The first seven were the first seven American Men in Space flight- not a memorial or posthumous angle. There were No in-flight fatal accidents in the Mercury or Gemini programs, and only one ( killing three Astros= Grissom, White , and Chafee) in a ground test that caught fire-in the Apollo program. There were, to date two ( All hands) fatal accidents in the space shuttle program, involving the shuttles CHALLENGER and COLUMBIA. Mercury program was accident-free.
The first seven astronauts who died in the space shuttle accident of Project Mercury were Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, Roger B. Chaffee, Yuri Gagarin, Valentin Bondarenko, Clifton Williams, and Ed Givens. This tragic event occurred during a pre-launch test on January 27, 1967, inside the Apollo 1 spacecraft at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida.
The Apollo 13 astronauts were not on the space shuttle.
The planet Mars has seven hills named after the seven astronauts who died in the Colombia space shuttle accident in 2003. These hills were named after the crew members as a tribute to their legacy and contributions to space exploration.
shuttle
Astronauts do not control the space shuttle manually during flight. The space shuttle's systems are mostly automated, with the astronauts monitoring the systems and making adjustments as needed. Pilots and commanders can manually control the shuttle during specific phases of the mission, such as docking or landing.
it is advantageous for astronauts to live on a space station rather a space shuttle because a space station allow astronauts to stay and work extended time . A space shuttle is a space craft to transport astronauts , satellites, and other materials to and from space.
Project Gimini
Some of the biggest mistakes that have been made by astronauts when in space include the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident in 1986 and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
The Apollo 13 astronauts were not on the space shuttle.
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle were primarily NASA astronauts, astronauts from Canada, Europe and other countries.
Astronauts
There is a new project that would allow us to go to the Moon or possibly beyond(project is named Orion). Space shuttle aren't capable of travel to the Moon. No spaceship currently used is able to fly a man to the Moon.
The planet Mars has seven hills named after the seven astronauts who died in the Colombia space shuttle accident in 2003. These hills were named after the crew members as a tribute to their legacy and contributions to space exploration.
At what altitude does the Earth's gravity no longer have an effect on the astronauts or the space shuttle?
yes there are
they have a space shuttle for a reason
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Space Shuttle Project happened in 1991.