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Space Shuttle - NASA NASA’s space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly, launched, recovered and repaired satellites, conducted cutting-edge
Space Shuttle - Wikipedia The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U S National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program
SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM HISTORY | Spaceline SPACE SHUTTLE By Cliff Lethbridge SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM HISTORY Space Shuttle Artist Conception, Photo Courtesy NASA Born in 1968 at the height of the Apollo program, the Space Shuttle was designed to fulfill two basic roles in NASA post-Apollo manned flight objectives The first goal of the Space Shuttle program was to provide NASA with an efficient, re-usable method of carrying astronauts to
Space shuttle | Names, Challenger, Columbia, Definition . . . Space shuttle, partially reusable rocket-launched vehicle designed to go into orbit around Earth, to transport people and cargo to and from orbiting spacecraft, and to glide to a runway landing on its return to Earth’s surface It was developed by NASA and made 135 spaceflights between 1981 and 2011
All NASA Space Shuttle Locations How to Visit Them NASA’s first reusable vehicles helped unlock human access to space – and has kept us there since, thanks to the International Space Station While shuttles don’t fly anymore, they proved that it was possible to launch and land vehicles that went beyond earth’s atmosphere, even if there were tragedies along that path of learning Below you’ll find a guide to each of the Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle program - National Air and Space Museum The Space Shuttle program ran from presidential approval in 1972 to its end in 2011 It was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the United States and NASA The Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS), was the first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit