Space Shuttle program

partially reusable launch system and space plane developed by NASA (1981–2011)

United States government's crewed launch vehicle program, administered by NASA from 1972 to 2011

thumb|upright=1.0|right|Spacelab art, with lab interior cutaway, 1981 thumb|upright=1.0|right|Wubbo Ockels in the lab, 1985 thumb|upright=1.0|right|Mercuric iodide crystals grown on Spacelab 3

rocket launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA

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building used by NASA to assemble rockets at the Kennedy Space Center

The RS-25, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), is a liquid-fuel cryogenic rocket engine that was used on NASA's Space Shuttle and is used on the Space Launch System.

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solid propellant rocket used to launch NASA's Space Shuttle

component of the Space Shuttle launch vehicle

Boeing 747s adapted to carry Space Shuttle orbiters

airport at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA

reusable spacecraft component of the Space Shuttle system

The crawler-transporters, formally known as the Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, are a pair of tracked vehicles used to transport launch vehicles from NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) along the Crawlerway to Launch Complex 39. They were originally used to transport the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets during the Apollo, Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs. They were then used to transport Space Shuttles from 1981 to 2011. The crawler-transporters carry vehicles on the mobile launcher platforms (MLPs) used by NASA, and after each launch return to the pad to take the platform back to the

Canadarm or Canadarm1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, maneuver, and capture payloads. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Canadarm was always paired with the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS), which was used to inspect the exterior of the shuttle for damage to the thermal protection system.

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two-stage solid-fueled booster rocket developed by the U.S. Air Force

Space Shuttle heat shielding system

Space Shuttle missions designated STS-3xx (officially called Launch On Need (LON) missions) were rescue missions which would have been mounted to rescue the crew of a Space Shuttle if their vehicle was damaged and deemed unable to make a successful reentry. Such a mission would have been flown if Mission Control determined that the heat shielding tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon panels of a currently flying orbiter were damaged beyond the repair capabilities of the available on-orbit repair methods. These missions were also referred to as Launch on Demand (LOD) and Contingency Shuttle Crew S

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hypergolic orbital maneuvering engines used on NASA's Space Shuttle

inspection boom used as an extension of Canadarm and Canadarm2

type of vibration in a rocket engine

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thumb|Comparison of International Space Station and [[Hubble Space Telescope orbits]] STS-400 was the Space Shuttle contingency support (Launch On Need) flight that would have been launched using if a major problem occurred on during STS-125, the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (HST SM-4).

launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39

NASA rocket manufacturing complex in Michoud, New Orleans

vehicle derived from the Space Shuttle

class of hangars formerly used for Space Shuttle maintenance at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

launch pad at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39

spacecraft control center at Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

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thumb|right|An artist's conception of a Shuttle-C launching at night thumb|Shuttle-C in space with its cargo bay doors open The Shuttle-C was a study by NASA to turn the Space Shuttle launch stack into a dedicated uncrewed cargo launcher. The Space Shuttle external tank and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module to take the place of the Shuttle orbiter and include the main engines. Various Shuttle-C concepts were investigated between 1984 and 1995.

structure built on a rocket launch pad to facilitate fueling and loading of cargo and crew into a spacecraft

Training aircraft for the Space Shuttle

The Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket. It was studied and considered in 1971–1972.

inspection procedure by the Space Shuttle when at the International Space Station

American ship built in 1981

Shuttle-Centaur was a version of the Centaur upper stage rocket designed to be carried aloft inside the Space Shuttle and used to launch satellites into high Earth orbits or probes into deep space. Two variants were developed: Centaur G-Prime, which was planned to launch the Galileo and Ulysses robotic probes to Jupiter, and Centaur G, a shortened version planned for use with United States Department of Defense Milstar satellites and the Magellan Venus probe. The powerful Centaur upper stage allowed for heavier deep space probes, and for them to reach Jupiter sooner, prolonging the operational

The Crawlerway is a double pathway at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It runs between the Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. It has a length of to Pad 39A and Pad 39B, respectively. A bed of stones lies beneath a layer of asphalt and a surface made of Alabama river rocks.

device for transporting astronauts between Space Shuttles in an emergency

launch abort modes used by the NASA's Space Shuttle

American ship built in 1981

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end of NASA's Space Shuttle spacecraft system in 2011