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- July 9, 2025
Explanation
The photo you are seeing is an illustration of 2001 in which important parts of the space shuttle orbiter have been labeled so that the design of the space shuttle can be easily understood.
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In this, the orbiter, which was the brain and heart of the space shuttle, played a very important role, in which its work was to carry the astronauts and take them into space. If you want to know more about it, you can scroll down and learn the facts about it.
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MarsyFact of the Day
Did you know?
Another cool fact about the space shuttle: It was the first reusable spacecraft in our past space history.
NASA’s space shuttle was the first spacecraft in history that could go into space and return like a plane, and could be prepared for re-launch. Like before, rockets were used only once and then discarded.
Space shuttle that could be reused for multiple missions, which were for the orbiter, of which most of the missions were for the International Space Station (ISS). The space shuttle has contributed a lot to history by doing so many missions routinely.
Between 1981 and 2011, it carried out 5 orbiter missions (Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour). The space shuttle carried out 135 missions, in which it carried satellites and astronauts, and mainly built the International Space Station piece by piece.
And get this one too: Its external fuel tank was as long as a 15-story building, and it held so much fuel that it could fill 30 backyard swimming pools.
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