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The complete Shuttle flight archive joins 16 Enterprise Approach and Landing Test events with all 135 orbital missions flown by Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour—from reusable-flight qualification to satellite deployment, orbital research, Shuttle-Mir, Hubble servicing, and International assembly.
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156 mission-specific spacecraft and test articles, plus 17 launch systems and shared hardware records.
Space Shuttle Discovery was NASA orbiter OV-103.
Space Shuttle Challenger was NASA orbiter OV-099.
Space Shuttle Columbia was NASA orbiter OV-102 and the first Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space.
Space Shuttle Atlantis was NASA orbiter OV-104.
Space Shuttle Endeavour was NASA orbiter OV-105 and the final operational shuttle orbiter built.
Technicians install a reusable RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine in Endeavour for STS-123.
The RS-25, originally designated the Space Shuttle Main Engine, was a reusable, throttleable liquid-hydrogen/liquid-oxygen engine mounted in sets of three on every Shuttle orbiter.
This is a cutaway illustration of the Space Shuttle external tank (ET) with callouts.
The Space Shuttle External Tank was both the orbiter's propellant reservoir and the structural spine of the launch stack.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
The Shuttle Mobile Launcher Platforms were enormous steel launch bases inherited from Apollo and rebuilt to carry a complete Shuttle stack between the Vehicle Assembly Building and Launch Complex 39.
Contextual image from STS-105; it documents a canonically related mission, not the exact Space Shuttle Orbiter Vehicle record.
The Orbiter Vehicle was the reusable crew-and-payload-carrying heart of the Space Shuttle system.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
The twin Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters supplied most of the thrust needed to clear the launch pad and accelerated the stack through the dense lower atmosphere.
Terra GEODE Shuttle payload concept technical reference plate summarizing reviewed specifications and program integration.
Terra GEODE—Geology from Earth Orbit Demonstration and Evaluation—was a U.
STS-31 flight stack combined Space Shuttle Discovery, its external tank, twin solid rocket boosters, and three main engines for deployment of the hubble space telescope into a high earth orbit.