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... can be nearly any weight from a few ounces to millions of pounds. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million ... .ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors
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The NASA Space Shuttle orbiter is designed to carry a payload of 65,000 pounds and a crew of eight, or perhaps ten in an emergency. It weighs about 172,000 pounds ... .ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors
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... as many crewmembers or as large a payload. Designing a shuttle is similar to designing a truck: you can design a pickup-size truck, or a dump truck, or a huge semi-tractor trailer truck. It just depends on what you want to do with it after it is finished.
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... on Earth or on Mars. The NASA Space Shuttle orbiter is designed with wings and a tail because it must return from space and be steerable through the atmosphere to land on Earth. But if a spacecraft is to operate entirely in the vacuum of space, it need not be designed ... surface (where there is no atmosphere), but it didn't look much like a plane.
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... , storage devices); communications (radios, lasers); instrumentation (guidance, navigation, control and landing aids).
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A simple spacecraft might take as little as six months to design and build. Large, manned ... . The first Shuttle took about nine years to complete in the 1970s.
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... 2.)
Ref 2.http://www.space.com/news/shuttle_cost_050211.html
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There have been 115 Shuttle launches as of August 2005.
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... square foot; and acoustic energy of 163 decibels (about as loud as standing next to a jet aircraft at take off). The spacecraft structure is designed to withstand these forces, usually ... .ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors
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... .scescape/~woods/elements/titanium.html
http://www.scescape/~woods/elements/aluminum.html
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