Book Backdrop for Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue – Object #6

Space Transportation System, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, 2101 NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX

<p>The first page explains the significance of the space shuttle transport system. The second page is a drawing of the space shuttle Discovery mounted on the mobile launch platform. The third page contains elevations of the space transportation system from different viewpoints – forward, rear, top and right side. The fourth drawing illustrates how the space transportation system launches from the ground into orbit. The fifth drawing illustrates the re-entry and landing of the orbiter. The sixth drawing shows how the vehicle can be re-used for another flight.</p>

This set of drawings explains how the space transportation system, which launches the space shuttle into the earth’s orbit, works.

Questions:

How is the space transportation system, which carried the space shuttle, similar to and different from the planes that Ron liked to read about when he was a boy?

Citations

Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, National Aeronautics And Space Administration, Smithsonian Institution, Joan Deming, Patricia Slovinac, Inc Archaeological Consultants, Jeffrey Wolfe, et al., Space Transportation System, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center,NASA Parkway, Houston, Harris County, TX. 1968.