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Shuttle (spacecraft type), a smaller spacecraft used for ship-to-ship and ship-to-ground transport in theory and science fiction; Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA Space Shuttle program from 1981 to 2011 Space Shuttle orbiter, a space plane, the crewed part of the Space Shuttle; Buran Shuttle, the vehicle for the Soviet Buran programme
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The shuttles docked with Russian space station Mir nine times and visited the ISS thirty-seven times. The highest altitude achieved by the shuttle was 386 mi (621 km) when deploying the Hubble Space Telescope. [3] The program flew a total of 355 people representing 16 countries, and with 852 total shuttle fliers. [4]
On its previous mission, STS-87 in November 1997, Spartan developed problems shortly after being deployed from the Shuttle and had to be brought back into the Shuttle's payload bay by spacewalk. [6] These problems were due with the attitude control system for fine pointing toward solar targets, and Spartan was cleared for use again on STS-95.
The Shuttle-C was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack into a dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. [1] The Space Shuttle external tank and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module to take the place of the Shuttle orbiter and include the main engines . [ 1 ]
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.Named after the commanding ship of a nineteenth-century scientific expedition that traveled the world, Challenger was the second Space Shuttle orbiter to fly into space after Columbia, and launched on its maiden flight in April 1983.