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  2. Space Shuttle orbiter - Wikipedia

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    The orbiter always landed at either Edwards Air Force Base, California or at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility, Florida, except STS-3 at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. Similar special clearances (no-fly zones) were also in effect at potential emergency landing sites, such as in Spain and in West Africa during all ...

  3. STS-50 - Wikipedia

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    Completed longest Space Shuttle mission (13 days 19 hours 30 minutes) at that time and the first Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) flight of the Space Shuttle program. Demonstrated versatility of the new Glovebox Facility (GBX) for crewmember interaction with multiple experiments for maximum science.

  4. Orbital Maneuvering System - Wikipedia

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    The Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS) is a system of hypergolic liquid-propellant rocket engines used on the Space Shuttle and the Orion spacecraft.Designed and manufactured in the United States by Aerojet, [1] the system allowed the orbiter to perform various orbital maneuvers according to requirements of each mission profile: orbital injection after main engine cutoff, orbital corrections ...

  5. Space shuttle Endeavour is lifted into the sky, takes final ...

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    The orbiter’s placement marks the first time a shuttle designed for space was assembled vertically outside of a NASA or Air Force facility. The space shuttle Endeavour is maneuvered into ...

  6. STS-8 - Wikipedia

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    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. It also carried the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford.

  7. Space Shuttle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Space Transportation System - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. List of Space Shuttle missions - Wikipedia

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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 ]