This website also has some good drawings and information as well crash member. As this organism survived disintegration of the space craft, heat of reentry, and impact. Learn about the space shuttlethe first reusable space craft. Nasa did not stop by addressing only the 15 recommendations specified to be implemented prior to flying the space shuttle again. After years of space exploration and innovation, the shuttle program has officially been consigned to history. The space shuttle main engine ssme was designed for 55 missions. Space shuttles were used to carry astronauts and cargo into space. Nsts 21492 space shuttle program payload bay payload users guide december 4, 2000 approved by. The shuttle has left an indelible mark on our society and culture, and will remain an icon of space exploration for decades to come. Space shuttle glider, paper clips, nylon fishing line, cellophane tape, and book. A couple of blueprinttype pictures were used in addition to lots of other reference pictures and a plastic scale model i made earlier.
Big streams of gas, dust, and stars get thrown out, making a pretty wildlooking couple of galaxies. It was a unique spacecraft because it could be used again and again. These hotfire ground tests are performed at the singleengine test stands at the nasa national space technology laboratories in mississippi and at rockwell internationals rocketdyne divisions santa susana field laboratory in california. The orbiter, most commonly referred to as the space shuttle, is the only part of the shuttle. The space shuttle next the space shuttle as we know it today is made up of three unique components.
The shuttle launches like a rocket, maneuvers in earth orbit like a spacecraft and lands like an airplane. It is a handy reference guide for flight data for all space shuttle missions. In case you may agree with this statement, heres a diagram of the space shuttle itself. Clear plastic cutaways give you an upclose view of the shuttles hightech inner workings. Additionally, the agency has gone above and beyond the caib recommendations with a list of 15 corrective actions known as raising the bar to make the space shuttle safer than it has ever been. There are two rocket boosters that are used to lift the shuttle off the ground and blast into space. How to merge pdfs and combine pdf files adobe acrobat dc. Space shuttle reference manual the shuttle reference manual, most recently revised in 1988, is an in depth technical guide to space shuttle equipment and operations. Pdf space shuttle missions summary book collectspace. Description of the space shuttle flight control system mechanization the flight control problem just described is essentially controlling a large number of quite different flight phases, some of which include unstable vehicle dynamics. Your space shuttle glider is a scale model of the u. The history of space quality eee parts in the united states leon hamiter components technology institute inc. The ssmes have exceeded 300,000 seconds total test time, the equivalent of 615 space shuttle missions. The tank on the outside of the shuttle holds fuel to be used by the rocket boosters for launch.
As a whole, they compose the building materials the player can choose from in the vehicle assembly building and space plane hangar. Pdf the space shuttle was an amazing and unique spacecraft that. Peller rockwell international corporation and kenneth j. The orbiter carries astronauts and payload such as satellites or space station parts into low earth orbit, into the earths upper atmosphere or thermosphere. The full game has 302 parts to choose from as of version 1. It is online for historical purposes only and does not reflect the many changes or improvements to the shuttle fleet after that date. Shuttles external tank, solid rocket boosters which include the reusable.
Its official program name was space transportation system sts, taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. This document is an exact hypertexting of the nsts news reference manual that was handed out to the press in september 1988. Space shuttles are made up of many different parts, but the three main pieces are the rocket boosters, the fuel tank and the orbiter. Meanwhile, financial analysts said they had no evidence that the crash would cause longterm financial harm to the companies. To the left, you see a drawing of the space shuttle and its three main components. Along with pieces of the shuttle and bits of equipment, searchers also found human body. The engines were generally referred to as the center engine 1, left engine 2, and right engine 3. Each of the three space shuttle orbiters now in operation discovery, atlantis and endeavour is designed to fly at least 100 missions. Famously, at one point, nasa had to find parts for the shuttleparts that no one else made anymoreon ebay.
Space shuttles and its advancements seminar report, ppt. Space shuttle improvements space shuttle improvements since columbia include a new design for the external fuel tank. It was accurate in 1988 and while most of the information provided here from the manual is still accurate today, some facts may be outdated. Upon opening, the dmda internal components were intact, which should. No livery is added yet, but most of the detailing no tiling textures added is there. The manual is based on nasa designs and actual mission logs of various space shuttle missions. This remarkable craft was the first aircraft to make multiple trips into orbit and back. Additionally, the agency has gone above and beyond the caib recommendations with a list.
All components of the space shuttle vehicle, except. Space shuttle paper cutouts with images paper cutout. Since its conception in 1981, nasa has used the space shuttle for human transport, the construction of the international space station iss, and to research the effects of space on the human body. Parts are the basic assembly items for rocket and space plane construction in kerbal space program. National aeronautics and space administration nasa as part of the space shuttle program. One of the keys to the success of the space shuttle program is the space shuttle mission control center mcc. The space shuttle the space shuttle and shuttle for flight.
