Originally billed as the new vehicle to carry Air Force satellites, the shuttle came into its own in 1993 by transporting segments of the International Space Station as that program took off. The shuttle's life is complex and multifaceted, fraught with lofty successes and equally grim tragedies....
该机构希望,其下一代载具Space Shuttle能够降低成本,但是据一位分析师透露, Space Shuttle每飞行一次还是要让NASA付出了大约16亿美元的成本。 贾维尔说到:“在最初的50年中,阻碍太空发展的东西是太空运输。我们无法将成本降低。”贾维尔和其他一些人认为,NASA过于强势的安全文化让他们形成了自己独特的行事方式,而这种...
the first space shuttle mission, STS-1, launched on April 12, 1981, aboard the orbiter Columbia. The last shuttle to fly was Atlantis on the STS-135 mission in July 2011. The space shuttle suffered two major disasters — onJan. 28, 1986 (Challenger)andFeb. 1, 2003 (Columbia); 14 ast...
But after 30 years, and 135 flights, NASA has decided to close down the space shuttle program. The Shuttle is an amazing machine. It takes off like a rocket, but lands like a plane, so it's re-usable. It's had some spectacular successes. It carried the Hubble Space Telescope into or...
这两名航天员将成为首批乘坐真正的私人航天器飞往太空的人,这个航天器就是SpaceX所开发和运营的Crew Dragon。这次发射,可能将标志着美国的航天事业进入了一个新的时代。 这次发射任务,可以说是SpaceX公司和NASA在进行了近10年的研发和合作之后的巅峰之作。如果能够成功发射,这将意味着自2011年Space Shuttle计划以来,...
NASA is now offering museums a choice of freeze-dried and heat-resistant artifacts for their space shuttle-themed displays. NASA expanded its offer of surplus astronaut food and space shuttle heat shield tiles that had earlier been open to schools only.
See Space Shuttle Atlantis up-close at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. This exhibit celebrates the incredible story of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Want to see a real-life space shuttle? Here's where to get your NASA shuttle fix in museums across the United States.
From 1965 to 1979, the US built a space station called the Skylab. It orbited the earth for 2,249 days. The Space Shuttle then became the major focus of NASA in the late 1970s and the 1980s. THE SPACE SHUTTLE ERA The Space Shuttle era began in the 1980’s. John Young and Robert...
And there were people at NASA who just flat-out disagreed. And so we don't have enough confidence. 美国国家航空航天局(NASA)也有人完全不同意。所以我们没有足够的信心。 Now, the luxury that NASA has that they, you know, didn't always have in the space shuttle era was they have a backu...