Space Shuttle orbiter
The Space Shuttle orbiter family comprised six reusable winged vehicles built by Rockwell International for NASA. Enterprise performed atmospheric approach-and-landing and ground-interface testing; Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour then flew 135 orbital missions from 1981 through 2011. The orbiters carried crews and payloads, deployed and serviced spacecraft, supported Spacelab and Shuttle-Mir, and assembled the International Space Station.
Identity
- Aliases
- NASA Space Shuttle orbiterSpace Transportation System orbiterSTS orbiterSpace Shuttle
- Family Name
- Space Shuttle orbiter
- Full Name
- Space Shuttle orbiter
- Reusability
- fully_reusable
- Slug
- space-shuttle-orbiter
- Status
- retired
- Type
- shuttle
Details
- Description
- The Space Shuttle orbiter family comprised six reusable winged vehicles built by Rockwell International for NASA. Enterprise performed atmospheric approach-and-landing and ground-interface testing; Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour then flew 135 orbital missions from 1981 through 2011. The orbiters carried crews and payloads, deployed and serviced spacecraft, supported Spacelab and Shuttle-Mir, and assembled the International Space Station.
- First Flight Year
- 1,977
- Last Flight Year
- 2,011
- Operator Id
- vh76vnx3yy1vy23j7zc3wk80wx7nhx5f
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle
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- Creation Time
- 4/26/2026, 2:37:08 PM
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- Updated Time
- 7/14/2026, 7:14:16 PM