The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over Rogers Dry Lakebed during the second of five free flights carried out ...
The Russians have been just as imaginative as their American counterparts in designing spacecraft, yet less determined in realizing them.
The Space Shuttle was launched into orbit piggybacking a large rocket-booster launch vehicle and would perform its duties in Earth orbit before entry and landing like a regular aircraft.
and blast off into space. Instead, SpaceShipOne would be carried to altitude by WhiteKnightOne, a twin-fuselage carrier aircraft. After separating from its mothership, SpaceShipOne would light its ...
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China Shows Off Reusable Space ShuttleAs Space.com reports ... it combines the characteristics of both spacecraft and aircraft, allowing it to be launched into orbit by a carrier rocket and land on an airport runway like a plane ...
Space Shuttle Endeavour will be hoisted into the air and delicately placed into upright launch-ready position at the ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
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