and all mathematical questions come into play like when exactly will they meet and how and where almost like a weather forecast. The shuttle has to take an orbit that curves slightly outwards towards the ISS until it attaches itself to it after following it for two or three days and then it will look like one big unit combined. It is at this stage that you will notice that the shuttles are not aeroplanes at all inspite of their good looks and similarities with aeroplanes. O.T. MOSHETI (Botswana)
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What does it mean to dock in space?
The act of two spacecraft joining together. Like the ISS and the space shuttles.
Did all space shuttles dock at the International Space Station?
No, the Space Shuttle Columbia was not able to dock with the ISS. This shuttle was used to do other NASA missions until its untimely crash.
What is the use of space shuttles?
The are reusable space exploration tools, and they are used for satellite repairs and ISS construction.
Which space shuttles have visited the ISS?
Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor have visited the ISS. Challenger (which was destroyed before the beginning of ISS construction) and Enterprise (which was a flight test vehicle and not space-worthy) have visited the International Space Station. Columbia was slated to visit the ISS on STS-118 but was destroyed on reentry and this mission was flown by Endeavour instead.
List three tasks that space shuttles perform?
Satellite recovery, repair, and deployment. Scientific experiment platform. Ferry to and from the ISS.
What does it mean to dock in space?
The act of two spacecraft joining together. Like the ISS and the space shuttles.
Did all space shuttles dock at the International Space Station?
No, the Space Shuttle Columbia was not able to dock with the ISS. This shuttle was used to do other NASA missions until its untimely crash.
What is the use of space shuttles?
The are reusable space exploration tools, and they are used for satellite repairs and ISS construction.
Which space shuttles have visited the ISS?
Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor have visited the ISS. Challenger (which was destroyed before the beginning of ISS construction) and Enterprise (which was a flight test vehicle and not space-worthy) have visited the International Space Station. Columbia was slated to visit the ISS on STS-118 but was destroyed on reentry and this mission was flown by Endeavour instead.
List three tasks that space shuttles perform?
Satellite recovery, repair, and deployment. Scientific experiment platform. Ferry to and from the ISS.
Where was the iss launchened?
The International Space Station was assembled in orbit; it is much too large to have been launched as a single unit. Most of the component modules of the ISS were carried into orbit by one of the space shuttles, which always launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Which orbits the earth space shuttle or space station?
Well both do...the shuttles go in to orbit and return (at least they used to when NASA was still flying them), the ISS is left in orbit
How do you go to bathroom in space?
The space shuttles and ISS have special toilets for astronauts to use the restroom. The astronauts must be strapped to the toilet because of 0 gravity. When they are finished the feces are flushed out into the vacuum of space.
Why is the space shuttle fleet retiring?
The shuttles will be retired by 2010 in order for NASA to channel resources into the Constellation program for future Moon, Mars, and ISS missions.
Space stations and space shuttles are what kinds of space crafts?
Well... Space stations are space stations and space shuttles are space shuttles. They are kind of like flying cars.
What are the names of space shuttles being built?
NASA space shuttles
Why do space shuttles land in Houston?
Space Shuttles do not land in Houston
