Launch, orbit, and landing.
lift off orbit reentry
The space shuttle program began with the flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
The last space shuttle flight, STS-135, took place on July 8, 2011. This mission was conducted by NASA's Atlantis and marked the final flight of the Space Shuttle program. After this mission, the shuttle fleet was retired after more than three decades of service.
The first shuttle, Columbia, was launched April 12, 1981. The last flight will be flown by Atlantis. It is scheduled for July 2011.
Atlantis was the space shuttle used on STS-38. However, this was the 37th actual flight of the shuttle system. The 38th flight was on mission STS-39, which was flown by the shuttle Discovery.
The phases of space shuttle flight are liftoff, orbit insertion, orbit, re-entry, and landing.
The phases of space shuttle flight are liftoff, orbit insertion, orbit, re-entry, and landing.
Challenger
Ten. Six on the front of the flight deck, two on the roof of the flight deck, and two on the rear of the flight deck to watch payload bay opperations.
The average cost of a space shuttle mission is $450 million
The first space shuttle developed by NASA was the Space Shuttle Enterprise, which never flew in space and was used for atmospheric flight tests. The first space shuttle to reach space was the Space Shuttle Columbia, which launched on April 12, 1981.
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, 73 seconds into its flight, on 28-January-1986.