Space Transportation System

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Space Transportation System
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• ENTERPRISE- PROTOTYPE- ALT
• APPROACH AND LANDINGS (12)

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• 1981- COLUMBIA
• 1983- CHALLENGER 10
  FLIGHTS
• LOST JANUARY 28,1986
• 1984- DISCOVERY
• 1985- ATLANTIS
• 1992- ENDEAVOUR

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• Height (on runway)
• 17.2 meters (56.58 feet)
• Length
• 37.2 meters (122.17 feet)
• Wingspan
• 23.8 meters (78.06 feet)

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Multifunction Electronic Display System
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Space Shuttle Main Engines 375,000 pounds _at_ sea
level 470,000 pounds _at_ vacuum 14 ft. long 7.5
ft dia.
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Reinforced Carbon-Carbon
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HIGH-TEMPERATURE REUSABLE SURFACE INSULATION
TILES
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LOW-TEMPERATURE REUSABLE SURFACE INSULATION TILES
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ADVANCED FLEXIBLE REUSABLE SURFACE INSULATION
BLANKETS
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Vehicle Assembly Building
Orbiter Processing Facility
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Mobile Launch Platform
ORBITER MATING WITH THE ET AND SRBs
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THE CRAWLER TRANSPORT
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Launch Pad 39-A
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STS Mission Timeline
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Once in orbit, we must open the Payload
Bay Doors. This happens in the first hour or the
shuttle must return to Earth. Why? The
Radiators are located within the PLB. If doors
do not open with the computer, there is a
manual crank in the PLB that can be employed by
a suited astronaut, but this is very dangerous.
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Working in Space
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Working inside the spacecraft The primary goal of
getting to space is to be able to work.
By experimenting in microgravity we can learn
many new things that will help life here on Earth.
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Working outside of the space craft is also a
major part of what we do today in space. The
construction of the International Space Station
will require more EVA time than we have ever
attempted in the history of spaceflight (US and
Russia combined).
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Earth Observation By studying our planet we
learn about others!
Gibralter
New Orleans
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What can we see? 1. Natural Features
Florida Keys
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2. Man-made Features New Orleans, LA
I-10
Airport
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New York City September 12, 2001
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Wildfires in Colorado
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The Golden Arches?
We must do more than just work. We have to eat...
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Sleeping Easy or Hard?
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Treadmill
Exercise on-orbit Astronauts and Cosmonauts
exercise between 2 and 3 hours a day. How much
could you lift in space?
Stationary Bike
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• Deorbit
• Payload bay doors closed.
• The orbiter rotates 180 degrees and the orbital
  maneuvering system fires to slow the orbiter down
  -- deorbit burn.
• The reaction control system fires to maneuver the
  shuttle to entry attitude -- nose first, angled
  up 40 degrees.
• The shuttle coasts till the atmosphere is reached
  at 121,920 meters (400,000 feet).

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• LANDING
• 1 KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FL.2 EDWARDS AFB
  CA.3 WHITE SANDS NM.

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Special Thanks to the Kansas Cosmosphere and
Space Center and The Future Astronaut Training
Program for allowing the GK-12 Program to use
and modify this presentation.