five, three main and two solid rocket boosters
I watched as the space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral.
The shuttle does not fire it's engines in space, it only fires orbit adjusters.
As the space shuttle is a reusable it is now to old.
The engines for the space shuttle.
as powerful as your but
It is the shuttle land like a normal glider?
One is simply not enough, the first stage of a space shuttle launching only generates 25 Mega newtons which I not enough to propel the spacecraft out of orbit.
there was 2 .. launching to get to the international space station up in space
There are thousands of items on hundreds of checklists completed by thousands of technicians, engineers and astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center that must be completed before launching a space shuttle. These preparations start several days before the scheduled launch.
The main engines.
When a space shuttle launches, the main engines ignite to lift the shuttle off the ground. Once it gains enough altitude, the solid rocket boosters are released. The shuttle then continues its journey into space using its main engines until it reaches orbit.
Cape Canaveral, on the northeast coast of Florida.