Columbia and Beyond: The Story of the Space ShuttleDiscusses the space vehicle, Columbia, the space laboratory, Spacelab, and other proposed space projects. |
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000 kilometers aboard Columbia airlock airplane antenna Apollo astronaut cabin cargo bay carried into space chute clamped contains crew and passengers crew member crystals Docking Earth's atmosphere electricity European Space Agency fastened firing full flight section float gases heat Helium tank insulin kilograms liquid live in space living area main fuel tank main tank materials metals meters long mission moon move needed Neil Armstrong nose section Orbit-maneuver engines Orbiter attach fitting outer space oxygen panels payload handler planet platform pollution produce pull radiation REACTION-CONTROL rear section rescue ball return to Earth rockets satellite scientists ship shuttle program Skylab Small jets solar cells solar energy Solar furnace solid-rocket boosters Soyuz space colony space conditions space mail space shuttle space shuttle program space suits Spacelab spaceship station storage sunlight takeoff telescope temperature three main engines thruster engines umbilical vacuum vehicle Voskhod wheel zero gravity