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What kind of metal is used space shuttle covering?
The main protective covering on the space shuttle is made from reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) composite materials. These materials are specifically designed to withstand the extreme heat during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
What kind of airplane does the space shuttle piggyback on?
The space shuttle piggybacked on a modified Boeing 747 aircraft known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). This allowed for transportation of the space shuttle to and from different launch sites across the United States.
What kind of fuel does the space shuttle use?
The space shuttle used a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel for its main engines. These propellants are combustion products of a chemical reaction that produces high thrust for the shuttle's liftoff and orbital maneuvers.
Why does the space shuttle have windows not the launch window but the kind you look out of?
So they can find where they are going, like the ISS
Where is the NASA space shuttle program located?
NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Space Shuttle Program (SSP) has been retired following the end of the last space shuttle mission, STS-135 (Space Transportation System 135), which landed in the pre-dawn darkness hours of Thursday, July 21, 2011 (coincidentally, the day after the 42nd anniversary of the first Moon landing) at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) (runway) at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. All ten NASA centers played some kind of a role and provided support for every space shuttle mission and for the operations of the Space Shuttle Program as a whole, however the Space Shuttle Program office was located at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Space Center (JSC) at Houston, TX.
What kind of metal is used space shuttle covering?
The main protective covering on the space shuttle is made from reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) composite materials. These materials are specifically designed to withstand the extreme heat during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
What kind of space shuttle need?
I dont know what your talking about
What kind of space shuttle did Apollo 13 use?
Apollo 13 did not use a Space Shuttle. Apollo 13 was in April, 1970. The Space Shuttle was not invented until the '80s. Apollo 13 was launched by Saturn V.
How safe was the space shuttle challenger?
the space shuttle challenger was kind of safe. the only problem was that it was a cold day and the O-rings broke because of the cold.
Returning to earth through the atmosphere is called?
Re-entry. Kind of anticlimactic, isn't it?
What kind of fuel did the space shuttle use?
Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
What kind of airplane does the space shuttle piggyback on?
The space shuttle piggybacked on a modified Boeing 747 aircraft known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). This allowed for transportation of the space shuttle to and from different launch sites across the United States.
What kind of fuel does the space shuttle use?
The space shuttle used a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen as fuel for its main engines. These propellants are combustion products of a chemical reaction that produces high thrust for the shuttle's liftoff and orbital maneuvers.
What was the Phoenix 2008?
I am not actually sure but I think it is some kind of space shuttle that went to Mars?
What is the background culture of the international space station?
Background of culture means ceremonial parties in a space shuttle. They have a party with their kind of culture.
Are a space shuttle and a spacecraft the same things?
fundamentally all things that fly into space are spacecrafts. There are two tipes of manned spacecrafts: spaceplanes and capsules . Apollo, Gemini, Mercury were capsules, also soyuz. Space Shuttle orbiter and Sovietic Buran Shuttle are a kind of spaceplanes. can be defined space shuttle also anything that can easily carry cargo or astronauts to space: the Space Shuttle stack is able to carry about 25 metric tons, that make it a unique blend of cargo and human transport skills, essential to the Space Station to be built
Which kind of rocket engines are used on the space shuttle?
liquid because ir never runs out <3
