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Yes, each shuttle SRB had a cluster of Booster Separation Motors (BSMs) at the top and bottom of the booster. Four solid motors in each cluster fired for just more than a second producing 22,000 lbf …

Supplemental answer: The equation given in Mark Adler's answer is what was actually used in the calculation of shuttle dynamic pressure. Max Q would trivially be the maximum value reached. Don't over …

The only 3 missions that had 13 people in the ISS at one time are STS-131 (as listed in the question), STS-127, and STS-128. Here are the analogous crew photos from those missions. STS-127 STS-128 …

The subject is the Space Shuttle and you ask for a reference about how it unfolded chronologically, how the decision was made to develop it what were the constraints and limitations, what were the …

...would you rather do a tank sep or blow off both SRBs mid burn? tl;dr You could not have done either so there is no choice to be made. The physical reasons why separation of thrusting Solid Rocke …

Not only re-entry mass, but center of gravity (CG) locations, touchdown weight, etc. Mass properties were calculated on the ground and uplinked. The responsible flight control position was FDO "Fido" …

Couldn't something dock to the shuttle to provide it with further energy supplies? There was an Extended Duration Orbiter project for shuttle that included pallets in the payload bay carrying extra …

That information is available for every shuttle mission. It's in the post flight mission reports. You can find links to every post flight mission report here: https://spaceflight.training/library.htm1 …

For the shuttle, technically the deorbit burn could be aborted, but the window to do so was extremely limited. Once the deorbit burn was started, one of the key parameters monitored by the crew was th …

Page 331 in the Shuttle Crew Operations Manual, an official NASA astronaut training document, confirms that The deorbit burn usually decreases the vehicle's orbital velocity anywhere from 200 to 550 …

The Orbiters changed over time so that, for example, Columbia when it was destroyed was quite a bit different from when it was delivered. When writing this up I've tried ignore the temporal difference …

Not before launch, during launch. The structure of the payload bay (and the other Orbiter compartments except for the crew compartment) was not strong enough to withstand either crush loads from a vac …

Towards the end of the program, the Shuttle performed two roll maneuvers during powered flight. The first, performed throughout the Shuttle program, and known as the "roll program" or "Single Axis Rot …

I don't think your goal in the first sentence is on target (see CAIB Report Appendix D-13 Paragraph 4.8). But I can answer the actual questions in your post. Since STS-001 was a test flight, there is …

There are several writeups on this. Perhaps you are thinking of the famous "Bug Heard Round the World" article. Here is the introduction. On April 10, 1981, about 20 minutes prior to the scheduled la …