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... H. Brown Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks.com/Books/For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - SPACECRAFT

... 's long series of shuttle flights and early lessons learned." . . . CHOICE Feb '02 This Book includes all of the details of the Space Shuttle Columbia's first five flights. The Space Shuttle is one of the ... travelling over a million miles in a little over 54 hours. This book covers the Space Shuttle through the test flight stage and on to its first operational flight. Comprising rare NASA ...

... 's a very difficult question. The original costs varied from Shuttle to Shuttle. The early ones, like Columbia, cost approximately $2 billion, in round numbers. The later ones cost even more. ... of designing, building, upgrading, and maintaining the Space Shuttle program and all of its facilities at around $150 billion. Of course at this point, the Space Shuttle program is facing retirement in 2010, ...

... concept for a reusable winged space vehicle has been a dream since the early 20th century. In 1981 the United States launched the first such vehicle, Columbia, and proved that winged spacecraft ... space. From the first test flights to the détente missions to Russia's Mir space station, thousands of facts can be found in this Space Shuttle Fact Archive. "Will interest all fans of the Space Shuttle ...

A space shuttle could be any size so long as it can be launched from Earth. The limiting ... the booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off ... 1.NASA, National Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988. This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc ...

The Space Shuttle flies in low Earth orbit so it is protected by the magnetic field of the ... is kept to a minimum. Radiation cannot be blocked, so radiation does penetrate the Space Shuttle, but the Shuttle's shielding and structure, and mission planning, do minimize radiation penetration. ---- Answer provided by ...

The Space Shuttle program cost about 33 billion dollars through the end of the development flight tests, after ... solid rocket boosters. Operational costs are about $500 million for each Shuttle mission. (Ref 2.) Ref 2.http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown Image ...

The Space Shuttle is expensive to operate and probably beyond the means of private individuals or corporations. However, ... 4. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/support/researching/asp/ 5. http://www.astronautix.com/props/loxlh2.html 6. Manweiler, J.W. Interplanetary Medium. In Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology, Vol. I ...

As a private citizen, you currently cannot get into space aboard the Space Shuttle for any amount of money. You just can't NASA won't take you on ... they can't. So there is no ticket you can buy for getting into space aboard a Space Shuttle. But every few years, NASA has a need for more astronauts. This is because ... the astronaut corps. If you do, then you'll be able to fly on the Shuttle too—and it won't cost you a dime— it will be your ...

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