NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System is the spacecraft currently used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions. At launch, it consists of a rust-colored external tank (ET), two white, slender Solid Rocket Boostersorbiter, a winged spaceplane which is the space shuttle in the narrow sense.
During STS-101, Atlantis was the first shuttle to fly with a glass cockpit.
A glass cockpit is an aircraft cockpit that features electronic instrument displays. A relatively recent development, glass cockpits are highly sought-after upgrades from traditional cockpits. Where a traditional cockpit relies on numerous mechanical gauges to display information, a glass cockpit utilizes several computer displays that can be adjusted to display flight information as needed.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
NASA's Space Shuttle Cockpit
Labels: Aircrafts