RARE! Space Shuttle Crew Hand Signed (X6) Magazine Photo COA

  

"Space Shuttle Crew" Hand Signed (X6) Magazine Photo Photo by Marc Garneau. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. The Space Shuttle was a partially. System that was operated from 1981 to 2011 by the. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

(NASA) as part of the. Its official program name was Space Transportation System (STS), taken from a 1969 plan for. A system of reusable spacecraft. Of which it was the only item funded for development.

The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. Five complete Space Shuttle orbiter vehicles were built and flown on a total of 135 missions from 1981 to 2011, launched from the. (HST); conducted science experiments in orbit; and participated in construction and servicing of the. The Space Shuttle fleet's total mission time was 1322 days, 19 hours, 21 minutes and 23 seconds.

Space Shuttle components include the. Main engines, a pair of recoverable. Like a conventional rocket, with the two SRBs operating in parallel with the orbiter's three.

Which were fueled from the ET. The SRBs were jettisoned before the vehicle reached orbit, and the ET was jettisoned just before. Which used the orbiter's two. At the conclusion of the mission, the orbiter fired its OMS to deorbit and.

The orbiter was protected during reentry by its. To a runway landing, usually to the. At KSC, Florida, or to. If the landing occurred at Edwards, the orbiter was flown back to the KSC on the. Was built in 1976, used in.

And has no orbital capability. Four fully operational orbiters were initially built. Of these, two were lost in mission accidents.

With a total of fourteen astronauts killed. A fifth operational (and sixth in total) orbiter. Was built in 1991 to replace Challenger. The Space Shuttle was retired from service upon the conclusion of Atlantis's final flight on July 21, 2011.

To transport astronauts to the International Space Station from the last Shuttle flight until the first. Launch on May 30, 2020.