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	Space Shuttle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The winged shuttle orbiter is launched vertically, usually carrying five to seven astronauts (although eight have been carried) and up to 50,000 lb (22,700 kg) of payload into low earth orbit.
		For the two first missions, STS-1 and STS-2, the external tank was painted white to protect the insulation that covers much of the tank, but improvements and testing showed that it was not required.
		Space Shuttle Challenger's rollout from Orbiter Processing Facility (OPF) to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) to be stacked with External tank and SRB's for launch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_shuttle (3623 words)

	List of space shuttle missions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles.
		Specific shuttle missions are therefore designated with the prefix "STS." Initially, the launches were given sequential numbers indicating order of launch, such as STS-9.
		STS-300 was the designation for the Space Shuttle rescue missions to be launched on short notice for STS-114 and STS-121.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions (683 words)

	Space Shuttle (NASA)
		According to the Vision for Space Exploration, use of the Space Shuttle will be focused on completing assembly of the ISS in 2010, after which it will be replaced by the yet-to-be-developed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV).
		The Shuttle program was formally launched on January 5, 1972, when President Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable Space Shuttle system.
		While the shuttle might safely endure a lightning strike, a similar strike caused problems on Apollo 12, so for improved safety NASA chooses to not launch the shuttle if lightning is possible.
	www.juliantrubin.com /encyclopedia/astronomy/spaceshuttle.html (6284 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Space Shuttle Endeavour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is the fifth and final operational NASA space shuttle to be built.
		Structural spares from the construction of shuttles Discovery and Atlantis were used in its assembly.
		Space Shuttle Endeavour has flown 19 flights, spent 206.60 days in space, completed 3,259 orbits, and flown 85,072,077 miles (136,910,237 km) in total, as of February 2003.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Space_Shuttle_Endeavour (321 words)

	Space Shuttle Atlantis -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was the fourth shuttle built and as of 2003 is one of the three shuttles remaining in the fleet.
		Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' has flown 26 flights, spent 220.40-days in space, completed 3,468 orbits, and flown 89,908,732 miles in total, as of February 2003.
		It is one of two space shuttles destroyed in an accident during a mission, the other being the Space Shuttle Columbia.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/136/space-shuttle-atlantis.html (533 words)

	Spaceline: The Challenger Legacy
		It is interesting to compare this list to the list of missions that actually flew, as many of these previously planned missions did.
		L = the 12th Space Shuttle mission manifested by NASA for flight in 1985.
		For example, STS-51L was not actually the 12th Space Shuttle mission of 1985, it was the second Space Shuttle mission of 1986.
	www.spaceline.org /challenger/challist.html (560 words)

	Space Shuttle
		Space Shuttle News Reference Manual: this is a good resource for basic technical data.
		Shuttle Operational Data Book : commonly called the "green book," this is a good reference work containing technical data that is updated by the Johnson Space Center.
		The Space Shuttle Decision: NASA's Search for a Reusable Space Vehicle (NASA SP-4221) by T.A. Heppenheimer is an excellent historical account of the political decision to build the Shuttle.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/shuttlehistory.html (462 words)

	Space Shuttle
		The orbital plane is typically inclined (tilted) at 28.5 degrees, 39 degrees, 51.6 degrees, or 57 degrees depending on the mission.
		Shuttle Press Kits are also available on-line for viewing or downloading.
		The voice frequencies used for current SAREX missions are 145.800 MHz for the downlink and either 144.450 MHz or 144.470 MHz for the uplink for non-European stations.
	www.mindspring.com /~n2wwd/html/body_space_shuttle.html (486 words)

	Space Shuttle Missions Content \| Space Shuttle Missions Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sts 112 sts 112 the october 7, 2002 liftoff of the space shuttle atlantis for the mission dedicated as sts 112 occurred without a hitch.
		Past space shuttle missions, space shuttle flights, space shuttle manifest and launch of every space shuttle since 1981 to the present with information on its flight number, sts number, orbiter, shuttle launch date, major payload, number of crew.
		As a youth in the 1960's, Orlando was inspired by the early NASA missions and dreamed of becoming part of the exploration of space.
	www.space-exploration-source.info /space-shuttle-missions.html (1093 words)

