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The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
In 2010, the incremental cost per flight of the Space Shuttle was $409 million, or $14,186 per kilogram ($6,435 per pound) to low Earth orbit (LEO). In contrast, the comparable Proton launch vehicle cost was $141 million, or $6,721 per kilogram ($3,049 per pound) to LEO and the Soyuz 2.1 was $55 million, or $6,665 per kilogram ($3,023 per pound ...
Columbia (STS-3) landing on Northrop Strip at White Sands Space Harbor, 30 March 1982, flanked by two T-38 chase planes. White Sands Space Harbor at White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico was an emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle and was used as a backup when the runways at Edwards Air Force Base and the Kennedy Space Center were ...
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.
Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ferry flights generally originated at Edwards Air Force Base in California or on one occasion White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico following missions which landed there, especially in the early days of the Space Shuttle program or when weather at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) at Kennedy Space Center prevented ...
STS-1 (Space Transportation System-1) was the first orbital spaceflight of NASA's Space Shuttle program.The first orbiter, Columbia, launched on April 12, 1981, [1] and returned on April 14, 1981, 54.5 hours later, having orbited the Earth 37 times.
ISS assembly and supply. Final flight of Atlantis. Final mission of the Space Shuttle. 290 Anton Shkaplerov (1) Anatoli Ivanishin (1) Dan Burbank (3) 14 November 2011 Soyuz TMA-22: ISS (crew 29/30) 27 April 2012 Soyuz TMA-22: ISS crew rotation. 291 Oleg Kononenko (2) André Kuipers (2) Donald Pettit (3) 21 December 2011 Soyuz TMA-03M: ISS (crew ...
The entire crew returned to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis at the conclusion of STS-71. [4] [5] 22. STS-71 Atlantis: 27 June 1995 4 days, 22 hours Robert L. Gibson. Charles J. Precourt Ellen S. Baker Bonnie J. Dunbar Gregory J. Harbaugh Anatoly Solovyev Nikolai Budarin. Delivered Mir EO-19 crew. Returned Mir EO-18 crew 23. Soyuz TM-22: 3 ...