NASA's program of reusable crewed spacecraft, flying 135 missions between 1981 and 2011. It built the International Space Station, serviced the Hubble Space Telescope, and suffered two fatal accidents, Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.
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Mission TypeReusable crewed spacecraft program 1 Launch DateFirst flight, STS-1. End DateFinal landing, STS-135. OutcomeRetired after 135 missions; two orbiters, Challenger and Columbia, were lost with all crew, leading to major safety redesigns after each accident. 1 Mission Type
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Maxime Faget, Pioneers Contributed to the basic aerodynamic shape of the Space Shuttle.
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Crewed By
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The launch vehicle system that flew every mission of the Space Shuttle Program.
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Wikimedia FoundationCrewed By: Chris Hadfield, Chris Hadfield, Career sectionQuote, Crewed By: Chris Hadfield, Chris Hadfield, Career section
Hadfield performed two spacewalks
Space Shuttle Columbia (Wikipedia)
Spacecraft Of: Space Shuttle Columbia, Lead paragraph, mission-of
During its 22 years of operation, Columbia was flown on 28 missions in the Space Shuttle program, spending over 300 days in space and completing over 4,000 orbits around Earth.
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Columbia was the first of five Space Shuttle orbiters to fly in space, debuting the Space Shuttle launch vehicle on its maiden flight on April 12, 1981
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Spacecraft Of: Space Shuttle Challenger, Lead paragraph, mission-of
However, after NASA found that their original plan to upgrade Enterprise for spaceflight would be more expensive than upgrading Challenger, the orbiter was pressed into operational service in the Space Shuttle program.
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Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA.
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Spacecraft Of: Space Shuttle Discovery, Lead paragraph, mission-of
The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built.
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Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter.
View the SourceSpace Shuttle Atlantis (Wikipedia)
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Atlantis embarked on its 33rd and final mission, and the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, STS-135, on July 8, 2011.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV-104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built.
View the SourceEileen Collins (Wikipedia)
Crewed By: Eileen Collins, Eileen Collins, lead paragraph sectionQuote, Crewed By: Eileen Collins, Eileen Collins, lead paragraph section
the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle
Mae Jemison (Wikipedia)
Crewed By: Mae Jemison, Mae Jemison, lead paragraph sectionQuote, Crewed By: Mae Jemison, Mae Jemison, lead paragraph section
aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992
Maxime Faget (Wikipedia)
Space Shuttle Program (Wikipedia)
In Group: American Space Station and Shuttle Programs, Lead sentenceQuote, In Group: American Space Station and Shuttle Programs, Lead sentence
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S.
Wikipedia: Canadarm
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Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads.
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Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads.
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