	CNN.com - NASA: Shuttle repair requires delicate touch - Aug 2, 2005
		The astronaut will be dangled from a robotic arm on the international space station and maneuvered to the bottom of Discovery to remove the gap fillers -- thin fabric stiffened with a ceramic material that is used to plug gaps between tiles on the orbiter.
		The removal of the gap fillers is being added to the list of tasks set out for the spacewalk, during which Robinson and Noguchi will also install an external storage platform to the space station.
		The crew of the space station also photographed the underbelly of the shuttle before it docked last Thursday, part of a new inspection regime put in place after the Columbia disaster.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/space/08/02/space.shuttle/index.html (971 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Space Shuttles Work" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The 2005 shuttle Discovery was supposed to initiate the return to flight, but a large piece of insulating foam broke free from its external fuel tank, leaving scientists to solve the mystery and the program grounded once more.
		In this article, we examine the monumental technology behind America's shuttle program, the mission it was designed to carry out, and the extraordinary efforts that NASA has done to return the shuttle to flight.
		A typical shuttle mission lasts seven to eight days, but can extend to as much as 14 days depending upon the objectives of the mission.
	www.howstuffworks.com /space-shuttle12.htm (1022 words)

	Space Mission Acronym List and Hyperlink Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There are a lot of mission descriptions in the Mission Requirements and Data Systems Support Forecast (501-803) from the Mission Management Office (Code 501) of the Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate (MO&DSD, Code 500) at NASA GSFC.
		Spacecraft Missions (not working last time I checked) from the Center for Space Research (not working last time I checked, but apparently still valid, see Center for Space Research) at the University of Texas at Austin.
		Space Research Institute (IKI) is the leading organization of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the field of investigations of Outer Space, Solar System planets and other objects of the Universe.
	ranier.oact.hq.nasa.gov /Sensors_page/MissionLinks.html (900 words)

	Space Shuttle Missions : 1999 - 2010
		This mission is dependent upon the results of the STS-121 mission to the International Space Station with the final decision being made before the end of 2006.
		Note: * The Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew were lost during reentry.
		A breach in the left wing's leading edge caused Columbia to break apart 16 minutes before landing on February 1, 2003.
	pages.prodigy.net /pxkb94ars/Astro_Shuttle_6.htm (78 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Space Shuttle Discovery
		Space Shuttle Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of three remaining spacecraft in the space shuttle fleet belonging to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		During the mission astronauts removed a piece of gap filler from the nose on an extra-vehicular activity (spacewalk).
		At first, the space shuttle Atlantis was selected for this mission, but after the external tank foam loss issues with STS-114, the launch was delayed to July 2006, enabling NASA to select Discovery for STS-121.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery (1270 words)

	Amazon.com: Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System The First 100 Missions, 3rd Edition: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When revived in the early 1970s, minus the bomb bay, the space shuttle showed a compromise configuration; its might-have-been structures are attested by drawings of about 40 alternative concepts.
		Roughly the first 40% of the book covers the developmental history of the Space Shuttle from the early designs of Sanger, Bredt and von Braun, though the X-planes and Dyna-Soar to the many numerous NASA designs of which there are several hundred.
		While most shuttle books have pointed political agendas, either vilifying it after the Apollo moon missions, or praising it as the "second coming" of space flight, this text is appropriately apolitical.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963397451?v=glance (1994 words)

	Ham Radios in Space
		Since that first voyage into space, NASA has continued to see the usefulness of bringing ham radios into space, and astronauts have been able to speak to hams on earth on dozens of shuttle flights, as well as on the space station MIR.
		The Space Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) is a long-running program to use amateur radio equipment on board the Space Shuttle to involve students in exchanging questions and answers with astronauts in orbit.
		According to the ARRL web site, SAREX missions are planned to begin again during the fall of 2000, and schools can apply to be contacted during the space flight.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2000/ast21aug_1.htm (1168 words)

	Space - In Depth - Science Missions
		During the two-year mission, the Cluster spacecraft will travel around the Earth in a tetrahedral, or triangular, pyramid formation, collecting data where the solar wind impacts the Earth's magnetic field.
		ICE's primary objectives are to determine the composition and physical state of the Giacobini-Zinner comet's nucleus; determine the processes that govern the composition and distribution of neutral and ionized species in the cometary atmosphere; and investigate the interaction between the solar wind and the cometary atmosphere.
		Polar is still performing simultaneous, coordinated measurements of the key regions of Earth's geospace, or space environment, with the WIND spacecraft, launched in November 1994 to measure the solar wind properties.
	www.gsfc.nasa.gov /indepth/space_ssm.html (2274 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| STS-114 Shuttle Report
		NASA's mission management team Saturday extended the shuttle Discovery's flight by one day, giving the astronauts more time to assist and resupply the international space station's two-man crew, and concluded the shuttle's heat-shield tiles and insulation blankets are fit for a normal re-entry Aug. 8.
		He said the space agency was not yet ready to rule out another shuttle flight before the end of the year.
		Commander Eileen Collins guided the space shuttle Discovery to a picture-perfect docking with the international space station today, a major milestone in a mission now overshadowed by a crisis of confidence in NASA after the grounding of the shuttle fleet Wednesday.
	spaceflightnow.com /shuttle/sts114 (1997 words)

