space shuttles
Reusable spacecraft fleet
Space shuttles is the plural of space shuttle, a reusable spacecraft designed to carry crew and cargo into Earth orbit and return by landing like an airplane.
The term most often refers to NASA's fleet that flew from 1981 to 2011: The space shuttles Challenger and Columbia were both lost in disasters.
The design concept—winged orbiter, external tank, rocket boosters—defined an era of human spaceflight.
- noseOlfactory facial organ
- launchSet into motion
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- astronautsCrew of spacecraft
- wingLimb enabling flight
cargo bay · tiles · thermal protection · heat shield · module · orbiter · mission · reentry · Challenger disaster · thrusters · payload · mission control · rocketry · boosters · O-rings · countdown · Houston · exploration
- space museumsrockets, lunar modules, capsules, mission control, satellites
- aerospaceairplane, helicopter, rockets, astronauts, drones
- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, mission, Falcon Heavy
- spacecraftstarships, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, starship, reentry capsule
- space industrySpaceX, Blue Origin, NASA, satellites, communication satellites
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