GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA’s space shuttle was the world’s first reusable spacecraft. It launched like a rocket and returned to Earth like a glider, landing like an airplane on a long concrete runway. It was designed to carry large payloads-such as satellites-into orbit and bring them back, if necessary, for repairs.

Detailed explanation-2: -While most rockets are designed to burn up on reentry, SpaceX rockets can not only withstand reentry but can also successfully land back on Earth and refly again.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shuttle Basics. The Space Shuttle is the world’s first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites both to and from orbit. The Shuttle launches like a rocket, maneuvers in Earth orbit like a spacecraft and lands like an airplane.

Detailed explanation-4: -A spacecraft that has many usages, as carrying a crew into space, and back, taking satellites into orbit, repairing damaged satellites, and carrying equipment to and from the space station, is called a space shuttle.