	Space Shuttle Photo Gallery - AOL Research & Learn
		One day lots of people will be able to travel into space.
		Get the scoop on that first shuttle flight and learn about the history of space exploration.
		It was 45 years ago, April 12, 1961, that Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space.
	reference.aol.com /space/space-shuttle-photos (113 words)

	SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY \| NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION NASA \| ASTRONAUTS
		First flown on August 30, 1984, Discovery is the third operational space shuttle, and the oldest remaining in service.
		Human space flight starts on the ground, where thousands of NASA employees, contractors and industry partners work together to send humans safely into space.
		Space Shuttle Discovery has flown 31 flights, spent 241.95 days in space, completed 3,808 orbits, and flown 98,710,673 miles (158,859,429 km) in total, as of July 2005.
	www.solarnavigator.net /aviation_and_space_travel/space_shuttle_discovery.htm (718 words)

	Space Shuttle Missions Directory And Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Nasa space shuttle individual missions in the yahoo.
		The single astronaut sent into space could not get a grappling hook around the massive satellite, which was the last in a new series of satellites designed by the international satellite consortium to provide TV and telephone service worldwide.
		The job of the Racine students is to detail some of the complications associated with space flight and the experiments in a curriculum to be available to other Wisconsin students.
	www.space-shuttle-resource.info /space-shuttle-missions.html (1187 words)

	Space Shuttle Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This page contains quite a lot of relevant information about Space shuttle.
		Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off after weeks of frustrating delays
		Space shuttle Atlantis has finally blasted off after weeks of delays.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Space_shuttle (3622 words)

	Movie-List Forums - Space Shuttle Discovery Launches!!!
		I was really happy that the 'next' shuttle launch finally came and that all things went alright.
		A camera placed on the external tank captured a beautiful video image of the launch from the pad all the way into orbit, including shots of the shuttle separating from the external tank and firing its thrusters to move away from it.
		If a spacecraft cannot be repaired, plans call for the crew to take refuge in the space station until a rescue mission can be launched.
	www.movie-list.com /forum/printthread.php?t=12519 (780 words)

	Spaceline: Dedicated To Covering The Past, Present And Future Of Cape Canaveral
		Provides a detailed analysis of what caused the Challenger tragedy and what improvements were made to the Space Shuttle program as a result.
		Included is an exclusive eyewitness account of the tragedy written by Spaceline Founder and President Cliff Lethbridge, as well as a rarely seen list of Space Shuttle missions originally scheduled to follow mission STS-51L.
		This is a detailed narrative of how the Space Shuttle program was conceived and developed, including information on early concepts for the vehicle that were never incorporated, such as a piloted fly-back liquid fueled booster engine.
	spaceline.org (680 words)

	Orbiting Astronomical Observatories
		Launched on April 24, 1990 by the Space Shuttle mission STS-31 (Discovery F-10) with an improperly designed optics, this spacecraft carries the largest telescope ever launched to orbit, with a 2.4-meter aperture primary mirror.
		It was deployed into space by Shuttle Space Atlantis (launched July 31, 1992) in August 1992, and retrieved and brought back to Earth by Endeavour on July 1, 1993, nearly a year later.
		It was mounted on the Skylab Space Station (launched unmanned in May 1973) and continued its mission for years after the third and last manned mission.
	www.seds.org /~spider/oaos/oaos.html (2828 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| STS-114 Shuttle Report \| Launch debris images
		A seven-person crew, led by veteran shuttle commander Eileen Collins, will fly aboard Discovery for the shuttle return to flight mission.
		As America's third reusable space shuttle to fly, Discovery has successfully completed 30 missions since 1984.
		Covers are shed from the shuttle thrusters at launch as designed.
	spaceflightnow.com /shuttle/sts114/050726images (133 words)

	Internet Reference Resources -- Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A listing of abbreviations and their meanings associated with NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center projects.
		A list of questions and answers about astronomical topics maintained by the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department.
		Listings of nearly 400 U.S. and international planetaria and observatories.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /reference/science/astro.html (288 words)

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