The space shuttle consisted of an orbiter, an expendable external tank and two recoverable solid rocket boosters. The shuttle itself was 184ft high and when empty, weighed around 75 tons but fully laden with fuel and boosters weighed around 2000 tones. The space shuttle was a partially reusable crew orbital and load delivery system built by Boeing, Rockwell, Lockheed Martin and other that cost around $209 billion dollars. Note early flights has painted external fuel tanks which were then left unpainted to save weight The model was a good replica of the actual shuttle and included the disposable additional fuel tanks or boosters.
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The accessories provided with the model were a plastic model kit of an ‘Orbital Lab’ and a cardboard version which both fitted inside the shuttle’s bay, plus instructions and decals for the Enterprise shuttle, the first be built, but which was never designed to go into space. However the first shuttle to actually go into space was Columbia in 1981. The model was provided with decals for the Enterprise, named after the Star Trek space ship, and was rolled out in 1976.
It is sometimes wrongly described as a satellite. Also provided was a kit to make an orbiter space lab which was used for onboard experiments and was stored in the cargo bay. The model was a realistic copy of the space shuttle and included the external tank and the solid rocket boosters that fired the orbiter into space. The Dinky 364 Shuttle was released in 1979, another model produced just before the factory finally closed.
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