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what is a space shuttle ?how can it move?
Hi Khu,
The space shuttle is so called because it works as a "shuttle" (like a bus), it goes to and from space and ferries people and material up and down from space.
It "moves" by Rocket power. During launch, it uses liquid oxygen + liquid oxygen as fuel and it has 3 engines in its tail to power its flight to space. It uses 3 external strap on rockets to help it get a boost while going into space. These are then discarded.
After staying up for a few days, it comes down in for a "powerless" or "dead stick" landing.
That time it uses up its speed only to reach its landing area.
Jayen
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Jayendra Upadhye
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1 - General questions on most astronomy topics such as:- Solar system, Cosmology, Black holes, Quasars, Dark matter etc. 2 - General questions about the geologies of planets. 3 - General questions about Orbits and laws governing them. 4 - General questions about rockets / spaceships 5 - General questions about stellar interiors and supernovas.
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Bachelor of Engg. (Electrical engg), Maharaja Sayajirao university of Baroda, Gujarat, India.
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