During this time, the shuttle is travelling at 8km per second and would require 2,000 megawatts of energy to stop it – the equivalent needed to power a million homes for a year. The Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011. The water which is created as a byproduct of using hydrogen fuel cells is then used by the astronauts to drink (Now, that’s recycling at its finest!).Īs the shuttle re-enters the atmosphere, it generates so much energy it literally turns the atmosphere to plasma. NASA, who has always been ahead of the curve, has been using the clean technology since 1970 – which makes you wonder why it has taken us so long to embrace it. However, once the shuttle is in orbit its systems are fueled by more environmentally friendly hydrogen fuel cells. After the end of shuttle era, American astronauts were forced to pay for rides aboard Russian rockets a situation many found galling. 31, officials said Friday, less than a month and a half after Atlantis landed to close out the agency's 135th and.
According to this amazing infographic at GreenWala, that is the weight of 42 school buses and equivalent to the amount of energy the average person would use in a year! But one should note that most of the ‘smoke’ seen at shuttle launches is actually water vapor creating by the burning liquid hydrogen. More than 30 years later, when Space Shuttle Atlantis rolled to a stop on the runway July 21, 2011, the shuttle program officially came to a close. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL-NASA's space shuttle program will officially end on Aug. 31), just over a month after the final shuttle mission landed on Earth. During takeoff, it uses 660,000 pounds of solid fuel and 45,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen per minute. HOUSTON NASAs space shuttle program came to its official end Wednesday (Aug. Does SpaceX have a plan to send humans into space On May 30, 2020, SpaceX launched its first crewed test flight, Demo-2, safely transporting astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to and from the International Space Station. Now, by no means is the space shuttle an ‘environmentally friendly’ vehicle. The Space Shuttle program officially ended on August 31, 2011.
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