Space shuttles names?Or Missions names? What are they?

Question

All I can remember is Atlantis and Challenger

Answer 1

The names of the shuttles are: Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, Discovery, Endeavour.
Challenger was lost during launch in 1986, Columbia was lost during re-entry on February 2003.
Mission names are for example STS-114, STS-115...

Answer 2

The Atlantis and Challenger shuttles missions names were numbers. For example the first Atlantis mission would be Atlantis 1, and so on. The Columbia was the space shuttle that blew up upon reentry in 2003. A sad day.

Answer 3

as was said in a previous answer, the five shuttles that are equipped to go into space are: Discovery, Atlantis, Endevour, Columbia and Challenger, although both Columbia and Challenger were lost in mid flight, one on launch (Challenger) and one during re entry (Columbia). the space shuttle you are thinking of that may be used for spare parts is Enterprise which was used for Test Shuttle Landings and was not equipped to go into space.

Each Mission starts with the Prefix "STS-" which is the official name of the Space Shuttle Program, stands for Space Transportation System, and not like the previous answer (above me) the missions were not named after the spacecraft name.

Answer 4

The OV-101 Enterprise was a full scale model that included all systems in the production orbiters but lacked the main engines and was not air tight. After the Challenger explosion, there was talk of either building a new shuttle from scratch or retrofit the Enterprise to fly in space. Multiple studies were performed and it was decided upon that the retro fit would cost more than the construction and maintenance of a new orbiter. That is the OV-105 Endeavor.

The Enterprise I would not consider a parts plane... It was a full test bed for Aerodynamics testing and for glide testing prior to the manufacture of the other orbiters. It really has no significant parts that could be used on the other craft. I could be wrong though...

Answer 5

Discovery, Columbia and Endeavor are the other three. I think there's one more being cannibalized for parts, and of course two (Columbia and Challenger) have been destroyed.

Mission names start with "STS" or "Space Transportation System", now running in the 120+ number. Each STS has a scheduled list of tasks, and they're all lined up and planned simultaneously and way ahead of time.

Edit: Found the name of the "spare parts" shuttle, it's Enterprise. It's the test shuttle and has never been to space. It's now owned by the Smithsonian.