Space Shuttle

They are two long, narrow doors in the belly of the shuttle that open to allow the crew do move whatever is in the cargo bay out into space. Best example: The fabulous Hubble Space Telescope was unloaded out of the shuttle through the payload bay doors.

The solid rocket boosters used by the space shuttle separate and fall away once they are burnt out, so there is no risk of them catching the shuttle on fire. Additionally, the boosters are designed to burn cleanly without producing excess flames or residue that could harm the shuttle.

The constellation Orion is about 1,344 light-years away. Since the space shuttle travels at a maximum speed of around 17,500 miles per hour, it would take millions of years to reach Orion. It is currently not feasible for a space shuttle to travel that distance.

The space shuttle Enterprise made its first atmospheric flight on February 18, 1977. It was carried aloft aboard a Boeing 747 aircraft for the test flight, which did not involve a launch into space.

The retired space shuttles are now displayed in museums across the United States. For example, Atlantis is at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida, Discovery is at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia, Endeavour is at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, and Enterprise is at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.

Some well-known space orbiters include the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station (ISS), and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The most expensive space travel experience available to civilians is a trip to the International Space Station (ISS) through companies like SpaceX or Axiom Space. These trips can cost tens of millions of dollars per person for a stay of up to a few weeks aboard the ISS.

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon in 1969, whereas rockets are the vehicles used to propel spacecraft into space. Apollo 11 specifically was the mission that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon and successfully landed Armstrong and Aldrin on its surface.

September 12th, 1992 on the Endeavour with her friends; Curtis Brown, Jay Apt, Robert Gibbison, Jan Davis, Mark Lee, and Mamoru Mohri.

The flying shuttle was eventually replaced by the faster and more efficient mechanized looms, such as the power loom, during the Industrial Revolution. These mechanized looms revolutionized the textile industry by increasing production speed and efficiency.

No. The large orange External Tank or ET as it is called is jettisoned at about the 8 minute mark of the flight and burns up in the earths atmosphere during its reentry.

The compartment of a spacecraft where astronauts live and work is typically called the habitation module or crew module. This is the area where astronauts eat, sleep, conduct experiments, and control the spacecraft.

Yes, the space shuttle breaks the sound barrier during takeoff. The shuttle reaches speeds of over 1,000 miles per hour while climbing through the Earth's atmosphere, surpassing the speed of sound (around 767 miles per hour at sea level).

The space shuttle program was officially announced by NASA in 1972 and the first shuttle, "Enterprise," was completed in 1976. The first space shuttle to fly in space was "Columbia," which launched on April 12, 1981.

Astronauts must meet certain medical requirements, including being in excellent physical condition, having good vision, normal blood pressure, and no history of severe illnesses. They also undergo extensive medical testing to ensure they are healthy enough to withstand the challenges of space travel. Additionally, astronauts receive medical training to address emergencies that may arise during their missions.

Unlike other forms of transportation, rockets are commonly designed for putting objects into orbit. Once in sufficiently high orbit, objects have almost negligible air drag, and the orbits decay so slowly that a satellite can be still orbiting decades after launch. For these reasons rocket and space propulsion efficiency is rarely measured in terms of distance per unit of fuel, but in terms of specific impulse which gives how much change in momentum (i.e. impulse) can be obtained from a unit of propellant.

However, to give a concrete example, NASA's space shuttle fires its engines for around 8.5 minutes, consuming 1,000 tons of solid propellant (containing 16% aluminium) and an additional 2,000,000 litres of liquid propellant (106,261 kg of liquid hydrogen fuel) to lift the 100,000 kg vehicle (including the 25,000 kg payload) to an altitude of 111 km and an orbital velocity of 30,000 km/h. With a specific energy of 31MJ per kg for aluminum and 143 MJ/kg for liquid hydrogen, this means that the vehicle consumes around 5 TJ of solid propellant and 15 TJ of hydrogen fuel.

Once in orbit at 200 km and around 7.8 km/s velocity, the orbiter requires no further fuel. At this altitude and velocity, the vehicle has a kinetic energy of about 3 TJ and a potential energy of roughly 200 GJ. Given the energy input of 20 TJ, the Space Shuttle is about 16% energy efficient at launching the orbiter and payload just 4% efficiency if the payload alone is considered.

If the Space Shuttle were used to transport people or freight from a point to another on the Earth, using the theoretical largest ground distance (antipodal) flight of 20,000 km, energy usage would be about 0.04 MJ/km/kg of payload.

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The space shuttle Challenger was destroyed when one of the the large white Solid Rocket Boosters (aka SRB) failed. A failure in one of the SRB's joints caused a leak. That leak burned a hole in the orange External Tank (aka ET.) The leak also burned the connection of the SRB to the ET. Once that connection failed the SRB separated from the ET and pierced the upper portion of the ET. When that happened the fuel in the upper tank mixed with the fuel in the lower tank and ignited. The fireball and explosion blew the Challenger into pieces.

Yes - all of the crew remains were recovered when the Shuttle Crew Compartment was discovered during recovery operations in the weeks following the accident. It was determined from both evidence in the compartment and autopsies that several were still alive after the explosion (emergency oxygen canisters had been activated) and that they survived until impacting the ocean.

Space Shuttle Columbia is not buried. I think you mean Space Shuttle Challenger, which in buried in two minutemen missile silos on the abandoned Launch complex 31. Space Shuttle Columbia remains are stored on the 16th floor of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center.

The space shuttle only use the liquid fuel that is onboard to start the decent process. They burn their engines to slow down just enough for the earths gravity to begin pulling them back to earth. After that, they are simply big gliders.

Space shuttle Columbia broke apart on reentry on February 1, 2003.

The cost to build and launch a space shuttle was around $1.7 billion per mission. However, the overall value of a space shuttle would depend on factors such as its condition, historical significance, and potential future use. At the end of the Space Shuttle program, the shuttles were retired and donated to museums for public display.

The space shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, due to the failure of an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster. The crew, including teachers Christa McAuliffe and Sharon Christa McAuliffe, died in the explosion before the orbiter plummeted into the ocean.

This was to have happened last year, but problems were found that had to be corrected. The latest estimate is in Feb. 2011, but this is still subject to change. Check the nasa.gov website for the latest information.

Rakesh Sharma traveled to space aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984, becoming the first Indian in space.