The space shuttle Discovery is more complex, cramped, and altogether more awesome from the inside than I ever imagined. And in 2011, NASA retired the orbiter – the oldest flying shuttle – to begin preparing it for display in a museum.I was lucky enough to crawl around the interior of th...
Life inside space shuttle Endeavour 2009-07-18 11:37 BJT Mail | Share | Print | Text: A A A In this photo released by NASA, the Space Shuttle Endeavour's payloadbay, the vertical stabilizer and orbital maneuvering system (OMS) podsare featured in this image photographed by a STS-127 ...
He was involved in the design of the space shuttle, a spaceship specifically designed to be spared and reused. One of the requirements was that the space shuttle was to be spacious enough to do experiments inside, yet material was to be used sparingly so as not to weigh it down. One of...
The Space Shuttle is the first orbital spacecraft designed for reuse. It carries different payloads to low Earth orbit, provides crew rotation for the International Space Station (ISS), and performs servicing missions. The orbiter can also recover satellites and other payloads from orbit and retur...
space shuttle’s wall, the resin begins to flow into the damaged area. Immediately, the oxygen from inside the spacecraft cabin promotes radical-mediated polymerization and starts filling the gap created by debris. As the oxygen-stimulated polymerization proceeds, the viscosity of the reactive heal...
Google Share on Facebook spacecraft Thesaurus Medical Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to spacecraft:space shuttle space·craft (spās′krăft′) n.pl.spacecraft A vehicle designed to be launched into space. Also calledspaceship. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth ...
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The International Space Station, imaged from the space shuttleEndeavouron December 9, 2000, after installation of a large solar array (long horizontal panels). Major elements of the partially completed station included (front to back) the American-built connecting node Unity and two Russian-built ...
Space shuttle Columbia was the first shuttle to reach space when it was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Apr. 12, 1981. Columbia carried dozens of astronauts into space during the next two decades, reaching several milestones. The shuttle also underwent upgrades as technology advanced...
This NASA Technical Publication explores and documents the nature of Space Shuttle operations and its supporting infrastructure and addresses fundamental questions often asked of the Space Shuttle program why does it take so long to turnaround the Space Shuttle for flight and why does it cost so muc...