Space Shuttle

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NASA has used space shuttles to perform many important tasks. These include taking satellites into orbit, repairing damaged satellites, and carrying astronauts and equipment to and from space stations. A space station provides a place where long-term observations and experiments can be carried out in space. Each space probe has a power system to produce electricity, a communication system to send and receive signals, and scientific instruments to collect data and perform experiments.

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Never. The Challenger space shuttle was destroyed in the 1986 disaster and was not rebuilt. The first shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster was on September 29, 1988, more than two years after the incident. That mission was flown by the shuttle Discovery.

The word that describes the gravity experienced by an orbiting space shuttle is "microgravity." In this state, objects appear to be weightless because they are in free fall, continuously falling towards Earth while moving forward at high speed. This creates the sensation of reduced gravitational forces, leading to the conditions often referred to as "zero gravity."

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A shuttle can provide microgravity only after it achieves orbit because microgravity conditions are created when the shuttle and its occupants are in free fall around the Earth. At this point, the shuttle is traveling at a high speed tangentially to the Earth’s surface, creating a continuous state of free fall that counteracts gravitational forces. This state allows astronauts to experience weightlessness, as they are falling at the same rate as the shuttle itself. Before reaching orbit, the shuttle is still subject to the full effects of gravity while ascending.

the same as on a ship, the galley

same as on a ship, the galley

The Space Shuttle program operated from 1981 to 2011, with a total of 135 missions. Each shuttle flight duration varied, typically lasting from a few days to a couple of weeks, depending on the mission objectives. Notably, the longest mission was STS-80, which lasted 17 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes. The program was significant for its role in constructing the International Space Station and deploying satellites.

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A space shuttle is able to float because there is no gravity in space.

Yes, Space Shuttles carried people into space for many years. Today they have been retired and are no longer in use.

Most of the parts on the Shuttles are made of high tensile strength aluminum alloy composites (e.g., 6061-T6) or Titanium alloy.

The International Space Station (ISS)

And a point of note, it was not launched it was built up there.

At launch the solid rocket booster uses a solid propellant with a mixture of powdered aluminum and ammonium perchlorate. The Space Shuttle itself uses Liquid Hydrogen (Hydrazine) & liquid oxygen.

A payload is any cargo or scientific equipment/experiment carried into space by a Shuttle or Rocket. Primary examples of a payload for a rocket would be a satellite; for the Shuttles, it carried many payloads in its cargo bay, from retrievable satellites to deployable ones, scientific experiments, as well as capture/maintenance equipment.

If you look on my Supervisor Bio page, you can see some of the different payloads in the Shuttle bays that I used to work on.

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Challenger completed 9 missions. It exploded while launching on its 10th mission.

They never used Explorer. It was built as a replica to allow people to see inside a Space Shuttle at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. It has since been moved to Houston.

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