Where were the space shuttles stored?

Where were the space shuttles stored?

Orbiters

Shuttle Name	Shuttle Designation	Retirement Destination
Discovery	OV-103	Udvar-Hazy Center, Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia
Atlantis	OV-104	Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida
Endeavour	OV-105	California Science Center, Los Angeles, California

What equipment does a space shuttle carry?

WHAT DOES THE SHUTTLE CARRY? The United States created the Space Shuttle as a reusable launch vehicle to carry astronauts and cargo into space and back again. It is made from three parts? a winged ORBITER, an external fuel tank, and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs).

How much cargo can a space shuttle carry?

At launch, the Shuttle, external tank, solid rocket boosters and all the fuel combined had a total weight of 4.4 million pounds. The Shuttle could also carry a 65,000 payload.

What are the parts of a space shuttle?

The Space Shuttle consists of three major components: the Orbiter which houses the crew; a large External Tank that holds fuel for the main engines; and two Solid Rocket Boosters which provide most of the Shuttle’s lift during the first two minutes of flight.

Can a space shuttle carry humans?

As the world’s first reusable spacecraft to carry humans into orbit, the shuttle possesses a 60-foot-long payload bay and robotic arm that can carry several satellites into low Earth orbit on one flight, service them and even bring them back for future use.

How many flights are in space?

Over 30 years, NASA’s space shuttle fleet—Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—flew 135 missions and carried 355 different people to space.

Which shuttle flew the most?

Discovery

Which space shuttle flew the least?

During that time period the fleet logged 1,322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds of flight time. The longest orbital flight of the Shuttle was STS-80 at 17 days 15 hours, while the shortest flight was STS-51-L at one minute 13 seconds when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart during launch.

What human made object has gone the farthest in space?

Voyager 1

Which space shuttle was the biggest?

A fifth operational (and sixth in total) orbiter, Endeavour, was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011….Space Shuttle.

Size
Height	56.1 m (184 ft 1 in)
Diameter	8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
Mass	2,030,000 kg (4,470,000 lb)
Stages	1.5

How many times did the Challenger go into space?

During its three years of operation, Challenger was flown on ten missions in the Space Shuttle program, spending over 62 days in space and completing almost 1,000 orbits around Earth.