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- BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1988: Shuttle blasts US back into space
The space shuttle, Discovery, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1637 BST after a 90-minute delay due to unsuitable weather conditions Half a million people in the streets around the Kennedy Space Center watched the take-off, which Nasa said went without a hitch
- BBC NEWS | Special Report | ISS | Shuttle makes night landing
Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery have made a rare night-time landing on a floodlit runway after completing their mission to the International Space Station
- BBC ON THIS DAY | 24 | 1990: Hubble telescope takes off for space
The American space agency Nasa has successfully launched the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its historic mission to carry the Hubble space telescope into orbit 380 miles (611 5 km) above the Earth The telescope will operate from high above the atmosphere, thus avoiding the interference which limits ground-based telescopes It will be able to see up to the edge of
- Calculating Space Shuttle Velocity: Astronaut Melroys Historic Flight
Homework Statement Problem Statement: Astronaut Pam Melroy, history's 3rd woman space shuttle pilot, flew the space shuttle discovery to the International Space Station to complete construction in October of 2000 To undock from the space station, Pilot Melroy released goooks holding the 2
- Explaining the Science of Heat Shield Tiles on the Space Shuttle
Those Shuttle tiles also took advantage of emissivity The tiles on the bottom of the Shuttle had a black coating (high emissivity) but the bulk of the tile was white (low emissivity) Now is the high emissivity so that they can cool radiatively as much as possible? (Which presumably helps lessens the amount of heat they conduct to the interior)
- BBC NEWS | Science Nature | Shuttle return held for 24 hours
Space shuttle Discovery's return to Earth is delayed for 24 hours due to bad weather at its landing site
- BBC NEWS | Science Nature | Astronauts finish long spacewalk
Discovery astronauts are back inside the space shuttle after completing the mission's first spacewalk
- BBC ON THIS DAY | 28 | 1986: Seven dead in space shuttle disaster
The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board The five men and two women - including the first teacher in space - were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger blew up The astronauts' families, at the airbase, and millions of Americans witnessed the world's worst space disaster live on TV The danger
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