Space Shuttle
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| Total launches | 135 |
|---|---|
| Cost per launch | US$450 million (2011) to 1. 5 billion (2011) |
| Payload to Polar orbit | 12,700 kg (28,000 lb) |
| Launch sites | LC-39 |
| Kennedy Space Center | |
| SLC-6 | |
| Vandenberg AFB | |
| Payload to Earth return | 14,400 kg (31,700 lb) |
| Payload to LEO | 27,500 kg (60,600 lb) |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 950152 |
About Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U. S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Space Shuttle program.
Newsround presenters celebrate show turning 50
... The Space Shuttle Challenger had exploded shortly after take-off...
The companies offering delivery to the Moon
... " Things took a turn, we lost [the Space Shuttle] Columbia, had the global war on terrorism, so, Mars fell off the table, " he explains...
Upcoming Moon missions spur the search for new spacesuits
...On 7 April in 1983, American astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave bravely stepped out of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the first time US space explorers had conducted a spacewalk in nearly a decade...
Nasa's Orion spacecraft: A guide
... Here s our guide to America s replacement for the Space Shuttle...
Kathy Sullivan: the woman who made history, in sea and space
... It was the 13th flight of Nasa s Space Shuttle program and the sixth trip for the Space Shuttle Challenger...
Nasa launch, the first manned mission of the US in ten years
... Nasa was using Russian rockets for manned flights since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011...
To practice the SpaceX emergency crew capsule escape
... the US has not yet started from its own soil since the retirement of the Space Shuttle nine years ago...
Nasa-moon-rocket-core-sheets for testing
... The SLS is designed to re-use technology originally developed for the Space Shuttle program ran from 1981-2011...
Space Shuttle Photos
