Launch providers and vehicles
Space Shuttle program
The orbiter program that flew 135 missions from the first launch on 12 April 1981 to the final landing on 21 July 2011, stacked in the Vehicle Assembly Building and launched from Pads 39A and 39B, with STS-1 and STS-135 both from 39A [NASASTS][NASASTS1][NASASTS135][NASAVAB].
- Entity type
- human spaceflight program
- Kind
- program
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Kennedy Space Center
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1981
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1981 · 1981: Space Shuttle program flies from Launch Complex 39A (1981 to 2011)
- Role
- reusable orbiter program
- Cutoff status
- Retired
- Status as of the cutoff
- Retired. The fleet flew 135 missions; the final landing was at Kennedy on 21 July 2011.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 4
- Betweenness
- 0.0471 on the full graph · 0.0303 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASASTS] [NASASTS1] [NASASTS135] [NASAVAB]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- flies from →1981 to 2011
- integrates at →Vehicle Assembly Buildingorbiters are mated to the tank and boosters in the building [NASAVAB]1981 to 2011
- lands at →Launch and Landing Facilitythe final mission lands on Runway 15 of the Shuttle Landing Facility on 21 July 2011 [NASASTS135]to 2011
- operates program ←United Space Alliancepreflight processing, mission operations and booster retrieval under the operations contract [FLHR9421] [NASASTS]1996 to 2011