Because of the low production of orbiters, the Space Shuttle program decided to build a vehicle as a Structural Test Article, STA-099, that could later be converted to a flight vehicle.

In part, this was due to heavier wing and fuselage spars, the weight of early test instrumentation that remained fitted to the avionics suite, and an internal airlock that, originally fitted into the other orbiters, was later removed in favor of an external airlock to facilitate Shuttle / Mir and Shuttle / International Space Station dockings.

Space Shuttle Discovery ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States, and was operational from its maiden flight, STS-41-D on August 30, 1984, until its final landing during STS-133 on March 9, 2011.

Space Shuttle Endeavour ( Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105 ) is one of the retired orbiters of the Space Shuttle program of NASA, the space agency of the United States.

During the Shuttle era, six orbiters were built, all of which have flown in the atmosphere and five of which have flown in space.

Only five orbiters were built, and the loss of two ( Challenger and Columbia ) significantly impacted the capacity and viability of the Shuttle program.

During the Shuttle era, six orbiters were built, all of which have flown in the atmosphere and five of which have flown in space.

JSC put in a bid to display one of the retired Space Shuttle orbiters but was not selected, much to the disappointment of the city of Houston.

* Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, modified Boeing 747 airliners used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters

The runway is also an emergency divert site for NASA's Boeing 747 Shuttle Transport Aircraft when relocating orbiters from either west coast modification work or divert recoveries at Edwards AFB, California or the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

It was then used for housing Space Shuttle external fuel tanks and flight hardware, and was where Space Shuttle orbiters were mated with their solid rocket boosters and external fuel tanks.

It was even fitted into NASA's Space Shuttle orbiters Atlantis, Columbia, Discovery, and Endeavour, and the current Russian Soyuz TMA model spacecraft that was launched in 2002.

) He joined the McDonnell Douglas Corporation in 1977 as a test engineer on the Aft Propulsion Subsystem for the Space Shuttle orbiters.

* Orbital Maneuvering System-rocket engines used on the Space Shuttle orbiters

Category: Space Shuttle orbiters

* Each of the Space Shuttle orbiters

Like the Shuttlecraft of Star Trek: The Original Series, the Space Shuttle orbiters were used interchangeably to carry crew, cargo or exploration payloads.

NASA identified Hunter as an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle orbiters.

As a note, the ASTP A7LB suit was the only Apollo suit to use the " worm " logo, a logo that became familiar with all of NASA's pressure, space, and flight suits and all Space Shuttle orbiters between 1981 and 2000.

Replacement was cost-prohibitive because of the expensive requirement for flight certification ; the legacy hardware used completed the expensive integration and certification requirement for flight, but any new equipment would have had to go through that entire process – requiring extensive tests of the new components in their new configurations – before a single unit could be used in the Space Shuttle program.

There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, to the events of 9 / 11: this ' movable feast ' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.

The completion of the Space Shuttle program and cancellation of the B-1 bomber had led to a decline in revenues, and Beall sought to diversify the company away from government contracts.

Rockwell International claimed that it had made no profit on Space Shuttle Endeavour, despite construction costing US $ 2. 2 billion.

This was the second time a Shuttle had been photographed while docked and the first time since 1996.

John Shannon, who had been Hale's deputy since November 2005, succeeded him as the Space Shuttle Program Manager.

Crew members aboard NASA Space Shuttle missions had access to four types of active dosimeters should a radiation contingency occur.

A comprehensive catalog of vehicles, technology, astronauts, and flights, it includes information from most countries that have had an active rocket research program, from Robert Goddard to the NASA Space shuttle to the Soviet Shuttle Buran.

Furthermore, neither the Shuttle nor NASA's single SR-71B was operating on the days the booms had been registered.

C. elegans made news when it was discovered that specimens had survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003.

The Space Shuttle had three redundant APUs, powered by hydrazine fuel.

The launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis was delayed for five days when the Kennedy Space Center was threatened by the storm, the first time a launch in Florida had been delayed because of weather in Houston.

The first orbital flight ( STS-1 ) by Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, did not have a payload, but all flights that followed generally had multiple payloads.

The advent of the Space Shuttle made possible several major space programs in which MSFC had significant responsibilities.

The latter three are part of NASA's series of Great Observatories ; this series also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope, but this was not launched by a Space Shuttle and MSFC had no significant role in its development.

Other early examples of techno-thriller, written before the category had been well defined as a sub-genre, include Moonraker by Ian Fleming, Fail-Safe ( 1962 ) by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, The Penetrators ( 1965 ) by Hank Searls ( writing as Anthony Grey ); Tree Frog by Martin Woodhouse ( 1966 ), North Cape ( 1969 ) by Joe Poyer, and Firefox by Craig Thomas ( 1977 ), later made into a movie, and Shuttle Down, by G. Harry Stine ( writing as Lee Correy ) ( 1981 ).

In addition to being pilot on the Challenger, he had been slated to pilot a future Shuttle mission ( STS-61-N ) which had been scheduled for the Fall of 1986.

Lousma and Fullerton chose to land at White Sands instead of the new Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center because they had trained there.

A planned spacewalk by Lenoir and Allen, the first of the Space Shuttle program, was postponed by one day after Lenoir became ill, and then had to be cancelled when the two spacesuits that were to be used developed problems.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA announced 24 April 2007 that they had bought 100 % of the Swedish low-cost airline FlyNordic ; becoming the largest low-cost airline in Scandinavia.

Another study examining participants ' memories for the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion found that although participants were highly confident about their memories for the event, their memories were not very accurate three years after the event had occurred.

The base had a great deal of land surface and was one of only four military bases in the United States with a landing strip large enough for a Space Shuttle landing.

Since there was no real need for self-contained astronaut EVA flight in the Apollo and Skylab programs, the idea had to wait for the advent of the Space Shuttle program, though several maneuvering device designs were tested inside Skylab.

Many commercial satellite customers had switched to expendables even before that, due to unresponsiveness to customer concerns by the Shuttle launch system.