Space Shuttle Orbiter Coloring Page

NASA's Space Shuttle first launched on April 12, 1981, with the orbiter Columbia. Before that, spacecraft could only be used once. The shuttle's orbiter could fly to space and then glide back to land on a runway like an airplane, so it could go up again. NASA built five orbiters, and the shuttle program flew 135 missions before it ended in 2011.

Shuttle crews launched satellites and carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990. They also helped build the International Space Station, and big pieces of it traveled up in the shuttle's cargo bay.