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... with the Kvant module and the Soyuz TM spacecraft in flight. Image:MirKvantKristallSoyuz.jpg The Mir complex with the Kvant, Kvant-2 and Kristall modules, transport spacecraft Soyuz TM-16, cargo ... :MirSchematic.jpg The arrangement of modules on the Mir orbital complex core. Schematic Image:MirSTS.jpg Artist’s concept of the US Space Shuttle docked to the Mir orbital station. Category:Spacecraft

... _english.jpg '''Variants of MIR-2 initial module. Energia launched.''' Image:BM_MIR_Module_English.jpg '''MIR-2 Basic Technological Module''' Image:MIR-2_Initial_English.jpg '''Initial Variant of MIR-2 space station''' Image ... _of_Payload_Modules_MIR2.jpg '''Variant of Payload Modules for MIR-2 space station''' Image:Mir-2.jpg '''Final version of the proposed permanently operating Mir-2 modular-type complex.''' Category:Spacecraft

... station. This Pocket Space Guide, 10 in the series, details the exploits of the Space Shuttle fleet through triumph and tragedy, as it carried more than 300 people, 40 space laboratories ... détente missions to Russia's Mir space station, thousands of facts can be found in this Space Shuttle Fact Archive. "Will interest all fans of the Space Shuttle." satellite-evolution.com

... various difficulties, and just months before the scheduled date, the space shuttle Challenger was lost during launch. The space shuttle program was stood down for more than two years, and the launch ... . The mission would feature safety measures including the preparation of another shuttle for launch on a rescue mission should the shuttle used on SM4 sustain a damaged heat shield as Columbia did ...

That's a very difficult question. The original costs varied from Shuttle to Shuttle. The early ones, like Columbia, cost approximately $2 billion, in round numbers. The later ones ... research and development that went into designing and testing the Shuttle. Overall, if you look at the entire history of the Space Shuttle program starting in the early '70's to the ... , some unofficial estimates put the total cost of designing, building, upgrading, and maintaining the Space Shuttle program and all of its facilities at around $150 billion. Of course at this point ...

... "Recommended as a good summary of the beginnings of the nation's long series of shuttle flights and early lessons learned." . . . CHOICE Feb '02 This Book includes all of the details of the Space Shuttle Columbia's first five flights. The Space Shuttle is one of the great triumphs of modern technology. 122 feet ... over a million miles in a little over 54 hours. This book covers the Space Shuttle through the test flight stage and on to its first operational flight. Comprising rare NASA ...

A space shuttle could be any size so long as it can be launched from Earth. The limiting ... booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift ... , June 1988. This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown Image ...

... forms of radiation, but that field also contains geomagnetically trapped radiation—so yes, the Shuttle is exposed to that low level radiation. This same protective field that contains low-level ... kept to a minimum. Radiation cannot be blocked, so radiation does penetrate the Space Shuttle, but the Shuttle's shielding and structure, and mission planning, do minimize radiation penetration. ---- Answer provided by ...

... slide wire causes the baskets to move the astronauts as far away from the Space Shuttle as possible. The braking system stops the baskets from hitting the ground too hard. Once ... takes approximately 90 seconds for a crew of eight to bail out of the Space Shuttle, and by that time, the vehicle is at 10,000 feet altitude. If the Space ... allows the astronauts to lower themselves to the ground over the side of the Space Shuttle, once they've escaped through the left overhead window of the orbiter. This window is ...

NASA is planning to retire just the orbiter part of the current Space Shuttle system, and continue to use other parts for its new vehicles. One of the solid rocket boosters of the Shuttle system, for example, may become the main part of a new system. NASA may create ... it has created. The new rocket may be launched from the ground like the Space Shuttle or launched from a carrier aircraft like Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne. ---- Answer provided by David ...

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