There are tiles on the entire space shuttle. Every square inch is covered in tiles. The nose, bottom and leading edges of the space shuttle have black tiles while the rest of the space shuttle has white tiles.
The nose leading edges and the bottom of the shuttle are the portions of the shuttle that get the most friction/heat from the atmosphere during re-entry.
The black tiles on the space shuttle act as a heat-resistant thermal protection system. They help dissipate the intense heat generated during re-entry by absorbing and radiating heat away from the spacecraft, protecting it from burning up.
The space shuttle was not only huge, but a marvel to all those who witnessed it.
A total of five Burans were planned. Space Shuttle 1.01 Space Shuttle 1.02 Space Shuttle 2.01 Space Shuttle 2.02 Space Shuttle 2.03 -Space Shuttle 1.01 was the only Buran to fly in space; it was destroyed in the Baikonur Cosmodrome hanger collapse in 2002. -Space Shuttle 1.02 is the only surviving Buran, it is extremely difficult to find its location or photos of it. Shuttle 1.02 was 95%-97% complete, requiring only the installation of some computer software. Space Shuttle 1.02 was located in a the MIK building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, though it may have been moved because a photo was taken of it outside mounted on an Energia Booster. Speculation has resulted from the photo because this Buran was never documented to attached to an Energia. -Space Shuttle 2.01 was 30%-50% complete when the Buran program was canceled. It is currently stored at an aviation museum in Sinsheim, Germany. -Space Shuttle 2.02 was 10%-20% complete at the end of the program. It was put outside of the factory near Moscow and vandals have stripped it of most of the heat tiles. -Space Shuttle 2.03 was just started at the end of the program. It was dismantled.
Space Shuttle Enterprise did not fly in space, it was only a mock-up used for aerodynamics and gliding tests.
If the space shuttle were a powered aircraft it would be able to land in the rain just fine. The problem with the rain isn't actually the rain, but the dense clouds that go with it. The space shuttle, while landing, is only a glider. It doesn't have the capability to 'go around' if there is a problem while it is approaching the landing site. NASA plays it safe and only lands the shuttle when the conditions are at their safest.
The black tiles on the space shuttle act as a heat-resistant thermal protection system. They help dissipate the intense heat generated during re-entry by absorbing and radiating heat away from the spacecraft, protecting it from burning up.
It is in many places, but when the shuttle glides back into the atmosphere for a landing, its going so fast that the air creates friction. The heat from that much air friction would melt any metal, so they use heat resistant ceramic tiles which are only in the places where the friction is the hottest - on the bottom of the shuttle mostly. In pictures they look like dark gray roof tiles.
No. The space shuttle can only reach low Earth orbit.
A total of five Burans were planned. Space Shuttle 1.01 Space Shuttle 1.02 Space Shuttle 2.01 Space Shuttle 2.02 Space Shuttle 2.03 -Space Shuttle 1.01 was the only Buran to fly in space; it was destroyed in the Baikonur Cosmodrome hanger collapse in 2002. -Space Shuttle 1.02 is the only surviving Buran, it is extremely difficult to find its location or photos of it. Shuttle 1.02 was 95%-97% complete, requiring only the installation of some computer software. Space Shuttle 1.02 was located in a the MIK building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, though it may have been moved because a photo was taken of it outside mounted on an Energia Booster. Speculation has resulted from the photo because this Buran was never documented to attached to an Energia. -Space Shuttle 2.01 was 30%-50% complete when the Buran program was canceled. It is currently stored at an aviation museum in Sinsheim, Germany. -Space Shuttle 2.02 was 10%-20% complete at the end of the program. It was put outside of the factory near Moscow and vandals have stripped it of most of the heat tiles. -Space Shuttle 2.03 was just started at the end of the program. It was dismantled.
The space shuttle was not only huge, but a marvel to all those who witnessed it.
A total of five Burans were planned. Space Shuttle 1.01 Space Shuttle 1.02 Space Shuttle 2.01 Space Shuttle 2.02 Space Shuttle 2.03 -Space Shuttle 1.01 was the only Buran to fly in space; it was destroyed in the Baikonur Cosmodrome hanger collapse in 2002. -Space Shuttle 1.02 is the only surviving Buran, it is extremely difficult to find its location or photos of it. Shuttle 1.02 was 95%-97% complete, requiring only the installation of some computer software. Space Shuttle 1.02 was located in a the MIK building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, though it may have been moved because a photo was taken of it outside mounted on an Energia Booster. Speculation has resulted from the photo because this Buran was never documented to attached to an Energia. -Space Shuttle 2.01 was 30%-50% complete when the Buran program was canceled. It is currently stored at an aviation museum in Sinsheim, Germany. -Space Shuttle 2.02 was 10%-20% complete at the end of the program. It was put outside of the factory near Moscow and vandals have stripped it of most of the heat tiles. -Space Shuttle 2.03 was just started at the end of the program. It was dismantled.
Space Shuttle Enterprise did not fly in space, it was only a mock-up used for aerodynamics and gliding tests.
The first space shuttle to launch to space and return was space shuttle Columbia on the 12th of April 1981, only 20 years after Yuri Gagarines historic voyage to space.
NASA They are the only ones to launch space shuttles seeing as how the space shuttle is NASA's vehicle
If the space shuttle were a powered aircraft it would be able to land in the rain just fine. The problem with the rain isn't actually the rain, but the dense clouds that go with it. The space shuttle, while landing, is only a glider. It doesn't have the capability to 'go around' if there is a problem while it is approaching the landing site. NASA plays it safe and only lands the shuttle when the conditions are at their safest.
The shuttle does not fire it's engines in space, it only fires orbit adjusters.
The space shuttle Enterprise never flew in space. It served as an atmosphere-only test vehicle for NASA in the late 1970s.