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.
I watched as the space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral.
there was 2 .. launching to get to the international space station up in space
Cape Canaveral, on the northeast coast of Florida.
depends where you launch from and where you go
Now, NASA launches rockets. The Space Shuttles were lied into retirement in 2011. The Space Shuttle was invented in the '80s. NASA has been launching rockets since the '50s!
It doesn't. The space shuttle never gets significantly closer to the Moon than its launching pad does (the space shuttle generally operates at a few hundred miles altitude, tops; the Moon is 240,000 miles away).
One. That's the big orange thing you see the shuttle strapped to when it's on the launching pad.
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Canada does not have its own space shuttle program. Canadian astronauts have historically participated in space missions through partnerships with other space agencies, such as NASA. The costs associated with launching astronauts or payloads into space vary depending on the mission and the space agency involved.
The most likely reason that could prevent a shuttle from not launching is of a lighting strike violenty hits it.
No, the last space shuttle launched by the U.S., the shuttle Atlantis (STS-135), landed on July 21st, 2011. The only manned vehicles currently launching into space are Russian Soyuz vehicles servicing the ISS (International Space Station).
the first space shuttle was used for test flights i dont know i think so???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????