As of the end of February 2010, NASA has flown 130 space shuttle flights, two of them ending in catastrophe.
A total of 355 individuals have flown in the space shuttle program, which operated from 1981 to 2011. This number includes astronauts, scientists, and civilians who participated in various missions during the program's duration.
The shuttle missions are numbered in order of launch date. The next launch will be STS-125, which will service Hubble. Sometimes they launch out of sequence because of delays. STS-119 will launch in between STS-126 and STS-127. Assuming the first launch was STS-1, there would seem to have been 123 shuttle missions.
About one hour. The speed of the space shuttle can be between 18000 to 26000 miles per hour, so it can make one orbit about every hour.
It takes a space shuttle about 8 to 9 minutes to reach outer space once it launches from Earth. This is typically when the shuttle reaches an altitude of about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the Earth's surface.
As of the end of February 2010, NASA has flown 130 space shuttle flights, two of them ending in catastrophe.
A total of 355 individuals have flown in the space shuttle program, which operated from 1981 to 2011. This number includes astronauts, scientists, and civilians who participated in various missions during the program's duration.
There have been a total of 128 space shuttle flights so far.This does not include those flown by Enterprise as these were test flights
The shuttle missions are numbered in order of launch date. The next launch will be STS-125, which will service Hubble. Sometimes they launch out of sequence because of delays. STS-119 will launch in between STS-126 and STS-127. Assuming the first launch was STS-1, there would seem to have been 123 shuttle missions.
About one hour. The speed of the space shuttle can be between 18000 to 26000 miles per hour, so it can make one orbit about every hour.
It takes a space shuttle about 8 to 9 minutes to reach outer space once it launches from Earth. This is typically when the shuttle reaches an altitude of about 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the Earth's surface.
As of 2021, a total of 580 people have flown into space. This includes astronauts from various countries who have participated in missions to space stations, space shuttle flights, and other space missions.
Over its flight career, Endeavour flew 122,853,151 miles on 25 missions and spent 299 days in space.
A space shuttle has over 1,000 buttons and swiches.
There were nine space shuttle flights in 1987.
upto 3-5 people are aloud on a space shuttle
The maximum speed of the space shuttle is 7,743 m/s.The maximum velocity of a 220 swift is 4,000 ft/s or 1,219 m/sTherefore the Space Shuttle is a little over 6 times faster "than a speeding" bullet.