Space Shuttle in a sentence

Specifications main Space Shuttle orbiter illustration Space Shuttle drawing Space Shuttle wing cutaway Space Shuttle Orbiter and Soyuz-TM (drawn to scale).

Space shuttle countdown Firing Room 1 configured for space shuttle launches Simulation is used at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) to train and certify Space Shuttle engineers during simulated launch countdown operations.

A 1980 pinball machine Space Shuttle was produced by Zaccaria and a 1984 pinball machine Space Shuttle: Pinball Adventure was produced by Williams and features a plastic Space Shuttle model among other artwork of astronauts on the play field.

Colonel Eileen Collins, a member of the Irish America Hall of Fame and career U.S. Air Force officer, was the first woman to pilot a space shuttle and the first female commander of a space shuttle mission.

After launch by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, four subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced systems on the telescope.

Aft view showing a Progress spacecraft docked to Zvezda The expansion schedule was interrupted by the Space Shuttle 102 disaster in 2003, with the resulting two year hiatus in the Space Shuttle programme halting station assembly.

Early plans called for a launch on Space Shuttle Columbia on what was then codenamed STS-23 in January 1982, but delays in the development of the Space Shuttle allowed more time for development of the probe.

The journey was famous for an unmodified Toyota Tundra pickup truck pulling the space shuttle across the Manchester Boulevard Bridge. citation The space shuttle was mainly carried by four self-propelled robotic dollies throughout the 12 mile journey.

The Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011. citation Retirement of the Shuttle ended the era in which all of America's varied space activities were performed by one craft -or even one organization.

This group evaluated the shuttle studies to date, and recommended a national space strategy including building a space shuttle.

Unity was carried into orbit as the primary cargo of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-88, the first Space Shuttle mission dedicated to assembly of the station.

The new Marshall director previously worked for the Space Shuttle Program for 25 years, administering the production and performance of the shuttle’s propulsion elements.

Atlantis is the lightest shuttle of the remaining fleet, weighing three pounds less than the Space Shuttle Endeavour (with the three main engines).

A total of 156 individuals flew with Space Shuttle Atlantis over the course of its 33 missions. citation Because the shuttle sometimes flew crew members arriving and departing Mir and the ISS, not all of them launched and landed on Atlantis.

Comparison with the Shuttle The high cost per launch of the Space Shuttle sparked interest throughout the 1980s in designing a cheaper successor vehicle.

Reuse might seem to make systems like the Space Shuttle more cost effective than ELVs, but in practice launches using ELVs have been less expensive than Shuttle launches.

The Shuttle Final Countdown Phase Simulation, also known as S0044, involves countdown processes that integrate many of the Space Shuttle vehicle and GSE systems.

The Space Shuttle engineering community participates in a launch countdown integrated simulation before each shuttle flight.

This spaceplane was designed for a crew and strongly resembled the U.S. Space Shuttle, although its drop-off boosters used liquid propellants and its main engines were located at the base of what would be the external tank in the American Shuttle.

When Mir was finally visited by a space shuttle, the visitor was a U.S. Shuttle, not Buran.