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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Space Shuttle program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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 Space Shuttle consists of three main components: the reusable Orbiter itself, a large, brown, expendable external fuel tank, and a pair of white, reusable solid-fuel booster rockets.
		This paperwork results from the fact that, unlike current expendable launch vehicles, the Space Shuttle is manned and has no escape systems mode for most of the flight regime, and therefore any accident which would result in the loss of a booster would also result in the loss of the crew.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Space_Shuttle_program (5591 words)

	Learn more about Space Shuttle program in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NASA's Space Shuttle program is an ongoing endeavor, started in the late 1960s, that has created the world's first partially reusable space launch system, and the first spacecraft capable of carrying large satellites both to and from low Earth orbit.
		The first fully functional shuttle orbiter was the Columbia, which was delivered to Kennedy Space Center on March 25, 1979 and was first launched on April 12, 1981 with a crew of two.
		With the comming of the Space Station, the Orbiter's internal airlocks are being replaced with external docking systems to allow for a greater amount of cargo to be stored on the shuttle mid-deck during Station resupply missions.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/sp/space_shuttle_program.html (3205 words)

	Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Vision for Space Exploration, use of the Space Shuttle will be focused on completing assembly of the ISS in 2010 (more specifically, the construction completion of the ISS), after which it will be replaced by the 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.
		Since the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, the ISS has been operating on a skeleton crew of two and is currently being serviced primarily by Russian space vehicles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Shuttle_program (7370 words)

	Space Shuttle program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Space Shuttle consists of three main components: the reusable orbiter itself, a large expendable external fuel tank, and a pair of reusable solid-fuel booster rockets.
		The total cost of the program has been $145 billion as of early 2005 ($112 billion of which was incurred while the program was operational) and is estimated at $174 billion when the Shuttle will retire in 2010.
		One of the first fictional uses of the space shuttle was in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker, in which a fleet of privately-produced shuttles was used to ferry personnel to a space station operated by the evil Sir Hugo Drax.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Space_Shuttle (5345 words)

	Space Shuttle Program Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The shuttle is not launched under conditions where it could be struck by lightning.
		After the main engines start, but while the solid rocket boosters are still clamped to the pad, the offset thrust from the Shuttle's three main engines causes the entire launch stack (boosters, tank and shuttle) to flex forwards about 2 m at cockpit level.
		The Shuttle program is scheduled to be retired in 2010.
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/Space_Shuttle_program (5270 words)

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