A Brief History of Space Shuttle Innovation

Reaching towards space was thought of asinnovation to set foot in the outer space was the
something impossible a hundred years ago. However,"Columbia". Something worthy of being noted,
thanks to the Space Shuttle innovation, countries all"Columbia" shines as the first in utilizing solid fuel
over the globe are sending teams of professionalsrockets. It succeeded in accomplishing all its missions,
and experts to outer space in order to conductwhich include investigate the overall Shuttle system,
researches. The information gathered might belaunch smoothly into the orbit and also to make a
extremely useful to man in the future.safe landing in its attempt of returning back to earth.
Space Shuttle innovation kick started as early as in"Challenger", another member in NASA's list of
the 1930's. Eugen Sanger proposed a vehicle, orreusable winged spaceships, boasted nine successful
something more of a recyclable rocket plane which ismissions. However, it is not all smooth and easy
capable or containing a crew of people. With that,throughout the journey of this innovation. Seven
the United States started to write up minutevaliant crew members were mourned for after a
proposals for outer space transportation which canfatal explosion of the "Challenger" in January 28, 1986.
be reused. A few proposals which served to be theThough precious lives had been lost in the process of
pioneer of its kind went as far as reaching testimproving the technology of outer space
stages. Yet, in the 1970's, restrictions in the financialtransportation, efforts were not wasted. Other
and designing departments resulted in a much smallerplanets are being explored and man is getting more
design which is more efficient.aware of the happenings in the vast universe.
The first ever Shuttle throughout the Space Shuttle