Fleas
I watched as the space shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral.
The most likely reason that could prevent a shuttle from not launching is of a lighting strike violenty hits it.
Cape Canaveral, on the northeast coast of Florida.
depends where you launch from and where you go
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 aim of this test is to determined acceleration and speed.
Weightlessness
Weightlessness
Weightlessness
there was 2 .. launching to get to the international space station up in space
One. That's the big orange thing you see the shuttle strapped to when it's on the launching pad.
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).