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Space Shuttle program

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official program name was carried over from the 1969 plan for the Space Transportation System (STS) of reusable…

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Cost
US$196 billion (2011)
Country
United States
Crewed vehicle
Space Shuttle orbiter
Duration
1972–2011[a]
Failures
2 (STS-51-L, STS-107)
First crewed flight
April 12, 1981 (1981-04-12) (STS-1)

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Background

Conception and development

Program history

Accomplishments

Budget

Disasters

Retirement

Preservation

Crew modules

Successors

Assets and transition plan

Criticism

Support vehicles

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Space Shuttle program

Nodes203
Edges202
Triples154
Avg. degree1.99
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Components1

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Space Shuttle program

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related to Support vehicles · 46
Space Shuttle program → Air Force's, Armstrong Flight Research Center, Boeing, Boosters, California, Checkout Building, Crew Transport Vehicle, CTV, Delta IV, Either, Gold Coast Railroad Museum, In April, It, Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Complex, Locomotive No, Madison Railroad, Many, Mate-Demate
related to background · 32
Space Shuttle program → ALT, Apollo, April, Atlantis, August, Boeing, Bush's Vision, Columbia, Earth, Enterprise, Enterprise's, February, In, International Space Station, ISS, July, NASA's, President George, President Ronald Reagan, Shuttle
related to External links · 22
Space Shuttle program → ArchivesShuttle, CRS, ISS Assembly Sequence Archived, Johnson Space Center Space, Jon Leech, Launch Manifest, March, Mission ArchivesNASA Space Shuttle, Multimedia Gallery, Official NASA Mission SiteNASA, Reports, Research Service, Shuttle, Shuttle SiteOfficial Space Shuttle, Space Center Media Gallery, Space Flight History, Space Shuttle Flights, Space Shuttle ProgramWeather, Space ShuttleU, STS-67
related to STS-51-L (Challenger, 1986) · 20
Space Shuttle program → After, Challenger, Close-up, Discovery, Endeavour, January, May, NASA, O-ring, Other, OV-105, Rogers Commission Report, September, Shuttle, Space Shuttle, SRB, STS-26, STS-4, The, The Shuttle
related to Assets and transition plan · 17
Space Shuttle program → Altair Lunar Lander, Ares, Artemis, Commercial Crew Program, Complex, During, Falcon, Falcon Heavy, In, Kennedy Space Center Launch, NASA's, Orion, Shuttle-related, The, The Space Shuttle, There, United States
Launch sites · 2
Space Shuttle program → Kennedy, LC-39A, Kennedy, LC-39B
Cost · 1
Space Shuttle program → US$196 billion (2011)
Country · 1
Space Shuttle program → United States
Crewed vehicle · 1
Space Shuttle program → Space Shuttle orbiter
Duration · 1
Space Shuttle program → 1972–2011[a]

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space shuttle program nasa launch crew mission orbiter missions columbia iss astronauts flight challenger used vehicle center orbit two artemis

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Space Shuttle programCostUS$196 billion (2011)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programCrewed vehicleSpace Shuttle orbiter1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programDuration1972–2011[a]1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programFailures2 (STS-51-L, STS-107)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programFirst crewed flightApril 12, 1981 (1981-04-12) (STS-1)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programFirst flightAugust 12, 1977 (1977-08-12) (ALT-12)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programLast flightJuly 21, 2011 (2011-07-21) (STS-135)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programLaunch sitesKennedy, LC-39A1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programLaunch sitesKennedy, LC-39B1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programLaunch vehicleSpace Shuttle1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programOrganizationNASA1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programPartial failures1 (STS-83)1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programPurposeCrewed orbital flight1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programStatusCompleted1.00infobox
Space Shuttle programSuccesses1331.00infobox

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