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A reusable crewed orbital transportation system. The space shuttle, along with crewless (robotic) expendable launch vehicles such as ...

Columbia accident

On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over the southern United States during reentry. The Columbia Accident...

Space shuttle (in 'Launch complex' article)
Space shuttle operations require two facilities not usually associated with the typical launch complex. The orbiter landing facility is a 3-mi-long (

Space shuttle (in 'Space communications' article)
The space shuttle is a crewed spacecraft system which is used to provide a heavy-lift reusable space transportation capability to low Earth orbit. Sin

Space shuttle (in 'Space flight' article)
The space shuttle (Fig. 15), as a reusable system, has the capability to conduct space missions in response to national and worldwide needs and the fl

Space shuttle (in 'Space flight, 1998' update)
During 1998, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) completed five space shuttle missions, three less than in 1997.

Space shuttle (in 'Space flight, 1999' update)
During 1999, NASA successfully completed three space shuttle missions, three less than in 1998, bringing the total number of shuttles launched since p

Space shuttle (in 'Space flight, 2001' update)
Six shuttle missions were conducted in 2001, one more than in 2000, all for supply, logistics, outfitting, crew rotation, and orbital assembly of the

Space shuttle (in 'Space flight, 2003' update)
Because of the loss of orbiter Columbia on the first shuttle mission in 2003 (STS-107), operations with the reusable shuttle vehicles of the U.S. Spac

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