During a Space Shuttle landing, the pilot must glide in to the landing strip without any engines firing at all dock with a special NASA airplane that tows the Shuttle safely to the landing strip use the Shuttle's jet-like landing engines make the initial descent with parachutes, then splash down in the ocean fire the Shuttle's retrorockets to slow the descent
During a Space Shuttle landing, the pilot must
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glide in to the landing strip without any engines firing at all |
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dock with a special NASA airplane that tows the Shuttle safely to the landing strip |
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use the Shuttle's jet-like landing engines |
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make the initial descent with parachutes, then splash down in the ocean |
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fire the Shuttle's retrorockets to slow the descent |
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Prior to the installation of the Zvezda life-support module on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2000, astronauts
could live on the ISS by "camping out" in the Unity node
could live on the ISS only by using their docked spacecraft as a habitat
could only fly to the ISS to drop off cargo, then immediately return to Earth
could not live on the ISS, and all missions to the ISS had to be unmanned
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