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The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. [ 1 ]
A launch status check, also known as a "go/no go poll" and several other terms, occurs at the beginning of an American spaceflight mission in which flight controllers monitoring various systems are queried for operation and readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center ...
Non-launch costs account for a significant part of the program budget: for example, during fiscal years 2004 to 2006, NASA spent around $13 billion on the Space Shuttle program, [19] even though the fleet was grounded in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster and there were a total of three launches during this period of time. In fiscal year ...
NASA's main Space Shuttle page; NASA: Meet the STS-122 Launch Team Archived June 8, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; NASA: STS-122 mission summary; STS-122 mission animations "STS-122". National Space Science Data Center. CBS News Space Place – Full coverage of STS-122; ESA: STS-122 lift off info; Up to the minute STS-122 Shuttle Report
STS-41-D (formerly STS-14) was the 12th flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program, and the first mission of Space Shuttle Discovery. It was launched from Kennedy Space Center , Florida , on August 30, 1984, and landed at Edwards Air Force Base , California , on September 5, 1984.
NASA originally scheduled the launch for October 20, 2007, but due to the International Space Station program requirement, launch was delayed to October 23, 2007. [ 19 ] In light of the small gouge to the underside of Endeavour that occurred on STS-118 , in August 2007, NASA managers announced that they expected to add a fifth spacewalk to the ...
Shortly after launch NASA TV online and via cable was seriously disrupted by a thunderstorm over Goddard Space Flight Center from where NASA TV is uplinked to satellites for distribution. The entire mission was covered on NASA TV and was available online worldwide, on cable, and on satellite in the USA.
STS-49 was NASA's maiden flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which launched on May 7, 1992.The primary goal of its nine-day mission was to retrieve an Intelsat VI satellite, Intelsat 603, which failed to leave Low Earth orbit two years before, attach it to a new upper stage, and relaunch it to its intended geosynchronous orbit.