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The easiest answer is that it allows everyone involved with all of the launch preparations to be able to get ready for certain deadlines that flight controllers need to meet to insure that the flight...
The Space Shuttle program ends with the final launch in June 2011, but there is currently no plan or schedule to terminate NASA's other research activities, which include the use of other space...
Gravity plays the major role in the launch.. a rocket has to cross the escape velocity so as to get out of the atmosphere. Escape Velocity is the speed at which any space shuttel or rocket or...
Components of the launch vehicle that don't leave the atmosphere fall back, either into the ocean or onto land.
Components that achieve orbit remain there for a while, and then re-enter the...