The Space Shuttle's nose is round because if it were pointed, the nose, and then the rest of the craft, would burn up from reentry into the earth's atmosphere.
it's called areodynamics. When you throw it, the nose evens out the air on the top and bottom of the plane.
Yes, the bottoms and nose areas of all of the shuttle-craft ARE covered with tiles, which sometimes come off while the shuttle is in flight! Please see the related link below for more information:
The nose cone of a rocket is the space at the leading edge or "nose" of the projectile. It could contain one or more of many different packages or payloads, including guidance electronics, or radar, infrared or other detection equipment.The nose cone.
Yes. Just like most modern airplanes of any size, nose wheel steering is used on the ground. Early missions landed at Edwards AFB on a circular dry lakebed. Circular meant that all landings could be directly into the wind no matter where the wind came from that day. After the landing at Edwards, the shuttles were lifted on top of a 747 and flown piggyback to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is complex and expensive! Once it looked like the shuttles were out of their test flight period and able to use a regular runway, they landed at Kennedy's runway. But the steering was too limited for a cross wind landing. This lead to a huge amount of tire damage the first time it happened. Shuttles were grounded. The nose wheel steering was redesigned to allow for greater deflection. Problem was solved - landings became routine at Kennedy. The steering wheel in a large plane is called a tiller - it's small, usually off to one side, and not connected to the flight controls.
Once in space, space shuttle orbiters use their Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) to turn the vehicle. OMS consists of several small rocket engines are used individually or in combination to turn the vehicle where needed. This works because of Newtons third law (every action has a equal and opposite reaction). Those directions are called pitch (nose up, nose down), roll (wingtip up, wingtip down), and yaw (nose left, nose right)
for one crocks get alot bigger then gator, and 2nd gators have a big round blunt nose as the crock has a long pointed nose
Many birds have pointed noses that are called beaks. An anteater also has a pointed nose.
A pointed nose is less wind resistant.
A pointed nose is a nose that comes to a point at the very end. Whereas, a flat nose is a nose that does not have a point and is rather flat .
A nose that comes to a point.
A beginner board. The bigger the board the easier. The beginner board has the round tip, and the pros have the smaller and pointed nose.
What sort of nose would you like? They could have pointed noses, and some do, but for sub-sonic airplanes they don't help much. The rounded nose provides some streamlining.
If you have a pointed nose one of the people in your family probally has one too. so you inherited it from your family member.
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it's called areodynamics. When you throw it, the nose evens out the air on the top and bottom of the plane.