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Epic card · Science
Space Shuttle, an Epic card
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system that went to the ISS and performed other orbital missions.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 680,000
Ranked #664 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Space Shuttle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Space Shuttle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to ______ flights beginning in 1982.
Answer
operational. The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982. From the Space Shuttle article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Its official program name was the Space Transportation System, taken from the ____ plan led by U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
Answer
1960s. Its official program name was the Space Transportation System, taken from the 1969 plan led by U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development. From the Space Shuttle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Caffeine. Caffeine 94 · Music 90 · Space Shuttle 87 · Technical geography 83 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Space Shuttle program.
- Its official program name was the Space Transportation System, taken from the 1969 plan led by U.S. vice president Spiro Agnew for a system of reusable spacecraft where it was the only item funded for development.
- The first of four orbital test flights occurred in 1981, leading to operational flights beginning in 1982.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Space Shuttle article was read about 680,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Space Shuttle
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Space Shuttle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, edited by jjron (tilt corrected), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
