The Space Shuttle was designed to carry a crew of up to seven astronauts for its missions. This capacity allowed for a mix of pilots, mission specialists, and payload specialists to operate the shuttle and conduct scientific research. The actual number of astronauts on any given flight varied depending on the mission's requirements and payload.
The driver of a space shuttle is called an astronaut.
An astronaut
There were two men on the first Space Shuttle flight -- John W. Young and Robert Crippen
Yes, I'm a Planetary Society member too, and I want to know as well! ;-p
That is now impossible. To become an astronaut, you have to be admitted to their Astronaut Training Program.
Technically, as an astronaut is weightless in space, so should a space shuttle!
astronaut
The driver of a space shuttle is called an astronaut.
yes
An astronaut
To bring any astronaut into space! I hope you like my answer!
There were two men on the first Space Shuttle flight -- John W. Young and Robert Crippen
Yes, I'm a Planetary Society member too, and I want to know as well! ;-p
That is now impossible. To become an astronaut, you have to be admitted to their Astronaut Training Program.
Challenger
115 to 400 miles above the Earth.
Kalpana Chawla was the Indo-American woman astronaut on board the space shuttle Atlantis. She was the first woman of Indian descent to go to space and tragically lost her life during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.