Space Shuttle

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

There is no gravity therfore it will travel forever slowly speeding up and eventually travelling at 99.999% of the speed of light, if this object collides with another it will create a big bang

The Space Shuttle program had an estimated cost of about $196 billion over its lifetime, from development to retirement in 2011. Each Space Shuttle mission was estimated to cost about $450 million.

Most believe that the first 'Rockets' were launched by China. This was many years ago and much like fireworks of today.

James A. Lovell Jr. never landed a shuttle. He was an astronaut on Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 missions, which involved landing on the moon and a dramatic return to Earth in the case of Apollo 13, but he did not land a space shuttle.

A single-stage rocket has all its propulsion and structure contained in a single unit, while a multistage rocket consists of two or more stages stacked on top of each other. In a multistage rocket, each stage is jettisoned when its fuel is exhausted, shedding weight and making the spacecraft lighter, enabling it to achieve higher speeds. This design allows multistage rockets to carry heavier payloads and go farther into space than single-stage rockets.

When in space, it is weightless. But it still takes energy to move the mass around. Shuttle Gross liftoff weight: 240,000 lb (109,000 kg) Empty weight: 172,000 lb (78,000 kg) Maximum payload: 55,250 lb (25,060 kg) Maximum landing weight: 230,000 lb (104,000 kg)

The Challenger exploded because the external tank exploded.

The ET exploded when a couple of 'o' rings failed in the solid rocket booster (SRB.)

That failure caused hot gases to escape and actually burn a hole in the lower portion of the ET and the coupling holding the SRB in place. When the coupling gave way the SRB swung out and punctured the upper portion of the ET. When that happened, the fuel in the upper portion, met the fuel in the lower portion and there was an explosion that blew the Challenger into pieces.

Experiments with rocketry progressed through the early 20th century. The first rockets to reach space were the German V-2 rockets of World War II. The first artificial satellite (Sputnik) was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, followed by the US Explorer I in 1958.

The first manned flight was the Earth orbit by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Apil 12, 1961. Manned flights by the US were by Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, followed by the three-orbit flight of John Glenn on February 20, 1962.

The US space program under NASA culminated in six manned Moon landings between July 20, 1969 and December 14, 1972. Space exploration since that time has been almost entirely by unmanned probes, such as the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions to the outer planets from 1977 to 1989, and the Viking mission (and subsequent rovers) sent to Mars in 1975.

Manned space flight continued with Mir, Skylab, and the International Space Station. The Russian Soyuz flights are continuing, both manned and unmanned, while the US fleet of Space Shuttle orbiters (1977-2011) has now been retired.

A space shuttle has multiple stations (e.g. mission control, cockpit, payload bay) to distribute responsibilities and tasks efficiently among the crew members. Each station is designed to manage specific functions, such as navigation, communications, and payload deployment, to ensure the success and safety of the mission. Having multiple stations allows for better coordination and division of labor during complex space missions.

A space shuttle is launched into space using powerful rockets. Once in space, it uses onboard thrusters to maneuver and adjust its course. The shuttle then re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and glides back to a landing site like a plane.

It saves on fuel. The reason we launch rockets from Florida as opposed to say, Long Island, New York, is that we are closer to the equator, the mid-point between the north and south poles. If you were to spin a basketball, you would see that the center rotates faster than the top or bottom of the ball. This means that when the rocket blasts off from the launch pad, it gets an extra boost from the rotation of the earth and that means less fuel needs to be used to lift off. Another reason is that the launch is done over water. If sonething were to happen to a rocket after lift-off, the rocket would come down over water and not land (remember the Space Shuttle).

A rocket ship in space is controlled by a combination of thrusters, reaction wheels, and control moment gyros. Thrusters are used for changes in velocity and trajectory, while reaction wheels and control moment gyros help orient the spacecraft and maintain stability. Guidance systems and computers on board help control and coordinate these systems for navigation in space.

The first successful spaceflight to reach space in 1950 was achieved by the V-2 rocket, launched by the United States. The V-2 rocket reached an altitude of about 100 kilometers, officially entering space as defined by the Kármán line.