美国空军(USAF,United States Air Force)和美国国家航空航天局(NASA,National Aeronautics and Space Administration)就在国防部-美国宇航局航空航天联合协调委员会(DoD-NASA AACB,DOD-NASA Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board)之下建立了一个关于可重复使用运载系统(RLV,Reusable Launch Vehicle)技术的特设分...
The space shuttle was designed to carry large payloads into orbit, service them, and bring them back to Earth if necessary.
On board the shuttle was Magellan, a spacecraft that would be launched toward Venus. This was the first time that NASA launched an interplanetary probe from the shuttle's payload bay. The astronauts sent the satellite on its way remarkably quickly, only six hours after launch. Magellan fired ...
First, let's look at the parts of the space shuttle and a typical mission. The space shuttle consists of the following major components: two solid rocket boosters (SRB) - critical for the launch external fuel tank (ET) - carries fuel for the launch orbiter - carries astronauts and pa...
Information about Space Shuttles. Included are images of the Shuttle Enterprise and of space shuttle hardware.
A summary is given of selected atmospheric conditions observed near space shuttle STS-35 launch time on December 2, 1990, at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Values of ambient pressure, temperature, moisture, ground winds, visual observations (cloud), and winds aloft are included. The sequence of...
a welcome reminder of America’s global pre-eminence in science, technological innovation and private enterprise at a time its prospects and ambitions have been clouded by the coronavirus pandemic, economic uncertainty and polit...
1hold; build;provide; live; set; carry;select;fall; take;launch(1)The space shuttle ( 航天飞机) was created as a reusable launch vehicle___ astronauts and other equipment into space and back again. The shuttle looks like an ordinary plane but it has a cargo bay (货仓)that is large ...
4. Some suggested that the White House pushed NASA to launch the shuttle in time for President Ronald Reagan’s State of the Union address NASA officials apparently felt intense pressure to push the Challenger’s mission forward...
Launch Processing System — a complex test data arrangement that integrated a minicomputer network and 10,000 lines of microcoded instructions for each Shuttle Firing Room. The company also supplied NASA with the displays for the laboratory, simulator, spare systems and the Space Shuttle’s on...