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The final flight of the Space Shuttle program was STS-135 on July 8, 2011. Since the Shuttle's retirement in 2011, many of its original duties are performed by an assortment of government and private vessels. The European ATV Automated Transfer Vehicle supplied the ISS between 2008 and 2015.
Most of them had no associated storylines. They included: Johnny and Jane Apollo, 1968 plastic toys with accessories including a "Moon Rover". Barbie, the world's most popular doll, was released with a variant space suit costume in the 1960s. Billy Blastoff, an apparently juvenile astronaut of the 1960s.
The Space Shuttle external tank (ET) carried the propellant for the Space Shuttle Main Engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters. The ET was 47 m (153.8 ft) tall and 8.4 m (27.6 ft) in diameter, and contained separate tanks for liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen.
STS-8 was the eighth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the third flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. It launched on August 30, 1983, and landed on September 5, 1983, conducting the first night launch and night landing of the Space Shuttle program .
References Frank Borman: 1950 Commanded Gemini 7 and Apollo 8; first to orbit Moon and to see far side of the Moon [1] [2] Buzz Aldrin: 1951 Pilot of Gemini 12 and Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11; 2nd person to walk on the Moon [3] [4] Michael Collins: 1952 Pilot of Gemini 10 and Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11 [5] [6] Ed White: 1952
6 References. Toggle the table of contents ... Apollo USA: North American Aviation ... Space Shuttle: 8 [note 4] 37.24: 4.8 [note 5] 109,000: Fuel cells Runway ...
Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, and was the second crewed spaceflight mission flown in the United States Apollo space program (the first, Apollo 7, stayed in Earth orbit). Apollo 8 was the third flight and the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket.
Nuclear Ferry and Shuttle Orbiter docked to an Orbital Propellant Depot. The Space Transportation System (STS), also known internally to NASA as the Integrated Program Plan (IPP), [1] was a proposed system of reusable crewed space vehicles envisioned in 1969 to support extended operations beyond the Apollo program (NASA appropriated the name for its Space Shuttle Program, the only component of ...