U.S. General Accounting Office Staff Study: Space Transportation System

Abstract

The STS will include the space shuttle and space tug. The primary objective of the STS is to provide a new space transportation capability that will substantially reduce the cost of space operations and support a wide range of scientific, defense, and commercial uses. The space shuttle is currently planned to be operational in 1980. It till consist of a manned reusable orbiter; an external, expendable, liquid propellant tank; and two recoverable and reusable solid propellant rocket boosters. It will be boosted into space-through the simultaneous burn of the space shuttle main engines (SSME) and the solid rocket boosters (SRB).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD1121686

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Booster Rocket Engines
  • Budgets
  • Contracts
  • Earth Orbits
  • Economic Analysis
  • Facial Bones
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Orbits
  • Polar Orbits
  • Program Management
  • Rocket Engines
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Space Tugs
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster