Space Shuttle

The space shuttles are used today as museum pieces and for education in said museums. Atlantis is currently at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Endeavor is in the Los Angeles science center, and Discovery is at the Smithsonian

The liquid fuel motor was invented by Karl Benz in 1885. Benz's invention is considered the first true automobile, known as the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

An example of a space spin-off is the development of memory foam by NASA for use in astronaut seats, which was later commercialized for mattresses and pillows due to its comfort and support properties.

It ended it's career in July 2011 when it completed its final mission. It will be on display at the Kennedy Space Center for visitors to see.

My father Richard Henry Wolfarth was one of four men who did the engineering and design of the Enterprise at Honeywell back in the 70's. He was in the newspaper for this with the other 3 men. My mom has the newspaper article about it saved!

Astronauts or trained pilots typically fly spaceships. They undergo extensive training to operate the spacecraft and navigate through space.

Depends on the speed the craft can travel. The Apollo mission took about 3 days

Once per completed mission, the shuttles have landed on Planet Earth.

The Soviet Union was the first country to reach space with the launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

The first space shuttle that "flew" was the Enterprise, but it was not capable of space flight.

The first orbital shuttle was Columbia.
The next orbital shuttle was Challenger.

The NASA Crawler transporter moves at a speed of about 1 mile per hour when transporting a space shuttle. This slow speed is necessary to ensure the stability and safety of the shuttle during transportation.

escape velocity of the earth is around 11km per sec so the shuttle would need to travel around 22times the speed of sound to get into orbit

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The 3 Main Components Of The Space Shuttle

The Rocket Boosters:

The Rocket Boosters are 2 parallel boosters filled with solid rocket fuel similar to fireworks or gun powder attached to the side of the liquid fuel tank with explosive mounts and they provide 80% of the thrust to launch the space vehicle from the platform. The Rocket Boosters are only used throughout the first 2 minutes during the take off, once they are ignited, they cannot be stopped, the mission must continue. After they are empty the rocket boosters are jettisoned by exploding the mounts off the solid boosters so they can fall back to earth with parachutes and be picked up to be reused.

The Propellant Tank:

The Propellant Tank is the biggest part of the space shuttle. It carries the two solid rocket boosters and the space shuttle itself. It is filled with the liquid fuel and oxygen the shuttle needs to carry itself into space where there is no oxygen. After the solid boosters are jettisoned, the liquid fuel is the only thrust the shuttle has to drive it, so that when it exits the Earth's atmosphere and has reached its altitude the shuttle has no further use for it because it has enough fuel to complete the mission in its own tanks so the propellant tank falls back to earth to be reused again.

The Orbiter:

The Orbiter is the main part that transports the astronauts and pay load to space. The space shuttle is another name for the orbiter. In space there is zero gravity, so the space shuttle will drift around the Earth. In the orbiter is a life support system that holds oxygen, electricity, and things they need throughout the journey, computer systems, etc. When it's time to come back to Earth the shuttle enters the Earths atmosphere at 16,000 mph and uses it heat shield to protect it from certain destruction and to slow the vehicle down enough so that it can glide safely back to its Earth base using no power from its engines.

How They Work Altogether:

All the space shuttle systems work together because without one of them, the space shuttle's mission could not begin. Firstly, if there was just a propellant tank, it wouldn't work because it doesn't have enough power to thrust off the ground and no one would be able to experience space because you can't go inside the propellant tank because it's just like going inside the petrol tank of a car. Secondly, if it were just rocket boosters, no one be able to experience it, again, because it's just like going inside the engine but the rocket boosters would be able to lift off, if computerized. Thirdly and most importantly, if it were only the orbiter, it would not lift up because of its power cannot make it thrust off the ground like rocket boosters. Lastly, they all work together to finish the mission. Rocket boosters boost it off the ground, the propellant tank holds the oxygen and the liquid fuel and the orbiter carries the payload and humans, with all the systems. That's how they all work together, making their job get done and finishing their mission!

The 'Crawler'

The Crawler is the mobile launch pad and the transporter and looks like a very large transportable multi - purpose platform. It transports the space shuttle very slowly, so that it doesn't fall off the crawler. The crawler moves along a track created for itself to get to its destination ready for launch close to the ocean, so when the space shuttle launches off, the rocket boosters and propellant tank jettison off the space shuttle into the ocean. If there were no such thing as a crawler, they would have to build the space shuttle on the ground and set it up outside.

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The Space Shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of the first space shuttle, Columbia. Over the course of the program, five operational space shuttles were built and used for various missions until the program ended in 2011.

Yes, a jet is faster than a space shuttle in terms of atmospheric flight, traveling at speeds up to around 600-700 mph, while a space shuttle travels at speeds up to around 17,500 mph in space.

There is no air in space and because of that, the noise it makes can not transmit elsewhere.

The sound it makes is well noticeable inside the craft though. Sound moves through the materials the shuttle is built from and then it starts transmitting these sounds into the air on board, and this noise is very well audible.

I am sorry to say, but I can not explain the sound it actually makes.

maybe there is something on Nasa homepage regarding this.

The space shuttle is powered by three fuel cell power plants. The fuel cells are located under the payload bay area in the forward portion of the space shuttle's midfusalage. The three power cells operate independantly of each other, with each supplying it's own isolated 28-volt DC bus. The fuel cells are made up of a power section and an accessory section. In the power section, hydrogen and oxygen are transformed into electrical power, heat, and water. The accessory section controls and monitors the power section's performance. The water produced from the fuel cells is either used for crew consumption, used for cooling the shuttle's Freon-21 coolant loops, or is dumped overboard as waste water.

A reusable spacecraft is typically called a space shuttle or a reusable launch vehicle. These spacecraft are designed to be launched into space multiple times, reducing the cost of space missions.

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James A. Lovell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but he predominantly resided in the Chicago area during his career as a NASA astronaut. After retiring from NASA, he continued to live in the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois.

It takes about 8-9 minutes for a spacecraft to reach outer space after launch. This is known as the Kármán line, which marks the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space at an altitude of 100 km (62 miles).

The weight of the International Space Station is essentially zero in space since weight is a measurement of the force of gravity acting on an object. It is constantly in freefall around Earth, so it experiences microgravity.

No Space Shuttles landed on the moon.

Apollo capsules with lunar landing module went to the moon. The Apollos stayed in lunar orbit while the landing modules descended to the moon and then returned to the Apollo capsule. The capsules then returned to earth.

Apollos 8 and 10 went into lunar orbit but returned without landing by design. The first Apollo mission to reach the moon, and land, was Apollo 11. Apollos 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 also landed on the moon and returned. Apollo 13 had an emergency, flew around the moon, and returned safely to earth.

The thermosphere is a layer of the Earth's atmosphere that reaches very high temperatures due to its proximity to the sun. Space shuttles are designed to withstand these extreme temperatures and navigate through the thermosphere safely as they travel to and from space. Other spacecraft may not have the necessary heat shields and thermal protection to handle the conditions in the thermosphere.

No, Gemini 8 did not land on the moon. It was a manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program that successfully completed docking with an unmanned Agena target vehicle in Earth orbit in 1966. The first moon landing was conducted by Apollo 11 in 1969.

Spacecraft float in space due to the lack of gravity pulling them down. They are in a state of continuous free fall around the Earth, causing them to orbit rather than fall back to the ground. This creates the sensation of floating for astronauts inside the spacecraft.