1. Spaceships
By: CJ Miske

2. What is a Spaceship?
a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space

3. Characteristics/Info
Costs about $1.7 billion. To launch a space shuttle, it costs about $450 million per mission. Speed: 17,500 mph (28,000 kmph) Altitude: 190 miles to 330 miles (304 kilometers to 528 kilometers)

4. Characteristics/Info Cont’d
Fuel: each of the two Solid Rocket Boosters on the Space Shuttle carries more than one million pounds of solid propellant. Loaded with more than 500,000 gallons of super-cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, which form the fuel for the orbiter's three main rocket engines.

5. What are Space shuttles made of?
TPS (Thermal Protection System) This covers essentially the entire orbiter surface, and consists of seven different materials: High-temperature reusable surface insulation (HRSI) tiles Fibrous refractory composite insulation (FRCI) tiles Flexible Insulation Blankets (FIB) Low-temperature Reusable Surface Insulation (LRSI) tiles Toughened one piece fibrous insulation (TUFI) tiles Felt reusable surface insulation (FRSI) Reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC)

6. Safety
The space shuttle doesn’t have safety features that guarantee life just in case of a disaster.

7. Inventor of First Space Shuttle
Rockwell Aerospace “The Enterprise”

8. Who was the First Person in Space?
The first person to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin ( ). He traveled aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft, known as Vostok 1, which was launched April 12, 1961, in a flight lasting one hour and forty-eight minutes.

9. STS
"STS" stands for "Space Transportation System," the original name for the Space Shuttle Program.

10. Time in Space
Astronauts go by ‘Mission Elapsed Time’, or MET. The clock starts ticking when the astronauts blast off. Minutes accumulate into days, hours, minutes and seconds that have passed since liftoff. The clock stops when the Space Shuttle's lands back on Earth, and the total MET is calculated

11. Names of Space Crafts
Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour.

12. Size
Height: ft Diameter: 28.5 feet Mass: 2,030 tons Space craft fits five to seven people

13. Launches
NASA has 133 successful launches NASA has 2 failed launches

14. Video

15. Works Cited
"Space Shuttle." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 28 Feb < "NASA - Space Shuttle and International Space Station." NASA - Home. Web. 28 Feb < #4>. "Answers.com - Where Was the First Space Shuttle Invented." WikiAnswers - The Q&A Wiki. Web. 01 Mar < .