Complete coverage of space shuttle return to flight join our space forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more. The 4d space shuttle kit includes an illustrated guidebook, swivel stand, astronaut figurines and movable landing gear. Dec 03, 2010 space shuttle reference manual the shuttle reference manual, most recently revised in 1988, is an in depth technical guide to space shuttle equipment and operations. Learn about nasas steps to improve space shuttle design.
It stood out like a very silver sore thumb in the middle of donegall pass. Also explore the seminar topics paper on space shuttles and its advancements with abstract or synopsis, documentation on advantages and disadvantages, base paper presentation slides for ieee final year electronics and telecommunication engineering or ece students for the year 2015 2016. Nasa industrial base postspace shuttle bis us department. It launched satellites, built the space station and expanded our understanding of the universe before being sent to the museum.
Cox nasa johnson space center summary the space shuttle digital, flybywire, flight control system fcs presents an interesting challenge in avionics system design. Microbial survival in space shuttle crash ncbi nih. The project began as space station freedom, a us only effort, but was long delayed by funding and technical problems. The space shuttle columbia disaster was a fatal incident in the united states space program. Here are the numbers paper width and height that i found to work. The programs are written in hals highorder assembly languageshuttle.
After a long time of searching, i finally rediscovered a collection of some very detailed technical drawings of the space shuttlespace shuttle systems that used to be up on the nasa human spaceflight website back in the early 2000s. Cargo such as satellites, parts of the international space station or scientific instruments were taken up into space by the space shuttle. Fuel liquid hydrogen and oxidizer liquid oxygen from the space shuttles external tank entered the orbiter at the umbilical disconnect valves and from there flowed through the orbiters main propulsion system mps feed lines. The agencies overseeing the manufacturing involved nasa, roscosmos, the european space agency, jaxa, and the canadian space agency. Hundreds of contractors working for the five space agencies were. Lego space shuttle set 3367 instructions viewer brick. This learning activity is prepared for students to explore. Each component serves a very important role in helping the space shuttle reach its orbit in space. The space shuttle is a partially reusable low earth orbital spacecraft system that was operated from 1981 to 2011 by the u. Make a space shuttle model with images space shuttle. Fuel liquid hydrogen and oxidizer liquid oxygen from the space shuttle s external tank entered the orbiter at the umbilical disconnect valves and from there flowed through the orbiters main propulsion system mps feed lines.
The space shuttle was a partially reusable low earth orbital spacecraft system that was. Orbiter manufacturing and assembly the structures of the orbiter were manufactured at various companies under contract to rockwell internationals space transportation systems division, downey, calif the upper and lower forward fuselage, crew compartment, forward reaction control system and aft fuselage were manufactured at rockwells space transportation systems division facility in downey. The amazing space shuttle the most complex machine ever built, the space shuttle has more than 2. On the other hand, the soyuz, the vehicle of choice of the russian space agency rsa. Our goal is to document every light, switch, and button on the space shuttles enterprise, atlantis, columbia, discovery, endeavor, and challenger, the greatest machines of space exploration on earth, so this information will not be lost. Manufacturing of the international space station wikipedia. Apr 12, 2011 over the course of the shuttle programs 30year career, nasa and its various partners explored a number of different vehicle options to succeed the space shuttles, but none were brought to. Payload deployment and payload manual pointing capabilities are available using the. Clear plastic cutaways give you an upclose view of the shuttle s hightech inner workings.
Forward fuselage crew module and structure from space shuttle news reference nasa, p 37. It was accurate in 1988 and while most of the information provided here from the. The orion multipurpose crew vehicle orion mpcv is a class of partially reusable space capsule planned to use in nasas human spaceflight programs. Full text of the space shuttle operators manual see other formats.
This manual is the supporting handout material to a lecture presentation on the. These apps including space shuttle are about 95% as accurate as the desktop simulatorthe same simulator used by companies like boeing, lockheed martin, and nasa. Dps software is divided into two major groups, system software and applications software. Capable of supporting a crew of six beyond low earth orbit, orion can last 21 days. Pdf space shuttle design and lessons learned researchgate. Apr 18, 2012 famously, at one point, nasa had to find parts for the shuttle parts that no one else made anymoreon ebay. Explore space shuttles and its advancements with free download of seminar report and ppt in pdf and doc format.
