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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttles are reusable spacecraft with wings for controlled descent into the atmosphere. They are designed to transport astronauts between earth and an orbiting space station and to deploy and retrieve satellites. Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour are the three Space Shuttles in operation today.
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What was the first shuttle to be launched following the Challrnger disaster?
Space Shuttle Discovery.
This depends on the type of shuttle and its orbit. The speed can differ from satellite to satellite, therefore a definite answer can not be given about the exact speed of shuttle while it releases satellite.
What happens when the space shuttle takes off and moves away fromm earth?
It masses increases and the weight increases
What is the difference in the space shuttle and other spacecraft?
how is the space shuttle different form other spacecraft
What are the space shuttles that have been sent to space?
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
How many space shuttles were launched in 2000?
5 Space Shuttle missions were launched in the year 2000 in this order;
STS-99 - Endeavour
STS-101 - Atlantis
STS-106 - Atlantis
STS-92 - Discovery
STS-97 - Endeavour
How many times did Columbia space shuttle fly?
Space Shuttle Columbia has 28 missions. It safely launched 28 times, and safely reentered the atmosphere 27 times.
What is the laboratory kept in the cargo bay of a space shuttle?
Skylab. It was not in the payload bay for every mission, though.
Because space is like a vacuum. If they went outside of their spacecraft without a pressurized suit, their bodies with stretch like putty.
Why did NASA retire the space shuttle program?
Because of budgets, the aging orbiters, and unfortunately.. Politics.
What would happen to the space shuttle in deep space?
The Shuttles and their key systems were never designed for the extreme cold of interplanetary space; while it's cold in Earth orbit, it'd downright hot compared to coldness of space between the planets.
What makes the space shuttle such a complex piece of machinery?
The Space Shuttle was the first and only reusable manned vehicle to date, could land on a runway, haul astronauts and cargo at the same time, and service and construct space stations.
Why does The Space Shuttle Heat up when it is Travelling through the Earth's Atmosphere?
Because of the enormous amount of friction between Earth's atmosphere and the Space Shuttle.
Why is black pannels use on the space shuttle?
They are thermal heat protection tiles. They help the Space Shuttle withstand 3,000+ F during reentry.
Why and how did Felix baumgartner got so high up in the space?
He was not actually in space, just in the very upper atmosphere. As of today the official start of space is 100km (about 330,000 FT), Felix got to like 128,000 feet.
How many shuttle went to space?
The 5 Space Shuttles flew in space 134 times. One mission didn't make it to space.
How spacecraft moving in space?
It use propulsion system. Propulsion, like Jet engine but the rocket or space craft would store oxygen to combusted with fuel. Some advance spacecraft would use ion thruster by electrically heated up a gas to extremely high temperature and resulted to very fast stream of gas ejected on the back side of the spacecraft.
What are the differences visually between the four space shuttles?
There are 5 Space Shuttles. Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour look exactly the same except for their names. Columbia's tip of it's rear stabilizer and wings are black.
How many gallons of rocket fuel does the space shuttle burn per second on lift off?
The Space Shuttle's External Tank carries 383,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and 143,000 gallons of liquid oxygen to power the Space Shuttle Main Engines. The SSMEs burn for about 8.5 minutes (510 seconds), which means they consuming about 751 gallons of hydrogen per second and 280 gallons of oxygen per second, or about 1031 gallons of propellant overall per second.
As an aside, the Solid Rocket Boosters each carry 1,000,000 pounds of solid propellant (both fuel and oxidizer are combined) and burn for about two minutes. So, that equates to about 16,667 pounds of propellant per second for the SRBs.
What are the names and years of the space shuttles that crashed?
None of them crashed. Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart in 1986 due to a SRB explosion. Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry in 2003 due to a whole in it's left wing from foam from the ET hitting it during launch.
