Space Shuttle just packed with electronics - two and a half million units and five hundred miles of wires. Three engine power greater than Shuttle by twelve hydroelectric plants. What other interesting facts hides the space shuttle?

 Baikonur, which started with the shuttles, is located in Florida, because he is the closest to the equator. This made way to the orbit is shorter, and in addition the shuttle went into orbit vertically, and to the east in accordance with the direction of rotation of the earth, which gave him an additional acceleration.

NASA planned to build an unmanned Shuttle-C. Due to lack of crew would increase the payload of the shuttle. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding in the 90s project was closed.

Baikonur, which started with the shuttles, is located in Florida, because he is the closest to the equator. This made way to the orbit is shorter, and in addition the shuttle went into orbit vertically, and to the east in accordance with the direction of rotation of the earth, which gave him an additional acceleration.

NASA planned to build an unmanned Shuttle-C. Due to lack of crew would increase the payload of the shuttle. Unfortunately, due to lack of funding in the 90s project was closed.
In Europe, it was built several runways for U.S. shuttles to the case of an emergency landing. If you refused any system, then after 123 seconds after launch could turn toward the runway in the U.S. or continue flying over the Atlantic Ocean and landed in Europe.
External fuel tanks were covered with shuttles special paint to protect them from sunlight. Later, the painting was rejected that saved 300 kg of weight. After further changes in the design, reduced weight by 7 tons.
Computers that control the flight of the shuttle weighed 30 kg, had 1 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GHz processor. In total, each ship they found 4 of them, they worked together and constantly compared their statements to avoid errors. Program on each of them developed by independent teams of programmers.
Great danger to the shuttle fuel tanks were woodpeckers, which made holes in the casing. The complex on the starting staff always made ​​sure the birds do not appear on the site. They are scared off by special balloons.
Shuttle - Endeavor was fully assembled from spare parts from other ships.
USSR in 1984, fired by Challenger shuttle from the laser assembly from the territory of Kazakhstan, to disable optical reconnaissance. The military believed that the space shuttles were used to monitor the territory of the USSR.
Space Shuttle Enterprise was named after the spaceship from the TV show Star Trek at the request of fans of the series, although management was against NASA.