The six names of US space shuttles are: * Enterprise * Columbia (lost in 2003) * Challenger (lost in 1986) * Discovery * Atlantis * Endeavour The space shuttle generally refers to the American NASA spacecraft also called Space Transportation System (STS) and is the current U.S. manned spacecraft vehicle. The Russians did make one "shuttle" called Buran, although it had only one (unmanned) space flight in 1988 and destroyed in 2002.
The two spacecraft that have apparently escaped the Sun's gravity force and have now passed into outer space are the inter-stellar space probes Pioneer 10, launched in 1972 and Voyager 1 launched in 1977.
America's first satellite launched into outer space was called the Explorer 1, and was launched in 1958.
It's Pioneer 10, launched in March 1972. Pioneer 10 first explored the asteroid belt, then moved on to Jupiter. After that, it explored other outer planets and eventually went outside of the solar system, thus becoming the first spacecraft to flay past Pluto.
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The Space craft was invented to enable man to explore the outer planets and galaxy's.
The two spacecraft that have apparently escaped the Sun's gravity force and have now passed into outer space are the inter-stellar space probes Pioneer 10, launched in 1972 and Voyager 1 launched in 1977.
The two Voyager space probes are robotic spacecraft launched in 1977 as the first spacecraft to examine the outer planets. Both are still operating, having passed the orbits of the outer planets, and drifting toward the boundary of the solar system.
-- from chemical fuel that it carried when it was launched -- from an atomic reactor that it carried when it was launched -- from photovoltaic panels deployed after launch that convert solar radiation to electrical energy
Voyager I and II are pretty much on the edge of solar system.
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America's first satellite launched into outer space was called the Explorer 1, and was launched in 1958.
It is called the Apollo spacecraft.
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It's Pioneer 10, launched in March 1972. Pioneer 10 first explored the asteroid belt, then moved on to Jupiter. After that, it explored other outer planets and eventually went outside of the solar system, thus becoming the first spacecraft to flay past Pluto.