(Space Transportation System- STS)
The Orbiters
NASA's fleet of shuttles represents the world's first
reusable space delivery system. Able to carry payloads of over 50,000
pounds into orbits as high as 400 miles, they are the workhorses of the
manned space program. Equipment on the Orbiter mid-deck and SpaceHab
modules also allow the Shuttle to double as an orbiting science laboratory.
Experiments in medicine, microgravity, metallurgy, crystal growth, cancer
research and earth sciences are a few of the activities aboard a typical
flight in addition to the construction of the International Space Station.
Atlantis
Challenger
Columbia
Discovery
Endeavour
Enterprise
The Missions
The
Next Mission
Previous
Missions
Future
Missions
The People
Astronauts
Cosmonauts
Payload
Specialists
The Facilities
Kennedy
Space Center
Cape
Canaveral, Florida
Johnson
Space Center
Houston,
Texas
Marshall
Space Flight Center
Huntsville,
Alabama
Dryden
Flight Research Center
Edwards,
California
Jet
Propulsion Lab
Pasadena,
California
Goddard
Space Flight Center
Greenbelt,
Maryland
Other
NASA Facilities
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