The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and... 109 KB (12,116 words) - 11:06, 29 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American... 51 KB (4,405 words) - 04:48, 25 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the commanding... 29 KB (2,221 words) - 18:58, 20 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American spacecraft. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space... 45 KB (2,270 words) - 18:24, 28 April 2024 |
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which... 62 KB (7,984 words) - 15:43, 26 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational... 56 KB (4,272 words) - 07:17, 29 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space... 57 KB (3,935 words) - 15:53, 15 April 2024 |
Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it... 47 KB (3,919 words) - 10:22, 9 April 2024 |
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its... 124 KB (4,414 words) - 16:46, 3 May 2024 |
The Space Shuttle Pathfinder (unofficial Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-098) is a Space Shuttle test simulator made of steel and wood. Constructed by... 9 KB (912 words) - 20:51, 2 February 2023 |
Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle. It was built by Guard-Lee in Apopka... 13 KB (1,168 words) - 16:23, 9 August 2022 |
Space Shuttle America (also known as Space Shuttle America – The Next Century) was a motion simulator ride at the Six Flags Great America theme park in... 8 KB (634 words) - 23:10, 6 December 2023 |
The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight... 62 KB (7,939 words) - 03:52, 2 May 2024 |
Three locations in the United States were used as landing sites for the Space Shuttle system. Each site included runways of sufficient length for the slowing-down... 21 KB (1,800 words) - 23:17, 11 April 2024 |
Buran (spacecraft) (redirect from Buran space shuttle) reentries, which themselves were very similar to the ones on the US Space Shuttle. However, the carbon-carbon Buran heat tiles have an antioxidant molybdenum... 23 KB (2,209 words) - 15:13, 13 March 2024 |
Space Shuttle abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of the NASA Space Shuttle could be terminated. A pad abort occurred after ignition... 43 KB (5,201 words) - 21:32, 27 April 2024 |
NASA (redirect from National Aeronautics and Space Agency) Moon landing missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station along with the Commercial... 218 KB (20,436 words) - 04:07, 4 May 2024 |
Space Shuttle Project is an action video game released in 1991 by Absolute Entertainment for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was one of the few... 5 KB (369 words) - 23:43, 13 November 2022 |
Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as... 36 KB (4,156 words) - 15:29, 26 February 2024 |
The Space Shuttle thermal protection system (TPS) is the barrier that protected the Space Shuttle Orbiter during the searing 1,650 °C (3,000 °F) heat... 33 KB (4,074 words) - 08:54, 27 April 2024 |
During NASA's Space Shuttle program, several missions were canceled. Many were canceled as a result of the Challenger and the Columbia disasters or due... 55 KB (1,206 words) - 01:22, 1 January 2024 |
STS-135 (redirect from Last mission of the Space Shuttle) assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed... 114 KB (12,907 words) - 02:41, 26 April 2024 |