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3D printing in ISS, in-space antenna systems, fiber optics Unknown Operational (2018) [229] Varda Space Industries: building products in space and bringing them back to earth (ex: ZBLAN, 3d printed organs) Unknown Operational (2021) [230] Deep Space Industries: propellant, communications platforms, space solar power satellites: MicroGravity Foundry
The combined space station and Air Force payload requirements were not sufficient to reach desired shuttle launch rates. Therefore, the plan was for all future U.S. space launches—space stations, Air Force, commercial satellites, and scientific research—to use only the Space Shuttle. Most other expendable boosters would be phased out.
Moonrakers – Drax Industries NASA-style Space Shuttles featured in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker [2] and in the 2012 video game 007 Legends. Orion III ("Pan Am Space Clipper") – a shuttle used to transport Dr. Heywood Floyd into space, in Arthur C. Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey [3]
US astronauts haven’t had their own ride into orbit since the space shuttle was retired in 2011. Two private companies are racing to replace it and become the first to fly astronauts for NASA.
The 5-segment SRB, which would have required little change to the current shuttle infrastructure, would have allowed the space shuttle to carry an additional 20,000 lb (9,100 kg) of payload in a 51.6°-inclination orbit, eliminate the dangerous "Return-to-Launch Site" (RTLS) and "Trans-Oceanic Abort" (TAL) modes, and, by using a so-called "dog ...
The primary intended use of the Phase A Space Shuttle was supporting the future space station, ferrying a minimum crew of four and about 20,000 pounds (9,100 kg) of cargo, and being able to be rapidly turned around for future flights, with larger payloads like space station modules being lifted by the Saturn V. Two designs emerged as front-runners.
The 122-foot-long-by-35-foot-tall space shuttle mockup, named the "Inspiration," was transported via big rig in multiple parts 0.3 miles along Bellflower Boulevard from a city maintenance yard to ...
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.