Space Shuttle

Feb. 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas.

A space shuttle typically has a cylindrical body with wings extending from the sides, resembling an airplane. It also has a large tail section with engines for propulsion in space and during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

The space shuttle would dock with the International Space Station at a speed of approximately 0.1 meters per second (about 0.2 miles per hour) to ensure a smooth and controlled approach. This slow speed allows for precise alignment and safe docking of the two spacecraft.

The space shuttle piggybacked on a modified Boeing 747 aircraft known as the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). This allowed for transportation of the space shuttle to and from different launch sites across the United States.

No, he declared to send Americans to land on the moon before the end of the 60's which happened. The Soviet union were the first nation to put a man (Yuri Gagarin in1961) into space, The soviet were leaders in space exploration for a long time but an American space team the first to land on the moon in 1969.

The space shuttle is an Earth orbit vehicle. No humans have ever travelled to any body other than the Moon (from 1969 to 1972). All other space exploration has been by unmanned probes.

The average spaceship can travel at speeds ranging from 17,500 to 25,000 miles per hour (28,000 to 40,000 kilometers per hour) in low Earth orbit. However, speeds can vary significantly depending on the type of spaceship and its purpose.

The first space shuttle disaster was the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. The shuttle broke apart 73 seconds after launch, resulting in the tragic loss of all seven crew members on board.

It would take over 17 years to drive a car at 100 km/hr to the moon, assuming you could drive straight up into space. The moon is approximately 384,400 kilometers away from Earth, so it would be a very long journey by car.

The shuttle maneuvers itself and burns it's OMS engines. This causes the shuttle to slow down to a point where the earths gravity can pull it back to earth. As the shuttle enters the high earth atmosphere it is slowed down as the atmosphere hits the craft heating it up. The shuttle then performs a series of 'S' turns slowing it down even further, until it reaches its final approach speed for landing.

The entire Shuttle countdown is choreographered and pre-planned. During the last 10 seconds the Space Shuttle's main engines fire, check themselves, the entire stack swings with the thrust, and the boosters ignite.

It takes a space shuttle approximately three days to reach the moon. This is because the moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away from Earth, and the space shuttle travels at a speed of about 17,500 miles per hour (28,160 kilometers per hour) to get there.

Spacecraft can achieve speeds of up to 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) in low Earth orbit. For interplanetary missions, spacecraft can travel at speeds ranging from 10,000 to 30,000 miles per hour (16,000 to 48,000 kilometers per hour) depending on the destination. The fastest man-made object, the Parker Solar Probe, reached speeds of over 430,000 miles per hour (700,000 kilometers per hour) as it approached the Sun.

The space shuttle took about 8-10 minutes to reach orbit. It would then take around 6 hours for the space shuttle to catch up with the space station for docking.

A space shuttle launch can typically be seen from about 30-50 miles away, depending on atmospheric conditions and visibility. However, large rockets or unique lighting effects might make them visible from even further distances.

Space shuttles have historically landed at either the Kennedy Space Center in Florida or Edwards Air Force Base in California.

The Earth's exosphere extends ~120,000 miles, so most Earth-orbiting spacecraft are in the exosphere. Spacecraft that go to other planets, the sun, Lagrange points and everything that leaves Earth's orbit is in space, which is not a part of Earth's atmosphere.

Well it was canceled because NASA is instituting a new rocket called the Ares and they are having a whole new program called Constellation. They want to put people on Mars with these and you cannot do that with the space shuttle. And they are also doing it because they are stupid really. The space shuttles make way more sense then the new program they are going to have -.-

The Space Shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of STS-1, the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

A rocket takes off from Earth by igniting its engines to produce thrust, which propels it upwards against the force of gravity. The thrust generated must be greater than the force of gravity in order for the rocket to overcome Earth's gravitational pull and lift off into space. Once the rocket reaches a certain speed and altitude, it can transition to its intended trajectory.

The two white solid rocket boosters fall off after 2 minutes and parachute back to the Atlantic ocean. The external tank burns up in the atmosphere.

Bottle rockets require water to create steam pressure within the bottle. This pressure builds up when the water inside is heated by the ignited propellant, causing the bottle to launch upwards. The steam escaping through the nozzle propels the bottle rocket into the air.

Depends on what rocket, if it's a NASA rocket, i dont know my knowledge of it is weak, i thought it was the Apollo 11, if it's a toy rocket, probally in the 1800's