About thirty times the speed of sound, Mach 30 approx.
It heats up a lot and becomes vey hot.
Space Shuttle Columbia
When the shuttle goes from the vacuum of space and enters the earths atmosphere, it heats up because of simple friction. The friction is from the shuttle going so fast and hitting the atmosphere. Same reason you sometimes see meteor showers.
Although it reaches incredible speeds, a Space Shuttle is not going fast when it enters the atmosphere. The gravitational pull of Earth, or just gravity, are pulling down on the space shuttle with immense force.
The space shuttle has to reenter the atmosphere at a specific angle if it gets it to vertical the space shuttle will burn up, if it is too shallow the space shuttle will bounce back off and will reenter spaceAnna Shaw xxxx for seb my amazing brother this answer is for youVertical? We're talking about space, there isn't any vertical in space. What is your reference? How about, if it's perpendicular to the atmosphere. And the word is "too" not "to". If you are going to answer questions about technical subjects, at least be able to spell.
It heats up a lot and becomes vey hot.
Space Shuttle Columbia
230 miles out into space
3,000+ F
The space station is not too far out of the Earths atmosphere so they just send up a space shuttle!
Although it reaches incredible speeds, a Space Shuttle is not going fast when it enters the atmosphere. The gravitational pull of Earth, or just gravity, are pulling down on the space shuttle with immense force.
When the shuttle goes from the vacuum of space and enters the earths atmosphere, it heats up because of simple friction. The friction is from the shuttle going so fast and hitting the atmosphere. Same reason you sometimes see meteor showers.
they are more powerful than the ones in a plane and a jet pack as they need to lift a 2 tonne space shuttle off and out of earths atmosphere
The space shuttle has to reenter the atmosphere at a specific angle if it gets it to vertical the space shuttle will burn up, if it is too shallow the space shuttle will bounce back off and will reenter spaceAnna Shaw xxxx for seb my amazing brother this answer is for youVertical? We're talking about space, there isn't any vertical in space. What is your reference? How about, if it's perpendicular to the atmosphere. And the word is "too" not "to". If you are going to answer questions about technical subjects, at least be able to spell.
It never did. Enterprise was only used for atmospheric and aerodynamic tests in earths atmosphere and was never launched into space.
Astronauts travel in space and escape earth's atmosphere by wearing gravity resistant suits and traveling to outer space in a space shuttle that is insulated against the elements.
The shuttle maneuvers itself and burns it's OMS engines. This causes the shuttle to slow down to a point where the earths gravity can pull it back to earth. As the shuttle enters the high earth atmosphere it is slowed down as the atmosphere hits the craft heating it up. The shuttle then performs a series of 'S' turns slowing it down even further, until it reaches its final approach speed for landing.