Important Historical Facts of Space shuttle Related Important Events ⚡

Date of EventEvent / Incident
17 September 1976NASA publicly revealed its first space shuttle, called enterprise.
17 September 1976The first space shuttle made for NASA was rolled out of manufacturing facilities at Pamdale, California.
18 February 1977NASA's first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, made its first 'flight' atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft .
13 August 1977The first glide of the space shuttle was tested.
27 June 1982Space Shuttle Colombia launched the Final Research and Development Flight Mission, STS -4 from the Kennedy Space Center. STS-4 was the fourth NASA Space Shuttle Mission, and the Space Shuttle was also the fourth for Colombia. The final test flight for STS -4 shuttle was; It was then officially declared operational. Colombia run several scientific payloads as well as military missile detection systems during the mission.
18 June 1983Space Shuttle Program: STS -7, astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. Sally Kryston Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. Born at Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. She became the youngest American astronaut to do so at the age of 32.
18 June 1983Aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Astronaut Sally Ride Basmeth first American woman in space.
11 October 1984Kathy Sulivan Space Shuttle Challenger Mission set an example by being the first American woman to run in space during a test to fill the orbital fuel on STS-41-G.
30 August 1984Space Shuttle Discovery flew on his first trip.
17 June 1985The STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery began to carry Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulziz Al Saud as a payload specialist, the first Arabia in the space and the first Muslim. The STS-51-G NASA's space shuttle program was the eighteenth flight, and the Space Shuttle was the fifth flight of Discovery. The seven -day mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 17 June 1985 and Edwards Air Force Base in California on 24 June.
17 June 1985In the Board Space Shuttle Discovery, Sultan bin Salman al -Saudbakem first Arab, first Muslim, and the first astronaut to fly in outer space.
28 January 1986Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after lift off, killing all seven astronauts on board.
15 November 1988The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle was built for the NASA's space shuttle program, was launched on unmanned, herfers and only space flight.
02 December 1993NASA launched the space shuttle 'Endeavor'.
03 February 1995End rescuer Eileen Collins became the first woman to operate a space shuttle.
29 June 1995Space Shuttle Program: The STS -71 mission first works with Russian space station Mir. The STS-71 was the third mission of the US / Russian shuttle-Mir program and the first space shuttle for the Russian space station Mir. Shuttle took two cosmonott Anatoli Soloyev and Nikolai Budarin to the relief team and recovered the increment astronaut Norman Thagard.
29 June 1995The shuttle-Mir program began when the space shuttle Atlantis formed the first spacecraft to do a dock with the Russian space station.
31 March 1996Space shuttle STS-76 (Atlantis 16) safely land.
30 May 1999Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station. Space shuttle is one of the orbiters from Discovery NASA's Space Shuttle Program and is produced five. It was launched 39 times in 27 years of service and landed, assembled more astronauts than any other spacecraft.
22 August 2006NASA announced that its new manned space exploration vessel is going to succeed STS (or Space Shuttle) by 2014, and would be called Orion.
11 December 2006Discovery Docks successfully with NASA's Space Shuttle International Space Station. The crew is expected to spend a week to run the space station again.
26 August 2006NASA on Friday postponed the launch pad of Space Shuttle for 24-hour Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-115), although there was no damage.
08 June 2007Space shuttle Atlantis was launched on Mission STS -117 with a crew of seven on an assembly mission for the International Space Station. Atlantis is 4th operational and second-to-last space shuttle.
20 August 2007NASA cleaned the Space Shuttle Endeavor for an initial landing in Cape Canvarts yesterday.
21 August 2007Space Shuttle Endeavor land safely at Kennedy Space Center at 12:32:29 EDT
07 February 2008Space Shuttle Atlantis launches STS 122 to deliver laboratory to the ISS.
08 February 2010US space shuttle Endeavour launched from The Kennedy Space Centre has successfully begun a two week mission to the International space station.
08 July 2011Space shuttle Atlantis was launched. This spacecraft was the last mission of Atlantis. The mission was named STS 135. STS 135 was a short term mission. The mission was to deliver goods to the international space station.
08 July 2011Space shuttle Atlantis was launched in STS-135, the final form of the American space shuttle program.
16 May 2011The Space Shuttle Endeavor launched a final commission ICT from space.

Important Historical Facts of Space shuttle Questions and Answer ⚡

Question: Who among the following is the first female pilot of the American Space Shuttle?

 ◉ daryl hannah

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 ◉ Illene Collins (USA)

✅ Correct

 ◉ lucy liu

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 ◉ Julie Dreyfuss

❌ Incorrect

Question: What was the name of the space shuttle that took man to the moon?

 ◉ Challenger

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Apollo

✅ Correct

 ◉ Columbia

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Viking-1

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Question: Who was the first space shuttle launched by America?

 ◉ albert

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Colombia (April 1981)

✅ Correct

 ◉ Discovery

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ squadron

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Question: What was the name of the space shuttle with which Sunita Williams went beyond the earth?

 ◉ Discovery

✅ Correct

 ◉ Woyzer-2

❌ Incorrect

 ◉ Challenger

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 ◉ Gallillio

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