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Space Shuttle Coloring Pages: 30 Mission Scenes from the Hangar and Launch Pad to Orbit and Landing
One shuttle mission told in 30 detailed portrait drawings, from tile checks in the hangar and the slow rollout to the pad, through liftoff and satellite work in orbit, to the tow back after landing. Each drawing is followed by its color page.
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These space shuttle coloring pages follow a single mission in order, so the book reads like a story from the hangar floor to the runway. Every page is about the shuttle itself: the winged orbiter, its big fuel tank and two boosters, and the crews who prepare it, fly it and bring it home. The drawings are portrait, finely lined and packed with steel frameworks, control panels and the grid of heat tiles on the orbiter’s underside.
The mission, design by design
| Designs | Part of the mission | What’s on the pages |
|---|---|---|
| 01–07 | Getting ready | The crawler carrying the stack, the orbiter in its hangar, workers checking heat tiles under the nose, the three main engines, a landing gear check, a crate carried up the stairs to the side hatch, and a payload lowered into the open bay from above |
| 08–10 | The crew | Two crew members at the flight deck controls with Earth outside the windows, a floating meal on a tray, and a spacesuit check |
| 11–15 | To the pad and up | The orbiter hoisted beside the tank and boosters, two suited astronauts on the access walkway, the launch control room, the pad at night under floodlights, and liftoff with a crowd in the foreground |
| 16–18 | Reaching orbit | The boosters falling away, the empty tank separating, and the payload bay doors opening above swirling clouds |
| 19–23 | Work in orbit | The robotic arm holding a satellite, the arm lifting a module out of the bay, two astronauts in a lab with plants, a spacewalk in the open bay, and the shuttle passing over Earth with the Moon in view |
| 24–30 | Coming home | Engines firing to leave orbit, the glow of reentry, a glide toward a coastal runway, gear down over the control tower, touchdown, the drag chute, and a tug towing the orbiter back to the hangar |
None of the hardware carries logos, flags, names or numbers, so you can color the shuttle any way you like.
Page size and detail
Each drawing is a tall rectangle, about 4.9 × 7.3 inches, set in the middle of a landscape sheet with white space on both sides (about 4.7 × 7.1 inches on A4). That size, with this much line work, means a lot of small spaces to fill. The busiest pages are the hangar and assembly scenes, 02 and 11, and the flight deck, 08, with its rows of switches. The orbit pages leave more open sky.
Color pages and printing
Each line drawing is followed by its color reference: a white orbiter with a dark belly and nose, the orange tank, black starry space on the orbit pages, a deep blue night at the pad and sunset colors behind the drag chute. To print only the drawings, choose the odd-numbered pages, landscape, at Actual Size. Use the US-Letter or A4 folder to match your paper.
This is a different set from our cartoon spaceship pages and from our spacecraft pages, which go inside imagined future ships.
Questions
- Is this the same as your cartoon spaceship coloring pages?
- No. That set has five made-up cartoon ships drawn from different angles. This one is the winged shuttle with its orange tank and two boosters, drawn in fine line with crews, hangars and launch towers around it.
- Are there logos or lettering on the shuttle?
- No. The orbiter, tank and boosters are drawn without logos, flags, names or numbers.
