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How is the space shuttle program different from the Apollo Program?
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The Space Shuttle is a partially reusable system that goes only into Earth orbit and returns. The Apollo vehicle was not reusable and left Earth orbit to visit the moon. The Apollo was launched entirely with liquid fuel rockets. The Space Shuttle is launched with a combination of solid and liquid fuel rockets.
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What manned space program was developed after Apollo?
There were two:Apollo Applications Program - responsible for launching SkyLab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test ProjectSpace Transportation System (STS) - The Space Shuttle program.
What is the future of Apollo missions?
After Apollo 17 there have not been any plans for any moon mission. It was the Skylab and the Shuttle program.
What came first the Apollo program or the Gemini program?
The Gemini program preceded the Apollo program
Why is the space shuttle program different?
The Space Shuttle is a partially reusable system that goes only into Earth orbit and returns. The Apollo vehicle was not reusable and left Earth orbit to visit the moon. The Apollo was launched entirely with liquid fuel rockets. The Space Shuttle is launched with a combination of solid and liquid fuel rockets.
Who stopped the Apollo program?
The last Apollo Missions (Sky Lab) were in the early to mid 1970's. Richard Nixon was president when the Apollo Program was cancelled, so he played a prominent role. The US/NASA began development of the STS (Space Shuttle) shortly afterwards.
What manned space program was developed after Apollo?
There were two:Apollo Applications Program - responsible for launching SkyLab and the Apollo-Soyuz Test ProjectSpace Transportation System (STS) - The Space Shuttle program.
What project was after Apollo?
Directly following the end of the Apollo program was the Apollo Soyuz Test Program (ASTP) which, using Apollo flight hardware, performed the first international rendezvous and docking when the ASTP crew docked with a Russian Soyuz capsule. The next true program, one that required all new hardware, was the Shuttle Transport System, (STS). Also known as the Space Shuttle.
What is the future of Apollo missions?
After Apollo 17 there have not been any plans for any moon mission. It was the Skylab and the Shuttle program.
What came first the Apollo program or the Gemini program?
The Gemini program preceded the Apollo program
Why is the space shuttle program different?
The Space Shuttle is a partially reusable system that goes only into Earth orbit and returns. The Apollo vehicle was not reusable and left Earth orbit to visit the moon. The Apollo was launched entirely with liquid fuel rockets. The Space Shuttle is launched with a combination of solid and liquid fuel rockets.
Who stopped the Apollo program?
The last Apollo Missions (Sky Lab) were in the early to mid 1970's. Richard Nixon was president when the Apollo Program was cancelled, so he played a prominent role. The US/NASA began development of the STS (Space Shuttle) shortly afterwards.
How did the astronaut return to earth in the Apollo space program that is remarkably different from the way in which astronaut return in the shuttle program?
During Apollo, the capsule plummeted through the atmosphere and eventually splashed down in the ocean suspended on parachutes, then waited to be picked up by the Navy and sailed home. The Shuttle, in contrast, glided like an airplane, in controlled flight, to touchdown on a runway and roll to a stop, usually in Califormia.
What manned program came before the Apollo program?
The Gemini Program
What is a cooperative effort among many different countries?
apollo program
What was the date of the Apollo 1 space program?
Apollo 1 was not an actual program, it was a scheduled mission as part of the Apollo Program. Apollo 1 had a scheduled launch date of February 21, 1967.
The American space program that carried teams of mostly three astronauts into space?
The space program was Project Apollo, or the Apollo Program.
How was an Apollo landing on earth different to space shuttle landing?
a shuttle has wheels an Apollo has no wheels
