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12 May 12
Fiona McDonaldGreat general information about space shuttles and what they do, how many astronauts they carry etc.
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05 Dec 11
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29 Sep 11
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02 Nov 10
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The first space shuttle flight took place in 1981. NASA plans to quit flying the shuttle in 2011. By then, it will have launched more than 130 times!
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as many as seven astronauts
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shuttle’s main engines fire for about another six minutes
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external tank is dropped when all the fuel has been used.
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Today, three orbiters fly into space. They are Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. Since the shuttle began flying in 1981, two orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, have been lost due to accidents. One other orbiter, Enterprise, never flew into space. It was built to test how the orbiters would work. Now it's at a Smithsonian Museum center near Washington, D.C.
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29 May 10
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The space shuttle was made to take astronauts and cargo to and from Earth orbit. The first space shuttle flight took place in 1981. NASA plans to quit flying the shuttle in 2010. By then, it will have launched about 130 times!
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as many as seven astronauts to and from space. The space shuttle has done many kinds of jobs. It has launched satellites from its cargo bay. It has been a science laboratory while orbiting Earth. Its crews have fixed other spacecraft, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Today, the space shuttle is used mostly to work on the International Space Station.
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three main parts. The first part is the orbiter. The orbiter is the large, white space plane.
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It is the only part of the shuttle that goes into orbit. The orbiter is where the crew members live and work. It also has a payload bay for taking cargo into orbit. The second part of the shuttle is the external tank. This large, orange fuel tank connects to the bottom of the orbiter for launch. The third part is really two pieces. Two white solid rocket boosters send out most of the thrust for the first two minutes of a shuttle launch. The solid rocket boosters are long and thin.
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How Many Orbiters Are There?
Today, three orbiters fly into space. They are Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour. Since the shuttle began flying in 1981, two orbiters, Columbia and Challenger, have been lost due to accidents. One other orbiter, Enterprise, never flew into space. It was built to test how the orbiters would work. Now it's at a Smithsonian Museum center near Washington, D.C. -
The space shuttle lands as a glider at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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20 Sep 08
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