Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
Space Shuttle orbiter
Length: length of the orbiter alone
37 m (121 ft)
The external fuel tank it rode on was longer still.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-21: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“122 feet”NASA: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“37.237”European Space Agency: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
“122 ft (37.2 m)”Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Delaware North: source, retrieved 2026-10-21; quote re-found by the server check
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