By: CJ Miske

Spaceships

a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space

What is a Spaceship?

Costs about $1.7 billion.

To launch a space shuttle, it costs about $450 million per mission.

Speed: 17,500 mph (28,000 kmph)

Altitude: 190 miles to 330 miles (304 kilometers to 528 kilometers)

Characteristics/Info

Fuel: each of the two Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space Shuttle carries more than one million pounds of solid propellant.

Loaded with more than 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, which form the fuel for the orbiter's three main rocket engines.

Characteristics/Info Cont’d

TPS (Thermal Protection System)

This covers essentially the entire orbiter surface, and consists of seven different materials:

High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) tiles

Fibrous refractory composite insulation (FRCI) tiles

Flexible Insulation Blankets (FIB)

Low-temperature Reusable Surface Insulation (LRSI) tiles

Toughened one piece fibrous insulation (TUFI) tiles

Felt reusable surface insulation (FRSI)

Reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC)

What are Space shuttles made of?

The space shuttle doesn’t have safety features that guarantee life just in case of a disaster.

Safety

Rockwell Aerospace

“The Enterprise”

Inventor of First Space Shuttle

The first person to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968). He traveled aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft, known as Vostok 1, which was launched April 12, 1961, in a flight lasting one hour and forty-eight minutes.

Who was the First Person in Space?

"STS" stands for "Space Transportation System," the original name for the Space Shuttle Program.

STS

Astronauts go by ‘Mission Elapsed Time’, or MET. The clock starts ticking when the astronauts blast off. Minutes accumulate into days, hours, minutes and seconds that have passed since liftoff. The clock stops when the Space Shuttle's lands back on Earth, and the total MET is calculated

Time in Space

Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

Names of Space Crafts

Height: 184.2 ft

Diameter: 28.5 feet

Mass: 2,030 tons

Space craft fits five to seven people

Size

NASA has 133 successful launches

NASA has 2 failed launches

Launches

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAJfwldDUZA&feature=related

Video

"Space Shuttle." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 28 Feb. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle>.

"NASA - Space Shuttle and International Space Station." NASA - Home. Web. 28 Feb. 2011. <http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/information/shuttle_faq.html#4>.

"Answers.com - Where Was the First Space Shuttle Invented." WikiAnswers - The Q&A Wiki. Web. 01 Mar. 2011. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_was_the_first_space_shuttle_invented>.

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