But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted ...

(Photo Caption: The Space Shuttle Main Propulsion Test Article ... pressurizing both the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks with helium and with oxygen and hydrogen once the engines are ...

They’re mounted on the boosters (three on each), on or in the orbiter (five), and on the tank (one). Space Shuttle Main Engines ... per minute and the hydrogen fuel pump’s 34,800 rpm, silicon ...

The station’s core was a modified Saturn V third stage, the S-IVB; McDonnell Douglas transformed its hydrogen fuel tank into an orbital ... A former space shuttle mission specialist, he helped ...

There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch ... to the Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB) and External Tank. The Shuttle is on top of the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and ...