200000 a year
During launch the space shuttle speeds up to 17500 MPH. In orbit the space station is going about the same speed. So the shuttle does not have to slow down much. At docking the relative speed of the ISS and shuttle is about 1-2 inchs per second.
A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
200,000 pounds
1000 pickles
The space shuttle program ended in 2011, so there are no more planned space shuttle flights. NASA has shifted its focus to other spacecraft and rockets for future missions to space.
about 170,000 or more it depends what there facts are.
the space shuttle weighed as much as roman
The average cost of a space shuttle mission is $450 million
Rephrase this, it doesn't make much sense
Anywhere between 100k to 2 million
The first space shuttle test flights began in 1981, with the first operational flights beginning in 1982.
During launch the space shuttle speeds up to 17500 MPH. In orbit the space station is going about the same speed. So the shuttle does not have to slow down much. At docking the relative speed of the ISS and shuttle is about 1-2 inchs per second.
A space shuttle's weight at liftoff is approximately 4.5 million pounds.
Enough to carry a bus in it's payload bay.
approx.1 month
200,000 pounds
1000 pickles