What is being measured?
NASA’s rounded length of the winged orbiter alone. Excludes the external tank and boosters of the full launch stack.
Use the named object, variant and dimension. A manufactured or natural object can differ from this reference.
- Dimension
- orbiter length
- Reference value
- 122 ft
- Evidence
- Published reference measurement
- In metres
- 37.1856 m
- Variant
- Historical Space Shuttle orbiter reference
Put the length in perspective
One Space Shuttle orbiter represents approximately 434 card lengths measured end to end. This is a length ratio; it does not calculate how the objects pack or fit.
Space Shuttle orbiter · 37.1856 m
Metre · 1 m
Foot (international) · 0.3048 m