Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch

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Space shuttle endeavour launch. Top nasa officials have unanimously cleared the space shuttle atlantis for a july 8 launch the final space shuttle launch in history. It launched like a rocket and returned to earth like a glider. The fleet has taken astronauts on dozens of successful missions resulting in immeasurable scientific gains. In its nearly 30 year history the space shuttle program has seen exhilarating highs and devastating lows.

The space shuttle was a spacecraft which was used by the american national aeronautics and space administration or nasaspace shuttles were used to carry astronauts and cargo into space. Atlantis will fly nasas 135th and final shuttle mission. In 1986 the challenger exploded during. The space shuttle was a partially reusable low earth orbital spacecraft system that was operated from 1981 to 2011 by the us.

Cargo such as satellites parts of the international space station or scientific instruments were taken up into space by the space shuttle. Nasas space shuttle was the worlds first reusable spacecraft. National aeronautics and space administration nasa as part of the space shuttle programits official program name was space transportation system sts taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. Ov 105 is a retired orbiter from nasas space shuttle program and the fifth and final operational shuttle built.

It was a unique spacecraft because it could be used again and again. It embarked on its first mission sts 49 in may 1992 and its 25th and final mission sts 134 in may 2011. It was designed to carry large payloads such as satellites. Space shuttle endeavour orbiter vehicle designation.