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11 facts about the space shuttle (Space Shuttle)
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1. Space Shuttle Space Shuttle just packed with electronics - two and a half million units and a half thousand kilometers of wires. Three engines power the Shuttle exceed twelve hydropower plants. What other interesting facts hides the space shuttle?
2. Cosmodrome from which shuttles launched, located in Florida, as it closest to the equator. This made the way to orbit in short, and in addition the shuttle goes into orbit than vertically, and to the east in the direction of rotation of the Earth, which gave him additional acceleration.
3. NASA was planning to build an unmanned Shuttle-C. Due to the lack of the crew wanted to increase the payload of the shuttle. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding in the 90 years the project was closed.
4. When building the first space shuttle named Columbia, it established the ejection seats. But after the first four starts this idea was abandoned, as to save the lives of astronauts could have been only during takeoff and landing, and the four crew members of the central part of the cabin could not use them because of the construction of the ship.
5. In Europe, it was built several runways for US shuttle in case of an emergency landing. If denied any system, then after 123 seconds after launch could turn toward the runway in the United States or to continue flying over the Atlantic Ocean and land in Europe.
6. Exterior shuttle fuel tanks were covered with special paint to protect them from sunlight. Later abandoned by staining that will save 300 kg of weight. And after making additional changes to the design, reducing weight by 7 tons.
7. Computers controlling flight of the shuttle weighed 30 kg, had 1 MB of RAM and 1 processor, 2 GHz. In total, each ship they were set 4 pieces, they worked at the same time and constantly compared their readings to avoid errors. Program on each of them were developed by independent teams of programmers.
8. The big danger for the shuttle fuel tanks were woodpeckers, who makes a hole in the casing. At the starting complex is staff constantly made sure that birds do not appear on the site. They were scared off by special balloons.
9. Shuttle - Endeavor has been completely assembled from spare parts from other ships.
10. USSR shot in 1984 by the shuttle Challenger from the laser unit from Kazakhstan to disable optical reconnaissance. The military believed that the space shuttles were used to monitor the territory of the USSR.
11. The shuttle Enterprise was named in honor of the spaceship of the Star Trek at the request of fans of the series, although it was against the management NASA.
Source: www.mindhobby.com
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