Shuttle Questions?

Question

Who invented the space shuttle? When was it invented? Where was it invented? How was it invented? Why was it invented?

Who invented the space shuttle? When was it invented? Where was it invented? How was it invented? Why was it invented? This is for my little little sisters project and the library only has 3 books on shuttles which dont provide practically any info & this is not my computer so i cant research so please give me understandable material for it is for a 10 year old.HELP!

Answer 1

the shuttle is the result of many years of development.

back in the 1960's the USAF wanted a landable, reusable space system. The concept started with a project called Dyna-soar. it doesnt exactly look like the shuttle, but it shares a lot of its characteristics.

Gemini program also tried to promote a landable type space craft by using a large fabric rogollo wing to allow it to be flown to a landing site. it was from this program we go the use of the hang gliders we use for recreation. really a neat concept.

throughout the 70's the concept of the lifting body was being studied. one such body was the HL-10, and a few others. you might remember seeing the crash of one of these lifting bodies on the TV series the Six Million Dollar Man. Although not a true shuttle, it too shares a lot of characteristics.

The shuttle didnt truly become a reality until the development of ceramics or tiles that would allow the use of resuable abalation to re-enter the earths atmosphere. (this is that huge heat pile up under the shuttle that allows it to get back through the atmosphere.

Answer 2

The shuttle was the result of years and years of research by NASA to try and develop a vehicle that could be launched and then land under its own power to be reused (during landing the shuttle is flown like a glider with no engines). It was developed by 3 corporations, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Rockwell. The first shuttle launch occured on April 12 1981, 20 years to the day sinse Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

The shuttle was designed to take of off like a conventional spacecraft, but then be able to land like a glider to be used again. Nasa needed a vehicle that could launch sattelites and space probes form its cargo bay and be able to send large crew into orbit to conduct a number of different experiments. The galilao spacecraft which flew to jupiter in 1994 and the Maggellen space craft which flew to venus and mapped its serface were all launched from the shuttle.

The shuttle is due to be pulled out of service in the year 2010, by which stage NASA will have developed the replacement for the shuttle.

Answer 3

The commute does not land in Houston. It lands the two in Florida or in California. Florida as a results of fact it fairly is close (so as that avoids a ferry flight on the back of the 747 provider airplane, which provides its own postpone interior the coaching of the commute for its next flight); and California as a results of fact it has those very long runways (Edwards Air rigidity Base) interior the dry lake, that have been used from the beginning up and solely till the concrete runway become outfitted in Florida. As to why the commute takes to the air from Florida, it fairly is a secure practices attention. The commute and all rockets take off in the direction of the east to take income of the rotation of the earth, and by using commencing from Florida's east coast, they first overfly ocean. Launching from Houston could recommend flying notably on the fringe of the coast of Louisiana and overflying Florida later, with the hazards of the forged rocket boosters hitting oil platform, or coming down on land, to no longer point out the possibility in case a rocket fails and crash. Houston has the practise centers and the venture administration, yet no rocket launch or landing centers.

Answer 4

no one in particular NASA just developed it in 1982.It was desighned to be efficient and cheap after the loss of the most powerful rocket in the world the Saturn 5 rocket,but it turned out to be the opposite.It was expensive to maintain and it could haul less than on third of what the Saturn 5 could put into space.But the shuttle can carry more people.The shuttle is due for retirement in 2015.