Two out of five Space Shuttles: Challager and Columbia, were the only 2 shuttles to be lost, challager exploded 72 seconds after takeoff while Columbia burned up in the atmosphere.
5 different space shuttles have been launched on 129 missions.
5 NASA Shuttles have been into space. Of those 5 shuttles, 2 were unfortunately destroyed. There has been a total of 135 Space missions using the space shuttle between the years 1980 and 2011 :)
6. Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour.
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There has been 128 launched and only 1 has failed so.....127.
Challenger, Columbia
5 different space shuttles have been launched on 129 missions.
5 NASA Shuttles have been into space. Of those 5 shuttles, 2 were unfortunately destroyed. There has been a total of 135 Space missions using the space shuttle between the years 1980 and 2011 :)
NASA's program produced 134?æspace shuttles. Out of all of the shuttles only two crashed. NASA had a 98.7% success rate.?æ
There was only one Russian shuttle ever made, Buran ( a very obvious copy of the American one) and it was only flown once. It was destroyed not too long ago when the hangar it was in, collapsed.
6. Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour.
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As of November 2008 there have been 124 Space Shuttle flights. (Visit link for a list)
There has been 128 launched and only 1 has failed so.....127.
5 Space Shuttle orbiters have been built. 3 remain in service.
Currently NASA have three space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
No new space shuttles are being built at this time.