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Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis was NASA's fourth space-qualified orbiter, flying 33 missions between 1985 and 2011, including the final Space Shuttle Program flight, and is now displayed in Florida.
Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA's second space-flown orbiter, flying ten missions from 1983 to 1986, when it broke apart after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.
Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was the breakup of the shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff on January 28, 1986, killing all seven crew members.
Space Shuttle Columbia
Space Shuttle Columbia, known by the alias Columbia shuttle, was the first NASA Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space, completing 28 missions from 1981 to 2003.
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was the destruction of the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts during reentry over Texas on February 1, 2003, caused by launch-time foam damage to the left wing.
Space Shuttle design process
The Space Shuttle design process was NASA's 1969 to 1972 conversion of the reusable-spacecraft idea into a final configuration: a winged orbiter, expendable external tank, and two solid rocket boosters.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle Discovery was a NASA orbiter that flew 39 missions between 1984 and 2011, more than any other shuttle, and deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour (OV-105) was NASA's fifth and final space shuttle orbiter, built as a replacement for Challenger and flown on 25 missions from 1992 to 2011, including the first Hubble servicing mission.
Space Shuttle Enterprise
Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) was NASA's first orbiter, a prototype that never flew in space but proved the shuttle could land like an airplane in 1977.
Space Shuttle external tank
The Space Shuttle external tank, or ET, held liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen for the orbiter's three main engines and was the only Shuttle component not recovered.
Space Shuttle orbiter
The Space Shuttle orbiter, also known as the STS Orbiter, was NASA's reusable winged spacecraft that carried crews and payloads into orbit, then landed unpowered on a runway.
Space Shuttle retirement
The retirement of the Space Shuttle ended NASA's 30-year reusable spaceplane program in 2011, after 135 missions, leaving the United States without its own crewed launch vehicle.
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was a pair of recoverable solid-fuel rockets designed to supply extra thrust during the orbiter's ascent.
Space Shuttle thermal protection system
The Space Shuttle thermal protection system, or TPS, was the reusable heat shield of reinforced carbon-carbon panels and nearly 31,000 silica tiles protecting the orbiter during reentry.
Space station
A space station is a crewed spacecraft in orbit around Earth serving as a long-duration laboratory, from Salyut 1 in 1971 to the International Space Station, inhabited continuously since 2000.
Space Station Freedom
Space Station Freedom, also known as the Space Station Freedom Program, was a NASA program announced in 1984 to build an Earth-orbiting space station, merged into the ISS in 1993.
Space suit
A space suit, or EVA suit, is a pressurized garment and life support system that lets astronauts survive and work in vacuum. NASA's Shuttle and station suit is the Extravehicular Mobility Unit.
Space sunshade
A space sunshade, or solar shade, is a proposed structure or spacecraft swarm between the Sun and Earth that would block sunlight to cool the planet.
Space sustainability
Space sustainability is the practice of keeping Earth's orbital environment usable for current and future missions by limiting debris, disposing of spacecraft, and coordinating traffic.
Space Sweepers
Space Sweepers is a 2021 South Korean science fiction space opera directed by Jo Sung-hee, starring Song Joong-ki and Kim Tae-ri, released on Netflix in February 2021.
Space syntax
Space syntax is a set of mathematical and computational techniques for analyzing building and street layouts, relating spatial configuration to movement and social behavior, built on graph theory.
Space technology
Space technology, also known as spaceflight technology, covers the launch vehicles, spacecraft subsystems, and ground networks used to reach and operate in space, with launch costs falling 96% since 1960.
Space Technology 5
Space Technology 5, part of NASA's New Millennium Program, launched three micro-satellites in March 2006 to demonstrate operating a small constellation and test miniaturized space technologies.
Space telescope
A space telescope, also known as a space observatory, is an astronomical observatory placed above Earth's atmosphere, avoiding blurring and absorption to study the universe, as with Hubble and Webb.
Space Telescope Science Institute
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is a Baltimore, Maryland, center, founded in 1983, that runs science operations for the Hubble telescope and all operations of JWST.
Space Test Program
The Space Test Program (STP) is a US Department of Defense program, created in 1966, that provides launches for DoD research and development payloads whose sponsors lack their own spacecraft funding.
Space toilet
A space toilet (also called a zero-gravity or spaceship toilet) is a device that uses directed airflow to collect urine and feces in weightlessness, first flown on Skylab in 1973.
Space tourism
Space tourism is private individuals paying to travel into space for recreation, beginning with Dennis Tito's $20 million Soyuz trip to the ISS in 2001.
Space Tracking and Surveillance System
The Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS Demo) was a US Missile Defense Agency system whose two 2009 satellites demonstrated birth-to-death tracking of ballistic missiles from orbit.
Space Variable Objects Monitor
The Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) is a French-Chinese satellite launched in June 2024 to detect gamma-ray bursts and relay their positions within a minute.