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... the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight tests...(Click image for more) Image:NASAStations3346.jpg In 1982, with the successful completion of the Space Shuttle Orbiter flight tests...(Click image for more) Image:NASAStations3025.jpg Space Station -- Concept for orbiting space station developed by...(Click image for more) Image:NASAStations3009.jpg Space Station -- In the ...

... the orbiter part of the current Space Shuttle system, and continue to use other parts for its new vehicles. One of the solid rocket boosters of the Shuttle system, for example, may become ... that it has created. The new rocket may be launched from the ground like the Space Shuttle or launched from a carrier aircraft like Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. ---- Answer provided by David ...

... that help propel the Shuttle into orbit are the external tank (ET) and the solid rocket boosters (SRB). The external fuel tank is the only part of the Space Shuttle configuration not reused ... liquid hydrogen and oxygen to the Shuttle main engines. The solid rocket boosters are recovered and refurbished for the next Shuttle launch. So there is some space debris that falls back to Earth ...

Space does not move—any movements that human beings or spacecraft make in space must be judged relative to some other object like the Earth or the Shuttle. For example, the Space Shuttle travels in an orbit that requires it to have a speed of 17,500 miles per hour (mph). If an astronaut steps out of the Shuttle to perform some activities in space ...

Image:Piggy Back Station Ecn 6578.jpg 300px '''Space Shuttle in 747 Piggy Back Station''' Image:747 & shuttle ECN6876.jpg 300px '''747 & shuttle (ECN6876)''' Category:Aircraft

... and CEV based on improved Apollo-era technology and on components currently used with the Space Shuttle (Hammond 2006). Supporting the CLV/CEV will be a Cargo Launch Vehicle (CaLV) capable of ... . This contrasts with both the Space Shuttle and ISS, which were intended as infrastructure designed to enable future programs with no specific end game strategies. However, the shuttle and ISS have not been ...

... Collection = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=HST Here Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was the first and flagship mission of NASA's Great Observatories program ... 1 mm). Placed into a low-earth orbit by the space shuttle, HST was designed to be modular so that on subsequent shuttle missions it could be recovered, have faulty or obsolete parts ...

... the Space Shuttle. Without them, the Space Shuttle could not get off the launch pad. ---- Answer provided by John Cavallaro 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 ...

... prevent any contamination of the breathable air supply on board a spacecraft like the Space Shuttle or International Space Station (ISS). Think about how unbearable even something like a new car smell can ... open the door. Now realize that the ISS and Space Shuttle go through a complete day and night heat cycle every 90 minutes in space. Fabrics, inks, certain foods, plastics and clothing can ...

... suddenly exploded (an exceedingly remote possibility, except in Hollywood movies), and people in an orbiting space shuttle somehow managed to survive, there is no place they could go to live. For one ... any human out-posts on other worlds—at least, not yet. Secondly, currently a Shuttle spends almost all of its fuel just to get into orbit. They could not even ... & Liv Arnesen 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 ...

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