What is the slim shuttle?
The Slim Shuttle is a Space Shuttle -inspired stock spacecraft. Like the Space Shuttle, it has a light reusable orbiter vehicle, a liquid fuel expendable external tank and two solid fuel boosters. It is one of the three space shuttles included in stock. A partially reusable launch system for orbital tourism.
What kind of fuel does the slim shuttle use?
The orbiter is equipped with landing gear and a drag parachute, so that it can land on a runway. The Slim Shuttle's external tank is a stack of four FL-T800 Fuel Tanks, capped by an Advanced Nose Cone - Type A at the top and an Aerodynamic Nose Cone at the bottom.
What is the speed of the slim Shuttle's thrusters?
The Slim Shuttle's main stage (SRBs and Thuds) provide 3.68 km/s of delta-V -- enough to get into low Kerbin orbit. The OMS and RCS thrusters share about 600 m/s of delta-V between them, more than enough to match orbits with a station, dock, depart, and de-orbit.
How do you land a shuttle in KSP?
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How do you land a shuttle?
The pilot deploys the landing gear and the orbiter touches down. The commander brakes the orbiter and the speed brake on the vertical tail opens up. A parachute is deployed from the back to help stop the orbiter. The parachute and the speed brake on the tail increase the drag on the orbiter.
How does space capsule land?
When the astronauts want to return to Earth they turn on the engines, to push their spacecraft out of orbit. Gravity then pulls the spacecraft back towards the Earth. The spacecraft may be slowed to a safe landing speed by parachutes.
Is the space shuttle hard to land?
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How much runway does the space shuttle need to land?
15,000 feetThe paved runway is 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) long, with a 1,000-foot (304.8-meter) overrun on each end. The width is about the length of a football field, 300 feet (91.4 meters), with 50-foot (15.2-meter) asphalt shoulders on each side.
How long does it take a shuttle to land?
Landing-5 minutes The orbiter's velocity eases below the speed of sound about 25 statute miles from the runway. As the orbiter nears the Shuttle Landing Facility, the commander takes manual control, piloting the vehicle to touchdown on one of two ends of the SLF.
How does SpaceX land on Earth?
The trunk will burn up in the atmosphere. Five minutes after the trunk is detached, the capsule fired its thrusters for about 16 minutes to drop out of orbit. Once it was low enough in Earth's atmosphere, parachutes deployed to gently lower the capsule into the sea.
Can you jump from ISS to Earth?
While the sight from the International Space Station is a beautiful one, jumping off of it wouldn't be. If an astronaut tried to reach Earth's surface by jumping, it would be a deadly journey filled with hypersonic speeds and intense heat.
How does SpaceX Dragon land?
SpaceX originally intended to land Crew Dragon on land using the SuperDraco engines, with parachutes and an ocean splashdown available in the case of an aborted launch. Precision water landing under parachutes was proposed to NASA as "the baseline return and recovery approach for the first few flights" of Crew Dragon.
How much do astronauts get paid?
The pay grades for civilian astronaut candidates are set by federal government pay scales and vary based on academic achievements and experience. According to NASA , civilian astronaut salaries range from $104,898 to $161,141 per year. Here are a few of the benefits offered to civilian astronauts: Health care.
Why is reentry so hot?
During re-entry, the shuttle is going so fast, it compresses the air ahead of it. The compression of the air layers near the leading edges of the shuttle is quick, causing the temperature of the air to rise to as high as 3000 degrees Fahrenheit! Being in contact with the shuttle, it heats the shuttle's surface.
Do astronauts pass out during re-entry?
The lack of gravity astronauts encounter during spaceflight makes returning to the force of Earth's gravity a little disorienting. And when they return to Earth, they faint. A new study published Friday in Circulation, the American Heart Association's journal, has identified a way to avoid that.