- La navette included 6 orbiters
- Endeavour, newest of the orbiters and was known as ‘The jewel of fleet’, was Challenger’s replacement.
- Made up of three main components- the orbiters, the solid rocket boosters and the external tank- the space shuttle contains over 2.5 million parts.
- Endeavour ferried humans, science experiments and huge payloads.
- SPACEHAB gave astronauts extra living space in the shuttle.
- Endeavour looks a lot like a plane…
- The wings and the tail serve as a hint that the space shuttle orbiters were unique among spacecraft.
- The two large humps on either side of Endeavour’s tail are called orbital maneuvering system or reaction control system (OMS/RCS) pods.
- The space shuttle main engines (SSME’s) rocketed the shuttle from the launch pad to orbit.
- About seven million pounds of thrust pushed the shuttle to orbit for each flight.
- Though the space shuttle orbiter was the first spacecraft to land were far from typical.
- When breaking the sound barrier, the shuttle is only 45 seconds into flight.
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