Servicing and Repair
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...
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Space Shuttle
Before the invention of the space shuttle, the world's first reusable spacecraft, rockets were used to put a tiny capsule carrying human space travelers into orbit. Stage by stage...
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Space Shuttles
Overview
At the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the space shuttle program goes by the name Space Transportation System (STS). The shuttle program, as...
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Space Shuttle
The space shuttle is a reusable spacecraft that takes off like a rocket, travels around the earth like a spacecraft, and then lands once again like a glider. The first space shuttle was ...
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Space Shuttles
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 sp...
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Space Shuttle
James C. Fletcher
"NASA Document III-31: The Space Shuttle"
Published in November 22, 1971; reprinted from Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U...
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Space Shuttle
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 fir...
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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 resear...
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Many citizens of America question the importance of the United States Space Program. They ask why the government invests such great amounts of time and capital into a program that has shown almost n...
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The materials needed to build the body and any subsystems of spacecraft, including power, structural, thermal, attitude control, propulsion, and payload, must be carefully chosen. The materials and me...
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Servicing and Repair
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