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What is the difference between a space shuttle and a rocket?
Answer The Space Shuttle is a rocket. By definition, a Rocket is a vehicle that burns gas that it carries with it. Where as, a jet airplane burns the oxygen from the air and is not a rocket. The Rocket when it is launched has a liquid fuel rocket engines at the back end of it. It also has two long, solid fuel rocket engines that separate after launch. But the space shuttle is pulled by a rocket.
Is apollp 11 a rocket or space shuttle?
A rocket and capsule.
What is another name for a space shuttle?
Another name for a space shuttle is a spacecraft.
Why did Americans invent the space shuttle?
THe American's built the space shuttle to have a reusable rocket that could go out into space and come back to earth.
What is the difference between a space station and the space shuttle?
A Space Station monitors the Space Shuttle being launched into space and so forth. And a Space Shuttle, is like a rocket they send into space. So the difference is a space shuttle is a rocket, and a space station is a building.
What is the difference between a space shuttle and a rocket?
Answer The Space Shuttle is a rocket. By definition, a Rocket is a vehicle that burns gas that it carries with it. Where as, a jet airplane burns the oxygen from the air and is not a rocket. The Rocket when it is launched has a liquid fuel rocket engines at the back end of it. It also has two long, solid fuel rocket engines that separate after launch. But the space shuttle is pulled by a rocket.
Was a rocket the first to touch the moon or was it a space shuttle?
Space Shuttle.
Can you see the shuttle in space?
You can not see the space shuttle on Earth, but you can see it in a rocket!
Is apollp 11 a rocket or space shuttle?
A rocket and capsule.
How is the US space shuttle different to a rocket?
The space shuttle is designed as an orbital vehicle that can carry a payload into space and return intact. A conventional rocket uses stages which are ejected at various points on its journey into space and then only the top or Capsule returns to earth. This makes for a costly solution to space travel that the shuttle negates.
What is another name for a space shuttle?
Another name for a space shuttle is a spacecraft.
How do space shuttles get into space?
They use rocketry. A space shuttle is a rocket.
Can you travel to space besides a rocket?
yes.. by space shuttle
What are rocket boosters?
The engines for the space shuttle.
How could you get to Saturn?
By a rocket or space shuttle
When was the space shuttle Saturn 5 invented?
The first manned space shuttle mission occurred on the 12th of April 1981. However it was the space shuttle Columbia, not the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V rocket was first used for a manned mission on December the 21st 1968. Two very different space vehicles. The Saturn V rocket was used to send man to the Moon, where as the space shuttle is used to sent humans into Earth orbit.
Which space shuttle was used to launch Hubble Space Telescope?
beppo sax, space shuttle discovery, space shuttle endeavor, boeing delta II rocket
