1) Space Shuttles are the only vehicles to take human into space.
2) During the time in orbit, the space shuttle travels circles around the Earth at about 17,500 mile speed which means 28, 000 kilometers per hour, which enables the crew to see sunrise or sunset each 40 minutes.
3) A Space Shuttle and its boosters are the same height of Statue of Liberty but weigh nearly three times of it.
4) The astronauts’ food consists of peanut butter, fruits, vegetables nuts, chicken, beef, and spaghetti. As the things fly away in space, the foodstuff for astronauts is kept in some kind of packages which prevents the food from flying.
5) Space Shuttles suffered two disastrous accidents that killed 14 astronauts and 2 orbiters.
6) NASA assured that there would be 50 flights a year but couldn’t make it and was only able to manage nine flights a year, each of them costing almost $1.45 billion.
7) The Space Shuttle’s main engine has a weight of about one-seventh as of a train engine but has a horsepower of as much as 39 train engines.
8) During its 10th flight, Challenger broke right after its launch, in which all of the crew members died. One of crew member who died in this flight was a teacher , who volunteered to be part of this flight and was selected from over 1000 applicants for the new Teacher In Space Program.
9) The speed of a space shuttle is 17,500 mph.
10) Columbia stayed for 17 days in space, the longest stay in history in 1996 and was destroyed in 2003 during its twenty-eighth flight.
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