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3..2..1..BLAST-OFF!!!! You have just been launched into the UFOAndrew Space Shuttle Page!!! Filled with facts about the Shuttle that you didn't even know! Look around and enjoy yourself, my treat!
Space Shuttle Fleet:
COLUMBIA
ATLANTIS
DISCOVERY
ENDEAVOUR
The 4 Space Shuttles were introduced to to the world in the late 1970's and have been in use since. They can perforn many functons such as delivering satillites, repairing the Hubble, performing experiments, etc.
The Shuttles have a Robotic Arm that can peform tasks that the Astronauts can't do inside the shuttle. It also has an Airlock, so the astronauts can go outside the shuttle for what ever reason they might have.
Originally, their were 5 Space Shuttles, but in an explotion in the 1980's, the Challenger, and it's crew was lost in a spectacular fireball.
SPACE SHUTTLE LINKS!
Diagram of the Space Shuttle
Space Shuttle Columbia after landing
3...2...1...Lift-off!!!
Space Shuttle touches down!!
Space Shuttle durring launch
STS 91 Lands
The new supply craft that might eventually replace the shuttle
Now, some pictures of the Space Shuttle Challenger
A photo of Challenger's final launch
The 'Hot Spot' where the leak in the fuel tank occurred
Diagram of what went wrong
The fatal explosion that killed all of the Challenger crew members
Challenger, on the morning of its final launch
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