What is the name of space shuttle america first ever sent to space?

Question

for a gk purpose i want this

Answer 1

Columbia

Answer 2

apollo 13  ???

ahh dunno

Answer 3

Discovery is the first space shuttle by US, here are its features,

Function - Manned partially re-usable launch and reentry system

Manufacturer - United Space Alliance:

Thiokol/Boeing (SRBs)

Lockheed Martin (Martin Marietta) - (ET)

Rockwell International (orbiter)

Country of origin - United States of America

Height - 56.1 m (184 ft (56 m))

Diameter - 8.7 m (28.5 ft (8.7 m))

Mass - 2,029,203 kg (4,474,574 lb)

Stages -2

Payload to LEO - 24,400 kg (53,600 lb)

Payload to GTO - 3,810 kg (8,390 lb)

Launch History

Status - Active

Launch sites - LC-39, Kennedy Space Center

SLC-6, Vandenberg AFB (unused)

Total launches - 123

Successes - 121

Failures - 2

Maiden flight - April 12, 1981

Notable payloads - International Space Station components

Hubble Space Telescope

Galileo

Magellan

Chandra X-ray Observatory

Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

Boosters (Stage 0) - Solid Rocket Boosters

No. of boosters - 2

Engines - 1 solid

Thrust - 2,800,000 lbf each, sea level liftoff (12.5 MN)

Specific impulse - 269 s

Burn time - 124 s

Fuel - solid

First Stage - External Tank

Engines - (none)

(3 SSMEs located on Orbiter)

Thrust - 1,225,704 lbf total, sea level liftoff (5.25 MN)

Specific impulse - 455 s

Burn time - 480 s

Fuel - LOX/LH2

Second Stage - Orbiter

Engines - 2 OME

Thrust - 53.4 kN combined total vacuum thrust (12,000 lbf)

Specific impulse - 316 s

Burn time - 1250 s

Fuel - MMH/N2O4

Answer 4

It was Columbia (OV-102). The first flight was STS-1.

Answer 5

first shuttle to fly into space was Columbia on 12th April 1981

Answer 6

Columbia was the first shuttle to be launched. Before that, Enterprise was used for drop tests, but Enterprise did not have engines and was never meant for launch. The shuttles were ready for service in this order:

Enterprise (mating and drop tests only, 1977)

Columbia (first launch 1981)

Challenger (1982)

Discovery (1984)

Atlantis (1985)

Endeavour (1992)

Answer 7

The first of the U.S. shuttles to fly in space was Columbia. I watched that launch in person in 1981.

But the Space Shuttle was not the first spacecraft. Before the shuttles and before the Apollo missions the first U.S. space craft to carrry a man to space was a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 (1961), the first U.S. satellite launched into orbit was Explorer 1 (1958). And the first U.S. rocket to reach space, but not orbit, was Bumper 5 (1949), which was an early 2 stage rocket made from a German V2 with a Wac Corporal rocket on top as a second stage.

Answer 8

Columbia was the first in space.  Enterprise was the first to fly (aerodynamic testing).  Pathfinder was the first built (assembly and transport mockup).

Answer 9

ISRO1A

Answer 10

columbia  ov 102

Answer 11

discovery