space shuttles

     

NASA's Space Shuttle, officially calle the Space Transportation System (STS), is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs), and the orbiter, a winged spaceplane which is the space shuttle in the narrow sense.

Trivia about space shuttles

  • During liftoff, these reusable spacecraft, like the Atlantis, reach speeds over 3,000 MPH
  • These transports, first sent up in 1981, lift off like a rocket & land like a plane
  • Corning made glass tough enough for windows on these current vehicles tore-enter our atmosphere at 15,000 mph

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