Marshall puts shuttle into space and innovative ideas into homes. No other crewed spacecraft to date has replicated these capabilities. Following the initial 1980s authorization with an intended ten year construction period by ronald reagan, the station freedom concept was designed and renamed in the 1990s to reduce costs and expand international involvement. Orbiter manufacturing and assembly kennedy space center. The space shuttle propulsion system consists of two large solid rocket booster srb motors, three space shuttle main engines ssme, and an external propellant tank et, all used to boost the shuttle orbiter into space. The project to create the international space station required the utilization andor construction of new and existing manufacturing facilities around the world, mostly in the united states and europe. The space shuttle was a spacecraft which was used by the american national aeronautics and space administration, or nasa. Thus, flight control is a flight safetycritical function that must have great flexibility. Asflown data is provided as compiled from many flight support sources for ascent, onorbit events, and descent mission phases. A model of a space shuttle i made for fun in catia. This paper model is the space shuttle discovery, one of the orbiters from nasas space shuttle program and the third of five built, the papercraft is created by abc, and the scale is in 1. Easily combine multiple files into one pdf document. Kids guide to space shuttles and their parts partselect. System software is the gpc operating system software that controls the interfaces among the computers and the rest of the dps.
Space shuttle program payload bay payload users guide. At launch, it consists of a rustcolored external tank, two white, slender solid rocket boosters, and the orbiter, a winged spaceplane which is the space shuttle in the narrow sense. The orbiter and its engines are just part of the space. The programs are written in hals highorder assembly language shuttle specifically developed for realtime space flight applications. The other parts not modeled here are the solid rocket boosters srbs used for launch. There are both major and subtle characteristics, which make space quality parts different than. Print out this sheet,then label the parts of the space shuttle using the words in the word bank below.
Also explore the seminar topics paper on space shuttles and its advancements with abstract or synopsis, documentation on advantages and disadvantages, base paper presentation slides for ieee final year electronics and telecommunication engineering or ece students for the year 2015. If youve lost your original instructions, or just want to try building something new, these are the full building instructions for the lego space shuttle set 3367. The spacecraft consists a crew module cm manufactured by lockheed martin and the european service module esm manufactured by airbus defence and space. Over the course of the shuttle programs 30year career, nasa and its various partners explored a number of different vehicle options to succeed the space shuttles, but none were brought to. The rs25 engine consists of various pumps, valves, and other components which work in concert to produce thrust. The two groups are combined to form a memory configuration for a specific mission phase. Those flights made both sides learn things about themselves and space exploration they didnt know. In some ways, space shuttle is quite different from the other xplanebased simulators on the iphone and ipod touch. It also put to the test the teams that manufactured, processed, launched and managed the unique vehicle system, which consists of about 2 12 million moving parts. When the shuttle comes back from space,these help it fly back to earth. Phylogenetic analysis using distancebased, neighborjoining and bootstrap. The space shuttle was an unavoidably foreign object. The physical objects on, in and around the shuttle became a way of forging an identity for the mission, of creating links with the community and introducing ourselves. So far, altogether they have flown a combined total of less than onefourth of that.
Space shuttle systems encountered many material challenges, such as. This 4d model is an exciting launching pad for the imagination. The parts in the game generally resemble those of the american space program nasa during the 1950s1970s, for instance, the mk command pod resembles the apollo command module, the mk1 command pod resembles the mercury capsule, and many lv. There is only one aircraft the space shuttle available, and. Jul 05, 2011 giant external fuel tank et and three space shuttle main engines ssmes.
Shuttle components include the orbiter vehicle ov with three clustered. External tank safety valve for liquid oxygen tank liquid oxygen tank solid rocket booster. Shuttles to flight with a mission on the shuttle discovery this spring. Det startfardiga ekipaget engelska stack bestar av fyra huvuddelar. Before that was phase one, also called the shuttlemir program, that served as a dressrehearsal, when american astronauts flew missions to the russian space station mir in 19951998. Nasa and ote designed a survey to gather indepth information on all parts of nasas. For more information about the space shuttle, look in the usborne childrens encyclopedia.
The airplanelike orbiter can remain in earth orbit for up to two weeks at a time. It is online for historical purposes only and does not reflect the many changes or improvements to. Probably nothing much happens to the stars, because there is actually a lot of space in between stars. Pods, fuel tanks, engines, command and control, structural, coupling, payload, aerodynamics, ground, thermal. It launched satellites, built the space station and expanded our understanding. This is the 1988 revised edition released after the loss of the challenger but before the return to flight sts26 mission in october of 1988. Impact of space shuttle retirement and constellation program transition. Another 14 recommendations from the board are being implemented as well by nasa. In this worksheet students will sequence the stages of. Space shuttle digital flight control system glenn m. Cosmic microwave background cosmos nasa space program space museum air space space race andromeda galaxy space and astronomy amazing spaces space shuttle buran by bagera3005 on deviantart deviantart is the worlds largest online social community for artists and art enthusiasts, allowing people to connect through the creation and sharing of art. The space shuttle external tank carried the propellant for the space shuttle main engines, and connected the orbiter vehicle with the solid rocket boosters.