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Space Shuttle program

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Space Shuttle Summary
952 words, approx. 3 pages
About the size of a DC-9 commercial airliner, the shuttle is a high-tech, rocket -boosted space craft. The shuttle is launched vertically like any other rocket, using its own engines firing along with two attached solid rocket boosters that are...
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Servicing and Repair Summary
562 words, approx. 2 pages
When the space shuttle system became operational in the 1980s, access to space began to take on a whole new outlook. Space was about to become a place to carry out work as well as to explore. A key element in America's newest human-rated space...
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Space Shuttle Summary
30,397 words, approx. 101 pages
Space stations were initially envisioned by scientists and science fiction writers as great wheels in the sky inhabited by dozens of crew members studying Earth from afar, conducting scientific research, and eventually building interplanetary spacecraft...
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Space Shuttles Summary
10,201 words, approx. 34 pages
Perhaps no U.S. space program has borne witness to such great triumph and tragedy as that of the space shuttle program. Known officially as the Space Transportation System (STS), the space shuttle program was first put into operation in 1981. Between...
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Space Shuttle program Information
3,273 words, approx. 11 pages
NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States government's current manned launch vehicle. The winged Shuttle Orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have...
 


News and Journals
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The Scientist
Shuttle squeezes science in space program
10/20/2003: 1,292 words, approx. 4 pages
After the shuttle tragedy, the future of NASA's science program is questioned | By Sam Jaffe When the space shuttle Columbia erupted into flames on re-entry, killing its crew of six astronauts, criticism of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration grew to a...
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The Boston Globe
Ex-marine To Lead Space Shuttle Program
05/10/2003: 691 words, approx. 2 pages
WASHINGTON - A former Marine officer who has held engineering and management jobs in three NASA centers is taking over as manager of the space shuttle program as the space agency tries to recover from the Columbia accident. William W. Parsons, 47, director...
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AP News
Space shuttle moves to launch pad
7/11/2007: 520 words, approx. 2 pages
The shuttle Endeavour arrived at its launch pad early Wednesday for a flight that will finally carry teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan into space. The mission, scheduled to begin Aug. 7, will take Morgan and six crewmates to the international space station.It's been a nearly five-year wait...
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AP News
Space shuttle to return to launch pad
5/12/2007: 324 words, approx. 1 pages
NASA managers on Friday approved moving Atlantis to the launch pad in hopes that a June launch will return the space shuttle program to a regular flight schedule after a six-month hiatus.Technicians planned to haul Atlantis to the launch pad as soon as Tuesday if...
 


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 94%
Space Program
1,473 words, approx. 5 pages
Discusses the importance of United States Space Program to the United States as well as the rest of the world.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Problems of Entry and Re-entry for the Space Shuttle
872 words, approx. 3 pages
Describes the materials necessary to to build the body and any subsystems of space shuttle spacecraft, including power, structural, thermal, attitude control, propulsion, and payload. Examines recent problems of entry and re-entry faced by space probes.


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