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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttles are reusable spacecraft with wings for controlled descent into the atmosphere. They are designed to transport astronauts between earth and an orbiting space station and to deploy and retrieve satellites. Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour are the three Space Shuttles in operation today.
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What are the differences visually between the four space shuttles?
There are 5 Space Shuttles. Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour look exactly the same except for their names. Columbia's tip of it's rear stabilizer and wings are black.
How spacecraft moving in space?
It use propulsion system. Propulsion, like Jet engine but the rocket or space craft would store oxygen to combusted with fuel. Some advance spacecraft would use ion thruster by electrically heated up a gas to extremely high temperature and resulted to very fast stream of gas ejected on the back side of the spacecraft.
How many gallons of rocket fuel does the space shuttle burn per second on lift off?
The Space Shuttle's External Tank carries 383,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen to power the Space Shuttle Main Engines. The SSMEs burn for about 8.5 minutes (510 seconds), which means they consuming about 751 gallons of hydrogen per second and 280 gallons of oxygen per second, or about 1031 gallons of propellant overall per second.
As an aside, the Solid Rocket Boosters each carry 1,000,000 pounds of solid propellant (both fuel and oxidizer are combined) and burn for about two minutes. So, that equates to about 16,667 pounds of propellant per second for the SRBs.
What are the names and years of the space shuttles that crashed?
None of them crashed. Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart in 1986 due to a SRB explosion. Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry in 2003 due to a whole in it's left wing from foam from the ET hitting it during launch.
Who went and done the first launch of the space shuttle in 1980?
The first Space Shuttle launch was on April 12th, 1981. NASA (USA) launched Space Shuttle Columbia on STS-1.
How is the dragon spacecraft similar to the space shuttles?
It is similar in that it goes in to orbit and comes back, goes to and supplies the ISS, and can be manned. The similarities really end there as dragon is a capsule that flies on top of a rocket, it is not a plane like vehicle like the shuttle
What was the name of the first spaceship to carry someone into space?
The Vostok 1 was nicknamed Lastochka meaning Swallow .
How tall was the 1969 space shuttle?
No Space Shuttle existed in 1969. The first shuttle launched in 1981.
Have space shuttles and current rockets taken humans as far as the moon in recent years?
A Space Shuttle has never taken a human to the moon.
Where are the shuttles retired at?
Space Shuttle Enterprise is in New York, Space Shuttle Discovery is in Virginia, Space Shuttle Atlantis is in Florida, and Space Shuttle Endeavour is in California.
How much gas did the toytota use in California to pull the space shuttle 12 miles?
The Toyota Tundra didn't pull Endeavour 12 miles, it pulled it less than 1/4 of a mile over a bridge.
Can you rent a space shuttle and go to the moon?
Yes. Provided that you can A) rent a space shuttle (for which you will have to talk to NASA, or to various universities and musea) and B) find some means to go to the moon (for which a space shuttle is not suited).
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.
Space Shuttle Challenger failed during launch. Space Shuttle Columbia failed during reentry.
